Chapter 135

Chu Lingyun glanced at the unstable Xiang He and asked, "Why are you so tired? I just asked you to check things. I didn't ask you to chase others."

Xiang he blushed and knelt down and said, "I know my mistake. I shouldn't be rude in front of the princess."

"Well." Chu Lingyun raised his chin, "get up quickly. Now we're the only one here. There's no need to be rude. What did you find out?"

"The princess's mother and Mrs. Yi used to know Prince Chen," said Xiang He. "The emperor and Prince Chen. And Mrs. Heyi often get together."

Chu Lingyun rolled his eyes angrily. "What are you doing telling me about a disordered subject and thief? Is it a glorious thing for Mrs. Heyi to know him?"

Xiang he hurriedly explained, "Mrs. Heyi used to be prince Chen's fiancee. Later, she was taken away by the emperor and married into the palace. Then Prince Chen and the emperor stopped seeing each other."

Chu Lingyun was shocked. There's still this thing. "The emperor has done something to rob the love of his brothers?" she grumbled discontentedly. "No wonder he wants to send me to the state of Qi."

"Princess," said Xiang He, "Prince Chen has been holding a grudge against the emperor since he was taken away his fiancee. He hasn't taken a wife and concubine for many years. I'm afraid there are some reasons for his intention to usurp the throne."

Chu Lingyun nodded thoughtfully, "it seems that Prince Chen is also an infatuated person. But what does this have to do with me?"

Xiang he lowered his head in guilt. "I only found these. Please forgive me, princess."

Chu Lingyun sighed disappointed, "I expect you to dig something. It's some unofficial history."

"If the princess is not in a hurry, I will go again..."

"No, I don't think you can find anything," said Chu Lingyun, turning his eyes. "Prince Chen doesn't have any children?"

"Prince Chen didn't take a wife, concubine or have any children all his life."

Chu Lingyun looked at her faintly. "The emperor suddenly decided to make me a marriage princess. Is it related to this matter?"

Xiang He shook his head decisively. "Don't worry, princess. Prince Chen has nothing to do with the princess."

"Then why did the emperor send me to the state of Qi," Chu Lingyun frowned angrily, "do you really want me to ask the emperor myself?"

"Princess," Xiang he whispered, "you've been dragging on for so long. You'd better ask the emperor yourself."

"I... still don't dare to go," Chu Lingyun clenched her sleeves. "I always feel that there is an extremely cruel truth waiting for me ahead."

Xiang he comforted: "no matter what kind of truth, there is Duan Wang. Please calm down. Anyway, you should know that you are the Poyang Princess of Daqin and can bear anything."

Zhao Qingyao wandered around at the gate of the Princess Palace for a long time, but she hesitated to go in.

Butterfly shadow pushed her behind and asked, "why didn't miss go in and come all the way."

Zhao Qingyao looked puzzled and said, "in the final analysis, I'm just a cousin of Jieyu's family. It's too abrupt to go to see the princess suddenly."

"The young lady is specially assigned by Jieyu. Even if the princess doesn't want to see the young lady, she can't help giving her three thin noodles," butterfly shadow comforted with a smile. "The young lady doesn't care about these. If she doesn't come today and doesn't come tomorrow, she can't do anything until the day when the princess is going to get married."

Zhao Qingyao bit her lip and breathed a sigh of relief. "Well, I'm too timid outside to lose my sister's face. Knock on the door."

Butterfly shadow knocked on the vermilion Palace door a few times, and soon a little eunuch came out to answer the door.

The little eunuch drilled out half his head, "which family is Miss?"

Zhao Qingyao slightly straightened her skirt and said with a smile, "I'm Zhao Jieyu's sister. Jieyu asked me to talk to the princess."

"It's Jieyu's sister," the little eunuch felt his head in embarrassment, "but the young lady came at a bad time. The princess went to the imperial study."

Zhao Qingyao lowered her eyes somewhat lost. "Did the princess say when to come back?"

The little eunuch didn't answer her, but someone in the palace stopped him. The man said a word or two to him. He smiled at them and said, "come in, miss. The princess will be back soon. You can wait in the palace."

Zhao Qingyao glanced at the butterfly shadow happily. The princess was also reasonable and kindly asked her to enter the palace instead of returning home.

Butterfly shadow also sighed in her heart that she didn't have to go back to Jieyu. She rewarded the little eunuch with some silver coins and helped the young lady to the Princess Palace.

Princess Poyang is indeed the eldest princess of the Qin Dynasty and the emperor's favorite daughter. The decoration of the palace is much more magnificent than that of Jieyu palace. It's like walking into a golden cave.

As Zhao Qingyao walked carefully, she looked at the palace with the rest of her eyes, and suppressed herself. Don't be surprised. She told others to laugh at the world.

Out of the room came a maid in a goose yellow palace dress. She bowed and said, "my maid, Xianghe, meet Miss Zhao."

Zhao Qingyao listened to the palace maid's words with decent respect. She knew that it was the person the princess was waiting on. She nodded and said, "sister Xianghe, please get up. I just want to talk to the princess."

Xiang He led her to the hall, asked the maid in charge to pour tea for her, brought snacks, and said softly, "Miss, wait for a moment. The princess will come back in a few minutes. Miss, wait while you eat. This is the crab cake in the palace."

Zhao Qingyao stared at the orange dim sum on the plate and was stunned. It turned out that this was crab cake. It was a delicacy that could not be eaten in Jieyu palace. It could be used to entertain guests at will in the Princess Palace. The level in the palace really changed.

Xiang he gently put his chopsticks aside, smiled and said, "Miss, please."

Zhao Qingyao modestly clamped a small chopstick and chewed it carefully in her mouth. "Well, it's crispy. It's delicious."

Xiang He said with a smile, "just like it, miss."

Zhao Qingyao smiled and said, "the sister in the Princess Palace is really much more beautiful than those in other palaces. It can be seen that the princess must be a national beauty."

Xiang He said with a smile, "miss is really good at talking. Miss is as amiable as Jie Yu."

"Everyone says I'm not as good-looking as my sister," Zhao Qingyao added. "I'm Jieyu's cousin. I'm not much alike."

"It's not very similar. It doesn't just show your personal characteristics," Xiang He said with a smile. "Miss, are you going to stay in the palace for a few days?"

Zhao Jieyu meant to let the emperor feel before going, but the Emperor didn't even take a few steps in Jieyu palace. She bowed her head and thought for a while and said, "it's only five or six days."

"Miss, why don't you stay a little longer," Xiang He suggested. "The princess is busy in the palace all day. I really hope there is a young lady who is about the same age to relieve her boredom."

Zhao Qingyao looked at her in surprise. "Does the princess know?"

"The princess is not a person far away from the back palace. She has a close relationship with several empresses in the back palace. How can she not know that the young lady has entered the palace."

"The princess already knew," Zhao Qingyao turned her eyes. "If the princess doesn't dislike me, I'll come to see the princess more."

The emperor stopped his hand, raised his eyelids, looked at her and asked, "what are you doing here?"

Chu Lingyun half knelt on the ground, bit his pale lips and said in a trembling voice, "why did my father make me a marriage princess?"

The emperor smiled twice, "you are well-informed. I thought you really didn't know anything."

"I really don't know anything," Chu Lingyun said eagerly. "Father, why did you do this?"

"Is the person as like as two peas around you," he said, "have you gone to search for information?" the emperor walked down happily, and his lips showed a smile of cold smile. "She didn't find out, it seems that there is still a big gap between the standard and my staff."

Chu Lingyun trembled all over and said, "father, where am I doing badly? You have to tell me to die."

"Why do you say such unlucky words? I just let you marry the emperor of Qi."

"It's better to kill me directly than marry the emperor of Qi," Chu Lingyun cried bitterly, and tears had wet his eyes. "Father, you don't know that the back palace of Qi is as dead as a cemetery."

"That's why I asked you to go," the emperor casually counted the Buddha beads on his wrist. "You have a smart mind and can kill a way in his harem."

Chu Lingyun stared at him, "you... Why do you want me to go?"

"You are the Poyang Princess of Daqin. Why should he give you the position of your imperial concubine," the emperor said with a slight smile, "you are the apple of my eye. You must give Daqin a long face."

Chu Lingyun listened to the emperor's light words and felt very sad in her heart. She sneered faintly and said slowly, "father, Emperor knows Prince Chen?"

The emperor was stunned, and the smile on his face immediately disappeared, leaving only a decisive coldness, "you ask him what to do."

"Does Prince Chen know Mrs. Heyi," Chu Lingyun said with a smile, "what did the former queen say before she died?"

The emperor turned around with a gloomy face, "didn't the person you sent find out?"

"Did the former queen tell you about Prince Chen and Mrs. Heyi," Chu Lingyun looked at him faintly, "here is still about me?"

The emperor was silent for a while, and his fierce eyes glanced at her fiercely, "do you know what I have done before?"

"I see," Chu Lingyun looked directly at him. "My father took away his wife and sent off his daughter today. It's a bit of the same thing."

The emperor raised his lips and smiled, lowered his eyes and said gently, "you're wonderful, but the so-called king is the strongest to rob and kill."

Chu Lingyun took a deep breath, "what did the former queen say before she died? I know it was the poison you gave."

The emperor nodded admiringly, "your heart is like a mirror. She told the truth."

Chu Lingyun's throat tightened, and the bad premonition rushed to his heart, "... What truth?"

"She said she wanted me to stop blaming you."

Chu Lingyun was confused, "what's the truth? Isn't she pleading for me?"

"I saw that after the death of the former queen, you didn't feel sad. I thought I didn't pay attention to her plea. I was sure I wouldn't do anything to you," the emperor looked at her with cold eyes. "Do you know what else she said after that?"

Chu Lingyun narrowed her eyes. "She told you about Prince Chen, didn't she?"

"Yes," said the emperor. "She told me that Prince Chen had visited her after Mrs. Yi and I moved to the luanfeng palace."