The stunning beauty of Qing Dynasty

After many days, Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang's Cining Palace welcomed new guests again.

Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang did not like overly bright clothes, which just happened to fit Qingyin's dressing style. However, such plain and monotonous clothes were also disrespectful. The aunt who served Qingyin thought about it and put a hairpin inlaid with a crescent ruby on Qingyin's head. The ruby was made into an exquisite raindrop shape, and a few pearl flowers were dotted on the side. In this way, the headdress did not look monotonous, but instead revealed a sense of elegance.

Along the way, Qingyin ignored the shock of the people sent from the Empress Dowager's Palace and walked forward calmly.

The maidservants beside the Queen Mother were no pushovers either. After the initial shock, they recovered quickly and couldn't help but regain their previous calm attitude, though their tone was a lot more respectful than before.

When they reached the gate of the Cining Palace, the leading maid smiled gently and said, "Please wait here for a while, Concubine Wan. I will go and report to the Empress Dowager first."

Qingyin nodded: "Thank you, aunt."

Seeing Qingyin's gentle and polite attitude, the palace maid smiled more meaningfully.

Soon he disappeared from Qingyin's sight.

Inside the palace, Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, who learned from others that Concubine Wan had arrived, rubbed her slightly sore eyes and said, "Well, let her in."

"Yes, Queen Mother."

Today, the Empress Dowager was not in a happy mood after hearing the recent news from the Emperor. She was even a little irritated. So after meeting the man who entered the palace, the Empress Dowager's face looked even worse.

But even so, she didn't do anything.

Xiaozhuang looked at the incredibly beautiful woman standing below, her eyes narrowed slightly, "Sit down, Wanpin."

"Yes, Queen Mother."

The Queen Mother had arranged her seat in advance, and Qingyin sat down obediently at the palace maid's signal without asking.

Above, Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, who was sipping tea, was also carefully looking at Qingyin below.

To be honest, Wanpin's appearance was not the kind of enchanting and charming one. Instead, she looked like a fairy from heaven, ethereal and indifferent to worldly things. She was so beautiful that it made Xiaozhuang even more anxious. Dong E didn't give her this feeling. What if Fulin became a tyrant just because of her? Xiaozhuang wanted to trust her son a little, but she couldn't do it. Wanpin had the capital to make Fulin a tyrant.

She thought too much and even the tea at her lip turned cold. Only then did Xiaozhuang come to her senses. The cold tea gave her a shudder.

Facing Su Malagu's worried gaze, Xiaozhuang soothed her with her eyes, and then asked Wanpin, who had remained calm and composed after staying down for such a long time, "Wanpin, has the emperor been to your place these days?"

Although there was a question in his words, his tone was full of affirmation.

Qingyin's long, curled eyelashes trembled slightly, "Yes, the emperor often comes to sit for a while during the day."

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In Baohe Hall, Wu Liangfu walked hurriedly into the hall. Inside, Emperor Fulin was discussing state affairs with the ministers of the council.

Wu Liangfu was extremely anxious. Except for the little maid in the cold palace, all the people around Concubine Wan were close to the Emperor. So when the Empress Dowager invited Concubine Wan, the eunuchs from the Qiming Palace hurried to him to deliver the news. But now the Emperor was discussing state affairs with several princes and ministers of the council, so he didn't know what to say.

Wu Liangfu, who was so worried that his head was smoking, thought about the stunning face of Concubine Wan and felt that he should take a risk.

But there's no need to be so blunt and rude.

Thinking of this, Wu Liangfu walked into the house quietly and paced back and forth in the corner where incense was burning.

The line of sight from this place is right facing Fulin who is standing above.

Fulin, who was listening to the speech of the Minister of State Sony, was quickly distracted by the noise and noticed Wu Liangfu who entered the room. He frowned. Why did Wu Liangfu suddenly come in? Didn't he say that no one should disturb him when he was handling government affairs unless there was something important?

No, Wu Liangfu is not such a tactless person. If anything happens, I'm in trouble, Wanwan!

Fulin's eyes darkened and he stood up suddenly.

Sony, who was talking about state affairs, was so frightened that he staggered. He looked at the emperor who suddenly stood up in surprise.

Compared to the gentle and quiet Sony, the young and energetic Prince Chen could no longer sit still. He said sarcastically, "Why, Your Majesty, you can't even listen to what we say?"

Fulin frowned subconsciously when Prince Chen, one of the ministers, said this. However, thinking about what he wanted to ask Wu Liangfu, Fulin swallowed the words he wanted to say back and explained, "Just now, I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my head. I feel a little uncomfortable..."

As he spoke, Fulin rubbed his temples in a pretentious manner, pretending to be weak.

Several ministers looked at each other and fell silent, especially Prince Chen, who was not criticized by the emperor for the first time. He also felt embarrassed. He didn't know that the emperor was really upset by what he said today. He didn't know how to respond for a moment and fell silent again.

At this moment, the quiet minister Sony stepped forward to help, saying, "The emperor must have been too busy with government affairs recently and not rested enough, which is why he is not feeling well. Why don't we end it here today and let the emperor rest for a while."

Fulin, who was pretending to be sick, gave Sony an appreciative look. He was worthy of being the minister he valued the most. Sony was perceptive and knew not to cause him any trouble.

Seeing what Sony said, the other ministers were not fools and they left one after another.

After everyone had left, Fulin changed his previous sickly look and waved to Wu Liangfu to come towards him.

"What's going on? But what happened to Wanwan?"

Wu Liangfu said quickly, "Your Majesty, this morning someone from the Qiming Palace reported that the Empress Dowager had summoned Concubine Wan to the Cining Palace."

"what!"

Fulin frowned, worried that the Empress Dowager would cause trouble for Wanwan. In the blink of an eye, he strode towards the Cining Palace.

Wu Liangfu was left feeling the coldness of the empty back in front of him, his mind fell into a moment of blankness, ah ah ah! Your Majesty, wait for your servant.

Suddenly, Wu Liangfu chased after Fulin who was walking in front.

On the way to the Cining Palace, Fulin thought about all kinds of sad possibilities, such as the Empress Dowager torturing Wanwan, not allowing her to sit, making her kneel all the time and so on... The more he thought about it, the more anxious he became, and the faster Fulin walked. When he arrived at the Cining Palace, Fulin looked at the harmonious scene in the palace and fell into confusion.

He saw that in the palace there were not only the Empress Dowager and Wanwan as he had guessed, but also an unexpected person - the Queen. At this moment, she was talking and laughing with the Empress Dowager and Wanwan. Qingyin smiled from time to time while talking, and it was obvious that the environment in the palace was quite pleasant.

On the contrary, his arrival here destroyed the harmonious atmosphere of the Cining Palace and seemed a bit abrupt.