Chapter 620 - Chapter 620: I Want Your Heads
Chapter 620: I Want Your Heads
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
After sealing the letter, he summoned a secret guard and had him send the letter to the southern army.
Even though he had already written a letter and the Ji family and Consort Yi in the palace still did not know that his Empress was not in the palace, Emperor Hao was still worried, so he got up and came to the Phoenix Palace.
There were still people in the Phoenix Palace who blocked him at the main entrance. Just like before, when they saw him, they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed to him in fear. “Please forgive me, Your Majesty, please forgive me. The Empress is still unwilling to see Your Majesty. Please let Your Majesty go back. Please forgive me, Your Majesty.”
Emperor Hao knew that these people were committing the crime of deceiving the emperor and were all pretending, but his face did not show it at all, as if he believed it.
He even said to a palace maid and a eunuch kneeling in front of him, “Serve the Empress well. Whatever the Empress wants, quickly get it for her. If I find out that you aren’t serving the Empress well, I will take your heads.”
“Yes, of course, Your Majesty.” The head palace maid and the eunuch in charge of the Phoenix Palace hurriedly said, their heads pressed against the ground again as they broke out in a cold sweat.
It was not that they were afraid of losing their heads. If they died for their masters, it would be worth it. The main thing was that they were afraid that people would find out that their master was not in the Phoenix Palace. Their master had gone out just like that and had specially chosen to go out when the Emperor’s men were changing shifts. The Emperor must have found out about this and was putting on a show with them. He probably did not want others to find out that their master was actually not in the Phoenix Palace.
As long as others thought that his Empress was still in the Phoenix Palace, then even if his Empress was wandering around outside, it would not be a big deal.
When all was said and done, only then did Emperor Hao pretend to be disappointed and walk back.
As he walked back, he also decided that he would come to the Phoenix Palace often like before.
No one would suspect that his Empress would actually be outside the palace.
Empress Shao, full name Shao Youyue.
Shao Youyue was afraid that Emperor Hao would send someone to chase after her after she successfully left the palace. Therefore, she quickly got the carriage to speed up and left the Imperial Capital as quickly as possible.
Like her four maids, she was dressed as a man.
However, she was one of the two that sat in the carriage. One of the maids drove the carriage, another accompanied her in the carriage, and the other two maids each rode a horse with a sword at their waists. They followed on both sides of the carriage.
Once the carriage left the capital, it headed North.
The capital was located at the center of the Great Plume.
She really could not stay in the palace any longer. She felt that she was going crazy. In the past, there was no news of her son. Even if there was news, it was not much news. Now that she knew that her son was very likely in Changyu, she wanted to go to Changyu immediately to find her son.
Fortunately, she had successfully left the palace, so she naturally had to go to Changyu without any complications.
However, the sky was about to turn dark. Coincidentally, there was an inn in front of them. Shao Youyue and the others asked for a room in the inn and stayed there. The four of them stayed in one room.
The waiter of the inn knocked on the door and brought them food.
Zi Cui, the maid, took it first.
After the door was closed again, another maid, Xue Liu, took out her silver needles and tested for poison in the food one by one. She was still worried. The maid Xia Han first picked up a little of each dish and ate it at the side. After waiting for a while, seeing that she was fine, Xia Han’s biological sister Miao Han, who was also Shao Youyue’s maid, finally dared to scoop some rice for
Shao Youyue. She also picked up some food and bowed, offering it to Shao Youyue with both hands for her to eat.
Shao Youyue still had no appet.i.te. She shook her head slightly, indicating that she didn’t want to eat..