C18 (1/2)
”What do you mean?” Imperial Consort Li sensed that something was amiss, she asked Qin Feng cautiously.
Qin Feng did not say a word as she stood there respectfully with her head lowered, waiting for the show to start.
”I think Feng'er is praising you, little sister Imperial Consort Li. Didn't little sister hear it? Or do you want me to repeat it for you?” At the corner, a woman dressed in gorgeous clothes with a golden hairpin of nine phoenixes walked out. If it wasn't the empress, who else could it be?
”S-empress! Chenqie didn't mean that! This concubine has no words to say at the moment, I beg empress to forgive me! ” Imperial Consort Li was so scared that she broke out in cold sweat and quickly kneeled down to beg for mercy.
The empress merely snorted heavily, not bothering with the Imperial Consort Li, she walked towards the seat of honor and sat down. Beside the empress, there was not a palace maid attending to her, but a handsome man.
This handsome man was none other than the Second Prince, Xuanyuan Mocheng.
Imperial Consort Li's heart was in a mess right now. What she had just said was a great disrespect to the empress, she was in charge of six palaces, and she could use this to punish herself for her crimes.
”Empress, empress, chenqie really didn't mean to say that. It's all because of Fourth Prince's concubine …”
”How dare you!” The Queen rebuked angrily as the tea cup was swung down by the golden armor. Fragments of the tea cup flew all over the place and Imperial Consort Li screamed softly in fear.
”Could it be that you want to tell me that everything you said just now was something that Qin Feng forced you to say?” The empress was naturally furious, but this was not her usual style. It could be said that the empress was very glad to hear what the Imperial Consort Li had to say.
The Imperial Consort Li was doted on by the Emperor previously, and only the empress could take this opportunity to suppress her after the last incident. However, time could kill everything, and now that the opportunity had come again, the empress wouldn't miss out on this godsend opportunity.
Imperial Consort Li was extremely vexed, how could she have been carried away by the little girl Qin Feng. This was obviously a trap set up by her, if not why would the empress coincidentally come to her palace and hear her words?
Imperial Consort Li trembled, and said unhappily: ”empress is furious, chenqie knows that her words are lost, but does empress not want to know why chenqie said those words?”
”That's right, Esteemed Empress, although the Imperial Consort Li is rude, there must be a reason behind it. Why don't we listen to it for a bit, and then let the Esteemed Empress have her way?” Second Prince who had been standing beside empress the entire time said those words respectfully.
Qin Feng couldn't help but look towards Second Prince, and in her heart, she didn't know why Second Prince would cause this trouble. Second Prince raised his head, coincidentally met Qin Feng's gaze, and smiled gently.
Qin Feng lowered her eyebrows, and thought deeply. Although the empress was on bad terms with the Imperial Consort Li, that did not mean the Queen would look at him in a new light.
”Since my son has said it, then Imperial Consort Li, I hope that your reasoning can make you speak so arrogantly!” The empress moved gently and intertwined, sitting straight and waiting for the Imperial Consort Li to explain. To be honest, this kind of feeling of superiority made the Empress feel very comfortable.
Imperial Consort Li immediately put on a pitiful face and kowtowed to the Queen, saying, ”Thank you empress's host. This morning, chenqie returned from the empress Palace and suddenly discovered that the jade bead golden hairpin that was on her hair had mysteriously disappeared …”
”Is this the hairpin that the Emperor bestowed upon you last year?” empress interrupted his narration and asked.
The Imperial Consort Li nodded, and continued, ”It's precisely because it was the Emperor who bestowed this task to me, that chenqie is burning with anxiety.
”Then the Imperial Consort Li suspects that someone stole the Chai Zi?”
”That's right. Thus, chenqie went through everyone she came in contact with today. I was able to search every single person I could, but in the end, I didn't manage to find anything. That's why …”
”So you suspect that it was the Fourth Prince's doing that stole your hairpin?” The Queen pointed to Qin Feng and asked.
Imperial Consort Li kowtowed once again, ”Your consort doesn't dare to jump to the wrong conclusion, so I ask Fourth Prince's Concubine to come here. If Fourth Prince's Concubine doesn't feel like there's anything wrong with changing her clothes, then why not? However, for some reason, the Fourth Prince Concubine would rather run into his concubine than change her clothes.
”Qin Feng, what do you think about this matter?” The Queen raised her eyes and looked at Qin Feng.
Qin Feng walked in front of him and kneeled down: ”Shouchuan, Qin Feng doesn't think she is a petty thief. Not to mention that I am now the legal and proper prince's consort within the Phantom Fire Kingdom, even in the past, I was the eldest miss of the General's Estate. ”Besides, if no one tells me, I won't even know that this is a royal gift from the king, the jade golden hairpin …”
With that, Qin Feng took out a silver jadeite golden hairpin from his hair, held it up high with both hands and lowered her head to speak to the Queen: ”Speaking of disrespectful words, although the jadeite golden hairpin is expensive, but I have the Emperor's gift for me, I really can't think of why Qin Feng would want to steal the Imperial Consort Li's jadeite gold hairpin.”
The jadeite golden hairpin was one of the many rewards given by the Emperor when Qin Feng and Fourth Prince were married. Because there were too many things, no one was able to find out clearly.