"elder brother!"
Su Qiqi looked at the Fourth Prince and smiled brightly.
She stretched out her hands, pretending to let the Fourth Prince hold her.
Lu Hongxuan glanced at Su Qiqi and grumbled softly, "You didn't even call me brother. Damn it!"
Su Qiqi's mouth was drooling, but she still tried her best to control her tongue and shouted, "Sister, sister...brother! Hug me!"
The Queen Mother looked up at Su Qiqi and said, "It seems Qiqi really likes Chengyue and Shuwen. I am very pleased to see the harmonious relationship between you two siblings."
Shen Mingyue pondered for a moment and said, "Queen Dowager, Chengyue and Shuwen are still young and cannot be left unattended. In my humble opinion, it would be better to hand them over to the Concubine Dowager for upbringing."
The Queen Mother nodded and said, "Let me make the decision. From now on, Cheng Yue and Shu Wen will be raised in my palace."
Happiness came too suddenly. The eldest princess and the fourth prince were flattered and didn't know what to do for a moment. They could only stare at Su Qiqi in a daze.
His eyes were full of surprise and gratitude.
"Yeah! Great!"
Su Qiqi clapped her hands happily.
That smile was so contagious that Shen Mingyue couldn't help but pinch her little face.
After realizing it belatedly, the Fourth Prince pulled the eldest princess down to kneel together: "Thank you, Grandmother, for your love."
"Never mind. I'm tired too. Wanshuang, clean up this box and the dirt inside. I'll take Chengyue and Shuwen back to Shouning Palace first."
After the Queen Mother said this, she turned and walked out.
The fourth prince held the eldest princess' hand and followed the empress dowager obediently.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I will take my leave first."
Wanshuang bowed and left with the box in her hand.
Only then did Shen Mingyue hug Su Qiqi and sit back on the recliner.
Lu Qingyuan rubbed her knees, which ached from kneeling, and looked at Shui Ling, who was still kneeling in the courtyard. "Oh, good deeds will be rewarded and evil deeds will be punished. Look at these people, they are so ignorant and just want to harm my sister-in-law. In the end, they all suffered the consequences!"
Shui Ling quickly explained: "Your Majesty, I am only here to look for the kitten. This incident today has nothing to do with me."
"You found a random excuse to search my sister-in-law's bedroom, and just happened to go to Hongxuan's room and take this box out. Just then, Concubine Xian called my mother over. Tsk tsk tsk, I'm afraid you and Concubine Xian have been colluding with each other for a long time, right?!"
Lu Qingyuan's words were sharp and merciless.
Shui Ling cried and said, "No, no. I just came here to look for Xiao Mao. I didn't know that the virtuous concubine wanted to harm the noble concubine!"
She looked at the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, I have just entered the palace and know nothing. I just want to find my lost kitten."
She still used looking for the kitten as an excuse and did not dare to tell the truth.
If one really wanted to say that they came to search Yongle Palace specifically because of Concubine Xian's instigation...
I'm afraid her fate will not be much better than that of Concubine Xian.
"That's enough," the emperor said impatiently, "Fu Ping, take Lingpin back to have a good rest. No discussion of what happened today is allowed."
"yes."
Fu Ping received the order, stood up and helped Shui Ling up.
Shui Ling looked at the emperor pitifully: "Your Majesty, I really don't know..."
"Go back to Ruiyun Palace!"
The emperor had a cold expression on his face and would not tolerate any refusal.
Lingpin bit her lip unwillingly and bowed: "I will take my leave."
The maids and eunuchs of Ruiyun Palace also left with Shui Ling.
Hongye and Qiuhe put away the ramie cloth.
Qiu He stepped forward and asked, "My Lady, should we still pack this ramie cloth in a separate box?"
The emperor angrily said: "Burn it, I am annoyed just looking at it!"
"This..." Qiu He looked at Shen Mingyue with an embarrassed look on his face, asking for help.
Shen Mingyue said, "This cloth is very expensive. Why burn it? Even if I can't use it, I can give it to someone else later."
"Seeing this ramie cloth reminds me of those two voodoo dolls! People like Concubine Xian are not worth being cut into pieces! I wonder how many kind-hearted people there are in this harem. I'm really afraid that one day you'll be harmed again!"
The emperor's angry look didn't look like that of a majestic king at all. Instead, he looked a bit childish.
[Yo yo yo, is the little wolfdog angry? Does he know how to protect his wife?]
"Aren't you going to pamper Shui Ling? Go ahead, please! You're so busy, how can you even care about the life and death of the imperial concubine?"
[Thankfully, our Imperial Concubine was blessed with good fortune and was able to turn misfortune into good fortune! Otherwise, she would have died eight hundred times already!]
Su Qiqi was full of contempt and cursed.
The emperor's expression was strange and his mood was complicated.
The imperial concubine laughed and gently patted Su Qiqi's little head.
"Well, I'll take Qiqi to sleep for a while. Brother Huang, you can talk to sister-in-law slowly."
Lu Qingyuan said as she stepped forward and hugged Su Qiqi. Then she winked at everyone.
"Ah, yes, yes, Yunchi and I will go copy the scriptures."
Lu Hongxuan hurriedly pulled Mo Yunchi into the house.
Qiuhe and Hongye also left tactfully.
Soon, only Shen Mingyue and the emperor were left in the yard.
The emperor walked behind Shen Mingyue and massaged her shoulders: "Mingyue, don't worry. Everything will be fine after Mid-Autumn Festival. When Mid-Autumn Festival comes, I will give you a surprise."
Shen Mingyue became interested and asked, "What surprise?"
The emperor pretended to be mysterious: "Since it is a surprise, it cannot be revealed in advance."
//
In the woodshed of Yuxiu Palace, Concubine Xian was curled up in a corner, looking dazed.
The doors and windows were closed, and there were guards outside, so she had no way to escape.
A mouse crawled over and she was so frightened that she trembled and tears streamed down her face.
"Your Majesty...you can't treat me like this. I am the biological mother of the eldest princess and the fourth prince. I cannot die!"
"Your Majesty, you have such a cruel heart! You are so affectionate towards the Imperial Concubine, why can't you share a little bit of your love and affection for me?"
"I loved you so much, why did I end up like this?"
"Your Majesty, you will forgive me, right?"
Squeak——
The door was opened and the Queen Mother and Wan Shuang walked in.
Wan Shuang handed a bowl of iced lily and pear soup to Concubine Xian: "Concubine Xian, this is the soup given to you by the Queen Mother."
"The Queen Mother?"
Xianfei was stunned for a moment, then quickly knelt and crawled to the Queen Mother, crying and begging: "Queen Mother, please save me! I am loyal to you, and Chengyue and Shuwen are so young, they can't be left without anyone to take care of them!"
The Queen Mother raised her chin and said, "Drink the soup."
"this……"
The virtuous concubine turned pale with fright.
With trembling hands, she picked up the bowl of soup but didn't dare to drink it.
The Queen Mother smiled and said, "It's not poisonous. I'll ask you a question after you finish drinking it."
"Thank you, Queen Mother, for the reward."
The virtuous concubine mistakenly thought that the empress dowager still had sympathy for her, and she felt secretly delighted.
She held the bowl and drank up all the soup.
The Queen Mother smiled and said, "Isn't it delicious? I specially had someone find some safflower to boil in this soup."
The virtuous concubine's expression froze, and she looked at the empress dowager in disbelief.
She forced a smile and pretended to be dumb: "Queen Dowager, what are you saying? I, I don't understand."
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