The Beloved in the Palm

Chapter 52 His father is a treacherous minister

When Xue Qinghe was helped out by the maid Qiuxin, he bumped into Xue Qingyin walking out.

Xue Qinghe felt dizzy when she moved.

Xue Qingyin was not much better. She walked step by step with difficulty, looking more pitiful than Xue Qinghe.

Xue Qinghe's expression changed, and for a moment he wondered if she did it on purpose.

"I asked someone to invite you out. You will enter the palace with me today." Xue Qingyin's voice sounded.

Xue Qinghe looked up in surprise.

"Are you feeling better?" Xue Qingyin asked.

Xue Qinghe came back to his senses and bowed his head and said, "Yes, I am better."

He didn't say a word more.

Xue Qingyin also felt awkward. Forget it, let's not care about her.

"Miss Xue."

Next to the gray and inconspicuous carriage, there stood a thin woman. She spoke in a low voice, which immediately attracted the attention of Xue Qingyin and others.

Xue Qinghe didn't need to think about it now, she must be calling her sister.

Sure enough, the woman walked up to Xue Qingyin and asked with a smile: "Miss Xue, have you run out of medicine?"

Xue Qingyin immediately knew who sent her.

Who else could it be besides King Xuan?

Xue Qingyin was a little puzzled.

Why did King Xuan send someone at this time?

Is he going to take her into the palace?

She suppressed her doubts and smiled: "There are still a lot left, enough to ride three times."

The woman couldn't help laughing: "Miss Xue is really a funny person."

It was even more certain that the woman was indeed King Xuan's person.

The woman whispered: "I am Wanxia, ​​a servant of the Queen Mother, and I have been ordered to take Miss Xue into the palace for the palace banquet."

The people behind Xue Qingyin were shocked.

It used to be the Golden Sparrow Princess, and then it was the Duke of Zhao's Mansion who came to pick her up, and now...it turned out that the Queen Mother sent someone to pick her up?

What kind of luck did the eldest lady in the mansion have?

How could they know? Xue Qingyin couldn't figure it out either.

Isn't she the King Xuan's man? How did she become the Queen Mother's man?

"Miss Xue is almost in a daze. Let's get on the carriage and talk." The maid Wanxia urged.

Xue Qingyin took two steps forward, then remembered and turned back to say, "Qinghe, come with us."

Xue Qinghe didn't dare to move. She didn't even dare to look at the maid's face.

Since she came to find Xue Qingyin specifically, what's the matter with taking her with her?

Xue Qinghe was afraid that the maid would open her mouth and say something harsh. She was also afraid that Xue Qingyin would call her out just to deliberately humiliate her.

"Are you feeling unwell?" Seeing that she didn't move, Xue Qingyin asked her in confusion.

Xue Qinghe didn't know how to respond.

Or Wanxia vaguely saw her thoughts and said, "Please."

After saying this, Xue Qinghe finally breathed a sigh of relief and walked slowly to Xue Qingyin's side.

"What good person is she being asked to be?" Qiu Xin muttered secretly.

Xue Qingyin didn't hear it, but Wanxia suddenly turned around and said, "What did you say?"

Qiu Xin was so frightened that her face turned pale and she couldn't say a word.

Fortunately, Wanxia didn't ask any more questions, so Qiu Xin sat down next to Xue Qinghe in shock.

Xue Qinghe had never participated in a palace banquet since she was born, and had never seen such a grand ceremony.

If it weren't for the boat trip that day, it would be considered a tempering. I'm afraid she wouldn't dare to enter the palace today.

She couldn't help but press her chest, and she felt a dull pain in her heart.

When she turned her head...

She found that Xue Qingyin was actually leaning on the waist pillow and dozing off!

Xue Qingyin slept at the gate of the palace.

Xue Qinghe looked up and saw that the towering palace gate made her a little breathless.

Where is Xue Qingyin?

She opened her eyes lazily, raised her hand and pressed the corners of her eyes, and a little blush was left in the corners of her eyes immediately.

When she looked up at the people, she felt that she wanted to say something but couldn't.

Wanxia looked at her in a trance, then turned around and lifted the curtain.

Xue Qinghe's eyes naturally looked out.

Waiting outside... were actually several strong men.

They were carrying a small sedan chair.

Is this... to pick up Xue Qingyin?

Xue Qinghe didn't know the various rules in the palace, but she thought, this shouldn't be a treatment that everyone can have, right?

Xue Qingyin was worried at this moment: "There are more people."

She had never thought that the palace would come to pick her up like this.

Wanxia said in a relaxed tone: "It doesn't matter, just carry another one."

Not long after Wanxia finished speaking, several strong men came, carrying another small sedan chair.

Xue Qingyin and Xue Qinghe were carried like this, turning around and around, passing through several alleys surrounded by high walls, and finally entered the harem.

"Young lady, please sit down and have some tea. I will come to pick you up later." Wanxia left them in a side hall and left.

This side hall was a little small and the lighting was not very good. The sunlight came in through the diamond-shaped window and fell sparsely on the ground, which could not reduce the coldness on her body.

Qiu Xin's lips turned pale, her legs were shaking, and she couldn't stand steadily: "Where is this...? Why didn't I see anyone along the way?"

Xue Qinghe was also instantly worried.

Qiu Xin continued: "Could it be that someone deliberately tricked us here..." Qiu Xin paused, and said in horror: "Could it be the person who pushed the second young lady last time?"

Xue Qingyin couldn't help it: "Forget it, if that person could command the people in the palace, why would he push people into the river?"

Qiu Xin stopped talking awkwardly, with dissatisfaction written all over her face.

Xue Qingyin was calm.

Compared with the anxious and panic-stricken women, their expressions looked a bit unbeatable.

"Aren't you afraid, big girl?" Qiu Xin blurted out.

Xue Qingyin was afraid of farts.

The fact that Wanxia mentioned riding a horse meant that even if she was not sent by King Xuan, she at least had a connection with him.

King Xuan was not a bitch like King Wei, so Xue Qingyin felt that he could not do anything light or serious.

When Qiu Xin saw that she was silent, the resentment in her heart crawled through her heart like ants.

The atmosphere here is tense.

On the other side, in a room so quiet that you could hear a needle drop, an older woman vomited: "Which one is it?"

Wanxia knelt in front of her and whispered: "The one who enjoys tea leisurely."

The woman looked at Xue Qingyin and took a sip of tea. She probably found it unpleasant to drink. Xue Qingyin frowned again and said "yue" softly.

Looking at the sunset, I thought it was a bit cute, and I couldn't help but want to laugh.

But when she noticed that there was no smile on the face of the older woman, the Queen Mother, Wanxia had to suppress her smile.

She whispered: "The eldest girl of the Xue family is calm and her background is not low..."

"Origin? Her mother is a merchant, and her father is a smooth-talking and sycophantic minister." The Queen Mother said in a cold tone.

Wanxia did not dare to speak.

Xue Qingyin and others had no idea that in the main hall, which was separated from the side hall by a wall, the extremely noble Empress Dowager of the Liang Dynasty was looking at them calmly through the dark window dug out in the wall.

"Let them sit for a while." The Queen Mother said and ordered people to close the dark window and stop looking.

"His Royal Highness Prince Xuan...maybe he's coming soon." Wanxia whispered.

"Then let's wait until later." The Queen Mother pursed her lower lip heavily and said unhappily: "Prince Xuan's marriage has been postponed until today... How can you let such a woman take advantage of you? When the Yi family heard about it, Prince Wei also fell in love with her. As for her, Concubine Wan is probably not willing to marry such a woman to her son. How can she give it to Prince Xuan if she doesn't want it?"

Wanxia squeezed out a voice from between her teeth: "But... but when has the Queen Mother ever seen your Highness treat any woman as special? Your Highness... if you really like her..."

The Queen Mother looked at her coldly for a moment.

Just when Wanxia couldn't bear it any longer, the Queen Mother suddenly relaxed and said, "In that case, then you should give Aijia a good test first."

Wanxia quietly exhaled and said, "How to test it?"

The Queen Mother rubbed the jade ring on her hand and said, "King Xuan's wife should be a smart person and be able to deal with the hidden crises in the imperial city."

Wanxia became dumb.

In the side hall.

Xue Qinghe couldn't sit still more and more. She bit her lip: "Sister..."

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps approaching outside the door.

The footsteps were steady and powerful, neither fast nor slow.

Xue Qinghe looked up.

...His Royal Highness King Xuan?

King Xuan didn't expect that there would be more people, so he glanced at Xue Qinghe coldly.

Xue Qinghe's body trembled uncontrollably.

"Follow me," King Xuan said to Xue Qingyin.

Xue Qingyin was confused: "What? Elope?"