Yang Jingru had thought of a line for Liu Jing, and when she recited the lines again, she realized that if Liu Jing did not sleep in the middle of the night and discovered that someone was crying, it would be a little deliberate for her to ask that person.

I don't believe in ghosts and gods, so I decided to investigate this when everyone said that it was time to get to the bottom of this. After that, I found out that it was the little palace maid who was crying there, and then I asked her why she was crying, which led to a series of events afterwards. " Liu Jing said.

"Who are you planning to look for, palace maid?" Yang Jingru asked.

"The one who felt wronged for my little partner and then worried about him, could only be the palace maid s of the Chuxiu Palace." Liu Jing said, "The palace maid beside me only has Dingchun."

"Then is her loyalty reliable?" Yang Jingru said.

"Only those who are loyal will know." Liu Jing said, "Wait for me to explain in detail when I go back."

"In any case, she has to do it, even if she doesn't. If it's useless, what use do I have of her?"

Liu Jing returned to Yonghe Palace, and at night she let Dingchun accompany him throughout the night. Although Dingchun and Liu Jing had come out of the Chuxiu Palace together, they did not have a deep master-servant relationship within the Chuxiu Palace. Thus, when the other palace maid s made up for the share of Liu Jing's share of being the third palace maid, she would not be picky about it.

Today, Liu Jing had called her here to accompany him for the night. She was both surprised and fervent at the same time, wanting to serve the Empress well. Little palace maid yearned for the Great palace maid, and the Great palace maid yearned for the Bureau of the Palace Manager. Not everyone could be a female official, and it was better to live a life as a concubine of the Empress.

"Dingchun, are you familiar with Zizu, Naked Ginger, and Lan Zhi?" Liu Jing who was lying on the bed suddenly asked. Ding Chun, who was sleeping at the foot of his bed, felt his heart jump. The three people the Empress mentioned had all followed Imperial Consort Candidate to Clothes Washing Bureau. But I'm not familiar with them. Zi Su and the rest are palace maid s of the front hall, and this servant is palace maid s of the back hall. "

"That shouldn't be the case." Liu Jing said, "You guys are not the servants of the front and back halls from the very beginning, maybe you guys are even part of a group that entered the palace, a group that was trained, how can you not be familiar with it?"

"Empress, this servant and Zi Su did indeed come to the palace to receive their training together, but after training, they were divided into two different places. When we were divided into Chuxiu Palace together, it had already been half a year since we met. This servant really doesn't know what Zisu did. Empress, this servant isn't anyone's person? This servant has never harmed the Empress's heart. " When Dingchun heard Liu Jing say that they would go to the palace together and train together, he thought the Empress knew of the relationship she had with Zi Su and had Zi Su push her along. It was because she suspected that she was also a chess piece placed by the Imperial Consort Guo at her side, that she came to probe her. In a moment of urgency, one naturally had to express one's loyalty.

So there really was a connection. Liu Jing was just saying it casually, at that time it would be alright to say it was related, but if it was, it would be even more so, with the curtains down, he would not be able to see Liu Jing's smile.

"Don't worry. If I didn't believe you and thought that you were also Imperial Consort Guo's spy, I wouldn't have kept you. I would have used you again." Liu Jing said.

"Many thanks to the Empress for trusting this servant." Dingchun said.

"How many spies the Imperial Consort Guo has planted in the Chuxiu Palace?" Liu Jing asked. If she wasn't doted upon by the Emperor, why would she be so nervous? "

"It's hard to say how many people have inserted them. Some are useful, some aren't." Dingchun didn't know why the Empress was so curious about this question.

"This move is pretty damaging." Liu Jing said, "When a Imperial Consort Candidate comes to the palace with nothing left, they would practically rely on the first palace maid to serve her. If this palace maid has ill intentions and deliberately brought the pure Imperial Consort Candidate to an unfavorable direction, then this would be the end of my life."

"Empress." Dingchun didn't understand.

"Just like how you would occasionally think of Zi Su when you were in the palace. She only obeyed orders, but ended up like this. The palace maid inside will not even survive past thirty years. Because you can't sleep soundly because of her situation, you should sigh towards the moon. "

Dingchun vaguely understood what she meant, but he did not reply and just quietly listened.

For example, Zhou Yuting. She's beautiful and cheerful, and she's also intelligent. So she's that domineering?" "Did someone tell her that it would be in her interest to do something like this, or that the Empress Mother liked to do it, and so she did, as a young lady who had just entered the palace, something only a pampered and pampered concubine could do, with haughtiness and tyranny?

"That's right, isn't the purpose of palace maid's existence to be obedient? But being obedient caused Zi Su to fall into a state of Clothes Washing Bureau, so no one helped her yet." "I heard that Imperial Consort Candidate Zhou treats palace maid very well, and isn't that bad to other Imperial Consort Candidate as well. Some Imperial Consort Candidate enter the palace without any treasure, and Imperial Consort Candidate Zhou even shares her makeup with her. It can be seen that she isn't a complete bad person."

Liu Jing knew that Dingchun knew what she meant. She sat up, opened the curtain and said to Dingchun, "When the time comes, you can just say that in front of the empress dowager, you don't have to add anymore details and just say that you pity your sisters who entered the palace together with you. You can't sleep peacefully in the middle of the night because you're sad.

"Don't worry, the empress dowager will ask for my opinion, and I'll say that having feelings isn't necessarily a bad thing. You just did something in the wrong place, and since you know you're at fault, there's no need to punish yourself. You don't have to offend next time."

"After that is our second visit to the palace, so we don't have to worry about the rest."

"Imperial Consort Guo's retaliation was directed at me, it won't harm you. If I get knocked down by Imperial Consort Guo, I will arrange things for you before that." Liu Jing said, "Don't worry, I do have this bit of loyalty."

As expected, on the second night, there were intermittent sounds of crying from Yonghe Palace. When they were about to go look for him, there was no more sound. Just like that, people started thinking about the ghosts.

When the new Gui served Liu Jing while she was changing, both of them were in black and green, looking weak from energy. Liu Jing laughed at her, "Where did you go last night? "So lacking in spirit."

"Empress didn't hear it at night?" Xin Gui asked.

"Hear what?" Liu Jing asked.

"Nothing, the wind is blowing." The new laurel hesitated as he spoke. The Empress was not a person to be doted on, so if there were any more rumors about ghosts within the Empress' palace, His Majesty would definitely not think of the Empress.

"In the morning, I heard the little palace maid say that there was a ghost at night, is that what you heard at night?" Liu Jing asked, since today was the day of the ghost chase.

"Empress, the heavens are kind. Why would there be ghosts in the Empress's place?" "Maybe it's because the wind blows in strange places at night that makes this association."

"That's true." Liu Jing said, "Then tonight I want to see the origins of this demonic wind."

He stayed up most of the night, waiting for the crying to start before he went to find her. This time, the crying did not disappear in time. Dingchun, whose eyes were red, was caught by them. "Dingchun, what are you doing here?"

"Empress?" Dingchun was also helpless at the sight of this, quickly kneeling down and begging for forgiveness.

"No, it's Dingchun. Let's disperse now." It's taboo to cry in the harem, said Xin Gui. The less people know about it, the better.

"Dingchun, why are you crying here?" Liu Jing asked.

Early in the morning the next day, Liu Jing went to the Tzu Ning Palace to pay her respects, telling her aunt that she had grievances and wanted to see the empress dowager.

The Empress Dowager Li was sitting upright, and upon seeing Liu Jing enter, she asked, "What grievances did you have?"

Liu Jing bowed properly, "Actually, it's not a concubine, it's my palace maid."

"For the past few days, I've been able to hear crying sounds at night. Although they don't sound weird or mysterious, I've always been at ease and was afraid of all the rumors. That was why he heard palace maid muttering and didn't sleep last night. He wanted to know who was crying and he later found out that it was his concubine who was crying.

"She is not crying for herself, but for her sisters. I think about her heart and also think that if what she said was true, then this matter should have been known by the Empress. So this concubine came here early in the morning." Liu Jing said.

"What is it?" Empress Dowager Li asked.

Liu Jing asked Dingchun to come out and speak.

Dingchun knelt on the ground, his shoulders trembling, he was obviously very scared, and after he finished speaking he kowtowed, "This servant knows my wrongs, I shouldn't have cried at night in the palace. Please show mercy Esteemed Empress Dowager, this servant will never dare to do that again."

"Is what you said true?" The Empress Dowager Li asked, "Then why didn't you say so during the interrogation? Why didn't you cry when she first left for the Clothes Washing Bureau? "

"Your servant has not changed from looking at Zi Su's testimony. I remember that Zi Su once told me that she was working for the Imperial Consort Guo and that she would protect her. But Zi Su has gone to the Clothes Washing Bureau for a month and has not come back with any news yet. This servant is worried that the Imperial Consort Guo has forgotten about her.

"You haven't done anything for the Imperial Consort Guo?" Empress Dowager Li asked.

Perhaps esteemed Guo Feifei thinks that my esteemed mistress isn't a threat, so she didn't come to coerce me to do things for her. "Although this servant is dull, she still has eyes. If she's the maid of the beautiful lady Wang, then the beautiful lady Wang's makeup was suggested by Fang Ruo. What's the result of the beautiful lady Fang now, and the purple sou." "Even if Esteemed Empress Guo had asked this servant to harm Esteemed wangfei, this servant absolutely wouldn't do it. This servant will tell the esteemed empress about this matter, and if I were to run into another pillar and die, no one will threaten me to harm the esteemed empress.

The Imperial Lower Consort Liu used the handkerchief to test her tears, "At that time, I lived in the rear hall, so I really didn't know what was going on in the front hall. However, Zhou Yuting would occasionally come to the back hall to observe her actions and words, and she really didn't seem like someone who could perform evil deeds. These concubines do not dare to guarantee their authenticity, Esteemed Empress Dowager, please clear this matter up. "

"But regarding the matters of the Beauty Wang, this concubine has experienced it personally. Back then, empress had also spent quite a bit of effort to control it for the sake of Beauty Wang's illness. Beauty Wang had made a huge ruckus with Fangruo back then, and it was also from the empress who had meddled with him. Beauty Wang is truly pitiful. She only relies on His Majesty to enter the palace and everything in the palace originates from palace maid. If palace maid has ulterior motives, it's no wonder that her actions took a wrong turn. "

"This Dowager understands. This matter must be thoroughly investigated." "Empress Dowager Li said with a serious expression. You all can leave, someone come and summon Zhou Yuting here. "