Chapter 40 Chance Encounter

Author: pear wine

After turning around a partition door again, Lan Xi finally saw the queen. The queen was sitting in a purple palace dress. Although her dress was not as gorgeous as the previous few days, she still looked majestic.

After a brief glance, Lan Xi didn't dare to look again. She had learned when she violated the palace rules that it would be disrespectful to look at these noble people casually. In serious cases, she could be punished.

After Lan Xi greeted her mother and sister Fu Shen, she followed the palace servant's guidance and sat down at her seat, looking innocent and well-behaved.

"These two are Mrs. Song's daughters, right?"

After the queen and Liu Yunyao exchanged a few polite words, the conversation turned to Lan Shu Lan Xi, and the two had no choice but to stand up and introduce their names to her.

"Back to the empress, my daughter Song Lanshu, this is your younger sister, I call her Song Lanxi." Lan Shu bowed gracefully and answered for Lan Xi.

The queen nodded and smiled kindly at the two sisters: "Lanshu, Lanxi? It sounds like a really good name. I heard that one of Mr. Song's two apples is gentle, and the other is cute and cute. When I saw it today, it turned out to be true.

Well-deserved!”

With that said, she beckoned the two of them to come towards her, took off the two jade bracelets on her wrists, and put them on respectively for the two sisters.

Lan Shu frowned slightly and looked at her mother hesitantly. Lan Xi beside her felt dumbfounded.

So these elders like to give their bracelets to the younger ones, right? The original Princess Qin treated her like this, and so does the current queen.

"Your Majesty, why is this happening? This bracelet is a personal belonging to your Majesty. Shu'er and the others really deserve it!"

Liu Yunyao's heart skipped a beat, why did the queen suddenly act so close to them?

Thinking of the unmarried prince, Liu Yunyao looked at her beautiful second daughter, sweat dripping down her back.

"You don't have to be so formal. I just want these two girls to be lovable. Just accept it if I give it to you!" The queen waved her hand, and the bright red Kou Dan on her fingernails flashed in front of Lan Xi.

It was a gift from an elder, not to mention that it was a gift from the Queen. Lan Shu had no choice but to take Lan Xi to thank him.

Lan Xi secretly complained, is this thing a gift from the emperor? What if it accidentally knocks and falls?

It seems that I have to offer it when I get home. How can this be receiving a gift? This is clearly bringing home a hot potato.

Fortunately, after sending the two girls their things, the queen said she was a little sleepy and asked them to walk around in the imperial garden and have dinner in the palace in the afternoon before returning.

The queen held up the tea bowl to see off the guests, and Liu Yunyao also wisely left with her two daughters.

After walking out of Fengyi Palace, several people were led to the Royal Garden by the palace staff. After there was no one else around, Liu Yunyao also turned away the maids they had brought from home, and asked them to pay attention to what was going on around them.

No matter how dull the sisters were, they still felt something was wrong. What's more, the queen didn't hide it at all. She clearly called a few people into the palace, but she didn't say a few words to them. She wasted so much effort, could it be just to give them a pair?

bracelet?

After meeting the queen once, Lan Xi was even more confused.

"Mother, just now, mother, she..."

Unlike Lan Xi, Lan Shu was astute and had already sensed something from the queen's attitude.

"Mom is also afraid that your guess is true, but I don't know whether her target is you, Dalang or Sanlang." Liu Yunyao sighed.

Lan Xi has not yet received the teachings of ancient interpersonal communication, so she is still baffled by this.

"My mother's goal? Mother, second sister, what are you trying to do?"

Worried about Lan Xi's random thoughts, Lan Shu had to explain a few words to her.

"The Queen's children are about the same age as several of our brothers and sisters. Now that their father is highly trusted by the Emperor, the Queen may be thinking of getting married."

Lan Xi took a deep breath and her eyes widened suddenly - their family had actually become a hot spot that even the queen and the prince were worried about?

However, apart from the fact that the eldest brother is older, the second sister and the third brother are still just children. How can they be remembered at such a young age?

"Then...who does she like?"

The corner of Liu Yunyao's lips curled up: "Then it depends on whether we will meet the princess or the prince in the imperial garden later!"

It's okay that she is a princess. There is no saying in this dynasty that a prince-in-law should not be an official. No matter which one of the great men and three men is a princess, it will not affect whether he is an official or a murderer.

Just be afraid, the Empress wants the Crown Princess. After all, the Crown Prince is already sixteen, and the candidate for the Crown Princess has not yet been decided.

For the queen, even if she revealed a few of her favorite ladies, it would be better than dragging on like this and damaging the royal family's face.

Logically speaking, although the power of the Song family can barely be regarded as a strong force in the court, their background is insufficient, so the queen should look down on their family when choosing the crown prince.

But everything is inevitable, not to mention that this is a matter of marriage for her children, so Liu Yunyao had to prepare for the worst.

Most people might be overjoyed to get married to a royal family, but Liu Yunyao was not happy about it.

She was originally worried about Lan Shu's weak temperament, how could she be allowed to marry into the royal family. If the queen really wanted to do this, she would try her best to reject the queen even if the master asked the master to quickly arrange a marriage for his daughter.

"Shu'er, you don't have to worry too much. Let's take Lan Xi around so that we can test our guesses. No matter what the outcome is, your father and I should be the ones to worry about it."

Since the Queen had asked them to come to the Imperial Garden, they could not openly disobey her. Liu Yunyao only hoped that they would make a mistake and give her a false alarm.

In view of Lan Xi's strong request, Lan Shu did not go to those accident-prone places such as ponds and rockeries. He randomly found a flower pavilion and stopped.

So, Lan Shu led Lan Xi, followed by Bai Zhi and Hua Tan. The two sisters wandered absentmindedly under a laurel tree.

The flowers were beautiful, but they couldn't bear to look at them like this all the time. There were people everywhere in the palace, and the two sisters didn't dare to talk and laugh like they did at home. After a while, they felt that it was really boring.

Just as the two of them were thinking about going back to find Liu Yunyao, they saw a group of people coming towards them.

The leader was a girl who was about the same age as Liu Shuhuan. She looked to be only eight or nine years old. There was only one person of such age and high status in the palace - the fourth princess, Zhan Jin, the queen's direct daughter.

Song Lanshu breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the person coming. This probably meant that the Queen's target was not her, but in an instant, this relieved breath was revived by her brothers.

The third brother will not say it. His temperament will never allow his marriage to be arranged in this way, and the eldest brother...

The eldest brother's strange behavior toward Miss Ji at the palace banquet was still vivid in her mind. Although she didn't ask anything from him after that day, she was certain that her eldest brother's feelings for Miss Ji were definitely extraordinary.
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