Chapter 346: High Mountains and Flowing Water
"Look at the child."
I didn’t expect Dong Lanxin’s second sentence would be this.
A slight surprise flashed across Qin Yuwei's phoenix eyes. She raised her eyes and looked at Dong Lanxin, who was holding a child in her arms and smiling at her.
Qin Yuwei thought for a moment, then walked forward and carefully sat down next to Dong Lanxin, leaning over to look at the baby in her arms.
The child was sucking his fingers, his skin was slightly red, like a newborn monkey, his two round eyes were looking at him, as if he was also a little curious.
Seeing the child's cute appearance, even Qin Yuwei couldn't help but smile and made a few teasing sounds with her mouth.
"This child's eyes and eyebrows look more like yours." Qin Yuwei said with a smile.
"Your Highness named him Yan Ning, which means peaceful and tranquil."
"Yan Ning..." Qin Yuwei softly read out the name, "It has a good meaning. It seems that His Highness hopes that he will live in peace for the rest of his life."
"What about you? Do you also just want a peaceful life?"
Dong Lanxin's words made Qin Yuwei stunned for a moment, but it was only for a moment, and she laughed again in a gentle voice.
"Your Majesty..."
"I have sent people to investigate your background in detail." Dong Lanxin interrupted her directly, as if she didn't care at all about her answer.
Or, in other words, the real answer is already known.
Her gaze towards Qin Yuwei began to become deeper and deeper.
"I know everything, including your chance to enter the Eastern Palace." Dong Lanxin's voice was soft but very firm.
"In order to get rid of your stepmother and brother, you started your own business and made a lot of money."
"Of course, you are well educated. If your brother hadn't committed murder and gone to jail, you would have a seat in the court now."
"You were implicated by your brother and were stripped of your honor, but you are not short of money."
"If you only want peace, you can live a carefree life outside the palace by relying on your business. You don't have to go to such lengths to enter the East Palace."
"I want to know - what exactly is it that you are asking for?"
After listening to Dong Lanxin's words, Qin Yuwei was silent for a moment, and then she raised the corners of her lips little by little.
"What do you think I should ask for, Your Majesty?"
"Now that we're here, of course we have to compete for favor." A barely perceptible hint of confusion flashed across Dong Lanxin's face, but her tone remained steady.
"It's just that I can't figure it out."
"What is it that your Majesty can't figure out?"
"If you wanted to win my favor, why did you save us twice? If anything happened to me or the baby in my womb, wouldn't you benefit?"
"Your Majesty is wrong. I only saved you this time today."
Qin Yuwei lowered her eyes and said.
"Last time, you deliberately let my maid get close to the bowl of medicinal food. In other words, the actions of everyone in the inner courtyard are under your eyes. If you didn't deliberately let her go, no one could get close to your medicinal food.
Therefore, no matter whether I add the medicinal ingredients that neutralize the medicinal properties into the medicinal food or not, the medicine given by others will not be able to harm you at all.
Since this was a trap set up by the Queen to fish for fish, how can I talk about "saving" her? "
"As for why I want to save him today...it's naturally for His Highness.
Your Highness is currently in danger, and Your Majesty is a member of the Dong family. If something happens to you at this time, it will be detrimental to the situation."
Dong Lanxin suddenly moved closer to her, as if wanting to see something clearly.
"Is it for His Highness, or for the East Palace?"
Qin Yuwei raised her eyes calmly and looked at her, and quickly weighed the result.
A smart person should know how to hide his shortcomings.
What is more difficult than hiding one's shortcomings is judging when to show one's talents.
Qin Yuwei's gaze finally changed little by little, and the smile on her lips finally deepened slowly.
She and Dong Lanxin's eyes met. The candlelight on the table outlined the profiles of their faces and reflected them on the wall inside the bed.
Those were two first-rate and exquisite faces, but at this moment, they had shed their usual docile appearance.
They both saw desire and ambition in each other's eyes.
At the same time, they were all surprised that what they saw was so familiar.
In an instant, Qin Yuwei seemed to understand something.
After a long time, Dong Lanxin leaned back on the cushion behind her, and her shadow on the wall shrank back with this movement.
The atmosphere suddenly became much more relaxed.
"It seems that what we are asking for... are in conflict." Dong Lanxin said with a smile, but there was some appreciation in her eyes.
“There is conflict, but at least not now.”
Qin Yuwei looked at her steadily, "At least right now we all hope - or rather, we all need that nothing happens in the East Palace."
Dong Lanxin hummed softly, and after thinking for a moment, she spoke slowly:
"Your friend is very capable and has been a great help."
As she spoke, she took off a jade bracelet from her wrist. On the inner wall of the bracelet was engraved Dong Lanxin's small characters, which showed at first glance that it was something brought by her mother's family.
"Give this to her."
"If you need anything outside the palace, you can always take this bracelet and seek help from the Dong family."
Qin Yuwei solemnly put away the bracelet.
The two had nothing more to talk about, so Qin Yuwei stood up and said goodbye.
She opened the door and heard Dong Lanxin ask behind her:
"I heard that you recently learned to play the guqin?"
Qin Yuwei tilted her head slightly.
"The East Palace is lonely. There is a song. When did you learn it? Why don't you come to Ziwei Pavilion and play it for me?"
Qin Yuwei turned around and asked, "What does the queen want to hear?"
A complicated smile appeared on Dong Lanxin's slightly pale face.
“High Mountains and Flowing Water.”
Qin Yuwei's eyes moved slightly and she responded with a smile.
"When I have learned it, I will be the first to play it for Your Majesty."
The candles flicker.
She closed the door gently and walked into the night.
Inadvertently, her gaze passed over the wall of the inner courtyard and fell on a lighted house outside, and a hint of curiosity flashed in her eyes.
I heard... someone came to see Yan Xiuyun just now.
Who could it be?
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