"Yes, yes, I am Qingyi."
Kneeling on the ground with both hands on the Heavenly Queen's knees, Gu Qingyi raised her head and looked at the empress dowager with teary eyes.
It was said that Princess Anping had been imprinted on the same mold as the empress dowager when she was young. Although Gu Qingyi had never seen her mother before, the empress dowager's appearance was at least eighty percent similar to the one depicted in the portrait of her mother in the palace.
"It's good that you're back. It's good that you're back. Grandmother's good child, it's good that you're back."
Hugging Gu Qingyi tightly, the empress dowager was so moved that she shed tears.
She had lived every day of her life. Back then in this palace, he had been cautious and protected his son and daughter in great danger, but it was still not easy. He had no choice but to hand his daughter over to the wet nurse and personally take care of his own son. Although her children had all grown up smoothly, she still felt that she owed her daughter. And this debt became even more intense after his daughter died. After seeing Gu Qingyi, he couldn't hide it anymore.
Behind the scenery, there was loneliness that no one else could see, and this was how she endured step by step.
Seeing that the moon was shining brightly in her eyes, her only daughter …
"Good child, get up, quickly wake up, the ground is cold." At this moment, she was no longer the exalted empress dowager, but the grandmother of an ordinary family. The grandmother of a granddaughter whom she hadn't seen for years …
Rubbing Gu Qingyi's little face, the empress dowager's eyes were filled with tears. "Back then, she was just a baby in her infancy. Who would've thought that she'd become so big in a blink of an eye?"
"Grandmother, you're still as young as ever."
That year? How many years ago was that? Gu Qingyi sneered in her heart, but on the surface, she had an innocent and ingratiating expression as she acted like a spoiled child.
As for what had happened that year, the princess and prince's children would be lost. Furthermore, after so many years, no one had found out about it, and it was only by chance that they discovered it. Gu Qingyi did not believe that no one had done anything to her. At this moment, although she was crying out to her obedient grandson with a face full of admiration for him, as if she was truly an old grandmother, she knew in her heart that …
She's not!
She was the empress dowager who held the power of life and death in her hands.
"Puchi!"
As expected, when the empress dowager heard that tears were still hanging on her face, she laughed out loud and pinched Gu Qingyi's nose dotingly. She said lovingly, "You're such a clever little ghost."
"Look, look! This girl was the same as that brat Jing Er when she was young." When the emperor and An Ping were young, they were both obedient and obedient children. How did they give birth to these two little troublemakers? "
Gu Qingyi's body trembled lightly. Her face paled and she quickly lowered her head.
She hadn't expected to hear that person's name under such circumstances. She had thought that she was already prepared to face it calmly even if she couldn't do it as if nothing had happened. But now, she realized that she had overestimated herself …
She couldn't help but tremble at the mere name.
"Hey, now that I think about it, you all have yet to see it. Seriously... You should have entered the palace a long time ago. The empress dowager didn't send a letter. Gu Qingyi felt that something was wrong with her and thought she was feeling embarrassed. "You saw the emperor just now, right? Are you afraid? That's your uncle. Later on, when I had nothing else to do, I gradually got to know him. And Jing Er is your cousin, so you two can play together. "