Chapter 387: Threat
"No," Ming Qiao said casually: "Chu Nian said when she left, the Queen Mother will give whatever she wants, and she doesn't dare to poison people so blatantly." β
At this stall, Ming Qiao put down the empty bowl, turned his head to look at Mei Xiang, blinked with a pair of beautiful eyes, and sighed, "If it weren't for the number of times I've seen Chu Nian, this scene would be really difficult to act, when will my imperial sister come to replace my class?" β
Mei Xiang reluctantly took Mingqiao's bowl and handed over the tea that was placed aside, "Her Royal Highness the Third Princess said that it would be a little later, it is said that the Queen Mother summoned her, and also asked the slave maid to talk to Her Royal Highness, go back and prepare early, the Queen Mother already suspects us." β
Ming Qiao drank all the tea in the cup, seemed to be weakly spread on the couch, raised his head and sighed: "Chu Nian, Chu Nian, you can come back earlier, in exchange like this, I can't get out of the house all day, and I'm about to die of trouble." β
Mei Xiang suddenly smiled shyly, she put away the empty bowls, and looked back at Ming Qiao on the couch, "If Your Highness is bored, do you need a slave to call Mr. Wu to relieve His Highness's boredom?" β
Hearing Wu Liang's name, Ming Qiao suddenly sat up and looked at Mei Xiang with wide eyes, "Okay, you little girl, you have also learned to tease me!" β
"Slaves don't dare." Mei Xiang turned around and walked towards the door, "It's not that it's too boring to look at His Highness, but my lady has instructed her to take care of His Highness's mood, but now look, it's a dereliction of duty!" β
Ming Qiao glanced at Mei Xiang's back sullenly, "He's not saying he's busy, I think he just doesn't want to see me." β
Mei Xiang, who walked to the door, stopped and looked back, a little teasing rose in her voice, "What did Your Highness say, isn't Mr. Wu here?" β
As soon as these words fell, a light cough sounded at the door, and when Ming Qiao raised his eyes, it was Wu Liang's face with a few twists, and his originally sullen expression suddenly burst into joy, and his little face was gradually dyed a little red.
"You, why are you here!"
Mei Xiang covered her mouth and laughed, wiped Wu Liang's side and walked out, this stall, I saw Wu Liang walk in as a matter of course, and sat unceremoniously on the Taishi chair on the side, as if he felt Ming Qiao's fiery gaze, he was a little embarrassed to pin his face to the other side, "It's not Chu Nian yet, what do you say it will definitely be boring for you to stay here by yourself, so ask me to accompany you more." β
Mingqiao's little face was red, but the corners of her mouth were open, "Then I really want to thank Chu Nian." β
Wu Liang's face turned red, and he muttered in a low voice: "Thank her for what she has done......
Ming Qiao didn't hear his words, and at this moment, a small face overflowed with a smile, "Aren't you busy today?" Senior brother, but someone has taken care of him? β
"My brother...... I don't need to take care of it. Wu Liang seemed to remember Li Le's disgusted face before leaving, and couldn't help but sneer, now it seems that everyone hopes that he can come to find Mingqiao, but he himself is clear...... Wu Liang blushed, his brows furrowed slightly.
"I heard that you had a cold a few days ago, but now you're better?"
"Huh?" Ming Qiao blinked, and suddenly remembered that a few days ago, in order to let the people in front of her come to visit her, Mingyue made a bad move, she secretly hooked the corners of her lips, and moved her body in the direction of Wu Liang, "Well, it's better." β
It will take some time for this ice to melt, but now, it seems that there are some signs that the ice will melt.
Cining Palace, the Queen Mother's dormitory.
"You say, Chu Nian is still lying on the couch?"
The next Mama Li nodded again and again, "The old slave really saw it, the figure behind the curtain should be the unparalleled county lord himself." β
The Queen Mother touched her chin thoughtfully, and the candle flame on the side was moving violently, as if a fierce wind was blowing into the room.
"You go down first." She waved her hand, and saw Mama Li answer in a low voice, turned to leave, and when Mama Li walked out of the store, a silver figure suddenly appeared next to the candlelight. Seeing this figure, the Queen Mother's face seemed to soften a little.
"You're finally awake."
The gray pupils flickered slightly, "Queen Mother, this old servant...... Kill it. β
The queen was stunned for a moment, and then, she sighed helplessly and said, "The mourning family knows, do you mean that the unequaled county lord is indeed in Xichu now?" β
His thin lips pursed and he didn't speak, and after a while, he paced towards the entrance of the hall, and his voice fell lightly, "Queen Mother, don't tell others about my whereabouts." β
Without waiting for the Queen Mother to nod, the figure had already walked away, and the Queen Mother frowned slightly, and then summoned the maid who served on the side: "Go and execute Mama Li's secret, just throw the body in the dry well in the backyard, and tell the outside world that she is sick and sick." β
"Yes."
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In the evening, the palace of the eldest emperor finally ushered in the uninvited guest of Xichu Luning, Chu Nian and others waited behind the curtain tent, and Xichu Yueling received Xichu Luning alone.
After Xichu Lu Ning calmly sat down in the guest seat, Xichu Yue Ling pushed the teacup in front of her with a light smile, "Aunt taste, this is the new tea that the mother emperor rewarded me a few days ago, it seems to be produced in Da Liang, I soaked it in the aged snow water taken from the Northwest Mountain according to the method that Prince Mingxiu said, and it tastes good." β
Xichu Lu Ning seemed to have something on her mind, she raised her eyes slightly and glanced at Xichu Yueling, her gaze fell back on the teacup, her fingers lightly tapped on the tabletop, ignoring Xichu Yueling's smirk.
"Ling'er, this king is here today, but I have something important to tell you, you don't have to treat this king with such a perfunctory attitude."
Xichu Yue Ling smiled lightly and didn't reply, at this stall, he saw Xichu Lu Ning pick up the teacup and send it to his mouth to drink lightly, frowned, then put down the teacup, his eyes swept around, and said seriously: "Ling'er, this king heard that you traveled with Prince Mingxiu yesterday and didn't return all night?" β
Hearing this, Xi Chu Yueling raised her eyebrows slightly, is this looking for her fault? She easily placed her hands on both sides of the Taishi chair, her fingers gently stroked the lines on the back of the chair, and said absent-mindedly: "Auntie, I asked the mother emperor for an order to leave the palace last night." β
Xichu Luning's brows furrowed obviously, as if he couldn't find fault with Xichu Yueling, but he wanted to spit out a few bones from this round egg, and his voice unconsciously rose a few points, "But in the end, it's my daughter's family, how can I stay out all night with a man?" β
Xichu Yueling pursed her red lips, squinted and smiled without speaking, then saw Xichu Lu Ning breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Don't say this, now that the imperial sister is old, Yuan'er and they can't hold up anything, as the eldest princess, if you let someone catch the handle again, how can we Xichu be able to defeat the great cold in the future?" β
Behind the curtain on her side, the three of them sat opposite each other, and before the words fell, they saw Ming Xiufeng's eyebrows frowning slightly, Chu Nian smiled and gently patted his hand on the back of the chair, and heard the voice of Xi Chu Yueling outside.
"The fourth aunt's words are wrong, our Xichu and Da Liang have always been good friends, why do you want to destroy the peace between this and Da Liang?"
Xichu Lu Ning continued to frown and looked at Xichu Yueling, "You are still too naΓ―ve, how do you know that Da Liang will sincerely help you?" In the end, we are a family, and this king really thinks about you. β
Looking at Xichu Lu Ning's seemingly serious but hypocritical appearance, Xichu Yueling couldn't help but raise his eyes with a smile, "If the fourth aunt really thinks about Ling'er, how about handing over the remaining 100,000 troops of the Gao Chen family to Ling'er?" β
Xichu Lu Ning was speechless for a moment, and at this point, he saw Xichu Yue Ling continue: "If the fourth aunt is here for this matter, then Ling Er persuades the fourth aunt not to be nosy, after all, Ling Er has already become an adult, who should be a friend, Ling Er naturally knows it, besides, Fourth Aunt, between you and me, do you still need fake greetings?" β
Over the years, Xichu Luning's oppression of Xichu Yueling, the prince appointed by the empress, was abandoned by Xichu Yueling, and put on the table with a word.
Xichu Lu Ning's face was a little gloomy, her subordinates squeezed the tea cup tightly, and her face was a little pale, "It seems that because of the arrival of Prince Da Liang, Her Royal Highness seems to have some confidence?" β
Xi Chu Yue Ling clearly heard Xi Chu Lu Ning's voice, she pulled the corners of her mouth slightly and smiled, "Naturally, I don't dare to say that the fourth aunt is an elder, but I have gotten some news in recent days......"
She looked at Xi Chu Lu Ning meaningfully, "This news is indeed a ladder for this palace to climb out of the wall calmly, just see if the fourth aunt will give Ling Er this opportunity......
"From the top of the wall that these four aunts have carefully built over the years, they jumped out."
When the words fell, Xi Chu Lu Ning's face turned obviously blue, she suddenly got up, her eyes swept to the dense curtain on her side, her eyes narrowed slightly for a moment, and then she breathed a long sigh of relief, and turned her eyes to look at Xi Chu Yue Ling with a smile: "I heard that you took Xiao Wu to your palace a few days ago?" β
Xichu Yue Ling couldn't deny, "The Fifth Emperor Sister is the younger sister of my mother's compatriots, now that the master of Gao Chen Palace is sick, I don't have much energy to take care of her, and those waiters in Gao Chen Palace are always clumsy, as the eldest sister, I naturally have this need to take the Fifth Emperor Sister to my palace to take care of her personally." β
"Oh, what a sister." Xichu Lu Ning turned around and faced Xichu Yueling, his eyes narrowed slightly, "You mother and daughter, if you really only move out of some kind of sisterhood and other dramas, if you really feel sorry for your sister, why don't you just give her the throne?" β
Xichu Yueling held the teacup and saw Xichu Lu Ning looking at her condescendingly: "This king doesn't know what you have found, and what tricks you and those two Da Liang people are doing, in short, you have to tell the prince Ming Xiu, don't worry about my Xichu's idle affairs, be careful of causing trouble." β
When the words fell, Xi Chu Lu Ning left a meaningful smile, that is, he turned around and left, Xi Chu Yue Ling sat in place, frowning, this stall, Chu Nian and Ming Xiu lifted the curtain and walked out.
Chu Nian looked at the back of Xi Chu Lu Ning, and her willow eyebrows were twisted, "She seems to already know...... Sooner or later, though. β
As she spoke, she turned her eyes to look at Xi Chu Yueling again, "Also, what did she mean by what she just said?" What did you find that scared her so much? Do you mean Mr. Liang? β
Xi Chu Yueling's face turned pale, she shook her head lightly and said, "I'm afraid it's more than that, Mr. Liang should ......"
"Liang does know something." Mr. Liang groped his way out from behind the curtain and touched a chair on the side, he sat down calmly and breathed a long sigh of relief, "You guys...... Can you take me to meet the Empress? I won't do anything out of the ordinary, I just want to talk to her about some old things, some misunderstandings, after all, to be solved. β