Led by Nanny Chang, the Queen hurried to the Imperial Garden and finally stopped in front of an uninhabited palace.
Listening to the woman's moans and the man's heavy breathing coming from behind the wooden door, she clenched her hands into fists, the veins on her neck bulged, her lips were tightly pursed, and she did not move for a while.
Nanny Chang was worried and couldn't help but persuade her, "My Lady, please don't be too sad."
The queen couldn't tell how she felt.
The emperor only sat at the palace banquet that he had spent so much effort to organize for less than an incense stick of time, and then ran to the imperial garden alone to favor a woman.
Aren’t all the concubines in the palace enough for him to favor?
The queen still remembered that when she was young, she and the emperor were a loving couple and lived in harmony. At that time, the emperor also told her that he would be with her forever.
But the words of the past were still fresh in his mind, and the emperor, who held great power, began to bring beauties into the palace one by one.
At first she would make a fuss, but the emperor always said that he had to do so for the harmony of the front court and the harem. She was the queen and should be broad-minded and be the mother of the country.
The queen believed such high-sounding words and swallowed all the bitterness.
Later, as the emperor took more and more concubines, she became more and more numb, until she was able to calmly select concubines for the emperor himself.
The Queen always thought that her heart had grown cold after so many years, but she didn't expect that when she heard Nanny Chang say that the Emperor favored a palace maid in the Imperial Garden, she would lose her composure like never before.
She didn't know how long she stood there until the noise in the house disappeared, then she slowly raised her hand and pushed open the wooden door.
With a squeak.
The wooden door was pushed open from the outside.
The two people on the bed had just stopped and were lying in bed quietly to calm their breathing. They were suddenly startled when they heard the door opening.
The emperor was sober at this moment, and looking at everything around him, he had no idea what was going on.
He rubbed his dizzy head, but felt a dull pain in the back of his head as well as his forehead.
"hiss."
He took a breath.
Then he propped himself up and sat up, just in time to meet the Queen's gaze.
The emperor was a little embarrassed for a moment.
Although he was the emperor, he was also the queen's husband. He still felt a little embarrassed when his wife saw him favoring other people.
So the emperor turned his eyes away and glanced at the woman who was huddled aside with the quilt in her arms.
The woman was hiding in the shadows, and her facial features could not be seen, but from the emperor's angle, he could just see her slim figure.
Suddenly, the emperor felt warm in his heart again.
He coughed lightly: "Who are you?"
The woman didn't seem to expect the emperor to suddenly speak to her. She trembled all over and said incoherently, "I... I..."
The Queen was already furious at the moment, and when she heard that the woman was so rude, she became even more furious. She directly asked Nanny Chang to go forward and pull the woman off the bed.
"What do you mean by you and me? Don't you know any rules?"
The woman fell to the ground, the moonlight shining on her face, revealing a tearful face.
Although she is not stunningly beautiful, she is also pretty and elegant, especially her pitiful appearance at this moment, which makes her even more lovable.
At least the emperor felt a little bit reluctant.
But seeing the queen's gloomy face at this moment, he also knew that what he did was a slap in the queen's face, so it was okay to let her vent her anger.
He remained silent.
When the queen saw that the emperor remained silent, she became even more arrogant.
She pointed at the woman on the ground and asked in a deep voice, "Who are you? What's your name? Why are you here?"
As if she had never experienced such a scene before, the woman trembled all over and fell to the ground trembling. "Your servant, Xia Qinglu, is the sister of Shangshu Youcheng Xia Qinghe. Today I am accompanying my brother to the palace for a banquet."
Xia Qinglu's words surprised the queen.
She originally thought that it was some blind palace maid who had such thoughts, so she took advantage of the emperor's drunkenness and climbed into the emperor's bed, but the person in front of her turned out to be the sister of a fourth-rank official.
Is there any conspiracy behind this?
Thinking of this, the queen's eyes became sharper.
"Xia Qinghe's sister? Why are you here?"
Xia Qinglu knelt on the ground, lowering her head. "I drank too much and was drunk for a while, so I came out to sober up... I don't know what happened."
As soon as Xia Qinglu finished speaking, before the queen had time to speak, she heard a low growl coming from outside the door.
"Qinglu? Why are you here?"
The person who spoke was none other than the fourth-rank official who spoke for Chen Yan in the court that day.
He is Xia Qinghe.
Xia Qinghe didn't expect that she just followed a few colleagues to see if anything happened, but ended up eating the melon herself.
How could the woman favored by the emperor be his sister!
Xia Qinghe was shocked and confused. He turned his head to look at Chen Yan, trying to find the answer from the other's face.
But Chen Yan was even more shocked than him at this moment, and had no time to give him any answer.
Chen Yan looked at the person kneeling in the room, and her heart suddenly felt uneasy.
She had clearly arranged everything, so how could Xia Qinglu be here? Who brought her here?
What about pine smoke?
Chen Yan subconsciously looked back, but did not see the shadow of the little palace maid. She had a hunch that she must have been plotted against, but she had never told anyone about her plan, so who would know?
At this moment, she didn't even dare to look at Xia Qinghe. She just stood beside Jun Mochen with a wooden face and lowered her head, pretending that this matter had nothing to do with her.
When Xia Qinghe saw Chen Yan's expression, she knew that he probably wouldn't come to explain this matter.
He felt his heart sinking and he could hardly breathe. He opened his mouth for a long time before finally making a sound from his throat.
"Qinglu, why are you here?"
Xia Qinglu shook her head heavily. She didn't know how she came out just to sober up, and when she woke up she found herself lying under the emperor.
She just cried and shook her head, unable to utter a word.
The emperor frowned, feeling annoyed by this farce.
He is the emperor above everyone else. Does he need to explain to anyone if he favors a woman?
So he put on his outer robe and got down from the bed. He picked up Xia Qinglu, who was still lying on the ground, and brought her into his arms.
"Alright, so she's Xia Qing's sister. Then she'll be named Concubine Xia and given the right to live in Ganlu Palace."
Everyone was a little confused by the emperor's decree.
The most shocked among them was Xia Qinghe.
Originally, he had joined Chen Yan and wanted to help Chen Yan restore his country, but now, his own sister has become the emperor's concubine. Should he continue his cooperation with Chen Yan?
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