Chapter 218: The Conspiracy Begins
"They're all gone?"
The voice of the Queen Mother suddenly sounded in the spacious hall, and after a while, it was quiet again.
"Gone......"
Hearing Mama's different tone, the Queen Mother opened her eyes and looked at her and said, "Is there anything else?"
"Just now a palace maid came in to report, saying that Her Royal Highness the princess told a story to the princess outside the door, the story probably seems to be a very beautiful woman entering the palace, first by the old emperor fancied, by the national teacher calculated that this woman will bring disaster to the country, the old emperor died, after the new emperor ascended the throne, this woman was called into the palace as a concubine for the queen......"
"And then?" The queen mother's voice came faintly, and the grandmother shook her head and said, "The palace maid told this story, and Her Royal Highness the princess left without finishing it."
"What do you mean by that?" The Queen Mother turned her head to look at Mama and said.
Mama shook her head, indicating that she couldn't guess what Chu Xiaoxiang meant.
"No matter what Ge'er means by this, go and summon him into the palace and don't let anyone know." The Queen Mother deliberately lowered her voice.
Mama nodded and withdrew.
All the way back to the princess's mansion, Chu Xiaoxiang felt that she was tired, she jumped on the bed and fell asleep directly after lying down.
What Helian Chen saw when he walked into the house was such a scene. He shook his head helplessly, turned around and walked to the hall, and saw a palace maid walking by, so he said, "Go and bring a bucket of hot water."
"Yes." The palace maid bowed in response, and slowly retreated.
After a while, the palace maid brought the hot water, poured it into the bath bucket, went to carry two buckets of cold water and poured it in, and then walked in front of Helian Chen and said, "Master Horse, the bath bucket has been filled."
"Okay, you stand down, no one is to come in without the order of this horse."
Helian Chen glanced at it lightly and said.
"Yes." The palace ladies responded in unison.
They all retreated one after another, and the palace maid who walked at the end closed the door with her hand.
Helian Chen put down the book, he re-entered the bedroom, walked to the side of the bed and bent down, gently helped her up, undressed her, carried her to the bathtub and put it in, slowly scrubbed her body, and washed her hair.
After doing all this, Helian Chen bent down again to pick her up, carried her back to the bed, wiped the water stains on her body, put on her clothes, and picked up a towel to slowly and gently dry the water stains on her hair.
It was all so skillful, and he didn't use too much strength in the whole process, as if it was a very noble treasure, and he was reluctant to break her.
The water stains on her hair dried a lot, Helian Chen gently put her on the bed, covered her with a quilt, and then sat in front of the bed like this, looking at her quietly.
Seeing her sleeping so soundly, he was a little reluctant to disturb her.
Helian Chen stood up, turned around and left the bedroom.
There is no study in the princess's mansion, but the books in the library can make him calm down and take a good look.
In this way, Helian Chen turned around and walked in the direction of the library pavilion, and when he walked to the library, he casually called a eunuch and said, "You go and pour a cup of tea and send it to the library pavilion."
"Yes." The eunuch said respectfully.
Helian Chen stepped open the door and walked in, picked a random book, and watched it quietly, even when the eunuch put the teacup in front of him, he didn't even notice it.
At night, a figure appeared in the Queen Mother's bedroom and walked to the Queen Mother's side.
The Queen Mother seemed to feel a familiar smell, she looked up, and after seeing the figure, she immediately stood up and hugged her, "Lang, why are you here now?"
"I was delayed before, and besides, I came to look for you at night so that I could hide my identity." A thick and powerful male voice sounded, accompanied by the figure walking, and it was confirmed that it was a man.
"Good!"
"What's the matter with me?" The man said.
"Lang, that Qiao Qian'er is alive again."
"Come alive?! How can it be? Are you mistaken? When the man heard that the woman named Qiao Qian'er came back to life, he was shocked and couldn't believe it, how could this be? Back then, he had seen the woman die with his own eyes.
"Yes, Mama went to the Imperial Garden today, and she said she saw Qiao Qian'er there."
"Could she be mistaken?" The man frowned.
"I asked her so, and she said she was not mistaken, it was true!"
The Queen Mother's words silenced the man, he lowered his head and pondered for a while, and said, "You find a way to make her appear and see if she is a human or a ghost?!"
"Good! I'll arrange that. As she spoke, she turned around and hugged the man tightly, and the man was also hugging her back, and fell on the bed with her, turning the dragon and the phoenix.
Chu Xiaoxiang slowly opened his eyes, sat up and stretched his waist widely, turned around and got out of bed, took out a fire fold from the shelf, lit the fire and transferred the fire to the candle.
A few candles were lit and the whole bedroom was lit.
Suddenly, Chu Xiaoxiang found a question, where did Helian Chen go? Where would he go if he didn't come to sleep so late?
It's weird!
Chu Xiaoxiang slowly opened the bedroom door, crossed the threshold and walked out, seeing that there was no one in the living room, he was even more curious about where Helian Chen went?
She turned around and walked out towards the door again, and saw Qingtan sitting on the steps sleeping, she was speechless for a while, she obeyed and reached out and gently pushed Qingtan, seeing that she was still not awake, she ran to push her again, this time she woke up.
"Your Royal Highness, are you awake, are you hungry? The slave and maid will go to the fire room and ask someone to prepare something to eat for you. Saying that, Qingtan immediately stood up, turned around and was about to run in the direction of the fire room, Chu Xiaoxiang immediately shouted: "Stop, don't rush to the fire room first, this princess asks you, do you know where the horse goes?"
"The slave knows that he has gone to the library." Qingtan responded respectfully.
"All day?" Chu Xiaoxiang asked in surprise.
Qingtan nodded vigorously.
"Okay, this princess is also hungry, you go and prepare some food and send it to the library, and this princess will go over now."
"Yes, slave and maid will do it." After speaking, Qingtan turned around and left.
Looking at Qingtan's departing back, Chu Xiaoxiang also walked in the opposite direction.
The wind at night was very cool, and Chu Xiaoxiang, who had walked far away, reacted, she forgot to bring her cloak, otherwise, it wouldn't be so cold.
Too lazy to walk back to get the cloak, Chu Xiaoxiang simply endured it all the way to the library pavilion.
Standing outside the library pavilion, seeing the sparks one after another, Chu Xiaoxiang knew that Helian Chen was inside, she immediately walked up and pushed the door open, walked in with one foot over the porch, and closed the door with her hand, and suddenly, the library that closed the door was much warmer.
"Chen, are you there?"
Chu Xiaoxiang called softly, and Helian Chen, who was sitting on the ground behind the bookshelf, immediately responded, "I'm here."
Chu Xiaoxiang walked to the last row of the bookshelf and happened to see Helian Chen sitting on the ground reading a book, so he couldn't help but smile: "It's a little interesting, Chen, what's wrong with you?"
"It's nothing, I'm just bored, so I came to the library to read the books, why don't you go back and continue to sleep?"
"I'm still sleeping! Am I a pig? Besides, I've slept for so long, how can I still sleep?! Chu Xiaoxiang said helplessly: "It's you, you should really go back to sleep."
As he spoke, Chu Xiaoxiang stood up and stretched out his hands to grab Helianchen's right arm, pulled him up hard, and then was about to pull him out of the door, but he suddenly stopped and stopped, and his right hand broke free and grabbed Chu Xiaoxiang's wrist, and with a force on his hand, Chu Xiaoxiang's whole person fell into Helianchen's arms.
"How do you wear so little clothing? Don't know it's already windy outside? Helian Chen's words revealed worry and distress in every word, which made Chu Xiaoxiang feel very comfortable.
"Did you change my clothes?"
When she woke up, she noticed that the clothes on her body were not the ones I wore before, since they weren't, then someone helped her change them, and the person who helped her change her clothes should be Helian Chen.
Helian Chen nodded, and said, "Isn't that the point?"
"What am I afraid of, isn't there still you?" Saying that, Chu Xiaoxiang's whole person hugged Helian Chen tightly like a koala, Helian Chen did not object to the sudden physical contact, he just felt that although this library pavilion was very warm, they always had to go out, and not going out here could not be used as a reason to stay forever.
"You!" Helian Chen shook his head helplessly.
He turned around and walked into another small pavilion in the library pavilion, which he found when he came to the library to read books today, quite unexpectedly this small pavilion room has a desk and chairs, a tea table, a suitcase, and a small bed.
"I really didn't expect that there would be such a small world in the Library Pavilion?!" Chu Xiaoxiang also sighed while looking at this small pavilion.
"That's what I thought too."
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, and Chu Xiaoxiang took the lead in walking out of the small pavilion, but Helian Chen quickly passed her, walked to the door and opened the door, and saw that the person standing outside the door was Qingtan, and Qingtan still had a heated meal in his hand.
"Come in." Helian Chen said lightly.
"Yes."
Qingtan brought the food in, put it on the floor as requested, and slowly withdrew.
Seeing Qingtan close the door, Helian Chen turned his head to look at Chu Xiaoxiang and said, "You asked someone to send it?"
"yes, I haven't eaten yet."
After speaking, Chu Xiaoxiang walked to the front of the meal and stopped, bent down to bring the food to the small pavilion, and said, "Eat, I guess you are also hungry."
Helian Chen nodded.
The two finished the meal after a while, and when they were full, they folded the bowl and put it on the tray, and put the chopsticks next to the bowl, Chu Xiaoxiang took the lead in standing up and stretched his waist greatly, made a slight waist twisting motion, and said, "I'm full."
Helian Chen nodded.
"Chen, there's nothing to do with us now, otherwise, we'll ......" Chu Xiaoxiang paused, she seemed to remember something, and she didn't know how to talk about it for a while.
"What's wrong with us?" Helian Chen was puzzled and said.
"Now that I'm thinking about it, when all is settled, why don't we go back and see where we can go back?"
"Well, I think so too."