After being a widow, the empress dowager was favored by the powerful ministers

Chapter 34
Pei Wan assured her with a smile on her face, while Pei Ci, who was beside her, had a serious expression, with a hint of worry in her brows and eyes.

He couldn't help but wonder if it was inappropriate to let Pei Wan enter the palace for a while.

But if she doesn't accept her temper, there will be no one to protect her in the future, and Pei Wan's unforgiving temper will only suffer.

Pei Wan didn't know what was going on in Pei Ci's mind, she just wanted to get off the carriage quickly and enter the palace.

On the carriage, Pei Wan, who was still a bit petty, got out of the carriage, but she seemed to be a different person. She was supported by the maid, her gestures and gestures, her frown and smile, all carried the air of a noble girl.

Compared with those people next to him, he is not inferior at all.

Pei Ci flicked the curtain with his fingertips, looked at it for a long time, and then ordered the carriage to leave in a deep voice.

At this moment, the servants in the palace came in a hurry, and after recognizing the carriage of the Pei family, they smiled and stepped forward, revealing their identity, "Master Pei, the empress dowager has learned that the lord will send Miss Pei here today, so she ordered the servants to send some things. To Master Pei."

While speaking, he handed the things to the guards of the Pei Mansion next to him.

The curtain of the carriage was pulled open, and the guard handed the things in. Pei Ci's eyes fell on the servant, and he recognized that this was Sheng Baoling's servant who had just arrived. He remembered that this person's name was Lisheng.

Pei Ci's eyes darkened, and he nodded slightly.

Only then did the guards of Pei's mansion give Lisheng some money, and Lisheng didn't refuse, and after accepting it, he respectfully thanked him.

No one noticed that he followed the carriage from the corner of his eye until the carriage drove away without a trace.

He didn't know what was in that box, but he had a vague guess in his heart that if he saw it, his life would be lost.

There may be some personal affair between the empress dowager and Mr. Pei.

...

In the carriage, Pei Ci rubbed the sandalwood box with his left hand with his right finger, his eyes were soft and gentle.

After a while, he opened the box, and inside was a jade seal with Pei Xuanjin engraved on it.

The carving is exquisite, it can be seen that the person who made this seal spent a lot of thought and energy on it.

Holding the seal in the hand, the whole body is warm and comfortable, it is the best suet white jade.

The corners of Pei Ci's lips rose slightly, and the hand holding the seal never let go.

There was also a letter inside the box, which was probably a good piece of jade that was found and ordered to be carved into a seal, Xie Peici's copybook, and the paper Luoshen Fu, without a signature.

The seal is not worth much, so I hope you don't dislike it.

The handwriting is similar to Pei Ci, but different.

Compared with Pei Ci's handwriting, Sheng Baoling's handwriting is a little less vigorous and more feminine.

Pei Ci's palm seemed to be warmed bit by bit by this seal, the corners of his mouth were curved lightly, and the soft light in his eyes was undisguised.

If someone else is around and sees it, even if they don't lose their eyes, they still have to be distracted.

After all, Pei Ci suppressed the smile on his face and put away the seal, but there seemed to be a trace of warmth in the palm of his hand.

He caressed the wooden box with his fingertips, lowered his brows and eyes, and his mind was a little heavy...

I seem to be getting more and more greedy.

Even if she got a seal carved by her own hand, she would not be satisfied.

...

Palace
Sheng Baoling, who had just sent Lisheng to deliver things, leaned on the couch, and Jian Jia next to her picked up fruits and fed them to her mouth.

The people in the hall were ordered to go outside to bring those noble ladies over. At this time, there were only two masters and servants in the hall.

"Your Majesty has been working on that seal for a long time, and she was quite troubled. Why didn't your Majesty tell Mr. Pei in the letter?" Jian Jia couldn't help asking.

If Mr. Pei knew about it, he would surely know that the empress treated him sincerely, and he would also be grateful for the sincerity of the empress, and treat her with more respect.

Only in this way can we be of one mind with Mr. Pei, isn't it?

But now the empress didn't say anything, Mr. Pei certainly didn't know that the seal was made by the empress herself, so he thought it was just made by ordinary craftsmen, and the meaning was completely different.

Sheng Baoling smiled, "When you do things, you just know what you want, why do you need to tell me everything?"

It's not that she doesn't know Jian Jia's meaning, it's just that an upright person like Pei Ci should treat each other sincerely, even if she intends to win her over, she can't act too hastily, otherwise it might backfire.

If he knew that the seal was made by himself, he might not accept it.

After a while, more than a dozen noble ladies came to the Hall of Compassion, all of whom were from famous families in Beijing, and their manners could be regarded as dignified.

When she caught a glimpse of a figure in a pink dress, Sheng Baoling raised her eyebrows slightly, and the woman lowered her eyes slightly, as if she was deliberately avoiding Sheng Baoling's scrutiny.

Sheng Baoling didn't look any further.

Among the crowd, Pei Wan looked up and looked up, only to see a woman about the same age as her sitting high above her, with exquisite makeup and dignified and stable clothes, she was slightly taken aback, a little distracted.

Half of this distraction was because of the surprise at Sheng Baoling's outstanding face, and the other half was because of the fact that Sheng Lang and Sheng Baoling were born exactly the same.

The difference is that she is bright, gentle and gentle, and treats others with gentleness and courtesy.

As for Sheng Baoling in front of him, his whole body was filled with the power of the superior. When his eyes fell on the people below, the latter felt a sense of coercion, so heavy that people dared not breathe loudly.

When they came, the elders in the family told them to get closer to the queen mother. They thought that they were all the same age, and getting close was easy.

But now when I saw someone, I realized that it was not an easy matter. The Sheng Baoling in front of me was clearly about the same age as them, but it gave people the impression that she was a round older.

After Sheng Baoling asked briefly one by one, he ordered the palace servants to take these noble girls to settle down.

After they left, Pei Wan and Sheng Baodai were left behind.

Pei Wan was originally in high spirits, but when she saw a girl in a pink dress with her face drooping, she suddenly sank down, curled her lips and muttered in a low voice: "Why is it her!"

The sound was neither loud nor low, and anyone who was close in the hall could hear it.

Sheng Baodai couldn't help but look at Pei Wan, she recognized this person, she was the eldest daughter of the Pei family, but she had already made a marriage with Shen Cong'an of the Marquis of Weiyuan, how could she enter the palace this time?

Sheng Baoling raised her eyebrows slightly, seeing that when Pei Wan said this, she was looking at the girl in the pink dress she had seen just now, and she was a little interested, "Do you recognize that person?"

She didn't expect that Sheng Baoling would talk to herself first, and Pei Wan immediately forgot all her brother's advice when she came here. From the Jin family, Jin Milan."

The granddaughter of the elder Jinge is discussing marriage with the Lou family at the moment, because the matter of the late emperor has not been settled for a long time, but now she is coming to the palace.

Sheng Baoling beckoned, motioning for the two to come forward and sit down beside her.

Sheng Baodai hesitated for a moment, seeing that there should be people from Sheng Baoling around, she sat down with confidence.

Sheng Baoling picked up the teacup, took a sip of the tea, and asked Pei Wan slowly, "You don't like her?"

Pei Wan's eyes flickered, and seeing that Sheng Baoling didn't look displeased, she hummed twice, "Of course my daughter doesn't like it."

(End of this chapter)