Chapter 280 A thunderbolt hits Kunning Palace

At this time, Xia Miaoyuan wiped his mouth and walked out of the main hall.

Seeing the queen and Xiao Wanyin standing there in a daze, Xia Miaoyuan was a little puzzled.

The queen made a silent gesture to Xiao Wanyin, indicating that she should not make her discovery known to others.

"Mother, little cousin, what's wrong with you? Why do you look weird?"

The queen smiled and said, "Nothing, mother was just discussing Maomao with Ayin. Maomao is really spiritual. Next time the national teacher comes, let him see what's special about Maomao."

"Maybe it has wisdom."

Xia Miaoyuan said thoughtfully, "Maybe!"

The queen was about to take the magic pearl into the house and put it away again.

Seeing this, Xia Miaoyuan hurriedly called out, "Mother, wait a minute?"

"Miao'er, what?"

Xia Miaoyuan's little hands grabbed the corner of her clothes and rubbed them back and forth. After a while, she said, "Well, mother, can you agree to Miao'er's request?"

The queen was confused. Xia Miaoyuan had been pampered since she was a child, and she always said what she wanted directly, but it had never been like today.

"Miao'er, tell me what you want."

Xia Miaoyuan mustered up the courage to say, "Mother, can you put the seven-colored magic beads in Miao'er's room? Don't put it away anymore?"

The queen was stunned and looked at Xia Miaoyuan steadily, as if waiting for her to say the reason for doing so.

"Well, it's really beautiful! I want to see it every morning when I wake up and every night before going to bed."

[God bless, mother must agree. 】Xia Miaoyuan looked obedient and calm on the surface, but her heart was surging with excitement.

【You must agree! 】

【Only if I touch this bead every day can I have a better chance of understanding its secret. 】

【The damn old King Yan didn't tell me the secret of the bead directly, so I have to understand it myself. 】

The Queen's heart tightened when she heard her daughter's request and she hesitated.

She understood that her daughter wanted to understand the secret of the bead and wanted to touch the bead day and night.

But this bead is really too important. If it is really as the national teacher said, it will be of great use in the future. If it is lost, it will be too late for regret.

But if the bead continues to be locked up, it will not help her daughter to understand the mystery.

Xia Miaoyuan looked up and blinked her innocent eyes at the queen, waiting for her to make a decision, but in her heart she recalled the dream that King Yan had given her yesterday, and the more she thought about it, the angrier she became.

[Damn old King Yan, damn old King Yan, wicked old King Yan! Ahhhhh!]

[Since you want to hint at me, why don't you tell me everything! You have to tell me one by one, it's really abominable!]

[Old King Yan, you lack great virtue!]

Boom!

At this moment, a thunderbolt suddenly struck the clear sky.

A bolt of lightning split the azure sky and struck straight down.

Crack!

Immediately afterwards, a loud noise was heard in the courtyard of Kunning Palace.

"Mee..." Maomao was frightened and let out a low cry, then ran back to the nest and lay down with his butt facing outward.

Hua Nier, who was tied to the corridor, was frightened and whimpered, then she closed her eyes, trembling and lay on the ground, covering her ears with her two front paws.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? What's going on?" Xiaoluzi ran over in a panic, holding a dustpan.

Several palace servants also rushed over following the sound.

Everyone looked around the courtyard suspiciously, trying to find the source of the strange sound just now.

Suddenly, a sharp-eyed eunuch pointed at a tree and shouted, "A tree was struck by lightning!"

Xia Miaoyuan looked in the direction of the eunuch's hand and saw that a sycamore tree originally planted on the east side of the yard, with a trunk as thick as a bowl, had been split in half and fell to the ground. There

were wisps of black smoke coming out of the trunk.

[No way?] Xia Miaoyuan covered his mouth in shock.

[Just after I scolded King Yan, a thunderbolt came and struck the tree? ]

[This is old King Yan showing me a lesson! ]

[Mommy! You can't scold people carelessly! ]

[Ah? Can't you scold people in your heart? ]

Xia Miaoyuan was so scared that his face turned pale and he stood there in a daze.

Even though the queen had seen a lot, she was still shocked.

However, out of a mother's instinct, she still walked forward, squatted down, and hugged Xia Miaoyuan and Xiao Wanyin in her arms.

She softened and comforted, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's okay, it's just a thunderstorm."

Xia Miaoyuan: That's all? Mother, you really know how to comfort people.

Xiao Wanyin: Miao'er, it's all your fault! Why don't you scold anyone else, scold Prince Yan.

Xia Miaoyuan took another look at the tree struck by lightning, and said in her heart with a guilty conscience, [Old Prince Yan, I was wrong, I will never scold you again. ]

[I will be obedient. ]

[I will follow your instructions to figure out the magic pearl. 】

At this time, the palace maids in Kunning Palace were still stunned, looking at each other in panic.

"This... this... this, Madam?" Xiaoluzi stammered.

In the distance, several eunuchs and palace maids were whispering.

"How could there be a thunderbolt in broad daylight!"

"It's really weird!"

"They say that thunderbolts harm people. Is it God's warning?"

"Then who is this thunderbolt for?"

At this time, Li Ma walked over from behind them and shouted in a low voice: "Be quiet, watch your tongues!"

The palace maids remembered what the queen had just said, and then they shut up.

The queen calmed down, stood up and said to everyone, "It's nothing, just a surprise, nothing surprising, everyone, get back to work. Don't talk too much!"

The palace servants replied yes and left one after another.

Then, the queen ordered someone to clear the tree, and then she took Xia Miaoyuan and Xiao Wanyin and went into the house.

This time, without waiting for Xia Miaoyuan to ask again, the queen spoke first: "Your mother has agreed to give you this magic pearl. However, you must be more careful."

Xia Miaoyuan nodded with satisfaction, and the fear and panic just now immediately disappeared.

Xiao Wanyin, who was standing by, also breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the queen say this, and felt happy for Xia Miaoyuan.

She thought, now my cousin can study this pearl with peace of mind, and maybe she will be able to understand the secret of this pearl in a short time.

Xia Miaoyuan held the seven-colored magic pearl in the palm of his hand, as if protecting his eyeball, and took it into his bedroom.

The whole day, except for eating, Xia Miaoyuan stayed in the bedroom holding the beads.

She tried almost everything she knew, heard, and thought of, and even placed the beads on a low cabinet as a sacrifice, kneeling down and worshipping.

But the beads still did not respond.

By dinner time, Xia Miaoyuan was so tired that she fell asleep on the bed holding the beads.

At the same time, in just one afternoon, the news that Kunning Palace was struck by a thunderbolt spread like wildfire.

It was not that the palace servants of Kunning Palace were so gossipy that they spread rumors everywhere, but mainly because the tree that was struck by lightning could not hide it.