Chapter 385 Apology

In the following days, Bai Shuang learned from the palace maid who was delivering messages outside the palace gate that Princess Pingling had been trying to find out about Xiao Li's preferences these days, saying that since the two were already engaged, it would be better to get to know each other first.

The marriage between the two was granted, which was considered to be open. Although Princess Pingling's action was bold, no one would say anything. As for whether she could find out anything, it was unknown.

"It's an illusion, it must be an illusion!" Lin Zhuyu handed the tea to Su Ying and said with certainty.

Bai Shuang glanced at her. Ever since the Queen gave her an extra chicken leg last time, she has been looking at everyone as if they were a thief.

"The Emperor has already granted the marriage, so it's a done deal. They don't really want to disobey his order, do they?"

"I don't know whether she disobeyed the imperial order or not, but Princess Pingling definitely didn't mean it. If someone could find out about it, she must have done it to show off to others!"

Su Ying paused while drinking tea and looked at Lin Zhuyu with approval, "Lin Zhuyu, you are good."

Lin Zhuyu raised her increasingly round chin and said, "The Queen has educated me well."

Bai Shuang expressed disdain for Lin Zhuyu's flattery, "Is this Princess Pingling going to do something weird again?"

"Something strange must be going on. What do you think she will do to avoid marrying the Third Prince?"

Both of them frowned after hearing this. What else could they do except disobey the order?

"Your servant greets Her Majesty the Queen." As she spoke, the palace maid who delivered the message arrived outside the door.

"Come in and talk."

After the maid entered the room, she bowed and said, "Your Majesty, someone from the temporary palace just came over to tell us that Princess Pingling will hold a tea party at the temporary palace tomorrow. Would Your Majesty be willing to go over?"

"Besides inviting me, who else?"

"I don't know either."

"When you return, tell them that I will be there on time."

The maid responded and then retreated.

Su Ying glanced at the two of them and said with a smile: "Look, something strange is happening now."

"I will accompany the Queen tomorrow." Lin Zhuyu rubbed her hands together, ready to do something big.

"good."

Princess Pingling's tea-tasting party was called a party, but in fact only Su Ying was invited.

After Su Ying arrived at the palace, Princess Pingling and Prince Yu went to the palace gate to greet her in person, and directly welcomed Su Ying to the main seat in the main hall of the palace.

Princess Pingling took the teacup from the maid and came to Su Ying, bowed, and said sincerely: "Xiulin was ignorant before and offended the Queen. Today, Xiulin would like to take this opportunity to apologize to the Queen. If the Queen is unhappy and punishes Xiulin, Xiulin will have no complaints."

As she spoke, she lowered her head and offered the tea in her hand with a very respectful attitude.

Su Ying did not embarrass her. She directly reached out and took the teacup from her hand and placed it on the tea table. "I accept this apology."

Princess Pingling stood up and smiled when she heard that. She looked extremely harmless, especially her pair of round eyes, which made her look like an innocent rabbit.

After she sat down below Su Ying, she asked the maid to bring some snacks.

At first glance, these snacks seem a little different from what Su Ying had eaten before.

"Your Majesty, these snacks are made by the royal chef of our Nanlin Kingdom. They are very southern in style. I wonder if Your Majesty like them." Princess Pingling said as she picked up a piece of snack and took a bite. She didn't look like she was eating but rather testing Su Ying for poison.

Compared with meat, Su Ying actually didn’t have such a strong interest in sweet snacks. She just took the quick cheese and sniffed it.

“Hmm!”

Princess Pingling suddenly covered her stomach with a look of pain, and the snack in her hand rolled to the ground.

When Lin Zhuyu saw this situation, she felt that something interesting was about to happen, so she immediately stopped Su Ying.

Su Ying's entire vision was blocked by her. She pressed her brows and pulled Lin Zhuyu aside, "Calm down."

Upon hearing the noise, the maids rushed forward to check on Princess Pingling.

"Princess, what's wrong with you?"

"My, my stomach, my stomach hurts so much..."

"The servants will help the princess into the house first."

Two maids came forward and helped Princess Pingling into the inner hall.

Su Ying glanced and saw a drop of bright red blood dripping on the ground.

"She wouldn't want to wrongly accuse the Queen of poisoning her, right? How abominable! Queen, don't worry, I will argue with you and will never let you be slandered by her!"

"Let's go in and take a look." Su Ying retracted her gaze, stood up and followed him into the inner hall.

Princess Pingling lay on the bed, curled up in pain, her face much paler than before.

"I know a little bit about medicine, so let me take a look at the princess."

Princess Pingling nodded, "Then I'll have to trouble the Queen."

As she spoke, she stretched out her hand to take Su Ying's pulse.

After checking her pulse, Su Ying glanced at her calmly and said, "Princess, there is nothing wrong. It's just your period. Just have a good rest."

Princess Pingling blushed when she heard Su Ying say that. "Really... How come it came earlier this month? I didn't expect it. I'm sorry that the Queen laughed at me. Please wait in the outer hall for a while. Xiulin will come out after a little rest and continue to drink tea with the Queen."

After making sure that Princess Pingling was fine, Su Ying left the inner hall and sat back in her chair.

Not long after she sat down, King Yu came over.

"My Queen, how is the princess doing?"

"Nothing serious."

Prince Yu heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that. "I'm glad you're okay. The princess has been weak since she was young. She was sick every other day and that made father very worried. She got better when she grew up." As he spoke, he sat down on the chair.

"I have some questions that I would like to ask the Queen. I wonder if the Queen can help me solve them?"

Su Ying raised her eyebrows, "What does King Yu want to know?"

Prince Yu said: "Since I have seen the Queen's kung fu, I have been in awe of her. I wonder where she learned from?"

“Self-taught.”

King Yu: “…” He felt humiliated!

"The Queen is truly a martial arts prodigy. Her moves are so flawless that no one can detect any flaws..."

Su Ying listened to his endless words and answered him incoherently. She looked outside the hall and saw that the sun had already set.

Su Ying gently placed the teacup on the table and slowly stood up.

The moment she stood up, King Yu also stood up subconsciously.

"Your Majesty, are you hungry? Why don't you have dinner with the princess in the palace tonight before going back?"

Su Ying glanced towards the inner hall. Princess Pingling had not come out since a while ago. The palace maid only said that she was too weak and had fallen asleep, so she naturally could not disturb her.

"Okay, where is the clean room?"

Prince Yu saw that she just wanted to go to the purification room, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "Come here, take the queen to the purification room."

(End of this chapter)