The Empress of Tea

Empress Ming, Empress Xiaochunxian, of the Gu'erjia clan, from the Manchu Plain White Banner, younger brother is Grand Scholar Gu'erjia Jiahuan. When Shizong Yongzheng was a prince, she gav...

Chapter 163 Begins with Greetings (Part 3)

But Hesheli was unhappy. "Hmph, I'll let you be happy for a while. Later, you'll have your day of tears."

Both of them were pretending. Hesheli spoke gently to Jiaming, while Jiaming spoke to him very "honestly".

Whenever Hesheli felt frustrated by Jiaming's "honesty," she would silently comfort herself: This Guarjia clan has fallen into the trap and let their guard down. The frustration I am suffering now will soon be returned to them tenfold or a hundredfold. So, I must endure it!

Jiaming, on the other hand, was using "honesty" to gradually reap interest, while also playing along to see what Hesheli was really up to.

Just as the two sides were exchanging pleasantries, while Song, Li, and others watched anxiously, worried that Hesheli would give up on taking action against Jiaming, the Fujin arrived.

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The Fujin looked at the scene of Hesheli and Guarjia enjoying themselves, but she was not anxious. She glanced at Song and the others and sneered inwardly, "How stupid. They didn't even realize that Hesheli was doing this on purpose."

However, whether it's foolish or not, the backyard of the Fourth Prince's mansion is more peaceful, making it harder for Honghui to be schemed against, and thus safer.

Of course, the Uya clan is an exception.

The Fujin glanced coldly at Wuya, then noticed Li's thoughtful look, and her eyes sharpened.

It seems I should take back what I just said. Li Shi isn't stupid; her brain hasn't disappeared along with her power.

However, she didn't care what was happening down there!

The princess leisurely sipped her tea, her ears perked up, listening to the women in the hall bickering.

Jiaming noticed that the Fujin was looking at her like she was a monkey, but she didn't care at all and continued to act with Hesheli.

At this point, Song and the others realized that the Hesheli clan had no intention of taking action against the Guarjia clan.

After paying her respects, Jiaming carried Xiao Hongxuan back home.

On the way back, Hesheli chatted with Jiaming for a few more minutes before leaving without bothering her.

If Jiaming hadn't sensed her malice beforehand, she probably would have been misled by the other woman's distant yet gentle conversation and thought she was harmless.

However, Jiaming didn't believe it, but some people actually did.

Back at Peach Courtyard, as Hongtao helped Jiaming remove her fox fur cloak and hang it up, she sighed to Jiaming, who was unwrapping the tightly wrapped swaddling clothes of little Hongxuan, "Master, it seems we misunderstood."

"Huh?" Jiaming looked at Hongtao, puzzled. Had they misunderstood something?

"Consort Hesheli is so kind to you and the young prince, she doesn't seem like she's going to harm you."

Jiaming looked at the innocent Hongtao in disbelief and said speechlessly, "Hongtao, you're too naive. Don't you know there's an idiom called 'two-faced'?"

Hongtao understood Jiaming's words and was instantly stunned.

Does the mistress mean that she was deceived by Consort Hesheli's kind appearance?

Sure enough, the next moment, she heard her master say to her earnestly, "Hongtao, you are my personal maid, so you can't be careless at this crucial moment!"

Looking back now, I think that Heseri's actions were probably intended to make me lower my guard like you did, and think she posed no threat.

Hongtao was instantly terrified. "My God, this concubine has such a sinister intention."

It is said that prolonged defense will inevitably lead to defeat. Knowing that the Hesheli clan was not easy to deal with, Taoyuan's defenses became even more stringent on the outside but relaxed on the inside, because Jiaming planned to launch a Silver Serpent attack.

Then, they dealt a heavy blow to Hesheli, hurting her so badly that she would never dare to reach out to Taoyuan again.

But to everyone's surprise, Hesheli was not fooled.

For more than half a month, this concubine played the role of a gentle and kind woman in front of Jiaming and Xiao Hongxuan. However, because of her conflict with Lady Li, the smile on her face would disappear in front of Lady Li and the Third Prince Hongshi.

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This doesn't look like they're plotting against Jiaming at all. It's as if the "rumors" from half a month ago were just rumors, and the malice Jiaming felt back then was just an illusion.

However, having experienced the apocalypse, Jiaming has even more faith in herself and doesn't think she's just imagining things!

Even if she passively waits and Jiaming doesn't like it, what can she do if Hesheli just doesn't seize the opportunity to make a move?

Days passed, and a month had gone by since Hesheli's attitude changed and she became kind to her.

After waking up in the morning and having breakfast, Jiaming took Xiaohongxuan out for a walk to digest their food.

But today, the little guy behaved differently. He was babbling away and pointing his chubby little finger directly at the gate of Peach Garden.

Jiaming stared at Xiao Hongxuan, who was looking at her with his bright, clear eyes, but she gave in after only a few seconds.

"Alright, Mother will take you out for a stroll."

However, despite saying that, Jiaming didn't immediately take Xiao Hongxuan out. Instead, she called Lvliu and Xiao Hezi to go with her. Of course, she also needed to bring more items, such as a cloak, blankets, swaddling clothes, and baby pants.

So, quite by chance, when Jiaming took Xiao Hongxuan to the flower room to look at the flowers, they ran into Li Shi, who happened to be there carrying Prince Hongshi.

Since the two brothers are only a month apart in age, they waved their little hands and started babbling to each other when they saw someone their own age.

Li Shi actually shared the same view as the Fujin: the infighting among the women in the inner quarters should not affect the children.

Because both the reborn Fujin (wife of the deceased prince) and the transmigrated Li Shi (wife of the deceased prince) knew that the Fourth Prince valued offspring and brotherly affection.

Besides, the children are so young. The attitude of the mothers will inevitably influence the attitude of the children who live with them for a long time.

Therefore, before they learn to hide or conceal things from their children, they must be very magnanimous and virtuous, so that their fathers don't think they have taught their children bad things, or that their children are not respectful to their brothers, thus giving them a bad impression.

Therefore, Lady Li was happy about Hongshi's struggle to play with the Fourth Prince Hongxuan.

As for Jiaming, she didn't think that much about it. As long as Li didn't have any bad intentions, she was happy to let her son play with the Third Prince, the First Prince, and others.

So, they had Hongtao lay a thick cloak and blanket on the floor of the flower room and put Xiao Hongxuan on it.

Li also placed Xiao Hongshi there, and the two little children were finally able to hold hands and have close contact.

The meeting between the two brothers was quite lively. After exchanging words in baby talk, the two brothers stretched out their little hands and kicked their little legs back and forth, always blocking each other's way.

Of course, there are also heavyweight friendly activities, where you use your body to press down on me, and I use my body to press down on you.

Unfortunately, Hongshi, who was born a month earlier, was not as robust as Hongxuan and was always the one who was pushed down.

Even though Hongshi was bullied by Hongxuan, Li Shi was not angry.