Chapter Twenty-Eight: Courage to Face It

He Xiaoxiao took out the hairpin given by Xie Zhaoyi on the spot and put it on his head, and returned to the Queen Mother to show off.

"Grandmother, do you think I look good in it?"

"It's good-looking, and everything looks good." The Queen Mother looked at He Xiaoxiao lovingly and said.

The four of them talked and laughed, and Shangguan Mama came in to report, saying that the second prince had come to greet the Queen Mother.

He Xiaoxiao, who was sitting beside the Queen Mother, was stunned when she heard this, and the Queen Mother took her hand and patted it gently.

"Jue'er is also filial." The Queen Mother rushed to the official grandmother's head.

After a while, Shangguan Mama led Zhong Lijue in.

He Xiaoxiao, who was holding the arm of the Queen Mother, tilted his head slightly to look at him, and the young man who followed Shangguan Mama walked in with a smile, with clear eyebrows and yellow sunshine behind him, not at all like the second prince who cut his throat with scarlet eyes in his previous life.

"Grandson greets the imperial grandmother." Zhong Lijue didn't look at He Xiaoxiao after he came in. "I've seen my aunt, I've seen Xie Zhaoyi."

"I've seen His Royal Highness." Xie Zhaoyi got up and returned the salute.

Seeing this, the eldest princess of Chengguo glanced at He Xiaoxiao, and He Xiaoxiao got up consciously.

"Xiaoxiao has seen His Royal Highness."

He Xiaoxiao bowed her head and bowed her head, and before she could raise her head, she saw a pair of hands appear in front of her eyes and hold her arm.

"No need to be polite, Xiaoxiao gets up."

She got up and raised her head to look at Zhong Lijue.

At this time, He Xiaoxiao's eyes did not dodge at all, and there was no longer the fear and cringe in his eyes that he had faced him in the past.

The moment they looked at each other, Zhong Lijue wanted to speak, but looking at He Xiaoxiao's bland eyes, his thoughts suddenly became blank.

He Xiaoxiao smiled, withdrew his arm and sat down on the side of the Queen Mother.

When the eldest princess of Chengguo and He Xiaoxiao left Yongshou Palace, Zhong Lijue finally chased them out.

"Mother, I have a few words with Your Second Highness." He Xiaoxiao looked at Zhong Lijue calmly, turned his head sideways and said to the eldest princess of Chengguo.

"Okay, I'll go back to the carriage and wait for you first." The eldest princess of Chengguo pretended to be casual and turned away. "Tanyin will go with me, and Rongyin will stay with Xiaoxiao."

Tan Yin left behind the eldest princess of Chengguo, and looked back again and again with anxiety.

Waiting for the eldest princess of Chengguo and her party to go away.

"What did His Royal Highness do when he chased him out?" He Xiaoxiao asked. "Duchess Fang Guo should have told His Royal Highness and Concubine Duan about Liao Qing today, and I am not afraid to say that His Royal Highness knows that Liao Qing was indeed injured by me."

"Why are you angry?" Zhong Lijue stared at He Xiaoxiao's eyes. "Obviously, you hated her very much when you were young, and felt that Cheng Enhou had a bad relationship with her aunt because of her mother, and loved her more than you."

He Xiaoxiao couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Zhong Lijue's words.

Yes, in her previous life, she had always looked down on He Yun, no matter how good He Yun was to her, she only thought that He Yun was just pretending to be a good sister in front of her father.

If he hadn't been reborn when he was seven years old, maybe he would still be disgusted with He Yun.

"Why did Your Highness use me as a raft." He Xiaoxiao quickly reacted and sneered. "You asked Liao Qing to attack my eldest sister twice, but you didn't want His Highness to have more powerful Yue families. Poor Liao Qing has been helping you again and again, and she is still bent on marrying you. If you want to marry me, it's just an expedient measure, the two daughters are married to the prince of the dynasty, in order not to let the imperial uncle be jealous of the Chengenhou Mansion, my father can't do anything. ”

"The reason why I married you may not be simple, but I am happy with you, but it is not a lie to you." Zhong Lijue poked at the center of He Xiaoxiao's words as if he was thinking, and he grabbed He Xiaoxiao's slender wrist and pulled her closer to him.

Seeing this, Rong Yin immediately made a move, picked off Zhong Lijue's wrist, and protected He Xiaoxiao behind him with just a flick and a block.

"Lie or truth." He Xiaoxiao looked at Zhong Lijue expressionlessly. "I only know that I have no intention of the Second Highness, my father and mother already know what Liao Qing has done, if the Second Highness is still unwilling to stop, the Chengenhou Mansion and the eldest princess of Chengguo can still do it if they want to cause some trouble to the Second Highness."

After speaking, without waiting for Zhong Lijue's reaction, He Xiaoxiao turned around and left directly.

Zhong Lijue stood in place in a daze, and did not continue to chase after him.

When the carriage arrived at the gate of the Chengenhou Mansion, the eldest princess of Chengguo was helped out of the carriage by Pale Red.

"Why haven't you come down yet?" Looking back, seeing He Xiaoxiao still sitting in the carriage, the eldest princess of Chengguo asked suspiciously.

"Since I've gone out today, I'll just go to Fangguo Mansion again and finish the matter over there completely." He Xiaoxiao replied with a smile. "The things that Aunt Li provoked must be dealt with, so that she is not afraid of affecting the future of her eldest brother in the future."

"Okay, anyway, if you bring Rongyin, I'm relieved." The eldest princess of Chengguo sighed. "Remember to come back sooner."

Hearing that the maid came to report that He Xiaoxiao was coming, the Duchess of Fang Guo, who was originally lying on the bed resting, almost fell off the bed in shock.

"Did she say anything?" Duchess Fang Guo sat down steadily, and then reluctantly opened her mouth to ask the maid.

"Second Miss He only said that she came to visit Miss's injury, and also said that she knew that the third young master was about to discuss marriage, so she came to congratulate her." The maid felt that He Xiaoxiao's words were not right, but when Duchess Fang Guo asked, she also honestly relayed He Xiaoxiao's words.

After hearing this, Duchess Fang Guo only felt that the world was spinning for a while, and she stroked her forehead and said for a long time.

"Let someone take her to Miss."

Not long after the maid left, Duchess Fang Guo asked the maids to help her up.

"Help me up." Duchess Fang Guo still couldn't rest assured after thinking about it.

Liao Qing's bruises are recuperating at home, and the wounds on his forehead are always painful.

She lay on the bed and turned over, but when she raised her eyes, she saw He Xiaoxiao, who was dressed in scarlet, standing at the head of her bed at some point, shivering in fright, raising her hand to hold the bedpost and sitting up tremblingly.

"How are you?" Liao Qing watched the maids in her courtyard all stopped outside the house by a lean, tall woman, and then looked at He Xiaoxiao who was smiling, only to feel a chill down her spine, and she unconsciously moved her body to the inside of the bed to get away from He Xiaoxiao. "What are you going to do to me?"

"I'm just here to visit the sick." He Xiaoxiao sat down on the edge of the bed by himself, raised his eyebrows at Liao Qing and smiled. "By the way, I just asked Sister Liao to get some things."

Liao Qing thought of He Xiaoxiao, who pushed him downstairs that day, and was so frightened that she trembled, and honestly got out of bed and found out Aunt Li's slip of Yinzi money, Zi and the confessions of those families and handed them to He Xiaoxiao.

He Xiaoxiao took it with a smile and looked at it a few times, and with satisfaction handed it to Tanyin on his side to put it away.

"By the way, I heard that the third prince of the house is going to discuss marriage with the third lady of the Ministry of Rites?" He Xiaoxiao got up and wanted to leave, as if he had thought of something, he suddenly turned back and asked.

Liao Qing nodded hurriedly.

"Miss Shen Er of the Ministry of Rites and my sister are good friends, and I have known her sisters since childhood." He Xiaoxiao rolled his eyes and said. "Change the family and bring it to the scourge, otherwise don't blame me for going to the house of the waiter of the Ministry of Rites to talk nonsense."

He Xiaoxiao went out and happened to meet the Duchess Fang Guo who was supported by the maid and walked over.

"I'll go first." He Xiaoxiao glanced back at Liao Qing, who was slumped on the bed. "I've already told Sister Liao what I want to say just now, and after Duchess Fang asked her, do as I say."