The next morning, Feng Ling went to Pingnan Prince's Mansion to pick up Tuoer and Little Leopard Cub, while Huangfu Yuqing entered the palace with Nangong Longze.

When I walked to the palace gate, I happened to meet the third prince Nangong Longyan. After a long time of not seeing him, Huangfu Yuqing stepped forward and said hello: "Did the third brother just return to the palace? I haven't seen you for a long time, where did you go some days ago?"

Nangong Longyan just glanced at Huangfu Yuqing in a hurry, but ignored her questions, frowned, and his eyes quickly turned back to his back and landed on a maid following him.

"I have already said that what happened last night was just a coincidence. Don't follow me anymore..." Nangong Longyan's voice was obviously unhappy, and his words also made Huangfu Yuqing and Nangong Longze look at the maid at the same time.

The emerald green and red palace clothes were so familiar. The little maid had a pretty and white melon-shaped face, with distant eyebrows and starry eyes. At first glance, it could only be considered beautiful. If you stare at it carefully, you would be a pretty little girl. What surprised Huangfu Yuqing's watery eyes was that the bright light shining under the little girl's eyes was different from those maids in the palace on weekdays.

"If the third prince refuses to take in his servants, then he will really have a way out. Please take in his servants. In the future, whether it is to serve tea and water, or to be a cow or a horse, I will be willing to do it by the third prince." The little maid drooped her head and looked pitiful, but she felt something unusual in Huangfu Yuqing's eyes.

Just now she clearly saw that there was no trace of fear in the girl's eyes, but now she looked pitiful. If she hadn't seen her eyes, or if she was too good at pretending to be pitiful, I wonder what her purpose was?

Thinking of this, Huangfu Yuqing couldn't help but step forward, glanced at Nangong Longyan with a sad face, and then looked at the maid beside him. A playful smile appeared on the corner of her lips. Yun Danfeng said lightly: "Ze, it sounds like we missed something..."

"Did the third brother come back to the palace last night?" Nangong Longze's tone seemed to be tentative. It was not difficult to hear from the maid's words that there should have been a small episode between her and the third prince last night.

Nangong Longyan took a deep breath, then slowly turned his attention to Nangong Longze and Huangfu Yuqing: "Qing'er, why did you enter the palace with your fourth brother today?"

"San brother, have you not answered our question yet?" Huangfu Yuqing gave the man a angrily glance and glanced at the maid beside him meaningfully: "Is this maid from San brother's palace?"

"No." Nangong Longyan's brows frowned even tighter, and he shook his head helplessly. From last night to now, this maid is like his shadow and can't even shake it.

"Then... why didn't she let go with the third brother?" After asking, Huangfu Yuqing raised an evil smile on the corner of her lips. It was obvious that there was something in her words. Seeing Nangong Longyan's face being entangled by the maid, she couldn't help but feel funny in her heart.

When Huangfu Yuqing asked this, there was obviously an unnatural look on Nangong Longyan's face. He wanted to say something but stopped. He seemed to want to say something, but there was a hidden secret. Because this matter involved the queen of the mother, he thought it was kept secret after thinking about it again and again, so he cleared his throat and said in a low voice: "Well, from now on... she is even a person in this palace!"

Hearing this, the little maid put her hands together and made a prayer look, and she bowed and nodded and thanked: "Thank you, the third prince, thank you."

Looking at this scene, Huangfu Yuqing's bright water eyes flashed with a strange look. This maid is indeed a bit abnormal, unlike other maids in the palace. If it were the other maids in the palace, they would have kneeled to the ground and bowed three times and nine times thankfully. Although her attitude was very respectful and she nodded repeatedly, it still made the woman feel confused.

"Qing'er, you haven't told me yet, why did you enter the palace today?" Nangong Longyan asked back.

Huangfu Yuqing's eyes were circulating, and she could hear that Nangong Longyan was deliberately changing the topic. She smiled and said, "I almost forgot if I didn't say it. Today, I still have serious things to do. I don't have time to talk to you anymore. I will go back to the palace to have a good chat with you..."

Nangong Longyan was slightly stunned. The maid standing behind him raised her eyes slightly. The pair of water eyes that were shining with a bright light collided with Huangfu Yuqing's. She did not panic and avoided it. Instead, she looked Huangfu Yuqing from head to toe with a novel look.

Huangfu Yuqing smiled but said nothing, and she stared at the maid before leaving side by side with Nangong Longze.

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Xianshu Palace, when Nangong Longze and Huangfu Yuqing appeared in the side hall together, Mei Xianfei's deep apricot eyes flashed with a strange color that was not easy to detect. Her eyes were lowered for a few seconds, and when she raised her eyes to them, she curled her faint smile and said lightly: "Ze'er, why are you free to come to Xianshu Palace to pay my respects to me today? Isn't your father going to explain to you a lot of things?"

"I heard Qing'er say that her distant cousin came to surrender to her mother's wife, and she was weak and sick, so she came here to take a look." Nangong Longze spoke while looking around, but the people around Concubine Xian did not meet the standards.

"This matter... I can do it with Qing'er helping me with the help of this palace. Ze'er doesn't have to worry about these trivial matters. Just concentrate on helping your father manage state affairs. That is what you should do." Although Mei Xianfei's voice was gentle, her expression made people feel solemn and cold.

Huangfu Yuqing quietly observed Concubine Mei Xian's reaction, and it seemed nothing unusual. She saw Nangong Longze still standing there, while Concubine Mei Xian's eyes moved to the woman beside him.

From the look of Mei Xianfei's eyes, Huangfu Yuqing had to look sideways at Nangong Longze, and said lightly in a relaxed tone: "Ze, Mother is right. A man is determined to be in all directions. You don't need to worry about these trivial matters."

"Mother, since he is a distant relative, he should meet him. It's just a matter of recognizing him. How can he do anything to do? "Nanggong Longze frowned. He had just entered the gate of Xianshu Palace, and his mother chased him out, and naturally felt unhappy.

"You muscular boy, I am thinking about you, but you don't appreciate it anymore. Your cousin's illness is probably contagious, so I specifically asked you to avoid it, but you..." Concubine Mei Xian looked at her son coldly and said angrily.

"Since it's contagious, then the mother asked Qing'er to treat her personally?" Nangong Longze heard this, a dark look flashed across his deep eagle eyes, and a terrifying and domineering spirit was revealed in his bones. He grabbed Huangfu Yuqing's hand and shouted in a low voice: "Qing'er, let's go--"

"Ze, wait--" Huangfu Yuqing frowned slightly, and she broke the tenderness out of the man's palm with force, looked at his eyes seriously, and said seriously: "Since everyone has come, let me see her condition. As long as you take protective measures, even if it is an infectious disease, it will not be a problem. Besides... she is still your cousin..."

"No, you are still pregnant!" Nangong Longze's eyes flashed for a few seconds and hesitated, and he quickly spoke up firmly.

Huangfu Yuqing's watery eyes were slightly stunned. Unexpectedly, at this critical moment, the man could still think of the child in her belly. It didn't seem like he was pretending to care. Could it be that he could really accept this child who was "not" from the bottom of his heart?

"Ze'er, go with peace of mind, I have a sense of responsibility." Mei Xianfei's cold voice came: "Your child is also the grandson of my palace, I will not consider less than you..."

When Nangong Longze heard this, he couldn't say anything else. Huangfu Yuqing's water eyes flashed with a hint of undetectable strangeness. Concubine Mei was not surprised when she talked about her pregnancy. If she remembered correctly, she seemed to have never told Concubine Xian that she was pregnant...

"Ze, if you have a mother and I, don't worry." Huangfu Yuqing smiled and said in a casual and natural way.

Nangong Longze sighed, and at this moment, a maid's message came from outside the hall: "Empress, the emperor sent a message to ask if the King of Pingnan is in the Empress Palace. If he is there, please be sure to go to the imperial study room now."

When he heard this news, Huangfu Yuqing seemed to clearly see the expression on Mei Xianfei's face softened, and only heard the woman's cold voice slowly ejaculation: "Ze'er, your father is looking for you, you should hurry up and go and do the important business! As for other things, the mother will naturally handle it for you..."

Nangong Longze's deep eagle eyes suddenly darkened. Why did he always feel that the woman was a little strange today, always making him feel like something was hiding from him? But now his father was urging him tightly, and his words were not something that could be found in just a few words, so he had to look at Huangfu Yuqing and said in a low voice-

"Qing'er, you're waiting here. I'll be back soon after finishing my work."

Although Huangfu Yuqing also noticed the strangeness of Concubine Mei Xian, her face was still as calm as water. She smiled at the man with a relaxed smile and nodded.

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Nangong Longze left, Huangfu Yuqing turned her eyes back to Concubine Mei Xian's face, and her gentle voice was as calm as before: "Mother, where is Xing'er's cousin? I'll take a look at her condition first..."

"Okay!" Mei Xian'er nodded, led Huangfu Yuqing across the entrance and walked towards a secluded guest room at the end of the corridor.

Although it was daytime, the light in the room was very dark, and the windows on all sides were blocked by blackout curtains. A hint of suspicion flashed across Huangfu Yuqing's water eyes. At this moment, Concubine Mei Xian's voice came from behind: "The one lying on the * is Xing'er. Qing'er doesn't have to be nervous. In fact, Xing'er has no infectious disease. She is just afraid of light by nature, so this palace will make people block this room tightly, and it is not easy for Ze'er to come and visit..."

Upon hearing this, the suspicion in Huangfu Yuqing's heart slightly dissipated. If this is the case, wouldn't it be her own concern before?

"So that's the case..." Huangfu Yuqing nodded and said in a low voice: "This is the first time I heard of this strange patient. Let's take her pulse and diagnose it for now..."

The woman walked to the side of the couch and sat down, but while taking her veins, she felt the apricot on the couch trembling slightly. Although the light in the room was extremely dark, Huangfu Yuqing could not help but look at her, but could only see a blurry outline.

"Cousin Xing'er, are you cold? Or... very nervous?" The gleam in the depths of Huangfu Yuqing's water eyes appeared again, and his intuition told her that the woman on the couch was not cold or nervous, but... afraid! Then what was she afraid of?

"I...no...no...no cold..." The woman's soft voice lingered.

"Don't mind Qing'er. Xing'er grew up in the countryside since she was a child. Because of her illness and illness, she has hardly left the dark room since she was a child, nor has she seen many strangers. So she will be afraid when she sees you..."

Concubine Mei Xian said first, and at the same time, she also walked to the couch. She sat down beside the couch with amiable smile. She held Xing'er's other little hand and her voice became gentler: "Xing'er, don't be afraid. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, I will definitely cure your illness. When the time comes, I will find you a good family to marry, and your parents will be relieved..."

The woman's voice was surprisingly gentle, but Huangfu Yuqing had a strange feeling, because although Xing'er's body stopped trembling, her heartbeat almost doubled. While Mai Bo was violently arousing her fingertips, she couldn't help but aroused the woman's suspicion again.

The question in her mind couldn't help but return to the origin. * Is the woman named Xing'er on the couch really the distant cousin of Nangong Longze? The blackout curtain hanging in the room was really just because of her illness? But when she took the pulse just now, she did not notice any abnormal pulse. Instead, Concubine Mei Xian's involvement made Xing'er's heartbeat become disordered.

Suddenly, an important voice flashed through Huangfu Yuqing's mind. Xing'er's question just now answered her was that the first word that blurted out seemed to be "slave", which means that she is very likely...

Still speaking, Huangfu Yuqing's fingertips smoothly along the woman's pulse, passing through Xing'er's palm. Although it was only a few seconds of contact, she could clearly feel the thick cocoons on Xing'er's palm and fingertips. If it was really as Mei Xianfei said, Xing'er had almost never left the dark room since she was born and had never seen many strangers. As a patient lying on her, where did these thick cocoons in her palm come from?

Although he was full of suspicion in his heart, Huangfu Yuqing showed no expression and respectfully spoke in the direction of Concubine Mei Xian: "I'm not hiding it from my mother, this is the first time I have encountered a sick condition like Xing'er's cousin. If I can brighten the light, let me see her tongue coating..."

"No, I have already said that Xing'er cannot be seen. If you don't want her to die, you'd better think of other ways..." Concubine Mei Xian refused Huangfu Yuqing's request, which made Huangfu Yuqing confirm her guess.

"Then... I can only try to prescribe a few prescriptions for her to eat. As for whether it has any effect, I dare not say..." Huangfu Yuqing thought about it, her water eyes flashed with a hint of gleam. The woman lying on the couch was clearly the maid in the Xianshu Palace, but Concubine Mei Xian insisted on letting her pretend to be her distant niece. It was obvious that the drunkard's intention was not to drink, and her purpose...

Huangfu Yuqing decided to wait for the woman to speak first. She believed that if Concubine Mei Xian had a purpose, she would have to be exposed sooner or later.

Just as I was thinking, I heard the woman's cold voice slowly coming: "Qing'er, don't be too stressed. I have asked the imperial physician for this kind of disease before. They all said that I had never seen such a disease, so... I am also mentally prepared. Just do your best. Don't let this matter become a burden to you!"

"I thank you for your understanding." Huangfu Yuqing bowed slightly and bowed. Concubine Mei Xian slowly stood up, held her hand and took her out of the house. When she left, she did not say hello to her "distant niece".

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Just as he returned to the side hall along the corridor, Huangfu Yuqing's eyes were flowing, but his face pretended to be calm and chuckled: "Since I have seen it for Xing'er's cousin, I'm now going to Cixin Palace to pay tribute to the Empress Dowager..."

"Qing'er is so anxious to leave? Would you rather go to Cixin Palace to accompany the old empress dowager than stay in Xianshu Palace to talk to me for a while?" Although the corner of Empress Mei's mouth was still smiling, it made people feel a layer of frost condensed. The depths of Huangfu Yuqing's apricot eyes were staring at Huangfu Yuqing, and there was a bit of cold and sharp sharpness.

"I am not considering my mother's feelings and neglecting me. Please forgive me. Since my mother hopes that I will stay and talk to you, I will stay." Huangfu Yuqing smiled, pretended not to see any clues, and slowly walked to the red sandalwood chair and sat down.

"Show tea for Princess Pingnan, and bring some snacks..." Concubine Mei Xian's tone suddenly became a little softer, and her eyes looked at the woman also became gentle: "Qing'er, I got up early and entered the palace. Thank you for your hard work for most of the day. I guess I'm hungry now, right?"

"I'm not so hungry." Huangfu Yuqing responded calmly, but could feel that there seemed to be another unfathomable meaning hidden behind the woman's words, and instantly raised his vigilance.

"You have to eat something if you are not hungry. Even if you are not hungry, the children in your stomach should be hungry..." Concubine Mei Xian smiled and said lightly, her eyes converging to the row of maids holding the food plates, watching them placing the rich pastries neatly on the table.

The deep watery eyes of Huangfu Yuqing suddenly darkened. She suddenly raised her eyes and looked up with a serious face. She faced the woman's almond eyes. A beautiful curve was drawn in the corner of her lips, and she chuckled: "How did the mother know about my pregnancy? I remember... it seems that she had never mentioned this to her mother."

After her words, Concubine Mei Xian's deep eyes were stunned for a few seconds, but she quickly returned to a free look and laughed softly: "How can you hide such a happy event? Even if you don't tell me, naturally someone will tell me?"

"My mother is referring to... Could it be the prince?" Huangfu Yuqing asked with a tentative chuckling.
Chapter completed!