chapter 88

As they looked, indeed as expected, An Li imperial concubine came up with her perfect makeup and beautiful clothes.

The appearance of An Li Noble Concubine was very delicate and charming. Now to the prime of youth, there was a more mature charm which let her more dazzling, plus her delicate makeup today. Her originally beautiful face forced people to dazzle, which can touch people’s soul.

For a time, needless to say other noble women, even An Suying who was envied by others has been compared to go down. A lot of people in the heart sighed. An Li Noble Princess was the first beauty in the capital city. She was so gorgeous, which equaled to her reputation.

But people quickly found that the imperial concubine was coming alone. Although flanked by imperial secretary, she was not with Queen Xun. Many people were confused and looked at the An Suying. An Suying also felt very strange that when she came out from the house of Lihua, Aunt was indeed to inquire after the queen and also asked her to come over first and then she would come together with the queen.

An Suying soon found that her aunt’s face looked fabulous but the color of her face did not so good. Must she have suffered some grievance at the place of Queen Xun?

An Siying ignored the surrounding noble women and quickly went to An Li Noble Concubine.

“ My aunt, what happened to you?”

An Li Imperial Concubine walked through with a heavy face, and she ignored noble women with a obvious bad mood. An Suying obviously also dared not ask and came up with her hurriedly. An Li Imperial Concubine found a seat to sit down and raised her hand to release noble women who saluted to her. An Suying stood by her side and bent to An Li Imperial Concubine with a cup of tea respectfully and carefully, whispering, “My aunt.”

The imperial concubine didn’t take the sweet tea and growled, “ That old woman didn’t let me into the Fengyi palace and said there was an important guest so I don’t need to go.”

“My aunt, here is the imperial garden, please don’t speak so loudly” Even if An Suying thought her aunt was severe, the queen was always queen. The imperial concubine glared at her uneasy niece, sneered, “ You are careful.”

An Suying smiled and sat down, asking ingratiatingly, “My aunt, how can there be any distinguished guests in Xun’s palace at this time?”

“Are you serious?”

An Li Imperial Concubine increasingly felt that her niece was stupid and said impatiently, “ It is just an excuse for the old woman. She just wanted to embarrass me!”

So it was. An Suying didn’t think of that and was very surprised.

The fabulous face of An Li looked cold, and she suddenly had her eyes sweeping over the surroundings, “How come Nangong Ning hasn’t come yet?”

“No.” An Suying came here first and felt strange when she found Nangong Ning had not come. An Li’s mood was getting worse. Her face was gloomy, cursing in a hateful voice, “This bitch!”

An Suying was a little surprised to look at her aunt like this, because she found that today her aunt was very unstable, which made An Suying inexplicably feel uneasy.

“The queen is coming.” Somebody exclaimed. An Suying lifted her eyes and the expression was frozen suddenly.

“My aunt! She, she…” An Li also followed the voice and found the people who were coming and her expression was shocking.

And others were shocked too.

If they saw Queen Xun, they certainly would not show this shocking expression. Although queen Xun was high and difficult to meet, they saw her before. So it was not a surprise. What shocked them was that Queen Xun was not coming alone but there was a girl following Queen Xun.

The maiden was about sixteen, dressed in a gown of white chimaelas. There was a sea of clouds and crane silver in her sleeves. The sea of clouds seemed to be moving and the cranes seemed to be singing softly among the clouds, making the wearer look like a fairy or a dream.

In addition, the ice crystal tiara on the girl’s head was also radiant under the sun.

Was it a fairy coming down from heaven?

How unique? Here they were!

In addition to the dress of a beautiful white jade dress, the appearance of a young girl was really unique.

Compared with her, this hundred flowers full of the court all seemed to be dim. Even known as the first beauty in the capital city, An Li Noble Concubine can only be considered as a normal flower, not to mention other noble women! But who was this maiden?

Today’s banquet was about the regent. They wore the full makeup for the regent. Although the imperial concubine was a real beauty, she had been the royal imperial concubine. There was only An Suying better than them. But the following was not only more beautiful than An Suying but also crushed An Li easily.

Many of them had forgotten the proper etiquette, but they looked at the beautiful woman as if she were a fairy. And even the nephew and aunt were so shocked that they could not speak. The Queen Xun looked at the scene, her eyes slightly strong and her smile light. She turned her eyes to look at the beauty of the girl in front of her, and sighed.

“Ning, your beauty, even the flowers are sighing for your unique beauty.”

The girl was Nangong Ning.

Today she just sat in the carriage of the regent palace passing through the gate. The queen’s henchmen, Xun Chun, came with the queen’s order to welcome her directly into the palace of Fengyi. He said the queen was waiting for her to be with her into the feast.

Of course she could not refuse, and she could not find Jun Qianye. She thought Jun Qianye would be together with her into the palace, but she had never thought that she even could not find the shadow of Jun Qianye.

“My Queen, you are overrating me,” she said cunningly.

In fact, she was very suspicious of the good will of the Queen, but this dress was prepared for her by Jun Qianye. Although she did not understand the behavior of Jun Qianye, but should he not hurt her?

The Queen gave her a satisfying smile and said, “Come on, follow me”

Two people walked into the entrance and the other noble women were just coming over and knelt down. Even An Li also had to get up and walk to the front of Queen Xun, slightly bent down and said, “ See you, My Queen.” “ Ah, the imperial concubine’s early, it really surprises me,” Queen Xun said with a stiff smile. The imperial concubine’s face got tight. Queen Xun was mocking her; of course she could understand that. Because as long as it was the queen’s place, she would always be late.

With a light smile, she said, “Today is the queen’s flower feast. I will come early for sure.” “Of course, the imperial concubine is always alert.” The smile in queen’s face remained unchanged. There was a lump in An Li’s mind, but she was quickly turning to Nangong Ning, staring at her face. Though An SuYing told her yesterday that Jun Qianye made Nangong Ning a dress which was the best in the world. But today seeing the splendid dress, it was still beyond what she expected.

She wore a strict makeup and came today, so she just did’t want to be outdone by anyone.But now, she was still crushed by Nangong Ning!

She could not wait to go forward to destroy that beautiful face. The first beauty in this city had always been her!

“Miss Nangong is the distinguishing guest in the Queen’s palace.” Looking at the vicious eyes of An Li, she can only try to keep calm, and just with a smile, she said, “ I’ve just come to regard my queen.”

You regarded to her? This old woman didn’t even let me in! An Li got more angry.

“Nangong Ning, you have no title. Even even if you are the young lady of Nangong Family, in front of me, you are not qualified to say I. Your family is so ruleless?”

Then Queen Xun said softly, “An Li, why should you care so much about this? Ning is now the princesss-in-waiting of the regent’s younger brother, equal to you and me. What’s more, when she entered the palace later, the prince’s royal wife was better than you…”

Anli’s face was almost stretched. Xun was saying that she was just a concubine, not as noble as Nangong Ning!

“My Queen, What right does she have to marry into the Regent’s house?”

“Your words are strange. This engagement is given by the emperor, you think the imperial decree is a joke?” Xun’s face was still smiling, but her tone was becoming colder and colder. Anli’s heart was sinking, the old woman was trapping her again! So she couldn’t really go on, or she would have questioned the emperor.

“I didn’t mean that, just…”, “Good!” Queen Xun suddenly interrupted her words, lifting eyes forward across the imperial concubine. An Li was awed by her power, her voice got dumb down suddenly. They recognized that the beautiful girl was Nangong Ning. Although they had also seen Nangong Ning before and they knew she was a beauty, they had never seen her so dazzling.