Shen Ningyuan's hand tightened, "Grandma, what did you say?"
Empress Dowager Cui said sternly, "Grandma is doing this for your own good. Your mother-in-law is greedy and narrow-minded. She's obviously not a good person!"
"If you marry into such a family, you are destined to have a bad ending!" Queen Mother Cui emphasized again.
Seeing her tough attitude, Shen Ningyuan had no choice but to agree, “Grandma, I understand.”
"It's useless to just know. You have to remember it."
"By the way, where's your mother? I sent the Shen family an invitation for a palace banquet today, specifically asking her to come to the palace. Why didn't she come?"
"Grandma, you don't know, my cousin is injured and her condition is very serious. Mother is worried about her, so she stays at home with her."
Queen Mother Cui was stunned again. "Your mother actually cares so much about Cui Mingzhu?"
Shen Ningyuan nodded, “Mother regards my cousin as her life.”
Queen Mother Cui remained silent.
After a long while, he said meaningfully, "Your mother values friendship, and your uncle died because of her. She treated Cui Mingzhu with special favor, and she is also being cleaned up."
Although her tone was calm, Shen Ningyuan still sensed from Queen Mother Cui's tone that she disliked Cui Mingzhu and her uncle.
Shen Ningyuan didn't want to delve into it, so she changed the subject and said, "Grandma, there's something I know I shouldn't ask, but I still want to understand."
Queen Mother Cui smiled and said, "You know you shouldn't ask, but you still want to ask, right?"
Shen Ningyuan nodded and waited quietly for Queen Mother Cui to speak.
After a moment, Queen Mother Cui gave up helplessly and said, "Just ask whatever you want to ask."
"Grandma, what kind of conflict is there between you and my mother that has caused you and your niece to remain silent for decades?"
Shen Ningyuan got straight to the point.
Queen Mother Cui raised her eyebrows, "I knew you would ask this!"
Shen Ningyuan blinked.
Seeing this, Empress Dowager Cui sighed twice and said quietly, "It's not a big deal. Back then, when your mother was still unmarried, I wanted her to enter the palace and become my daughter-in-law, but she refused to marry. She would rather marry a rough man than the emperor who was still the crown prince at the time."
Shen Ningyuan: "..."
Seeing that Shen Ningyuan was silent, Queen Mother Cui asked as a matter of course, "Do you think I should be angry?"
Shen Ningyuan choked and said, "I should be angry, but——"
Before he could finish, he was interrupted by Queen Mother Cui.
"It's really infuriating, isn't it?" Queen Mother Cui grumbled mid-sentence. "What's wrong with my son? He's proficient in both civil and military strategy, so how can he be inferior to that reckless man, your father?"
Shen Ningyuan: "..."
Seeing Queen Mother Cui so angry, Shen Ningyuan didn't know how to respond for a moment.
She could never have imagined that her parents actually owed her such an emotional debt.
But then again, there was one thing that Shen Ningyuan was very curious about.
How bad was my father back then that the empress dowager, who had been in power for many years, was so resentful about him.
"Why don't you speak?" Queen Mother Cui looked at Shen Ningyuan in surprise, "Didn't you hear what I said clearly?"
"Well..." Shen Ningyuan hesitated for a moment and said, "The Queen Mother is right. My mother is indeed a little ungrateful."
Forget it, she is the queen mother and an elder.
You still have to coax her when you need to.
Sure enough, after Shen Ningyuan finished speaking, Queen Mother Cui's face instantly lit up with joy.
He immediately asked, "Really? Even you think your mother doesn't know what's good for her, right?"
"……right."
With a knife at her neck, does she dare to say "no"?
Shen Ningyuan was speechless.
I can only say to Cui Jin silently in my heart: I'm sorry, mother...
After receiving Shen Ningyuan's recognition, Queen Mother Cui was as happy as if she had eaten honey, and a happy smile appeared on her face.
It can be seen that she has never let go of this matter and has been brooding over it for so many years.
When Shen Ningyuan was leaving, Empress Dowager Cui specifically instructed her, "Go back and tell your mother that if she doesn't come to the vegetarian banquet in a few days, I will really disown her as my niece!"
An angry tone.
But expressed the greatest concession.
Shen Ningyuan looked at Queen Mother Cui deeply, and she could see the desire in her eyes clearly.
I didn't expect that Empress Dowager Cui cared about my mother to this extent.
I think over the years, she must have been looking for an opportunity to reconcile with her mother.
"Okay, I will definitely tell my mother what my great aunt said."
After saying that, he added jokingly, "If mother still doesn't want to come, I will tie her up and bring her here."
These words made Queen Mother Cui happy.
But the next second, he scolded her seriously, "You kid, you keep saying these disrespectful words!"
"Okay, it's getting late, you should go back early."
Chen Ningyuan walked out of the Cining Palace and when passing through the Imperial Garden, a thin figure in moon-white blocked the way out of the palace.
When Shen Ningyuan looked over carefully, the man gave her a strange look and turned away without looking back.
Not long after, he disappeared from Shen Ningyuan's sight.
Shen Ningyuan panicked and immediately chased in the direction the other party left.
Her intuition told her that this was the person she had been looking for!
Thinking of this, Shen Ningyuan sped up.
But at the next corner, he ran into a dark blue figure head-on.
The man saw Shen Ningyuan clearly, faltered for a moment, and after making sure she was standing firmly, he took two steps back, keeping a certain distance.
"Miss Shen?" Ling Qing asked doubtfully, "Aren't you in the Cining Palace? Why are you here?"
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