Madam Yuan was shocked. She had deliberately blocked her just now, but she still couldn't stop her. She couldn't help but lift her heart up. She looked at Xu Shu nervously. Mrs. Zheng Si frowned and her hand holding the chess piece was fixed.

But Xu Shu's hand holding the chess piece was still motionless, as if Meiren Li was calling someone else.

Yes, it’s someone else… Li Meiren is called Xu Shu, and she is already the ninth lady of the Zheng family, Zheng Wanyi!

Meiren Li walked up to her and looked at Mrs. Zheng Si suspiciously, and asked Xu Shu again, "Cousin, where have you been these days? The Empress... Forget it, I won't talk about this anymore, but it's a big worry for me!" She said that, and patted Xu Shu's arm intimately.

Xu Shu looked at Meiren Li in shock and asked in an uncertain tone, "Beauty... is she talking to me?"

Meiren Li was stunned, "Cousin? What's wrong with you? Why does it seem like you don't know me anymore?" Meiren Li reached out to Xu Shu's forehead, her movements were extremely close.

Xu Shu was so scared that she jumped away like a frightened rabbit, avoiding the closeness of Meiren Li. The chess piece in her hand also fell on the chessboard in panic and ruined a good game of chess. "Beautiful...beauty...had you recognized the wrong person? I...I don't recognize you..." The girl's delicate and shyness grasped it just right, as if it was really the first time they wanted to see her.

Madam Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and rescued, "The beauty has recognized the wrong person. This is Miss Zheng's Jiu, this is Miss Zheng Si, and Miss Zheng Jiu's mother. Today they are here to pay tribute to the Empress. The Empress went to the imperial study room, so they played chess in the yard to pass the time!"

Meiren Li looked at Xu Shu in disbelief. No matter how she looked, she didn't think she had recognized the wrong person. "No, how could I recognize the wrong person? This is obviously..."

"Beauty!" Afraid of Li Ying'er saying that name, Madam Yuan hurriedly called out loudly, "This is indeed Miss Zheng Jiu, the niece of the Empress!"

"No!" Li Ying'er did not understand the key point in Madam Yuan's words, and persistently wanted to distinguish clearly, "She is clearly a cousin, and I absolutely did not admit it!"

"The beauty did not recognize the wrong person. Could it be that the Empress recognized the wrong person?" Madam Yuan looked at Li Ying'er politely and oppressively.

Li Ying'er's pupils shrank, and she suddenly understood why Xu Shu disappeared from the palace and why after Xu Shu disappeared, the queen never mentioned Xu Shu's disappearance. It turned out that it was because there was really no Xu Shu in this world, and Xu Shu had become another person!

Immediately, Li Ying'er didn't dare to argue anymore. She looked at Xu Shu with a few more pretentious eyes and said in annoyance, "This Miss Zheng Jiu really looks a bit similar to my cousin. At this moment, I saw it as a person. After a closer look, I found that it was not. I was not aware of it. Please don't blame Miss Jiu for any abruptness!"

Xu Shu shook her head quickly, then looked at Mrs. Zheng Si who asked for help. Mrs. Zheng Si loved to hold Xu Shu's hand to comfort her before saying to Meiren Li, "There are many people who look like each other in this world. It doesn't matter if the beauty admits the wrong person. The child is young and does not understand etiquette. Don't keep the beauty in her heart!"

"How can I do it? Madam is over-thinking!"

After greeting each other like this, Li Ying'er finally left Kunning Palace with a gust of fragrant wind, and her face immediately became gloomy after leaving the palace gate. The queen was indeed still guarding herself. Seeing that she was favored by Xu Shu's fragrance, she hurriedly took Xu Shu away, for fear that she would get more benefits from Xu Shu. Xu Shu made incense for the queen. Xu Shu was used to making some incense with strange effects. So what's the use of the incense she gave to the queen...

Li Ying'er suddenly wondered how Xu Shu started to have friendship with the queen. In the past, it was only heard that Xu Shu was very much liked by the Empress Dowager. How did Xu Shu get to the Queen? Why did the Queen look at Xu Shu differently? Speaking of which, the Queen seemed to give birth to the princess after she became familiar with Xu Shu... There was an extremely eager light in Li Ying'er's eyes.

Madam Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, "I finally left. The fourth wife and Miss Ninth later, I will exchange hot tea for you two!" Since the last time the emperor came to Li Ying'er, Li Ying'er's status in the palace has improved greatly. Li Ying'er, who tasted the sweetness, came to Kunning Palace every few days, and was more charming at the same time than the other, and her mind was obvious.

Xu Shu also regained her usual beauty. She picked up the chess piece she threw away and started to review the game based on her memory. Before Li Ying'er entered the door, she smelled the familiar cinnamon fragrance. She knew that there would be such a day and that someone would eventually point out that she was Xu Shu's, so she took it indifferently.

Mrs. Zheng Si watched Xu Shu return the chess game as before in surprise, and her understanding of Xu Shu became deeper. While continuing to make progress, she said to Xu Shu, "Is that Beauty Li..." There are many concubines in the palace, and Li Ying'er's position is not high. Even the Zheng family, who is the queen's family, has never taken her seriously.

Xu Shu said lightly, "The granddaughter of the Li family, the concubine of the Tongzheng envoy, was admitted to the palace the year before yesterday!"

The Li family of Tongzhengsi... also called Xu Shu as cousin... Mrs. Zheng Si knew that Li Ying'er was born. She was really not a great person. No wonder the queen was too lazy to tell the Zheng family. There were countless concubines who flattered her in front of the queen, and she was not worthy of everyone's concern. Mrs. Zheng Si smiled faintly, and then left a son, and looked up at Xu Shu and said, "You lost!"

Xu Shu smiled and threw down the chess piece, "My mother is good at chess, but her daughter is ashamed of herself!"

Mrs. Zheng Si smiled and picked up chess pieces, "If you want to learn, I will teach you slowly when you go back. You are very talented!"

"Okay!" Xu Shu never refused the opportunity to study.

When the two were about to have another game, they suddenly rushed in from outside the palace gate. They rushed to the main hall without saying hello. Mrs. Zheng Si looked at it and saw that the palace maid looked very panicked, as if something big happened. The Madam Yuan, who came out, did not blame her for being rude, but instead started to whisper to her.

Suddenly, Mrs. Zheng Si lost the mood to play chess and put down the chess piece. Xu Shu also stopped. Sure enough, Madam Yuan finished talking to the palace maid and came for them, "Mrs. Fourth, Miss. Ninth, Empress still has some things to deal with. I am afraid she will not be idle to talk to you. If the lady and the lady are fine, go back early, so as not to worry about the old lady!"

Mrs. Zheng Si nodded, "We will go back, I'll be fine!" There was nothing serious about them entering the palace, and it would be a good thing to go back early.

"You are kind to you, Madam!"

Mrs. Zheng Si led Xu Shu out of the palace again. While waiting at the palace gate for inspection by the guards, she listened to the people on the side whispering something, and then pricked up her ears and listened.

"Just just now, Lord He led Prince Duan and Prince Weiwu to the palace?"

"Yes! I heard it was for the death of Princess Xianduan. I heard that Princess Xianduan was killed. Princess Duan went directly to the wedding banquet of Princes Duan's mansion to start this matter..."
Chapter completed!