allonlinenovel Chapter 829 Testing each other
Chapter 829 Testing each other
Pan Xiuying bit her lip, thinking that Queen Jiang was exaggerating. What right did she have to say that she would ruin the Pan family? She just wanted to be a princess.
Pan Xiuying pretended to be well-behaved and sensible, and said in a gentle voice: "Xiuying remembers the Queen's teachings, but there is one thing that the Queen may have misunderstood. I did not help the Tenth Prince to frame the Prince of Qi, nor did I deliberately push His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi out to make a fool of himself. I wholeheartedly want to marry His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi, so how could I deliberately damage his reputation! The Pan family has always been dedicated to sharing the worries of His Majesty. How could a little girl like Xiuying have the ability to destroy the Pan family!"
She would not directly design a plan to give someone a handle, but would guide the Tenth Prince to provoke Xie Qi.
Jiang Fenghua didn't expect Pan Xiuying to be such a stubborn person. She even brought up the Pan family to relieve the emperor's worries. The implication was that the Pan family belonged to the emperor, and with the prestige of the Pan family, the empress could not criticize them casually.
Jiang Fenghua just felt that she was meddling in other people's business. It was none of her business whether Pan Xiuying was arrogant or not. As long as Lu Xuefei could marry King Qi smoothly, it was enough.
Without waiting for her to say anything, Pan Xiuying slowly bowed and said, "Xiuying will take her leave first. Grandfather is still waiting for me!"
Jiang Fenghua stared at her face and said calmly, "Go!"
Just as Pan Xiuying walked away, she was still looking at her back. She had no impression of who Pan Xiuying married in her previous life, or whether she entered the palace to be the emperor's concubine. She probably did not enter the palace, or she had always lived in Chenxi Palace and did not know about the affairs of the harem.
"What is Ruan Ruan thinking about?" Xie Shang's voice suddenly sounded in Jiang Fenghua's ears.
Jiang Fenghua came back to her senses. Her expression returned to normal, hiding all her emotions. "Nothing on your mind?"
"Ruan Ruan is not honest and did not tell me the truth." Xie Shang pretended to be angry.
When he came out of the side hall, he saw Jiang Fenghua and Pan Xiuying standing not far away. Pan Xiuying had just left.
Jiang Fenghua smiled slightly, took Xie Shang's arm and deliberately got intimate with him, "Actually, I was thinking about what the King of Qi asked me to do when I went to the Lu family to help him propose to Lu Xuefei. I have never done such a thing, and I am afraid of violating the royal etiquette."
"You are the queen. No one dares to blame you even if you are impolite." He seemed to have heard her talk about the experience of King Qi just now. How could she know about Xie Qi's past? Did she recover her memory?
Jiang Fenghua walked away while saying, "Although I am the queen, I still have to be polite and I must not mistreat Miss Lu. I heard from Miss Lu that the Prince of Qi had a hard time before. He no longer has his mother to support him, and the Tenth Prince often bullied him. He was a pitiful child."
"Xie Qi is a few months older than Ruan Ruan, yet you call him a child." Xie Shang smiled.
"An elder brother is like a father, and an elder sister-in-law is like a mother. The King of Qi has come to me for help. I can't just pretend to be stupid and do nothing! Even if he has a mother, it's not my turn to meddle in his affairs."
Xie Shang thought of the involvement between the Xie Qi and Pan Lu families, and said in a deep voice: "Regarding the marriage of the King of Qi, Ruan Ruan should have discussed it with me, and should not have let him go to Master Pan."
"I didn't care too much. It was Lu Xuefei and King Qi who came to me and asked me for help. I was quite moved by their story, but King Qi seemed a little timid. I just gave him a suggestion and said that since it was useless to reject Pan Xiuying, he should go directly to her elders. Tutor Pan is highly respected and will not let his granddaughter do whatever she wants! Who knew that King Qi would really go to find their elders." She did say these words to Xie Qi.
Xie Shang tapped her forehead, "Isn't it a bit reckless to speak to Master Pan directly? Master Pan and the Pan family hold important positions in the court. If Xie Qi really marries the daughter of the Pan family, it will only help his future better. He is still unwilling. How many people in Shengjing City want to marry the daughter of the Pan family?"
Jiang Fenghua retorted: "Maybe the King of Qi cares about feelings, not power!"
"His life was so difficult in the past. He finally got back on his feet. How could he not fight for power but spend all day entangled with women? Ruan Ruan doesn't understand Xie Qi, so don't be fooled by him." Xie Shang had seen how hard Xie Qi tried, and he wasn't getting much better now.
Hearing this, Jiang Fenghua just wanted to say, wasn't it the emperor who took the initiative to promote him and wanted to give him power?
She realized that Xie Shang was testing her. Was Xie Shang suspicious of something? Did she reveal a flaw? She and Pan Xiuying didn't say anything just now!
Jiang Fenghua argued, "The emperor meant that the prince of Qi should sacrifice himself for power and marry a woman he doesn't love, and live with Pan Xiuying and Weiyi for the rest of his life. How painful it must be for him to torture himself like this? If he doesn't even have the right to love someone, what can he do with the power?"
Xie Shang found her very cute. It turned out that he had thought too much. In the past, Jiang Fenghua only cared about power and not about feelings.
He added, "He can also marry Lu Xuefei home as well, so that he can have everything."
Jiang Fenghua rolled his eyes at him and retorted, "So this is what the emperor thinks. He is eating from the bowl and looking at the pot. The emperor already has a lot of concubines in the harem. Is he thinking of luring the daughter of a powerful official to enter the palace as a concubine?"
She was jealous on purpose, "I can't tolerate any sand in my eyes. If the emperor dares to do this, I will run away from home."
Xie Shang opened his eyes wide in shock and deliberately complained: "Ruan Ruan is so good at telling lies that I have even believed that I did this."
He put his arm around her waist and kissed her lips, "I only eat this from the pot and bowl."
Jiang Fenghua pushed him away and said, "What kind of place is this? Your Majesty, please stop making trouble. If you disrespect the gods, all we have done today will be in vain."
She bowed to all around, still saying, "Don't blame me, don't blame me..."
Jiang Fenghua even pulled Xie Shang to bow, "Your Majesty must be sincere."
Xie Shang thought that he must be overthinking it, Jiang Fenghua had not recovered his memory at all.
Jiang Fenghua took his hand and walked towards the palace, saying as he walked, "I won't be going back to the palace later, and I may not be going back to the palace tonight. I have to go back to the Jiang family, and I have two very important things to do."
Xie Shang said: "What is more important than me? I want to go back to Kunning Palace to sleep tonight. I can't sleep without you."
"Prince Qi and Lu Xuefei have both begged me, I can't just ignore it, can't the emperor see that Lord Lu's face has turned green with anger? I guess he thinks his daughter was abandoned by the King Qi." Jiang Fenghua said quickly, "There is another thing about Lin Yu. Last time I summoned Madam Guo to the palace, she said and expressed her dislike for Lin Yu. Lin Yu is my friend, I can't just ignore her affairs. At least I have to go to the Guo Mansion to talk to Madam Guo about Lin Yu and Guo Xiao's marriage."
She has more important things to do.