There is a black lotus in the deep palace

Chapter 286 Just a Sister
When the room was settled, Li Dequan brought a few maidservants up.

"Master, these are the people we brought here. They are agile, loyal and reliable."

While speaking, Li Dequan peeked at Dong Xianglan, muttering in his heart: The emperor has not entered the harem for several years, and the masters and wives have never been treated like this.

Although the person in front of her is not as good looking as the empress and the masters of the harem, she is the daughter of the emperor's wet nurse, Nanny Dong, who played with the emperor when she was a child.

This kind of affection is unmatched by anyone.

Not to mention that Madam Dong died for the first queen, the emperor felt guilty in his heart, and would treat Miss Dong kindly, plus this chance encounter in Jiangnan, such a fate is unmatched.

Tsk tsk tsk, counting the successive affections, it's no wonder that the emperor doesn't even care about the empress, and all his heart is on this Miss Dong.

Judging by the emperor's attitude, it seems that he intends to make Miss Dong his master.

But this is nothing unusual, the empress has been in the palace for many years without going out, and she still wants to occupy the emperor from entering the harem. It is inevitable that the emperor is in his third year and has no children. Unreasonable.

If Miss Dong could enter the palace to accompany the emperor, she might soon be able to give birth to an heir for the emperor. Even if the empress knew about it, she might not be able to say anything.

Thinking of this, Li Dequan's attitude became more respectful.

Xia Houjue looked at the maids and nodded, "From now on, you will be Miss Dong's people, so you must serve them wholeheartedly."

"Yes!" Several maidservants saluted well, without saying a word of unnecessary words.

Dong Xianglan looked in horror at the four maidservants who were saluting in front of her, and hid back again and again in fright.

"You guys... get up quickly" These people are so well dressed and behave so dignifiedly, why should they salute to themselves, this is absolutely unacceptable.

"Well, young master, you should let them go back. I don't need a maid. I can do laundry and cooking. I'm here to work. I..." She was very embarrassed.

However, Xia Houjue's heart ached even more. Back then, Nanny Dong was a loyal person who protected herself wholeheartedly and won the trust of the queen mother. She thought that Nanny Dong would always work in the palace, but no one thought that she would end up like this.

Madam Dong shouldn't have ended up like this, and her daughter shouldn't have ended up like this. The dead can't be chased, but the living can be especially good.

Since God let him meet Dong Xianglan, it means that the fate is not yet over. Dong Xianglan is his baby sister, and he will take care of her as his own sister to repay the kindness of Madam Dong's nurturing.

"From now on, you don't have to wash and cook anymore. I am your baby brother. If you don't dislike me, you can recognize me as a righteous brother. From now on, I will take good care of you, and it is not in vain for Madam Dong to treat me well."

"Ah?" Dong Xianglan blushed and lowered her head, wringing her fingers at a loss, no one noticed the flash of joy in her eyes, not even Xia Houjue.

"Then... thank you brother Yi!"

After Dong Xianglan settled down, Xia Houjue returned to her room and saw Tang Wanning reading a book. The table was in a mess, as if she had just finished lunch and hadn't had time to clean it up.

"Wanwan?" He sat by the table and picked up the bowls and chopsticks she had used.

Tang Waning ignored him, and he called again.

"Wan Wan?"

"What are you doing?" Tang Wanning glanced at him angrily, her tone full of coldness.

"You got the book upside down."

Tang Wanning: "..." She was speechless for a while, feeling very embarrassed, she quickly turned the book back, thought about it and then turned it back again, and said arrogantly and confidently.

"I just like to look backwards. Do you have any opinions? Hold on if you have any opinions!" As he spoke, he gave Xia Houjue a hard look.

Xia Houjue looked at her little face flushed with anger, but didn't speak, just picked up the bowl and chopsticks and ate her left half bowl of rice with a half-smile.

"You don't think it's dirty." A certain person still blushed a little bit embarrassed.

"What's dirty? How could my Wanwan be dirty, and how could I despise you?"

"Then when I'm in my seventies and eighties, don't be disgusted with me~"

"Okay!" Xia Houjue agreed heartily.

Tang Wanning had nothing to say, and she didn't put on any pretense anymore. She just threw away the notebook, jumped off the soft couch and came to the dining table, staring at him domineeringly.

"Then Dong Xianglan, what are you going to do? Are you treating her..."

"You finally asked." Xia Houjue put down his chopsticks and looked at Tang Wanning gently and affectionately.

"You really! You won't tell me unless I ask you?" Thinking of Xia Houjue's heartbroken look at Dong Xianglan, she was so angry that she wanted to flip the table.

"Okay then, since you have asked Wanwan, I have to tell you that I plan to take her back to the palace"

"What??" Tang Wanning felt a pain in her heart, as if the knife that had been hanging on her heart for a long time finally fell down, it hurt and stabbed, and blood flowed all over the ground.

Xia Houjue glanced at her and continued: "After all, she and I are breast-feeding brothers and sisters. Mother Dong was implicated and died. I owe her too much. Although her status is low and she cannot be named a princess, she can at least be named a female official. She will leave the palace in the future." I will give her a marriage and find a good marriage for her, which is also worthy of Madam Dong."

As soon as Tang Wanning heard the words "looking for a good marriage", all the knife, blood, and heartache in Tang Wanning's heart disappeared.

"So you want her to be your younger sister! Why didn't you say it earlier, I thought you wanted her to enter the palace as a concubine, I even thought about the title, it's really a waste..."

Xia Houjue: "..."

Seeing her narrow-minded face, obviously relieved but still trying to pretend to be a pity, he gave her a bitter smile and let her go.

"I've always regarded her as my younger sister. Where did you think?"

To put it bluntly, they are children who grew up with the same mother's milk. If he really fell in love with Dong Xianglan, it would be... a chaotic wheel?
Cough cough, Xia Houjue feels that he is not so perverted yet, a younger sister is a younger sister, and will always be a younger sister.

As a woman, it is natural to be jealous.

Although Xia Houjue really only regards Dong Xianglan as his younger sister, Tang Wanning still has a vague hostility when facing Dong Xianglan at dinner because of her first impression.

For example, he intentionally got close to Xia Houjue, deliberately smiled and asked her to call him sister-in-law, deliberately acted like a master, and waved his hand with a big smile.

"You're welcome, just treat this as your own home, and we will never leave you alone wherever we go in the future."

Listen, does this sound like what a sister-in-law said to her sister-in-law?Xia Houjue smiled helplessly, but didn't say anything, and could only let her go.

After meeting Dong Xianglan in Huai'an Mansion, Xia Houjue and his party did not stay too long. They set off directly from Huai'an Mansion two days later and headed towards Yangzhou Mansion along the river embankment.

(End of this chapter)