Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 299 Routine Inspection

"Ah..." Shui Furong yawned and rubbed her eyes as soon as she got up.

"You're up so early?" Ji Anni, who was sleeping in the bed opposite him, was awakened by the sound of him getting up and asked with squinted eyes.

"Well, today is a special day, a day that will decide the outcome. It means a lot to me, so I have to prepare early." Shui Furong said as she put on her clothes. From his clear pronunciation, it can be heard that he is indeed awake.

It is a rare thing that the lazy girl Shui Furong does not stay in bed anymore.

After being woken up by him, Ji Anni couldn't fall asleep anymore. She rubbed her eyes, sat up, and asked drowsily, "What's the matter?"

Ji Anni didn't remember any special arrangements for today. Besides, the two of them who were locked up in Wenhua Courtyard were like plucked birds, and they couldn't fly out even if they had two wings.

Shui Furong jumped to the side of Ji Anni's bed, tapped her forehead and said, "No way, have you forgotten everything?"

Ji Annie's forehead was tapped by him, making a "bang" sound, as crisp as tapping cotton.

"Ouch... it hurts so much..." Ji Anni covered the red mark on her forehead with tears in her eyes, thinking that Shui Furong was really heavy-handed. Fortunately, she had thick skin and was not afraid of pain. If it were any other queen, she would have cried loudly in pain.

"I'll give you another chance. Think about it carefully." Shui Furong kept it a secret and deliberately didn't tell her.

Ji Anni stared at Shui Furong's strange expression suspiciously, wondering what he was planning...

The pain on her forehead just now completely woke up the somewhat depressed Ji Anni. She thought carefully, special things... special things... what special things could there be?

"Just to remind you, today is the fifth day since I was favored by the Emperor..."

"Cough, cough, cough." Before Shui Furong could finish her words, Ji Anni burst into a violent coughing fit.

The word "favor" just now really scared Ji Anni. Fortunately, she didn't drink the water, otherwise it would have sprayed out.

"Yes, yes, yes, I remember now. You are going to the Imperial Hospital for a routine checkup today, right?" Ji Anni slapped her head and finally remembered this "special thing". It was all because of all the messy things that happened recently. Ji Anni had a narrow escape and almost lost her life. Somehow she forgot the agreement between Shui Furong and the emperor, and almost forgot that Shui Furong was about to become a concubine.

The emperor had promised Shui Furong that as long as she could find out she was pregnant, he would make her a royal concubine.

Only by becoming a royal concubine can one have the qualification to enter the palace to consult historical records and further investigate the case.

For Shui Furong, today was indeed the day that would change her fate, the day that would decide victory or defeat. If she succeeded, not only would she be able to become a royal concubine, but she might even be able to move out of the Wenhua Courtyard, which was almost making her sick, under the pretext of taking care of her baby.

Thinking of the bright future beckoning, Shui Furong came to the window and stretched lazily, driving away all the fatigue and tiredness of the past few days, ready to greet the important moment of today with full spirit.

Ji Anni looked at his back, a little confused: "By the way, why don't I need to be checked?"

If we compare the number of times, I went there twice, but I was never asked to go to the Imperial Hospital for a check-up. Isn't that very strange?

Shui Furong turned around and laughed wickedly, "Hehehe."

Ji Anni was frightened by his smile, and got goose bumps all over her body. She asked timidly, "What's wrong?"

Shui Furong leaned close to Ji Anni's ear and whispered, "You're still asking me, aren't you the one who knows best? ... Has the emperor done anything to you?"

"What's the matter..." Ji Anni was a little confused, but she had already vaguely guessed what Shui Furong was referring to.

Shui Furong smiled even more cunningly, poked Ji Anni's red cheek and said, "It's what a couple should do."

This time, Ji Anni finally understood, and her face turned even redder, almost burning her skin. She lowered her head and stammered, "No...nothing...nothing..."

"That's right. Since nothing has been done, there is no need to check." Shui Furong spread her hands.

"You didn't do anything either...what are you so proud of..." Ji Anni turned her head away and muttered softly.

In fact, after each night with the emperor, a eunuch would record whether the emperor had conceived a child with the empress. If the emperor said "yes", he would have to go to the Imperial Hospital for a routine checkup five days later; if the emperor said "no", this procedure would be waived.

"But the emperor is really strange. Why doesn't he feel any impulse when sleeping in the same bed with a beauty like you?" Shui Furong stared at Ji Anni's face which was so red that it seemed to bleed, and continued to say words that would make Ji Anni blush even more.

"Okay, okay, go comb your hair, it's just a mess..." Ji Annie was afraid that Shui Furong would continue to interrogate her, so she pushed Shui Furong away in panic.

Shui Furong always paid the most attention to her appearance. When she heard that her hair was a mess, she immediately forgot to check Ji Anni and spent all her attention on dressing up. Although he was a man, from getting up to dressing, washing and dressing up, this round of work, even if he got up at dawn, by the time he could walk out the door with a radiant face, it would probably be close to noon.

Moreover, they were confined to Wenhua Courtyard and had no maids to serve them. They had to do everything by themselves, so their efficiency was even slower.

Fortunately, not long after, the clever and skillful Hua Rong came to bring them porridge and also helped Shui Furong to put her hair into a bun.

When Hua Rong was combing Shui Furong's hair, Ji Anni's eyes were always flying around Hua Rong's face intentionally or unintentionally.

I thought Huarong was just stubborn in front of others, but she would cry secretly when no one was around, but it turned out that this was not the case. There was no trace of crying on Huarong's face, and there was no bloodshot in her eyes.

All this can prove that Hua Rong definitely did not cry last night.

How strange... Ji Anni touched her chin and thought like Sherlock Holmes.

Did Hua Rong really not care about the marriage between Kang Xiaorong and Princess Tianning? Or did she really stop crying and really shed all the tears she could shed in her life three years ago?

Hua Rong has always been the person that Ji Anni could least guess.

Not to mention Ji Anni, perhaps no one in the palace knew what Hua Rong was thinking. Because no one knew that she was playing the role of another person, living under the shadow and name of another person.

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Time passed quickly without us noticing, and soon it was already noon.

Shui Furong, who had already prepared herself, paced back and forth at the door, muttering to herself, "Why haven't they come yet... Why haven't they come yet... Could it be that they have forgotten? What should I do? What should I do?"

Ji Anni watched him walking back and forth for the entire morning, and her eyes were almost blurry.

Although counting how many times Furong walked around the room was a good way to kill time, Ji Anni, who had already counted to three digits, really didn't want to count any further and shouted impatiently, "Furong, don't be anxious... What's supposed to come will come, and what's not supposed to come... won't come..."

"Who said he wouldn't come? Shut up." Shui Furong interrupted Ji Anni angrily, fearing that Ji Anni's good intentions would not work and her bad intentions would work. If the eunuch who was supposed to take him to the Imperial Hospital really didn't come, he would go straight to the Imperial Hospital alone.

"Okay, okay, I won't say anything." Ji Anni obediently covered her mouth. It's not like she didn't know Shui Furong's temper. When she was in a bad mood, she would even bite a tiger's butt. Ji Anni didn't want to be bitten by him.

"You won't not come, will you? You won't not come, will you?..." Shui Furong changed the words and continued to walk around the room.

"Sigh..." Ji Anni simply turned her head and moved her gaze to the window to look at the blue sky and white clouds.

Suddenly, Shui Furong jumped in front of Ji Anni like a ninja, held her shoulders, and asked solemnly: "Isn't it true that a king should not joke? Could it be that the emperor has forgotten his promise to me?...Oh no, he has only been the emperor for four months, he probably doesn't know the truth of true that a king should not joke, ah... ah..."

"Don't sigh. Even I know these four words 'The emperor never jokes', so the emperor must know it." Ji Anni got up too early today and now she was a little sleepy. As soon as she opened her mouth, she yawned loudly.

"You are still so leisurely! I've been waiting anxiously for five days. What if he really forgets?" Shui Furong wanted to treat Ji Anni as a substitute for the emperor and eat her alive.

"No, no, don't worry." Ji Anni knew that the emperor also wanted to secretly investigate several mysterious cases three years ago. Now that he finally found Shui Furong, a fellow traveler, he should not forget them.

At this moment, a voice was heard outside the gate of Taoyuan. It sounded like a visitor had arrived.

"Listen, listen." Ji Anni excitedly grabbed Shui Furong's sleeve and pointed outside the door.

Shui Furong pricked up her ears and listened carefully for a while. A satisfied smile slowly blossomed on the corners of her mouth. She laughed and said, "Haha, isn't this the voice of Eunuch Hua? That's great, he's finally here. Xiao Zhao, wait for my good news."

Shui Furong couldn't wait for Eunuch Hua to knock on the door, so she rushed out in high spirits.

It seems that Eunuch Hua was responsible for handling the emperor's affairs with the concubines, and he always appeared with the Phoenix Carriage. So whenever you see Eunuch Hua, it's like seeing the Phoenix Carriage coming to welcome the emperor.

Shui Furong rushed out the door like a gust of wind, and soon her voice was mixed with the voices of people outside the gate of Taoyuan.

Shui Furong guessed correctly. Eunuch Hua was indeed here to take him to the Imperial Hospital for a routine check-up.

Ji Anni watched Shui Furong leave quietly, thinking that when he comes back, he might have become a royal concubine. Since he has been promoted to a royal concubine, the house arrest order should be abolished, right? Thinking of this, could it be that...

Will I be the only one living here from now on? Ji Anni slowly realized this profound question.