Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 467 Human Mask

"What is Concubine Gan's wish?"

Ji Anni always thought that Concubine Gan was a person without desires, but she didn't expect that she also had obsessions.

So Xiaoxue told Ji Anni the real purpose of Concubine Gan entering the palace.

She said she was just looking for a long-lost childhood friend.

That man's name was Chang Shun. After he entered the palace as a guard, there was no news of him anymore...

Concubine Gan met Chang Shun before she met Xiaoxue, so Xiaoxue had never seen Chang Shun. Concubine Gan had a blindfold on her eyes until she entered the palace, so she had never seen Chang Shun either.

If there were no other clues, how could one find him among thousands of people in the palace based on just a name?

Although Xiaoxue and Concubine Gan's idea is bold, the chance of success is too low.

"It's not easy to find him in such a huge crowd..." Ji Annie sighed.

You can imagine how difficult it is to find someone you have never met based on just a name.

"Apart from the name, there is another clue." Xiaoxue said, taking out a mask from her sleeve pocket.

"What is this?" Ji Anni was shocked because the mask was so realistic and looked like a real person, so it was a little scary.

Xiaoxue said, "Although the queen has never seen Chang Shun in person, she touched his face out of curiosity and memorized his face. Before Chang Shun left the Gan Mansion, he was afraid that the queen would be lonely, so he left a mask based on his own face. However, this happened many years ago. At that time, Chang Shun was still a child, and his appearance must be very different from now..."

While listening to Xiaoxue's statement, Ji Anni gently stroked the mask.

After looking at it a few more times, I no longer find this mask scary.

Instead, an inexplicable feeling arose in my heart.

It seems... I have seen this face somewhere before...

"Empress, what's wrong?" Xiaoxue saw Ji Anni staring at the mask in a daze and couldn't help asking.

Ji Anni suddenly came back to her senses and said dully, "Nothing, I just felt... a little familiar."

"Has the Queen met Chang Shun?" Xiaoxue became excited.

Ji Anni hurriedly shook her head and explained, "It's probably an illusion. I'm not from this world. I've only been here for a short time, and I can count the number of people I know on my ten fingers. I don't know anyone named Chang Shun at all..."

After thinking about it, the only guard he could name was Lai De, but Lai De was definitely not the person on the mask.

Seeing Ji Anni's painful look of deep thought, Xiaoxue advised: "Don't worry, Madam. If you have really seen the person on the mask, the truth will come out one day. In fact, it's not your fault that you can't remember, because the person on the mask originally looked like the one many years ago, and must be very different from the person you have seen. I was almost desperate about this needle-in-a-haystack job, but I didn't expect to hear hope from you. It's great. I hope I can find him..."

As long as we know that Chang Shun is still in the palace, it is only a matter of time to find him.

"By the way, why do Xiaomeng and the others call you Master?" Ji Anni was deeply puzzled.

"It's a long story. After entering the palace, I helped the queen look for Xun Changshun's whereabouts. Because it's inconvenient to move around in human form, I usually change back to my original form and lurk in the guards' base to see if there is anyone with a similar appearance to the mask, but I have never found anything. One day, I was hiding in the bushes as usual, and was suddenly attacked by a wild cat. I was so scared that I ran away, and in a panic, I escaped to Wenhua Courtyard. I saw that there was no one around, so I showed my human form, hoping to scare the wild cat away, but I didn't expect..."

"But it was seen by Zhuang Xiaomeng?" Ji Anni guessed the ending.

Xiaoxue nodded and said with a helpless smile: "He threatened me with this and asked me to teach him magic."

Ji Anni laughed: "That's exactly what he would do."

"But how dare I teach him magic? If word gets out that he uses magic for no reason, I'm afraid the Ministry of Internal Affairs will find out about me and Nangong Palace, which would be bad for Concubine Gan. So I had to pretend to agree to teach him magic, but in fact I was just trying to coax him. Occasionally I'd show him small magic like making dead trees come back to life or water flow backwards to broaden his horizons, and he'd be so happy that he wouldn't care about anything."

In order to rescue Ji Anni from the general, Xiaoxue asks for help from Zhuang Xiaomeng, who then asks Sun Mingri to join the group.

Chang Sun Mingri was loyal to Prince Ming and agreed to save Zhao Ji's life without hesitation.

That’s why Ji Annie was able to escape successfully today.

"Luckily it was Zhuang Xiaomeng who saw your transformation, so you were able to escape unharmed. If anyone else had seen you, I'm afraid there would have been a big mess. You really love Concubine Gan so deeply that you even dared to accompany her into such a heavily guarded place as the Imperial Palace..."

Speaking of this, Ji Anni couldn't help but envy the deep feelings between the two of them.

Especially when I recall what happened between me and Yizhen, I feel even more emotional.

Xiaoxue said, "Your Highness saved my life. If it weren't for you, I would have been slaughtered in the market ten years ago. How could I be alive today? In order to repay your life-saving grace, I will not hesitate to sacrifice my life."

Ten years ago, Concubine Gan was just a little girl.

Because she had the ability of clairvoyance, her parents blindfolded her with a black cloth and raised her as a blind girl.

She was locked up in seclusion and could not move around freely. She was only allowed to go to the temple with her mother on the first day of every month to listen to the monks’ lectures on Zen.

As a little girl, she naturally could not comprehend the profound principles in the scriptures, but the monthly outing day was the only day she was released from the cage. She was very happy every time this day came.

On that day ten years ago, she took a sedan chair to the temple as usual.

When passing through a busy city on the way, I suddenly felt a strong sense of resentment.

She asked the sedan bearer to stop and inquire about the situation around her.

The sedan bearer reported back that there was nothing unusual, only a farmer selling a white rabbit.

She immediately understood that the resentment came from the captured white rabbit. An ordinary white rabbit could not have such a strong resentment. This must be a rabbit demon that has practiced for hundreds of years but has not yet transformed into a human form.

She felt pity for the rabbit and asked someone to buy it. When the sedan chair entered the mountain road, she released the rabbit.

The white rabbit is Xiaoxue.

In order to repay her for saving her life, eight years later, Xiaoxue, who had finally cultivated into a human form, found her from the vast crowd, and successfully sneaked into the Gan Mansion and became her personal maid.

This is the story of Xiaoxue and Concubine Gan.

Concubine Gan, who has been locked in a small world by her parents since childhood, has only two friends in her life so far.

One is the little gardener who got lost and walked into the garden of the imprisoned girl, and the other is the rabbit demon who came from afar to repay the life-saving grace.

Concubine Gan, who is indifferent to worldly affairs and has no desires, has only one unfulfilled wish in her life.

That is to find the little gardener who left her and became a guard in the palace, and get the news that he is still safe...

Just knowing that he was safe and that I could really look at him with my own eyes would be all I wanted in this life.

At this moment, Xiaoxue suddenly shivered.

That shocked and frightened expression was like a person who was sleeping soundly and was suddenly poured with a basin of cold water.

"What's wrong?" Ji Anni asked worriedly.

"Nothing..." Xiaoxue shook her head and wanted to leave immediately, but found that she didn't even have the strength to lift her legs.

My whole body felt like it was bitten by poisonous insects, and I felt waves of numb pain.

My legs had no strength and my body fell towards the table in front of me like a stone.

At first, Xiaoxue just lay upside down on the table and trembled slightly, but suddenly she slid to the ground, curled up like a hedgehog, and shivered continuously.

"Xiaoxue? What's wrong with you?" Ji Annie didn't know what had happened. She only hated herself for being a fox. She didn't have hands to help her up from the ground. She could only jump around her anxiously and lick her head with her tongue worriedly.

"I don't know, it seems... it seems like the poison has taken effect..."

"Poison taking effect?" Ji Anni's mind exploded. When did Xiaoxue get poisoned?

Thinking about it carefully, Xiaoxue seemed to have said that she was arrested by Liuguang and forced to drink the poison of the colorful fragrant flower.

Annie Ji had no idea what kind of poison Caixianghua was, but now seeing Xiaoxue's desperate look, she immediately understood - it was a slow-acting poison that would not kill people, but would make life worse than death.

"Xiaoxue, don't be afraid. I will call Concubine Gan over immediately."

At this point, the only option is for Concubine Gan to take Xiaoxue to ask for the antidote.

"No..." Xiaoxue stretched out her hand weakly, trying to stop the excited Ji Anni.

But Ji Annie was as fast as lightning. Before Xiaoxue could finish her words, Ji Annie had already rushed out of the room.

"No..." Xiaoxue curled up into a ball, groaning in pain.

The last thing she wanted was Concubine Gan to know that she was poisoned, and the last thing she wanted was Concubine Gan to worry about her.

Even if he tried to be strong until the last moment of his life, he would never let Concubine Gan frown because of his pain.

My repayment is to protect the queen and prevent her from getting hurt...

How can I let the queen protect me in return?

Surrounded by self-blame and painful regret, Xiaoxue can no longer maintain her human form.

Her body became smaller and smaller, and finally turned into a white rabbit.

The first time the poison of the colorful fragrant flower attacks, it is particularly fierce. This is to make the poisoned person remember the horror of the poison with his own body, so that they will not have the courage to experience this pain a second time.

Usually once the poison takes effect, even the strongest heart will be destroyed and the person will become a puppet of the poisoner.

In this palace, besides Xiaoxue, there is a second person who was poisoned.

That is Yuemao, a close attendant of Princess Tianning, and Huarong's twin sister. Three years ago, the Xi family was tragically wiped out, and only the two sisters, Huarong and Yuemao, survived under the plea of ​​Princess Tianning. However, the Queen Mother An Yiru and the Imperial Concubine An Ruoxuan forced them to drink poison. Huarong used their identical looks to pretend to be her sister Yuemao and take poison, and from then on the two sisters exchanged identities.

The face of the flower becomes the face of the moon, and the face of the moon becomes the face of the flower.

An Ruoxuan thought she could control the two sisters with poison, but in fact the only one who was poisoned was Huarong, now Yuemao.

Hua Rong, who was once Ji Anni's confidant, had to obey Concubine An in order to save her sister from suffering, and made mistakes against her will.