After returning to the palace, Nangong Mo went to the former court to handle state affairs, while Xia Bingyan was also tired from the journey and wanted to sleep.
"Your Majesty, Aunt Jade from Fushou Palace wants to see you." Chunhong walked in, her body filled with happiness.
"Aunt Jade?" She whispered, she was from Fushou Palace, "Change."
"Yes." Chunhong stepped forward, changed her clothes, then held Xia Bingyan's hand and walked out.
In the main hall, Feicui stood there quietly with his head lowered, waiting for Xia Bingyan's arrival.
"Aunt Jade, what are you doing today?" She asked with a smile, "You are from the Queen Mother's Palace."
"Happy Queen, the Queen Mother sent her servants to invite the Queen to Fushou Palace to discuss something." Feicui saw Xia Bingyan and paid her respects in a polite manner.
"Auntie, please go back and tell the Queen Mother. I will be here soon." Do you have something to discuss? Did the old lady figure it out?
"Yes, I will leave this slave."
After Feicui left, Xia Bingyan packed up and headed straight to Fushou Palace with Chunhong and Zhang Bing.
In the Fushou Palace, the Queen Mother was sitting on the soft couch absentmindedly, not knowing what she was thinking.
After a long time, she came back to her senses and asked Jade beside her, "Jade, what do you think of this queen?"
Jade's face changed, "Reply to the Queen Mother, after recovering from her injury, the Queen has become even more beautiful."
"Yes, even you can see it, but Ai Jia still can't figure it out." How did things develop like this? Her words would always be repeated over and over again in her dreams.
"Jade doesn't dare. The Queen Mother has seen countless people, so naturally she can't compare with Jade." Jade hurriedly knelt down and crawled on the ground.
The Queen Mother waved her hand feebly, "Get up. You were raised by the Ai family. How come the Ai family doesn't understand."
"Queen Mother..." Jade stood up and looked at the woman in front of her, as if she had suddenly aged a lot. She had never been so disappointed in the cruel palace back then.
"The Queen has arrived!" the eunuch's voice sounded sharply outside.
Not long after, a woman in a fiery red phoenix robe walked in lightly and saw her smiling slightly, saying, "I heard that my mother summoned me. I don't know why."
"Sit down, I just want to chat with the queen." She chuckled, then waved everyone away.
"I will accompany you naturally." He picked up the tea bowl, hey, I drink tea all day long, it would be nice to have a cup of coffee.
"The Ai family has always disliked you. When the emperor wanted to make you his queen, it was useless no matter how much the Ai family objected." From the beginning, the words made people very unhappy.
However, Xia Bingyan smiled brightly and said, "I understand." It is human nature. Let alone threatening the royal family, she is a fool and makes people dislike her. In fact, she does not hate the Queen Mother at all. If she really has any dissatisfaction,
It's her innate sense of superiority.
"Your father, General Xia, was a hero who followed the late emperor to conquer the world. Now he is still guarding the border at this age. The Ai family admires him, but he came like an old fool three years ago with a copy of the late emperor's imperial edict.
I met the emperor and told him that it was left behind by the late emperor before his death, and that he would make you the queen when you are 15 years old." She seemed to be recalling the past, looking at a certain point with unfocused eyes.
Only then did Xia Bingyan understand that using the border officers and Yulong people to intimidate Li Hou was just the result, and the late emperor's imperial edict was the cause.
It's just that she was a little confused. It seemed that no one knew about the imperial edict, so it should be a secret edict. Since it was a secret edict, Xia Chuyan could have put it away quietly, but why didn't she do that and let her idiot daughter enter the palace instead?
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She didn't speak, but she had an intuition that she would know something from the Queen Mother's mouth.