Chapter 203: Reactions from the Two Palaces

Ninghe Palace.

The palace servants walked out of the hall quickly with their hands down. Before the door was closed, the sound of applause came from inside.

When Lanying walked out of the hall, her heart tightened. She turned around and was about to go back to the hall, but was stopped by Nanny Sun.

"As servants, we'd better not interfere in our master's affairs." Nanny Sun was not tall, but the look she gave him was condescending.

Lan Ying's eyes instantly turned red and her lips were almost bitten to a bloody pulp, but she could only step aside under the gaze of Nanny Sun, and she tightened her collar again and again as the scolding continued to come from inside.

After a long time, the palace door finally opened and the queen walked out.

Lan Ying hurried over and supported the empress, whose steps were unsteady. Looking at her swollen face and the blood at the corners of her mouth, tears welled up in her eyes.

The queen held down her hand that was wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth, shook her head slightly, and said weakly, "Let's go."

"Yes." Lan Ying drove the queen and slowly walked out of the Ninghe Palace.

After returning to Fengyi Palace, Lanying immediately asked someone to prepare a cool handkerchief for the empress to apply to her face, but the redness and swelling would not disappear in a short time.

Lan Ying cried out in pain, "My Queen, why are you doing this? The Emperor and the Queen Mother are fighting, but you are the one who is suffering."

Unlike her, the queen looked very calm and even had the leisure to take out a book to read.

She did not respond to Lanying's question, but asked, "Have you cleaned up the side halls? Arrange everything according to the layout of the Tongming Palace, so that the little princess will not feel unfamiliar."

"Everything has been prepared according to Madam's instructions." Lan Ying applied facial mask to her and said, "I'm sorry that you are still worrying about the little princess at this time."

The queen pulled the corner of her mouth, but it hurt her mouth, so she frowned, but she didn't retract the smile in the corner of her eyes.

"What do you know? I did this all for the sake of us." She looked up at Lanying and smiled, "You'll know in a moment."

Lanying was confused at the time, but after a while, she heard someone singing outside:

"The Emperor has arrived!"

She lowered her eyes to look at the queen, her face full of surprise.

But the Queen's face remained calm. "What are you standing there for? Why don't you help me to go greet the Emperor?"

When she met the Emperor, the Empress did not mention a word about what happened in front of the Empress Dowager today. She only said that Yun Qin's enthronement ceremony was in time, and the auspicious clothes were still being made.

But even if she didn't say anything, how could Huo Jinchi not see the fingerprints on her face that had not yet faded?

He remained silent throughout, but when he left, he said quietly: "Send someone to pick up the little princess tomorrow."

Finally, he said, "The little princess hasn't been named yet, so you can decide. She is no longer in good health, so once the name is chosen, we will hold a naming ceremony to celebrate the princess's 100th day."

"Are you at the Fengyi Palace?"

Seeing that her hands were shaking with excitement, Huo Jinchi lowered his eyes and nodded, "From now on, you will be the mother of the little princess."

"Thank you, Your Majesty. Thank you, Your Majesty."

Huo Jinchi did not say anything more and left with his people. However, after he left, rewards flowed into the harem like water.

Lan Ying looked at the things on the table, not knowing whether to be happy or cry, "Your Majesty, this, this is the first time in Fengyi Palace..."

What is important about the emperor’s reward is not the gift itself, but the heart, the honor and the power behind the honor.

However, the queen was not as happy as Lanying imagined. She stroked the red silk in the tray and whispered, "The emperor never treats me badly."

Her voice was so soft that Lanying did not hear it clearly. When she asked again, the empress just shook her head and looked out the window at the palace servants coming in and out of the side hall.

Spring seems to have really arrived.

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The Fengyi Palace was filled with joy, but the Yiyang Palace was filled with coldness.

The palace maid walked out of the hall cautiously, with the dustpan in her hand full of broken tea sets. She winked at the palace maid who brushed past her and shook her head slightly. The palace maid immediately stopped walking towards the main hall and left side by side with her.

In the palace, Concubine De's chest was still rising and falling, and there was still anger in her eyes. "Empress, she is worthy of being called the Empress, and she will only try to please the Emperor! In this palace now, what kind of palace rules are there, what kind of hierarchy is there!"

"A little maid is almost climbing over my head!"

These words seemed to have been brewing in her heart for a long time. When she said them, they were full of coldness and hatred, as if she were spitting out poison.

Furong was trembling all over when she heard this, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you must not say these words!"

"Can't say it?" De Fei slammed the table. "What can't I say? Being forced to death is also a death. It would be better for the emperor to chop off my head!"

"My Lady!" Furong knelt on the ground and begged in tears, "I beg you, please stop talking!"

Defei stared at her for a while before she finally seemed to regain a bit of her rationality. She took a deep breath, and her chest that had been bullied slowly calmed down.

"Get up." She said coldly, "It's just two sentences, look how scared you are."

Defei stretched out her hand to touch the teacup, but found it empty. Then she remembered that she had "accidentally" dropped the teacup and tea set.

Furong was very observant. She quickly got up from the ground, found a new set of tea sets, and made tea for Concubine De again.

After taking a sip of tea, Concubine De calmed down completely.

"Where is the eldest prince?" she asked in a calm voice.

Furong was still a little nervous, and said in a trembling voice: "At this hour, the eldest prince should still be asleep."

"Still sleeping?" De Fei frowned. "Let someone call him over. Last time, he couldn't recite a single word of the poems he recited. I was too embarrassed to bring him to the emperor, and he still wants to sleep!"

It was not like before, when he was young and had more minor illnesses and accidents, and the emperor only felt pity and love for him.

After all, the eldest prince is the eldest son. He is growing up day by day. If he still looks sickly, the emperor will think he is useless. The emperor must think that the eldest prince can become a useful person!

"Go quickly!" she shouted sharply.

"Yes, yes, I'll go right away." Furong quickly retreated.

Concubine De slammed the teacup onto the table and looked out the window. In her eyes, there were no new leaves sprouting or flowers blooming, only the setting sun, which turned half the sky blood red.

She clenched her fingers a little bit, and kept reminding herself to stay calm and be patient.