The Imperial Palace of the Lotus Kingdom, the Palace of the Goddess.

When Yanyu returned to the gate of the Goddess Palace with Yao'er and Princess Yidan, she saw Phantom Lian guarding there anxiously, obviously worried about Yao'er being like this because Yao'er was gone.

After she accidentally fell asleep by Yao'er's bedside before, about half an hour later, she suddenly woke up!

When he saw that there was no Yao'er on the bed, he was not particularly worried at first, thinking that it was convenient for Yao'er to get up at night.

But when she came to the clean room next to the dormitory, and called Yao'er's name through the screen without answering, she became nervous, and hurriedly rushed to the back of the screen to take a look, and when she found that Yao'er was indeed not there, she realized that it was probably Yao'er who woke up and went to find the Empress Dowager everywhere.

So, she quickly rushed out of the dormitory, summoned other palace maids and royal guards, and helped to search the entire palace of the goddesses, while she herself inspected the entire garden, especially in the rockery, the lake, or the inside of the dry well, and looked at it most carefully.

Because she was worried that Yao'er was playful or curious, and it was dark again, if something happened to her if she fell inside, she would be to blame.

Fortunately, with the help of the royal guards, after careful searching, everything was fine in the places where these children were prone to accidents, and no traces of Yao'er's coming were found.

In this regard, Phantom Lotus was also worried about the protection of the royal guards of the Goddess Palace, after all, an eight-year-old girl left the Goddess Palace like this, and not a single royal guard didn't notice it?

Doesn't that mean that if someone wants to sneak into the goddess's palace, it is not a very difficult thing.

However, Phantom Lotus understands that this can't be completely blamed on the royal guards, when the Empress Dowager went out for a walk before, Phantom Lotus sent out the four best royal guards, so that the royal guards who stayed in the palace were one-third less, and naturally they couldn't take care of the entire Goddess Palace.

Second, the Empress Dowager Yanyu herself is low-key, she doesn't like too much pomp, and she doesn't think anyone will hurt her, the fake goddess Empress Dowager who has just been resurrected, and the real goddess Empress Dowager has passed away for thousands of years, even if there is an enemy, it is estimated that it will not be possible to live until now, so Yanyu rejected His Majesty's suggestion to send more people to protect the Goddess Palace.

Another reason is that Yanyu once said to Phantom Lotus in private, that is, herself, Phantom Lotus, and Meng Ling are all from the Golden-crowned Black-tailed Frog Kingdom, in order to avoid too many royal guards in the Goddess Palace, and accidentally discover the secret identities of the three of them, causing them to be troubled if they can no longer continue to live in the palace.

At that time, she would not be able to find the Tower of Babel as planned, as well as obtain the secret of the Immortal Kingdom's Mental Method, so her wish to return to the Immortal Kingdom and regain the Holy Monarch would not be realized.

So although all the royal guards looked at Phantom Lotus with a guilty face, she didn't blame everyone, but hoped that everyone wouldn't mess up and immediately split up to find Yao'er nearby, and she would wait at the palace gate for the Empress Dowager to come back, and then personally ask for guilt.

Originally, she also thought about sending someone to inform the Empress Dowager immediately, but after thinking about it, the Empress Dowager couldn't sleep tonight because she was so worried that she went out for a walk.

Don't let the news of Yao'er's loss make her frightened, it's better to find Yao'er before the Empress Dowager returns to the palace, and it may be better if nothing happened.

When Phantom Lian waited and wandered more and more anxiously at the gate of the Goddess Palace, she saw that the Empress Dowager's carriage had returned, and there were still a few royal guards and palace maids who went out to look for Yao'er who had not returned, and as for those who came back, they all said that they had not found Yao'er nearby, so she had to walk to the carriage with a hard head, intending to explain everything and ask the Empress Dowager to punish her.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the carriage stopped, I saw Yao'er coming out in the arms of the Queen Mother.

At that moment, she realized that it was Yao'er who slipped out to find the Queen Mother, causing her to have a false alarm.

In addition to being overjoyed, she hurriedly stepped forward, carefully took Yao'er, who was already asleep, from the Empress Dowager's hand, and slowly walked towards the Empress Dowager's bedroom.

And after the Empress Dowager Yanyu took Princess Yidan's hand and walked into the Goddess Palace, she immediately ordered a palace maid to take Princess Yidan to the side hall to rest early.

He also specially arranged for the four royal guards who accompanied her out before to protect the safety of Princess Yidan.

Because the four guards had witnessed Princess Yidan's complaint against Concubine Yin before, they also secretly sighed that they had lost their eyes when they learned that the very admired Concubine Yin was so femme fatale.

I also understand the reason why the Empress Dowager deliberately told the four of them to take care of Princess Yidan, that is, she was worried that Concubine Yin's power in the harem was monstrous, and there were many eyes and ears, and it was very likely that the scene just now had reached her ears.

If Concubine Yin Guifei is really the culprit who killed Concubine Dan and abused Princess Yidan, then she will definitely not let Princess Yidan's matter of suing her in front of the goddess Empress Dowager go smoothly, in case it reaches His Majesty's ears the next day, and then alarms the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, and finally spreads to the people of the world, then the image of the virtuous and virtuous concubine Niangniang that she has finally established is bound to be ruined.

In order to ensure that such an accident will not happen, Concubine Yin will definitely secretly attack and kill people, so that she can sit back and relax.

Therefore, from now until dawn, it is not impossible for Concubine Yin to send a killer to assassinate Princess Yidan at any time.

Because once Princess Yidan died, just by virtue of the empty rhetoric of the goddess Empress Dowager, His Majesty would not be able to punish her, plus there are many ministers in the court who secretly support Yin Guifei, as long as there is no real evidence to convince those ministers, even His Majesty will not rashly make a move against Yin Guifei.

Otherwise, the newly unified country of Liansheng will set off another bloody storm.

When the captain of the royal guard figured out this truth, he immediately led the team in person without hesitation and rushed to Princess Yidan, who lived in the side hall, to take strict precautions.

And the Empress Dowager Yanyu, after arranging all this, also immediately returned to her bedroom, and after seeing that Phantom Lian had taken care of Yao'er to sleep, she asked Phantom Lian to guard the door of the dormitory, not to let anyone rush in and disturb her.

The ice and snow smart Phantom Lotus naturally understands the meaning of Yanyu, and knows that Yanyu must have something very important to do, and this matter must also be related to Princess Yidan and Concubine Yin.

When she saw that Yao'er was sleeping soundly, and Phantom Lian also closed the door and guarded the door, Yanyu carefully inspected the entire dormitory, the purpose was to know how Yao'er had sleepwalked out of the dormitory before.

Because Yao'er is only an eight-year-old girl after all, even if she sleepwalks to the cold palace, it is not impossible to go to the cold palace, but it is not very easy to leave the goddess palace without knowing it, avoid all the patrolling royal guards, and reach the cold palace Lingyang Palace.

It's not that Yanyu doesn't believe Yao'er, but she thinks that Yao'er is just an ordinary eight-year-old girl, even if she walks to Lingyang Palace by herself with her eyes open, it's unrealistic, let alone sleepwalking with her eyes closed.

Therefore, Yanyu suspects that Yao'er's sleepwalking is a bit strange, and there must be unknown secrets contained in it.

After a careful inspection, and after trying to calculate several possibilities from the position where Yao'er was lying on the bed, the posture of Phantom Lian lying on the side of the bed guarding her, and the patrol of the royal guards in all the corridors outside the dormitory, Yanyu felt that it was possible to do this if she was replaced by herself, or an adult with extraordinary skills in the human race.

But for Yao'er, a little girl who is only eight years old, it is almost an impossible task.

And the smoke and rain found faint footprints from the side of the bed to the window of the back door, and after careful identification, it was indeed the traces of Yao'er's walking.

It's just that after this trace left the back door and window, it disappeared completely, as if Yao'er disappeared after leaving the dormitory.

In order to get a more accurate view of how Yao'er got from the dormitory to the Lingyang Palace, Yanyu decided to use the magical power of the goddess's mask to carefully study the complete process of Yao'er's sleepwalking.

Thinking of this, Yanyu returned to the bed, sat down cross-legged, closed her eyes, and silently recited a mantra in her mouth, only to see that the mask on her face automatically fell off and turned into a monkey Ling'er again.

Under the control of smoke and rain, the monkey climbed out of the back door window of the dormitory, and unconsciously looked at it carefully.

After some careful inspection, Yanyu finally found the traces of Yao'er's walk again from the clues.

And following these footprints, Yanyu found that the monkey Ling'er really walked all the way to Lingyang Palace.

That is to say, after Yao'er entered a sleepwalking state, she got up and came to the back door window of the dormitory, and climbed out of the window, and then Yao'er climbed up to the roof of the corridor along the pillars, and then along the roof, after climbing through several palaces, she came to the Lingyang Palace in the cold palace area.

At first, I walked around a few rooms, and finally went to the central garden of Lingyang Palace.

What made Yanyu very strange was that according to the traces in these dusty rooms, Yanyu felt that Yao'er seemed to have caught a few rats after entering this room before, and judging from the blood stains and broken bones left on the ground, these rats were actually eaten alive.

After looking at these footprints, as well as other traces in the house, Yanyu had the illusion that it was not Yao'er who came to these houses in the Lingyang Palace of the Cold Palace before, but a very hungry beast who came to these rooms.

With this doubt, Yanyu controlled the monkey Ling'er to the lake in the center of the garden, and indeed saw the footprints of Princess Yidan.

It's just that according to the footprints on the grass near the lake, Yanyu found that Princess Yidan seemed to have been kneeling on the ground before, and she had been kneeling for a long time, because the traces of deep sinking in that part of the grass showed that someone should have been kneeling there before.

Then the kneeling man came to the lake, seemed to stay for a moment, and then turned and walked in the other direction.

And in that direction, Yao'er's footprints appeared again, and obviously this is where Yao'er and Princess Yidan met.

Although at a glance, the situation here was similar to what Princess Yidan and Yao'er had said, Yanyu, who had always had a keen intuition, still saw that something was wrong, and she suddenly realized that this little girl, who looked like she was only eight years old, should not be as simple as she seemed on the surface......