Chapter 354 - Exert Pressure with Her Status (2/2)

How could Feng Mei not be jealous of her?

However, what could she do even though she was jealous?

As Shi Qingxue said, both of them were royal family members, so Feng Mei didn’t have the right to punish her for now.

Feng Mei was resentful and stared at Shi Qingxue.

They were in a stalemate for a while, and Liang Zixin walked forward to mediate as she saw something wrong. “All of us came to visit the second prince’s wife, and we don’t need to bother about who is superior.”

Liang Zixin wanted to make all people calm down and go in to visit Shi Baojing harmoniously who was pregnant.

However, Feng Mei was irritated by Shi Qingxue, so she didn’t listen to Liang Zixin but vented her anger on this girl.

“Do you qualify to interrupt when I talk with Shi Qingxue? Who the hell are you?”

These words were so harsh, and even though Liang Zixin was good-tempered, she turned ghastly pale involuntarily and looked at Feng Mei, unable to speak.

Feng Mei was still in a rage and raised her chin again, saying cockily, “Why are you looking at me? Can you look at me at will?”

Liang Zixin couldn’t say anything.

Shi Qingxue didn’t want to meddle, yet Feng Mei’s unreasonable action was really annoying.

She pulled Liang Zixin back and put on a faint smile. “Your Highness, have you heard such a story?”

Feng Mei had been fooled by Shi Qingxue for too many times. Seeing that the girl suddenly changed the subject, she was stunned and just looked at her alertly but didn’t dare to speak rashly.

Shi Qingxue continued casually, as if telling a story, “Once upon a time, there was a mynah. It gossiped endlessly all day long and thought that it was the most beautiful and noble bird in the world, yet it didn’t know that others just didn’t want to talk with it as they thought that it was too noisy.

“One day, this mynah talked too excitedly and fell from the tree. It happened to fall into mud, and the stinky and dirty mud sealed its mouth. From then on, the world became quiet again…”

Shi Qingxue was a good talker and showed her expression and tone perfectly while telling the story. It didn’t appear to be exaggerated but could make the audience seem to be personally on the scene.

After all people heard that, some of them couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

Feng Mei’s face darkened at once, and she stared at Shi Qingxue angrily. “What do you mean?”

Shi Qingxue shrugged, pretending to be innocent. “I was talking about a mynah. Why are you so emotional?”

It was scolding a locust while pointing at a mulberry, yet the “locust” didn’t have a chance to retort.

Feng Mei stomped in a rage. Perhaps she finally realized that she could never defeat Shi Qingxue in an argument.

After weighing, she walked away resentfully at last.

Liang Zixin heaved a sigh of relief and looked at Shi Qingxue gratefully. “Thanks, Qingxue. If it weren’t for your help, I didn’t know what to do.”

Shi Qingxue smiled and expressed that it was nothing.

When she entered Shi Baojing’s room, most of the other visitors had left.

Seeing her, Shi Baojing waved away the others, and they were left alone in the room.

Baojing couldn’t help but ask, “Won’t you be in trouble after you embarrass the fourth prince’s wife in the courtyard?”

“What trouble can it be?” Shi Qingxue didn’t take it seriously.

Shi Baojing frowned worriedly. “Anyway, she is the fourth prince’s wife, and nobody knows the situation in the future. If he is in power someday, she won’t let you go easily.”

Shi Qingxue looked at Shi Baojing quietly, to see that the concern and worry in her eyes were sincere.

While thinking, she didn’t feel unhappy anymore.

Afterward, she asked Shi Baojing straightforwardly, “Baojing, did you send Xia Liang to see me in the Lanxun Villa two days ago?”

Shi Baojing’s face stiffened, and she looked at Shi Qingxue in embarrassment.

After a long time, she explained in a low voice, “In fact, it’s Mother who wants to see you, yet she was afraid that you would be unwilling to enter the imperial palace, so she told Xia Liang to send a message.”

However, Shi Qingxue found something wrong, so Concubine Tao didn’t achieve her goal.

Concubine Tao had lost temper in private for many times, while Shi Baojing was her daughter-in-law in name. When her mother-in-law blamed her, no matter if she was right, Shi Baojing had to bear with it obediently.

Nevertheless, Shi Baojing didn’t want to talk about something like this.

Shi Qingxue knew it and asked seriously, “Did she make things difficult for you?”

Shi Baojing shook her head. “No. Perhaps she thought that you and me are not close enough, and it’s normal that you didn’t come. She just rebuked me and then did nothing.”

It was just that those words with ridicule were offensive.

“Why did she tell me to enter the imperial palace suddenly?” Shi Qingxue still didn’t understand what Concubine Tao wanted to get from her.

“Perhaps…because of the ninth prince,” Shi Baojing said with uncertainty.

She just guessed because Mo Junzhan quarreled with Concubine Tao as soon as he came back.

The mother and son closed the door and had a quarrel, and the people outside could only hear some screams occasionally from the room but couldn’t hear what they were talking about.

Then Mo Junzhan left the imperial palace and went to Moon Mountain, while Concubine Tao looked worried and came to see Shi Baojing, asking her maid Xia Liang to go to see Shi Qingxue.

After hearing the cause and effect, Shi Qingxue still felt doubtful.

She pursed her lips and wanted to ask more, while a maid knocked at the door. “Your Highness, Concubine Tao asked you to see her.”