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The night was already very dark, and the river breeze was somewhat cold. Zhuang Li originally wanted to return, but she was coaxed to the bridge by Li Liangxiao.

"Just wait a little longer. It'll probably be done soon!" Li Liangxiao's eyes flashed with happiness. Zhuang Li was helpless, this damned child was not willing to say anything, and actually started to learn to keep an eye on things.

"The liveliness outside the palace is also quite intense, although in the early days of the Ghost Festival, it was indeed a very unlucky day, with river lamp s all around, and everyone was burning paper money in the courtyard for their ancestors. However, it was probably because of the influence of the palace. Although they had been burning paper and going there for a while, there were still more types of river lamp. Beautiful and bright. The river was also filled with rivers. Furthermore, what was different from the palace was the liveliness. The ruckus, the shouting, these things cannot be heard in the palace. "

"The Uncle Zheng also went to release the river lamp?"

Yeah, with a bunch of kids, but they mostly play." Uncle Zheng is their child king, when I first took in the two little guys, I said I wanted to buy two servants back. "Uncle Zheng won't let me go, he says he's just a coachman and can't stand being served by others, so there's only a male servant at home and a mama who buys rice noodles and oil. Everything else is done by Uncle Zheng.

Zhuang Li felt a warm feeling in her heart. If not for him, Uncle Zheng would not have been beaten into sending him back to her homeland. Fortunately, she had Li Liangxiao, so he could peacefully pass her last years.

Does this count as Li Liangxiao redeeming her fault?

In fact, she had the same plan at the time. After returning to Gansu, she would use her little mind to get some money to fix some houses. She would be a family member living with.

Just as she was thinking, Li Liangxiao pulled Zhuang Li's arm and let her look at the river surface.

Upstream, a stream of light followed the river. At first, Zhuang Li did not understand. However, when the flow of light got closer, Zhuang Li could see that it was an upstream river lamp floating down.

He had heard Qing You talk about it a few days ago. The Emperor would place nine river lamp outside the Rippling Zither Pavilion in the upper reaches of the Min River every year to commemorate the previous Emperor. This has become routine since the Emperor ascended the throne. Although it wasn't a big deal, the Ministry of Rites would have already prepared everything for the Emperor. Only after the Emperor's river lamp had been put down and left would the Empress lead the harem women, the palace maids and eunuchs release the river lamp.

The light seemed to have slowed down as it flowed past the water surface under Zhuang Li's feet.

All sorts of river lamp were huddled together. Some were already soaked, but they were still carried downstream by the river. Under the night sky, those exquisite halls were silently guarding the river lamp's slow flow, as if they were especially intelligent. It was unknown if they could even see whether or not there were ghosts living on the river lamp.

Zhuang Li looked upstream and now, she saw that the meandering river was filled with candlelight. She spent her time in the Imperial Study, and only now did she truly feel just how big this palace was, and how many people it had.

If Li Liangxiao was already on duty in the palace when he was not fighting outside, he had also been on duty on the same day as when he released the river lamp in the past, and only after patrolling the lower reaches of the Min River did he discover such a beautiful scenery.

Furthermore, only the German Sect was the easiest to see the lamps here. If they were to go further downstream, many of them would have already been extinguished.

"When my sister leaves the palace, my family can also go to the river to put out the lights."

Hearing this, Zhuang Li remembered that there was something that had been pressing on her mind, the gaze of the Emperor when she talked about the whereabouts of the Princess of West Cold seemed to be hiding something.

"Did you manage to locate the Princess of West Cold?" Zhuang Li asked. She urgently needed to know a definite answer, otherwise her heart would never be able to let it go.

Li Liangxiao did not expect Zhuang Li to suddenly ask about this, so he was stunned for a moment.

"That's right, we have already confirmed it. We are waiting for the emperor's order. If this time's Princess of West Cold can safely enter the capital, then big sister can leave the palace."

"What!" Zhuang Li almost lost her balance for a moment, before she was supported by Li Liangxiao. Although she had already felt some sort of abnormality from the emperor earlier, to truly confirm that this news was indeed not a small blow to her.

Furthermore, her entire West Cold was currently within the grasp of the Great Phoenix. It would only be a matter of time before she found the hiding Ge Ya and Xi Cuo. But she didn't expect that the day would come so quickly …

The emperor naturally hoped to quickly control Xi Cuo and force him to succeed the throne, but he was always under the control of the great phoenix. To the entire West Cold, Xi Cuo was naturally the last hope of saving a life, and if he were to ascend to the throne, the remaining forces of West Cold that were against the Third Prince would have to settle down.

At that time, he would naturally want to bring Ge Ya into the palace. After all, if Xi Cuo took the throne, then he would need an even more threatening proton.

However, Zhuang Li hoped that Xi Cuo and his sister could hide it for a little longer, until Xi Cuo already possessed the ability to protect Ge Ya. Although he was still unable to match up to Da Feng in terms of strength, he already had the least amount of strength to protect himself …

When Li Liangxiao saw Zhuang Li's agitated state, he hurriedly consoled him, "Sister, don't worry, the emperor had never thought of exterminating West Cold, nor did he think of sending his own men to manage it. After all, with such a large desert separating them, it's a normal thing for rebellion to occur, and even if there's a secret passage that leads to it, it would take some time. If Da Feng has been stationed at the West Cold for a long time, it wouldn't be worth it to stop Da Feng's forces.

"It's fine. Let's go back." After a long while, Zhuang Li finally said these words. It was as if she was saying them for Li Liangxiao to hear, or for herself … She took a last look in the direction upstream, where most of the river lamp had already flowed downstream. Right now, there were only a few left on the shore, which were probably tied up by the branches, the candles would burn out and they would quickly sink into the river.

She was about to leave this palace? At that moment, his heart was filled with reluctance …

When she was gone, who would serve tea to the Emperor?

After thinking about it, he found himself smiling again. Central Pine, such a bustling palace, there were countless maids waiting to serve the Emperor tea. They were like stones thrown into water and soon sank to the bottom, the surface of the water was as calm as ever …

Zhuang Li was awoken by the loud noise. The moment she opened her eyes, she saw Qing You's face in front of her, and she immediately sobered up from fright.

"Miss, Miss, quickly get up."

Zhuang Li sat up in a hurry, and searched all over for her jacket, only to find the jacket in Qing You's hands. She quickly climbed onto the bed and draped the jacket over Zhuang Li's body.

"What's wrong? Did I oversleep? What time is it? Your Majesty wants to bring Imperial Study over? " She kept asking, and also thought that when Li Liangxiao sent her back, it was still very early, so even though she was worried about a lot of things, she wasn't able to stay up late, so the possibility of her oversleeping wasn't high.

"It's still early." Qing You placed the breakfast that she brought from the kitchen on the table beside her bed, and then went to get her shoes for Zhuang Li.

Hearing these words, Zhuang Li's mental state loosened, and her clothes instantly became lazy.

"Miss, something happened last night!"

"What?" What happened?! " The relaxed mood immediately tensed up again.

"Qingyang Palace caused a commotion last night!"

"What do I think it is? Where the hell is there a ghost in this world …"

Zhuang Li relaxed her mind once again, and without bothering to put on her shoes, she sat on the edge of the bed, stretched her hands out and pulled the table closer to him, then picked up the box and started eating breakfast.

Breakfast was lotus seed porridge with a few exquisite pastries, and the kitchen took great care of this tea servant, who was serving at Imperial Study. Although they were all simple dishes, they were already trying their best to be exquisite and beautiful. Zhuang Li naturally enjoyed it a lot as well.

Qing You didn't give up and walked forward again.

"Miss! It's true! When I asked him what happened, he stammered and stammered about how the spring water was sent to Qingyang Palace and that place was haunted. The maids and eunuchs inside rushed out screaming and knocked over the water bucket, and after working hard for half a day, they finally reorganized and sent the spring water over, which was also less than half of the original amount.

Zhuang Li was too lazy to bother with her. She had received a high education, how could she believe in so many weird things? How could there be a ghost in this world? Only the heart of a person might still have a ghost.

After she finished her beautiful breakfast, Qing You was still nagging from the corner, as if she was extremely afraid. Zhuang Li then teased her casually, if you are afraid, go outside and bask in the sun.

He didn't expect that the moment he said that, Qing You, who was trembling in the corner just a moment ago, would jump out. This silly girl, she still didn't know how the situation had happened. She was already scared just by hearing the word ghost. She was probably most afraid of ghosts since she did not have a detailed description of the things that passed by in her mind.

It was still early after dinner, so Zhuang Li was prepared to lie on the bed for a while. Then, she opened the door and came in again, grabbing onto Zhuang Li's arm and shouting that she was afraid, and wanted Zhuang Li to accompany her out.

When they reached the courtyard in the center of the Imperial Study, it was the sun shining brightly in the sky. After a while, they started to sweat profusely, so Zhuang Li dragged Qing You to the pavilion to rest. It was only then that they realized that there were already quite a few eunuchs on duty within the Imperial Study gathered within the pavilion. After walking in, they realized that what they were discussing was precisely the incident with the ghosts within the Qingyang Palace last night.

A eunuch who brought water in the morning had just walked to the Qingyang Palace entrance to see a old nanny who was spitting blood rushing out to her death. The other one said that when the old nanny went back with the river lamp, she could hear someone crying. It was only after searching for a long time did she realize that the crying came from underneath her bed …

He could tell that there were many versions of this story, and the more it seemed, the more mysterious it became. He said that he heard it from the person who delivered the water, and he said he heard it from the person who delivered the food. They all said that Qingyang Palace were haunted, but they were all different.

The only thing that could be confirmed was that something had indeed gone wrong with the Qingyang Palace last night, and that the palace maids had already been assigned to wait outside the Heart Nurturing Palace. When the emperor arrived at the imperial court, they would immediately go inside to report to him.

Zhuang Li had originally been curious as to whether Imperial Concubine Hanqin had caused such a ruckus by asking the Emperor to rest in the Qingyang Palace and console him. Even if she were to report it to the emperor, she wouldn't be afraid of the empress blaming him? Didn't things in the imperial harem have to go through the empress's approval?

Just as she was in a dilemma, the Nanny Lv who was in charge of delivering lunch came over, followed by two girls who were carrying several boxes of food. Usually, the moment she entered Imperial Study, the servants would quickly surround the boxes of food she brought over.

But today, it was different. The young eunuch s quickly went over and surrounded the Nanny Lv.