The princess is beautiful and Ziye

Chapter 169 Two in One
Xie Tinglan and Fu Zhaoyao entered the main hall, Concubine Xian was sitting on the soft couch, looking at the bottomless teacup in a daze, with a gloomy expression.

Looking up and seeing Xie Tinglan walking into the hall, Concubine Xian squeezed out a smile, "The stars are here, sit down."

Xie Tinglan bowed his knees and saluted, stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, you really don't need to worry about being unworthy of someone or something, because it's not worthwhile to be so angry."

She picked up the teapot that was warming on the stove and filled Concubine Xian with tea.

Concubine Xian let out a long sigh of relief, and said: "It's all my fault that I don't know people clearly, and I almost suffered from being ostentatious. Fortunately, there are stars, so I didn't cause this palace to make a big mistake."

"It's not the empress's fault." Xie Tinglan said, "Sheng Fuqing and her mother are the culprits that caused the current situation. The empress and His Majesty are both deceived by him to do this."

Concubine Xian and Xie Tinglan looked at each other for a moment, and suddenly felt much more at ease.

"What are you doing standing there stupidly? Go to the small kitchen and get all the snacks that Ben Gong asked you to prepare!"

After Xie Tinglan was seated, Fu Zhaoyao asked about Ji Fu's stay at her house.

Xie Tinglan told the ins and outs of the incident, and Fu Zhaoyao's originally resentful expression gradually eased a lot.

"Ji Fu's mother and daughter are living in such a miserable life. Could it be that the matter of Sheng Fuqing has nothing to do with them?"

Fu Zhaoyao had always thought that this was a conspiracy by their family, and the government was looking for Ji Fu's mother and daughter with great fanfare, not for witnesses, but for accomplices.

If Ji Fu and Ji Shu hadn't been found in Xie's mansion, and Xie Tinglan hadn't instructed them, their mother and daughter would never have been taken away so politely.

"This matter is still to be discussed." Concubine Xian was very calm, "If the mother and daughter were also forced, then there is no need to pursue too much responsibility."

"It's also pitiful. I met such an unkind person and married such a man." Fu Zhaoyao patted his chest secretly rejoicing.

Just as she was talking, Nanny Pan came in from outside the hall with some snacks, put down the snacks and said, "Your Majesty, Xie Shuhui from the Xie Mansion is here to say hello to Your Majesty."

Concubine Xian frowned, "What is she here for? No see."

Xie Tinglan smiled delicately, looked at Fu Zhaoyao and said, "I'm afraid they came here specially to comfort me when I learned about the fifth princess. We sisters don't talk much these days, and I didn't tell her when I went out today. Didn't know I was here too."

"What consolation, I reckon it's here to discredit you." Fu Zhaoyao rolled his eyes and said, "Ting Lan, you go hide in the side hall first, and I'll test out Xie Shuhui's intentions."

"Swagger..." Concubine Xian looked at Fu Zhaoyao disapprovingly.

It's obvious what Xie Shuhui wants to do. Xie Tinglan and her are sisters of the same mother. If Xie Tinglan really heard Xie Shuhui's words, wouldn't she stab a knife in her heart?

Xie Tinglan smiled and stood up, "It's okay, ma'am, I also want to hear what Hui'er has to say. Then I'll go to the side hall first."

Xie Tinglan led Yuxiu through the main hall and came to the side hall separated by a door on the other side.

Nanny Pan brought her some snacks, and said with a smile: "There is no ice in the side hall, it may be a little hot, but the girl drinks this milk tea, it's iced, it's very refreshing."

Xie Tinglan blessed her body, "Thank you, Sister."

Mother Pan hurriedly returned the gift, "Miss, you're being polite. That servant has gone out to pick her up."

Concubine Xian and Fu Zhaoyao came to sit in the main hall.

Xie Shuhui didn't expect to come in so smoothly, with a very earnest smile on her face.

"The courtier greets the concubine Xian, and the fifth princess."

"Exemption."

Concubine Xian slightly raised her hand, her brows and eyes were neither cold nor hot, showing no emotion, "It's the hot weather, I didn't expect Miss Xie San to think of entering the palace to pay her respects."

"Isn't it because I heard that something big happened, Hui'er is worried about the fifth princess, even if the ice skates are thrown outside, Hui'er has to go to the palace to have a look."

Xie Shuhui looked sincere, turned her head to look at Fu Zhaoyao beside her, twisted her fingers hesitantly, and asked softly, "Zhaoyao, are you okay?"

Fu Zhaoyao chuckled and said, "What are you talking about? Sheng Fuqing and I have nothing to do with each other. I have nothing wrong with you. What you said seems to mean that the two of us had something."

Xie Shuhui's face froze.

She just asked this casually, so how can you draw so many meanings!
There is really no excuse for the crime.

In the side hall, Yuxiu covered her mouth and snickered, looked at Xie Tinglan and said, "The fifth princess is just looking for trouble."

It's just that he can't understand Xie Shuhui, that's why he's trying to find her faults and hate her.

Xie Tinglan smiled without saying a word, and continued to listen.

Xie Shuhui paused for a few seconds, then explained: "Hui'er didn't mean that, you've misunderstood me..."

"I don't have any friendship with Miss Xie San. It's too presumptuous for you to ostentatiously. The Xie family didn't even teach you this little rule?"

Xie Shuhui gritted her teeth to admit the humiliation, she clenched her fingers tightly, and said, "Your Highness, Hui'er knows that His Highness is still brooding over the previous incident, but Hui'er really wished for that matter..."

"Stop." Concubine Xian raised her hand to stop Xie Shuhui, and stood up with a smile.

"I don't want to stay here to get involved in the affairs of you young people. I'm going to pay my respects to the imperial concubine. Let's talk slowly here."

"Congratulations to the empress."

Without Concubine Xian in front of her, Xie Shuhui could say a lot more easily.

She was no longer restrained, stepped forward and grabbed Fu Zhaoyao's sleeve, and said sincerely: "Zhao, Your Highness, Hui'er really cherishes the friendship with His Highness, Your Highness really misunderstood me about the previous incident. I also I don't know why my sister wants to speak ill of me in front of His Highness, and my sister must not have meant it, but that matter is really..."

Fu Zhaoyao pulled out his sleeves slowly, nodded at her and said, "Listen to what you said, if it is inconsistent. You said that I misunderstood the previous thing, and you meant to accuse Xie Tinglan of talking nonsense in front of me, and then Inexplicably excused her, saying that she didn't do it on purpose. Then is what she said true or false? "

A trace of hatred flashed across Xie Shuhui's eyes, then she let out a sigh of relief and said, "I don't know... Elder Sister often looks at me and says mine is not a common occurrence..."

"No way, isn't she your own sister?"

Fu Zhaoyao said: "Before this princess thought it was strange. You always said that Xie Tinglan was not good to you and targeted you everywhere. But I saw that Xie Tinglan was gentle and never took the initiative to provoke troubles. No matter how I looked at it, it didn't look like you did before. As said..."

"Elder Sister, that's because she's in front of the princess! That's why she pretends to be gentle!"

Xie Shuhui was cruel, looked around, and whispered: "The princess doesn't know, the elder sister has a treacherous mind. Over the years, she has eliminated many people who are unfavorable to her in Xie's house. My sister's calculations. I saw these things in my eyes, but I didn't dare to say them out. After all, she is Hui'er's own sister. My sister is doing this to protect herself. I can understand, but if my sister hits the scheme on you and me, Hui'er is determined not to tolerate it!"

Seeing that Fu Zhaoyao didn't speak, Xie Shuhui thought she believed her. After all, Fu Zhaoyao was so easy to deceive in front of her in the past.

She thought for a while, and continued: "There are still things before. In fact, Hui'er has always felt strange. Eldest sister has a keen temper, and has a strong instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Your Highness thought about it. At that time, His Highness's family was killed by a traitor. , no one dared to get close. Huier admitted her incompetence, and in order not to hurt her family, she had to keep a distance from the princess. But elder sister..."

Xie Shuhui paused meaningfully, and then said: "Why did the elder sister suddenly care about the princess so much. She ignored the princess' situation at that time and made friends with the princess, and she didn't care about the Xie Mansion and the Duke Huguo's mansion behind her. This is not at all like the elder sister who considered everything carefully in the past. Unless...the elder sister did it on purpose!"

Fu Zhaoyao thought that Xie Shuhui could say something earth-shattering and weeping ghosts and gods.

It sounded like a rehash of the same old tune, no different from what she had talked about in the palace last time, but it was refined.

Presumably it was Concubine Xian's slap that didn't wake her up.

Xie Shuhui also tried in vain to make Fu Zhaoyao think that Xie Tinglan came to show her hospitality because she knew that the Qiu family would be fine.

But in fact, Fu Zhaoyao already had this idea.

When she went to Xie's mansion, Xie Tinglan reassured her that the Qiu family would be fine, which was implying to her that she knew the inside story.

Fu Zhaoyao didn't feel any wavering in his heart about something that he had guessed for a long time.

Fu Zhaoyao listened like he was watching a show, and asked with a smile, "Just tell me what you mean."

"Thinking, Your Highness! At the palace banquet, the eldest sister also stood up to help the prince to accuse the prince of serious crimes! And because of that incident, she was given a marriage by the emperor. Do you know the princess, when the prince left Beijing to investigate the enclosure case, my elder sister My sister is in Qingzhou. How could it be such a coincidence that it constituted the original incident. Therefore, Huier has been guessing that the elder sister and the crown prince have actually been working together to investigate the case."

Xie Shuhui clenched her fists.

She had this idea a long time ago, but she never thought that Xie Tinglan went to Qingzhou for this.

Otherwise, she will definitely try to stop her.

Cheap that bitch.

Xie Shuhui continued: "It is because everything is under the control of the elder sister. The elder sister will know that the princess and the Qiu family will be safe and sound. And the elder sister can take this opportunity to provoke the relationship between you and me."

Xie Shuhui had tears in her eyes, she was very pitiful, "Your Highness doesn't know, when Eldest Sister just returned to Beijing, she learned that I and the princess are like sisters, so she kept mocking me."

"Eldest sister must have hated me for being friends with the princess long ago, so when I had to stay away from the princess, she took advantage of it and gained His Highness's trust. She can also take the opportunity to suppress me."

After Fu Zhaoyao chuckled lightly, he commented: "The matter of your Xie family is even more exciting than those in the palace."

Xie Shuhui lowered her eyes embarrassingly, "The eldest sister has never been favored by her mother, and I have always been favored by her mother. So it is normal for the elder sister to dislike me."

"There is some truth to what you said..."

Fu Zhaoyao dragged out the tune.

The joyful expression on Xie Shuhui's face hadn't lifted yet, but she changed the topic and turned sharply.

"But what does this have to do with this princess loathing you?"

"Xie Shuhui, stop pretending to have amnesia in front of this princess. Do you remember how many times I slapped you that time? You personally smashed the jade bracelet that this princess gave you in front of this princess. What else did you say? Unlucky, you think that if you lose your memory, everyone will lose their memory, right?"

Xie Shuhui bit her lips tightly, and said in a low voice: "At that time... I was in a daze for a while. I didn't expect my sister to bring His Highness in. I didn't intend to do this. It was the eldest sister who deliberately provoked me, so... ..."

"If I hadn't heard it with my own ears, I wouldn't have known that I was such a bad person in my sister's heart."

Xie Shuhui's breath stopped, and she looked towards the source of the sound, and saw Xie Tinglan walking towards here slowly, with a smile on her face that could not discern emotion.

"Elder, elder sister!"

Xie Shuhui took a step back in fright.

Why is Xie Tinglan here? !
Looking at Fu Zhaoyao's unsurprised expression, Xie Shuhui didn't know anything.

Her eyes darkened with anger, "Sister, how could you—"

"What can I do? Can you hide and listen to gossip?" Xie Tinglan walked up to her, raised his eyebrows and said, "If my sister doesn't talk nonsense, why are you afraid of me listening?"

Xie Shuhui gritted her teeth, "Why am I talking nonsense, you dare say you don't know! If you don't know the cause and effect of that incident, how could you become a princess!"

"Father's thoughts, I don't allow you to speculate." Fu Zhaoyao strode forward, "Xie Shuhui, you are presumptuous in every sentence, it seems that the slap that mother concubine gave you last time didn't wake you up."

"Maybe it's too much time."

Xie Shuhui gave Xie Tinglan a hard look.

Fu Zhaoyao said: "Since you are too free, this princess will find something for you to do. It just so happens that this princess is going to copy a few Buddhist scriptures for the emperor's grandmother, and I can't do it alone, so I will ask you to help me copy a few copies." . Go to lecture on the Buddhist scriptures and fetch them."

The maid in the hall answered yes, and came out with a large pile of Buddhist scriptures in the inner hall.

The Buddhist scriptures are piled up together, almost covering the face of the court lady.

Xie Shuhui's face twitched and her fingertips trembled.

"What? Don't you want to?"

How dare Xie Shuhui refuse? It would be fine if she copied those books that relieved Fu Zhaoyao's boredom. Since these Buddhist scriptures were intended to be copied for the Queen Mother, how dare Xie Shuhui refuse.

"I, I copied!"

At worst, like Xie Tinglan did last time, she pretended to be ill to fool her.

"Wait for the mother concubine to come back later. This princess asks the concubine mother to be kind and transfer the imperial physician who specializes in treating the concubine mother to live in Xie's mansion for a while. It will save you from getting tired of copying the scriptures. With the imperial physician on the side, you can let him Try to make you feel better."

Fu Zhaoyao smiled very gently, sounding considerate, but in fact - just to prevent Xie Shuhui from being clever and dodging!
With the imperial doctor around, she didn't dare to do anything.

Xie Shuhui can't steal chickens without losing money, and her eyes are blurred when she leaves the palace.

Xicha shrank obediently in the corner, afraid that Xie Shuhui would take revenge on her first when she woke up.

Inside Zhongcui Palace, Fu Zhaoyao and Xie Tinglan entered the inner hall and sat down, heaving a long sigh of relief.

"It's so refreshing! I've been looking for an opportunity to teach her a lesson for a long time. I really thought that everyone would be together when she lost her memory. She doesn't have eyes yet, so she bumped into me."

Xie Tinglan said while pouring water: "She used to be like a sister to you, so many noble girls in this capital made good friends with her. Now she is not welcome, and many people in the capital are also following the wind. In the past, there were people every now and then. Invite her out for a small get-together, but now she can only stay at home. She is naturally upset and wants to restore the old relationship with you."

(End of this chapter)