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knelt on the soft cushion with his hands clasped together. He was not praying for the blessings of the unborn child of Aunt Min, but rather grumbling about when he would be able to get out from this suffocating monastery.
The Madam Ye slipped in soundlessly and pushed at Xue Liuhua's shoulder.
She turned around to see that it was her mother. Her happiness could be clearly seen from her words. ”Mother, you've come to see me …”
Madam Ye put her finger on her lips, telling her to lower her voice, ”Don't shout out loud, I came here while carrying your father, be careful not to let others hear.”
Xue Liuhua knelt in the temple for a long time, she was already exhausted, ”Mother, when will father allow me to leave?”
Madam Ye was troubled: ”Your father won't let you go, you must go in the spring of next year.”
Xue Liuhua's eyes instantly reddened, and she said with teary eyes: ”Father is really that heartless?”
Madam Ye helped her up from the ground, feeling pained. ”Yes, after all, he is your father's child.”
”But I am also my father's child. How can my father keep me in the monastery?”
”There's no helping it, push Aunt Min down from the top floor. Everyone in the entire residence knows, if your father does not punish you ruthlessly, how can he control his words?”
Xue Liuhua looked at Madam Ye with sorrow, ”Does mother think that I was the one who pushed Aunt Min down?”
”You are a good child,” Madam Ye pinched her cheek lovingly. ”You would never do such a thing.”
”But Father just didn't believe me, and after hearing what Aunt Min said, it was all my fault.”
”Who told you to be so impatient, you got into trouble at the East Garden.” Madam Ye sighed lightly.
Xue Liuhua justified herself: ”You can't blame our daughter for being impatient, she was the pride of the Aunt Min, for relying on her pregnancy, she did not put me in her eyes.”
Madam Ye nodded in agreement, ”Aunt Min is really too annoying, I really don't know how she got pregnant.”
Xue Liuhua wiped the tears at the corner of her eyes, and gently replied. ”Didn't mother make preparations in the past?
Madam Ye was silent and nodded her head heavily a few times.
”Then how did the Aunt Min get pregnant? She couldn't be trying to use a fake pregnancy to win her favor, right?”
Madam Ye said: It can't be a fake pregnancy, I'm afraid that she had deliberately sent many doctors to check it out, but they all said that she was pregnant, and that falling down the stairs that day was indeed a small birth.
Xue Liuhua looked confused, ”Then what happened to the Aunt Min?”
A trace of ruthlessness flashed past Madam Ye's eyes, ”She … ”She swallowed her gold and killed herself the night of the birth.”
Xue Liuhua was shocked, ”How could this be? Father will never let me out.”
”Madam Ye pondered for a while and decided not to tell Xue Liuhua the truth. What are you worried about? Aunt Min being unable to protect his own child has nothing to do with you. If your father lost that child, you would be the only one.
Xue Liuhua narrowed her eyes hatefully, ”Father still has Xue Ronghua. That day, Aunt Min fell from the stairs and she was beside him.”
Madam Ye was startled, she felt that something was not right, ”Xue Ronghua is also here? ”What's she going to do?”
Xue Liuhua suddenly realized something, ”Mother, at that time, when Xue Ronghua was trying to mediate between me and Aunt Min, she was the one who borrowed me to push Aunt Min down!”
The Madam Ye held her shoulders nervously, ”Are you sure it was Xue Ronghua who framed you and pushed you to the side of the Aunt Min?”
”It must be her,” Xue Liuhua said as she gnashed her teeth, ”She knew full well that I don't like the Aunt Min, and she even allowed me to go to the East Garden to incite trouble between me and the Aunt Min.
Madam Ye muttered to herself slightly, then said: ”If Xue Ronghua was the one who was plotting against you, then everything makes sense. Only …”
Xue Liuhua's face darkened, ”It's just that there's no evidence, so I'm guessing that father wouldn't believe me.”
Madam Ye looked at his daughter who was depressed and immediately consoled her: ”Don't worry, I will go find someone from the Ye Residence to help find the truth.”
Xue Liuhua's eyes lit up again, ”Mother must seek justice for my daughter, don't let my daughter be framed for no reason.”
”Of course,” Madam Ye squinted her eyes dangerously. ”I want to see how Aunt Min got pregnant.”
Xue Ronghua accompanied Chu Zongge to drink a cup of wine, then prepared to take his leave.
Chu Zongge laughed: ”Once Prince Jin leaves, I'm afraid that it won't be convenient to send you back. I'll accompany you out of the palace.”
Xue Ronghua smiled, ”Then I'll be troubling Prince Duan.”
After the two of them got on the palanquin, Chu Zongge purposely let the carriage driver pass by the Imperial Garden.
”What are you doing in the royal garden?”
Chu Zongge smirked: ”I heard that the lotus flowers in the imperial garden are blooming extremely beautifully, I want to take a look.”
Xue Ronghua disagreed: ”No matter how beautiful the lotus flowers in the imperial garden are, it's still a artificially created beautiful scenery. It's not as beautiful as the one in the lotus pond over the river outside the capital.”
”So what if it is natural, so what if it is manmade? It is all the beautiful scenery of the mortal world, so there is no need to care so much.”
Xue Ronghua raised her brows, ”Prince Duan likes lotus flowers?”
Chu Zongge answered: ”When I was at the Chiron in my previous life, I had heard mother recite a poem about lotus flowers for me. I felt that the jade bowl-like flower that bloomed on the jade plate must be extremely beautiful, so I kept wanting to take a look. It's just that there have never been lotus flowers in Chiron before.”
Xue Ronghua said gently: ”Then today you can see for yourself.”
There were many green and red dragonflies flying in the air. Chu Zongge was captivated by the beauty that had only appeared in the poems in the past, and couldn't help but take a few steps forward, wanting to take a look at this beautiful scenery. Suddenly, two human figures appeared from deep within the overlapping pink and white lotus, followed by many people. When he took a closer look, he realized that it was the crown prince and Empress Chen.