"Go check on this Wu Zhaoyi."
After the palace banquet ended and Eunuch Wang had just gotten into the carriage, he heard this order.
"Your Highness, what's wrong with Wu Zhaoyi?"
Qi Yuan's face was grim.
During the party, she glanced at him furtively four times.
"Your Majesty, maybe she is interested in you?"
When Wang Taizong heard the reason why Qi Yuan wanted to investigate Wu Zhaoyi, he still felt that his own prince was too charming.
Qi Yuan gave him a cold look and said, "Just go and investigate. I believe she is an assassin and is deliberately approaching Your Majesty."
Perhaps the purpose was to assassinate their uncle and nephew.
Eunuch Wang nodded and said no more.
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"The emperor's uncle has left the capital." Qi Yun pinched his brows, "I actually feel empty inside. Although the emperor's uncle does not interfere in government affairs on weekdays, I feel safe when he is around."
Even if something happens, the emperor's uncle will help him behind the scenes.
"Your Highness, is there something important that made you leave the capital?" Xu Lingyi asked tentatively while grinding ink for Qi Yun.
"It's not a big deal." Qi Yun added, "But it is for the emperor's uncle. He is going to find his wife and will be away from the capital for the whole year."
Xu Lingyi's hand trembled.
Qi Yuan sent so many people to look for her but to no avail, and now he has to go look for her himself.
Wasn't he angry with her?
If she were abandoned by someone, she would probably hate that person for the rest of her life and would never look for him.
But Qi Yuan...hasn't he given up on this unfaithful woman yet?
"What's wrong with you? What scared you?" Qi Yun said with a smile.
Xu Lingyi shook her head. "I'm just a little surprised. Why hasn't Your Majesty given up yet?"
"I don't know why the emperor's uncle is so obsessed with love."
Qi Yun couldn't understand, but he also respected his uncle's decision.
"Before Grandfather Emperor passed away, he wanted to find a concubine for Uncle Emperor, but Uncle Emperor refused. Later, he fought against the court officials for this woman."
"The emperor's uncle wanted to have only her as his wife in this life, but this person doesn't know how to cherish her. There is no other man as good as the emperor's uncle in the world."
Xu Lingyi's face turned pale as she softly agreed, "Yes, this woman is not worthy of the prince."
"Grandmother is old, and my uncle has left the capital. I'm afraid she's feeling sad. Please stay with her for me during this time."
After ascending the throne, he realized that there were too many state affairs to attend to and he had no time to spare.
Even though she was such a beauty, even though he took her into the palace, he didn't have much time to spend with her.
"Okay, I understand."
Sure enough, less than seven days after Qi Yuan left the capital, the Empress Dowager fell ill.
She is the only one in the harem, so she must go to take care of the patient in person.
Although the Empress Dowager's illness was just a cold, it came on very violently and took very long to heal.
Xu Lingyi took care of her for nearly half a month before the Empress Dowager's cold got much better.
"You are a good child. Thank you for your hard work during this period."
At first, the Empress Dowager didn't like her very much.
Because her appearance was so striking, it reminded her of Xu Lingyi.
She is as bright and beautiful as she is, making people unable to take their eyes off her.
She has a prejudice against extremely beautiful women since Xu Lingyi abandoned Qi Yuan.
"This is my duty, it's not hard work."
Xu Lingyi gently put down the medicine bowl and helped the Empress Dowager to sleep.
"You should have a good rest."
When she caught a cold before, Xu Lingyi had thought about giving some of the treasures in the brocade bag to the Empress Dowager.
But I was worried that the effect might be too significant, so I waited until yesterday to use it.
The treasure given by the immortal was indeed extraordinary. The Empress Dowager felt much better today and looked much more energetic.
"If she were like you, I would wake up laughing in my dreams."
The Empress Dowager looked at her and sighed again.
"I wonder how Yuan'er is doing outside?"
After being ill for more than ten days, the Empress Dowager missed Qi Yuan who was away the most.
During this period, Xu Lingyi would hear her talking about Qi Yuan every day.
"If His Highness knew that you were ill, he might return to Beijing soon." Xu Lingyi comforted him in a soft voice.
"not necessarily."
The Empress Dowager's voice was hoarse. "I know Yuan'er. He has been like this since he was a child. In front of outsiders, he appears cold and indifferent, speaks little, and rarely gets close to others."
"But once he likes something or someone, he becomes extremely obsessed with it."
The Empress Dowager sighed, and Qi Yuan's childhood memories came to her mind again.
"I still remember that he had a cat when he was a child. When the cat died, Yuan'er cried so hard."
"He was already a bit older by then, and I hadn't seen him cry in front of others for a long time, but he was extremely sad that time."
"If this is the case with pets, what about humans?"
The Grand Empress Dowager held Xu Lingyi's hand and said, "My son, once he sets his mind on something, he won't let go. He is extremely stubborn. He used to be unwilling to get married, and no one could persuade him."
"Now he's stubbornly in love with a woman and won't give up no matter what. I'm really worried that he'll never find her. What will happen to my Yuan'er then?"
The more the Empress Dowager spoke, the more depressed she became.
"If I can find her, if she is willing to live peacefully with Yuan'er, I can forgive everything that happened in the past."
The Empress Dowager's bottom line kept getting lowered.
She was not without anger in her heart, but she was willing to let it go for Qi Yuan.
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Xu Lingyi came out of the Empress Dowager's palace and couldn't help but recall the words she had said on the way.
She originally thought that her departure would at most only make Qi Yuan angry for a while.
After all, he already knew that she was not a good woman.
Many of the things she did in the past were just pretend.
But she never thought that her departure would make Qi Yuan unable to let go for so long.
The way he acted, she felt even more guilty.
But she couldn't ignore the immortal's mission.
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"Go back to Beijing."
Qi Yuan had just reached halfway when, just eight days later, he received a letter from the capital.
The Queen Mother is ill.
The situation in the letter was quite serious, so Qi Yuan did not dare to delay and rushed back to the capital overnight.
It's finally arriving today.
During the break of feeding the horses, Eunuch Wang also handed the information he found to Qi Yuan.
"Your Highness, this is the Concubine Wu you were looking for last time. All her information is here."
He just sorted it out.
"Your Highness, does this Wu Zhaoyi's identity seem to be normal?"
"The daughter of a farmer in Wujiazhuang? Grew up in a temple?" Qi Yuanya looked at the letter.
"Yes, I even sent someone to this temple with a portrait of Wu Zhaoyi to inquire about it. She was indeed raised in the temple."
"Although people around the village haven't seen her very often, they all know that the daughter of the Wu family has been practicing in the temple since she was a child and is extremely beautiful."
Qi Yuan's fierce eyes narrowed slightly, "Go check again!"
His voice was cold.
"My Lord, is there something wrong?"
"There's something wrong with this person."
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