Overcoming all difficulties, the princess is reborn to become the empress

In Fushou Palace, as the nanny helped the empress dowager into the courtyard, An Lan and Su Changfeng came to greet them.

An Lan asked if there was anything strange about Concubine Yu's death. After the empress dowager said, "I really underestimated Concubine Shen in the past," she started coughing non-stop.

The nanny couldn't bear to see this, so she shook her head and begged An Lan, "Princess, the Queen Mother is not feeling well, you should let her rest first."

Seeing that the empress dowager was too pale, An Lan helped the empress dowager into the bedroom and lay down, ignoring Su Changfeng's urging.

Su Changfeng waited outside anxiously for a long time before An Lan came out with a bad look on his face.

"Princess, can you bring Ruofeng and Ruoying into the palace?" Su Changfeng quickly stepped forward and asked.

An Lan shook his head, "It's not appropriate to bring you in..."

"Look at this." Su Changfeng interrupted her and raised his hand to open his palm.

A jade pendant was pinched so hard that its edges almost pierced into the flesh of his palm and was stained with blood, which made An Lan's eyelids twitch slightly.

Without waiting for her to ask, Su Changfeng quickly explained: "This is what Yunxuan always wears around her neck. I just found it near the back door of Concubine Yu's place. Yunxuan and the others must have been taken there..."

"Why didn't you take it out just now?" An Lan tried to remain calm and lowered his eyes to look at the pendant which was not particularly special.

"This belongs to the descendants of the Lu family..."

"Lu's army? That's not convenient to mention."

An Lan never interfered in power struggles, but he knew that the Queen Mother disliked the Lu Family Army, and there was a taboo in the Fenglan Palace not to mention the Lu Family Army.

Without asking any more questions, An Lan walked forward and said solemnly, "Let's go find Feng Yuqi first. I'm afraid I won't be able to handle it if I really go against Concubine Shen alone."

......

The courtyard of Concubine Yu was empty, and there were bloodstains everywhere on the ground, which made Ayi, who always thought he was brave, feel a little scared.

It’s not that I’m afraid of ghosts, but I’ve once again realized how insignificant human life is.

It turned out that it was not just the poor people like them whose lives were worthless, but the nobles whom she had envied in the past could also die at any time.

Looking around the room, his mind was filled with the scene of Concubine Yu being hastily carried out. As he walked, Ayi muttered, "Master, all living things suffer, all living things suffer..."

When the muffled sound suddenly reached his ears, Ayi was so frightened that he stopped talking and his heart trembled. He instinctively turned around and wanted to slip away.

When he ran to the door, he suddenly came to his senses, turned around and stretched his neck to look inside, calling softly: "Sister, sister, is that you?"

There was no human response, only increasingly dense muffled sounds.

Following the sound with courage, Ayi crawled under the bed, put his ear to the floor, knocked hard and asked, "Sister, is that you?"

"Ayi? It's me, Ayi, we are here." Sure enough, my sister's joyful voice came from below.

"Found it! Found it, Master..."

Ayi raised his head and shouted excitedly, but his head hit the bottom of the bed. The pain reminded him that he was the one who stayed secretly to look for his sister when his master was forcibly driven out.

There were people guarding outside, so it looked like she had to rely on herself.

The cover was locked. Ayi pulled it for a long time but couldn't open it. He had to crawl out from under the bed, cursing this wicked design in his heart while looking for a handy tool in the room.

Noticing the hammer on the ground near the wall, Ayi quickly walked over, picked one up, and crawled under the bed again.

After making sure that Su Yunxuan and the other person below had moved away, Ayi stuck his butt out and started smashing the lock wildly.

......

Concubine Shen paced back and forth in the hall restlessly.

Although she told herself again and again in her heart to stay calm and denied over and over again that her De'er would not do such dirty things as defiling the harem and having an affair with the palace concubines, her whole heart couldn't help but tremble when she thought of Feng Yuqi's firm attitude.

What if?

That is a capital crime...and a disgraceful one!

She couldn't just sit there and wait for death.

.......

Ayi hit the "broken lock" with a hammer for dozens of times and finally broke it open.

He was so happy that he tore it open and threw it away. Ayi lifted the cover and leaned in, shouting: "If I wasn't afraid of alerting the guards outside, I would have smashed it with all my strength..."

"what--"

"Ayi, get out of the way——"

There were two exclamations in quick succession from below.

Ayi's eyes were trying to adjust to the dim light when suddenly a big hand grabbed her shoulder and pulled her down forcefully.

"Ah——" Ah Yi screamed, falling straight down. When he stood up while rubbing his butt and opened his eyes again, his neck was already strangled by a big hand.

Seeing the man's face clearly, Ayi yelled angrily: "What are you doing, you broken-necked bastard..."

"Let her go." Su Yunxuan helped Pei Qianluo stand against the wall, staring at Feng Dezhe and shouting.

"Do you think I'm really stupid?" Feng Deze laughed. His men exerted force, and he glared at A Yi and asked fiercely, "Tell me, what's going on outside?"

Ayi raised her hand in pain and used her fingernails to scratch Feng Dezhe's palm that was pinching her neck.

Feng Dezhe raised his other hand in disgust and tried to chop Ayi's arm.

Su Yunxuan took the opportunity to get closer, and just as she raised the small sword in her hand, the vigilant Feng Deze snatched it from her side. It was so fast that she could only watch Feng Deze backhanded and stabbed the small sword into Ayi's neck.

"This is my return to you. If you dare to mess around again, I will take her life." Feng Dezhe stared at Su Yunxuan and warned her coldly.

"Ayi!" Su Yunxuan took several steps back and screamed in pain.

Seeing blood flowing from Ayi's neck, she lowered her head in panic and frantically tore her skirt and begged: "I stopped the bleeding for you, you let me stop the bleeding for her."

"Tell me, what's happening outside..." Feng Dezhe curled his lips in contempt and turned to ask Ayi again.

Halfway through his question, he suddenly felt dizzy, and then his arm was knocked down by Ayi, and at the same time Ayi kicked him in the crotch, causing him to step back repeatedly in pain.

Su Yunxuan looked up while holding the cloth strip and saw it. Without thinking, she pulled out the hairpin on her head, rushed forward and stabbed Feng Dezhe's heart.

Feng Deze bent over and covered his crotch, then looked up and stared at his chest with disbelief.

"Ms. Pei, come here." Su Yunxuan pulled out her hairpin, took two steps back, stared at Feng Deze warily and shouted.

Pei Qianluo reacted and trotted over. Just as he stood beside Su Yunxuan, Feng Deze fell to the ground on his back with a plop.

"Take it and keep an eye on him."

After putting the hairpin into Pei Qianluo's hands, whose eyes were wide open with shock, Su Yunxuan walked over to Ayi, who was sitting on the ground with his hands on his neck, and asked, "Ayi, are you okay? Do you have any hemostatic medicine?"

Ayi nodded.

Su Yunxuan followed her instructions, took out the powder and sprinkled it on the wound, then carefully wrapped it in circles. Suddenly, a cry of surprise came from above her head: "Master, it's Prince De, they killed Prince De!"

Su Yunxuan looked up and saw a palace maid's head retracted.

Then, Concubine Shen shouted angrily from above: "Come quickly. Come in and move the bed away for me, quickly!"

When An Lan, Su Changfeng and Feng Yuqi broke into Concubine Yu's yard again, Pei Qianluo and Ayi had been tied up and thrown on the ground in the yard.

When Ayi saw them coming in, she was so anxious that she didn't care about her swollen face. She sobbed and shouted, "Hurry up and save me...sister...save her inside..."

Feng Yuqi kicked several eunuchs away and rushed into the inner room, just in time to see Concubine Shen raising her hand to insert a steel needle into Su Yunxuan's heart.