The sister-in-law was wrong, please forgive her, my black-bellied brother-in-law

The three of them were walking when suddenly a soft voice came from the side, causing them to stop in their tracks.

Li Wen and Qiao Xi were not familiar with the people in Jiuque's harem, so when they heard the voice, they stood behind Ren Qingzhou tacitly to see how he would act.

Ren Qingzhou turned to look at the person who spoke, and when he saw who it was, he bowed and saluted:

"Your son greets Her Majesty the Virtuous Consort. I pay my respects to Her Majesty the Virtuous Consort."

Seeing this, Li Wen and Qiao Xi hurriedly followed suit.

"This humble girl pays homage to Her Majesty the Virtuous Consort!"

"Oh, we are all family, no need to be so polite."

Cui Wanxi, the virtuous concubine who was one of the four concubines, looked at the three people bowing to her happily. She said there was no need to be "so polite", but she did not ask them to stand up.

Only when she felt the time was right did she let the three of them stand up.

Ren Qingzhou is a prince, she knows him, so she won't look at him too much.

So her gaze passed directly over Ren Qingzhou's face, and first fell on Li Wen's face. Because Li Wen had treated her before, as soon as she recognized him, she jumped her gaze to Qiao Xi's face.

When he saw Qiao Xi covering her face with a silk scarf, he couldn't help but frown and the smile on his face slowly faded.

Compared with just now, the tone is a little sarcastic:

"Third Prince, why is the woman behind you covering her face? Is there some unspeakable secret?"

As Cui Wanxi said this, she looked Qiao Xi up from head to toe.

She found that although she couldn't see the face of the woman in front of her, judging from her figure, she must be a rare beauty.

Could it be that the Third Prince felt that his mother was not favored, so he followed the example of other concubines and found a beautiful woman to send to his mother to help her gain favor?

Thinking of this, Cui Wanxi looked at Qiao Xi with some hostility in her eyes.

Qiao Xi kept her head down. She couldn't see Concubine De's eyes, but she could feel something strange.

In order to avoid causing trouble, she lowered her head even lower than before.

Ren Qingzhou noticed that Concubine De's gaze stopped at the little apprentice sister, and he immediately became alert, but his expression did not change at all, and he was still very respectful:

"You're joking, Madam Defei. There's no such thing as a secret."

He pointed at Qiao Xi and introduced her calmly, "This woman is the disciple my uncle Xiao Yushan accepted two years ago. She had been in her hometown before and only recently came to Baidi City.

She studied medicine with my uncle-in-law. She had decent theoretical knowledge, but lacked experience in medical skills.

So in the past few days, my uncle has let her follow me and my senior brother to gain more medical experience."

"If you're trying to gain medical experience, why are you wearing a mask?"

Cui Wanxi kept dwelling on the previous question, as if she was determined to get to the bottom of it.

Obviously, she is not someone who can be easily fooled.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Qiao Xi thought quickly. She lowered her head and used her mind to take out a pill from the space, and quickly put it into her mouth with the power of her fingertips.

The pills melt in your mouth and the effect is very fast.

But in a moment, Qiao Xi knew that the medicine was working.

"Your Highness, Empress Defei, may not know this, but there's a custom in my junior sister's hometown that all unmarried women must wear a mask when they go out."

Ren Qingzhou was afraid that Cui Wanxi would ask her junior sister to take off the scarf, so he quickly found a reason that sounded more reasonable to reduce Cui Wanxi's curiosity.

At the same time, he prayed in his heart that Cui Wanxi would not ask any more questions or pay any more attention to the mask on his junior sister's face.

But Cui Wanxi would not give up so easily.

Besides, Ren Qingzhou didn't know her that well.

Cui Wanxi is the kind of person who will do something the more you forbid her to do it.

Seeing her quickly approaching Qiao Xi, she reached out to pull the scarf covering her face.

Qiao Xi dodged for a moment out of instinct, but then realized her own loss of composure and quickly stopped, allowing Defei Cui Wanxi to lift the silk scarf off her face.

But she didn't let the scarf completely leave her cheek.

"Oh my, I was scared to death!"

As soon as Defei Cui Wanxi saw Qiao Xi's chin, she screamed, hurriedly loosened the scarf in her hand, and even took a few steps back, looking as if she was frightened.

"What's that growing on your face that makes it so scary?"

Cui Wanxi pointed her finger at Qiao Xi's face and asked coldly.

"Your Highness, I've just arrived in Baidi City a few days ago and have developed a rash due to unfamiliarity with the climate. But don't worry, Your Highness, this rash isn't contagious."

De Fei Cui Wanxi: "Really? This is the first time I've heard of acclimatization causing rashes. But since you've already developed a rash, you should just stay home and recuperate. Why are you still coming out to scare people?"

As she spoke, she revealed a look of disgust, and kept wiping her fingers that had just touched the scarf with a handkerchief.

Ren Qingzhou took in all of Defei Cui Wanxi's reactions. Where she couldn't see, the corners of his lips curled up slightly, then returned to normal.

I only heard him say politely:

"Empress Defei, Empress Shufei is still waiting, please see——"

In order to get away from Defei Cui Wanxi as soon as possible, Ren Qingzhou had to move Shufei Ruan Yunheng out.

"Since Sister Shufei is waiting, I naturally cannot let her wait for long. However, I haven't seen Sister Shufei for a few days, so why don't I go with you? Let's go!"

Cui Wanxi didn't give Ren Qingzhou a chance to refuse. After she finished speaking, she walked towards Shujing Palace in front.

In this situation, how could Ren Qingzhou refuse? He could only wave to Li Wen and Qiao Xi to follow him.

Qiao Xi followed closely, taking every step very carefully, and sighing in her heart:

After entering the Nine-Queen Harem, I encountered a trouble before even meeting the "special" patient. It was indeed a troublesome "harem".

"This servant pays homage to the Empress Defei and His Royal Highness the Third Prince!"

As soon as they entered Shujing Palace, the palace maids in the palace knelt down and bowed to greet Cui Wanxi and Ren Qingzhou when they saw the newcomers.

A few discerning palace maids first asked Defei Cui Wanxi and Ren Qingzhou to sit down, and then came to Shufei's side to wait for her orders.

Concubine Shu held her hand in the air, signaling the two palace maids beside her to help her sit up from the couch. She then looked at Cui Wanxi and said with a smile:

"What brings Sister Defei here? I haven't been feeling well these past two days, please don't let my illness get to you!"

When Cui Wanxi heard this, she wiped the corner of her mouth with the handkerchief in her hand and replied with a smile:

"Sister, what are you talking about? I think you look very healthy, you don't look sick at all. Besides, you are in good health, this illness won't go away in a short time."

"That's great! I was just worried about having no one to talk to, and now my sister is here!"

……

Qiao Xi stood behind Ren Qingzhou. At the beginning, she only glanced at the two concubines who were busy fighting, and then began to observe their hearts.

But as she listened to their conversation, a feeling of "admiration" slowly grew in her heart: if not for anything else, just for their acting skills, which were really no less than those in the movies she had watched.

A quarter of an hour later, the confrontation between the two ended with one of them being defeated.

The smile on Defei Cui Wanxi's face was gone, and her eyes were filled with anger, but she still had her rationality. After saying goodbye to Shufei, she stood up and was about to leave. However, before leaving, she threw a word to Shufei, which made Qiao Xi, who was standing beside her, want to stop her and slap her.