I changed my mind at the last minute.
Such a thought made Xue Ning's smile stiffen, and her eyes darkened a little: "If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince feels that I have disturbed your interest, I..."
"Little Li." Wei Wenqi suddenly spoke up and interrupted her.
A young eunuch behind him also quickly responded: "Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
"Go back to the palace."
The young eunuch swallowed his saliva. Although the situation was embarrassing, he still knew who his master was, so he turned his head and signaled to the people behind him, and everyone immediately made way.
Wei Wenqi did not even look at the Queen again, turned around and left directly, even his back could not hide his coldness and disgust, and the servants he brought with him naturally hurried to follow.
The Queen, who was left behind, bit her lip. She did not say anything, but Xue Min next to her was not so patient: "Sister, how can the Crown Prince treat you like this? You are his biological mother after all!"
Xue Min had not seen the Crown Prince very often, and Xue Ning would not talk much about these things, so today was the first time she saw the Crown Prince treat her sister like this.
The more she thought about it, the angrier she got: "After all, they are not her own children, so she can't be raised well. Sister, you should have your own biological child."
"That's enough." Xue Ning interrupted her upset. She was no longer in the mood to visit the garden and turned to go to the palace.
But Xue Min still kept chattering beside her: "Sister, you have to think more about yourself. The emperor is doting on you and trusts the Xue family now. But this country will belong to the prince in the future. If..."
"Xue Min!" The queen stopped and looked at her calmly. Xue Min was frightened by her glare and stopped reluctantly. But she still felt unfair. What? What she said was obviously reasonable! She couldn't make sense with her sister at all. She wanted to go back and tell her father.
***
Zhou Huailin knew about Wei Yan finding a doctor for Liang Ying after he returned home.
When he returned home, Liang Ying was still making snacks and couldn't show him, so he asked the servants to tell him.
Zhou Huailin said nothing, but just brushed the flour off Liang Ying's nose: "I'll help you."
Liang Ying knew that he was afraid that she was too tired, so she nodded in agreement.
Neither of them mentioned Wei Yan again, and no one took him seriously.
In fact, as early as when she was still in the Zhou family, Wei Yan had been looking for doctors for her. At first, Liang Ying just wanted them to get out, and never let them get close to feel her pulse, let alone cooperate with the treatment.
In the end, it was Zhou's mother who persuaded her: "The doctors found by the emperor must have excellent medical skills. With the emperor's order, they dare not be undedicated. Let them take a look, maybe they can really cure it?"
Liang Ying knew that she was thinking completely for her own sake.
Speaking of Zhou's mother, Liang Ying was originally nervous before they met for the first time. After all, as a future daughter-in-law, she had not formally met him in her family's house for more than half a year and had been staying indoors.
It was impolite no matter how you said it.
She had deliberately applied rouge and powder that day, wanting to make her pale face, which had been decadent for a long time, look a little more rosy, and she also picked a brighter dress.
Then, with a nervous mood, she was held by Zhou Huailin's hand and met his mother for the first time.
Zhou's mother looked younger than she had imagined, but she had a dignified temperament and stern eyebrows. Sitting there, she already gave people invisible pressure.
Liang Ying lowered her head subconsciously after looking at Zhou's mother. At that moment, she actually began to regret that she agreed to Zhou Huailin's proposal. After all, they were not a good match no matter how you looked at it, and no family would accept a daughter-in-law like her. She
also regretted leaving the yard. Maybe she should continue to stay in the room and continue to hide...
Just when Liang Ying was thinking about this, she was held by a pair of hands.
It was a pair of not-so-young hands, with a feminine softness and inexplicably powerful.
Liang Ying could not feel any hostility. She slowly raised her head and saw Zhou's mother's red and moist eyes.
"Is this Yingying?" The woman used a name that no one had ever used before, and her loving voice seemed to be comforting her, "Good child, it's okay." The
heartache hidden in the tears made people feel that she was looking at her own daughter who had been wronged.
Liang Ying's heart suddenly ached, and the grievance came so suddenly.
Later, Zhou's mother said that she was clearly dressed in bright clothes, with a powdered face and red lips that day, but when those dead eyes without a trace of light looked at her, she had only one thought, that this child must have suffered a lot. So much
so that she couldn't stop crying.
Perhaps seeing Liang Ying's helplessness, Zhou Huailin explained to Liang Ying: "My mother is like this, she cries easily."
She looked completely different from her slender and sensitive. Liang Ying seemed to know who Zhou Huailin looked like.
She shook her head. The family she once longed for, the recognition that she could not get no matter how she tried to please, she saw it in this woman she met for the first time.
She told herself that it was okay, and that we would be a family from now on.
The words "family" kept coming back to Liang Ying's mind. The hand that held her and the gaze that fell on her made her feel warm.
