Just as Feng Ningyan was getting angry, she came in to report. "Reporting to the Duke and the Royal Concubine, Lady Ruo Yu is here to seek an audience."
"What is she doing here?" Feng Ningyan frowned and asked unhappily.
Lan Zhu said: "This servant doesn't know either, she is kneeling on the stairs outside the pavilion, crying so hard that the rouge is blooming."
Shen Lingjue shrugged and sat on the side of the table to arrange another board.
"This prince will not care about the matters between you two sisters. I will do whatever wangfei wants."
Feng Ningyan laughed: "Your Highness is clearly the focus of all these contradictions, but now you have pushed it away cleanly." As she spoke, she went downstairs.
The sun had gone down and the wind was colder.
Hua Ruoyu was crying miserably outside the building, and when she saw Feng Ningyan walking downstairs, she choked up.
"Cousin sister, Ruo Yu is guilty … Ruo Yu didn't dare disobey the Empress's wishes, but she didn't expect … that will make her cousin sad, Ruo Yu deserves to die … "
Feng Ningyan slowly walked in front of her, her lips curled into a cold smile.
"Your highness isn't here, so don't act for me, cousin. "You know, I might know why the empress chose you to be her side wife."
"Cousin Ruo Yu can't understand and can't figure out what she's talking about …" Hua Ruoyu shook her head and said sorrowfully, "Ruo Yu knows, I am only an orphan of the General's House. I should never argue with Cousin Sister-in-Law, Ruo Yu only wants to serve Cousin Sister-in-Law and the Prince, I beg of Cousin Sis not to chase Ruo Yu away …"
Feng Ningyan did not even want to look at her fake appearance.
"Hua Ruoyu, if not for father's words in his letter, do you think I would have let you live until now? I don't like to watch plays, and you can only make me see through your hypocrisy. There are only ten days left before the talent show. Rather than playing tricks on me, I should think more about how to survive in the palace. "
With that, she turned and returned to the main hall of the Linlang Pavilion.
Hua Ruoyu was startled, she did not expect Feng Ningyan to not have any trust in her at all.
She really did not know why her every move had been seen through by Feng Ningyan earlier. Now, if she tried to approach Feng Ningyan again, it would probably be difficult to compare to ascending to the sky.
She gritted her teeth and looked at Feng Ningyan angrily. Suddenly, her eyes rolled back and she fainted as she rolled down the stairs with a "Plop".
"This is bad!" Miss Hua fainted! "
The maid at the side shouted in panic.
Feng Ningyan turned her head and saw that Hua Ruoyu had already rolled to the bottom of the fourth or fifth step. She had collapsed on the ground.
She hesitated for a moment, then ordered Lan Zhu: "Invite the doctor." Then she walked upstairs without looking back.
That night, Feng Ningyan slept a little uncomfortably.
Especially his father, Feng Wei, who had always doted on his niece. If he heard about what happened in the capital and made Hua Ruoyu beg for Feng Ningyan to faint on his knees, he would probably blame her.
Flipping around, he then recalled how Shen Lingjue had grabbed her hands and kneeled down to confess to the empress dowager, kowtowing to her in order to reject the marriage.
When Shen Lingjue heard the sound of her bed turning, he immediately got up and walked over to the curtain that was separating them. "Does the princess have something on her mind?"
Feng Ningyan jumped in shock and quickly covered herself up. Looking at his tall figure on the curtain, her heart moved and she said: "No, it's just that I drank too much tea, and can't fall asleep."
"Yes." As he turned to leave, he heard the sound of a match being lit outside, followed by a sweet smell.
He brought in a lotus flower lamp and placed it on the side of her bed. Separated by the thin layer of bed drape, he softly said.
Feng Ningyan looked at his hazy silhouette outside of the bed, heard his deep and moving voice, and went into a daze, "Oh … "Thank you, Your Highness …"
Shen Lingjue smiled lightly: "If the bed is cold, this king can also help."
Feng Ningyan pursed her lips into a smile, and said with a straight face: "Aiya, this incense sure was effective, I fell asleep."
Shen Lingjue shook her head, and helped her tuck her into the corner by the bed, then returned to the soft couch outside the room to rest.
After climbing the mountain for an entire day, with the help of the essential oil, Feng Ningyan slept soundly.
When Shen Lingjue went into the palace, she was still hugging her blanket and talking in her sleep.
Shen Lingjue then instructed Lv Ruo not to wake up the wangfei, he went downstairs to the study room to wash and change her clothes.
But the sky had just started to brighten, and Feng Ningyan was still woken up by Lan Zhu's loud voice.
"Princess, please wake up!" Lan Zhu climbed up the stairs while panting heavily, she woke her up, "The empress has summoned you to the palace to pay her respects!"
Feng Ningyan shuddered and sat up: "What?!"
The only thing he saw was that the sun had risen, and by this time, it was long past the time he had needed to pay his respects to the Emperor.
She quickly got the maidservants to help her wash up and spoke in a muffled voice, "That ban hasn't been officially lifted yet. But since the empress summoned me, it's not considered as disobeying orders for me to enter the palace …"
"It must be because you performed so well yesterday that the Emperor no longer believes in some fiend's words!" Lan Zhu was overjoyed.
Feng Ningyan nodded her head, donned her cape, and quickly walked to the door and got in the sedan.
At the Summer Palace, she got out of the sedan and walked. Fortunately, she was not too late.
When he walked to the front of Yi Palace's door, he found that Young Master Zhai Quan was still waiting for her. The only difference was that last time he smiled, he had a stern face this time.
Feng Ningyan secretly cursed in her heart. Not good, she braced herself and walked over.
"Eunuch Di."
Zhai Quan arrogantly bowed. "Yuwangfei, you've come. Please, the Empress and the concubine have been waiting for you for a long time."
Feng Ningyan chuckled, and silently walked in.
When they arrived at the lateral temple, they saw that the Queen was sitting straight and upright, while the rest of the concubine s that were waiting for them were sitting on the lower seats. When Feng Ningyan entered, dozens of pairs of eyes looked at her in unison.
"Wife pays her respects to Queen Mother and Queen Mother is blessed with good fortune."
Feng Ningyan walked to the center and kowtowed.
The Empress raised her hand, "Get up. Yuwangfei, do you know why I summoned you here so urgently today?"
Feng Ningyan got up and said with her head lowered, "Wife doesn't know, please enlighten me mother."
The empress covered her mouth and snorted coldly, "I heard that after returning to my residence from Lingyun Mountain yesterday, Hua Ruoyu knelt outside your door and knelt for a full two hours, begging you to forgive her. Yet, you severely reprimanded her and in the end, she lost all her strength and fainted as she fell down the stairs? "
Feng Ningyan looked up in surprise: "Ah?"
She almost answered the Queen: This is turning white and exaggerating!
But when she hesitated, she immediately understood.
This had only happened yesterday and it had already reached the ears of the empress. If Hua Ruoyu didn't have a way to contact the empress directly, how could she do it so quickly? If the Queen was supporting Hua Ruoyu, then why did she have to support him?
Feng Ningyan gave a bland laugh, "No wonder Flowers took so much effort to kneel, cry, faint, and fall, to put on an act.
The moment she said that, the empress was enraged. "Impudent! Yuwangfei, don't think that you can do whatever you want just because you got the empress dowager's favor yesterday! Yesterday, you rejected the marriage first, and at night, you took revenge on the Flowers. You still do not know how to repent, and are falsely accusing the Flowers of acting! "