New Liansheng Kingdom Palace, Chuxiu Palace.

Between midnight and ugly.

Because the previous sudden rainstorm was too domineering, coupled with the lightning and thunder for a full quarter of an hour, although the calm had returned to the moment and the rain had stopped, the Chuxiu Palace had also become a mess.

And the storm just now also blew some of the doors and windows that had been in disrepair apart and fell heavily in the house or in the corridor.

In addition, the trees and flowers in the courtyard were broken and soaked in the stagnant water all over the ground, making this already empty and unpopular palace even more desolate.

Originally, this Chuxiu Palace was reduced to a cold palace, and there were only two people living in it, Yanyu and Phantom Lotus, plus there were royal guards guarding the door, and no one was allowed to enter or leave, so it was difficult for Yanyu and Phantom Lotus to even guarantee their usual food and clothing, not to mention the luxury of expecting more palace maids to help clean and maintain the entire Chuxiu Palace.

As for those damaged parts that have fallen into disrepair, there is no need to expect the palace to send someone to repair them.

In this regard, Yanyu and Phantom Lotus are also very helpless, although they are ingenious, and they can be said to be omnipotent compared to the mortals in this palace, but they have been confined to Chuxiu Palace for a long time, and they cannot get the necessary tools and go out to buy the necessary materials.

In the past six months, Phantom Lotus has also tried to beg the two royal guards at the door many times to help report the situation here to the Shang Sleeping Bureau, but unfortunately those two royal guards were already resentful of Chu Xiu Palace, who was guarding the cold palace, and naturally they were too lazy to take care of Phantom Lotus's request.

Over time, Phantom Lotus had no choice but to give up, just using the existing rudimentary tools in Chuxiu Palace as much as possible, and the alternative materials she could find to maintain Chuxiu Palace, ensuring that the princess of the golden-crowned black-tailed frog royal family in her mind, Yanyu, could live relatively comfortably.

Under the careful maintenance of Phantom Lotus, Yanyu's dormitory has not had a big rain leakage, and the small kitchen can still be used, so that Yanyu will not have a place to sleep, and she can't eat hot meals, which is also the only thing she can do as a personal palace maid for her master.

It's just that the storm that lasted for a quarter of an hour just now was too violent, almost the worst weather encountered in the past year, so this time the wind and rain devastation, as well as the thunder and lightning bombardment, also completely destroyed the only Yanyu Dormitory that could still live in this Chuxiu Palace.

Just when Yanyu and Phantom Lotus were awakened by the thunder and hurriedly tried to repair the roof of the dormitory that was leaking, they heard the sound of falling trees and cracking doors and windows falling to the ground in the courtyard, and they knew that this time Chuxiu Palace might not be able to stand it.

Soon after, as the exterior wall of the small kitchen collapsed and the roof of the dormitory collapsed, they had to transform into golden-crowned black-tailed frogs in an instant, and only then did they avoid the collapsed roof beams and escape.

They then hopped into a pool in the courtyard, intending to wait for the storm to pass before returning to human form.

Because only by transforming into a golden-crowned black-tailed frog can they have the strong physique of the Lotus Immortal Kingdom Divine Frog, and they can also stay in the icy water without getting sick, otherwise they will still maintain their human form. With such bad weather and the threat of other collapsing palaces at any time, it is difficult to guarantee that you will not be harmed.

Even if they were soaked in the icy rain for a long time, they would be life-threatening because of typhoid fever.

If she was a concubine living in this Chuxiu Palace at the moment, she would have died a long time ago.

Fortunately, Yanyu and Phantom Lotus are actually women transformed into golden-crowned black-tailed frogs, so they survived by luck, instead of becoming a wisp of grievances in this cold palace.

As for the two royal guards guarding the gate of Chuxiu Palace at that time, shortly after the wind and lightning and thunder, after witnessing the collapse of the palace inside, they also felt that Yanyu and Phantom Lotus would definitely die, so they hurriedly left here with a sigh of relief and went back to the royal guards barracks to report.

For the two of them, maybe after tonight, they will never have to stay in this cold palace with no oil and water to fish from now on.

After all, the little masters inside are all dead, and even the palace has collapsed, so they are naturally relieved.

And this is purely a natural and man-made disaster, not their responsibility, plus the little master here is just a sick show girl, no one cares about her life and death, so they left to report Yanyu's death without the slightest sense of guilt.

Not long after they left, the raging storm also stopped, and calm returned to it.

If it weren't for the water on the ground of this Chuxiu Palace and the tragic situation of the collapsed ruins, no one would have imagined that there was an extremely domineering rainstorm just now.

And as soon as this daunting storm stopped, two petite and delicate figures sneakily came to the vicinity of Chuxiu Palace, although the night was hazy and they couldn't see clearly, they could still clearly feel that these two figures were women.

After confirming that the door was unattended, the two women hurriedly tiptoed to the gate, stood at the gate and looked carefully to both sides, then entered the gate and closed the gate casually.

When they closed the door and turned to look into the courtyard, they also gasped!

Because of them, they saw clearly that most of the palace of Chuxiu Palace had indeed collapsed! It's similar to the secret report they received.

Although they understood that the little master inside was destined to die, they did not feel sorry at all, but felt very happy, and even very relieved.

The reason why they have such an unreasonable mentality is because these two women are none other than Concubine Qi of Zhongcui Palace and her personal palace maid Qiaohui.

For Concubine Qi Niangniang, the divine frog she had always regarded as a treasure three months ago had entered this Chuxiu Palace and disappeared.

Since she lost this divine frog, she has been extremely helpless and uneasy in the past three months, but she has no way or excuse to enter Chuxiu Palace to search for this divine frog, and the uneasy thing is that the incense powder in her hand that uses the secondary blending of the divine frog's body fluids will be used up immediately.

She knew that in the past three months, she had relied on this special fragrance of incense powder to make the emperor, who rarely came to the harem, come to Zhongcui Palace many times to see her, and every time she came, she had to chat with her for a long time before returning to his heart palace.

So once her incense powder is used up and the frog has not been recovered, she will not be able to maintain the unique fragrance on her body in the future.

And the emperor will gradually alienate her because of this, until she finally forgets about her, this is not an ending that she can accept, and she is not willing to become a joke for other concubines, so she secretly bribed some of the royal guards who are responsible for patrolling near Chuxiu Palace, that is, once anything special happens in Chuxiu Palace, she must be secretly notified as soon as possible.

It is inevitable that there are people who are greedy for small profits in this palace, plus she is also a concubine of Qi, and her identity is not something that ordinary royal guards dare to offend, so it is naturally easy to be bought by her, and secretly help her keep an eye on every move of Chuxiu Palace.

And Concubine Qi Niangniang is also waiting for an opportunity to infiltrate Chuxiu Palace, so that she can find the god frog that can only help her compete for favor in time.

This is the reason why she first ventured to come late at night after learning that Chuxiu Palace had collapsed due to a violent thunderstorm, and even the little lord Yan Yu inside had died.

She just felt that the emperor should have slept a long time ago in the middle of the night, and even if there was a death in this Chuxiu Palace, the palace collapsed, it was just a palace like a cold palace, and the little lord inside was just a show girl who was not treated by the emperor, so the head of the palace, the royal guards, would not rush to wake up the emperor to report.

At most, it is to tell the imperial concubine Niangniang who is currently temporarily replacing the queen mother to control the phoenix seal, and with Qi Concubine Niangniang's understanding of the imperial concubine Niangniang, she also has no good impression of Yanyu, so naturally she will not disturb the current emperor because of a lowly show girl going to the Heart Cultivation Palace.

even deliberately delayed the time and then sent people to save people, to ensure that the smoke and rain inside could not die again.

What's more, under the storm just now, other palaces that have been carefully maintained all year round will inevitably have some losses, so even if the Shang Dormitory Bureau sends craftsmen to repair it, it will only give priority to other high-ranking concubines, and will not care about this cold palace-like Chuxiu Palace.

In this way, the collapse of the Chuxiu Palace will not reach the emperor's ears until the next morning, so no one should come here to clean up the scene in a short time tonight, let alone the emperor.

It was with this idea that Concubine Qi quietly came to Chuxiu Palace with her most trusted personal palace maid Qiaohui, and entered Chuxiu Palace smoothly without realizing it.

Although the Chuxiu Palace was in ruins at this moment, the sewage was flowing sideways, and the mud was unbearable, Concubine Qi couldn't take care of it, and hurriedly took Qiaohui to start a careful look at the yard, trying to find the frog that had worried her for a long time.

According to her memories from three months ago, Concubine Qi thought that the frog had come in through a small hole in the corner of the wall near the Imperial Garden.

And with her experience of raising the god frog for nearly seven months, although the god frog occasionally opens its eyes and wakes up for a while because of a certain sound, it is also very short-lived.

Once the sound ended, it would fall into a dormant state again, so she knew that the god frog had woken up inexplicably three months ago because she heard the sound of the piano in the Chuxiu Palace.

Only then did he jump out of the lotus lantern, and he happened to follow the hole in the wall into the Chuxiu Palace, which was separated from the imperial garden.

At that time, it didn't take long for the sound of the piano in Chuxiu Palace to end, so Concubine Qi was sure that the divine frog should have fallen into a dormant state not long after entering Chuxiu Palace.

In addition, in the past three months, there has been no news of the appearance of the Divine Frog in Chuxiu Palace, and there is no fragrance transmitted to the outside, so Concubine Qi Niangniang is very sure that the Divine Frog did not fall into the hands of Yanyu, it must be in a hole in the ground, or in the pool that fell into a dormant state again.

Therefore, Concubine Qi was convinced that as long as she found the hole tonight and then carefully inspected the nearby pool, she would have a good chance of recovering her divine frog.

Just when Concubine Qi successfully found the small hole separated from the wall of the imperial garden, she saw a pool nearby.

So, I was pleasantly surprised and Qiaohui found some branches and began to try to salvage them.

And their actions were also seen by Yanyu and Phantom Lotus, who were potentially underwater at the moment.

For Yanyu, she didn't expect that the first person to come to Chuxiu Palace to save them would be the unknown Qi Concubine Niangniang.

It's just that she soon found out that this Qi Concubine Niangniang and her personal palace maid Qiaohui didn't seem to be here to save them, but more like they were looking for something.

Because if they were here to save them, they should have gone to the ruins of the palace next to them to find them, not to salvage them in the pool in this corner.

After all, how could this Qi Concubine Niangniang know that at this moment, she and Phantom Lotus had transformed into golden-crowned black-tailed frogs?

Just when Yanyu and Phantom Lotus were quietly hiding in the depths of the pool and paying close attention to Qi Concubine Niangniang, they didn't expect them to see that Qi Concubine Niangniang really salvaged another golden-crowned black-tailed frog.

And this golden-crowned black-tailed frog Yanyu who seemed to be dormant recognized at a glance, it was actually her aunt Princess Yuanfeng, who had lost contact with her for a long time!

At that moment, Yanyu knew that she had to take action to recapture Princess Yuanfeng from Concubine Qi's hands.

Otherwise, if her aunt falls into the hands of Concubine Qi, there will be no good end......