C46

The efficiency of the palace was extremely high. On the morning of the second day, the burnt courtyard began to be renovated. One could still hear two or three pairs of maidservants secretly discussing amongst themselves.

"Hey, have you heard?" The little palace maid who had already been in the palace for a few years whispered to another palace maid, "Last night, that palace maid offended Honorable Liu and was not executed! "What great luck."

Seeing this situation, Shen Qingwan couldn't help but laugh out loud. In this palace, not everyone was so bored.

Li Ruotong's body was already in great condition, so shshehad only just left the courtyard today. In the end, as soon as she came out, he heard the servants discussing what happened last night, and her eyes revealed hints of schadenfreude.

"Even you heard about what happened last night?" Shen Qingwan smiled.

"That's right!" She was in a very good mood. She didn't like Liu Chu Rong to begin with. Now that something happened to her, she was happy to see it happen.

Shen Qingwan shook her head in amusement. Seeing that she was in such a good mood, she decided to walk together in the garden.

Laughing softly, he raised his head to look at the horizon. Was he angry? Actually, it wasn't. It was just that he felt a bit disappointed.

Shaking her head, she lifted her hand and slapped her forehead. "You, you always think of teasing me."

Li Ruotong held her forehead, just as she raised her head, her eyes stared straight ahead.

Following her line of sight, she couldn't help but smile while covering her mouth. So, what happened to her at that time? So, it turned out that she saw Ye Feng from afar.

"Ai, it seems that I have gotten in someone's way." Ye Xiao sighed and pretended that he was going to leave.

"AHH!" "It's not like that." Li Ruotong was panicking, she grabbed onto her sleeves and looked up at her with a teasing face. Only then did she realise that she was being teased, and her beautiful face had flushed red.

The small episode came to an end just like that, causing the two of them to have their own thoughts.

One was unable to win a person's heart, while the other was unable to take a person's heart.

After having lunch and walking out of the courtyard, he could hear the sound of a zither from the distance. Even though the zither music had changed, it was still as calm as before, and it made people feel more at ease.

Shen Qingwan stayed in the pavilion for an entire afternoon, until the sound of the zither stopped.

It had been like this for the past few days, even Lian Yun beside her had become anxious. Although she understood a little, she felt bored listening to it everyday.

Only when the zither music stopped did Shen Qingwan stand up and smile towards the western courtyard. Her eyes were filled with the relief and joy of meeting a close friend, and also appreciation.

Lian Yun thought to herself that these few days, the Empress was almost in a daze, and pursed her lips.

The second time, the zither music suddenly stopped. Shen Qingwan frowned, her heart was filled with doubts. However, in the time it took for half a cup of tea to boil, a maid came out of the western courtyard and walked towards her. She was already very eye-catching in the pavilion, and the maid could tell with a single glance that she was the one who was playing together with her mistress.

"This must be the Concubine Xian!" After greeting her before she left, the servant girl also had a cold personality. She probably followed her master and said, "My lady would like to invite you to her courtyard. Would you like to meet her?"

Shen Qingwan had the same intentions in the first place, so she did not reject him. She wrapped the guqin on the stone table and passed it to Lian Yun: "Since that's the case, let's begin!" Perhaps it was due to the respect she held for her that she didn't look down on this servant girl at all.

The maid's mouth twitched as if he was trying to pull a smile out of it.

Just like the people inside, the arrangement for entering the yard was very simple. There was only a long stone table in the yard, but there were some flowers and plants in the empty space beside it.

There was a zither on the stone table, but there was no one touching it.

Just as he was wondering, he saw a woman in a green dress walk out from the room. Her hair wasn't all tied up, and some of it was even draped over her shoulders.

Her slender eyebrows were soft, but their eyes were cold. Every movement she made gave off a sense of estrangement.

"Sit down." Even his words were very concise. After saying those two words, he no longer spoke.

"I've long since heard my sister's zither music, and I've always wanted to pay a visit. It's just that I can't disturb you." Shen Qingwan faintly said, as if the one excited by finding someone he was close with was not her, "Today, I have such a good opportunity, it really surprises my little sister."

Wu Ling only raised her eyes when she heard this. She did not seem to expect her to say this. If she continued to treat others coldly, it would seem that she was not generous.

"It's my fault. I didn't know there was such an elegant person in the palace." These words were a bit too heavy, but it was indeed what she was thinking. Almost everyone was busy scheming and scheming, and there was even the elegance to come listen to her zither music.

Shen Qingwan understood the meaning behind her words and did not refute, "You're a weird person." Not to mention the sisters, there was also a sense of closeness in her tone.

When she met such an interesting person in the palace, she was only the second, while the first was Li Ruotong. But she only met such an interesting person because she liked him, and this was the first time she saw someone as indifferent as the person in front of her.