My Lord, the princess doesn't want you anymore.

"Your Highness, Princess, the Queen Mother asked me to wait here. Please follow me." At the gate of Shoukang Palace, Nanny Kuang's words interrupted Mei Qianyue's thoughts.

As soon as she raised her eyes, she met Mei Xueer's eyes, which were looking at her thoughtfully.

Her face turned slightly red and she lowered her head.

Mei Xueer reached out her hand and pulled her to her side. "Madame Kuang, this is my third sister. She has been living on the farm and just returned to Beijing not long ago. She has been hearing me talk about how good and kind the empress dowager is, so she has always wanted to go to the palace to pay her respects to the empress dowager. Today, I brought her here without permission. Please allow her to go to the palace to pay her respects to the empress dowager."

When Madam Kuang heard that she was Princess Jing's sister, she agreed, "No problem, Princess, you are too polite."

"Please take care of me, Madam!" Mei Qianyue bowed to Madam Kuang very gracefully and appropriately.

Madam Kuang smiled, "This child is well-educated, well-mannered, and intelligent. The Empress Dowager will definitely like him. Come in quickly."

In the side hall of Shoukang Palace, Princess Yan was circling around the Queen Mother, "Grandmother, this orange is so sweet, please have a bite...Grandmother, can your granddaughter-in-law give you a back massage..."

The Queen Mother laughed so hard that her mouth couldn't close: "You've dazzled my eyes. Sit down, sit down!"

"Grandmother, please just let her do what she wants. She has been nagging her grandson for quite some time, saying that she wants to go to Shoukang Palace to take care of the patient. Now that she finally has the chance to visit you, how can she just sit still?" Prince Yan also smiled naively.

"Be good, you are all good children!" The Queen Mother looked lovingly at the youngsters in the room.

Seeing that the prince greeted and exchanged a few pleasantries before sitting down alone to drink tea, the queen mother asked, "Boss, where is your wife?"

These days, no one talked about the Crown Princess's embarrassing moments in front of her for fear of upsetting her.

The Queen Mother didn't like the Crown Princess very much either, but since she didn't see her at the moment, she just asked casually.

The prince's face changed immediately, and everyone else was also very embarrassed.

There was silence in the room.

"She is not feeling well and I am afraid that she will pass her illness on to the Empress Dowager." The prince replied with a thick face.

I couldn't help but curse Mei Xue'er in my heart.

The Queen Mother did not ask any more questions.

The people she was most concerned about were Mei Xueer and Prince Jing. "Where's Jinger? Why hasn't he come yet? And Princess Jing, she hasn't come to the palace to check my pulse for several days."

The prince's face turned bad again. How could he let that bitch achieve such a great credit?

Zhang Yuanpan was helpless as that bitch actually cured the Empress Dowager's illness.

He had such great medical skills, but they had been hiding it from him all along.

Damn!

"Is the Imperial Grandmother missing her grandson's wife?" A sweet voice sounded at the door.

After entering Shoukang Palace, Cui Hongjing didn't dare to sit in the sedan chair again, so he asked Mei Xueer to support him and walked in slowly.

"Jing'er is here, come quickly, come quickly! Xue'er, come here too, come and check on me, an old woman, and take her pulse." When the Queen Mother heard Mei Xue'er's voice, she couldn't contain her joy and was even eager to stand up tremblingly.

Especially seeing how loving Prince Jing and Princess Jing were, she was extremely happy. "Seeing you two being so loving, I am also happy."

Mei Xueer quickly threw Cui Hongjing to the palace maid beside her and rushed over, "Grandmother, please sit down. Didn't I tell you that you need someone to help you walk? Try to stand up slowly. You are not listening again!"

"Okay, okay, okay, I'll do as you say." The Queen Mother held Mei Xue'er with one hand and called out to Cui Hongjing with the other, "Jing'er, come here quickly, let me take a look at your injuries."

"Grandson, I pay my respects to the Empress Dowager." Cui Hongjing knelt down with great difficulty.

Mei Xueer sneered in her heart, "Just keep pretending. Your leg is obviously almost healed. Keep pretending!"

"Don't kneel, don't kneel, get up quickly!" The Queen Mother was really distressed.

Cui Hongjing really continued to pretend. He kowtowed three times in a cold sweat, then he stood up and let the palace servants help him walk slowly over.

"Jing'er, you've suffered!" The Queen Mother stroked Prince Jing's head, "Hurry up and let the Royal Grandmother see your injuries."

Cui Hongjing shook his head, "Grandmother, don't look, I'm fine now. Really, look, isn't my grandson fine? He's not suffering at all. Father is doing this for his own good."

When the Queen Mother heard this, her eyes turned red.

"Don't worry, Grandmother. I promise to give you a lively grandson in a few days." Mei Xueer looked at Cui Hongjing with a smile, "But you have to teach the prince a lesson. He always refuses to cooperate with the treatment and never listens to me as a doctor."

What a sweet thing to say!

“You’re already injured like this, but you still won’t listen?!” The Queen Mother frowned and slapped Cui Hongjing on the head. “Remember this, you have to listen to your wife in this matter. It’s always right. Xue’er, if he doesn’t listen to you again or bullies you, come and tell the Imperial Grandmother, and I will vent your anger for you!”

Mei Xueer raised her head in a provocative manner towards him. Cui Hongjing could only touch his head and answer obediently, "Grandson knows he was wrong. Grandmother, please don't be angry."

The Queen Mother then smiled again.

But on the side, the prince's face became more and more ugly.

This bitch is actually so favored by the Queen Mother.

What a hell.

Looking at the Princess of Yan who had always made the Queen Mother happy, he became even more furious.

Any one of these imperial concubines would be more likable than the one in his mansion.

He must be crazy to marry the Crown Princess who was carefully selected for him by his mother.

After Princess Yan exchanged a few pleasantries with Mei Xueer, she looked at the woman behind her, "Who is this?"

After Mei Qianyue entered the room and bowed, she stood there very properly. Although no one paid any attention to her, she did not seem embarrassed at all.

After Princess Yan said this, the Queen Mother also noticed her.

At first sight, she fell in love with the girl.

"Oh, you see, my granddaughter-in-law was so happy to see the Imperial Grandmother that she forgot about it. This is my granddaughter-in-law's third sister. She has long wanted to come to the palace to pay her respects to the Imperial Grandmother. Today, her wish has been fulfilled."

Mei Qianyue knelt down without being servile or arrogant, and bowed deeply, "Your humble servant Mei Qianyue pays respects to the Empress Dowager. May the Empress Dowager recover soon and live in endless happiness."

Mei Xueer suddenly discovered that her third sister had the temperament of a mistress of a mansion.

The empress dowager smiled from ear to ear, and pulled Mei Qianyue aside to ask her all sorts of questions. Mei Qianyue answered them one by one, very generously and appropriately.

The prince felt even more uneasy, and his back teeth were aching from biting them.

Because Mei Xueer cured the Queen Mother's illness, not only were the Queen Mother and the Emperor's father very happy, but it also brought the Queen Mother and Prince Jing closer.

If this continues, won't even my father be won over by her?

The prince now truly experienced what it felt like to shoot himself in the foot.

He really didn't want to stay here any longer, so he stood up and said, "Grandmother, I still have some things to deal with in the East Palace. I will take my leave first and come back to pay my respects to you later."

"Okay, you are a good child. You know how to do business. Business is important, so just go and do it." The Queen Mother said with a smile.

Cui Hongjing ate the osmanthus cake without any expression, and did not even look at the prince. He said calmly, "Take care, big brother."

The crown prince glared at him fiercely, and just as he went out, the second prince, Prince Qi, and the eighth prince arrived.

"Big brother!" Prince Qi Cui Hongqi bowed to the prince.

The prince hummed unhappily and continued walking with a gloomy face.

Cui Hongqi smiled slightly, looking indifferent.

Mei Xueer's attention was immediately attracted by his calm and relaxed demeanor.

His facial features are nothing special when viewed separately, but when put together, they appear to be as graceful as a dragon and as gentle as jade.

The kind of clear and refreshing temperament that emanates from his entire body makes him particularly different from others.

What does it mean that a man on the street is as beautiful as jade and a young man is unparalleled in the world? This is probably what it means.

After he came in and greeted everyone, he stood in the corner with his hands behind his back, not saying a word.

His eyes inadvertently swept over Mei Xueer, and the tough Mei Xueer he saw in the theater that day appeared in front of him again.

The corners of his mouth curled slightly, and he turned his head slightly to the side to hide his emotions.

Among this group of kings with their own thoughts, Cui Hongqi was like an elegant white swan mixed in among a flock of chickens that had lost their feathers due to fighting. It was hard for him not to attract attention.

Unfortunately, this white swan has a fatal flaw - its left leg is disabled and it walks with a limp.

Cui Hongjing's leg injury is temporary and he is still pretending.

But Cui Hongqi's legs are permanent, having been like this since he was injured as a child.

However, as long as he didn't move and just stood there, his disability didn't show and he looked like a banished immortal.

The original owner Mei Xueer had never dealt with this Cui Hongqi.

Among Cui Qimo's seven surviving sons, Cui Hongqi is an outlier.

Perhaps he knew that due to his disability, he was not qualified to compete for the supreme position, so he did not fight or compete, nor did he have conflicts with anyone, and was always gentle to everyone.

He never participated in court affairs, and Cui Qimo tacitly agreed that he would not attend the morning court.

He was not even interested in women. He was 22 years old and had only one concubine in his mansion. However, according to gossip, he had never touched that concubine.

The only thing he was interested in was painting and calligraphy.

It is said that the collections in his mansion are all fine products from all dynasties.

He himself is also a skilled painter, especially good at painting plum blossoms.

The great collectors of the time were all proud to have the paintings of Prince Qi in their collection and were willing to pay huge sums of money to acquire them.

This was partly due to his status as a prince, but more importantly it was because his paintings were extraordinary.

Especially plum blossoms.

Cui Hongqi combined freehand brushwork with the natural form of plum blossoms to create his own unique style of plum blossoms.

Someone once commented on the plum blossom paintings by Wang Qi: They are concise and grand, with shapes that are free from form, and they seek similarity in spirit rather than form. There is no one like him before, and no one like him after.

However, Cui Hongqi never circulated his paintings to others. If a painting was good, he would keep it for himself. If he was not satisfied with the painting, he would burn it.