Chapter 246 Slap in the face
Chapter 246 Slap in the face
"I have met Lady Hui Guipin."
"I, Zhao, greet the Queen Concubine Hui. May the Queen be blessed with good health."
On the first day Zhao Guixiu entered the palace, after having lunch in the Yueshi Palace, Li Xihua acted like a spoiled child and forced her to stay for dinner.
After dinner was over, night fell, and lights were lit one by one. Li Xihua was unwilling to let Zhao Guixiu leave, using the excuse that it was raining all night and the roads were slippery. She forced Zhao Guixiu, who had come to the palace to accompany Concubine Bai in her childbirth, to rest in her Yueshi Palace.
Zhao Guixiu felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't stand her daughter's nagging. She also needed her daughter's help with something, so she stayed in the Yueshi Palace and asked Li Xihua to send a palace maid to Nanxun Palace to tell Bai Liangyu.
Li Xihua showed his face-slapping behavior. Bai Liangyu didn't know how ugly his face was, but Li Xihua felt extremely proud just thinking about it.
Such a reckless, high-profile and brainless action can also lower Bai Liangyu's vigilance, so why not do it?
"Please stand up. Madam Li came to the palace to accompany Concubine Bai in her delivery. Why did she come out of Lady Li's Moon Room so early in the morning? I heard that Concubine Bai's pregnancy has not been going well. If she is angry about this, His Majesty may not be able to explain it."
"It's all my fault. I insisted on keeping mother in the Moon Room for one night. Not only did it embarrass Concubine Bai, but mother also couldn't sleep well at my place, as she was always thinking about Concubine Bai.
I will first take my mother to Nanxun Palace where Concubine Bai is staying and confess my crime to her. Then I will go to Jiaofang Palace to ask the Empress for forgiveness. I will accept the punishment." The resentment in Li Xihua's eyes seemed to be overflowing.
"This is a matter between you two cousins. You should weigh the pros and cons yourself. I am just saying this in front of you. You should decide the scale yourself. Don't let His Majesty punish you and ask Mingjin to plead for you. Mingjin is a good child. Don't harm him."
His biological sons, the Fourth Prince Qin Mingyun and the Third Prince Qin Mingjin, got along well with each other. Naturally, Meng Xinghe also had a lot of good feelings for this lovely Third Prince.
Meng Xinghe was also willing to say a few words of reminder to the third prince's mother.
"Your Majesty is truly kindhearted. Come to think of it, why are you still leaving the one in Chongde Palace alone and not dealing with her?" Li Xihua was somewhat touched when she heard Meng Xinghe's words of concern for the third prince Qin Mingjin.
But the next moment, she sneaked close to Meng Xinghe's ear and asked in a low voice.
"Nosy." Meng Xinghe pursed his lips and looked cold. He felt that his concern was in vain. Li Xihua was a pretty mean person.
"My queen is scolding me."
"Okay, let's go."
"Wait a minute, I don't know whether what you said about going to the Pepper Room to apologize is true or not, but I just came back from the Pepper Room, and the Queen doesn't seem to be in the bedroom."
"Thank you, Sister Hui Guipin, for reminding me so that I don't have to make this trip in vain."
Li Xihua scoffed at what her mother Zhao Guixiu said last night, saying that she owed a lot to Bai Liangyu's parents and asked her and the third prince Qin Mingjin to help Bai Liangyu regain his favor, but she still agreed on the surface.
If Bai Liangyu regained the favor of His Majesty and safely gave birth to the royal heir, there would be no place for her in this palace.
Moreover, Li Xihua always felt that Bai Liangyu had ill intentions towards her. Now thinking back on what she had done to Bai Liangyu before entering the palace, she didn't think there was any possibility of them reconciling.
The only outcome is a fight to the death. This time she must crush Bai Liangyu to death before she can feel at ease.
If unfortunately what she did was discovered by His Majesty and the Queen, her mother would help her, right? She still has the Third Prince. Even if His Majesty doesn't care about her, for Mingjin's sake, she would at most be locked up like Concubine Zhen.
After sending Zhao Guixiu to Nanxun Palace, Li Xihua locked herself in her bedroom, playing absentmindedly with the gift that her mother brought from outside the palace for the third prince.
It is just as mother said, they are just some little toys for children to play with. It was hard for mother to carry them in from outside the palace.
She put her men's things back into the package one by one and ordered, "Send these things to the back hall."
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