In the afternoon, when Nian Shilan followed Yinzhen back to Nian Mansion, Nian Xialing and Nian Xiyao were already waiting at the door.
Nian Xialing and Nian Xiyao greeted Yinzhen and let him go to the main hall to drink tea.
Nian Shilan walked through the front hall and walked to Mrs. Nian's bedroom. The little maid guarding the door quickly opened the door and asked Nian Shilan to come in.
When the two aunts and two concubines saw that Nian Shilan was back, they all withdrew knowingly when they knew that mother and daughter had something to say.
Nian Shilan greeted her mother and sat beside her bed, but her face was rosy and she didn't look like she was ill.
Mrs. Nian then said: "Lan'er, mother doesn't know how you are doing in the palace. Although I often hear your letters saying you are safe, I want to see you in person."
Nian Shilan held her mother's hand: "Mom, it's true. If you want to see me, just send a message. But to say that you are feeling unwell makes your daughter very worried."
Mrs. Nian smiled, and the mother and daughter talked for a while. Mrs. Nian said carefully: "Lan'er, what did you do to avoid Zitang last time? It's because the prince didn't treat you well. ?"
"Mom is worrying too much. The prince treats his daughter very well, but now that Fujin's eldest brother has died and is no longer pregnant, the daughter does not want to have a child to compete with her." Nian Shilan said, looking at her mother.
"Although you are Xi Fujin, I have wronged you after all. My Nian family's daughter cannot become the legitimate wife." Mrs. Nian shed tears as she spoke.
Nian Shilan was startled. She remembered that in her previous life, she met Yinzhen Qiuwei at the hunting ground. At that time, he admired her arrogance and bravery, and she admired his prowess.
She was full of joy when she became his concubine.
Only later...
Nian Shilan came back to her senses and smiled at her mother: "Mom, please don't be so sad. My daughter and the prince are happy with each other. Although she is a side minister, there is nothing unhappy about my daughter being in the prince's palace."
The mother and daughter talked for a while and at the end of Shen Shi, Nian Shilan got up and went to the front hall, thinking about returning to the palace with Yinzhen.
As soon as I walked to the door of the backyard, I saw Nian Zhilan, the concubine of the late concubine Qi Niang, coming from the front hall with a shy look on her face.
Nian Shilan remained calm until she walked up to her concubine, and she was shocked to realize that it was her eldest sister in front of her.
Nian Zhilan put away her shy look and stepped forward to greet Nian Shilan: "Sister Wan'an."
Songzhi looked at Nian Shilan and said to Nian Zhilan: "Miss Third, I think the wife recently took leave and went home? How come no one taught Miss Third the rules of saluting Fujin."
Nian Zhilan was stunned, and was about to kneel down when he realized it, but Nian Shilan waved his hand to stop.
Nian Shilan looked in the direction of the front hall and saw that Yinzhen had already stood up and was waiting for her to leave, so she left without saying anything.
Nian Zhilan bit her lower lip when she saw Nian Shilan left. Suddenly, she thought of Prince Yong's glance at her when she served him tea just now, and felt that the girl's heart was filled with love.
Nian Shilan was sitting in the carriage thinking about something.
Yinzhen was riding on his horse. On the way, a eunuch came to report that there was something going on in the palace and asked Prince Yong to enter the palace immediately.
Yinzhen arranged his bodyguards and asked Haosheng to protect Xi Fujin when he returned home, and then he entered the palace.
When Nian Shilan returned to the palace, it happened to be dinner time. Nian Shilan ate alone, and Songzhi came in and said that Mrs. Hu wanted to see her.
Mrs. Hu knelt down as soon as she came in: "Greetings to Xiang Fujin. My former master has come to see me, and I have already followed what you asked Miss Songzhi to tell me."
"Be good. Although you used to serve Fujin, you shouldn't help her harm me." Nian Shilan took a sip of tea and did not call Mrs. Hu.
Mrs. Hu continued to kneel: "I am really helpless."
"Okay, get up. Get your uncle settled, and I'll keep him safe." Nian Shilan rubbed his temples with his scallion-like fingers, looking a little tired.
Seeing this, Mrs. Hu resigned and left the house. As she left, she looked back at the plaque of Jinglan Courtyard.
On both sides of the plaque are two poems, written
"Through experience, one still knows things well, and when one reads people, one is like reading a river."
