Chapter 136: Unraveling
Fortunately, there was one person and one sedan chair along the way, which also gave Qi Niang more time.
When I arrived at Shouren Palace, it was just over the hour.
The Queen Mother set up the card table as usual, Mama Yu and Mama Ci played together, and Xuanwu Yicheng sat on the opposite side to spar.
Qi Niang and they knelt down to salute in the sound of "bang, bang, bang", and Mama Yu simply returned the salute in her seat, while Xuanwu Yicheng sat still, only hugged her hand to her grandmother to show her salute.
That's right, people are also half a prince, or like the Queen Mother's eyes, she just didn't see it.
got up, sat down, and the queen mother's cards also stopped.
Because, her old man has no such thoughts.
The little girl in front of her, with a goose egg face, big apricot eyes, and cherry red lips, is the third lady of the Wang family back then!
Shock flashed in her eyes!
Look at the water blue long skirt of this seat, dotted with flowers and pears, simple and low-key but fresh and elegant, a purple hosta of cold plum under the moon between the green silk, adding a bit of fairy spirit that does not eat fireworks in the world.
The Queen Mother's heart jumped......
Take a closer look, I saw that the little girl's eyebrows were lightly swept, and the distant mountains were too thick and too light, which was the most suitable, the thin eyeliner around the apricot eyes perfectly outlined the outline of the big eyes, coupled with the faint watery red eye makeup, the already watery big eyes were a little more charming, the smudged cheeks were red, and the delicate lips were fresh and dripping......
A few words popped up in the eyes of the Queen Mother: Red face and trouble!
If she remembers correctly, this seventh lady of the Su family is only fourteen years old, and she has not yet reached the age of sixteen. But he has long been a vulgar person who is accustomed to applying grease and powder, and only knows how to dress up his face to charm and seduce and harm sentient beings......
Sure enough, what kind of mother you have, what kind of daughter you have......
Look at that face, it's not carved out of the same mold as her mother!
The more the Queen Mother thought about it, the more angry she became, and the nails dyed by the peony flowers tightly buckled the desktop of Nanmu Jinsi.
And at this moment, Xuanwu Yicheng stared at the person in front of him without blinking, and his heart was like a rolling tide that overflowed, drowning him entirely.
That's Qi Niang? Is that the Qi Niang he had ever seen?
Such a fresh and refined beauty, such a tender but charming beauty......
That's Qi Niang......
Why is she so beautiful today? Just for the summons of the grandmother?
Why didn't I see the emperor's uncle dressed up yesterday. Why didn't you see Murong Qin dressed up yesterday, why just today?
He is here to serve the emperor's grandmother, and everyone who wants to come to the imperial capital knows it, so does Qi Niang also know it?
Could it be that Qi Niang is dressed up for him?
Xuanwu Yicheng's eyebrows lit up with joy. The small flame in my heart "poof" went straight up. Looking at Qi Niang's eyebrows and eyes, it is even more affectionate!
Pity Qi Niang. Hard-headed, half-drooping eyelids, naked face the baptism of ice and fire. She shouted in her heart: This is the sin she did in her previous life, and she wants to live such a sin in this ghost place......
"Ahem, ahem."
It wasn't until Mama Yu's coughing sound came that the strange scene of stalemate was broken.
Qi Niang obviously felt a lightness on her body, and she secretly cast a grateful glance at the gorgeously dressed grandmother.
Good people, good people!
After that, the queen mother treated her as air, and all the questions were aimed at the grandmother, how did she eat and sleep after entering the imperial capital, and asked the princess and aunt about the weather, customs and customs of Anqing, anyway, she didn't mention the poisoning of Emperor Mu and Murong Qin!
Qi Niang sat obediently on the side, her hands were stacked together, her hands were sweaty, although she was very thirsty, she didn't dare to move the Phnom Penh Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang Tea Cup on her side.
She still sat like this, lest she wait for her to move and attract some unkind eyes, she still wanted to live a few more days.
I don't know how long they talked about it, and I don't know what they talked about, anyway, they talked nonsense, but the atmosphere of the chat was good, and there were "hehe" laughter from time to time.
Qi Niang took a deep breath, and her heart was a lot more stable.
It's good to coax the old lady to be happy, she originally thought about losing some silver to the ancestors at the card table along the way, this time not to lose the silver, but also completed the task, this feeling is good!
Qi Niang has been looking at the ground in front of her with her eyes and nose, and she doesn't know that there are a few inquiring glances floating above her head from time to time.
Xuanwu Yicheng smiled at the corner of his mouth, watching the girl start to be nervous like a great enemy, then relaxed with relief, and finally the class was bored and stunned, his heart was like a little cat tickling its paws, making him throb for a while......
The Queen Mother looked at the lady of the Su family with all her thoughts today, but she directly ignored the look of His Royal Highness King Xuan, but the Jade Mama Ci Mama who was standing on the side looked at it really well, and the hearts of the two couldn't help but furle.
His Royal Highness King Xuan has always accepted beauty when he sees it, should this seventh lady of the Su family be included in the bag in a few days?
That...... Where should the face of the emperor and the queen mother go?
That...... How to explain to the Wang family, how to explain to the Duchess of the Kingdom, now to the deceased General Changfeng, how to explain to the people of the world?
Mama Yu and Mama Ci glanced at each other, full of worry.
For a time, in the main hall of Shouren Palace, everyone had their own thoughts, and the wind was surging......
Approaching lunchtime, the Queen Mother enjoyed the banquet early, placed in the west hall of Shouren Palace, everyone sat down one by one, coincidentally, Qi Niang sat down in Xuanwu Yicheng.
It is still a banquet in the palace, but the Queen Mother's meal preference is soft and light, and I think it is because of the old man, and it is easy to restrain if you eat something soft and light. The last drink on the table is also wood fruit seeds.
Among the people seated, only Xuanwu Yicheng and hers have been chilled, and it seems that the people serving in the Empress Dowager's palace are all masters.
Because of her crying in the morning, she still doesn't know how to eat, and she only moves her chopsticks, even the wooden fruit seeds, and then she doesn't use them anymore.
The Xuanwu Yicheng on his side is fragrant. Originally, yesterday's dinner was because he saw Murong Qin and Qi Niang hugging each other in the Sishumen, he was so angry that he ignored the dinner directly, and he had been waiting for this girl to come uneasily for breakfast today, even if he was playing cards, he was absent-minded, not to mention the meal, he didn't eat two bites and put it down, and now he is in a good mood, and he ate more unconsciously.
The Queen Mother was very happy to see it, and asked Mama Yu to add wood fruits to King Xuan.
If it weren't for Xuan'er's proposal to entertain guests with wooden fruits, her old man would be reluctant. What a rare thing, let that girl be ruined in vain, besides, she also used it in Molian Palace yesterday, and the emperor also generously rewarded her with two altars, why did she take out Xuan'er so little?
Hey, forget it, as long as Xuan'er is happy!
The Queen Mother sighed quietly, and then entertained the Duchess of the country.
It wasn't until Xuanwu Yicheng swept over, but he saw Qi Niang's restless appearance, that he began to pay attention.
It seems that since she entered Shouren Palace, she has been so drowning, and she has not seen it clearly when she is far away, but now when she looks closer, she finds that her eyes are very swollen, and although they are carefully covered with water-red fat powder, you can still see traces of crying......
Xuanwu Yicheng's heart was tight, why did she cry?
For Murong Qin?
It must have been Murong Qin who talked nonsense to her yesterday, and I don't know how she looked when she left the palace later, but she only blamed herself for being upset and forgetting to send someone to Haosheng to investigate.
Could it be that they lost their temper?
Or, what problem did Qi Niang encounter?
The more Xuanwu Yicheng thought about it, the more empty his heart became, and the more restless he became, only feeling that there were a hundred ants crawling in his heart, so that he didn't know what to do, and even his sideburns were wet.
He took a deep breath, no, he would definitely let the imperial grandmother see out if he was so abnormal, and now his heart was in chaos, what should he do if the imperial grandmother asked about the leakage of the filling? It would be even worse if Qi Niang was involved again.
Looking at her little daughter-in-law, you can see that she is still in awe of the imperial grandmother.
Wait a minute, I will ask Qi Niang in private.
Thinking of this, Xuanwu Yicheng poured a mouthful of wood fruit seeds before pulling himself back to his natural state.
Finally stayed up until the end of the banquet, the Queen Mother still had a lunch break, the Duchess of the Kingdom, Mrs. Wang, and Princess Anqing were invited to the Molian Palace, and Qi Niang herself shirked the invitation and only said that she would stay and visit the Imperial Garden.
So, a godsend!
So, in the back garden of Shouren Palace, the two "met unexpectedly"!
The two of them came to the high Xiangfei bamboo, Qi Niang sat directly on the grass with her legs crossed, the wind passed through the bamboo forest, and through her green silk, the brocade robe of Xuanwu Yicheng was stirred.
He couldn't help but quicken his pace and sat directly on the ground under Xiangfei's bamboo.
When Qi Niang came back to her senses and only saw the enlarged smiling face in front of her, she already had something in her heart, and when she faced this unserious person in the past, she was even more upset.
Qi Niang glanced at it casually and turned her head away in disgust.
Xuanwu Yicheng's smile suddenly froze!
What's the situation? It's a mistake for him to laugh?
What's wrong with this girl today, she looks at no one right, and she has a thorn in her heart, right?
Xuanwu Yicheng sighed, he was here to comfort the little girl, but he couldn't be frizzy from the beginning.
He cleared his throat and said: "This Xiangfei bamboo is still planted by my grandmother when I was five years old, her old man used to be very disgusted with this thing, and then somehow I actually asked me to plant it with my own hands, and let me water it every day to cultivate the soil, the imperial grandmother is old, she only likes to get some flowers and plants, bamboo in the eyes of her old man is arrogant, high, although I don't understand her old man's thoughts, but still honestly come to take care of it, so they lived, not only live but also grow taller and taller, longer and more upright, I look good, I planted some around the original area privately, so that we have the scene of such a small bamboo forest today. (To be continued......)