Chapter 721 Secret Affairs In The Palace (1/2)
When Ning Qian and Yun Shang hurried to Xiang Zhu Palace in the rain, they didn't see Xia Huanyu. Ning Qian frowned and looked up at the attendant standing quietly aside. ”Where is His Majesty?”
Hearing this, the servant replied in a hurry, ”Your Highness, His Majesty has just been sitting in the palace before leaving in a hurry when the female official came to report that there was an urgent report from the frontier.
Urgent report from the frontier? Yun Shang frowned slightly. Has Cangjue Qingsu taken actions?
Ning Qian sighed and turned to Yun Shang, ”His Majesty has left, but I don't want to go back to the bleeding banquet in Weiyang Palace. Your Highness, since you've been pregnant, it's not safe for you to return to your mansion in the dark and rainy night. Just rest in my palace tonight. Perhaps it was because Ning Qian was so annoyed in the Wei Yang Palace just now that she became a little irritable.
Rest in your palace? Yun Shang shook her head slightly. ”If I sleep here tonight, people may gossip about me tomorrow. Don't worry. I have many secret guards around me. I'll be fine. ”
Ning Qian looked up at Yun Shang. After a moment of silence, she said, ”If the Empress knows that you are leaving the Palace now, I'm afraid it's not appropriate. Why don't you stay for a while? I'll ask the servants to prepare some cakes. You didn't eat anything in the Wei Yang Palace just now.”
It was raining heavily outside. The raindrops dripped from the eave and splashed, even wetting the ground under the eave. Ning Qian frowned and asked the servants to close the door.
Yun Shang thought for a while and nodded. She walked to a chair and sat down. She took out the hairpin from her sleeve and looked at it carefully.
”Do you have any plan?Your Highness.” Ning Qian kept looking at Yun Shang and asked.
Plan? Gently stroking the hairpin in her hand, a cold grin crept onto her face. ”I'm going to beat her at his own game.” I'll just act as the Empress expected. She thought that I would be panicked when I saw the hairpin and knew something might've happened to my mother. Now she might think I was just pretending to be calm in the Weiyang Palace and I might be overwhelmed by the sudden change with no one to discuss with and rely on as His Highness is still in coma. I'd like to see what she's up to.”
After a brief pause, she looked up at Ning Qian and asked, ”To which concubines the Empress has closely connected recently?”
Ning Qian thought for a while before answering, ”Among the five candidates for female officials the Empress personally selected from the new ladies, only Wang Wanzhi has been chosen by the Emperor. But, the other four often visited Wei Yang Palace recently. And I'm afraid that the Empress has spent so much energy that the four ladies have been conferred the title one after another. The lady named Qin Xianglan ranked highest among the four.
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