Concubine De.

The status in this palace is second only to the existence of the Virtue, Li Yong's biological mother.

Xie Xuan couldn't help but smile bitterly. What did she do so incredible? She was still affected?

However, through Concubine De's words, Xie Xuan had already guessed the identity of the young woman she had just spoken.

The emperor's only legitimate princess, the late queen's only daughter, and the prince's elder sister, Princess Ningping, the princess. However, she married far away to the famous scholarly family in Yangzhou. She heard that she was going back to Beijing a few days ago, but she didn't expect that she met her only today.

After hearing this, Princess Ningping stopped obeying, "Mother, you will be sad if you say this. After returning to Beijing, I have never even left the palace gate in the past few days. I just want to stay in Zhaoming Palace. I just wish I could stick to my mother's side every day. Isn't the mother annoyed me?"

After the death of the queen, her children were raised by Concubine Xian and Concubine De. The prince grew up in front of Concubine Xian, but Princess Ningping was the youngest daughter of Concubine De. Hearing Princess Ningping's tone, she was acting coquettishly. Xie Xuan quietly looked up and saw Princess Ningping rolling in Concubine De's arms. Concubine De also hugged her, smiling helplessly and dotingly. Her appearance was really intimate as her biological mother and daughter.

"Look at you, you are all mothers of two children, why are you still so childish?"

"Are you a son in the mother's house, isn't your son a permanent child?" Princess Ningping really wanted to act coquettishly to the end.

"Yes! Isn't that the princess is close to Concubine De?" Mrs. Xiao happened to have walked closer and then took the conversation with a smile.

Her words made everyone in the palace look back on their Xie family’s women.

Mrs. Xiao took the lead in bowing her knees and greeted the ladies in the hall one by one according to their grade level. Li, Xie Xuan and Xie Zhen naturally did the same.

"Madam, please get up quickly." Concubine Xian was naturally looking at her mother's family. Seeing that they had bowed, she quickly called the person up, then turned her head and said to the palace maid beside her and showed the seat to the lady. The palace maid quietly retreated. After a while, she brought a chair to Mrs. Xiao.

Mrs. Xiao did not refuse, and sat down with her, and started chatting with the concubines. After a while, another wife from another family came, greetings, greetings, and then sat down and said something without any nutrition. But even so, some words would have to be thought secretly for a long time to determine whether it had a deep meaning or what it was.

Xie Xuan cheered up and listened, but she felt a little overwhelmed. She used to be too careless about these things. Even which family these ladies belonged to, which family they were relatives, and which ones they had, they were confused. How could they figure out these things clearly? However, they barely maintained their calmness on the surface and did not make people see the clues.

But Mrs. Xiao is very familiar with these. No matter what others say, she can say a few words just right, or be silent at the right time, as if she was born for such occasions. Although there are many reasons why others are afraid of the Duke of Ding and cater to it, it is mainly because Mrs. Xiao is indeed very good at dealing with such scenes.

"Why do big sister keep watching A Luan like this?" Just as she was talking lively, she suddenly heard a crisp voice and asked curiously.

The hall suddenly became silent, and everyone's eyes looked at Xie Xuan.

Xie Xuan felt a palpitation and subconsciously raised her head. She just happened to run into Princess Ningping's eyes looking at her. With just a touch, Xie Xuan quickly lowered her eyes, but her heart was still pounding.

Princess Ningping's eyes are actually very similar to the prince. They are both narrow and long eyes, but slightly raised from the corners of the eyes. Such eyes are usually peach blossoms, but unlike the prince's tenderness and gentleness, Princess Ningping's eyes are like sharp blades covered by a layer of soft gauze. Although they are hazy and graceful, they can still be seen with sharp center, which makes Xie Xuan intuitively and a little uneasy.

Princess Ning Ping... Why should I pay attention to her?

Of course, Xie Xuan is not the only one who has such a question. Just now, Xie Xuan focused all her attention on the gossip of the people in the hall, but she had never noticed that Princess Ningping had been paying attention to herself, but it did not mean that others had not noticed it.

Many people were already secretly wondering, but the only one who could ask such a blunt question was the daughter of Concubine Xian. Now the most noble and most loved by His Majesty in the palace. She is still young now, and she is Xie Xuan's cousin and Princess Ningping's sister. She asked her, but it didn't make others feel strange.

Or, what everyone cares more is just the reason why Princess Ning Ping pays attention to Xie Xuan, so she has no time to pay attention to other things.

"So... is the pearl in the palm of Dingguo's family called A Luan?" Princess Ningping chuckled slightly, her voice falling from a jade plate, crisp and refreshing, "It's such a good name! Luan is a bird of auspiciousness, and is of the same auspiciousness as the phoenix. It has a noble fate. It seems... Dingguo and his wife have great expectations for their only daughter!"

Princess Ningping clearly smiled, but Xie Xuan was inexplicably cold.

Even Li glanced at Xie Xuan with some anxiety.

But Mrs. Xiao was calm, lowered her head gently, and smiled, "The princess is just joking, but she is just a parent's heart. She always has many expectations for the future of her children. She is just a nickname. She is just a wish, but she will not be able to dominate her destiny."

Mrs. Xiao was calm when she moved and remained calm, but only Xie Xuan, who was standing behind her, saw that the hairs on the back of her neck were standing upright.

After hearing this, Princess Ning Ping nodded, feeling it made sense, and smiled, "This is true, parents naturally hope that their children will be good. Since becoming a mother, I have a deeper understanding of this. I believe that the Duke and his wife are the same, just hope that their daughter will become a phoenix. However,... the pearl in the palm of Ding Guo is born noble, so I am naturally a man of human nature. I just felt that A Luan looks very similar to the Queen of Concubine Xian, so I took a look at her twice, but I didn't expect that she was a quiet person at a young age, and Mrs. Xiao is good at teaching her daughters! It seems that I have to learn from my wife and raise the monkey in my house to a little lady in the future."

"The princess is a rude, but my wife really dare not take it." Mrs. Xiao said in a hurry and fearlessly.

Princess Ning Ping said just now, with a thorn in the cotton and meaningful point. Xie Xuan almost thought that the visitor was not good. Unexpectedly, in a blink of an eye, she praised without hesitation. What does Princess Ning Ping mean?

"Madam Xiao, don't blame me. I have said so much. Maybe it's because your A Luan just fits my eyes!" Princess Ningping smiled at Xie Xuan again, as if there was a smile on the corner of her eyes, but Xie Xuan quickly lowered her head and did not dare to look in depth.
Chapter completed!