Chapter Twenty-Five: Tricks
Inside Fanghua Palace.
"Your Majesty, Princess Qinglian's subordinates, just this morning in the library pavilion, fetched two loads of water back, Nuoda Garden, there are many people, I really don't know how they lived." Empress Lanxi said to the emperor worriedly.
Seeing that the emperor did not speak, the queen continued: "In a few days, let's take the princess back to the Chaohua Palace!" A delicate little princess, I'm afraid she won't be able to hold on. ”
"Not necessarily, if the queen doesn't believe it, she can go and see her in a few days." Xuanyuan Xuanling said coldly.
The queen said again: "Your Majesty, she is the sister of Princess Yulian!" If my sister knew that my sister was suffering here, I am afraid that she would be sad. ”
"Oh! Who! Whose sister? Xuanyuan Xuanling asked casually, he pretended to forget Yulian to hide his feelings of weakness.
"Your Majesty, in the past two years, accompanied by a bright and gorgeous Chun Meiren, have you forgotten Princess Yulian, who is also wearing a veil?" Although the queen was reminding the emperor, the implication was that she complained a little bit about the emperor, she had loved Chun Meiren too much in the past two years, and everyone else didn't care about it.
"Oh~, it's the noodle Princess Yulian!" Xuanyuan Xuanling pretended to suddenly come to his senses.
He glanced at the queen, and continued: "This Princess Qinglian may not be so weak, the queen doesn't need to worry too much. ”
"Your Majesty, is Mei'er, the palace maid of Chun Meiren, still waiting outside?" The queen no longer mentioned the matter of Princess Qinglian, and the conversation turned to Chun Meiren.
"Tell her to go back!" Xuanyuan Xuanling said with a wave of his hand.
Inside the palace.
"Chun beauty, the emperor said to stay in Fanghua Palace tonight and let the beauty rest by herself." Mei'er whispered back to Chun Meiren and added one more sentence.
When Chun Meiren heard this, she slowly pulled off the veil and said, "Oh, I'm not coming, so who am I wearing this veil to?" With that, she kneaded the veil into a small ball in the palm of her hand, and then threw it far away.
A few days later.
"Princess, get up soon, the queen has come to see you." The pearl was beside the bed, calling to Yulian lightly.
"Who, Queen?" Yulian opened her eyes suddenly, her eyes were as bright as ink, shining brightly, and she was stunned when she saw the pearl, and she forgot to reply.
Yulian became vigilant, and hurriedly squinted her eyes and said, "Help me freshen up!" Why did the queen come so early? ”
When Yulian quickly dressed and came to the hall, the queen was nowhere to be seen, and Coral gestured in the direction of the back garden with her eyes.
Yulian said in her heart: "Oh no, the tap water was discovered by the queen, why did you calculate everything, didn't you calculate that the queen would come to see herself?" , and it's only been completed for two days, and it's too late to hide! ”
Sure enough, the queen was in front of the water tank in the back garden, looking at the trickle flowing from the bamboo tube, and was amazed.
Yulian stood behind the queen awkwardly, squinting vigorously, thinking of countermeasures.
"Is this a princess design! It's amazing that the water can flow into the garden on its own. The queen asked with a gentle look at Yulian.
"Well, it was by the stream that I accidentally found mountain spring water in the back mountain, so I drained the spring water over." Yulian snorted.
"And if the water in this jar is full, how can it be stopped?" The queen gently touched the flowing water with her fingers.
"Just hang this bamboo tube high, and the spring water will flow back to the mountain." Yulian pointed to another tall shelf with a lifting rope.
"Well, the princess's design is good." The queen was approving, thought for a moment and said, "Since the water is already available, why does the princess still order her subordinates to fetch water every day?" ”
Yulian looked at the queen, she had always had a good impression of the queen, so she felt that she didn't have to act too much in front of her.
"Back to the queen, the emperor sent me here, which means that we should be punished for fetching water every day." Yulian replied respectfully and truthfully.
"But you already have a water source in your garden, and if you go to get water every day, you will be a bully!"
"Queen, why do you deceive the king, if we don't go to fetch water, it will be against the holy will!" Yulian replied without thinking about it.
When the queen heard this, she was speechless when she thought about it, and she suddenly smiled in her heart and said, "No wonder the emperor told me not to worry about the princess?" It seems that I am indeed overthinking. ”
As soon as Yulian replied, she forgot to pretend to be clumsy, so she smiled wryly: "Thank you Queen, I was reckless." ”
The queen shook her head and said, "It's good that the princess is happy, then I'll go back and come to see you next time!" ”
Yulian nodded meekly, personally sent the queen out, and as soon as she turned around and returned to the house, she thought about what the queen had just said, and she said that the emperor said, "Don't worry about me." What does it mean?
Yulian shook her head, it's useless to think more, seeing that it's also late autumn, two or three more months, and when it snows, you can go back, I just hope that these months will pass safely and quickly.
Inside the Imperial Palace of the Floating Jade Kingdom.
The crown prince and Princess Yulian were chatting with their father.
"Father, after expelling Master Kunzhi from our country two years ago, I recently heard that he appeared in the territory of Dahua Kingdom again, do you want to tell Emperor Xuanyuan?" As he spoke, the prince suddenly remembered something and reported it to his father.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, something strange has happened!" The emperor was about to speak, when Mrs. Ru broke in.
The emperor gave her a blank look: "What's the fuss, pay attention to etiquette." ”
"Your Majesty, everyone in the palace is spreading that Qinglian who went to kiss is a fake of Princess Yulian, because, because of ......" Mrs. Ru looked at Princess Yulian who was sitting next to her, and stopped talking.
"Because of what?" The prince also asked curiously.
Seeing that the emperor didn't have any expression, Mrs. Ru gritted her teeth and said: "Because someone in the palace saw Princess Yulian's face and said that she didn't have any scars on her face, so it was rumored that it was still Princess Yulian who really went to make peace, and it was Princess Qinglian who left." After Mrs. Ru finished speaking, she stared at Qinglian tightly.
Qinglian sat upright, not panicked at all, she slowly took off her veil, and said to Mrs. Ru: "The rumors are so ridiculous, why does Princess Yulian want to kiss again?" ”
"You, it's really Princess Qinglian." When Mrs. Ru saw Qinglian take off her veil, revealing her flower-like complexion, she exclaimed in surprise.
"I'm Princess Qinglian, but I'm also Princess Yulian at the moment." Qinglian said lightly.
"You insist on pretending to be Princess Yulian, and I have nothing to say, but everyone knows that the real Princess Yulian has a wound on her face, how can your intact face be able to block the mouths of the people? I'm just afraid that when the time comes, it will spread to Dahuaguo, and there will be big trouble! Mrs. Ru said with a fake worry.
"Isn't it true that Madame Ru got the elixir and cured my face wound?" Qinglian said in a coquettish voice.
And the emperor nodded slightly at this time.
"What, when did I heal your face?" Madame Ru's voice went from loud to small, from urgent to slow, and finally she couldn't even hear herself, because she saw that the prince was shaking his head slightly at her.
The emperor saw that Mrs. Ru was not moving, so he said slowly: "Mrs. Ru occasionally got the elixir, and she did her work in healing the face injury of the princess, and she was specially given the title of concubine." ”
When Madame Ru heard the emperor say this, she couldn't believe her ears, and she looked at the emperor in surprise.
"Didn't Madame hear me? Or do you not want to be promoted to a concubine? Then the father is about to take back his will. Qinglian reminded Mrs. Ru who was stunned.
"The concubine obeyed the order, thank the emperor!" After Mrs. Ru came to her senses, she replied overjoyed.
At this moment, she has long forgotten the purpose of coming here, because all along, what she is most angry about is her identity, and there is no prince under her knees, and it is even more difficult to rise to the throne than to ascend to the sky.
But now, it's as simple as that, I got a lot of credit for no reason, and I was promoted to a concubine, all this is not a dream!
She calmly thought about it, it was not for no reason, that is, she was trapped, and in the future, she could only say a word, and resolutely said that Princess Yulian had always been in the palace, how could she pretend to say it!
But she had a big question in her heart, why did the princess of Yulian pretend to be Qinglian to make peace? It's so weird.
Mrs. Ru looked at the three people in front of her, although she was smiling, but her eyes were deep, she was afraid that she would not be able to ask why.
So, whatever! Princess Yulian is gone, isn't it just what I want? And the problems that have been bothering me for many years have been solved, which is worth celebrating, so why bother asking why?
And during this whole process, although the prince smiled, he was shocked in his heart, and he was full of admiration for Yulian.
The prince thought to himself: The father has always favored the delicate Mrs. Ru, but he can't give her a higher status; As for Mrs. herself, she has been looking forward to this for a long time.
Sister Yulian left this strategy, not only did the father and Mrs. Ru get what they wanted, but Mrs. Ru also had to help Qinglian conceal her identity, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone, wonderful!
In the Xuanyuan Palace, the secret agent replied to Xuanyuan Xuanling: "Your Majesty, a letter from the Floating Jade Kingdom is sent to Princess Qinglian. ”
Xuanyuan Xuanling took the letter, carefully opened the seal, and unfolded the paper, there were only five words on the paper: The trick is good. The signature is: Sister Yulian handwritten!
After reading it, Xuanyuan Xuanling handed it back to the secret agent's hand and said, "Seal it as it is, and don't let people notice." The spy took the order and left.
"Brother-in-law Emperor, what are you doing, doing something sneaky."
Xuanyuan Xuanling was guessing the brief content on the paper, Dongfang Qiongyu came in from outside and said loudly.
Xuanyuan Xuanling glared at Dongfang fiercely and said, "Shut up." ”
"You're embarrassed to shut me up, do you think you do those things like an emperor would do?" Dongfang shouted.
"What's the matter, are you looking for a fight again?"
"You have been rejected by someone's sister, so you have a grudge, and you actually drove the weak little sister of others to live in Gufangyuan, you are too narrow-minded." Dongfang said in one breath.
"Gufang Garden is very good, green mountains and green waters!" Xuanyuan Xuanling still replied coldly.
"What a fart, you have to go back and forth for ten miles to drink saliva, let alone such a weak little sister." Dongfang said indignantly.
"Weak little sister, you have all been deceived by her." Xuanyuan Xuanling said with a sneer.
Dongfang heard him say this, and Zhengse said bluntly: "Isn't it also like her sister, soft and strong, and a strange woman, not to be underestimated?" ”
"Anyway, she is not a weak woman, she dared to deceive me on the first day she entered the palace, she was the only one." Xuanyuan Xuanling gritted his teeth and said.
"You're sure she's got her eyes and her weakness faked." Dongfang asked again.
"Hmph, it's like the real thing." Xuanyuan Xuanling said in a cold voice with a snort.
"This little girl has successfully attracted my attention, I'll help you inquire." Dongfang laughed.
"No, do you really think my men are all dead?"
"Did you find anything? Tell me quickly," Dongfang said cautiously and tentatively.
"What's your business? You just went home, why did you run into the palace again? This is my palace, and you go back to your own house. Xuanyuan Xuanling said with his foot kicking Dongfang's foot.
"No, I haven't seen you for a few days, I miss the emperor's brother-in-law." Dongfang laughed, took two steps forward, and teased Xuanyuan Xuanling's shoulder with his shoulder.
Xuanyuan Xuanling immediately took two steps back and said in a trembling voice: "Stay away from me." ”