Story of Yanxi Palace: Fu Ying's banner will never fall

Chapter 148: Gaopin's Favor Returns

Gao Ningxin's face was pale and her voice trembled. She recalled the scene of that year painfully and tears kept flowing down.

"What kind of misfortune will a woman encounter if she falls into the hands of pirates? This is self-evident and everyone knows it.

Because of this, the Gao family would not allow my mother to be buried in the cemetery or in the ancestral temple! My mother gave birth to children for my father and was filial to her parents, but in the end she was left without a place to live and no one to rely on. "

Gaopin spoke slowly with no expression on her face, but her eyes were filled with sadness and anger.

She took a deep breath and continued, "Less than a year after my mother passed away, my father remarried. Do you know what he said to me when he came to see me a few days ago?"

Gaopin smiled bitterly, imitating Gao Bin's tone perfectly, repeating what he said that day: "He said to me: Ning Xin'er, you can do whatever you want and be listless, but you must not forget that I have four daughters! In addition to the second daughter who has married E Rongshi, you still have a third and fourth sister, all of whom are in their prime, beautiful as fairies, and extremely outstanding!"

Gao Ningxin's body trembled slightly, and a look of despair appeared on her face. She felt that she had been ruthlessly abandoned by her father again, and she was unable to clear the injustice for her mother.

As she spoke, her eyes gradually became moist and tears welled up in her eyes. Finally, she could no longer hold back her tears and choked up.

A person with a miserable life experience is always easy to win the sympathy of others, let alone a peerless beauty with a miserable life experience.

Even the emperor, who was as cold as an iceberg, couldn't help but feel sympathy for her. He sighed softly and hugged her fragile body tightly in his arms: "Xin'er has suffered."

Gaopin buried her head in his broad chest, her eyes filled with deep hatred as she recalled the past, but her voice was unusually gentle, as if she was expressing endless grievances and pain:

"Your Majesty, Ning Xin'er never hurt Concubine Yu. I really didn't... Your Majesty, I can swear to heaven that if I lie, let me be punished by heaven..."

The emperor patted her back gently and said comfortingly: "Okay, I believe you."

Ever since they met the plump, lively and adorable Fifth Prince, everyone has been immersed in joy. To this day, no one mentions the incident of Gao Ningxin framing Concubine Yu.

"Really?" Gaopin raised her head cautiously and looked at the emperor, with a hint of doubt in her eyes, as if she was afraid that he would suddenly turn against her and deny his words, "Your Majesty did not lie to me?"

The emperor smiled slightly, reached out his hand and gently stroked her cheek, and said softly: "I didn't lie to you, you drank too much, be careful not to hurt your body, rest early."

The emperor stood up to leave, but Concubine Gao raised her hand and grasped his sleeve tightly, looking at him with a look of attachment, begging him with a rare weak attitude that was different from her usual strong attitude: "Then Your Majesty, please stay with me... Okay?"

Outside Changchun Palace, the night wind was biting.

The palace maid holding the lantern couldn't help yawning and raised her hand to rub the tears from the corners of her eyes.

"Cough cough." The queen covered her lips and coughed.

"Your Highness." A cloak fell on her shoulders. Wei Yingluo tied the cloak belt for her and whispered, "It's cold outside. You should go back to the palace and wait."

The queen shook her head gently: "No, the emperor will be here soon, I will wait for him here."

Wei Yingluo was about to say something but stopped herself. It was almost dawn, so how could the emperor come?

"Your Majesty, why don't we go back first? It's so cold, and the Emperor may be busy with government affairs and won't come." Wei Yingluo said softly.

The queen shook her head and said with a firm look in her eyes: "No, I want to wait for the emperor."

Wei Yingluo sighed helplessly, secretly praying that the emperor would come soon. As time passed, the queen's face became paler and her lips began to turn purple.

Suddenly, footsteps were heard in the distance.

"Look!" The queen's eyes suddenly lit up, "He's coming!"

The queen raised her head, her eyes sparkling with anticipation and joy. However, when she saw who was coming, her expression instantly turned into disappointment.

A faint light emerged from the mist, which was the flickering flame of a lantern. When the lantern came closer, the person who came was Li Yu. She asked softly, "Eunuch Li, where is the emperor?"

Li Yu held up a small and exquisite lantern and smiled at the queen, "Your Majesty, the emperor can't come tonight, you should go to bed early!"

A trace of worry flashed across the queen's eyes, and she asked softly, "Is the emperor still busy with government affairs? It's so late..."

She frowned slightly, turned around and told the maid beside her, "Come here, go to the imperial kitchen and ask them to prepare a bowl of white fungus and lotus seed soup. I will personally deliver it to the Yangxin Palace."

After hearing this, Li Yu said with some embarrassment: "The emperor is not in the Yangxin Palace."

He hesitated for a moment, and finally couldn't help but stammer out the truth, "The Emperor...changed his route to Chuxiu Palace."

The queen's body trembled slightly, and she clutched the edge of her cloak tightly, trying to stay calm. Wei Yingluo looked at the queen distressed, her heart filled with anger and dissatisfaction.

"Okay, I understand." The queen took a deep breath and then said slowly, "You can leave now."

Eunuch Li bowed and left. The queen stood there quietly, looking into the distance, her eyes full of loss and sadness.

Wei Yingluo walked to the Queen, gently held her hand, and comforted her: "Your Majesty, don't be too sad. Maybe the Emperor will come to see you tomorrow."

The queen smiled slightly and said to Wei Yingluo gently, "It's okay, Yingluo." After that, she sighed softly, turned and walked into Changchun Palace.

Wei Yingluo followed the queen silently, and secretly vowed in her heart that she must find a way to make the emperor pay attention to the queen again.

There were some weeds growing in the yard. They greedily competed for nutrients from the jasmine flowers, making the originally snow-white flowers look a little haggard.

Wei Yingluo walked silently to the flowers, bent down, put her hands into the flowers, and pulled out the weeds with force. Her movements were rough, as if these weeds were her enemies.

Fu Heng's voice suddenly rang in her ears: "Who provoked you? Take out your anger on this pile of weeds."