The Queen Mother received the news of Xie Guanlan's return to Beijing three days ago and was waiting at the palace gate early.
The moment she saw the grand procession entering the palace, the Empress Dowager, holding her personal maid's hand, hurried forward, tears streaming down her face. "My prince, my prince has finally returned in triumph. Are you injured?"
As soon as Xie Guanlan got off the carriage, he was stopped by the Queen Mother and looked at her. He sighed helplessly and said in a light tone: "Mother, I am not injured. You can rest assured."
The Queen Mother was his mother who gave birth to him and raised him. When he was in the cold palace, she had risked her life to protect him many times and had taken care of and loved him meticulously since he was a child.
The mother and son depended on each other in the cold palace for eighteen years. Only they knew the pain of their father and son, but she was still able to firmly support her young father and him. In Xie Guanlan's heart, the empress dowager was the most beloved mother concubine in the world.
"Even though you're not injured, you've lost weight." The empress dowager had tears in her eyes. Seeing Xie Guanlan's increasingly thin face, she felt so distressed.
Xie Guanlan supported the Queen Mother's hand, then his eyes fell on the carriage, and his tone softened a little: "Mother, I brought someone with me."
"Ah?!" The Queen Mother was startled. She followed Xie Guanlan's gaze and looked inside the carriage. Her heart skipped a beat. The prince was already ten years old today and had never been close to a woman. She had stuffed many women into the prince's harem before, but the prince had never favored any of them. Many people in the court had spread rumors that the prince was a homosexual.
This time, she actually took the initiative to bring people here. Could it be that she fell in love with this man while traveling?
The Queen Mother looked at Mu Yingchuan helplessly.
Mu Yingchuan was wearing armor. When he saw his sister looking at him, he grinned and laughed twice, revealing his eight clean teeth: "Sister, I'm not thin, you don't..."
Before he could finish, the Queen Mother interrupted him sharply: "The person that the prince brought here, is it a boy or a girl?"
Because he was too excited, the sound of the word "女" (woman) was broken.
Mu Yingchuan's eyes widened in confusion: "What?!"
Xie Guanlan lifted the car curtain and extended his slender, bony, and slender hand: "Master, get down."
Yuan Jiang licked her lips nervously, looked at the big hand covered with calluses, her thick and long eyelashes trembled, she stretched out her small hand to support it, and carefully lifted her skirt to get off the carriage.
The Queen Mother stared intently, and when she saw the emerald green skirt, her heart finally settled in her belly. It was still tall and it was a girl.
Then, he couldn't help but widen his eyes.
I saw a slender little hand resting on Xie Guanlan's strong and broad palm. The woman who bent down and walked out seemed to have walked out of a painting. She was wearing a emerald green silk skirt. The material of the skirt was the new tribute satin from Jiangnan after the rain. When the sun shone on the beautiful skirt, it was shining like flowing water. Her waist was slender and she was petite and graceful.
She lowered her head and stepped down from the carriage. The black hair by her ears suddenly fell down, revealing her wearing only an emerald jade hairpin. Her face was extremely beautiful with her rosy lips and red rouge. Her watery and bright fox eyes seemed to be filled with a charming and tender color. She looked frail and weak, yet extremely beautiful.
"Cough cough..." The cool breeze blowing in his face made Yuan Jiang shiver. His throat felt itchy and he couldn't help but cover his lips and cough twice. Yuan Qingyin, who had just got off the carriage behind him, was shocked and stuffed the heater into Yuan Jiang's hands.
The Queen Mother's expression changed. It was only October and the weather was warm and pleasant, but this woman looked so sick and frail that she seemed like she would fall down at the slightest breeze. With such a frail body, she probably wouldn't live long!
"Mother, her name is Yuan Jiang, and she was once the ruler of the Kingdom of Jiang." Xie Guanlan frowned his dark brows, lowered his eyes and saw her little face was slightly frowning, his heart couldn't help but tighten, and he quickly sent someone to get a cloak and put it on her.
The Queen Mother witnessed everything and was shocked.
This prince, ever since that incident when he was young, has hated women extremely!
He had never let any woman get close to him in these days. He never expected that this prince would have such a considerate side!
but......
The Queen Mother sighed sadly. How long could this woman live with such a frail body?
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