nucmednet Chapter 312 Why don't we have General He search us?
Chapter 312 Why don't we have General He search us?
Ye Qing'an remained motionless, holding his breath.
After an unknown amount of time, another person emerged from the hall. This person had her hair styled in a high bun with a purple and gold hairpin dangling from the top of her head. She wore a cherry-red floral silk robe. Just by looking at her attire, Ye Qing'an quickly realized that this person must be Gu Ya Yun.
“It will be dawn in an hour,” Gu Ya Yun said suddenly, standing behind the palace maid.
The palace maid was startled and quickly turned around to bow to Gu Yayun: "Yes, it will be Mao Shi (5-7 AM) in one hour."
"If Ye Qing'an is still not found, the Emperor will be furious. But so what? As long as Ye Qing'an is not found, and as long as the Emperor cannot produce concrete evidence to prove that I was involved, my position will remain secure and will not be shaken in the slightest."
The palace maid immediately understood the meaning behind Gu Yayun's words and quickly said, "Your Highness, please rest assured. I have already taken good care of those palace servants and guards. Even if they... even if they confess about Lord Gu, they will never confess about Your Highness."
Gu Ya Yun laughed: "That's good. If brother takes this matter into his own hands, at most I'll be implicated, confined to my quarters, or neglected for a while. Whether it's confinement or neglect, it doesn't matter. I have the Sixth Prince. With a prince by my side, I don't need to fight for favor for a short time. What I need to fight for is the future, that..."
Gu Yayun glanced at the tallest and most conspicuous palace in the distance, a cool smile playing on her lips.
Ye Qing'an raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised; this woman was indeed formidable.
She also knew that it didn't matter whether she was confined or neglected, as long as she helped her child ascend the throne, she would be the ultimate winner.
For this, she was even willing to betray her own biological father.
None of the women in this palace are easy to deal with.
Just then, Ye Qing'an saw a number of palace servants come out from the backyard and stand at the foot of the stone steps outside the main hall.
"Look carefully and see if anyone has infiltrated our palace staff. Keep an eye on them at all times." Gu Ya Yun said casually, "After checking every two or three places, stop and check if any unfamiliar people have mixed in with the palace staff. After checking each place, leave one person there to guard it."
As Gu Yayun spoke, her eyelids twitched suddenly.
"Never mind, I'm still a little worried. I'll go with you."
"Yes."
Gu Ya Yun left with her entourage. Ye Qing An curled the corners of her lips; this was convenient for her.
Hearing the footsteps of the palace servants gradually fade away and go to the side hall, Ye Qing'an stood up from among the flowers and plants, and then quickly slipped into the bedroom where Gu Ya Yun had been staying.
There was no one else in the bedchamber. Ye Qing'an's gaze swept around the bedchamber and finally landed on the bed.
Ye Qing'an crawled straight under the bed. It was pitch black underneath. Ye Qing'an waited quietly…
After waiting for about 15 minutes, some noises came from outside again, indicating that someone had come in.
Then, a palace maid's voice rang out in the hall: "The Imperial Guards will be searching our palace soon. We have searched inside and out, but we haven't found anything amiss. Perhaps, Ye Qing'an really wasn't in our palace that night."
"Logically speaking, if Consort Lan wanted to use Ye Qing'an to frame someone, shouldn't she have targeted Her Majesty the Empress? After all, Her Majesty the Empress played a significant role in the matter involving Prince Duan."
Prince Duan? Yi Moxu?
How did Yi Moxu's matter get involved with the Empress?
So, what exactly did Yi Moxu do or what mistake did he make back then that made Yi Yunkui so ruthless in trying to kill him?
"Indeed." Gu Ya Yun chuckled. "So right now, Her Majesty the Empress must be quite nervous."
"Over the years, Consort Lan has pretended to be devoted to Buddhism, saying that she wants to calm her mind by worshipping Buddha and that she doesn't want to get involved in the mortal world. Ha... but it's all just an excuse. She hates Prince Duan so much back then. It's just that the Emperor has been keeping a close eye on her because of that incident a few years ago, so she pretends to use the name of worshipping Buddha to gain the Emperor's trust."
"Now that several years have passed, who knows if she has already planned everything and is waiting for an opportunity to take revenge?"
"It's just a pity that in the past few years, in order to gain the Emperor's trust, she truly shut herself in and kept quiet about the outside world. But she didn't know that in the past few years, others in the palace had been trying their best to win the Emperor's favor and expand their own power..."
Ye Qing'an lowered her breathing to the softest point, listening intently to the conversation between the master and servant outside, her expression remaining unchanged.
"When the people arrive, have them keep a close eye on things. Regardless of whether Consort Lan has taken Ye Qing'an away or whether she intends to use him to frame someone, let's take care of ourselves first and make sure nothing goes wrong in this matter."
"Yes."
No sooner had the palace maid finished speaking than voices were heard outside, followed by a palace servant reporting, "Your Majesty, the Imperial Guards have arrived to search the area."
Gu Ya Yun responded and stood up: "Let's go, come with me to take a look."
Ye Qing'an left the bedchamber, and soon her voice rang out from the outer hall: "I wondered who it was, but it's General He. Is it General He who led the troops to search tonight?"
"It's not just me, there are others too. Because we need to search the entire palace, we split into several groups. I'm in charge of the palaces on the east side of the palace."
"Really?" Gu Ya Yun twisted the handkerchief in her hand. "General Gu has been searching for most of the night. Has he found anything? Has he found Miss Ye?"
"Not yet." He Yi clasped his hands in a fist and said, "This humble general still has two palaces to search. I can only trouble Consort Yun to do me a favor. This humble general will have people start the search immediately."
"Search it all." Gu Ya Yun smiled. "To be honest, General, I was also very worried that someone might be using today's events to frame me. So, before you arrived, I searched the entire Yunhua Palace, inside and out, but I found nothing."
"It's good that nothing has been found; I'm afraid something might have been found. Men, search!"
Gu Ya Yun smiled charmingly: "Let the people below search the other places, but this main hall and this bedchamber are not places that just anyone can enter. Only His Majesty has been here before, and no other man has entered since. I only trust General He, so why don't you let General He search?"