royal princess

Chapter 162 Eyes Like a Wolf 1
Si Jin walked out of the Shoukang Palace under the eyes of everyone. At about this time, everyone wanted to see her liveliness.Look, here comes Qiao Lingyi, the emperor's little Qingmei, who has been playing with her since she was a child, what's the matter with you now?
Si Jin kept smiling all the way back to Yihexuan, Qiao Lingyi's cheerful laughter seemed to be in his ears.

"cousin……"

"cousin……"

"cousin……"

Her mind was full of the words "cousin", and Si Jin touched her heart, suddenly feeling that there was a big space there.

What if Xiao Qi really likes her little green plum?
Thinking of this, he remembered the grievances between the original owner and his little bamboo horse. Because of the extreme hatred, even the memories were packed and hidden.So the lethality of childhood sweethearts is just that great.

At noon, I didn't dare to eat in the Empress Dowager's palace. When I returned to Yihexuan, I felt very hungry, but I didn't have any appetite.With a pale face that was slightly green, Yun Chang was so frightened that she was about to invite Mr. Yuan Zheng.

Si Jin hurriedly called her to stop, "I can't go, I'm asking the director at this time, what do you want others to think of me?" Others would only think that she took the opportunity to compete for favor, and would say that she was narrow-minded and intolerant, and would give the empress dowager a clear excuse. She charged.

Therefore, the imperial physician cannot be invited.

"But, master, your complexion is really not very good." Yun Shang was about to cry.

Si Jin squeezed out a smile, "Help me to lie down, and I'll be fine after a night of sleep." She was only mentally exhausted, physically exhausted, and her heart was also exhausted, so she couldn't hold on.

Yun Chang hurried over to help Si Jin, and walked to the dormitory.

Shoukang Palace.

The queen mother left Xiao Qi and Qiao Lingyi with the excuse of taking a rest, and the room became quiet for a while.

Xiao Qi knew what the Empress Dowager meant, although he felt disgusted, he didn't want to anger Qiao Lingyi.After all, in his dark teenage years, this cousin gave him a lot of warmth.After all, he was not the Empress Dowager's own child, so it was inevitable that he would be splinted a lot. Qiao Lingyi was the Empress Dowager's favorite niece, and would often invite her to live in the palace for a while.

Whenever the Empress Dowager punished him, as long as Qiao Lingyi was in the palace, she would always speak well of him and even secretly send her food.When he was freezing cold, he would bring him hot ginger tea to drive away the cold.Because of her, the Empress Dowager treated him with a rare softness.

"... When the Queen Mother was sending a letter to my family, she asked me if I would like to enter the palace, and I thought I must come." Qiao Lingyi grabbed Xiao Qi's sleeve, "Cousin, I have I have been looking forward to growing up quickly so that I can see you, look, I am back again, are you happy?"

Xiao Qi looked down at the hand holding his sleeve, his eyes couldn't help but flicker, there was also a villain who always liked to hold his sleeve and act like a spoiled child, even at night he had to hug his arm before falling asleep.Qiao Lingyi's coquettish laughter rang in his ears, and that cheerful tone made people feel happy.However, he was not happy at all right now, all he could think about was Si Jin's half-sagging face when he walked out of Shoukang Palace.

He couldn't see her face, but he seemed to smell her sadness through the crowd.

Thinking of this, Xiao Qi couldn't stay for a moment, and said to Qiao Lingyi with restraint: "You stay with the queen mother for a few days, and I still have government affairs to deal with. I will come to see you later."

Qiao Lingyi was taken aback for a moment, and his cousin left in a hurry.She lifted the corner of her skirt and walked out, chasing all the way to the gate of Shoukang Palace, and frowned slightly when she saw the direction where her cousin left.He turned around and stretched out his hand to beckon a palace man over, gave a few instructions in a low voice, and the palace man nodded and turned around to leave.

The palace people in Shoukang Palace were all brought back by my aunt, and they were very reliable. Qiao Lingyi pursed her lips and walked back to the main hall slowly, feeling a little uncomfortable in her heart for a while.They haven't seen each other in these years. Could it be that the emperor's cousin doesn't have any free time?
surely not.

Qiao Lingyi didn't know why he was so sure, but suddenly remembered the erratic eyes of his cousin during the luncheon.She knew who was in that direction, and she heard a lot about Xi Ronghua in Mingxiu Palace after entering the palace, but she always felt that as long as she appeared, everything would be different.

But why is this so?
Qiao Lingyi went directly into the inner room, and saw the queen mother sitting on the big kang by the window, and frowned when she saw her go in, "Why did you come back so soon? Where's the emperor?"

Qiao Lingyi forced a smile, walked to the queen mother and sat down next to her, "Auntie, is it possible that the emperor's cousin doesn't like me?"

"Nonsense!" The queen mother looked at Qiao Lingyi and reprimanded her, as if she had thought of something, then looked at her and said, "After all, you haven't seen each other for seven or eight years. You have to take your time, and you can't help yourself. How did Aijia teach you?"

"Yes, Lingyi knows." Qiao Lingyi pursed her lips and said with her head down, "Auntie, I like my cousin very much, and I want to be by his side all the time."

The queen mother smiled when she heard the words, looked at her with a slow breath and said: "So you have to work hard, this time Aijia will tell the emperor that the position of the first seal is higher. After all, you are different from others. There are childhood sweethearts. The status is higher, and others can't say anything. Don't forget that your parents are still waiting for you to let them come back and leave that poor and remote place."

Qiao Lingyi nodded silently, "I know it all, I keep it in my heart. If it weren't for my aunt's strong support this time, I wouldn't be able to enter the palace. I know that my aunt treats me best."

The queen mother patted Qiao Lingyi's hand, and then asked, "What did the emperor do? Go back to Chongming Palace or..."

Qiao Lingyi shook his head, "I'll ask someone to take a look."

As soon as the words fell, Aunt Shi who was beside the queen mother opened the curtain and walked in, greeted the queen mother with a smile, and saluted Qiao Lingyi.Qiao Lingyi hurriedly helped her up, regained her charming appearance, and said cheerfully, "Aunt Shi, you've served Auntie for so many years, just like my elders, you can't see outsiders like this."

Aunt Shi hurriedly said after hearing the words: "The rules can't be messed up. It's a slave's honor for a girl to look up to her servants." She smiled and looked at her again and said, "The little palace man you sent out just now came back and sent a letter to I, she watched the emperor enter the door of Yihexuan with my own eyes."

Qiao Lingyi's smile froze, and he sat back down with his head down in a sullen mood.

Seeing Qiao Lingyi like this, the Queen Mother couldn't help admonishing her, "What do you look like? Your Majesty's Three Palaces and Six Courtyards are very capable, and even your father has concubines around him. What's more, you He wasn't in the palace before, so there's no need for the emperor to feel sad if he likes someone by his side."

Qiao Lingyi couldn't explain to the queen mother that the queen mother's aunt only had power in her eyes, but apart from these, she really liked her cousin in her heart.

Aunt Shi took a look and quickly persuaded: "Don't be angry, Empress Dowager, how can the love between the cousin girl and the emperor be compared with those people. The slave girl guessed that Xi Ronghua is pregnant now, and the emperor has few heirs, so naturally I hope this baby will land safely, and I am a little nervous."

The Empress Dowager glanced at Aunt Shi, then at Qiao Lingyi, paused, and then said: "Lingyi, you should go back to Mingxiu Palace first, after all, you haven't been conferred yet, and you will be more comfortable after the first conferment."

Qiao Lingyi also knew that this matter was not nonsense, she had to rely on the Queen Mother's aunt to support her in the palace, she nodded obediently, "I am also about to say goodbye to my aunt, I can't let others say that Shoukang Palace has no rules because of me. , I will come to talk to my aunt when I settle down."

The Queen Mother smiled with satisfaction. Aunt Shi sent Qiao Lingyi out in person, and then she came back to look at the Queen Mother and said, "Queen Mother, I went out to inquire, and Xi Ronghua seems to be really unusual."

"Oh?" The Empress Dowager leaned on the soft pillow, holding a string of rosary beads in her hand, "Why is it unusual?"

Aunt Shi thought for a while, and then said, "This Xi Ronghua was only 13 years old when he first entered the palace. It is said that because he looked like Concubine Su, he was retained by the queen, and then he resisted the public opinion and was named Xiaoyi for the first time. Originally, the empress wanted to use this trick to disgust the noble concubine, but who knew that Xi Ronghua offended Li Zhaoyi at that time, and cried out that the emperor went to her, so she was relegated to the last dressing room and moved to Yilanxuan..."

Aunt Shi's words were clear, and she inquired about things very clearly. After telling the things of the past few years, she looked at the Queen Mother quietly.

The Empress Dowager frowned tightly, and the rosary beads in her hand slipped over her palm one by one, "According to what you said, this Xi Ronghua is not what he showed at today's banquet at all?"

"This servant doesn't dare to be sure, but I have time to look at it later, so there's no need to be in a hurry." Aunt Shi said softly.

The queen mother was silent, sitting there twisting the beads in her hand, the room became quiet.A touch of sandalwood surrounded the room, Aunt Shi lowered her head and did not speak, but her heart was a little unsteady.This Xi Ronghua was indeed born with a natural beauty, no wonder the empress carried her to fight with the noble concubine, it was indeed worth it.Not to mention that the imperial concubine had just given birth to a princess, and Xi Ronghua was immediately pregnant. She would not believe that such a person had no scheming methods.If it is really a brainless person, even if the queen is carrying it, he will never come to this step. Are there few people who lift the queen up to fight with the imperial concubine these years?
No one can do like Xi Ronghua.

Both the master and the servant were silent, the empress dowager had just returned to the palace, so she couldn't do some things, lest she would lose peace with the emperor's mother and son, and be laughed at by outsiders for nothing.What was the reason for the former emperor to let the empress dowager go out of the palace to pray for eight years?Isn't it just to give the emperor time to take power?Now that the emperor's wings are getting fuller and more powerful, the empress dowager is also getting old, and she can't do things as freely as she did when she was young.

(End of this chapter)