Chapter 738 Jade Carving Cabbage
In the palace, it was the Lantern Festival banquet.
Even though Prince Li was assassinated and Concubine Lang was imprisoned, for people inside and outside the palace, such a grand Lantern Festival would be held as scheduled.
But it is impossible for Si Linglong to participate.
After hearing what Li Sheng said, she felt a strong sense of uneasiness in her heart, which gradually increased as no new news came back from outside the palace.
She didn't know how to find someone, and she didn't even know why Si Jinyu did this.
She thought that even if she knew about the feud between the Si family and the Li Wang Mansion, she might still be able to guess where her brother would be.
Si Linglong even wanted to go find Helian Tuo.
As the prince of Li Wang's Mansion, Helian Tuo must know something.
In just a moment, she directly discarded this thought.
Not to mention that she can't see anyone now, even if she really sees him, Helian Tuo probably won't want to see her since her brother wants to kill his father.
Si Linglong thought about it and suddenly remembered something.
She turned around and began to rummage in her makeup box.
"Your Majesty, what are you looking for? I'll help you find it." Shuhong asked her.
Si Linglong has a lot of things, and the jewelry alone is not just in this box. Most of them are properly placed in the warehouse. If you want to find something, it may be faster to look for it directly in the warehouse book.
"A jade-carved cabbage. I remember it was in the dressing box..." Si Linglong murmured to explain that it was given to her by Si Jinyu in Yutai Mountain. He also told her at that time that if she encountered a life-threatening situation in the palace, she could take the thing to ask the empress dowager for help.
The Si family is a wealthy family in the area. Logically, they don't have anything valuable enough to invite the Queen Mother. The jade carving of the cabbage must have some history. Si Linglong thought that maybe she could find a clue from it.
But I didn't pay much attention to it at that time, and I just put it in my dressing box when I returned to the palace. I just remembered it now.
Shu Hong, who was standing by, heard her talking about the jade-carved cabbage. After a brief thought, she had an idea. She opened a box on the upper left of the dressing table, took out a red brocade bag, took out the things in the brocade bag, and asked,
"Is this what the queen is looking for?"
In Shu Hong's soft palm, there lay a jade-carved cabbage the size of a finger joint. The moment Si Linglong saw the cabbage, her eyes lit up.
“That’s it.”
Taking the cabbage in her hand and rubbing it carefully, Si Linglong thought for a moment and told Shu Hong, "Change my clothes for me."
She is going to see the Queen Mother.
Although the emperor issued an edict to the outside world saying that she was temporarily banned from leaving, no one really dared to stop Si Linglong from leaving.
But at such a sensitive time, she couldn't go there openly, so she simply changed into a low-key outfit, a style that ordinary concubines could also wear, and somewhat similar to the clothes of the palace ladies.
Si Linglong hurried out of the door with Shu Hong only, and deliberately chose a palace path that few people usually walked on, and went directly to Ciyu Palace.
Fortunately, the Lantern Festival banquet is still in the planning stage, and the Queen Mother is still in the palace at this time.
Hearing that Concubine Lang wanted to see her, the Queen Mother frowned subconsciously, with a sharp look in her eyes. After a brief thought, she finally gave in and said, "Let her come in."
When she walked into the inner hall, the empress dowager looked at her attire and at least thought she was not too stupid, but she still looked unhappy, "Lang Fei, do you not take the emperor and the palace rules seriously at all now?"
Si Linglong paused and knelt down in front of the Queen Mother. "Queen Mother, I dare not. If it were not for my utter help, I would never dare to disturb your peace."
The Queen Mother snorted coldly, "Do you think that if you come to me, I will be able to give you the solution you want? Or do you want me to intervene and let the Li Palace forgive your brother's behavior?"
Although the tone was harsh, it was not a final statement.
Si Linglong was touched by the empress dowager's sympathy, so she took out the purse containing the cabbages from her bosom and asked Aunt Jinxin to present it to the empress dowager.
"I dare not ask the Queen Mother to make the decision, but I just ask the Queen Mother to take a look at this thing."
The Queen Mother looked at the purse presented to her with some confusion. When she opened the purse and saw the jade-carved cabbage in her palm, she was slightly startled. She frowned and looked at Si Linglong, but asked,
"This jade cabbage belonged to the former Princess Li. How come it is with you?"
These words made Si Linglong full of surprise.
She had imagined the origin of this jade-carved cabbage, and even brought up her own speculation about the princess of a fallen country, but she had never imagined that this was actually... something that belonged to the former Princess Li?