After being married off by my younger sister, I became the most beloved person in the palace

Gu Zhiyin glanced sideways and saw that the empress dowager's usually cold face was filled with forbearance and the corners of her eyes were red.

"stand up."

Xie Li and Wei stood up: "Thank you, Queen Mother."

"You still remember to come back. I thought I would never see you again until I died." The Queen Mother spoke while suppressing her emotions. If you listen carefully, you can hear a slight tremor in her voice.

Xie Li looked up at the Queen Mother, his expression complicated yet with a hint of intimacy: "It is my fault that I have made the Queen Mother sad and worried. Back then, my sister disappeared and my mother went crazy. This capital city was a nightmare to us, a sad place that we dared not face, so we had to choose to escape."

The Queen Mother paused, longing and sadness welling up in her eyes: "Wanwan, she still hasn't been found?"

Qin Wenxi was her stepsister. She married into the Xie family and gave birth to a son and a daughter, the eldest son Xie Li and the youngest daughter Xie Wan.

The Empress Dowager liked Xie Wan very much. Since she was a child, she was raised by the Empress Dowager, who was once the Queen. It can be said that Xie Wan spent more time living in Kunning Palace than in Xie Mansion. She was more favored and noble than the royal princesses at that time!

However, when she was ten years old, she disappeared on her way back to the Xie family from the palace.

Qin Wenxi was so heartbroken over the loss of her beloved daughter that she went crazy soon after.

Afterwards, Xie's father applied to the late emperor to be transferred back to his hometown Youdu to serve as a local official.

The Xie family left the capital and almost cut off contact with the Qin family.

Xie Li paused and said, "A year ago, when I found my sister, she had already passed away, leaving behind a daughter who lived with her uncle. They lived in poverty, and that family stole the jade pendant and pawned it, which gave us the clue."

The Queen Mother was dazed when she heard this: "Wanwan...how did she die?"

Xie Li lowered his eyes and said, "Life is too poor. I don't have money to treat my illness."

The Queen Mother closed her eyes, a drop of blood slid down from the corner of her eye, and her heart felt as if it was stabbed by a knife.

That was the little girl she had held in her arms and loved dearly since she was a child.

He even fell to the point where he had no money to see a doctor.

The Queen Mother was heartbroken.

Seeing this, Xie Li quickly changed the subject: "My sister's daughter is called An Rou. Let her come to the palace to pay her respects to the Queen Mother next time."

Both her younger sister and her husband died, leaving Zhao Anrou an orphan living in her uncle's house. Life was hard for the country people, and now there was this outsider. He was not nice to Zhao Anrou, beating and scolding her. Later, he found the jade pendant on her body, took it for himself, and pawned it.

Looking at his only niece, Xie Li naturally couldn't just leave her alone. He severely punished that family and brought Zhao Anrou back to the Xie family.

The couple had no daughter and treated Zhao Anrou as their own. In the Xie family, she was the distinguished eldest daughter.

The Queen Mother nodded and said, "Okay, let me see the child too."

Wanwan’s daughter must be as cute and lovable as her.

"Mother...didn't mean it. I hope the Queen Mother will forgive me." Xie Li continued, "Wanwan suddenly disappeared. She couldn't bear the blow."

"I forgot about it a long time ago." The Queen Mother said calmly, "I was so busy talking that I forgot to ask someone to serve tea. Please sit down."

When the Queen Mother went to the Xie family to visit Qin Wenxi, she was sober for a moment, but that pair of eyes full of resentment is something she has never forgotten.

Her sister was blaming her for losing Xie Wan.

That day, Qin Wenxi committed treason and slapped the empress dowager, and then went crazy again.

The empress dowager was furious and left. Even when she heard that the Xie family had left Beijing, she remained indifferent.

She was slapped in the face, and luckily Qin Wenxi was not punished.

For the sake of face, the Queen Mother never inquired about Qin Wenxi's news.

And Qin Wenxi never contacted him again.