The Beloved in the Palm

Chapter 77 A little clingy

Xue Qingyin turned and walked out. Halfway through, she looked back at Madam Xue: "Are you going with me, mother?"

Madam Xue took a deep breath: "I... I'll just watch from a distance."

In the capital, there are too few people who can stand in front of King Xuan without fear.

Whether she likes this marriage or not, at least she can't embarrass her daughter at the moment.

Xue Qingyin nodded, and then she took the maid and walked out the door.

As soon as she stepped out of the door, she saw the familiar carriage.

"Miss Xue." Du Hongxue beside the carriage saluted her.

Xue Qingyin smiled: "You came so quickly."

Du Hongxue quickly reached out to roll up the curtain for her, saying: "Has the imperial edict been sent to Xue's house? We were still guessing, saying that the young lady was in Xue's house or in Xu's house at this time? I thought of going to Xu's house to take a look, and sure enough, she was."

Xue Qingyin said: "Then they are very in tune with each other."

Du Hongxue smiled innocently: "Yes, Your Highness and the young lady are in tune with each other." He didn't dare to be in tune with each other.

Xue Qingyin got into the carriage and first saw the wooden box at the feet of King Xuan.

She pointed and asked: "Is it Mu Li again?"

The last one was still with her.

King Xuan's eyes first wandered over her face, as if he was trying to tell her mood at the moment.

Then he heard him say in a deep voice: "No. Open it and take a look."

Xue Qingyin was not polite, and bent down to open the wooden box first.

The first thing that caught my eye was a soft white.

Then there were clusters of flowers and colors.

"Clothes? Cloth?" Xue Qingyin picked it up randomly in confusion, only to find that it was a cloak.

She immediately reacted: "Is this what Your Highness gave me as compensation?"

As she said this, she flipped through the pages again.

Elegant, delicate, graceful, and decorated with gems and jade, embroidered with gold and silver threads, all kinds of cloaks were stacked together.

Are you buying wholesale?

Even wholesale doesn't sell like this!

Xue Qingyin licked her lips and couldn't help laughing: "Your Highness, you can tie two more knots next time."

King Xuan's eyebrows moved slightly, as if a little smile surged up.

He said: "There's more underneath."

Xue Qingyin wondered: "Then I can't wear it either."

As she said this, she lifted the cloak on top, only to see a smaller mahogany box underneath.

Nesting dolls?

Xue Qingyin was very excited and opened the one below as well.

But what was inside was no longer a cloak, but a... tree?

The tree has a yellow-brown trunk and green roots, and its shape is graceful but not rigid. The branches that extend out are dotted with red beans. It reminds people of the acacia beans in poetry.

Xue Qingyin pinched it with her fingers.

This is not a bean.

This is a red coral bead.

Because it is difficult to collect from the bottom of the sea, in ancient times, corals were often called auspicious treasures and red gold, and were often regarded as symbols of power and wealth.

What are the green roots?

Xue Qingyin approached it and felt delicate and smooth, with a tight texture, uniform and clean.

It is jade.

And it should be the top-grade Hetian jade.

But what is the trunk made of... Forgive her short-sightedness, she really can't recognize it.

"That's Tianshi." King Xuan's voice sounded in her ears, as if he saw her confusion.

"Tianshi?" Xue Qingyin thought she had never heard of it.

"Tianshi is as bright and smooth as jade but not jade, and its price is better than gold." King Xuan said.

Xue Qingyin thought that the latter part sounded particularly beautiful! Worth more than gold!

"Among them, there are Qingtian, Tianhuang, and Hongtian. The price of Tianhuang is more than thirty times that of gold, and the price of Hongtian is more than ten times that of Tianhuang. The most precious one is the Dengguangdong in Qingtian. It is like amber and golden in color, shining brightly, and worth a thousand gold." King Xuan said this, paused, and said: "The seal of the East Palace is made of it."

Xue Qingyin was stunned.

Now I have a complete understanding of the value of this thing.

King Xuan continued: "You can use it to hang your jewelry."

Xue Qingyin thought that this is really luxurious. I have never used such an exaggerated jewelry rack in my first half of my life.

Seeing that Xue Qingyin didn't speak, King Xuan couldn't help asking: "Don't you like it?"

Xue Qingyin came back to her senses and said: "How can I not like it?"

Hearing this, King Xuan's eyebrows seemed to relax a little.

Xue Qingyin immediately asked him: "May I ask, Your Highness, how did the imperial edict come down so quickly?" She paused and said, "Your Majesty, you are not disgusted with me at this moment, are you?"

She felt that Liu Yuerong's illness was a little unusual, and there might be something involved.

Prince Xuan's tone was calm, giving people a feeling of being immovable.

He said: "You don't have to worry, your father will not hate you at all. On the contrary, he will feel that you have been wronged everywhere."

Xue Qingyin looked at him in confusion.

Why?

Why did the emperor feel that she was wronged everywhere?

But Prince Xuan did not mean to explain further. He took something off his waist and then tied it around Xue Qingyin's waist with his head down.

This time, he remembered not to tie a knot again.

"The auspicious day has not been determined. If something happens, send someone to bring this thing to Prince Xuan's mansion." Prince Xuan said indifferently.

Xue Qingyin nodded and looked down.

It was a jade seal the size of a finger joint. When it was lifted up, the word "Xuan" could be seen engraved underneath.

"Your Highness, I will accept it all." Xue Qingyin smiled and narrowed her eyes slightly.

Most likely, everything King Xuan wanted to explain today has been explained. The carriage actually became quiet again.

Xue Qingyin thought for a moment, should I leave now?

She rolled up the curtain with one hand and said, "Your Highness, I will take my leave now."

King Xuan didn't say anything to keep her.

Xue Qingyin got off the carriage.

Two soldiers from Prince Xuan's Palace immediately carried the box down for her and walked towards the front door of Xu's house.

And Xue Qingyin was still standing in front of the carriage.

She was thinking that these two times when King Xuan came to see her, he mostly brought her gifts.

Last time it was a leaf card made of gold, this time it was a cloak and a treasure tree...

So Xue Qingyin asked with a smile: "Your Highness, will you come again tomorrow?"

King Xuan paused and met her eyes.

Du Hongxue sighed at the side and said, "His Royal Highness will be busy with military affairs tomorrow."

Xue Qingyin was very disappointed: "Oh."

King Xuan saw her disappointed expression in his eyes, and the joy in his eyebrows seemed to have fallen away.

Is this how she hopes to see him every day?

King Xuan had never liked any woman, but he had probably heard Liu Hou complain that his newly married wife was too jealous and wished she could stay with him every day, for fear that he would go to Tongfang's place, and that he would be there. There are flowers and willows sleeping outside.

Liu Hou was extremely dissatisfied in his words, and even accused his wife of not being virtuous enough and marrying the wrong person. Being clingy to the point of annoying him.

The Xue girl seems to be a bit clingy.

But what's so annoying about it?

There seems to be no place to bore people.

King Xuan said: "Come the day after tomorrow."

Xue Qingyin immediately became happy: "Okay, I'll see you again the next day, Your Highness."

Then she happily turned around and returned to Xu's house.

When they entered the Xu family's gate, they saw Mrs. Xue standing there, with a complex expression on her face: "You seem to be very happy to see His Highness Prince Xuan."

Xue Qingyin was naturally happy.

Who can be unhappy after making so much money?

If something happens again in the future, these are all the assets she will use to support herself and her mother-in-law!

Mrs. Xue asked again: "Did His Highness Prince Xuan bring the contents in the box just now?"

Xue Qingyin nodded.

Mrs. Xue said: "I feel relieved that I can treat you well. I just hope that he will not be like your father and that you will not repeat your mother's old ways."

Xue Qingyin thought to herself that I only took a fancy to his handsome skin and the gleam of money in his hands. No one who gets upset will have my turn to get upset.

Mrs. Xue sighed: "It's fate. I never thought it would be Prince Xuan... You said you didn't like the Lin family earlier, but I also thought that the young general named Du Hongxue was also a good candidate."

Xue Qingyin: "Pfft."

"No more talk." The wedding decree has been made, and any further discussion may reach the ears of the superiors.

Mrs. Xue shut up.

But then I started to worry about another thing.

She had already felt that it was inappropriate to point out Xue Qingyin to the legitimate son of the Xu family. How could Qingyin's temperament withstand the constraints of those rules and regulations?

Now once you enter the royal family, wouldn't it be more difficult than being in the Xu family? Mrs. Xue felt that she was not a smart or scheming person. Her daughter is of the same lineage.

Can Qingyin be able to block those open and hidden arrows?

Mrs. Xue is very worried.

The other side.

Emperor Liang De woke up from his nap.

He had not dreamed of King Xuan's biological mother for a long time.

He stroked his chest and felt like he was having a nightmare.

Seeing his unhappy expression, the waiter on the side quickly knelt down and offered him a bowl of iced cheese.

Emperor Liang De glanced at it and asked, "Have all those coral beads been sent to Prince Xuan's Mansion?"

The chamberlain nodded: "It's been delivered. His Highness ordered someone to string the coral beads on the tree. He took them to Miss Xue."

Emperor Liang De's expression was complicated: "I really love you so much." He paused and then said: "Prince Xuan is cold and taciturn. I asked you to read the poem about Hongdou in front of Prince Xuan. Do you want to read it?"

The chamberlain stammered: "His Royal Highness King Xuan left after half of the recitation."

Emperor Liang De: "..." He couldn't help but raise his hand and pinch the bridge of his nose. He couldn't help but worry a little, would King Xuan coax a woman? Hongdou sends a message of love. If Miss Xue pointed to the coral bead and asked what it was, King Xuan wouldn't just say two words: "stone", right?

Damn the scenery!

At this time, Du Hongxue was stumbling and said to King Xuan: "Your Highness and Miss Xue talk too little."

"Um?"

"If you treat Miss Xue so coldly, I'm afraid she will be sad in the future."

King Xuan was silent for a moment and asked him: "Besides important things, what else should I say?"

Du Hongxue opened her mouth and gradually scratched her head and ears: "... This subordinate, this subordinate is not married, and this subordinate... never thought of it for a moment."

After all, most of the soldiers in King Xuan's hands were bachelors who had no love at all.

Then the master and servant fell into a deeper silence.