Exile with Storage Space: Family Fortunes in the Barren Lands-Chapter 843 - 13: Driving Out the Troublemakers

"The bed hasn’t been searched yet!" The leading eunuch glanced at the bed, half smiling.

"How dare you! The Princess is resting on the bed, and you dare to search it?" Ah Qing said angrily.

"We’ve searched the Emperor’s bed before. The Princess shouldn’t be more exceptional than the Emperor, right? If you don’t let us search, outsiders might think the Princess is hiding the Regent King’s things." The eunuch continued.

Ah Qing still wanted to argue, but Ling Yuezi coldly spoke from the bed, "Then search. If you don’t find anything, don’t blame me for getting angry. Ah Qing, bring my clothes."

"Yes, Princess." Ah Qing took Ling Yuezi’s outer clothes and handed them through the curtain.

After a while, Ling Yuezi, with her hair loose and wearing her outer clothes, got out of bed.

She swept her sharp gaze over the searching people and snorted coldly.

The eunuch waved to those beside him, "Search!"

A few palace maids and eunuchs walked towards the bed, some flipping up pillows, others lifting blankets.

They almost turned the bed upside down, but nothing was found.

The leading eunuch walked up to Ling Yuezi, smiling apologetically, "Princess, we’ve finished searching, please continue resting."

"Ah Qing, slap him!" Ling Yuezi shouted sharply.

Ah Qing walked over, raised her hand, and slapped the leading eunuch.

Ling Yuezi sneered, "Next time when you search, come with evidence! The Emperor is young and has a good temper, mine is not as pleasant!"

Ah Qing, being skilled in martial arts, slapped the leading eunuch so hard he spun several times on the spot.

"Do you still want to search?" Ah Qing asked coldly.

Only the eastern room was searched, the western room hasn’t been searched yet.

"The west side room hasn’t... been searched."

"If you find nothing, I won’t spare you. Do you want to search?" Ling Yuezi questioned.

She glanced sideways, full of murderous intent.

The leading eunuch dared not search any further.

"No, no, since the Princess says so, there must be nothing there." He smiled apologetically and left with his men.

Once they were outside the palace garden, Ah Lan closed the door and came into the bedroom.

"Princess, the Regent King is too much! He actually sent people to search the Princess’s room!" Ah Qing said indignantly.

"This time they searched, next time they’ll definitely search again. With these people around, can we still have peaceful days?" Ah Lan said, "Princess, we need to think of a way to drive them away!"

The two maids had enough of being watched by the Regent King’s men and were even more concerned if Li Xingsheng came to the palace; if discovered by the Regent King, it would be trouble.

"A way, huh..." Ling Yuezi looked towards the side chamber behind the ear chamber of Moonlight Palace, "There’s certainly one!"

"What is it, Princess?" Ah Qing and Ah Lan asked together.

Ling Yuezi smiled slightly, "You’ll do it like this..."

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The people sent by the Regent King to search Moonlight Palace still didn’t find the late Emperor’s urn.

This made him very angry.

The matter couldn’t be made public; he couldn’t tell the people in the palace what he was searching for.

He could only command his subordinates to continue monitoring Ling Yuezi.

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That night, a fire suddenly broke out in one of the rooms of Moonlight Palace.

Ah Qing ran outside Moonlight Palace, shouting loudly, "Fire!"

Her voice was sharp and high, spreading far in the night.

Coupled with the high flames illuminating the darkness, soon everyone in the Imperial Palace was alarmed.

Ling Xingyun worried about Ling Yuezi and personally brought people to put out the fire.

"Quickly, the Princess is still inside! If anything happens to her, you’ll answer to me!"

The Regent King was also alarmed and came to inspect the fire.

Through the thick smoke, the disheveled and embarrassed Ling Yuezi, supported by Ah Lan and several other maids, walked outside Moonlight Palace.

Ling Xingyun seeing her unharmed, ran forward happily, "Sister, are you alright?"

"I’m fine, I... cough cough... I’m fine, just inhaled some smoke." Ling Yuezi held onto Ling Xingyun’s shoulder, managing a smile.

Her face was half-blackened by smoke, and a strand of her hair was burned.

Ling Xingyun, seeing his formerly beautiful sister in such a state, cried sadly, "Sister, you’ve suffered."

"I’m really okay, look at you, why crying?" Ling Yuezi smiled, comforting Ling Xingyun.

The more casually she spoke, the more upset and angry Ling Xingyun became.

The young boy shouted to those around him, "Investigate, quickly find out the cause of the fire! I want to know immediately what’s going on!"

The Regent King, discovering the fire started in the room occupied by palace maids and eunuchs, furrowed his brow and, to avoid being accused of neglecting the Ling siblings, also ordered palace guards and eunuchs to investigate.

Both the Emperor and Regent King issued commands, so the chief head eunuch in charge of palace affairs dared not be careless and personally led people to investigate. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Finally, they truly discovered the source of the problem.

The fire was caused by a large amount of osmanthus hair oil stored in an ear room.

For unknown reasons, the oil drums caught fire, which spread to the bedding and curtains, and then to several beds in the room.

The fire destroyed this room, and other rooms were affected too, though not burned, but filled with smoke.

At this point, Ah Qing said, "That osmanthus hair oil was given by Lady Ning of the Regent King to Cuiyu in Moonlight Palace."

"Our palace’s Cuiyu was sent by the Regent King; Regent King, your concubine gave hair oil to Cuiyu, and that oil caught fire. Aren’t you going to explain?" Ling Yuezi looked at the Regent King, half smiling.

Ling Xingyun widened his eyes, "Regent King, did your concubine try to burn my sister? Why would she do this? Do you know about this?"

The Regent King was furious enough to kill; how could he know about this?

He knew nothing!

"This matter, I don’t know, I must investigate first!"

"Regent King, this is serious; please, Prince, find out immediately. I don’t want to be inexplicably set on fire!" Ling Yuezi spoke unceremoniously, angrily.

The Regent King, face darkened, returned to his palace without a word.

His favorite concubine, hearing his footsteps, immediately came out of the inner room, "Prince, was the Princess burned to death?"

In her eyes, excitement gleamed.

Smack—

The Regent King raised his hand and slapped her, "Was it you who gave the osmanthus oil to the palace maids of Moonlight Palace?"

The concubine, confused and terrified by the slap, knelt down hurriedly, "Prince, I gave the oil to Cuiyu with your consent, you said to cultivate them well, as they are spies beside Princess Yue, so I sent it over. Why don’t you remember?"

The Regent King, "..."

Thinking of the sequence of events, his spine chilled.

Could he have fallen into Ling Yuezi’s trap?

She accepted those people cheerfully, and in agreement allowed his people to send items to Moonlight Palace. Suddenly, a fire...

What a cunning Ling Yuezi, this was a plan to drive people out!