Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 39 Another dispute

Afterwards, Ji Anni and Yizhen stayed in the West Palace chatting with Concubine Baogui until the evening.

Baogui Concubine invited them to stay for dinner, and Ji Anni and Yizhen had no choice but to agree.

By the time they finished dinner, it was already very late, and even the moon had risen to halfway in the sky. Only then did Concubine Baogui reluctantly send a little palace maid to take them back to Concubine Concubine's Palace.

When they entered the Concubine's Palace, they moved stealthily, fearing to disturb Aunt Yang.

Unexpectedly, when they passed by Aunt Yang's room and looked inside, they found that there was no one in the room. The bedding and quilt were all folded neatly, but there were many fewer things in the room, as if someone had suddenly moved away.

But how could Aunt Yang move out? She probably just tidied up her room.

Neither Ji Anni nor Yizhen thought much about this question and went back to their rooms to sleep.

***

The next day, Ji Anni was still asleep when she heard a knock on the door.

"Who is it?" Ji Anni hugged the pillow and rolled over on the bed, not wanting to get up.

The voice of the palace maid Die'er came from outside the door: "My queen, it's time to get up."

"Wait, I want to sleep a little longer..." Ji Anni started to stay in bed.

"My Lady, if you don't get up, the lotus seed soup will get cold, and it won't taste good if it gets cold."

When Ji Anni heard this, she couldn't help but marvel in her heart. Die'er had only known her for one day, but she had already gotten to know her greedy temper. Thinking back to the first day, when she was trembling with fear when she broke a bowl outside the door, she was like a completely different person.

"Okay, wait a minute..." Ji Anni still couldn't resist the temptation of delicious food. She got up from the bed in a daze and opened the door for Die'er.

Die'er was still wearing the green dress today, and her waist looked thin, like a small willow leaf.

Ji Anni couldn't help but enviously said, "Die'er, Die'er, why are you so thin? Can you teach me?"

Die'er put the lotus seed soup on the table and said to Ji Anni, "Madam, please stop joking with me. How can I be called thin with my figure? Then what should I call you, Madam?"

Ji Anni almost forgot that she was no longer Ji Anni, but Zhao Ji. Ji Anni was a girl with a little flesh, but Zhao Ji had a standard beauty figure that was too much and too little. Alas... Ji Anni was tired of seeing herself like this every day and could not tell what was beautiful.

Just after I finished eating lotus seed soup, Yizhen came.

Yizhen looked a little different today, and she felt particularly beautiful. Ji Anni carefully looked at Yizhen and found a particularly beautiful pearl hairpin on her head. She leaned over and took a closer look, and finally recognized it. It turned out to be one of the pair of hairpins that Guigui Fei had given them yesterday.

Speaking of the pair of pearl hairpins, Ji Anni wanted to refuse them at first, but she couldn't refuse them after a long time, so she had to accept them shamelessly. She and Yizhen each received one of the pearl hairpins. Her own hairpin was still in the small drawer on the dressing table, but Yizhen's hairpin was already on her head.

Seeing Yizhen's shy smile, Ji Anni couldn't help but tease her, "Oh, little beauty Yizhen. It's only been one day since I last saw you, and you've become so beautiful that I can't recognize you."

Yizhen came over and joked with Ji Anni for a while, saying, "You still have time to chatter. If you don't leave now, you'll be late."

"Yes, yes, I almost forgot that we have to start practicing court etiquette today, and I don't know when I will finish learning it." Ji Anni got a headache when she thought about going to Renhe Hall to practice. If Princess Tianning came to trouble her again today, what should she do?

No matter how much you don't want to go, you have to go.

Ji Anni overcame her resistance and walked towards Renhe Hall with Yizhen.

***

The air was fresh in the morning. Ji Anni took a few deep breaths on the road and immediately felt refreshed and all her fatigue was gone. It turned out that the ancients were right. That... Early to bed and early to rise makes a healthy body.

When they arrived at Renhe Hall, many concubines were already standing there.

It’s still early and the aunts haven’t arrived yet.

The concubines were clearly divided into two groups, one was from the East Concubine Palace, and the other was from the West Concubine Palace.

Almost everyone in Dong Congfei Palace gathered around Shui Furong again.

Ji Anni couldn't help but sigh in her heart: It's only been three or four days, and Shui Furong has become a small captain in the East Congfei Palace. She is really capable. But her temper is too bad. If Miss Jiao's overbearing temper is changed, maybe she can really be a talented general.

As soon as Ji Anni and Yizhen walked into the crowd, everyone's eyes turned to them.

At first, all eyes were on Ji Anni, because Ji Anni was now a popular figure in the palace. But later, the eyes of the concubines gradually focused on Yizhen.

Well...to be specific, it should be on Yizhen's head.

To be more specific...it's on the pearl hairpin on Yizhen's head.

Yizhen seemed to have noticed these gazes. She had always been timid, but today she straightened her back extra straight.

Ji Anni was a little surprised by Yizhen's change. She wondered if it was because she wore the expensive hairpin given by Concubine Baogui that Yizhen, who had always felt inferior about her family background, became so arrogant.

At this time, several concubines from the Western Concubine Palace were seen walking towards Yizhen.

Ji Anni was afraid that they would bully Yizhen, so she quickly protected Yizhen behind her.

But the concubines from the Western Concubine Palace bypassed Ji Anni and came to Yizhen.

The leader was wearing a yellow long skirt, with slightly raised eyes. Just by looking at her appearance, one could tell she was mean. She was probably a high-ranking figure in the Xi Congfei Palace, with a status equivalent to Shui Furong. The woman also had a pearl hairpin on her head, but the pearls were smaller and grayer. Although it was not of low quality, it immediately looked very cheap compared to the hairpin on Yizhen's head.

Perhaps this is why the concubine in yellow skirt came to cause trouble for Yizhen.

She glanced at the hairpin on Yizhen's head and said with a sarcastic smile, "Oh, the counterfeiting skills are really getting more and more advanced nowadays. Even this fake pearl looks like the real thing."

"This... this is true..." Yizhen said somewhat unconvinced.

"Really?" The woman in the yellow skirt laughed, and the other concubines standing behind her also laughed, "How can the daughter of a small county magistrate in Nanhu County afford such an expensive pearl hairpin? It must have been stolen, right?"

"Yes...it was given by Concubine Baogui." Yizhen stared at him. Although her voice was trembling with fear, she was still arguing.

"Oh? A gift from Guiguifei? I'd like to take a closer look..."

As she spoke, the concubine in yellow stretched out her hand and plucked the pearl hairpin from Yizhen's head in a flash.

Today, Yizhen had no other head ornaments except this pearl hairpin, and all her hair was tied up with the pearl hairpin. Perhaps Yizhen wanted to highlight the pearl hairpin in this way.

But who would have thought that when the yellow skirt was pulled by the concubine, Yizhen's long black hair all fell on her shoulders.