The Second Lady took Song Wan Yue’s hand and asked the same question as Lady Xu Yan, “It’s almost New Year’s Eve, when will your maternal grandmother and your maternal great-grandfather return?”
“Soon.”
Song Wangyue lied without changing her face.
“You’re waiting for them to come back before you go back?”
“Well, I’m afraid I’ll miss them on the way.”
If Song Wan Yue and Song Yin had not been engaged, she would have pushed her two grandsons in front of Yue’er every day, no matter how big or small they were, as long as Yue could see them, she would have engaged them both immediately.
Unfortunately, Yue’er already had a sweetheart, so she was only thinking about it.
After the second lady had spoken with her for a while, Mrs. Xu Yan sent someone to call her, and the three of them went back for dinner.
Song Wangyue took Song Si and Xiao Yao to the Duke of Ding’s residence and told Duke of Ding and Xiao Zheng what had happened today.
Song Wan Yue said, “I want to accompany the old lady to the palace tomorrow.”
It was impossible for Consort Xiao Xianfei to have a black eye for no reason, and she wanted to go to her palace to have a look.
What she was going to do, Duke Ding and Xiao Zheng naturally understood, but Song Wan Yue’s face was too conspicuous, she was afraid that if she entered the palace one foot, the emperor would know the next, and in case they took advantage of the opportunity to lay hands on her, they could not afford the consequences.
Song Wan Yue naturally could not go with her own face, she and a maid beside the old lady were similar in size and body shape, she could just disguise herself as that maid, anyway, people in the palace did not know how the maid usually acted and behaved and would not be exposed.
The maid’s body shape was similar to that of the other maids.
Half an hour later, a maid entered the flower hall carrying pastries, and every move was the same as the maids around the old lady.
Xiao Zheng’s eyes widened, “You, you, you are ……”
The maid was also “shocked”, how could the young master not recognise her?
Looking at her reaction, he knew she was the real maid, Xiao Zheng patted his chest, he said, how could anyone be so disguised? Not only did she look exactly the same, even her words and mannerisms were the same.
Then he laughed again, this girl Song Wan Yue, she had deliberately sent someone over to scare them, right? Not to mention that he was really scared.
He picked up his tea and just took a sip to calm down.
The maid suddenly changed her voice, “Uncle Xiao.”
Xiao Zheng spurted out a mouthful of tea, and if he hadn’t reacted quickly, he was afraid that the tea would have spurted all over Song Si and Song Yin on the opposite side.
Duke Ding was also surprised, the maid that Song Wan Yue had disguised herself as had served him and his wife for many years, and he had not been able to tell the difference just now.
“How?”
Song Wangyue asked with a smile.
Xiao Zheng was already completely speechless.
The following morning, the Lady Ding Guo arrived with her personal maid and a maid to go to the palace gate to beg for an audience with Her Highness Consort Xian.
The emperor only went to the palace of the Queen Consort Xian now, and the palace people were fiercely obsequious, trotting off to report and soon returning to lead the people into the palace.
The emperor really soon got the news, gave a look to eunuch Huang, eunuch Huang retreated, beckoned a small eunuch whispered a few instructions, the small eunuch trotted out.
In the Kunli Palace, Consort Xiao Xianfei was so happy to see her mother that she left only one aunt in charge and told all the other palace staff to retire.
The personal mothers and “maids” of the Duchess of Ding stayed in the house.
The “maid” looked around, but the housekeeper aunt looked at her eyes and nose and just ignored her.
She has been with Her Highness since she entered the palace, and has been with her for over ten years now, and she feels that there is something strange about what happened yesterday. The maid that the old lady brought in today was certainly not simple, so it would be good for her to examine her.
After a careful examination, she found nothing unusual and the “maid” shook her head at the two of them.
The Duke of Ding’s wife took out a small box from her sleeve and put it into Consort Xiao’s hand, “This is a pill for calming the mind made by Yue’er. If you feel unable to sleep, just take one, it’s very effective.”
After saying that, she even patted her hand.
Xiao Xianfei understood and handed it to the housekeeping aunt for her to put away.
The two mothers spoke for an hour, the Duke of Ding’s wife wanted to go back, and Xiao Xianfei sent the person out with fondness, “There are still a few days to go before the New Year’s Eve, mother and must come early.”
Her mother could visit her often in the palace, but her father could not, she had not seen him for over a year since Yao’er’s marriage.
“Mother knows, we will definitely come over early when the time comes.”
When they reached the courtyard, Consort Xiao Xian stopped seeing them off and asked the aunt in charge to see them out of the palace.
As they walked along, a young eunuch rushed out of a nearby door and the “maid” dodged and was knocked to the ground.
“How do you walk?”
The steward aunt scolded.
The young eunuch apologized in alarm, “Aunt forgive me, the servant was in a hurry.”
“You can’t run around in the palace even if it’s urgent, do you still want your head?”
The eunuch was about to cry in fear.
The “maid” got up with difficulty.
The blow she had just received was not light, and she had subconsciously tried to support herself on the ground with both hands.
The aunt in charge couldn’t be bothered to reprimand the little eunuch, “Is it serious? Let’s go back to the palace and take care of it.”
“The maid hurriedly waved her hand, “No, no, it’s nothing.”
Seeing that her face was white with pain, she said she was fine, so she didn’t dare to stay in the palace, so the Steward Aunt didn’t advise her anymore and led them out of the palace.
The young eunuch knelt on the ground and saw that the “maid” who had come to the end was limping, obviously she had just fallen badly, so she got up and walked through the door.
Inside, six eunuchs were waiting with nets in their hands, so that if the maid had evaded them at all, they would have gone out and taken her down immediately.
The eunuch turned around and pushed the door open to enter the imperial study and went to the table, “Your Majesty, they have just tested the maid and she does not know martial arts.”
That game of the Emperor’s yesterday was a triple whammy, not only against Consort Xiao Xian and Xu Yan, but also Song Wan Yue, but it was just a pity that it fell short and didn’t work out yesterday. But it doesn’t affect the fact that the Ding Guo Mansion will try to get Song Wan Yue to follow them into the palace, but unfortunately the emperor was wrong again, Song Wan Yue didn’t come, only an ordinary maid.
The emperor put down his pen.
He was not interested in how Eunuch Huang had his people try to find out, what he wanted was how Song Wan Yue did not come. If the Ding Guo Gong House had let Consort Xiao Xian into the palace in the first place to avenge Xiao Wan, they would have been very concerned about Consort Xiao Xian’s health and would have come over as soon as they learned of the incident, and would have brought Song Wan Yue with them, not only to have her examine Consort Xiao Xian’s body but also to have her help check if there was anything poisonous in the Kunli Palace.
Not true!
“You just said that the palace people were all whisked out and the people from the Lady of Ding Guo’s side were accompanying around?”
“Yes.”
“That maid must be Song Wangyue in disguise, quickly have someone go after u