Houmen's step-wife

Chapter 475
The Empress Dowager Yu also showed a slight smile. She reached out and touched the face of the little guy, and said, "They are really two beautiful children. The Ai family also likes them very much. It's a pity that we can't see them every day."

The two concubines deeply agreed, and they also liked them very much. At their age, they like to spoil their grandchildren the most. Unfortunately, their knees are empty, and His Majesty just provides for them, without any affection, so how can they force anything else?
What's more, since these are the children of the imperial concubine, it is even more impossible for them to adopt them.

Concubine Hu Gui laughed and said, "Since the empress dowager likes the two highnesses so much, it is better to keep the two young highnesses by her side and educate them. I believe the imperial concubine will not refuse." If she refuses, it is unfilial.

Empress Dowager Yu also looked at the imperial concubine, with eager anticipation in her eyes, as if she really intended to keep them.

"Hu Guifei, if you don't speak, no one will treat you as dumb!" Su Wan said flatly with a sideways glance at Hu Guifei.

Then, without looking at her instant ugly face, he continued: "The Ninth Prince and the others are still young, and it is the time when they are the most noisy, and the Queen Mother is not in good health. Even if she wants to take care of her, she is probably powerless. Disturbing the Empress Dowager's rest. It's nothing more than the two little Highnesses, if the Empress Dowager's condition worsens due to exhaustion, it would be really unfilial of me, so this matter is inappropriate, so don't bring it up again in the future!"

Su Wan firmly rejected the matter, without any room for maneuver.Concubine Hu Gui made a fuss with her, but she dared not speak out.

The others secretly laughed at Concubine Hu Guifei who was overthinking her own strength and kicked the iron plate. She is really the former lady of Chu State when she is an imperial concubine!
After reprimanding Concubine Hu Gui, Su Wancai looked at Empress Dowager Yu again, and said with a smile: "Empress Dowager, do you think this makes sense?"

Empress Dowager Yu twitched the corners of her mouth and said, "The imperial concubine's temper is really getting worse."

Su Wan said with a smile: "People are kind and bullied. If someone doesn't take me seriously, I can only teach her to be good."

At this time, after satisfying their curiosity, Tuantuan and Yuanyuan became a little impatient, and began to struggle in the arms of the two nuns, turning their heads to look back, obviously wanting to find their mother.

Seeing this, the Empress Dowager Yu's expression darkened, and she asked them to return to Su Wan's side.

Everyone talked about other things, and the atmosphere became lively again.

After Su Wan comforted the two little guys.Looking up at Empress Ning opposite, she found that she seldom spoke. Although she couldn't see much because of the makeup, Su Wan still felt that she was not in good spirits, and she was a little weak when she spoke.

Empress Ning seemed to feel that Su Wan was watching her, so she also looked up at her, and asked, "Why is my sister looking at Bengong like this? Is there something wrong with Bengong?"

Su Wan said: "Is the empress feeling unwell? It seems that she has lost energy. You should pay more attention to your health in the future, and don't work too hard."

Empress Ning's complexion changed slightly when she heard the words, but soon she laughed again, and said: "My sister may have misread it, but my health is very good, and there is no discomfort at all. My sister is overwhelmed."

Su Wan nodded and said, "I'm talking too much."

She just couldn't help asking out of the habit of a half-hearted doctor, but Empress Ning seemed to have misunderstood something. In this case, she didn't ask any more questions, and it was none of her business anyway.

At this time, Empress Dowager Yu suddenly said: "It's getting late, let's go to the garden for a stroll!"

Naturally, everyone had no objection, and the group went to the garden.

The garden is beautifully built, with pools, rocks, flowers and trees, pavilions and pavilions.The trees in the garden are mainly pines and cypresses, and there are phoenix trees, ginkgoes, magnolias, cloves, etc. in between. Most of them have never been here before, so it feels very fresh.

"The scenery here is really nice." Princess Qinyang appeared next to Su Wan at some point, and said with a sigh.

"That's right, His Majesty is so filial that he spent a huge amount of money to build this garden so that the Queen Mother and the Concubine can relax and play. It's really well-intentioned." Su Wan opened her eyes and said nonsense.

She was clear about Emperor Xiande's attitude towards the Empress Dowager, but Emperor Xiande was willing to spend gold, silver and energy to do some superficial work, just for the sake of this garden, no one dared to say that Emperor Xiande was unfilial.

Princess Qinyang nodded. In fact, it seems that the emperor is still very filial to the queen mother, and the rumors she heard may not be true.

It would have been fine if her mother hadn't followed King Jin to entrust the land, and staying in the palace might not have made her a bad life, and she wouldn't have been separated from her mother, not seeing each other for many years, and not even having anyone to complain about.Thinking of this, Princess Qinyang couldn't help sighing, feeling sad from her heart.

She was so engrossed in her thoughts that she suddenly stepped on a stone and fell forward.

"Be careful—" Su Wan exclaimed, and quickly grabbed her.

"Hiss—" Who knew that when Su Wan grabbed her arm, Princess Qinyang showed a look of pain, and threw Su Wan's hand away regardless of her own failure to stand still.

Su Wan frowned, looked at her hands, then squinted at her, she probably didn't use that much strength, right?

Suddenly, her eyes paused and fell on the neck.

Princess Qinyang was wearing a jacket with a stand-up collar, and she wrapped herself tightly. Once pulled, the clothes were torn apart a little, revealing a bruise on the neck, which looked like the imprint of a finger.

Su Wan was startled, and she wanted to look again, who knew that Princess Qinyang had quickly arranged her clothes and covered them up again.

Su Wan frowned. Could it be that she was wrong.

At this time, the others also reacted, and immediately stepped forward to ask about it. When they learned that Princess Qinyang was fine, they stopped asking, but it was unknown if anyone was laughing at Princess Qinyang in their hearts.

Princess Qinyang's face flushed red, she thanked Su Wan nervously and tremblingly, and then apologized.

Su Wan smiled and said it's okay, she didn't show anything unusual.

Seeing this, Princess Qinyang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, the fear in her heart was a little less, she felt that the imperial concubine should not have discovered anything, she was the one who made such a fuss.

It's just that, after all, she didn't dare to get close to Su Wan, and tried her best to reduce the sense of existence, trying to make Su Wan completely forget her and what happened just now.

After strolling around the garden and visiting the beautiful scenery, everyone went to the Linxi Pavilion where the banquet was held.

Linxi Pavilion, as the name suggests, is built in a pool.Rather than talking about a pavilion, it’s not like a pavilion. There are three rooms each in width and depth, so the space is not small.

The east and west sides face the water, and the pool is surrounded by white marble pillars and railings. The water in the pool is crystal clear.In the north and south, there is a brick flower bed not far away, where peonies, peonies and other flowers are planted. In the open space around the flower bed, dozens of pines and cypresses are scattered, interspersed with magnolias and cloves.

(End of this chapter)