Mi Shan took out a bag of silver, removed the gold hairpin from her hair, and handed it to the eunuch in charge, instructing him to take good care of Xia Ranxue.
"Understood, Your Majesty, I will certainly not make things difficult for her." The eunuch nodded and bowed.
"Shan'er, you should go back. I can manage on my own."
Xia Ranxue looked at her with a smile.
After Mi Shan parted ways with her, a shadow always lingered in her heart.
"Your Majesty, Miss Xia and Physician Qiao's love is truly unbreakable. I wonder if Physician Qiao will still feel the same way about her after learning about her situation," Xun'er said.
Mi Shan shook her head; no one could predict what would happen next.
"Xun'er, you and Achan should visit Sister Xue more often on my behalf, so that she won't be bullied."
"Here you are."
On her way back to Yufu Palace, Mi Shan received a summons from the emperor, who asked her to go to the imperial study.
Since the emperor changed his ways, he has been engrossed in official duties all day long, and his seriousness has surprised all the civil and military officials.
When Mi Shan arrived, only Xu Ninghai was there.
"Your Majesty, please sit here and wait a moment. His Majesty has gone to the Zichen Palace to discuss important matters with the Sixth Prince."
"good."
Mi Shan was left alone in the Imperial Study.
At first, it just sat there and didn't wander around.
Seeing that there was no one around and it was quiet, I unconsciously felt sleepy.
To avoid falling asleep, she got up and walked around to stretch her legs. She saw that the bookshelf was filled with books and paintings.
She had no intention of tampering with the emperor's things, but whether it was by chance or fate, she didn't know.
The sachet hanging on Mi Shan's body caught on one of the scrolls, a long cylindrical painting placed in the far corner.
The scroll was pulled out.
She was startled and quickly reached out to pick it up.
However, the other scrolls placed next to it were covered in dust, while the scroll itself was spotless, as if it had been frequently taken out to be viewed.
and,
On the corner of the open scroll, on the yellowed Xuan paper, is painted a woman in a plain white silk dress.
Mi Shan frowned, then quickly realized something.
Reach out your hand,
Unroll the scroll.
A perfect picture of a beautiful woman came into view.
The moment Mi Shan saw the woman's face clearly in the painting, her eyes widened in astonishment, as if struck by lightning; her fair face completely lost all color.
It wasn't because this face looked so much like mine, but because—
"Mother!"
To her surprise, the woman in the painting looked exactly like her birth mother!
In the upper right corner of the painting, the woman's signature is Jialuolou.
She's a real rascal!
Mi Shan suppressed her shocked, pounding heart, her clear eyes swirling with astonishment.
In a daze, I understood something.
"Jialuo Lou is Lou'er, who is also the late Crown Princess. She was the first woman the Emperor deeply loved."
"Then, what about Mother? Mother is a person without a name. Everyone in the manor just calls her Meiniang."
"Are they the same person?"
"Or are they just coincidentally identical, or are they twins?"
Mi Shan felt a headache coming on; she knew she couldn't possibly understand it just by thinking about it this way.
Footsteps sounded outside the door.
"Your Majesty, you're back. Consort Mi Hui has arrived and has been waiting for you inside for a long time."
"good."
Li Shengyuan pushed open the door and entered.
Mi Shan had already put the scroll away and returned it to the bookshelf; everything seemed unchanged.
"My beloved concubine, have you been waiting long?"
"soon."
"You don't look too well. Is something wrong?" Li Shengyuan frowned, glanced around at the surroundings, and saw nothing unusual, but for some reason, Mi Shan seemed to have something on her mind.
"I was just sleepy," Mi Shan said hastily. "Why did Your Majesty summon me?"
"Didn't I give you two days to think it over and ask me what reward you want?"
Upon hearing this, Mi Shan lowered her eyes and pondered for a moment, thinking that if she wanted to figure out the relationship between the woman in the painting and her mother...
Either investigate the origins and background of the Gara basket, or you can only start with your own mother.
Within the palace, the name Jialuolou seemed to be a taboo.
No one dared to mention it easily.
The only option left was to start with my mother.
"Your Majesty, I would like to invite my family members to the palace."
"I haven't seen my family for a long time, and I really miss them."
Mi Shan is talking nonsense with her eyes wide open.
Li Shengyuan: "That's easy, my beloved concubine. You don't know, after the investiture ceremony, you will be granted an opportunity for your family to enter the palace for an audience. This is hardly a request at all."
"Uh." Mi Shan was slightly taken aback; she really didn't know that.
"I'll grant you a different request. Tell me, what else do you want?" Li Shengyuan stared at him with a deep gaze, a smile playing on his lips, his features handsome and resolute.
He looked even younger and more charming than before.
He doesn't look like a middle-aged or elderly person in their fifties at all.
This victory made him radiant.
If it were any other concubine, meeting his gaze at that moment, she would probably blush involuntarily.
Mi Shan could only think of the scheming and cunning hidden beneath his outward appearance.
He frowned, pondering carefully.
She wanted to ask the Emperor if there was any way to save her from being buried alive with the emperor.
In fact, she had thought about practicing some fake death pills to save her life and then take advantage of the chaos to get through the ordeal.
However, those rare medicinal herbs are extremely difficult to find.
Buddhist relics from the East.
The thousand-year-old tortoise shell of the Southern Barbarians.
The Snow Lotus of the North.
The Blue-Eyed Toad of the Western Regions.
There are four items in total, but so far she has only collected the Jade-Eyed Toad.
This chapter is not finished, please click the next page to continue reading!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
