The Queen Mother turned her gaze to look at her.

Han Rui met the angry and puzzled look and nodded.

"After all, I did something wrong in this matter. It was just a kowtow in private, and I thought it was harmless."

"absurd."

The Queen Mother slapped her hand on the small table, and the deafening sound frightened everyone in the palace to kneel down.

"Mother, please calm down, son. I just feel guilty. She lost her life. I just knelt down and kowtowed."

"The Ai family thought you had made progress, but unexpectedly you became even more confused. Your majestic Princess Protector kowtows to a lowly woman. Where is your royal dignity?"

Han Rui muttered and didn't know how to answer, and she was also asking herself whether it was the right thing to do. At first she thought it was, but now she really doesn't know, especially when faced with Ling Xin's request again.

It seems that he can't get the land of Bashu, so what will he do?

Her heart was in a mess.

"You kowtowed, and he stopped there?"

The Queen Mother's cold words hit her again, and Han Rui subconsciously felt a chill running down her spine.

The Queen Mother understood everything from the look in her eyes.

"What a Marquis of Jingguo, who tramples the royal family's face on the soles of his feet, what a Marquis of Jingguo."

One sentence seemed to drain the Queen Mother's energy. She stood up unsteadily. Han Rui tried to help her, but she quietly dodged away.

"You go back."

"yes."

She left the palace respectfully, without even mentioning Ling Xin's request. The Queen Mother's heartbreak and grief when she learned that she knelt down to kowtow to Liu Rumei made her dare not speak out at will.

After returning to the princess's mansion, she ate something hastily and fell asleep immediately, but in the middle of the night she felt feverish all over.

It was already dusk when she woke up the next day, and Yanzhi cried with joy when she opened her eyes.

"Princess, you have finally woken up. The imperial doctor has come here several times. You are already weak. You ran around all day and worked hard yesterday, and now you have a fever."

Han Rui smiled weakly and sat up as Yanzhi served her, "How's the situation with the Marquis?"

Yanzhi avoided her eyes and brought her a bowl of porridge, "Princess, you have something to eat."

Han Rui didn't take the bowl of porridge, even though the aroma was so fragrant that it made her drool.

"Princess, let's eat porridge first."

Rouge pleaded.

"Has the Queen Mother summoned the Marquis into the palace?"

"Princess, your health is important. The late Emperor can rest assured that he will leave this country to the Queen Mother and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty. Why does the princess have to work so hard?"

Yanzhi put the porridge down and cried out sadly.

Seeing her losing her composure, Han Rui swallowed the reproachful words in her throat.

"But the deposed prince has arrived in Xuancheng. The situation is critical and we cannot wait any longer."

"The Marquis has already set off for the war."

Rouge finished speaking quickly, as if he breathed a sigh of relief.

"What did you say?"

Han Rui suspected that she heard wrongly.

Yan Zhizhong picked up the bowl of porridge again and carefully fed her with a spoon, "Yesterday after the princess left the palace, the Marquis was summoned to the palace. In the morning, Liu's funeral was held, and then the Marquis immediately went to war."

"How could it be? He clearly made a request?"

She let Yanzhi stuff a spoonful of porridge into her mouth and muttered to herself, but the next second she jumped up from the bed, looking anxious, "Hurry and arrange the carriage, I am going to enter the palace." Yanzhi did not dissuade her.

Okay, I went down silently to make arrangements.

"It's a lie that he wants to reconcile. The land of Bashu is his real goal. Ling Xin, you are so despicable."

She walked around the room barefoot, her pale face sometimes angry, sometimes annoyed.

A maid came in to help her change clothes, and she impatiently pointed at something.

"Hurry up, I'm in a hurry."

The maid who dressed her had to give her a simple bun, and then put on her two golden hairpins with dongzhu in their mouths.

When Rouge came in again, she motioned to the maid to get a cloak and put it on her.

"Princess, arrangements have been made."

Han Rui took the lead and Yanzhi followed quickly.

When they arrived at Zhaoyang Palace, the Queen Mother and the Young Emperor were having dinner again.

The young emperor saw her coming in and happily greeted her to have a meal with her.

The aroma of a table of delicious food immediately sent the hunger in her belly straight to her cerebral cortex. She felt weak all over and quickly sat down holding on to the table.

Someone from the palace quickly brought more dishes and chopsticks.

After finishing the meal, she felt much better.

The young emperor had schoolwork every evening, so he said a few words after dinner and then left.

The Queen Mother took a sip of tea, raised her head and looked at her daughter, "You don't look well, so stay in the palace for a few days and let the imperial doctor take care of you."

She never mentioned Marquis Jingguo.

"The Queen Mother promised him?"

Han Rui asked instead without answering.

The Queen Mother looked at her face with a very distressed expression, "Yesterday when you entered Gong Ai's house, you guessed that he had other demands. The land of Bashu is naturally dangerous, but if this country belongs to others, who will follow the land of Bashu?

What’s our relationship?”

She looked sad and wiped the tears from her eyes.

"The deposed prince has been raised by the Ai family since he was a child. The Ai family and the late emperor know his character very well. I originally thought that it would be difficult for him to hold a big position and that it would be good to be an idle prince. Unexpectedly, he has actually come to this point."

A person suddenly appeared in Han Rui's mind and said hurriedly: "Mother, Cousin Can is familiar with military art, so he may not be able to take on big responsibilities. Mother should give him some experience."

Ling Xin has gradually revealed his fangs, and he has to guard against it and slowly cultivate good generals who can lead troops.

The Queen Mother showed a pleased smile, "Yes, this time Ling Xin goes on an expedition, the deputy commander is Jiang Can."

"Is there any other tasks that the Queen Mother has given to Cousin Can?"

She always felt that the Queen Mother had some backup plans, otherwise she would not have agreed so easily, so she asked tentatively. Only when she asked the question did she realize that her face was suffocating and her eyes were staring at the Queen Mother closely.

The Queen Mother's face darkened slightly, "Curui, your father is no longer here, and the Ai family has to protect the country for him. You can go down and rest."

Returning to the Churui Palace before leaving the pavilion, the flowers and trees in the palace are all sprouting green buds, complementing the spring flowers in the imperial garden.

All the old people serving in the palace were still there, and they were all happy to see her back.

Yanzhi helped her into the room, and as soon as she sat down, a guest came.

"Second sister, you didn't even look for me when you returned to the palace. I miss you so much."

A woman in pure red clothes rushed in. She was very gorgeously dressed, especially the dazzling golden hairpin with a butterfly spreading its wings on her head.

"Third sister is here, sit down quickly."

The third princess is the daughter of Princess Shu, who is more than one year younger than Princess Churui and has not yet left the palace.

"Yesterday I heard that the second sister was poisoned. I wanted to go to the princess's house to visit the second sister, but the state affairs are busy, so I can't disturb the queen mother."

As she spoke, she quickly took a wooden box from the palace maid behind her and opened it. Inside, there was a fine ginseng lying on a white velvet cloth.

"I'm not as favored as you. I don't have anything good to give you. Please don't dislike this ginseng, second sister."
Chapter completed!