Chapter 21: The Essence
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After sending the emperor away, Ning Guifei and the other concubines went around for a while, and they didn't stay for a long time, and soon took Meng Lang and Meng Xia back to Muqing Palace directly, ignoring Liu Guifei's mother and daughter at all.
Now, with Emperor Meng Zhao's personal entrustment, she naturally takes Meng Xia as her heir as a matter of course, and she doesn't have to care about anyone's eyes.
"The mother's grace of taking care of each other, Asha is unforgettable! Thank you for your great kindness, and the mother concubine will accept Axia's worship! β
In the Muqing Palace, Meng Xia solemnly knelt down and gave a big salute to Concubine Ning.
"You stupid boy, why do you have to make such a big gift, get up quickly!"
Seeing this, Concubine Ning Guifei personally got up to help Meng Xia, and affectionately pulled her to sit beside her: "Between mother and daughter, don't say those who thank you or not." You are better to play a child than your third emperor brother, for the mother concubine, you are the same as Lang'er, you are the dearest and most beloved child of the mother concubine! β
"Thanks to the mother's refusal to give up, from now on, you and the Third Emperor Brother will be Axia's closest relatives in this world!" Meng Xia's eyes were slightly red, and he was well-behaved and moved.
"Good, good, good boy!"
Ning Guifei patted Meng Xia's hand, and she also looked excited.
As she spoke, she took off a valuable jade bracelet from her wrist and put it on Meng Xia's hand, as if looking at her own daughter, full of pity: "This was given to me by my mother when my mother entered the palace, and now my mother gives it to you, hoping that our Axia will always be safe, happy, and happy in the future." β
Seeing this, Meng Xia was naturally a little worried and wanted to shirk it, but Ning Guifei could not refuse.
"Axia, this is for her daughter by her mother, you can't do it!"
Meng Lang on the side smiled and helped and motioned for Meng Xia to accept the jade bracelet.
In this way, Meng Xia was not easy to shirk the teaching, and thanked Ning Guifei again for accepting it.
"You brothers and sisters should help each other in the study in the future, study well, and make progress together, so as not to live up to your father's expectations of you."
Looking at the jade bracelet on Meng Xia's hand, Ning Guifei was very satisfied and advised: "Ah Xia, after school in the future, I will come to the concubine with your third emperor brother to eat here, you live alone in the Heling Palace, if you have any needs, just let people come and tell the concubine, don't wronged yourself." β
"Please rest assured, the child will remember the words of the mother."
Meng Xia didn't say any more thanks, she knew that Ning Guifei was deliberately narrowing the distance between them, no matter what the reason, she didn't need to brush off this favor.
Today, when Emperor Meng Zhao rewarded Meng Xia in the study, he also told Concubine Ning to take care of Meng Xia in public. Although it was not explicitly stated, it represented that Emperor Meng Zhao had tacitly handed over the ninth princess who had lost her mother and was not yet officially an adult to be raised under the name of Ning Guifei.
Now Meng Xia and Ning Guifei can be regarded as a legitimate mother and daughter, and they are also a community in front of the interests of honor and disgrace in the palace, otherwise, Ning Guifei would not be so thoughtful to Meng Xia.
Lunch was used in Muqing Palace, Ning Guifei specially asked the palace people to make more dishes and snacks that Meng Xia liked, and the three of them chatted while eating, celebrating Meng Xia's successful passage of the assessment and admission to the study today.
Ning Guifei is a sleek and sophisticated veteran, and with Meng Lang here, the atmosphere is close and warm.
Soon after the meal, the eunuch of the Yixin Hall sent two sets of fine pen and ink inkstones from Huzhou, saying that the emperor personally selected them and rewarded them to the three princes.
Emperor Meng Zhao hoped that the three princes could make persistent efforts and continue to be exemplary among the princes, both academically and in other aspects.
In addition, the eunuch also passed on the holy will, and the emperor will go to Mu Qing Palace to sleep tonight, and ask Concubine Ning to get ready.
Ning Guifei rewarded the eunuch with a good life, and her eyebrows were full of joy.
It's just that after the eunuch left, the joy on Ning Guifei's face quickly calmed down, and she didn't deliberately maintain anything even in front of Meng Xia.
"Ah Xia knows your father, why did he pick things alone to reward your third emperor brother so quickly, and turned over the brand of the concubine early?"
Without asking Meng Lang, Concubine Ning asked Meng Xia with a serious expression.
Seeing this, Meng Xia first looked at Meng Lang, then looked at Ning Guifei again, and replied: "That's because today's father knows that the Third Emperor Brother can solve such a difficult problem, so he is outstanding in learning, so he rewards the Third Emperor Brother alone." And the third emperor brother was born and raised by his mother's concubine, and his father has always been very fond of his mother's concubine, so he is ......"
"Of course not!"
Before she finished speaking, Concubine Ning shook her head without hesitation and directly denied Meng Xia's answer.
"Axia, you are indeed very smart, but the way to survive in this palace is not as simple as 'hello, you are outstanding'!"
She looked at Meng Xia with a solemn expression: "Since you really call me a concubine, then take classes outside the study, and the concubine will teach you in the future!" β
Meng Xia was surprised, she didn't expect that Ning Guifei would reveal the other side of the queen so naturally in front of her so quickly.
This is to show that he has treated her as his own person, which is far more practical than giving her ancestral jade bracelet before.
But in the same way, Concubine Ning Guifei was also telling her clearly in this way that their honor and disgrace had been tied together.
But no matter what, to be able to see such a Ning Guifei in peace, naturally not everyone has such an opportunity.
Meng Xia was also not disgusted that the Ning clan did not hide his intentions, after all, in the palace, not everyone dared to show such openness.
And the clear reciprocity is more real than any hypocrisy.
She subconsciously glanced at Meng Lang, but saw that his expression was calm, obviously already familiar with the real mother.
Facing Meng Xia's gaze, Meng Lang nodded slightly at him, signaling that she didn't have to pay much attention, just listen.
Concubine Ning was right, she was too young after all, and the way to survive in this palace was far from something that could be learned in the study.
With someone like Ning Guifei on the side, for Meng Xia, it is indeed difficult to find a lantern.
"It is a blessing for Axia to be taught by her mother." Seeing this, Meng Xia naturally no longer hesitated.
Ning Guifei didn't care that her emperor and Meng Xia were talking in front of her, as far as she was concerned, the better the relationship between the brother and sister, the more reliable Meng Xia would be able to stand in Lang'er's camp in the future.
And everything she did was for this son after all, not herself!
"Axia, you remember, the real reason why your father and the emperor will give preferential treatment to your mother and your third imperial brother, and now you, is actually just that we have consciously or unintentionally obeyed the holy will and pleased the sacred heart, and that's it. Any other reason is just a faΓ§ade. β
Soon, Ning Guifei's words hit the nail on the head to the essence.
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