"Do you know her name? Which clinic is she from?" Meng Qi asked.
Aunt Mo said, "Everyone calls her Madam Zhuang. It seems she's not practicing medicine at the clinic, so we don't know the specific situation. But don't worry, Princess. She's a very good doctor, and her family background is clean. The medicines your majesty uses have all been checked by the imperial physician, and there's nothing wrong with them."
Meng Qi nodded. This was a must. Princess Aihua was the apple of the eye of the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess. To get her to drink the medicine, there would have to be at least ninety-nine if not a hundred levels to go through.
Madam Zhuang? Meng Qi searched her memory carefully. Has she ever heard of such a person?
But before she could think any more, he had already entered the east room of the main hall of Qionghua Palace.
Meng Qi straightened his mind, waited for the eunuch to pass on the message, then straightened his back and walked in.
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"Get up," Concubine Lian said softly, looking at Meng Qi who was bowing to her. "You are very smart, smarter than I thought. This is what confuses me."
Meng Qi straightened up and looked at the beautiful woman sitting at the head of the table. Concubine Lian, in her forties, looked as if she were in her thirties. Her delicate features, prominent nose, fair skin, jet-black hair, and expression that revealed no emotion gave her a strong sense of oppression.
In her previous life, Meng Qi feared Concubine Lian even more than the Empress. It wasn't because she was her mother-in-law, but rather because of the cold aura she emanated. She didn't even dare to look directly into her eyes, as she possessed a kind of all-seeing clarity.
"Thank you for the compliment, Your Majesty. I don't deserve it. If there's anything that confuses Your Majesty, please let me know and I'll help you solve it."
Concubine Lian raised her eyebrows slightly, sizing up her third daughter-in-law. She was a perfect beauty, full of youthful vigor and boldness.
I have never met Meng Qi. When Meng Qi was still the fourth lady of the Huainan Marquis's Mansion, she rarely went to the palace, and I almost never showed up at the palace banquets, so the two of them had no intersection.
During the days when the Queen called Meng Qi to the palace before her wedding, Meng Qi came to pay her respects to him, but he did not meet her. It was the Sixth Brother who met her through his own place, and that was also the Sixth Brother's idea.
I don't know what they talked about, but Aunt Sang said that Lao Liu walked out unhappy. I was in a very bad mood at the time, thinking that Meng Qi must have said something to upset Lao Liu, or that Lao Liu wanted to say something to her but failed.
Originally, he thought that after the Sixth Brother and Meng Qi met, he would at least say a few words to each other, at least to save face. But he changed his mind, and during the few days that Meng Qi stayed in the palace, he did not see her once.
The first meeting between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was when they went to the palace to pay their respects after their wedding. She really wanted the young couple to come to Qionghua Palace to see how they were doing and whether they had any quarrels.
However, they had a quarrel on their wedding night. When they came to pay their respects that day, Lao Liu would rather ride a horse in the cold wind than ride in a carriage with Meng Qi. He changed his mind and went directly to Kunning Palace to meet them. He had no intention of inviting Meng Qi to Qionghua Palace to talk, and he did not give the reward directly.
He did this, firstly to see Meng Qi's reaction, and secondly, because he didn't want to cause trouble for his son. For more than 20 years, he hadn't dared to get any closer to his son. Only by being neither cold nor warm could he let his son grow up unscathed.
Although the Sixth Prince has now established his own residence, it is still difficult for him to know his son, and he needs the mother-son relationship to maintain this relationship to keep his son hidden from the public. And this mother-son relationship does indeed provide a cover for some of the Sixth Prince's arrangements.
Therefore, he couldn't be too affectionate with Meng Qi, and he couldn't let Meng Qi know that he and his son were not as they appeared on the outside. Because he really didn't know what kind of character Meng Qi was. She even wanted to elope with another man. She was a bold and foolish person. So, he couldn't gamble, and he didn't dare to gamble.
Unsurprisingly, within less than a month of my son's wedding, I'd heard a lot of news. Some of it had been passed on secretly, others had let me know, and even more of it had been revealed by my son.
The information brought by everyone is not as good as what Lao Liu said. If Meng is given time, maybe he will be able to handle it.
He trusted his son's judgment. The years of palace strife had matured him early, and he wouldn't speak carelessly. He knew from his son's words that Meng Qi might not be as he had heard.
Therefore, she was also very much looking forward to meeting Meng Qi today, but the prerequisite was that they had to be able to meet and have enough time to talk.
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