Fragrance Returned

The carriage arrived at the Donghua Gate of the palace in half an hour, and then transferred to the palace carriage.

The chariot stopped outside Kunning Palace.

Xunxiang looked around. Even if the wind and snow blocked her view, she could see that this place was very similar to the Forbidden City in her previous life.

Majestic and magnificent...

Dongyang led Xunxiang into the main hall.

An old woman in her late fifties wearing apricot-yellow palace makeup came forward with the support of palace attendants.

She is the Queen's grandmother.

As soon as Xunxiang knelt down, Queen Ye held her in her arms and cried.

"Poor child, I am so lucky that I can still see you. What a danger, you almost died in the hands of those evil people..."

She cried very sadly.

Xunxiang already had a paranoid love for her grandma, and when she fell into this warm embrace, she cried in her arms until she burst into tears.

Dongyang and the palace people on the side tried to persuade him.

After crying for a while, Queen Ye sniffed, held Xunxiang's face and said, "I can smell it. It was this fragrance when I hugged Xiangxiang. You are my direct granddaughter...

"Damn old Su, and that bitch surnamed Gu, stole Xiao Xiangxiang and gave us a fake... Poor little guy, he narrowly escaped death. He has suffered all these years..."

Queen Ye sat on the Arhat bed, pulled Xunxiang to sit beside her, and hugged her tightly. Xunxiang also lay obediently in her arms, letting her love her as much as she could.

Xunxiang could feel that this grandma really loved her. Unlike Dongyang, who loves very deliberately and does something to show maternal love.

Queen Ye asked Xunxiang about her life in the countryside, and Xunxiang told her everything. The words are simple and childish, and there is no special emphasis on how the Ding family treats her well, but you can still hear the Ding family's dedication to this child.

Especially Grandpa Ding Zhuang, many of his interesting stories made everyone present chuckle.

For example, she is paranoid about princesses and consorts, how she brags that she wants to be Feng Suzhen's top female candidate, how she thinks she is thin, and only feeds her delicious food with the door closed, while the two little brothers eagerly suck their fingers outside the door...

"Oh, Grandpa Ding loves to drink. His nose will turn red when he drinks too much, and he won't listen to any advice. One time Xiangxiang got really angry, and he didn't talk to him for several days before he calmed down..."

When talking about being unhappy, Xunxiang still pouted and frowned.

Queen Ye cried and laughed at the same time.

"Thank you, my dear relatives, thank you my dear relatives... Xiao Guozi, go get a stick of century-old ginseng and give it to your dear relatives to replenish your health when Xiangxiang leaves the palace."

At this time, Queen Ye did not look like a majestic queen at all, but like a kind grandmother.

She really looks like my grandma in her previous life.

Xunxiang was even more moved. The ancients sometimes called relatives as well as in-laws. This meant that the Ding family were regarded as serious relatives.

She thanked Grandpa Dingzhuang.

The Ding family still has a piece of good ginseng, and Feifei may even get some good Ganoderma lucidum in his mouth. He must not tell anyone about it. That is a top secret between the Ding family and himself.

It's not that I don't believe in the Queen's grandmother, but I don't believe in the people around her and other royal people.

From now on, I would occasionally make some tonic soup and serve it to honor her and the emperor's grandfather, hoping that they would live long, long, long, long, thousand, thousand, thousand, thousand years old.

While they were talking and laughing, the eunuch suddenly shouted from outside, "The emperor has arrived."

All the palace people knelt down on the spot, and the room immediately became silent.

A bright yellow figure walked in.

Dongyang and Xunxiang also knelt down.

Queen Ye stood up and knelt down, "Your Majesty."

Emperor Qingguan came to stand in front of Xunxiang and helped her up with his own hands, "flattening her body."

The voice was calm, with unquestionable authority.

Xunxiang stood up.

Emperor Qingguan was in his early fifties, tall, thin, with a gray beard and deep nasolabial folds. His expression was serious, but his eyes showed care.

He still felt sorry for his lost granddaughter.

Xun Xiang Nuo Nuo called out, "Grandfather the Emperor."

The emperor stretched out his hand to hold Xun Xiang's face, looked at it, and said, "Good boy, you have suffered."

Xun Xiang's tears welled up in her eyes, she sniffed her nose, looked at him with admiration and said, "The emperor's grandfather was wise, God's blessing, and the courtiers are capable, so I found my granddaughter for you."

A faint aroma spreads.

The emperor took a sniff. The aroma was quiet and elegant, with a hint of sweetness, which was the smell from many years ago. Eleven years have passed since I held him in my arms and smelled it again. The child narrowly escaped death and returned here.

The look of pity in the emperor's eyes was even greater, and he took Xunxiang's little hand and sat on the Arhat's bed.

The emperor and empress sat down, and Xun Xiang kowtowed to them again.

"My granddaughter Xiangxiang pays homage to the emperor's grandfather. May the emperor's grandfather live long live."

"My granddaughter Xiangxiang pays homage to the emperor's grandmother. May the emperor's grandmother live a thousand years."

He behaves gracefully, speaks eloquently, and speaks the most sincere blessings in the simplest language. Both the emperor and the empress like him very much.

This child is well taught, no worse than children from wealthy families.

The two gave Xunxiang a meeting gift.

The emperor gave him a light green bead the size of a table tennis ball. After thinking about it, he took out the top-quality Panlong jade pendant hanging from his waist and hung it on one of Xunxiang's plates with his own hands.

The eunuch Qin Eunuch next to him had his eyes fixed.

Xunxiang didn't know what the big bead was, but she knew that the emperor's gesture was a "favour", so she bowed her knees and thanked him.

Dongyang looked at the piece with envy in his eyes. There were no more than ten luminous pearls in the palace. She had asked for them when she was a child, and her brothers, sisters, nephews, and nieces all asked for them, but without exception they never got them.

Today the emperor gave Xiangxiang one.

This is compensation, and even more, it is a favor.

Dongyang is still happy to be able to reward his daughter.

Queen Ye's smile stretched wide. Only her descendants have this special reputation.

She smiled and said, "Your Majesty took out all the luminous pearls from the bottom of the box. Xiangxiang is blessed."

Only then did Xunxiang realize that the bead was a luminous pearl.

She quickly knelt down to thank her, "Xiangxiang, thank you for your love, grandpa, the emperor."

Queen Ye gave her five golden pearls as tribute from the Kingdom of Siam.

The emperor smiled again and joked, "The queen took out all the golden pearls from the bottom of the box and she said something about me."

Queen Ye was very happy, "Xiangxiang is my direct granddaughter. The emperor is so generous, how can I be stingy?"

The conversation between the old couple does not look like the emperor and the queen, but just like an ordinary old married couple.

Grandma Queen does have her own tricks.

Xunxiang knelt down again to thank him. I sighed in my heart, what a perfect heroine. As soon as I entered the palace, I asked my grandparents to take out the treasures at the bottom of the box.

The queen's greeting gift also surprised Dongyang. The queen only had eight of these golden pearls. She had given two to herself and one to Xunfeng before, and today she gave the rest to Xiangxiang.

Dongyang blushed a little. The emperor and the queen all brought out the best things for their daughters, as if their own gifts were a bit ordinary...

Xunxiang presented his filial piety separately.