If only I could continue spending time with her and the children like this.
When Shen Qingyu woke up, it was already broad daylight.
The three little ones were still sleeping like pigs, but Qi Yunxiao had long since disappeared.
She got up and left the side hall. A nanny came up to her and, before Shen Qingyu could speak, said softly, "Your Majesty has ordered that after Madam has washed up, she should go to Your Majesty's palace for breakfast."
"This old servant is watching over things here. I'll take the young ladies and gentlemen over when they wake up."
Shen Qingyu didn't stand on ceremony. She washed herself with the water and soap brought by the palace maids and then went to the back hall.
In the inner palace, Consort Rong had just finished changing her dressing and was lying limply on the bed, while Qi Yunxiao sat on the footstool at the foot of the bed.
Seeing her approach, Consort Rong quickly smiled and reached out her hand.
Shen Qingyu hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward and reached out to take Consort Rong's delicate hand.
With their hands clasped together, Consort Rong's smile widened: "I heard from His Majesty and from Xiao Hei that you were the one who stitched up my wound and stopped the bleeding at the crucial moment. If it weren't for you, I would probably be dead by now."
Shen Qingyu smiled and said the same thing: "In that situation, I would have saved even a stranger, let alone you?"
Consort Rong now truly believed that there was indeed a rift between her son, Xiao Hei, and the poised and elegant village woman in front of her.
She had also asked around about Xiao Hei and the village woman.
The woman described in the news as shrewish, ugly, and fat was completely different from the woman in front of him.
This woman possessed a frankness rarely seen in ordinary people, and her appearance and skin were in no way inferior to those of noble ladies!
She even had three such adorable children...
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