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

Su Yunxuan and Pei Qianluo found the place where the pounding sound was the loudest, and they knocked on the wall vigorously while shouting for help. But the pounding sound outside was so loud that it completely drowned out their voices.

After shouting for a while, they realized it was useless and immediately went their separate ways to look for a exit.

Pei Qianluo was the first to find a door. He walked out shouting excitedly, but stopped after only a few steps.

Su Yunxuan rushed over when she heard the sound, and was also stunned when she saw the situation.

The door led to another square secret room, which was empty from beginning to end and had no exit on the wall.

The two looked at each other, and Su Yunxuan quickly walked to the wall, raised her hand and knocked on the wall, saying, "There is no other exit except here. It must be a secret door. Let's look for it carefully."

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Outside, the Queen Mother listened to Concubine Shen's remarks and was weighing whether to stop Feng Yuqi from continuing to smash the wall or let him go so as to find Pei Qianluo as soon as possible. At this time, another palace maid came in to report: Concubine Yu next door had just died due to excessive blood loss and lack of timely rescue.

After listening to this, Concubine Shen said to the Empress Dowager with a gloomy face, "The Empress has died, the Emperor has left the palace, and Prince Hao has broken into the concubines' bedrooms, causing Concubine Yu to have a miscarriage and die. Mother, you can just wait for the Emperor to come back and hold him accountable, or witness with your own eyes that he once again blocks the criticism of the civil and military officials in the court for Prince Hao." Then she turned away.

The emperor left the palace and broke into the harem, resulting in two deaths. This is a huge responsibility!

The empress dowager made up her mind and finally decided to order the eunuch to step forward and stop Feng Yuqi.

The eunuch was beaten to pieces by the furious Feng Yuqi, and the empress dowager urgently called for the two armored guards outside.

At once, more than ten people rushed forward together, and finally managed to subdue Feng Yuqi, whose leg injury had not yet healed, and forcibly carried him out.

Everyone retreated to Concubine Yu's courtyard. When Concubine Shen was discussing with the Queen Mother about temporarily detaining Feng Yuqi, An Lan led Su Changfeng and Ayi into the palace.

Following the noise, Su Changfeng found himself outside Concubine Yu's courtyard. After briefly asking the armored guards guarding the gate about the situation inside, he ordered Ayi to follow An Lan in first.

Seeing Feng Yuqi being subdued, An Lan simply greeted the Queen Mother and asked what was going on with Feng Yuqi.

Feng Yuqi insisted that Feng Dezhe had hidden someone inside. An Lan looked at the Queen Mother, who was embarrassed and said that Feng Yuqi had smashed a hole in the wall of Concubine Yu's room but still couldn't find anyone, and she couldn't keep allowing Feng Yuqi to act like this.

Before An Lan could say anything, Concubine Shen came over from next door and scolded Feng Yuqi for having no regard for the law and breaking into the harem, causing the death of Concubine Yu and two others.

Feng Yuqi satirized that how Concubine Yu died remains to be verified.

An Lan was shocked.

The Empress Dowager was awakened by Feng Yuqi's words and looked at Concubine Shen with suspicion.

Concubine Shen looked calm and said righteously: "The emperor left the palace, and Prince Hao broke into the harem privately, causing the death of Concubine Yu and two lives. He has already committed a serious crime, and now he has slandered me, adding to his crime. The queen has passed away, and you, the queen mother, are you going to watch him bully us to this extent?"

The Empress Dowager stared at Concubine Shen in silence.

Concubine Shen put pressure on him again: "Before His Majesty left the palace, he asked me to guard the harem. If I had arrived first today, I would have stopped Prince Hao from making such a fuss and causing such a disaster. It's a pity that I came a step too late! According to the regulations, I should have detained Prince Hao immediately and waited for His Majesty to return to the palace for his decision.

But since the Queen Mother is here in person, I cannot bypass you and exercise my authority. I have done everything I should do. If the Emperor really wants to blame me, I can only report the truth. Poor Emperor's unborn little prince......"

"The fetus in Concubine Yu's belly hasn't even formed yet, so why is Concubine Shen so insistent that it's a little prince?" An Lan interrupted and questioned.

"Does the little princess deserve to have a stillbirth? The eldest princess is also a woman, how can you be so cruel?" Concubine Shen sneered.

"That's not what I meant." An Lan didn't want to argue with Concubine Shen, so he turned to the Queen Mother and said, "Mother, Qianluo and Yunxuan were abducted by Feng Deze. We should find them as soon as possible..."

"Princess, be careful with what you say!" Concubine Shen interrupted sternly, "Do you have evidence to prove that it was Prince De who arrested them? Prince Hao slandered my De'er, and the princess slandered me. You are really birds of a feather. No wonder you two are so disrespectful to your elders and act lawless!"

After that, she turned to the Queen Mother and said seriously, "Queen Mother, you have always taught us that the order of seniority should be respected and the inferiors should not be violated. Are you just going to watch them go on like this? Queen Mother, aren't you afraid that the ministers will once again protest that the Princess and Prince Hao are spoiled, disrespectful to their elders, and are plotting to murder the royal descendants? Aren't you afraid that the people of the world..."

The Queen Mother couldn't bear to hear it any longer.

An Lan has always had a bad reputation, and adding one or two more would be fatal; as for Feng Yuqi, the emperor has always wanted to support him to succeed the throne, but due to his bad reputation, he has always been opposed by the ministers in the court. He is also counting on him to win the throne for the woman of the Pei family, so he can't add insult to injury......

"Shut up!" The Queen Mother gave an order to stop this farce, and ordered people to temporarily detain Feng Yuqi in the palace, and ordered An Lan to lead Su Changfeng, who had just arrived, to leave the harem as soon as possible.

An Lan and Feng Yuqi were dissatisfied. The Queen Mother and Concubine Shen fully demonstrated their power as the masters of the harem and summoned a large number of armored guards to guard the palace.

Seeing An Lan and Feng Yuqi being sent away separately by the armored guards, the empress dowager was worried about Pei Qianluo's safety, and felt suspicious about Concubine Yu's death. Although she had a headache and was weak, she ignored the dissuasion of the nanny around her and forced herself to stay and go to Concubine Yu's room to check the situation.

Since Concubine Shen was doing something, she would not leave and would accompany him throughout the whole process.

The Queen Mother glanced at Concubine Yu, who was already dead on the bed, and called the imperial physician to inquire about the situation. The imperial physician answered calmly and methodically, and the Queen Mother ordered another imperial physician to come.

Concubine Shen was displeased and no longer pretended as before. She walked directly to the Empress Dowager and sat down, asking her if she suspected that she had done something wrong.

The Queen Mother pretended to be nice at first, explaining that she just wanted to investigate the matter more clearly so that she could give an explanation to the Emperor...

Without waiting for the empress dowager to finish speaking, Concubine Shen directly sarcastically asked the empress dowager what she had been doing just now, now that she knew she had to give an explanation to the emperor.

When the empress dowager heard her words, her face suddenly turned cold, and her counterattack against Concubine Shen's attempt to stop her seemed like she was trying to cover up something.

Concubine Shen was not afraid at all. She smiled contemptuously and ridiculed the empress dowager again, saying that her dream of protecting the women of the Pei family and making them her queens for generations would probably be shattered.

The two of them completely fell out and argued fiercely. The empress dowager was so irritated that her headache worsened, her face turned pale, and she coughed incessantly. In the end, she was defeated and was persuaded by the maids to support her back to Fushou Palace.

After the Empress Dowager left, Concubine Shen went in and inspected the almost broken wall made of Fengyu bricks. She came out and ordered more personnel to be deployed outside Concubine Yu's courtyard, strictly prohibiting anyone from entering. She also ordered people to carry away Concubine Yu's body.

After dealing with these, Concubine Shen hurried back to her palace and ordered people to go secretly to Prince De's Mansion and try every means to find Feng Dezhe to meet him as soon as possible.

After that, he buried his head in writing a letter and sent it to the emperor.

After finishing everything, the sky was already slightly white.

A ray of pale light shot into Concubine Yu's courtyard, and it was extremely quiet, as if the sudden good news and excitement of the past few days, as well as the farce at night, were all just a dream.

The guards outside were used to the fickleness of human nature in the palace, and they performed their duties with expressionless faces, completely unaware that there was a figure inside who was constantly searching.

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In the secret room, Pei Qianluo and Su Yunxuan searched and knocked on all the walls of the two secret rooms, but they did not find the secret door. Instead, they heard the sound of knocking on the wall outside becoming smaller and smaller, and finally stopped abruptly.

Sitting on the ground tiredly, Pei Qianluo stared at Feng Deze lying on the ground and said in frustration: "These walls are solid, there is no secret door, we didn't notice how he got in, and now the people outside are gone, we have no idea where he took us..."

"On the ground!" Su Yunxuan suddenly raised her voice and interrupted Pei Qianluo, "If it's not on the wall, it must be on the ground. Let's look for it again."

As she spoke, she picked up the oil lamp on the table, walked quickly to the small secret room, squatted down and knocked on it.

Sure enough, the board was hollow underneath, and she shouted excitedly, "Found it, found it."

When Pei Qianluo ran over, Su Yunxuan had already pulled away a piece of wood on the ground.

The wooden board was opened, and the two saw the stairs going up one by one.

Picking up the oil lamp, the two walked down the stairs hand in hand. After walking a total of twenty steps, their way was blocked by a wooden board again.

Moreover, the wooden board must have been locked from the outside. The two men tried very hard to push it open but failed. They had no choice but to pound on it with all their might, praying that someone outside would hear them.