Chapter 302: Testing
Before Liu Yuetang had time to take a closer look at her, the child in her arms opened his arms towards the queen, twisting his little body and making soft "baby" sounds, trying to jump into the queen's arms.
Liu Yuetang felt a sudden pain in her heart, feeling extremely sour and bitter.
Seeing this, the Queen reached out and took Xiyue in, smiling and saying, "This child has been a crybaby since she was little. I've been by her side day and night for the past few months, so she's become incredibly attached to me."
"I see that my sister really likes children. Please come to Weiyang Palace more often in the future. Perhaps the princess will let you hold one."
When Liu Yuetang heard this, the bitterness in her heart gradually faded away.
Now that Yue'er is so attached to the Queen, it shows how much the Queen cares about her.
She nodded in response: "Okay."
As soon as Liu Yuetang finished speaking, Xiyue smiled at her.
This smile seemed to comfort her, making Liu Yuetang's heart soften and she almost couldn't hold back the tears in her eyes.
Meanwhile, Su Nanqing quickly walked to a deserted place, grabbed Taxue's wrist with one hand, and covered her heaving chest with the other, saying, "Taxue, how can there be two people in the world who look so similar? She is Liu Yuetang, she must be Liu Yuetang!"
Taxue was gripped so hard by her that it hurt, but she didn't dare to struggle. She only lowered her voice and advised, "My lady, please don't panic. We have all seen the body of Concubine Xi. How could she be Concubine Jing?"
"Furthermore, Imperial Concubine Jing doesn't have a mole under her eye, and her temper is more impatient than Imperial Concubine Xi. Even if the person who died that day wasn't Imperial Concubine Xi, she couldn't have become the Princess of Lanyue Country. Not just anyone can pretend to be the Princess of Lanyue Country."
Su Nanqing's rapid breathing gradually calmed down.
Yes. Not just anyone can impersonate the Princess of Lanyue Country.
Even if the person who died that day was not Liu Yuetang, she would not have been able to escape to Lanyue Kingdom and become the princess of Lanyue Kingdom.
Besides, it was she who set fire to Liu Yuetang that night.
The entire Yaoyue Palace collapsed into ashes, and Liu Yuetang was burned all over.
How could it be her?
"Yes! Impossible, impossible!"
Su Nanqing looked around in horror with a distracted look in her eyes. The lanterns on the palace wall were swaying in the wind, and the light and shadow cast distorted shadows on the vermilion beams and pillars, which looked like the afterimages of the struggle in the fire that night.
"Ah!" Su Nanqing waved his hands and sat down on the ground.
The palpitations that she had just suppressed with great difficulty came back again, like an invisible hand grasping her heart and squeezing it to death.
"Young Master... Young Master..."
Su Nanqing grabbed Taxue's wrist, the fear in her eyes like spilled ink, making her face dizzy. "Taxue! Do you think her soul may have flown into the body of Concubine Jing? Is she coming back to seek revenge on me?"
Taxue was so frightened that he quickly looked around. When he found that the surroundings were quiet and there was no one around, he felt relieved. He stroked Su Nanqing's shoulder and said, "My lady, you are getting more and more outrageous. There is no such thing as spirit possession in this world."
"If that were true, Aunt Lan and the Fourth Prince would have returned to seek revenge."
Hearing about the concubine and the child, Su Nanqing's frightened eyes gradually changed. Then she heard Taxue say, "My lady, not to mention that what you said is ridiculous, even if it is really the spirit of Concubine Xi who has returned, so what? She is only Concubine Jing now. She has no evidence. She can't do anything to you."
After hearing what Taxue said, Su Nanqing gradually calmed down and steadied his breathing: "That's right, so what if it was her."
If she could kill her the first time, she could kill her the second time.
What she hated most in her life was deception, but it happened that the sister she trusted the most deceived her! She deceived their feelings.
She slowly stood up, holding onto Taxue's hand, straightened her skirt, and her eyes lit up with ruthlessness again: "I want to test whether she is Liu Yuetang or Zongzheng Qianyin."
"My dear, you want to..."
Su Nanqing looked at the palace road ahead: "The road ahead is the only way to get back to Changle Palace from Weiyang Palace. If she is really Liu Yuetang, the murderous intent and flaws in her eyes will be hard to hide when she sees me."
As she spoke, she lifted her foot and walked forward.
As they were walking, they suddenly heard the sound of imperial bells coming from the front. Su Nanqing looked up and saw Liu Yuetang slowly coming towards them in a sedan chair.
The sedan chair was covered with apricot-yellow satin embroidered with a pattern of winding crabapple branches, with silver bells hanging from the four corners. The eight eunuchs carrying the sedan chair walked steadily.
His whole body's style and majesty are even greater than Liu Yuetang's.
Su Nanqing hurried forward, knelt and saluted, her voice respectful and impeccable: "Your Majesty, your Majesty, greets you."
However, she waited for a long time, but the person in the sedan chair did not respond.
Just as she was about to look up, the curtain of the sedan chair was gently lifted by a white hand, revealing half of a beautiful face.
Liu Yuetang was just leaning on the soft couch in the sedan, his eyes falling from above, right on Su Nanqing's head, with a bit of the indifference of a superior, but as if holding a hook, he slowly swept over the gold ornaments on her temples, her drooping eyebrows, and finally stopped at her slightly trembling fingertips.
"Which palace are you from?"
Her voice floated down from the sedan chair with a lazy tone.
Su Nanqing's voice was soft and sticky: "Your Highness, I am Rou Jieyu of Zhongcui Palace."
"Oh, Rou Jieyu, what's the matter?"
Su Nanqing slowly raised her head, her curved eyes curved into crescents, with just the right amount of tenderness and tenderness at the corners of her eyes.
But deep in his eyes, there was an imperceptible sharpness, like a dormant little beast, silently sweeping across Liu Yuetang's face.
But she didn't find anything unusual.
There was only coldness and contempt in Liu Yuetang's eyes, without even a hint of hatred or murderous intent.
She glanced at Liu Yuetang's clothes and found the handkerchief embroidered with chrysanthemums in her hand. Her eyes flickered slightly, "I have never seen such silk thread on the imperial concubine's handkerchief before."
Upon hearing this, Liu Yuetang frowned slightly, and with a flick of her slender fingers, she turned the handkerchief draped over her wrist over, leaving only the plain back of the handkerchief.
Sensing the contempt of the people above, Su Nanqing suppressed the shame in her heart and said with a smile: "It's like it's inlaid with broken gold, shining brightly."
Xue Ji smiled upon seeing this and said, "My lady, you may not know this, but this is our Lanyue Nation's 'Golden Gauze'. It is made from the bast fiber of the golden sand vine mixed with silk. It sparkles and shimmers in the sunlight."
As Xue Ji finished speaking, Su Nanqing suddenly knelt down, his knees hitting the bluestone slabs with a dull sound, which startled the palace people beside him.
Liu Yuetang frowned, impatience mixed with coldness spreading out: "What are you doing? You kneel down for no reason, without knowing it, and it seems like I'm bullying you."
"No." Su Nanqing shook his head quickly.
Her beautiful eyes gradually turned red, as if she was crying but not crying.
"Your Highness, could you please...give this thread to me?"
Seeing Liu Yuetang's eyes fixed, she choked up and said, "I once had a sister. We were very close and shared joys and sorrows. She loved my Su embroidery the most, but...but the handkerchief I embroidered for her at the end, I was unable to give it away, and we passed away."
"I think if I use this silk thread to embroider a handkerchief, she will definitely like it very much. If she knows about it in the afterlife, she will definitely feel my heartfelt gratitude."
She thought that if the person in front of her was Liu Yuetang, she would be so angry that her teeth would itch after hearing these words.
But the person in front of me, from hair to fingertips, is as calm as water.
But it was this indifference that made her even more suspicious.
She didn't believe it, and she couldn't reveal any flaws.
No matter how good a person is at disguising himself, the habits developed over more than ten years are difficult to erase.
Thinking about this, Su Nanqing decided to go to Changle Palace to find out the truth.
She kowtowed with tears in her eyes, her forehead resting against the cool bluestone. Her voice was sobbing yet sincere, "I know this golden thread is extremely precious. I dare not ask for more. I only hope that Your Majesty will show mercy and allow me to go with You to Changle Palace to receive a small amount. From now on, I will follow Your Majesty's orders."
Just as she leaned over, without noticing, Liu Yuetang's cold and calm eyes suddenly darkened.
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