When Mu Hu saw Concubine Yun's carriage entering the city, he immediately sent someone to report to the Yanbei Palace. When Concubine Yun's carriage arrived at the main gate of the Yanbei Palace, the Yanbei Princess had already come out to greet her.
Concubine Yun was a year or two older than the old princess, in her early fifties. She wore a plain, dark blue jacket and skirt. Her temples were already graying, and she wore only a pair of white jade hairpins in her hair. She wore no other jewelry. Although her face bore the marks of time, her features hinted at the rare beauty she must have been in her youth.
Although Concubine Yun's attire could only be described as shabby compared to the old princess, and even some respectable maids dressed more elegantly than she did, no one would mistake her for a servant. There were people in this world who could wear a dragon robe and still not look like a prince, and naturally there were also people who wore plain clothes and a thorny hairpin but still had an extraordinary temperament. Concubine Yun was one of them.
Concubine Yun supported the princess who was about to come forward to pay her respects and said calmly, "There is no such rule. Don't let others laugh at you. Go in."
Her face was cold and her voice was light. She was not very friendly towards her daughter-in-law and niece. She seemed a little difficult to approach, but she did not act condescendingly or deliberately to intimidate her daughter-in-law.
The princess seemed to understand her mother-in-law's temperament very well and did not insist. Concubine Yun helped her up and she stood up and followed Concubine Yun in. The two of them spoke very little along the way, and it was basically the princess who asked questions, and Concubine Yun occasionally replied with "hmm".
The princess personally escorted Concubine Yun to her Lanxi Palace, and brought people to help her change her clothes and serve her tea.
"Where is the prince?" Concubine Yun asked after sitting down.
"The prince went out after the Dragon Boat Festival."
The princess didn't say where she went, and Concubine Yun didn't ask, but just nodded: "Jingxi is not in the mansion either?"
The princess glanced at Concubine Yun. Concubine Yun was not particularly close to Xiao Jingxi and Xiao Jinglin, and rarely took the initiative to ask about their affairs.
"Jingxi has been recuperating in the other courtyard lately."
Upon hearing this, Concubine Yun glanced at the princess, then said nothing and lowered her head to drink tea.
The princess sat with Concubine Dowager Yun for a while, and then someone came in to report that the eldest daughter of the Yun family had arrived.
Concubine Yun nodded: "Let her in."
The princess frowned slightly, then quickly relaxed her brows and sat there without saying a word.
It was Concubine Dowager Yun who said to the princess, "I told her I was coming back today."
The princess wanted to ask, "Even I, your wife, didn't receive any prior confirmation of your return today, yet you informed your niece instead?" The princess didn't know what Concubine Yun was up to.
In reality, because Concubine Yun had a rather cold disposition, the princess and she weren't close. However, ever since she married the King of Yanbei and became his Concubine, Concubine Yun had never interfered in the palace's internal affairs, and the two of them had never had any conflicts.
The princess knew that Concubine Yun treated Yun Qiuchen differently. She had thought it was nothing, after all, Yun Qiuchen was Concubine Yun's great-niece and also her own niece. But now the princess felt a little worried. This chapter has been read (please click on the next chapter to continue reading!)
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