After being a widow for half my life, I found out that my husband was not dead.

That night, Liu Yunxiang knelt down outside the Queen Mother's bedroom. He knelt until dawn.

Aunt Su walked out, shook her head and said, "You are really stubborn, but this is the palace, so I still have to advise you to be patient."

Liu Yunxiang raised his head: "Mommy, I am not a soft persimmon."

"How can you?"

"Since this palace is a pool of muddy water, please make it clear."

"You have this ability?"

"How do you know if you don't try?"

Aunt Su sighed, "Come in with me, the Queen Mother didn't sleep much that night."

In the bedroom, the Queen Mother was wearing mid-length clothes, sitting on a warm bed, rubbing her forehead with her hands, and her complexion was extremely bad. When she heard the noise, she raised her head and glanced at Liu Yunxiang. Seeing that she was about to kneel down to salute, she waved her hand.

"Okay, there are no outsiders here, come and sit."

Liu Yunxiang still saluted, and then sat down on the warm couch opposite the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother looked at her burned hand. Although she was holding a fine cloth, blood was seeping out, which made her heart hurt.

"I originally asked you to follow me into the palace to avoid trouble, but it ended up harming you."

Liu Yunxiang shook his head, "There is no way to avoid disaster, and Yunxiang doesn't want to avoid it."

The Queen Mother lowered her eyes: "I heard what you said outside, and you are really overestimating yourself."

"Yunxiang doesn't overestimate his ability, but he is willing to stir it up with all his strength, which is better than keeping the water muddy."

"Oh, Lao Qi can't help you outside."

"He will only help more and more with women. He can just take care of the children at home."

The Queen Mother smiled, "You look very much like me when I was young."

Liu Yunxiang looked up, feeling that this sentence was too exaggerated, and he was a little embarrassed.

"Same stupid!"

Liu Yunxiang pursed his lips, how could he scold himself.

The Queen Mother's smile faded, she leaned forward and whispered: "But I am the Queen Mother now, so I win."

The Queen Mother got up and walked to the window. Although the day was bright, it was cloudy and still groggy.

"Actually, the fight in the harem is also a continuation of the party struggle in the front court. You have been dragged into this mess and there is really no way to escape."

The Cold Palace is in the southwest corner of the palace. There is a dilapidated courtyard with high walls and locked gates. The Cold Palace is always empty, not because there are few people who are thrown into the Cold Palace, but because those who are thrown here, whether they are masters or slaves, will die soon.

After you die and clean it out, this place will be empty again.

"In summer, there are snakes, ants and mosquitoes, and in winter, dripping water turns to ice. What you eat is rotten rice and what you drink is dirty water. No matter how strong you are, you won't be able to survive for long." Zhou Lihuai said as he walked.

Liu Yunxiang turned around and asked Zhou Lihuai, "You often walk around the palace, so what kind of person do you think the good concubine is?"

"Good guy."

"Just a good guy?"

"Don't fight, don't grab, accept things, and live in peace. This is also a way of survival. Otherwise, how do you think she would be alive now with her weak temperament."

"But she can't escape after all."

"So this is not a place where you can just grit your teeth and endure it to survive."

When they arrived outside the Leng Palace, Liu Yunxiang said that he had brought the imperial doctor to treat Liang Fei's leg on the order of the Queen Mother, and the guard opened the door.

The courtyard was completely covered with grass, except for a small path in the middle. Liu Yunxiang and Zhou Lihuai walked in one after the other. The yard was quite large, with a row of main houses, but the doors and windows of each house were broken, and it was dark inside.

Liu Yunxiang only paid attention to the front, not his feet. He accidentally kicked something. When he lowered his head, he saw that it was a hand bone. He was so frightened that he took two steps back.

Zhou Lihuai raised his head and took a look, "The grass grew tall, and people outside were too lazy to look inside, so they allowed the corpse to rot and turn into bones."

Liu Yunxiang couldn't help but gulped, which meant that there might be many corpses in the grass!

She looked at her feet this time, quickened her pace, and hurried up the steps.

The door of this room facing the path is wide open, so you don’t have to look hard to find it. You can see the person lying in the open room at a glance, but he is motionless, as if he is dead...

Liu Yunxiang and Zhou Lihuai went over and turned the person over to lie on his back. Zhou Lihuai checked his breath, shook his head and sighed.

"died?"

"Not so bad."

"Then why don't you hurry up and save people!"

Zhou Lihuai treated Liang Fei's leg, and Liu Yunxiang cleaned the room a little, went back and brought a quilt, removed the broken wooden window from another room, lit a fire in this room, and put it on the kettle.

The room got a little warmer, and she and Zhou Lihuai lifted him to the bed together.

Liu Yunxiang poured hot water from the kettle and fed it to Liang Fei with a spoon. She couldn't drink it at first and it flowed out from the corner of her mouth. She fed it little by little and drank some.

They couldn't stay here much longer, so they left the wounds medicine, water and food and left.

The next day, when Liu Yunxiang came over, the good concubine was already awake and lying on the bed, staring at the roof with dull eyes.

Liu Yunxiang walked over, but she seemed not to hear him and remained motionless.

"Good Concubine, my name is Liu Yunxiang."

"..."

Liu Yunxiang was silent for a moment and said, "This slave is the maid the queen mentioned who saw you sprinkling water on the steps."

Hearing this, Liang Fei slowly turned her head, and her dull eyes suddenly turned fierce, but she was too haggard, so she was not scary.

"I don't know you..." Her voice was dry and hoarse, and it was very difficult to speak, "Why... harm me..."

Liu Yunxiang smiled and said, "I am a little palace maid, what can I do to you?"

"Who...is behind you?"

"My dear, you need to think carefully about who is behind me."

Liu Yunxiang lit the brazier, poured the rice porridge from the food box into the pot, and heated it on the fire.

"Empress, if you want to die, no one will stop you. The person who harmed you will even cry for you. While crying to gain a good reputation, he will scold you in his heart for being stupid. Your death will be unclear and you will be weak and useless for the rest of your life."

"You!" Liang Fei was so angry that she was shaking all over.

After Liu Yunxiang finished speaking, he smiled proudly at Liang Fei, then turned around and left. When Liu Yunxiang came out of the cold palace, she noticed that a nanny wearing a blue palace dress was following her.

She quickly quickened her pace and was blocked by two guards as she turned around the corridor.

Feeling bad in her heart, she hurriedly walked to another side road, but when she was going up the steps, she was bumped by a guard with the hilt of his sword. Then she leaned forward, tripped on the steps, and fell heavily to the ground.

She stretched her arms to get up, but the nanny stepped forward and stepped on her burned hand.

"Hmm!" Liu Yunxiang snorted.

The foot was even rubbed hard several times, and Liu Yunxiang almost fainted from the pain.

"Liu Yunxiang, right?" The grandma knelt down and clamped Liu Yunxiang's chin, forcing her to raise her head. "Tsk, tsk, she is indeed a beauty, especially these eyes, which are really similar to our master."

"Really, I don't think so...well!"

The nanny exerted a sudden force on her hand, almost crushing Liu Yunxiang's mandible.

"Our master has some good words to reward you. If you want to survive in the palace, firstly, you must not meddle in other people's business, and secondly, you must learn to wag your tail like a dog when it sees the master. To put it bluntly, you can only climb up to His Majesty the Seventh Prince's bed. It is because of these similarities that the master tolerates you, so you must be grateful."

The nanny shook off Liu Yunxiang and stood up: "Don't interfere in the good concubine's affairs anymore. If you have nothing to do, look in the mirror and see clearly what a despicable thing you are!"

Liu Yunxiang collapsed to the ground weakly. Looking at his hands again, blood had seeped out from the thick fine cloth wrapped around him.