Fengming Chen Palace

Chapter 203
"Queen Mother, Lu Zhaoyi is here." In the Shoukang Palace, the palace servants walked into the palace and reported back to the Queen Mother. At this moment, Mother Qin was massaging the Queen Mother's waist.

"Please Lu Zhaoyi come in." Responding, the Empress Dowager sat up straight, and Mother Qin stood aside, looking towards the entrance of the hall.

Lu Zhaoyi entered the hall, holding a small brocade box in both hands, she saluted the queen mother, and spoke respectfully.

Greeting Lu Zhaoyi to get up and giving her a seat, the Queen Mother looked at the brocade box in her hand.

"Just some time ago, my concubine's mother went to the temple to offer incense, and the abbot of the temple gave my concubine's mother a string of Buddhist beads. I heard that it was blessed by an eminent monk."

"My concubine knows that the Empress Dowager believes in Buddhism, so I specially borrowed flowers to present Buddha, and dedicated this thing to the Empress Dowager." While speaking, Lu Zhaoyi opened the brocade box, revealing the Buddhist beads inside.

The Queen Mother glanced at Nanny Qin, and Nanny Qin understood, took the brocade box from Lu Zhaoyi, and presented it to the Queen Mother.

After all, she is the Empress Dowager, her eyes are vicious, she can tell that the Buddhist beads in the brocade box are made of high-quality suet white jade.

Stretching out her hand, she picked up the beads and played with them in her hands. The queen mother found that this string of beads was extremely oily, and it must be because someone often played with them.

Thinking of Lu Zhaoyi saying just now that it was blessed by an eminent monk, the queen mother nodded in satisfaction. She felt that holding this Buddhist beads in her hands would have the effect of calming people's mind.

"You have a heart." Putting the beads back into the brocade box, the queen mother accepted them with a smile. Lu Zhaoyi blessed her body and sat down on the chair again.

"Ai's family heard that you went to Yuxiu Palace, didn't it mean that you sent back all the things Su Shi gave you?"

Looking at Lu Zhaoyi, the queen mother tentatively opened her mouth. She looked at Lu Zhaoyi's expression, trying to see something from it.

"If you go back to the Empress Dowager, the concubine did go to Yuxiu Palace. Although I sent all the things back before, but if you think about it carefully, in the end, I have a good relationship with Concubine Su."

"Besides, even if it's for the second princess, I should go to Yuxiu Palace more often."

Hearing the Queen Mother's question, Lu Xiurong smiled and said, when talking about Concubine Su and Yuxiu Palace, Lu Zhaoyi's words revealed a sense of cruelty.

Seeing Lu Zhaoyi's appearance, the queen mother became more and more satisfied, "It should be so, you should walk around more, if you need anything, just talk to Ai's family, Ai's family will help you."

"Thank you Queen Mother." Standing up, Lu Zhaoyi was very respectful towards the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother asked her to sit down and chatted casually with her.

"The Ai family is very satisfied with the Buddhist scriptures you sent earlier, the handwriting is neat, and you can tell that you put your heart into it."

"You also know that Ai's family believes in Buddhism, but he is old and his eyesight is bad. Sometimes it is really difficult to copy Buddhist scriptures..."

"It is my concubine's blessing to be able to copy Buddhist scriptures for the empress dowager. If there is a need in the future, the empress dowager can open her mouth. On weekdays, my concubine will often copy when she is in Yongchun Palace, praying for the emperor and the empress dowager."

The Empress Dowager said half of what she said on purpose, Lu Zhaoyi is not stupid, how could she not understand what she meant, she took the words over, making the Empress Dowager feel that she is very knowledgeable about current affairs.

"Speaking of which, my concubine has been wanting to embroider a screen for the Empress Dowager a long time ago, and it is almost ready. After a few days, I will send it to the Empress Dowager. I hope the Empress Dowager will like it."

A ray of light flashed in his eyes very quickly, Lu Zhaoyi was always very respectful in front of the Queen Mother.

"Screen? You have a delicate mind, and the things you embroider are naturally good. Aijia is looking forward to it."

Lu Zhaoyi's understanding of current affairs made the Queen Mother more and more satisfied with her. At noon, she kept Lu Zhaoyi for dinner in Shoukang Palace.

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Outside the palace, the Shen family set up a coffin, and those who passed by knew the news of the death of the two sons of the Shen family.

On weekdays, the popularity of Shen's family is very good, and many neighbors come to help.

Yue Ling got the news by accident and was very surprised. She rushed to the Shen residence and saw Mrs. Shen with red eyes.

It has to be said that Shen Lishi is a good actor. She clearly knows that her son is not really dead, but it can still make people think that she is really grieving because of the pain of losing her son.

Seeing that Shen Lishi was so uncomfortable, Yue Ling pulled her to a place where no one was around, and whispered a few words to her.

In the past, she only told the emperor and Su Qingning that she thought that the Shen family would know about things related to Shen Yu, but looking at the current situation, it is clear that they 'do not know'.

"It turned out that you saved Yu'er." After hearing Yue Ling's words, Shen Li took her hand and said in a low voice, "I know they are not dead, this is just for others to see."

Yue Ling told the truth, and she didn't want to hide Yue Ling, her intuition told her that Yue Ling was a trustworthy person.

After listening to Shen Lishi's words, Yueling realized that everything was just acting, she breathed a sigh of relief, "It's just a little effort, Mrs. Shen doesn't need to care about it."

"How can you not care about the kindness of saving your life, it is inconvenient right now, and you will have to repay it later." Not daring to say too much, for fear that others would find out, Shen Li said a few more words before going to busy with other things.

Knowing that everything is acting, Yue Ling felt relieved, she stayed in Shen's residence for a while, seeing that the Shen's residence was busy and she couldn't help, so she left Shen's residence and headed home.

After returning home, Yue Ling sat on a chair. In the past few days, she always felt a little weak.

Thinking of the hot and cold weather in the recent period, she reckoned that it was because she caught the wind and cold, that's why it happened.

Asked the servants to prepare some ginger soup to dispel the cold, Yueling drank a bowl and went back to the inner room to rest.

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The news about Shen's residence outside the palace spread to the palace, and was known by Su Qingning. Hearing that Shen's residence had set up a mourning hall, Su Qingning was very surprised.

She guessed the truth of the matter, after all, one is inside the palace and the other is outside the palace, she has no way of knowing what her uncle and aunt really think.

"Mum, do you think uncle and aunt know the truth of the matter? Did aunt tell them everything?"

Standing up, Su Qingning paced back and forth in the hall, guessing what the family members were thinking.

"Master, don't be impatient. The old slave has sent someone to find out the news. Don't worry, you will be very careful, and outsiders will not know."

Seeing that Su Qingning was very worried, Nanny Chen persuaded her, and with her comfort, Su Qingning was relieved a lot.

It was not until the evening that the news was finally sent back. Along with the news, there was also a letter from Shen Congwen.

Quickly unfolding the letter and reading it carefully, Su Qingning was relieved. In the letter, Shen Congwen wrote everything very clearly.

At the end of the letter was Shen Li's handwriting. She apologized to Su Qingning for the slap in the face.

Knowing everything about the Shen family is for the purpose of paralyzing others, and seeing at the end of the letter, there is an apology from aunt Shen Li, Su Qingning was both moved and happy...

(End of this chapter)