56 The Empress Dowager Disappears (Part 1)(1/2)
The next morning
Yan Qingyu had just opened her eyes when a palace maid outside asked in a low voice, "Empress, Concubine Lin and Concubine Hua have been waiting for His Highness for a long time."
"Come in!"
The palace maid walked in, knelt in front of Yan Qingyu in a regular manner, and lowered her head: "I am Xiaoyue, your highness personally ordered us to serve the empress."
The woman known as Xiaoyue looks beautiful and has a bit of heroic spirit between her eyebrows. She is not like the palace maid who has been servile in the palace for many years, but like the lady who is loved by everyone.
Yan Qingyu glanced at me a few more times, "Get up, Xiaoyu can just serve me in the future, you can wait outside the door!"
The fourth prince’s people are somewhat untrustworthy, let alone that she has long been used to the ziyu being beside her.
"Yes, I obey the order!" Meiyue walked obediently to the door. Although she bent over, she stood there more like a door god, which made Yan Qingyu look at her again.
No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a palace maid.
Meiyue stood quietly, her eyes squinted, and a faint smile curled up at the corner of her lips.
The emperor had been worshipped last night, and the only queen was the one inside, so she had to keep an eye on it.
Thinking of the order she was transferred back overnight, Meiyue felt particularly happy.
Lin Meng and Hua Yao met in Yan Qingyu's palace courtyard. Lin Meng's eyes rolled and stepped forward enthusiastically to greet him, "Is this Sister Hua? I heard that Sister Hua is pregnant with His Highness's offspring, why didn't she take care of her baby well and get up early? What if she gets hurt and touches her, what should I do?"
Hua Yao looked at the woman who smiled enthusiastically in front of her innocently, and smiled sweetly, "Thank you for Sister Lin's care. The child has been three months old and has passed the dangerous period, so he can walk around. What's more, if the prince's concubine doesn't serve tea when she comes in, wouldn't it be rude?"
Lin Meng evoked a disdainful sneer.
They are obviously concubines, who is the sister and who is the sister?
This Concubine Hua didn't look very good. It was probably because of her innocent appearance that seduced Your Highness, so she would get pregnant with Your Highness's child.
Thinking of the man's courage last night, Lin Meng kept touching her belly.
Anyway, she will have children soon, so it is not certain whose belly comes out of the first child.
Hua Yao stood quietly with her eyes blinking, until the palace maid inside walked out and said that the princess had risen, the two were invited in.
Today I will go to the palace to pay tribute to the empress dowager, which is also the time for the concubine to serve morning tea to the mistress. Yan Qingyu sat upright on a wheelchair in the formal outfit of the prince's concubine. The light blue palace skirt embroidered with the pattern of the python representing the prince, and a dark blue gauze dress outside, with clear layers.
The gentle and calm eyes depict light blue eyeshadows, and their facial features immediately become deep, unlike the gentleness of the usual, and the majesty of the royal family is inherently born.
When Lin Meng came in, she saw Yan Qingyu, which was completely different from usual, especially the seven-tailed phoenix hairpin decorated with the gorgeous navy gem on her head, making her face look so noble and domineering, washing away the warmth of her little daughter, leaving behind the majesty of the mistress of the family.
Lin Meng was jealous of himself. If she were the prince's concubine, then the noble and elegant one would be her.
Not this cripple.
She was unwilling to give up and could only swallow it. She walked over and said, "Greetings to my sister!"
"Concubine Lin looks down on my concubine?" Meiyue immediately spoke out when she saw Concubine Lin's appearance of being blessed and not kneeling down. Her tone was a little sharp.
Lin Meng smiled coldly. She was just an unpopular princess. What should she be afraid of?
"Sister didn't even speak. You palace maid are so brave. Those who don't know that they thought that your sister was acting as a prince's concubine on the first day she married Your Highness!" Lin Meng said this very boldly, almost pointing at Yan Qingyu's nose and said: You are just trying to be a warning like this!
Yan Qingyu played with the fingertips on her fingertips. After becoming the princess, she really paid much attention to whether it was wearing or jewelry. This is Mei Yue's reminder.
Ziyu couldn't speak, so he sent a fierce palace maid like Meiyue to her side, right?
"I don't kneel down when I present tea in my concubine. It seems that I don't need to drink this tea anymore." Yan Qingyu touched her finger and said lightly, looking at Hua Yao who was standing at a loss on her side. Her eyes flashed, "Concubine Hua, I have seen you!"
Hua Yao was a little at a loss.
It turned out to be her, the princess?
The maid I've seen in a villa before?
she……
Hua Yao's face turned pale and she shook her head quickly: "No, I have never seen you before..."
"Oh? Is that right?" Yan Qingyu's eyes were cold. Didn't this woman be pregnant with Si Yucheng's seed? Why did she marry the Fourth Prince instead?
"A sister of my concubine's friend looks exactly the same as Concubine Hua. Could it be that Concubine Hua has any twin sisters?"
Hua Yao was very panicked. When she was about to say something, she suddenly thought of the scene that flashed through her mind. She took a deep breath, "I am an orphan, and was later accepted as my adopted daughter by Mrs. Hua. I was fortunate to be sympathized by Your Highness to be married as my concubine. I don't know if there are twin sisters."
"Huh?" Yan Qingyu looked at her eyes, as if she barely agreed with this statement.
Meiyue walked to Hua Yao with tea. Hua Yao walked to Yan Qingyu with her hands and knelt down properly, "Please have tea for the princess!"
Yan Qingyu did not make things difficult for Hua Yao. No matter who the child in Hua Yao's belly was, it had nothing to do with her. She took the tea handed over by Hua Yao, took a sip, and put a hairpin on the tray, and said lightly: "From now on, everyone will be sisters. Just call me sister. The name of the princess is too unfamiliar."
Hua Yao bent down quickly, "Yes, I obey the order."
"Get up!"
Yan Qingyu seemed to have forgotten that there was a lucky Lin Meng on one side. Lin Meng kept the salute posture and her legs trembled. She gritted her teeth, her eyes were resentful, and she stood up straight, deliberately interrupting: "Sister, I am too tired of serving the bed last night. Your Highness is so brave. My legs are trembling now. It is inconvenient to salute for too long, so she got up by herself. Please don't blame me."
Words are full of show-offs.
Yan Qingyu raised her eyebrows in surprise. Did the fourth prince favor her?
It doesn't seem like a fake...
"Empress, the time to enter the palace is almost here." Ziyu walked in with Feiyu outside, and Feiyu said.
Lin Meng was stunned and looked particularly contempt when she found out that the other party was a puppet master. The girl around her was just a folk art thing. Isn’t there even a decent girl in the Prime Minister’s Mansion?
Feiyu sat cross-legged on Ziyu's arm.
Ziyu's slender body stood quietly at the door.
Seeing this, Meiyue hurriedly said, "Two concubines, my concubine is going to enter the palace to pay her respects. If there is nothing to do, please come back!"
Lin Meng heard this, "That's not OK. Is this concubine still offering tea?"
Yan Qingyu waved, "Xiaoyu, send Concubine Hua back to the palace first!"
Ziyu nodded, and Hua Yao was also in a hurry to leave here, so she left with a pale face.
Lin Meng saw that there were even fewer people in the room. She walked to Yan Qingyu with tea perfunctorily, not kneeling at all, but instead provoked arrogantly, "It's just a concubine's daughter who dares to stop taking the position of the prince's concubine, which is simply shameless."
"Concubine Lin, you are arrogant..."
Yan Qingyu stretched out his hand, "I am the lord of Yongnan County by Your Majesty. Concubine Lin's words made me doubt how Grand Tutor Lin educated you, and spoke bad words, ignoring the ranks and inferiors."
Lin Meng sneered disdainfully, "Who heard this concubine say evil words again and ignore the superiority? You have palace maids and palace maids as evidence, who believes it?"
Yan Qingyu took the tea handed over by the other party casually, picked it up and poured it hard.
"Ah...what are you doing?"
"You should be glad that this tea is just warm water. If it is a cup of boiling water, don't you know if your face is still there?"
Lin Meng was so bloody that she couldn't believe it, "You..."
"If I don't leave, I will be the prince's concubine. To put it nicely, you are the concubine, but after all, you are just a concubine! I need the rules of my concubine. If you say bad words, ignore the superiority and inferiority. It will only make me feel unreasonable in the management of the palace. Today, I will teach Concubine Lin what is the orderly and orderly, and come!"
Meiyue took a step forward and bent down: "Empress!"
"Concubine Lin said in a ruthless manner, and she pulled her out and knelt for two hours!"
"You dare!" Lin Meng was immediately angry when she heard this, "Why did you make me kneel down? You..."
"Just because I am the prince's concubine, and you are just a concubine, if you don't want to kneel down, you will break her legs and let her kneel down!"
Lin Meng was shocked, "Yan Qingyu, you can't do this, why should you treat me like this? Be careful that my father will add a copy to you when he goes to court, you..."
"Ha, if Master Lin has the face to ask Your Majesty for your crime, I am willing to accompany you!" Yan Qingyu raised her eyebrows, and there was a cruel look between her eyebrows and eyes.
Meiyue smiled slightly, and the Eight Shadows knew the true identity of the Queen. The Witch Yan Qingyu is the only person in the world who can stand shoulder to shoulder with the King. How could he be a soft-hearted person?
He dragged Concubine Lin and walked outside. Si Yucheng happened to walk in. Lin Meng seemed to have found the backbone in an instant, and struggled towards Si Yucheng with all his strength. "Your Highness, Your Highness, save me, the prince's concubine, you must punish me to kneel down, Your Highness..."
Si Yucheng just took a cold look and looked at Yan Qingyu, who was majestic and domineering in the palace outfit. She looked more and more similar to her black clothes in front of her. Her whole body was covered like frost, noble and elegant, making people unable to get close to her.
Yan Qingyu in her previous life loved to wear black clothes, black hair, tall horse, a silver spear in her hand, lying drunk on the battlefield, fighting in all directions.
"Your Highness, the princess is too much. I am punished without any mistakes, but I am not convinced!" Lin Meng kept crying, wanting the man in front of her to be fair to her.
Si Yucheng looked at Lin Meng impatiently and asked, "Why bother the princess?"
Meiyue lowered her head, pressed Lin Meng's shoulder hard, and forced her to kneel on the ground, saying, "When you go back to your highness, Concubine Lin spoke badly to the Empress while serving tea, ignoring the magistrate, and her words and deeds are uncharacteristic, and she is distorted by right and wrong. That's why the Empress punished her to kneel in the yard for two hours to show her a small warning!"
"I don't have any, Your Highness, I came to the court of the princess early in the morning and waited sincerely for tea. It was because the princess was not happy about me. I deliberately found a reason to punish me when I was sleeping last night. I was wronged." Lin Meng cried loudly, pressed to the ground with force, kneeling, and her knees were already hurt so much that she had no sense of consciousness.
Meiyue has great martial arts skills and extremely deep internal strength. It is easy to force a woman who has no power to tie a chicken to kneel on the ground.
Si Yucheng's eyes were cold, "Since Concubine Lin is disrespectful to the prince's concubine, she does not want to regret it, and she will be fined two more hours."
"Your Highness?" Lin Meng didn't expect this man to be so ruthless. He was so brave and enthusiastic last night, but he turned his back on him without caring a little bit of affection.
She was very unwilling to accept it.
"Your Highness..." Lin Meng still couldn't change the man's look back.
After Si Yucheng walked in, he looked at the wheelchair under Yan Qingyu, "Or can't you announce to the public that your legs are good?"
"It takes a process and time." Yan Qingyu thought that the man in front of her meant that she was afraid that her legs would get in the way, so she added in a very understanding way, "It will be fine in a few days."
"You must be careful when entering the palace today. The Gong clan has always been cruel and ruthless." Si Yucheng's eyes were very hot, but he had to endure it. This little girl had obviously married him, but because the timing was wrong, she could only respect each other as guests.
To be continued...