Chapter 45: The East Window Incident

  At that time, the banquet in the main hall of Baigong Garden was ready.

  Chu Yuening waited for a while without seeing Chu Youyang and Tuoba Yunji appear, so she felt anxious in her heart. She whispered to Chu Yuxin beside her, "Second sister, the banquet is about to start soon, but third sister hasn't arrived yet. Let's go find her together."

  She always felt that Tuoba Yunji was a woman with ill intentions, and hoped that nothing would happen to Chu Nanyang.

  Chu Xingyun hadn't arrived yet, but Chu Yuexin had noticed it early on and just didn't mention it.

  At this time, just as he was about to speak, Chu Yuexuan had already hummed and said, "In such a situation, she herself doesn't know what's important and unimportant, why go find her?"

  It's better that Chu Youyang didn't come, it would be best if she was caught by Empress Luo and severely punished, to crush that dead girl's arrogance.

  Chu Yuening's face turned black as she saw her being so unscrupulous, and she looked at Chu Yuxin with anger, "Second sister, what are you talking about?"

  Chu Yuexin's face had a difficult expression, and she hesitated, saying, "The Empress Dowager should be arriving soon. Now that Sanmei is missing, it won't look good if we're not here either. If none of us are present, I'm afraid it will displease her."

  This is an excuse, but it makes sense and is reasonable.

  Chu Yu Yan listened and became even more pleased with herself.

  Chu Yuening's face turned bright red with anger, biting her lip and flinging her sleeve as she said, "You're not going? I'll go!"

  If it's said that Chu Yu Yan and Chu Nian Yang don't get along, there's still the influence of Lei Ce Fei in between. But among them, she looks down on Chu Yue Xing the most. Although the rumors about taking a concubine were suppressed by Chu Yi An earlier, she knew the inside story. In Chu Yue Xing's eyes, Chu Nian Yang was like a lifesaver, but unexpectedly, he had helped a white-eyed wolf.

  Chu Yuening used to look down on Chu Yuxin, but now she can directly say that she dislikes her. She glared at the two of them and then hastily left with her maid.

  Because there were many noble ladies and young women present today, the entire hall was filled with people, and if one or two people were missing, no one would notice.

  Just as Zhenyue Ning had just left, a eunuch outside shouted in a high-pitched voice: "The Empress Dowager has arrived!"

  Everyone hastily got up and knelt down to greet her: "Long live the Empress Dowager, long live, long live, forever!"

  Empress Luo supported Zhen Lingyun's hand and walked in with a dignified and elegant pace, sitting down on the main seat.

  Everyone then chorused in wishing her a long life and kowtowed, completing all the rituals. Only then did Empress Luo smile and say: "Rise!"

  Chu Yu Yan looked at the timing and sat down, then eagerly asked, "Where are Second Sister and Third Sister? Didn't they come?"

  At this time, all the guests present were female, and Dong Gong was prominent among them, with a position closer to the front. As soon as she raised her voice slightly, these words would undoubtedly fall into Luo Huanghou's ears.

  The queen's eyes flashed with a fierce lightning bolt, her sharp gaze carrying a strong sense of intimidation as she swept it past Chu Yuexian.

  She doesn't like Chu Nanyang, but she looks down on Chu Yuexuan even more, who is stupid enough to give her own family a hard time and set them up for failure.

  Chu Yu Yan didn't expect her to rush straight at her, and immediately turned pale, instinctively kneeling down and stuttering, "Imperial Grandmother..."

  The Empress Dowager cast a sideways glance at her with disgust and then ordered Cai Yue, "Go find out where those two maidservants have gone!"

  She's said it so many times, the East Palace can't be without a proper and legitimate crown princess to calm things down. And look at how she's taught those girls! It's all because of that cheap woman Fang Shi!

  The Empress Dowager's face suddenly sank, and the crowd watched her expression, the joyful atmosphere in the palace was swept away, replaced by an unprecedented low pressure.

  "Yes!" Cai Yue replied respectfully, hastily stepping out of the palace, and almost collided with someone who was rushing in from outside.

  "How dare you be so presumptuous in the presence of Her Majesty the Empress Dowager? Take him away!" shouted Li De-shou, the eunuch supervisor of the Shoukang Palace.

  The green vine rushed in and knelt down with a thud, shouting loudly, "Your Highness save me! Your Highness, my family's young mistress may be in trouble, please save her!"

  The queen's hair is misty water.

  Just then, Chu Yuening hadn't found anyone and came in from outside. Seeing Qingteng with tears all over her face and looking disheveled, she was shocked and quickly ran over to pull her up, saying: "Where's Third Sister? You and Qingluo are supposed to be attending to her personally. Where is she?"

  "The county master and the eighth princess of Mobei were admiring flowers in the garden together when they were ambushed!" Qingteng said, his expression panicked and sorrowful as he knocked his head against the floor in front of Empress Luo, "Your Majesty, my family's county master has gone missing, what if..."

  If it was a bad omen, Qingteng stopped on his own and looked at Luo Huanghou with hope in his eyes.

  Luohuanghou was intuitively disbelieving that such a thing would happen, but Qingteng also didn't have the nerve to fabricate it.

  Chu Yi'an had many treasures, Chu Nanyang was very clear, although she didn't like it but also didn't dare to take it lightly, immediately her face sank, and she slapped the table, "What nonsense are you talking about? What's wrong with that little girl Nanyang?"

  "It's... it's..." Qingteng stuttered incoherently, tears streaming down her face. She was truly a master of both singing and acting. Finally, she stamped her foot and said, "Please, Your Majesty the Empress, follow me."

  Because it involved Zhen Ruo Yang and Tu Ba Yun Ji, Luo Huang Hou also had to take it seriously, and she immediately walked towards the door.

  The several princesses and noblewomen present who were of higher status also followed with bated breath, but no one noticed that Tuoba Rongyao's face had turned pale.

  "Is the person with that cheap woman the Princess of Xiangyang?" Having forced herself to calm down, she exited the palace gates and Tuo Ba Rong Yao hastily grabbed onto a nearby maid's hand, "We're in trouble, it's probably going to be bad. You quickly go find Fifth Brother and tell him to hurry over!"

  "Yes, Princess!" The maid replied, and hurried off with quick steps.

  Although the maid said it didn't work out, it involved people from the Western Yue imperial family, especially Chu Jiongyang, and she lost her confidence.

  Qingteng hastily took Luo Huanghou and others to the rear garden of Shoukang Palace, where they saw that two teacups had been knocked over in the pavilion. A silver hairpin lay on the ground in the tea water, with a black patch on top.

  Qing Luan was lying on the side, with a knife wound on his arm still bleeding, and he had lost consciousness.

  The flowers and trees around the pavilion were trampled on a large area, obviously someone had fought here.

  Tuoba Rongyao's eyes widened as she took in the scene before her, and for a moment, she felt dizzy and almost fainted. Her fingernails dug deep into her palm.

  That group of useless people who can't even accomplish anything but always cause trouble, they said they cleaned up the scene, how could it be like this?

  The empress's entire face turned as black as the bottom of a pot, and she immediately became furious, saying, "Don't go help find people? What are you all doing standing here?"

  Regardless of who was at fault, just because someone dared to be indecent in her bedroom, they deserved to be cut into a thousand pieces.

  Tuoba Rongyao's face turned pale and he swayed as if about to fall.

  She had a feeling ——

  It's going to be exposed now.

  Digression

  Today I was supposed to return from my mother's place, but after getting on the bus and running halfway, my mother called and said that I had left the key at home. So unfortunately, I got off the bus halfway and returned, tears in my eyes... probably won't be able to go back until next week now~