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Chapter 214 The Late Queen's Maid
Inside the palace.
Xu Yingying didn't have much stuff, just a few sets of clothes and some essential items, which she packed into two simple packages.
After entering the palace, Xu Yingying first went to the imperial study to find the emperor.
At this time, the emperor had just finished his morning court and was reviewing memorials in the imperial study. When Su Shengyuan came in to report, the emperor was a little surprised and had Xu Yingying brought in.
Afterwards, Xu Yingying and the emperor were the only ones left in the imperial study.
"Your Majesty, your humble servant pays homage. Long live the emperor." As soon as Xu Yingying came up, she knelt down and kowtowed to the emperor.
Although Xu Yingying is still not used to these ancient rules, she has to bow her head under the eaves, and these things are necessary if she wants to survive.
Xu Yingying complained silently in her heart, but without the emperor's pardon, she didn't dare to get up.
"My dear minister, please stand up." The emperor waved his hand casually, signaling Xu Yingying to stand up. "Come here, please take a seat and serve tea." The emperor said to the outside.
As soon as he finished speaking, Su Shengyuan personally moved a bench over, and Xu Yingying sat down, waiting quietly for the emperor to finish what he was doing.
Fortunately, Xu Yingying was not in a hurry, and the emperor did not make Xu Yingying wait for a long time.
After the memorial was put away, the emperor asked, "I have no reason to object to Xu Aiqing staying in the palace for a while. The palace has been cleaned up for you, and Su Shengyuan will take you there later."
"Your Majesty, there is no need to be so troublesome. This time I came to the palace for the matter of the late queen, so I was thinking if I could live near the late queen's palace, which would also make it easier for me to investigate this matter."
The emperor nodded happily, "Alright, there happens to be a newly renovated palace near her residence, you can move in now, I will give you a few maids and eunuchs to take care of your food and daily life."
Xu Yingying bowed to express her gratitude, then followed Su Shengyuan away.
While Su Shengyuan was taking Xu Yingying to her residence, he introduced the rules of the palace to her to prevent her from accidentally offending the concubines in the harem.
When they arrived at the residence, Su Shengyuan left, and Xu Yingying breathed a sigh of relief. She looked around and couldn't help but exclaimed, "The palace is indeed a palace. Even this uninhabited place is built so magnificently. Camellia, come out and take a look. Are you familiar with this place?"
Xu Yingying sighed and called out to the camellia that was hiding.
Camellia was originally extremely anxious in the palace and subconsciously resisted appearing in the outside world, but now that Xu Yingying called her, no matter how reluctant she was, she still showed up.
But when she saw the things around her, Camellia's tightly furrowed brows gradually relaxed, and her anxious mood also calmed down.
Camellia looked at everything familiar around her. The ghost looked a lot softer and had some of the temperament she had when she was alive.
When Xu Yingying saw Camellia like this, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Now that she knew that Camellia was the late queen, she must find out how the late queen died. This would not disappoint Camellia's trust.
But the peaceful atmosphere did not last long. It was interrupted by an uninvited guest and the tightly closed door of the palace was knocked.
Although Xu Yingying knew that other people couldn't see Camellia, she still let Camellia hide to be on the safe side.
Xu Yingying went to open the door. After opening the door, Xu Yingying saw the extremely hypocritical face of the Imperial Concubine. Xu Yingying had a smile on her face just now, but after seeing the Imperial Concubine, she disappeared without a trace.
The Imperial Concubine had a hypocritical smile on her face and just looked at Xu Yingying. Xu Yingying took a few steps back and bowed to the Imperial Concubine.
"Your humble servant greets the Imperial Noble Concubine. May I know what brings her here?" Xu Yingying didn't want to argue with the Imperial Noble Concubine, so her tone was neither salty nor bland.
The Imperial Concubine didn't seem to mind Xu Yingying's cold face at all. As she walked inside, she said, "I heard that County Magistrate Xu had entered the palace this morning, so I came to see if there was anything County Magistrate Xu was missing, so that I could make some arrangements for him."
The Imperial Concubine walked closer to Xu Yingying, and Xu Yingying felt that there seemed to be a faint smell on the Imperial Concubine's body, which was very familiar, but Xu Yingying couldn't remember where she had seen it before.
Xu Yingying had been recalling silently, and finally, she remembered that it was Fang Haoyuan's breath, and the closer she was to the Imperial Concubine, the more familiar the breath became.
The Imperial Concubine could smell Fang Haoyuan's aura, and Xu Yingying couldn't help but wonder if something had happened between the two of them.
When she thought of this, Xu Yingying felt that the woman in front of her was particularly disgusting, and she couldn't help but quietly move a little further away from her.
At this time, the Imperial Concubine was still talking nonstop, and Xu Yingying interrupted directly, "My Lady Imperial Concubine, I have everything I need. Besides, Your Majesty has already arranged everything for me. By saying this now, are you accusing Your Majesty of not doing enough? This is a crime of disrespect."
Xu Yingying now only wanted to drive the Imperial Concubine out of here. She hated Fang Haoyuan so much that naturally she didn't have a good face towards someone like the Imperial Concubine who was in cahoots with Fang Haoyuan.
Seeing Xu Yingying being so ungrateful, the Imperial Concubine's expression instantly turned ugly. "Xu County Magistrate, you are just a small county magistrate. Do you really think that I can't do anything to you?"
The Imperial Concubine also forgot to maintain her proper posture at this moment. Her expression was distorted and she looked hideous.
"Your Majesty, what are you saying? I am just exhausted from the journey. If Your Majesty has nothing else to say, please go back. Your Majesty will take care of my affairs here. I will not trouble Your Majesty."
Xu Yingying had clearly made it clear that she was sending the guest away. The Imperial Concubine didn't expect Xu Yingying to really disrespect her like this, and she was so angry that she was shaking all over.
"Good, good, good, you are really great. Then I want to see what kind of trouble you can make." The imperial concubine flicked her sleeves, kicked over the stool in the palace, and then left.
Xu Yingying was too lazy to care about her and just let her do what she wanted.
Just as the imperial concubine left, the palace maids and eunuchs arranged by the emperor for Xu Yingying arrived.
Among them there was a maid who was very special. Su Shengyuan told her that she was the maid who served the late queen and her name was Dingxiang.
This group of maids must have met the imperial concubine on her way out in front of the palace gate. When Xu Yingying sent them to do something, Dingxiang took the initiative to stay.