The Beloved in the Palm

Chapter 99 Donggong asks for help

No longer alone.

When he heard this sentence, Xue Qingyin was startled.

It was as if something hit her nose. A sour and stuffy feeling rushed straight into my forehead sinus.

Without even thinking about it, she subconsciously rushed forward and hugged King Xuan's waist when he stood up.

She whispered: "Well, His Highness is no longer alone."

The last words were said to the prince on purpose.

The prince's previous words were so unpleasant and she was so angry. What's wrong with him?

Xue Qingyin thinks it’s okay.

King Xuan stood there and let her hold her for a while. He looked in the direction of the memorial tablet, his eyes deep and dark, as if he wanted to see past the thin wooden memorial tablet and see the late queen from a few years ago.

The coldness in his eyes gradually disappeared.

Finally, he raised his hand and stroked Xue Qingyin's hair.

The prince stared at their figures, but he didn't get mad anymore.

But his eyes became more gloomy.

"Put it away." King Xuan said.

At this time, Xue Qingyin also finished her salute and inserted the incense string in her hand.

She turned around and asked, "What does aunt like to eat? I should bring some food."

King Xuan had already prepared.

He gave a gentle high-five, and then some of the palace attendants came forward and took out a few paper balls, not knowing what was inside, and enshrined them in front of the soul.

Then King Xuan took Xue Qingyin's hand and led her out.

The prince said no more harsh words, but after watching their figures go away, he frowned in disgust and said: "Throw them out."

The palace attendant said calmly: "But... that was offered to the late Queen by His Royal Highness King Xuan."

The prince looked grim: "Do you want to say it again?"

The palace man did not dare to argue anymore, so he quickly put the things away and quietly walked out the door to find a place to throw them away.

The prince sneered and said sarcastically to the older maid next to him: "Does King Xuan really like this thing as a mother? It's just to remind him to remember the friendship back then."

Not far out of the carriage, Xue Qingyin trembled.

Someone was following them.

Ai Ai every period, be careful.

She quickly tugged on King Xuan's sleeve.

But he was caught by King Xuan.

Oops, she didn’t mean to be teasing!

Xue Qingyin stared at him and whispered: "Someone is following us..."

"Don't pay attention. When I come to the East Palace, I will always meet this person. Once I ordered someone to capture her. When I asked, it turned out that she was an idiot." King Xuan said without looking back.

But as soon as King Xuan finished speaking, the man suddenly quickened his pace and ran towards them, and was pushed to the ground by the chamberlain behind King Xuan.

He was lying at Xue Qingyin's feet.

Xue Qingyin was startled and turned around, only to see that it was a little Gong'e who was no more than twelve or thirteen years old.

The clothes are dirty, but the face is very clean. Holding a bunch of things in his hand, he desperately handed it to Xue Qingyin.

Seeing this, the chamberlain on the side frowned and clenched his fingers into a fist, as if to break her hand.

Xue Qingyin stopped him: "Wait a minute."

Xue Qingyin glanced at the things in Xiao Gong'e's hands, frowned and said: "Like the things that His Highness enshrined to the late Queen just now, were they thrown out for her to pick up?"

Xue Qingyin felt a little unhappy in her heart.

How can anyone just walk away with their front legs and then throw away their things with their back legs?

After hearing what the prince was saying just now, King Xuan swore an oath to heaven in front of the late queen. The meaning is probably that King Xuan may have promised the Queen to take care of the Crown Prince...

If the prince wants King Xuan to fulfill his promise, then he must be a man of talent, right?

"You are really a little fool. He picked up something and came after us." Xue Qingyin took the paper bag from Xiao Gong'e.

He also touched the little girl's head.

The little Gong'e's eyes widened and she rubbed Xue Qingyin's palm. Then she suddenly lay down on all fours on the ground and barked twice like a dog.

Xue Qingyin was stunned.

Then her expression changed and she said unhappily: "Who taught her this?"

Isn't it insulting to teach people how to bark like a dog?

King Xuan looked at the chamberlain on the side and said coldly: "I'm asking you, didn't you hear me?"

The chamberlain was excited and said repeatedly: "I don't know! This, this little palace maid is stupid. Who knows where she learned this?"

Xue Qingyin frowned and wanted to reward her, but such a little girl had no power to protect herself. Rewarding her actually harmed her.

But she couldn't think of any good way to make this little girl live better in the palace.

Then he turned to look at King Xuan.

King Xuan should have some idea, right?

King Xuan glanced at the little palace lady and said calmly: "Send her back to where she is on duty."

The chamberlain breathed a sigh of relief and responded repeatedly.

King Xuan took Xue Qingyin and continued to go out. It was not until he walked out of the East Palace that he heard him say: "She is not a fool."

Xue Qingyin quickly reacted: "Because her face is too clean?"

"No, because she will assess the situation."

"ah?"

"When I met her in the past, she never picked up anything to give to me, nor did she pretend to be a dog in front of me." King Xuan paused for a moment and stated a fact very calmly, "Because she knows that I am scary."

"With you today, she would do these things." King Xuan said.

Xue Qingyin couldn't help but raise her hand and touch her face: "Do I look good enough to talk?"

King Xuan was silent for a moment and said, "It looks very beautiful."

Xue Qingyin widened her eyes and turned to look at him.

She thought, how can someone say love words without expression?

Xue Qingyin flicked the paper bag in her hand and asked, "What's in it?"

"Fat fruit. According to the late queen, there were two jujube trees outside the high wall of my grandparents' house, and the fruits on them were fat fruit. When she was young, she and my biological mother often ate the fruits on the trees secretly."

Xue Qingyin lowered her head and said, "It's not fruit... Here."

She spread her palm to show King Xuan.

King Xuan looked down.

The fat fruit in the paper bag had been replaced, and a spherical sachet was wrapped in it, with a crumpled paper note stuck on it.

The note read "Please give this to the Lin family in the east of the city, and you will be rewarded handsomely."

"Who needs to be so secretive when delivering a message?" Xue Qingyin suddenly became alert, "Is it a deliberate trap for us to fall into?"

King Xuan thought she was cute, he raised his hand calmly and stroked Xue Qingyin's cheek.

Xue Qingyin was stunned.

"The hair is hanging down." King Xuan said.

"Oh." Xue Qingyin also raised her hand to pick up the broken hair. But she didn't catch it after a long time.

King Xuan pursed his lips and thought she was even more cute.

He had to pretend to hook the air with his fingers and said, "Okay, it's already behind my ears."

Xue Qingyin nodded, and then she didn't care about the "broken hair" that fell on her face.

King Xuan reached out and picked up the spherical sachet: "Open it and you will know what the secret is."

"What if there is poison in it?" Xue Qingyin's mind was full of the palace fighting stories she had read before.

King Xuan said, "No. There are several hollows on it for incense, so it can't hold anything. If you put a wax ball in it, it will be just right."

But that's what he said.

When he opened the sachet with his fingers, he still raised his hand to block it, asking Xue Qingyin to hide behind.

With a slight sound, the mechanism of the sachet popped open, revealing the shape inside.

Xue Qingyin leaned over and took a look. It was very similar to the silver sachet with grape, flower and bird patterns she had seen in the museum!

Just as King Xuan said, a wax ball was stuffed into the place where the spices should be.

King Xuan crushed the wax ball neatly, revealing an even smaller piece of paper inside.

But Xue Qingyin was so curious that she quickly got close to take a look.

She almost stuck to King Xuan's arm.

But on the tiny piece of paper, it was written in tiny calligraphy: Save me.

Then it was crossed out by the pen and ink.

There was no more.

Xue Qingyin felt very uncomfortable.

It was so heart-wrenching.

Thinking of the pitiful appearance of the little maid imitating the barking of a dog today, she felt even more uncomfortable.