Harem Daily Life

Chapter 256: Being Targeted by the Demon Cult

In the darkness of the night, no one noticed an ordinary woman who walked through the streets, circled several times, and stopped at the gate of an ordinary courtyard.

She knocked on the door gently three times, then knocked twice after a few seconds, and finally knocked four times. The door of the courtyard opened from the inside. A slightly older man looked at her, poked his head around, and when he saw that no one was following him, he let the woman in.

"What urgent matter do you have tonight that requires you to rush out of the palace at this time? What if we are followed by someone, then our base will be completely exposed!" The man was displeased, with anger on his face.

The woman clasped her fists and said, "Master, please calm down. I had no choice but to take this risk. You asked me to get close to the empress before, and today I finally got a chance to serve her, but she didn't want anyone to serve her. She directly sent someone to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to refuse. I really had no chance, so I came to you to find a solution."

The man frowned, "According to her position, she can enter, right? Could it be that she discovered something?"

The man glanced at the woman who was finally placed in the palace and said, "Did you accidentally get exposed?" After saying that, a hint of murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

The woman immediately denied it, "Absolutely not! I have been very careful since I entered the palace, and there is no possibility of being exposed! I came here tonight to ask the hall master, what should I do if I still cannot get the blood of that person before the Demon Lord comes to the capital to test the blood relationship? In fact, even if I go to serve her, I may not have the opportunity to become a personal maid. It is difficult to get her blood without using force."

The man narrowed his eyes and said, "What do you mean? Use force directly?" That girl might be the Demon Lord's half-sister. Her blood can save the Demon Lord's life. The Demon Lord can't let anyone hurt her.

The woman said, "If it really doesn't work, we can only take it by force. I will sneak into her room at night and make a cut to release a small bottle of blood. Now there are only more than 20 days until the end of the month, and the Demon King is already on his way. If we are late, I'm afraid the Demon King will be angry, and he will vent his anger on us if we don't do our job well..."

The woman shuddered and didn't say anything else. The cult had many punishments for people, and none of them was something she could bear.

The man thought for a moment and nodded: "For now, this is the only solution. But you must not hurt her. If she is really the Demon Lord's sister, she will be of great use in the future. If she is hurt, the Demon Lord will not let you go!"

The woman's face turned pale and she nodded: "Don't worry, Master, the cut won't be too big. I'll give her some Ma Fei San beforehand, so it won't hurt."

The two discussed the reconciliation route after the matter was accomplished, and then the woman hurriedly left the courtyard and headed towards the palace.

He Linzhang had been busy sending troops to the Kingdom of Yan recently, so he hadn't come for two days, nor had he visited any of the empresses in the harem. Tao Yanyan went to bed early today, but she didn't know that after nightfall, a figure quietly entered her room, lit a scent that made people fall into a coma, and gently poked a needle in her finger, and collected her blood in a small porcelain bottle.

There wasn't much blood, so the woman kept squeezing it. She finally managed to squeeze out a small spoonful of blood, then jumped out of the window with the bottle of blood.

Mingyue, who was keeping watch outside, had already been knocked unconscious by the man's drugs, so she didn't hear any sound at all.

When Tao Yanyan woke up the next day, he always felt a heavy head. He saw Mingyue also looked a little groggy. He thought that both of them had caught a cold due to the cold weather, so he did not send the two children to elementary school personally, but asked Chang Tai to invite Doctor Liu to take their pulses.

Doctor Liu arrived quickly and checked Tao Yanyan's pulse, then Mingyue's. He found nothing unusual, so he said, "Your Majesty and Miss Mingyue are both fine. They may have been suffocated by closing the windows at night. They will be fine after some fresh air."

When Mingyue heard this, she looked towards the window and said suspiciously, "Hey, that's strange. The Queen usually likes to leave a little gap in the window when she rests, just for ventilation. Why are they all closed tightly today? Did I forget to leave a gap last night?"

Tao Yanyan was also a little surprised when she heard this, because this was her habit since she was a child, that is, the windows in her house were never closed tightly, to allow air to ventilate from north to south and to avoid gas poisoning in the house.

She had seen a video about a gas explosion, which had a great impact on her. In her later life, she would never lock the windows of her home. After coming to this world, she had always had this habit of leaving a crack every night. Mingyue had served her for so long and had never made a mistake.

She stood up suspiciously, went to the window and looked carefully, not missing any details.

Suddenly, she saw a few footprints on the windowsill.

She narrowed her eyes and said, "Mingyue, did you hear any noise last night? Did you wake up in the middle of the night?"

Mingyue shook her head: "Since I fell asleep in the outer room, I slept until dawn without waking up. Madam, do you think someone has come?"

Mingyue also saw that tiny mark, and her heart instantly tightened.

Doctor Liu came over and took a look. After thinking for a moment, he said, "It looks like a woman's footprint. The pattern of the shoe sole is different from that of shoes that men usually wear."

Tao Yanyan frowned and said, "Mingyue, call Qingfeng over. The two of you should check my room carefully to see if there is anything missing. Anything that I usually use, or something that His Majesty gave me, especially something that you can tell at a glance is mine. Look carefully for it."

Tao Yanyan thought that if someone had come here, they would never return empty-handed. They would either come here specifically for something or for someone. After Liu Taiyi's examination, he found that there was no poison in his body, so he should not have come here for someone.

Tao Yanyan was afraid that someone had stolen her things and left them at a crime scene to frame her, and she would not be able to explain herself, so she asked Mingyue and Qingfeng to check carefully.

Doctor Liu was worried, so he carefully examined Tao Yanyan again, stroking his beard and saying, "From the pulse, it seems that he is not poisoned. Does Concubine Tao feel any discomfort? For example, pain in the wound or something like that."

Tao Yanyan felt it and didn't feel any pain, so he shook his head.

"This is strange. Could it be that he really broke into the house for something?" Doctor Liu frowned and thought.

Tao Yanyan was not sure either, so he had to wait for Mingyue and Qingfeng to finish their inspection.

The two of them searched carefully twice but didn't find anything missing. Tao Yanyan became even more confused. Why did that person come to visit at night?

"Since there's nothing missing, is there anything extra?" It would be troublesome to secretly put something here with her, and Tao Yanyan was very worried.

"Your Majesty, there is nothing less or more." Qingfeng said, and Mingyue nodded.

Since there was nothing wrong with the things, could it be for people? Tao Yanyan's hair stood on end. It was hard for her to imagine a scene where a stranger suddenly appeared in the room while she was sleeping.