Seeing that Hai Ling didn't want to talk to him, Feng Zixiao wasn't angry. He walked over, reached out and pressed Hai Ling's pressure point to make her faint, then reached out and carried her to the back.
Outside the palace gates, eunuchs and maids were constantly moving about. The two maids, Shi Mei and Shi Lan, were getting impatient and kept craning their necks to look around, then glancing at the little maid on the side.
"Why haven't the princess and our master finished talking yet? Could you go in and check on them for me?"
A young palace maid looked up at Shi Mei with a surprised expression, then whispered, "I just came out of the princess's palace, and I didn't see anyone in the princess's room."
Upon hearing this, Shi Mei and Shi Lan's expressions changed drastically. They forcefully pushed aside their maids and ran wildly into the main hall. They then searched for the princess, but because there were many inner palaces in Yuehe Palace, they didn't know which one was the princess's bedroom. So they wandered around like headless flies, with maids and eunuchs chasing after them, asking anxiously.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?"
Shi Mei grabbed one of the eunuchs, glared at him, and angrily questioned him.
"Which room is the princess's bedchamber? Which room is the princess's bedchamber?"
Shi Mei asked anxiously, her heart pounding and her limbs feeling weak. Today's events had been strange to begin with. Although she was waiting outside the palace gate, she had been very uneasy, afraid that something bad would happen. And sure enough, something bad had happened. If Her Majesty had really disappeared, then things would be very troublesome.
The young eunuch was terrified by Shi Mei's appearance, and his face turned pale as he trembled as he replied.
"The princess's bedroom is over there."
He pointed, and the two maids, Shimei and Shilan, rushed towards that bedroom.
At the entrance to the bedchamber, eunuchs and maids stood guard. Seeing two people rushing over, they didn't know what had happened and tried to stop the two maids, Shi Mei and Shi Lan. However, the two maids were too anxious to pay attention to them and pushed their way through, rushing into the bedchamber. Inside, Feng Qian was leaning against the bed reading a book. On one side of the room, two personal maids were serving her. They were Xiao Ke and Lian Yi, the two maids who had been the princess's maids since childhood.
Upon hearing the commotion at the door, all of them looked up.
Upon seeing the expressions on Shi Mei and Shi Lan's faces, Feng Qian couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Mei'er, Lan'er, what's wrong with you?"
Inside the bedchamber, her master was indeed nowhere to be found. Shi Mei's legs went weak, and she knelt on the ground, crying out in distress and fear, "Our master is missing! Princess, our master is missing! Today we are leaving the Great Zhou Dynasty, so Master and I came to bid farewell to the Emperor and Princess. Earlier, our master wanted to enter the palace to see the Princess, but a maidservant came in to report that the Princess wanted to speak with our master alone. So we didn't come in. So much time has passed, and we haven't seen our master. Just now, I asked the maidservant, and she said our master wasn't in the Princess's bedchamber. I thought it was a lie, but now… now…?"
Now that her master was truly gone, the usually calm Shi Mei burst into tears, and Shi Lan also shed tears with her.
My lady is pregnant now. Although she has the things in the Seven Star Glazed Bracelet, she has no internal energy or profound martial arts skills. So if she encounters a powerful person, she is no match for him. If you knew, you would know.
Shi Mei dared not think about it anymore, tears streaming down her face.
Upon hearing Shi Mei's words, Feng Qian, who was on the bed, turned pale and, disregarding her injuries, immediately ordered the two personal maids in the bedroom to intervene.
"Quickly, you two immediately lead the men to search the entire Yuehe Palace, inside and out, to see if anyone is hiding there."
"Yes, I understand."
Xiao Ke and Lian Yi, the two maids, led the people out. Feng Qian had already gotten out of bed. In the past two days, she had been able to walk freely. She reached out and helped Shi Mei sit down to the side, looking at Shi Mei seriously.
"Tell me, which palace maid came in to report this? I haven't received any reports from anyone saying that Ling'er came to see me."
Sure enough, someone had tricked her. She said that Princess Fengqian and her master never avoided each other.
But it's too late to say anything now, what should I do, what should I do?
Shi Mei suddenly stood up and looked at Shi Lan: "Quickly, go and report to the master that the master has disappeared."
Shi Lan responded and was about to go out when Feng Qian quickly stopped them. She knew that given Ye Lingfeng's personality, he would be furious if he found out that Hai Ling was missing. So they should look for her first, and if they found her, they could deal with it later.
"Don't rush, let's look for it first. What if we find it?"
When Feng Qian thought of Ling'er being missing, and still inside the Yuehe Palace, her eyes darkened and she looked at Feng Qian.
"If I summon the eunuchs and maids of Yuehe Palace, will you recognize the little maid who said she came in to report?"
"This servant knows her."
Shi Mei spoke with certainty, and Feng Qian nodded, calling in a palace maid from outside. She instructed the maid to immediately gather all the eunuchs and maids of Yuehe Palace in the main hall, and then have Feng Qian identify who had played the trick. If she found the person, she would certainly not let her off the hook.
Feng Qian's face was incredibly gloomy and ugly; she was already in a bad mood.
She was initially happy when her elder brother brought her back to the palace, but as soon as she returned, he solemnly expressed his opinion that he did not agree to her marrying Helian Qianxun, the chieftain of the Yunjiang tribe. Helian Qianxun was very angry, but because he was her brother, she endured it and left without showing herself for the time being.
Thinking of her brother's betrayal, Feng Qian felt extremely disappointed. This time, her brother had narrowly escaped death, and she found that he had become even more ruthless, heartless, and treacherous than before, which made her very upset.
She never expected that Ling'er would disappear again, leaving her feeling utterly helpless.
The two people she cared about most were Helian Qianxun and Ling'er, but now one of them is disliked and the other has disappeared.
Feng Qian grew increasingly anxious, pacing back and forth in her bedchamber until a palace maid entered and reported, "Princess, everyone has been summoned to the main hall."
She turned to look at Shi Mei and said in a deep voice, "Let's go. If we find that palace maid, I will definitely not let her off the hook."
Shi Mei nodded and followed Feng Qian out. But the further she went, the clearer her mind became. If this was a trap, how could the person who set it up have made it so easy for them to find the palace maid? So the palace maid was probably an imposter.
The main hall of Yuehe Palace was filled with people, numbering thirty or forty, including palace maids, eunuchs, and governesses.
Shi Mei had seen the young palace maids earlier, but there were fewer than twenty palace maids in Yuehe Palace. Apart from the few palace maids that Feng Qian had sent out to search Yuehe Palace, the rest were all here. Shi Mei walked past these palace maids one by one, and soon became disappointed, shaking her head as she looked at Feng Qian at the head of the table.
Feng Qian ordered everyone in the main hall to leave. At this moment, the people who had been searching earlier returned.
Shi Mei glanced at the list and saw that the little palace maid she had seen before was not among them. Not only that, but the people she had seen outside the Yuehe Palace earlier were also not among them. None of them resembled her.
If those people really weren't from the Moon Palace, then who were they?
Shi Mei's face grew increasingly grim. The head of the palace, Xiao Ke, quickly reported, "Princess, we have searched every part of Yuehe Palace, but no one has been found hiding there."
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There was no trace of Hai Ling anywhere in the Moon Palace. Not only Shi Mei and Shi Lan, but also Feng Qian turned pale. Thinking that something might have happened to Ling'er, she was extremely anxious. Although her injuries had not healed, she could not help but lose her temper.