The next day.
It's not winter yet, and the mornings in Beijing are still a bit chilly.
Although Shen Yuexi specially changed Liang Yuyu into a warm cotton swaddling cloth, the little guy was still so cold that his nose was running.
Shen Yuexi could only open her fox fur coat and cover Liang Yuyu with it.
She hugged Liang Yuyu tightly, and after warming her hands under the fox fur, she carefully placed them into Liang Yuyu's swaddling clothes and gently stroked her back.
"Xi'er." The Queen's anxious voice finally reached the palace. "Why are you kneeling outside so early in the morning?"
The queen was only wearing a thin undershirt and a casual coat draped over her body. Accompanied by her maid, she quickly rushed out of the bedroom.
Shen Yuexi took a deep breath, held Liang Yuyu's back with both hands, and let her stay in her arms.
After making sure that Liang Yuyu would not bump into anything on the ground, Shen Yuexi kowtowed heavily to the ground.
There was a hint of heartbreaking pleading in her voice: "Please, Queen, please help Yu Yu."
This was the first time the Queen had seen Shen Yuexi being so servile. She was horrified and stopped in her tracks. She looked at Shen Yuexi with a slight movement in her eyes: "What...what's going on?"
Shen Yuexi stood up holding Liang Yuyu, looking at the queen with a sad face.
She carefully pulled the swaddling clothes down a little, held Liang Yuyu in her hands, and handed her to the queen: "Your Majesty, look."
When Liang Yuyu met the Queen's gaze, she curled her lips and burst into tears.
Her voice spread throughout the Queen's palace.
Many palace maids stopped to watch.
"How did Miss Liang get her face like this?"
When the senior palace maid saw the scar on Liang Yuyu's face, she covered her lips and screamed, subconsciously taking a few steps back.
The queen came forward and saw the scar, her face darkened.
Liang Yuyu gathered her courage and burst into tears.
[Mother, Yu Yu can't help you with anything else, but I'm good at crying!]
Liang Yuyu cried and waved her arms, trying to get into the queen's arms.
really!
When the queen saw the little guy like this, she felt very distressed.
She hurriedly reached out and held Liang Yuyu in her arms, gently stroking the little guy's back. While coaxing Liang Yuyu, she ordered the head palace maid to help Shen Yuexi into the hall.
Liang Yuyu stopped crying in the queen's arms. Instead, she blinked her big eyes and looked at the queen with grievance.
Every time the queen looked at her, Liang Yuyu would immediately frown, smack her lips, and tears would fill her eyes but would not fall.
This pitiful and aggrieved look made the queen feel more distressed than crying loudly.
"Look at this kid, his face is like this, and he's been freezing outside for so long."
The Queen glanced at Shen Yuexi, who was holding a hand warmer, with her head down and tears in her eyes: "Xi'er, I'm not criticizing you. Even if it's a big deal, you shouldn't let the child freeze with you in the snow."
[Mother, you must learn to be like a green tea girl.]
Liang Yuyu turned her head to the side, blinking away the lie, and looked at Shen Yuexi eagerly.
She was really afraid that Shen Yuexi would maintain her hot temper and scold Concubine Qi in front of the Queen.
In this case, all the show just now would be in vain.
Shen Yuexi felt a pang of pain in her nose, and tears began to fall like beads from a broken string.
That look really makes me feel sorry for myself.
Even the Queen gasped when she saw this and hurriedly said, "You're fine, why are you crying? Just say what you want to say."
Shen Yuexi's body tilted, she slid off the chair, and knelt diagonally on the ground: "My queen, the scar on my baby's face was pinched by Concubine Qi."
Upon hearing this, the queen's eyes were filled with horror.
She immediately winked at the head maid.
The latter immediately sent everyone in the hall out.
When only Shen Yuexi and the Queen were left in the palace, Shen Yuexi told the Queen everything that had happened yesterday.
[Empress Qi was so aggressive that I had no choice but to come to the Empress's palace and kneel there early in the morning.]
Liang Yuyu was thinking about the lines her mother had rehearsed last night.
"Your Majesty, Concubine Qi knew that Yuyu was the beloved child of you and the Emperor, yet she still murdered him. She doesn't take you and the Emperor seriously."
Listening to Shen Yuexi's words, Liang Yuyu smacked her lips and showed a satisfied look.
The queen heard the voice and lowered her head to look at the little guy.
Liang Yuyu immediately bit her pink lips and looked at the queen with tears in her eyes.
Veins bulged at the queen's temples, and a cramped chill emanated from her entire body.
【Mother, try harder.】
[I look so much like the Ninth Princess that Concubine Qi thinks she's seeing the Ninth Princess when she sees me, so she wants to destroy my face.]
Shen Yuexi looked at the Queen carefully, pondering for a long time before whispering, "Your Majesty, everyone in the court knows that the reason why the Emperor treated Guaibao differently that day was entirely because she looked a bit like the Ninth Princess. Concubine Qi..."
Bang--
Before Shen Yuexi finished speaking, the Queen pushed the teacup beside her down.
The tea immediately spread out along the cracks between the bricks.
The Queen stood up suddenly, her eyes gloomy, she gritted her teeth and looked outside the palace, and shouted in a deep voice: "Let Concubine Qi come to see me!"
Liang Yuyu never expected that the Queen would have such a big reaction.
She kicked her feet and carefully stretched out her little paws from the swaddling clothes.
The tender pink fingers fell on the queen's face and rubbed it gently.
The queen's rage suddenly dissipated by more than half.
She lowered her head and saw Liang Yuyu's big eyes looking at her, and her heart suddenly softened a little.
The Queen pinched Liang Yuyu's chin, stroking it back and forth a few times, and said softly, "When my Ninth Princess passed away, she was as old as Guaibao. Back then, I was immersed in the pain of losing my daughter every day, but that bitch was reveling every night."
"I, for the sake of her mother's family, will not punish her severely. But she, on the other hand, has no self-control at all, and even resorted to such cruel means to treat a child."
"It seems I've been too indulgent with her on a daily basis. Today, I'd like to ask her carefully why she's been paying so much attention to me. She even knows that I gave some money to my close friend. Could it be that she's been eyeing my position as Queen for a long time?"
Shen Yuexi looked at the queen blankly, feeling that there was something else behind her words, but she didn't quite understand.
Liang Yuyu saw her mother's confused look and helplessly put her little paws on her forehead.
"Mother, the Queen is saying that if Concubine Qi comes, don't say the money is for opening a shop."
[The Queen gave some silver to her close friend, which could be considered a gift.]
"But if I say I'm going to use it to open a shop with you, that would be privately acquiring property, and it might displease the Emperor."
Shen Yuexi understood, frowned slightly, and said to herself: "So that's how it is."
Liang Yuyu just thought that Shen Yuexi had figured out the key to the Queen's words.
[It seems my mother is both beautiful and intelligent, better than that scumbag father.]
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