Chapter 635 Dou E is not as wronged as me
Madam Xuan was the wife of the Empress Dowager's younger brother. The Xuan family was already young when they were exiled, and she was only in her forties when she died.
Xuan Qiwen is her second daughter. She just turned eighteen this year. She has a slim figure, but a rectangular face, narrow eyes, a slightly round nose, and small facial features on a relatively large face. If she dressed simply, she could be described as dignified.
But she chose to dress ostentatiously, with her hair full of pearl hairpins, as if she wanted people to know how rich she was.
Her appearance, which was already only five or six points, was lowered a few points further, making her look weird and funny.
It was a cold winter day, and Xuan Qiwen was still wearing Jiaoling gauze under her cloak. She shook off the snow on the uppers of her brocade shoes as she walked, scolding the palace servants of Qiyun Hall for being lazy and not clearing the snow in the yard. When she led the people around her to the door of the east wing hall, she stood outside the door and frowned before going in.
"What's that smell?"
"Madam Xuan, it snowed today and the palace had mutton hotpot." The little palace maid who led the way was a little afraid of Xuan Qiwen, so she quickly replied in a low voice.
Xuan Qiwen's face immediately showed disgust: "Mutton is so fishy, no wonder it stinks. How can people in the palace eat such shameful food?!"
The palace maid was a little confused when she heard this. Is it not presentable?
It was a cold winter day, and eating mutton was a common practice in the palace. Even though she was sweeping the snow outside just now, she could smell the aroma wafting from the side halls. The mutton had no strong smell at all, but was rather fragrant enough to make people salivate. At this moment, the only aroma left in the hall was the aroma of the boiling broth from the previous hot pot.
When she led people here and approached the front of the hall, she could smell the fragrance so much that it made her drool. How come it became smelly when it fell into the mouth of the girl from the Xuan family?
But the palace maid didn't dare to speak. Madam Xuan was the niece of the empress dowager and was domineering in Shoukang Palace. She had beaten many palace maids before. When the empress dowager knew about it, she would just scold her casually. Later, the palace maids near Shoukang Palace all avoided Madam Xuan.
Qian Qiyue was lying by the window inside, originally wanting to watch the fun, but she didn't know that Xuan Qiwen's words were so annoying as soon as she opened them, so she rolled her eyes outward.
"Why are people in the palace eating this? You should go ask the Empress Dowager. This mutton hotpot was given by the Empress Dowager to keep everyone in the palace warm. You despise it so much that you go to Shoukang Palace and say it's unbecoming in front of her."
Xuan Qiwen's face froze. She never expected that it was the mutton hotpot given by the Empress Dowager.
Qian Qiyue didn't let her go, but only laughed at her: "As for the stench you mentioned, I do smell it a bit. After all, some people have a fishy smell in their mouths even without eating mutton. You can smell it from eight hundred miles away."
"you!"
Xuan Qiwen glared at Qian Qiyue, her eyes fixed on her bright and beautiful features, filled with jealousy: "Qian Qiyue, how dare you scold me?!"
Qian Qiyue smiled and said, "I didn't scold you, Tang Ning. Did you hear me scolding you?"
Tang Ning smiled and said, "How could that be? Sister Ayue was just joking with Miss Xuan. She didn't mean to curse anyone. Miss Xuan, please don't misunderstand."
"that is!"
Qian Qiyue leaned against the window with an innocent look on her face: "I'm just bored and looking for trouble. It's snowing heavily, even Dou E didn't feel so wronged."
Zhou Yuchang coughed softly and almost couldn't suppress her laughter.
Tang Ning also had a smile on her face, obviously watching the fun.
Xuan Qiwen was extremely angry. She had never been looked down upon like this before in Shoukang Palace. She couldn't help but yell, "Don't take advantage of your sarcastic words. You're just as unruly as Aunt Huan said. No wonder everyone in the capital says your Qian family raised an unruly she-devil!"
Qian Qiyue wasn't the least bit annoyed by the scolding. She just smiled and said, "I didn't know I had such a great reputation in the capital. However, it's not as great as your Xuan family. After all, only your family has such a woman in her middle age who can't stand the loneliness and seeks pleasure with others under the sun."
"Qian Qiyue!!"
"Why are you so loud? My ears hurt."
Qian Qiyue covered her ears with disgust and said to Xuan Qiwen who wanted to bite her:
"And did I hear you correctly just now? You actually called Princess Huan aunt?"
"When did you change your last name to Xie? That's not right. Even if you forgot your ancestors and changed your last name, you still call the Empress Dowager Aunt and Princess Huan Aunt. You've lowered your generation and dragged the Empress Dowager along with you, making Princess Huan and the Empress Dowager equals?"
Xuan Qiwen's expression changed drastically: "Don't talk nonsense!"
Qian Qiyue: "What nonsense are you talking about? Didn't you just call her aunt?"
"I……"
Xuan Qiwen wanted to defend herself but was speechless for a moment. She just wanted to show her closeness with the royal family. She was much younger than Princess Huan, so she called out casually.
Qian Qiyue always likes to kick a fallen dog hard. She said with a half-smile: "But even if Prince Huan's Mansion is not ashamed to make friends with people of lower status, Prince Huan will not want a sister-in-law who has been hanging out with others in the bamboo forest. Does Prince Huan know that your cheap niece is coming to him?"
Seeing Xuan Qiwen's face instantly pale, Qian Qiyue was not satisfied, so she leaned against the window and teased with a smile,
"But then again, it's hard to say for sure. After all, among all the girls in the capital, only you, Xuan Qiwen, can farm, reclaim wasteland, and mine minerals. Perhaps Prince Huan will find you unique and look upon you differently. In that case, it wouldn't be out of line for you to call Princess Huan "Auntie." It would be a pity for the Empress Dowager, as she has lowered her generation for nothing..."
"Qian Qiyue!!"
Xuan Qiwen's already gloomy face turned even darker, and she jumped up in anger after hearing Qian Qiyue's words.
The Xuan family had been exiled for many years, and Xuan Qiwen's father and uncles all died in the place of exile. Emperor An, because of his grudge against the past, refused to "rehabilitate" the Xuan family and did not recognize the Xuan family as his uncle's family. It was the empress dowager who tried her best to let the Xuan family return to Beijing. Later, it was because she was seriously ill that Emperor An bestowed an imperial edict on the Xuan family.
The Xuan family suffered humiliation during their years of exile, and those days became the most obscure secret that no one in the Xuan family could mention.
Because of the Empress Dowager, the Xuan family had a special status in the capital, although no one from the family could serve as an official in the court. Xuan Qiwen also relied on the fact that the Empress Dowager was her great-aunt, and she wanted to be strong-willed and compete with others in everything. She wanted the best clothes, jewelry, food, and other daily necessities. The days of exile were a nightmare for her, and what she hated most was someone mentioning this matter in front of her.
But Qian Qiyue not only mentioned it, she also used the incident between Madam Xuan and the Cui family to mock her.
Xuan Qiwen was so angry that she wanted to go up and scratch Hua Qian Qiyue's face!
Fu Jinrou didn't expect that Xuan Qiwen would be so angry with Qian Qiyue after just a few words. Seeing that the two were about to fight, she hurriedly pulled Xuan Qiwen away and frowned with some disapproval.
"Ayue, you can bicker with Miss Xuan, but Madam Xuan is dead after all. You shouldn't speak like that about a dead person..."
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