Chapter 62: The Strange Sheep from the Foreign Domain
Because the Hundred Beasts Garden was built on the northeast corner of the Imperial Palace, the carriage arrived in less than an incense stick of time after leaving the palace gate.
The Hundred Beasts Garden covers a large area. In addition to the enclosures for various animals, there are also many trees, flowers and plants in the garden, and the environment is particularly beautiful.
The Queen was thoughtful and specially prepared a sedan chair for easy play, and also brought a rattan cart for Xia Miaoyuan.
The cart is made of tough rattan strips. It is both sturdy and cool for children to sit on, especially suitable for use in hot summer.
The nanny pushed Xia Miaoyuan in the rattan cart and followed the Queen slowly.
Xia Miaoyuan sat in the cart, breathing the fresh air in the garden and blowing the early autumn breeze, feeling very comfortable.
"Push it for me, push it for me, I want to push my sister." The fifth prince suddenly squeezed over and asked the nanny to give him the rattan cart to push.
"Nanny Sun, just give it to him." The queen was very pleased to see that the fifth prince had been close and friendly to Xia Miaoyuan in recent days.
"Chengshun, you have to be steady and careful." Concubine Shu warned worriedly.
"I know!" The fifth prince agreed loudly while grabbing the handle of the rattan cart.
[Ah, the little fool is pushing the cart? ]
Xia Miaoyuan turned her head and glared at the fifth prince fiercely.
[How dare you get so close to me? You don't keep your word. You said you would take me to see the secrets of the empress dowager, but nothing happened. ]
Xia Miaoyuan babbled at the fifth prince.
"Is my sister angry with me?" The fifth prince moved his head closer to Xia Miaoyuan and lowered his voice.
[Huh? The fifth prince can still understand what I mean? ! 】
Xia Miaoyuan was surprised.
The fifth prince deliberately slowed down his pace and fell behind the crowd.
"Last time I went to see you, I wanted to tell you that the Empress Dowager was in a bad mood and said she didn't want to see the mysterious man."
"But before I could tell you, my father spanked me." The fifth prince's tone was aggrieved.
"Sister, don't blame me. This is not that I don't keep my word."
[Wow, it seems that the fifth prince is not stupid. He actually judged what I meant by my expression! ]
Xia Miaoyuan exclaimed.
[Since you are so smart, I will call you the fifth brother from now on. ]
The fifth prince: Hehe, I am really a smart kid.
The queen and her entourage, led by a eunuch Xiao Shengzi who was in charge of the garden, first came to the pen of the foreign sheep.
"My dear friends, this is the strange sheep that Lord Pei brought from the outer vassal state a few days ago." Xiao Shengzi introduced.
Upon hearing about the strange sheep from the outer vassal state, Xia Miaoyuan stretched her neck and looked into the sheepfold.
However, the rattan cart was a little short and she could not see anything.
"Sister, let me hold you." The fifth prince took her out of the cart.
[Fifth brother is great!]
Xia Miaoyuan smiled.
[It seems that fifth brother has become better.]
Seeing this, the crown prince and the second prince wanted to hold their sister.
"Xiaowu, you are weak and you will not be able to hold her in a while." The second prince stretched out his hand.
"How could it be? I am very strong and can hold her." The fifth prince insisted.
The crown prince and the second prince had to give up.
[Wow, this is the strange sheep from the outer vassal state?]
Xia Miaoyuan rolled his eyes.
In the pen, eight curly-haired animals of different colors were leisurely basking in the sun.
They had no horns, curved necks, plump bodies, and camel-like mouths.
[Isn't this a camel?] Xia Miaoyuan complained in his heart.
"My dear gentlemen, this strange sheep from the foreign vassal state is also called a camel in the local area. It is gentle by nature, lives on vegetarianism, and has curly hair, which is very interesting." Xiao Shengzi introduced.
Xia Miaoyuan was complaining when she heard a gentle female voice.
"I pay my respects to the Queen, to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, to the Concubine Shu, and to the Second Prince!"
Xia Miaoyuan raised her eyes and saw a girl in a rose-red dress standing opposite the Queen, bowing.
"Who are you?" The queen blinked awkwardly.
She really couldn't recognize whose daughter the woman in front of her was.
"Sister, she is the second daughter of Wenxinhou's family, Qian Yuejiao." Concubine Shu gently pulled the queen's sleeve and reminded in a low voice.
"I heard that a strange sheep from a foreign vassal had just arrived in the Hundred Beasts Garden, so I came to see it specially. I didn't expect to meet the queen and the prince. It's really a coincidence." Qian Yuejiao's voice was gentle.
[A coincidence? Do you believe this when you say it? ]
Xia Miaoyuan curled her lips.
[I remember you, aren't you the Qian Yuejiao who took aphrodisiacs to get to the top in the book? ]
Taking aphrodisiacs to get to the top? !
What's going on?
The queen, the crown prince, the second prince, and the fifth prince all had expressions of waiting to eat melons.
[You were originally betrothed by your father to the son of the Marquis
of Loyalty and Bravery, but before the marriage took place, Old Man Jiang usurped the throne. ] [In order to climb up the social ladder, you spread a rumor that the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery's son had a hidden illness and broke off the engagement. ]
[At that time, Old Man Jiang became the emperor, and you thought he would definitely make his eldest son Jiang Zhiyuan the crown prince. In order to ascend to the throne, you actually gave Jiang Zhiyuan, who was about the same age as your father, an aphrodisiac. ] [
The rice was cooked, and Jiang Zhiyuan had no choice but to take you into the mansion and make you the prince's concubine. ]
[But you were too clever, how could you have imagined that Jiang Zhiyuan was not Old Man Jiang's biological son, but actually the child of his wife and the housekeeper. ]
[Old Man Jiang knew the truth a long time ago, so how could he make him the crown prince? 】
【Not long after, Jiang Zhiyuan was poisoned by old man Jiang, and you became a widow before the age of 20. 】
The queen, the crown prince, and the second prince tried their best to hide their excitement.
Jiang Zhiyuan was actually born to old lady Jiang and the housekeeper? !
No wonder Master Jiang was willing to pull him out to block the bullet.
The Fifth Prince held Xia Miaoyuan in his arms, his little face full of shock.
He didn't know anything his sister said.
Now that he heard so many amazing secrets at once, his head seemed to be frozen, and his CPU was about to burn out.
The Fifth Prince: Who am I, and where am I? Why do you want me to know all this? I'm just a child!
"Little lamb, come here, eat your vegetables obediently." Qian Yuejiao took a plate of fresh vegetables from her followers and called out to the camels with a pinched throat.
An apricot-colored camel walked over slowly, stretching its neck to eat the leaves in Qian Yuejiao's hand.
"Oh, so cute. I really want to raise one in my house. I will be very happy to take care of them every day." Qian Yuejiao said this, deliberately reaching out her hand to stroke the alpaca's head, and squeezed a simple smile on her face.
[yue...]
Xia Miaoyuan looked at her artificial expression and listened to the scalp-numbing sound of the clamp, and almost vomited in disgust.
[Miss Qian, may I ask if you are a clamp spirit? ]
"I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also likes small animals. I wonder if the rumor is true or not?" Qian Yuejiao smiled sweetly at the Crown Prince.
The Crown Prince had to bite the bullet and answered: "I am okay with small animals."
[You really have the same vision in both lives. You cling to whoever has power. 】
Xia Miaoyuan couldn't help cursing in her heart.
【In the book, when my prince Guoguo lost power, you didn't even bother to pay attention to him. 】
【Scheming girl, wait and see how this princess will deal with you! 】