It was a commotion outside. The palace maids and eunuchs were in a mess. According to the rules of this dynasty, eunuchs were not allowed to live in the inner palace. They naturally had residences outside the imperial city. At night, they had to go out, and only the palace maids and maids were left in the palace to serve. However, since Emperor Longqing gave the order, the eunuchs gradually began to stay in the palace for the convenience of serving. When the wet nurse opened the door, she saw several familiar eunuchs. She hurried out and asked them at the top of her voice: "Where is the Sixth Prince?! Where is the Sixth Prince?! Who has seen the Sixth Prince?!"
Everyone was stunned by her question. Seeing that she was already crazy, they stood there in shock and didn't say anything for a while. It was the little apprentice brought by the head eunuch who was smart. When he saw her asking this, he hurriedly said, "Inside! Aren't you with the Sixth Prince? And the Princess..."
"When I woke up, he was gone!" The nurse started crying, shouting and screaming to find Concubine Lin Shu: "The Sixth Prince was sleeping soundly, I watched him fall asleep before I went to the outer room, Yuzhu and the others saw it! But when I heard a noise outside and looked, he was gone. I have already searched the whole place, but the Sixth Prince is gone! Even the princess is gone!"
As she spoke, she pointed at Yuzhu and several other frightened maids and asked them loudly, "Tell me, you were there too. Was the Sixth Prince sleeping in the room at that time?"
Yuzhu and the others were already very uneasy, and when they heard the wet nurse ask this, they nodded subconsciously. They had indeed watched the Sixth Prince fall asleep before they were sent out by the wet nurse and Wei An to go down and rest first.
Now that something has happened in the palace, people outside are bloodthirsty everywhere. They were already very scared, and when they heard the wet nurse say that the person was missing after waking up from a nap, they immediately thought that it was done by those people outside, and they all said that it must be the rebels outside who stole the Sixth Prince away.
After all, they only knew that something happened outside and someone broke in. They must be rebels. Since they were rebels, it was reasonable for them to capture the Sixth Prince.
Everyone believed it and started talking about it.
If he were taken away by the rebels, how could he still be alive
The wet nurse cried until her voice was hoarse, and she pulled the eunuch and Yuzhu and asked them to go out together to look for someone. Yuzhu was shocked, how could she have the courage to do so? Those people should be almost at Lanyue Palace by now, and if they still ran outside, wouldn't they be seeking death
Yuzhu held the sleeves of her sister and refused to move. She shook her head in tears, "Mammy, people are killing people everywhere outside. Xiaoyingzi, who just went out to get information, said that anyone who dared to resist would be killed. If we run away now, how can we survive? Mammy! Those people dared to break into the palace. What can't they do? The Sixth Prince must have taken away the leader who was handed over to them. You'd better not go!"
The nurse refused, crying until she had no more strength left. She wiped her tears and cursed a few times: "The Queen is always so kind to you, you are a bunch of ungrateful wolves! You even refused to save the little prince! You really have lost your conscience!"
After such a struggle, the eunuchs and palace maids gathered in the yard all retreated. A few of them tried to persuade the wet nurse to calm down. When they were arguing fiercely, there was a loud bang at the palace gate. It must be someone knocking on the door from outside. The eunuchs and palace maids were stunned and huddled together like frightened birds.
The nurse covered her ears and couldn't help screaming, "Ah! They took the Sixth Prince away, and now they're going to kill people! Now they're going to kill people!"
Everyone was already terrified, and hearing her shout was like a death sentence. If the rebels came in, what would be their chance of survival? They would definitely come in and kill people without mercy...
Yuzhu and the others had already started crying quietly. After all, this was a matter of life and death, and everyone was very scared.
The nurse grabbed the young eunuch, her eyes wide open and she seemed a little crazy: "No, we have to run away. We serve the Concubine Shu and the Sixth Prince. Now they have taken the Sixth Prince away, they will definitely kill us!"
The young eunuch was so anxious that he didn't know what to do. His hands were shaking and he couldn't even finish his words: "How can we run? There are so many rebels outside. If we dare to run, we will die!"
The nanny raised her voice and grabbed his hand fiercely: "Once the door is opened, while they don't know, we will hide on both sides, and when they come in, we will run out..."
Everyone sneered, thinking the nurse was crazy. The young eunuch had a sad face, thinking the nurse was daydreaming, and couldn't help but refute her: "What are you talking about? There are so many people outside. Even if we want to run, can we get away?"
Yuzhu also choked up and agreed: "That's right, there are so many rebels, wouldn't they die faster if they run away?"
"If you don't run, I will run by myself!" The nurse made up her mind and looked at them firmly: "Now that the Sixth Prince is gone, they will rush in and will definitely not bother with us servants. If we run away, they will not chase us. They will definitely be busy searching for the rare treasures in our palace..."
What the nanny said seemed to make some sense... Everyone fell strangely silent for a moment, listening to the loud banging of the door outside. They looked at each other, with hesitation in their eyes.
At this time, the wet nurse had already rushed to the palace gate. The young eunuch hesitated for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and ran up to follow her.
Seeing this, Yuzhu and the others clenched their fists, and after hesitating for a long time, they finally stepped forward and gathered around.
In just a moment, the wet nurse had opened the bolt from the inside, and the door was easily knocked open by the rebels outside who had been banging on it. Taking advantage of the moment when the rebels outside were confused, the wet nurse ran away quickly.
The others followed closely behind, quickly squeezing into the rebel group and starting to rush out screaming.
The leader of the rebels was stunned for a moment, then he reacted and hurriedly started shouting for people to chase after them, while at the same time taking out flares and releasing them. After a firework exploded outside, people from all directions gathered towards the Lanyue Palace.
The wet nurse no longer knew what she was doing. She only knew how to run for her life. She was running around desperately, seemingly in a disorderly manner, but people who were familiar with the terrain near the Lanyue Palace knew that she was running towards the long-abandoned palace next to it.
That was because Concubine Peng De had set fire to the palace, so it was abandoned. In recent years, Emperor Longqing has been urging the cabinet to rebuild it, but due to various reasons, it has been delayed until now. Everyone knows that it is not allowed to go there. (To be continued)