BXBX NOVEL Chapter 153 - A Hot Potato
Chapter 153: A Hot Potato
All of them lowered their heads, afraid that the Emperor would hand over the task of persuading the Guang Pingwang to take back the Tiger Talisman to them.
Nalan Chen’s face turned ashen as he ended the court meeting.
He gloomily swept his gaze across the officials who were bent like shrimps and his expression turned even upset.
He flung his sleeves and returned to the imperial study.
Gu Ruoyun had just returned to Guang Residence when the people in the imperial palace posted a notice announcing the crime of Zhaoyang.
This was Nalan Chen’s goodwill but Gu Ruoyun did not express it.
Su Yan suddenly received an invitation from the imperial consort, Consort Xian.
When Nalan Chen had been the crown prince, he had only had two concubines and no imperial consort. Hence, there was no empress in the imperial palace at this moment. The imperial consort, who had been promoted from two concubines, managed the harem together.
The two concubines were Consort Xian and Consort Lan.
Consort Xian’s mother clan was more powerful so her status was slightly higher than Consort Lan’s.
Su Yan looked at the invitation and felt a little strange.
Gu Ruoyun told her what he had done and Su Yan nodded in understanding.
Su Yan arrived at the imperial palace according to the time on the invitation.
The eunuchs’ attitude was clearly different from the last time she had come. Perhaps they had been influenced by their master and were more respectful.
The eunuchs sent Su Yan to the imperial consort’s residence.
Consort Xian ordered the people waiting at the door to welcome Su Yan as soon as they saw her.
She said with a smile, “Princess Consort Guang Pingwang is finally here. My master can’t wait any longer. My master has been talking about wanting to meet you, so he found the opportunity.”
Su Yan smiled and did not say anything. She followed her to the bedroom.
The entire layout had the demeanor of a scholarly family. Consort Xian was indeed the descendant of the third generation of pavilion elders.
Consort Xian sat on the main seat. Su Yan bowed to her and was quickly helped up by her.
Her expression was very intimate.
Only then did Su Yan size her up. Her appearance was like a jade from a small family, exquisite yet lacking in grace.
Consort Xian looked at Su Yan’s face and said with a smile, “Everyone says that the daughter of the Su family is a fairy-like figure. Seeing you today is really true.”
Su Yan replied with a smile, “Consort Xian is also a famous talented girl.”
Consort Xian’s smile gradually deepened as she chatted with Su Yan as if the invitation of that day was as simple as chatting with her.
Su Yan did not expose it and smiled in agreement.
This process could be said to be extremely boring.
Until the eunuch outside the door said, “The Emperor has arrived!”
Consort Xian stopped speaking and stepped forward to welcome the Emperor.
Su Yan could only follow suit.
Nalan Chen walked in and saw Su Yan and said in surprise, “I didn’t expect Princess Consort of Guang Pingwang to be here.”
Consort Xian cut in at the right time, “I also like Princess Consort Guang Pingwang very much, that’s why I invited her to the palace.”
Nalan Chen smiled and said, “The music played by Princess Consort Guang Pingwang at the last banquet is still fresh in my memory.”
The person who was chatting with Su Yan was directly replaced by Nalan Chen.
Consort Xian added a sentence or two. The atmosphere was very lively.
Su Yan cooperated with them to stall for time, but she didn’t know what they were going to do?
A sound suddenly came from outside the door. Jin Tong ignored the servants’ obstruction and directly walked in.
When she saw Su Yan, she went up to greet her in surprise.
Nalan Chen and Consort Xian looked at each other, the expression in their eyes was not very good.
Jin Tong directly used the excuse that she had something to do and took Su Yan away.
Nalan Chen gritted his teeth and let them go.
After leaving the door, Su Yan asked, “What exactly happened?”
Jin Tong curled her lips in disdain, “These two people wanted to stall you and create the illusion that you were kidnapped. They wanted Guang Pingwang to bring troops to find you so that they could return the soldier talisman to him.”
Su Yan did not expect them to think of such a shameless method.
She asked again, “How did you know?”
At this point, Jin Tong sighed and looked at Su Yan enviously. “It’s all because of your husband. He is waiting for you at the palace gate. He asked me to bring you out.”
Su Yan smiled.
Jin Tong said again, “An Yi, that blockhead, why can’t he be more like his master?”