The Devious First-Daughter

"What do you mean? Could it be that you are scolding our concubine?" Xinmei stepped forward, stood in front of Yan Zhen unceremoniously, and said coldly.

A small maid, even the most favored concubine Xia, has no right to reprimand Princess Yi. Concubine Xia's status is not high, but she is not one of the four concubines. Compared with Concubine Shu, Concubine Yagui is much lighter, at most she is favored by the emperor.

But no matter how much you love her, she is only a concubine. What's more, she is facing Princess Yi. With King Yi's temperament, sometimes the emperor's account is not for sale, let alone the emperor's concubine, let alone Xia. The maid next to the concubine, even if Concubine Xia came by herself, would not be able to reprimand Concubine Yi.

Xinmei pulled her face down like this, Yan Zhen's face turned red and then turned white, feeling ashamed and angry.

Since she entered the palace with Concubine Xia, she is very pretentious. The palace is up and down, and the empresses of the palaces are also responsible, so she will kick her when she encounters anything. She is very arrogant, but Now there is actually someone who is not open-eyed and dares to contradict herself like this. If this is said by Yi Wangfu, she has nothing to say, even if she is the most angry, she will suppress it.

But now the person who is talking is just a servant girl next to Princess Yi. When did a servant girl dare to talk back to her, Yan Zhen was so provoked that she almost exploded on the spot, and looked at Xinmei coldly: "You are a girl!" Huan, do you have room to speak here?"

"I'm a servant girl who serves our princess, so I can't tolerate a court lady scolding our princess. Is it possible that our princess is in the palace, and even a maid can scold us. Where is our Yi Palace?" Xin Xin Mei has never been a real maid, so she is not at all timid when facing the vigorous Yan Zhen.

Seeing more and more people around him, Yan Zhen knew that this was not the time to quarrel, so he suppressed the anger in his heart, took a long breath, and saluted Ning Xueyan respectfully again: "Princess Yi, I'm sorry, really It's because the slaves are worried about our empress, that's why they speak out excitedly, and ask the concubine not to spread the matter about our empress casually."

This sounded like an apology, but it was actually saying that Ning Xueyan was at fault first. Everyone knew that Concubine Xia was the most mysterious concubine in the palace, so how could things about her be passed around casually.

Although this is not a direct reprimand, the meaning inside it is similar to reprimand. Ning Xueyan smiled slightly, not paying attention, but pulled Xinmei behind her, and said softly with a bit of apology: "It's not me. I wanted to talk about Concubine Xia, but when the wives asked me casually, they said Concubine Xia let me go, and didn’t say anything else.”

Although the ladies stood on the side and didn't speak, the expressions on their faces were not very good-looking.

Yan Zhen felt tight in his chest, stared at his eyes, but couldn't speak. If this matter is related to the other wives, this matter may really cause trouble. The meaning of Concubine Xia is to quietly take away Concubine Yi Unexpectedly, this time not only failed to take Princess Yi away, but also provoked the attention of so many people.

If I keep entangled here, more people should see it, and some people around me were startled by the movement here, judging from the meaning, it seems that they are still coming.

"Princess Yi, our lady really feels that she is destined to be with the princess. If the princess doesn't want to, then forget it. The servant girl will go back and report to our princess." As if she had let her down, she didn't want to entangle with Ning Xueyan any longer, so she wanted to quit with this excuse.

Anyway, Empress has a second set of methods, not necessarily this one.

"Yan Zhen, wait a minute, this... has come to this, I'd better go! Apologize to Concubine Xia in person. This matter is really just a misunderstanding. These ladies are just paying attention to Concubine Xia. Yang Mu only asked a few words, and she didn't mean to offend Concubine Xia on purpose."

Ning Xueyan smiled, of course she wouldn't just let Yan Zhen go back.

The ladies next to what she said nodded their heads, expressing that they wanted to admire Concubine Xia, and they didn't mean to offend. Naturally, they also apologized with some courtesy, the emperor's favorite concubine! Of course not anyone can offend anyone who wants to offend. The only one who can afford to offend Concubine Xia here is probably this Concubine Yi. Seeing that the ladies in the court next to Concubine Xia are angry, of course they all ask for forgiveness, their attitude is more relaxed than that of a court lady. Low, just for the sake of Concubine Xia.

With so many wives speaking together with apology, even if Yan Zhen is unhappy in his heart, he can no longer care about it. These wives may not all be prominent, but together, they are not a small force. Keep a low profile and forbearance. You can't spread any bad rumors at this juncture.

"It's okay, our empress is gentle and magnanimous, don't care about this, Princess Yi, please!" Since you can't argue with these wives, then there is no reason to argue with Ning Xueyan, and it seems that there will be more people coming here , Yan Zhen wanted to leave here early, so he had to say to Ning Xueyan with a smile on his face.

No matter what, Princess Yi invited her over.

Ning Xueyan didn't refuse this meeting, she smiled and nodded to the ladies around her, she didn't say anything this time, she followed Yan Zhen with Xinmei.

"Where did Princess Yi go?" The later wives, the girls didn't see what happened, only saw a maid leading Ning Xueyan away, and asked quite strangely.

"It's Concubine Xia who invited Concubine Yi to go over." A previous lady responded.

"Miss Concubine Xia? Is that... the most favored one in the palace?" Another girl said excitedly. There is not only one person who is interested in this Concubine Xia. The second reason is that for so many years, I heard that she has been favored forever.

"It's that Concubine Xia. I didn't expect Concubine Xia and Concubine Yi to have such a relationship, so I specially sent someone to invite Concubine Yi to come over." A lady said enviously.

"Concubine Xia, it's really Concubine Xia! I really want to meet this Concubine Xia, I heard that she is stunningly beautiful, she is the most beautiful." A young lady couldn't help whispering.

Being able to keep the emperor's favor for so many years, enduring, and beautiful is certain, but there are never many beautiful women in the palace. How beautiful this Concubine Xia must be, so that she can always hold the emperor's heart!

When she said this, several young girls and wives became excited, and the crowd retreated in twos and threes, but Concubine Xia, who was the least topical in the past, was brought up from time to time...

Ao Chenyi came out of the imperial study room, and just discussed with the emperor about Annan, and now he is going to the imperial garden to find Ning Xueyan. He told Ning Xueyan before that he was waiting for him in the imperial garden.

The imperial garden in the imperial palace is very large, so although there are quite a few people here today, they are scattered throughout the entire imperial garden, and there are still not many people, especially the one near the imperial study, so it is quieter, let alone Usually I don't see anyone, even in today's situation, I haven't seen anyone.

The location of the banquet is far away from here, and few people have traveled so far to come here.

Ao Chenyi took little Zhuzi into the imperial garden from the imperial study room, unexpectedly, after walking a few steps, he heard a timid voice from the side: "Brother Yi Wang!"

Ao Chenyi turned his eyes and looked at the girl in purple clothes standing at the bottom of the steps. Hua Qiuying, who was dressed in a purple palace attire, was standing at the bottom of the steps in a pavilion. There was a huge flower tree on the steps. At this time, most of the flowers had already died. , the branches of the flower tree are lush, but from time to time, you can see broken flowers falling from her head on her purple palace dress, with a timid and somewhat charming face.

No matter how you look at it, you can see that the purple-clothed girl in front of her is nervous, expectant, and even flustered on her beautiful face.

"Brother Yi Wang, you...you really don't know me?" Hua Qiuying moved her body, as if she wanted to lean in, but she didn't dare, she just looked at her so tenderly and timidly, There were even faint traces of tears at the corners of his eyes.

"Miss Hua San!" Ao Chenyi looked at her, a cold and gloomy light flashed in his eyes.

"Brother Yi Wang, you really remember me, I...I'm so happy..." Hua Qiuying's face immediately became lively, and she took a few steps, came to Ao Chenyi, raised her eyes, "Brother Yi Wang, I'm Qiuying, I... I thought you really didn't know me anymore, that day in Prince Yi's residence... Brother Yi didn't pay any attention to me."

Hua Qiuying seemed to be overjoyed, raised Yingying's beautiful eyes, looked at Ao Chenyi affectionately, and called again: "Brother Yi Wang..."

It seems that there is a stomach full of things to say, but for a while, he can't say it, maybe because he is too excited, and when his body softens, he will fall to Ao Chenyi.

If it were any man, seeing such a charming woman and looking at him so affectionately, he would subconsciously reach out his hand to prevent the beauty from falling to the ground, pity the beauty, and face such a harmless beauty. Who could really calm down and watch her fall!

So when her body was hugged by someone, Hua Qiuying showed an uncontrollable smug smile on her face, and it really succeeded! She knew that Ao Chenyi had a good impression of her, and what her father said was indeed right, as long as she could let go of her figure, King Yi would definitely not refuse.

"My lord, what should I do if Miss Hua San has fainted?" A thin voice came from next to my ear. This kind of thin voice is not uncommon in the palace. I knew it was the eunuch in the palace. The one next to King Yi, Hua Qiuying analyzed with her eyes tightly closed.

At this time, of course she couldn't wake up, so she pretended to faint, and leaned into that person's arms without moving her eyes.

"Find a place first, let her rest for a while." Sure enough, it was Ao Chenyi's voice, the voice was right next to her ear, hugging her, of course close to her, thinking of Ao Chenyi's handsome and enchanting, flowery Qiuying's breathing became a little heavier unconsciously, and a slight blush appeared on her face.

"My lord, let's go to the front. Look, there is a garden over there. Why don't you put Miss Hua San over there first, and then I will ask someone to come and have a look?" the eunuch's voice said.

The garden over there is really nice!

Looking at the shy look on Hua Qiuying's face, Ao Chenyi had a weird and dangerous smile on his face. Of course, Hua Qiuying's eyes were tightly closed, so she couldn't see Ao Chenyi's face at all, and she didn't notice it at all. The one holding her was only an eunuch next to Ao Chenyi, who thought everything was going according to plan...