The princess is beautiful and Ziye

Chapter 28
The queen and imperial concubine exchanged glances and said, "Let her in."

"Yes."

The eunuch bowed and left, and after a while, a bare hand opened the curtain, and Concubine Jiang walked gracefully into the Nuan Pavilion.

"The concubine sends greetings to the empress and imperial concubine."

She lazily bent her knees as a salute.

Xie Tinglan and Qi Chengjun also stood up to greet her, Concubine Jiang raised her eyelids, looked at Xie Tinglan and laughed.

"This is the Jinyang County Lord, right? I heard from the King of Qi yesterday that he almost had a dispute with the Crown Prince at the princess's plum appreciation feast, thanks to the County Lord."

Concubine Jiang had prepared her speech a long time ago, and said to the queen: "The concubine knows that the queen and imperial concubine will also invite the county monarch into the palace. Instead of inviting the concubine again, it is better to come to the queen and thank you together." It’s good to be the county king.”

Concubine Jiang raised her sleeves and called out to the maid beside her.

Hearing the sound, the maid stepped forward and handed the box she was holding in front of Xie Tinglan, "This is a thank you gift from our empress to the county lord, and the county lord will keep it."

Xie Tinglan took the casket after paying respects to Concubine Jiang, and then handed it to Yuxiu.

Aunt Liu moved the embroidered stool, but Concubine Jiang waved her hand and said, "I am here to give a gift of thanks. Empress, the concubine has something to do in the palace, so I won't stay."

She came and went in a hurry, as if she really just came to give a thank you gift, and she didn't mean to disturb the situation.

The imperial concubine's heart sank a bit. She knew Jiang Xu's temperament very well. Her son, King Qi, was also with her.

Although she asked Fu Pingye to enter the palace yesterday and didn't ask anything, the imperial concubine knew very well that what could anger Fu Pingye at this time was the fraudulent enclosure of land.

Fu Rong was obviously looking for faults, and wanted Fu Pingye to do something, so that he could make a fuss about the emperor.

Xie Tinglan clearly disturbed Fu Rong's good business that day, so it's impossible for Fu Rong not to tell Concubine Jiang about it, Concubine Jiang hates Xie Tinglan so much that she would give her something?
The imperial concubine looked at the box in Yuxiu's hand, always feeling uneasy.

She raised her voice and said, "The noble concubine also has a heart. Bring the box to the palace to have a look. The noble concubine gave the county king something."

Xie Tinglan raised his eyes and looked at the imperial concubine, and smiled with the corners of his mouth raised, "Yuxiu, show the imperial concubine the things."

The imperial concubine opened the box, and inside was a pile of scattered jewelry, nothing particularly valuable, but not cheap either.

Being a thank you gift is also considered quite satisfactory.

The imperial concubine searched for a long time, and there was indeed nothing suspicious, she closed the box thoughtfully, and returned it to Yuxiu.

The three of Xie Tinglan stayed in Weiyang Palace for less than half an hour.

After all, the empress and imperial concubine were not very familiar with Xie Tinglan, so they didn't dare to ask too many questions, for fear of scaring her.

Just at this time, the aunt on the empress dowager's side came to spread the word, saying that the empress dowager hurriedly urged her to go over when she heard that the eldest princess was entering the palace.

The queen and imperial concubine took advantage of the situation and sent the three of them out of Weiyang Palace.

The aunt beside the queen mother was leading the way, and Qi Chengjun leaned over to Xie Tinglan's side, and said in a low voice, "Zhao Wenjin must have sued the queen mother, otherwise the queen mother would not let someone pass the news, and even asked me to come with you."

The Empress Dowager has always disliked Qi Chengjun. She went to the palace with her mother to pay her respects during festivals, but she never got a sideways look from the Empress Dowager, and she was often scolded like a daughter.

The Empress Dowager personally asked her to come over to pay her respects, and it was not surprising for anything.

"Not afraid." Xie Tinglan replied her words calmly.

A few people soon arrived at the Shoukang Palace of the Empress Dowager, all the way into the inner hall, where the Empress Dowager was sitting on the warm kang writing at her desk.

"Greetings to the queen mother. All blessings to the queen mother." The eldest princess's attitude was also very distant. Xie Tinglan and Qi Chengjun followed closely behind and bowed down.

The Empress Dowager copied the scriptures with a pen in her hand. After hearing several people coming in, she didn't even twitch her eyebrows or say a word, and her subordinates continued to write.

It doesn't matter if the eldest princess didn't kneel down, but the two children behind her knelt on the ground.

The eldest princess frowned slightly, and called out with a more emphatic tone: "Mother's queen!"

The Empress Dowager moved her dangling wrist and raised her drooping eyes, as if she had just discovered them, she straightened up slowly.

"You are here..."

The Empress Dowager put the pen on the pen bed, raised her hand and beat her shoulder, closed her eyes, frowned and shouted loudly: "Chun'an!"

Aunt Chun immediately stepped forward to beat her back, and explained to the eldest princess on her behalf, "Your Highness, the queen mother has been copying Buddhist scriptures for several days. It's not intentional to embarrass the princess and the county lord. The two masters, get up quickly!"

The queen mother closed her eyes, and the bead string hanging by her ears made a slight crisp sound, "Aijia was born in October after all. Now that you are married, you and Aijia have become enemies. If it weren't for Aijia's sending Someone is going to invite you, do you still want to come and see Aijia?"

The eldest princess stepped forward silently, motioned for Aunt Chun to step down, took over her seat herself, and lightly patted the queen mother on the shoulder.

"My mother was also pregnant and gave birth to me in October, so I can naturally understand my daughter and feel sorry for my daughter."

The eldest princess did not greet the queen mother for several months because the queen mother scolded Qi Chengjun the last time she came to pay her respects, and scolded Qi Chengjun too harshly.

The Empress Dowager's eyes opened slightly, and there was anger in her pupils, but she quickly covered them up.

The mother and daughter communicated like strangers, while Qi Chengjun and Xie Tinglan on one side could only stand like wooden stakes.

After Aunt Chun stepped back, she watched her nose, nose, and heart, as if watching from the sidelines.

If it wasn't for the queen mother's previous order, how could she be so negligent.

The queen mother moved her shoulders, avoiding the eldest princess, and changed the direction to sit cross-legged.

Her eyes were hale and hearty, and she swept across Qi Chengjun's body and landed on Xie Tinglan's face. After concentrating for a long time, she said: "Xie Tinglan, the Ai family specially called the name and asked the eldest princess to bring you over to say hello. Do you know why the Ai family asked Do that?"

Xie Tinglan lowered his eyebrows and pleasing to the eye, bent his knees and said: "Back to the Empress Dowager, I don't dare to speculate on the Empress Dowager's mind, please express it clearly."

"Mother's queen." The eldest princess also guessed that the queen mother listened to Zhao Wenjin's pillow talk and came to avenge her.

The Empress Dowager turned a deaf ear and stared at Xie Tinglan and said: "As the head of the Southern Qin female family, the Ai family should admonish all women. The Ai family heard that you, as a daughter, meddled in the affairs of your parents' rear house and did not abide by your responsibilities as a woman. It's really presumptuous!"

"The family ugliness has polluted the empress dowager's ears. It is the lax fault of the housekeeper of the Xie family. Please forgive me by the empress dowager."

"Don't play tricks in front of the Ai family. What the Ai family said is that you meddled in your father's concubine affairs. Regardless of whose fault it is, this is your parents' business, so what do you do as a woman ? But you meddled wantonly and caused a storm in the city, how do you explain it!"

(End of this chapter)