"Haha! Thank you, Your Majesty, and Your Highness, the Crown Prince, for your care. I'm here on the King's orders to discuss something with Dacheng."
At palace banquets, it was mostly Jing Kangshan who talked with Emperor Xuan and Yuan Cheng.
"I heard that the Nanyue delegation will be fully established soon. We, the Northern Qiang, are far away from Nanyue and rarely have contact with us." When Jing Kangshan mentioned Nanyue, the ministers at the table all focused their attention.
"If Your Majesty does not mind, we would like to stay a little longer so that we can get to know our friends in South Vietnam better."
Emperor Xuan smiled and raised his glass, "Of course I don't mind."
Jing Kangshan laughed loudly, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"
After drinking a glass of wine, he seemed to think of something, "I heard that South Vietnam has sent a saint girl, wanting to marry Dacheng..."
Yuan Cheng's hand paused slightly, and then he heard Jing Kangshan say loudly, "Speaking of which, before leaving, our king also told me that the position of Queen of Northern Qiang is vacant. If Dacheng is interested, then..."
"Ah..." Jing Kangshan was halfway through his words when a low cry from the corner gate interrupted him.
Everyone looked back and saw that a palace maid on the steps at the corner gate had lost her balance and spilled the hot tea in her hand.
At this time, Yuan Zhao just walked up the stairs, followed by Helian Shi.
The people around didn't have time to pay attention to why Yuan Zhao came back with Helian Shi, because the steaming tea was about to spill directly on Yuan Zhao.
"Your Highness!"
Yuan Zhao subconsciously wanted to step back, but there was a long staircase behind her. The hem of her skirt was already a bit cumbersome, and she would fall down if she wasn't careful.
Yuan Cheng was about to take a step forward, but someone got there first.
Yuan Zhao felt a strong force holding his waist, and the scalding hot tea did not spill on him as expected.
She looked at the face that was enlarged in front of her, and the next moment, she lost control of her feet.
Helian Shi held her waist with one hand and protected her head with the other, and the two of them rolled down the stairs.
It all happened extremely quickly, in just a few breaths.
By the time the people in the hall reacted, Yuan Zhao and Helian Shi were already lying on the steps.
Yuan Zhao felt a pain in her back, but she had no time to take care of herself.
Looking at Helian Shi who was very close to her, Helian Shi was still holding her, and he groaned in pain as if he had rolled down the stairs.
"Are you okay?" Yuan Zhao was a little panicked when he saw the pain in his face.
Helian Shi shook his head and gave a pale smile, but he couldn't say a word.
A group of people rushed towards the corner gate in chaos.
Yuancheng is the fastest, followed by Jingkangshan.
"Zhao Zhao!"
Helian Shi let go of Yuan Zhao at the right moment. Yuan Cheng helped Yuan Zhao up first, looked him up and down, and asked, "How is it? Where are you hurt?"
Jing Kangshan ran to Helian Shi with a bloated body, his face full of fear, "Oh my... God!"
Yuan Zhao waved her hand towards Yuan Cheng. She was just feeling some pain, but most of it was blocked by Helian Shi. "I'm fine. Please ask the imperial physician to see Master Helian."
The hot tea must have spilled on Helian Shi, and he protected her tightly when she rolled down the stairs, so she must have been seriously injured.
Emperor Xuan and Concubine Shu also came over. Yuan Heng saw Yuan Zhao lying on the ground and wanted to take a step forward, but stopped.
Several children surrounded Yuan Zhao. Yuan Qi Yu was frightened and began to wipe away tears.
"Go and call the imperial physician!" said Emperor Xuan.
When Jing Kangshan helped Helian up, he kept saying, "Your health is not good... Oh... This... What should I do?"
Seeing his father almost lost for words, Jing Yang stepped forward and said, "Father, please help big brother to rest and ask the imperial physician to take a look."
"There is a place to rest in the side hall. Young Master Helian, please go to the side hall." Concubine Shu stepped forward.
Helian Shi nodded and walked to the side hall with the help of Jing Kangshan.
When he passed by Yuan Zhao, he paused slightly but said nothing.
Yuan Cheng ignored Helian Shi and asked Yuan Zhao with concern, "Zhao Zhao, you should also go see the imperial physician."
Yuan Zhao shook his head and looked at the palace maid kneeling beside him.
Emperor Xuan frowned and looked at Yuan Zhao first and asked, "What's going on?"
Yuan Zhao looked at the palace maid and said calmly, "Perhaps the steps were unstable, so the palace maid knocked over the teacup."
The maid trembled and kowtowed repeatedly to apologize, "Your Majesty, please forgive me! Your Highness, please forgive me! I was walking unsteadily and somehow stepped on a stone, which caused the teacup to fall over!"
Yuan Cheng said coldly, "The steps in front of this hall are swept every day, so how could there be stones?"
Emperor Xuan looked aside, Zheng Lu understood what he meant, turned around and waved his hand, then led his men to search up and down the stairs.
The ministers around looked on and exchanged glances with each other.
This matter is neither big nor small.
Fortunately, the one injured on the other side was only a sick young man, so it should be no big deal.
After a while, Zheng Lu came back and handed over a pebble the size of a fingernail.
"Your Majesty, this was found on the steps."
Emperor Xuan lowered his head to take a look, and Zheng Lu showed it to Yuan Cheng and Yuan Zhao.
Yuan Cheng picked up the stone, which was a very common pebble in the palace.
This stone is ordinary, and it is difficult to find out whether it was intentional.
But the palace maid did not lie, and Emperor Xuan just said that the affairs of the inner palace should be left to Concubine Shu, and then he would go to the side hall to visit Helian Shi in person.
Yuan Zhao took the stone from Yuan Cheng, touched it in his palm, and noticed that the stone seemed to be still a little wet.
It looks like it should be somewhere with water.
But there is no water near the palace where the delegation is being hosted today, and it has not rained recently.
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