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Chapter 547: The Imperial Concubine is Pure and Elegant (298)

Chapter 547: The Imperial Concubine Is Pure and Elegant (Two Hundred and Ninety-Eight)

Le Chang was sitting in the pavilion drinking tea. When he saw someone coming, he stood up. When he got closer and saw the person's appearance clearly, he immediately smiled and greeted the person excitedly.

I haven't seen my old friend for many years and thought I would never see him again in this life. But now I can meet him again. Naturally, I feel a lot of emotions, especially compared with the Empress back then. Her face is still as bright as before. She wears a light purple smoke-silk dress and a half-high bun. She only has three or four hair accessories, but each one is unique. When she smiles, she is more charming and elegant than when she was young. It is hard not to be surprised that time never defeats beauty.

"Your servant, Le Chang, pays homage to the Empress and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" Qiao Li dodged Le Chang's bow. She didn't acknowledge her position as Empress, so naturally, she wouldn't accept the ritual of bowing to her. Xuan Shi did the same, dodging her, then stepped forward to help Le Chang up. After nodding, he retreated back to his mother.

Le Chang understood their attitude very intuitively, but did not say much. He only asked: "I haven't seen the queen for many years. How has the queen been these years?"

Qiao Li nodded and smiled, "Not bad. How has Manager Le been these past few years?"

"I'm fine, but I'm getting old and my eyesight is failing. I can't see clearly anymore."

Qiao Li observed Le Chang carefully. Le Chang was fifteen or sixteen years older than her. Now in his fifties, the wrinkles on his face deepened and his temples were gray. His smile looked even more kind, but few people would look down on the chief steward beside the emperor.

"I have a prescription for eye diseases. I'll have someone bring it to you later. After you take a few doses of the medicine according to the prescription, your eyes will see much more clearly than they do now." "Thank you very much, Your Majesty."

After the greetings, Le Chang got down to business and invited them to the palace to meet the emperor, and Xuan Yunian was also waiting for them in the palace.

Qiao Li looked at his and his son's attire. It was not formal, but not casual either, so it was certainly suitable for going out. So he followed Le Chang out of the house and got on a carriage to the palace where he had stayed before.

Seeing Liang Sheng again in his true appearance, Qiao Li was still calm. She ignored the excitement and joy in Liang Sheng's eyes. After bowing, she stood next to Xuan Yunian and held his hand with her wide sleeves. After the big hand shook hers back, a smile flashed in both of their eyes.

Qiao Li's attitude naturally made Liang Sheng sad, but as the emperor, he was not so angry as to look down at the handsome young man standing below him and smiled slightly, which made his face, which had just recovered from a serious illness, look a little more energetic.

Just then, a palace servant brought in medicine. Just by smelling it, Qiao Li knew it was a tonifying and detoxifying remedy. Furthermore, it seemed to be a chronic poison, unlike the highly toxic one rumored to have been poisoned during the attack. However, chronic poisons require long-term exposure, and Liang Sheng controlled the entire palace. How could he have been poisoned, unless he had allowed himself to be poisoned?

Earlier, in Zeshui City, Northern Frontier, Liang Sheng had sustained an injury. In their haste, Qiao Li hadn't carefully examined him. Watching him take the medicine, she felt a surge of suspicion, a sense of self-torture. Did he never intend to live? The feelings she had deliberately forgotten since leaving the palace seemed to be playing tricks on her again. A few strands of heartache and resentment welled up in her, but she forcefully suppressed them. What good was the pain?

These were Liang Sheng's own choices. He wanted to torture himself and didn't care about his own life. She felt distressed, which made Liang Sheng feel that there was still a possibility that the two of them might do something she didn't want to see, which would hurt many people.

Qiao Li held her husband's hand tightly, determined to be a ruthless person. She watched in silence as Liang Sheng finished drinking the medicine and talked to his son.

Xuan Shi inevitably felt a little uncomfortable facing his biological father. Qiao Li pulled Xuan Yunian out slowly, giving the unfamiliar father and son some space to be alone.

Liang Sheng clenched the teacup in his hand, feeling a little uneasy, but in the end he did not stop the two from leaving hand in hand.