"Madam of the State of Yan!" Warm and gentle, Song Yishang smiled as she greeted her sister-in-law, "Two days ago, Her Majesty the Empress sent someone to deliver many things to me. Among them, I liked a few items the most, which were said to be given by you. I'm truly grateful beyond words!"

  She spoke in Mandarin, her voice as clear and sweet as herself, refreshing to the lungs and intestines, but with a hint of a foreign accent between words.

  Song Yi Xiao had never thought of herself as the most beautiful woman in the world, but she did think that the four words "flower-like beauty and moon-like face" were suitable for her. Yet at this moment, she was intimidated by Rong Guang's gaze, and became slightly distracted!

  "It's just as well that I had already made it clear to Jian Xuebai earlier, or else she would have seen such a stunning beauty and how could she not be extra careful?" She thought to herself, secretly pinching her palm before smiling and saying: "Shu Ren is too polite, this small token of intention wasn't worth putting your mind to!"

  Looking at her frail appearance, he couldn't help but add a sentence, "Madam's body is not in good health, don't overexert yourself because of us!"

  A warm and gentle woman showed a faint smile: "We Wuhuan women don't have the good fortune of being confined to the boudoir like those in Central Plains! Let alone having a difficult labor, even if we give birth to children, three to five days later we'll be back to work, it's normal. I can already move around now, it's just that being alone in the house feels suffocating, so I'm too lazy to get up!"

  "A good person is in their prime, and the future is long. Please put your mind at ease!" Song Yi Xiao understood her meaning, which was to hope that she would stay and chat with her - but Song Yi Xiao was afraid of being dragged into the intrigue of Emperor Xian's harem, so she pretended not to understand and politely said, "We won't disturb you from resting, we'll take our leave!"

  As he spoke, Nie Wu Xuan was still staring at Nangong Sangmu in a daze, then turned around and left.

  Nanshu Ren looked at her, his lips moving slightly, wanting to persuade but unable to find a reason, his eyes suddenly dimming.

  The peerless beauty's worried look was especially endearing, and Song Yi couldn't help but glance at her, almost stopping in her tracks. Fortunately, she still had some sense left and steeled herself to walk out - just as they were leaving, Nie Wu Xian suddenly changed her mind: "Fourth Sister, I think this Wan Shu person is quite pitiful all alone like that; since neither of us wants to play in the snow anyway, why don't we go back and keep her company?"

  "If the warm and gentle person was fine, that would be okay." Song Yi smiled to herself, thinking you're really a little girl who doesn't understand things. This warm and gentle person is something that happened on Qiu Jie, and now it's only been five days, even if it were a clever woman, the postpartum confinement has just begun【note】, she can already get up and walk around with someone to support her, and between the lines, it also shows that the Wu Hu people have strong physiques——with such a good body, would they easily have a miscarriage?

  It's definitely a dirty trick!

  But the inner palace still hasn't revealed even a hint of news, and it's all being treated as if this small incident was caused by Nuan Shu's own weak body - Heaven knows what Nuan Shu would say to them now.

  But these words are not easy to say now, so Song Yixiao just said, "What she needs most now is rest, how can we disturb her?"

  Lowering his voice even further, "Besides, this is the imperial harem. What if Your Majesty happens to come over and visit her..."

  Nie Wu Yan finally stopped and sighed: "I just hope that good person will get better soon - she's really beautiful!"

  Song Yi Xiao heard the words and pursed her lips, not speaking: If it wasn't for the fact that both of her biological nephews had been captured by the Wuhuan for several years, or that the entire royal family of Wuhuan had died at the hands of Da Rui, how could Emperor Xian Jia possibly take in the former Fei Nuan princess as a concubine?

  The former would certainly not satisfy the two princesses, and the latter would put himself in danger - Emperor Xian was not a foolish ruler who couldn't move when he saw a beauty. He did this because Princess Fei Nuan was so beautiful that it was hard for people to give her up.

  "But this virtuous woman looks only a year or two older than me, and just over a year ago she was still in Wu Huo as a golden branch and jade leaf. Now, not only is she far away from her hometown, but all her relatives have been executed, and she herself has become a deep palace prisoner!" Song Yi smiled and praised the beauty of the virtuous woman, while also feeling some sympathy for her, "I don't know whether her miscarriage was due to someone's sinister plot or excessive worry."

  As they pondered, they had already returned to where they left before. Just as they walked out of the woods, a snowball came flying towards them!

  Song Yixiao was startled and hastily dodged, but then saw Su Shaoming, who had taken off his fox fur coat and was only wearing a brocade robe, bending down to continue making snowballs: "Haha, I've finally found one!"

  Upon hearing this, Song Yi smiled and quickly scanned the surroundings, only to find that whether it was Princess Yushan and others who were just building a snowman, or people chatting in twos and threes watching from the sidelines, they had all disappeared.

  It was the nearby tree shadows and artificial hills that clearly hid human figures. Looking at Su Shaoming's actions, who wouldn't know that when she left with Nie Wuying, they changed to playing snowball fights?

  "It's fine to meet other people, but why did I have to run into Miss Su Liu?" Song Yi smiled and realized that everyone had changed the rules, suddenly feeling a headache. "If it were someone like Sister Xie, it would be tolerable, but this Miss Su Liu is a troublemaker!"

  When it comes to being casual, Song Yishiao is not a conservative person. The princess has already taken the lead, and temporarily throwing away her demeanor doesn't matter much.

  But these days she was afraid of cold and didn't suit running around, how could she play snowball fight?

  "Su Liu, don't throw snowballs yet!" Song Yi thought to this point and decided to privately tell Su Shaoyan about her own situation, letting her go find someone else to play with. As she spoke, she walked towards Su Shaoyan, "I have something to say to you!"

  She had no choice but to do so: although all the women who came to Lanqiugong today were female relatives, such private matters could not be publicly shouted out, and of course they could only be whispered in each other's ears.

  The problem is that although she knew Su Shaoming was a fiery and impulsive person, she still underestimated her playful and reckless side!

  Su Shaomiao blinked her eyes and smiled: "Okay! You come over, I'll listen to what you have to say."

  Song Yi had just walked up to her, hadn't even opened his mouth, when she suddenly hugged him with lightning speed, pressed him down into the snow, and laughed loudly: "Think you can deceive me? No way!"

  Defenseless Song Yi laughed: "!!!!!!"

  Not far away, Nie Wu Xian and others: "!!!!!!!!!".

  Nie Wu Yan had just invited her sister-in-law to accompany her to change clothes, and personally saw Jin Xun take the Ai Cao package. As a woman, how could she not know about Song Yi Xiao's current situation?

  She saw her sister being pressed into the snowy ground, and the girl's face turned green! Almost rolling over and crawling past, she pushed Su Shaoyang hard: "Are you crazy!? Let go of my fourth sister!"

  Su Shaomiao didn't know what was going on and couldn't help but get annoyed: "We agreed to have fun, why are you being so petty?!"

  "I've been inconvenient for the past two days, Miss Su Liu. If you want to have fun, please find someone else!" Song Yi smiled and sat up with a heart that was about to spit blood, "I just walked in front of you to tell you this!"

  "Why didn't you say so earlier?" Su Shaoming was stunned for a moment, then reacted and realized that she had misunderstood. However, to save face, she smiled wryly and said, "Or I'll accompany you back to Mingguang Palace to pack up?"

  With such a commotion, the people hiding around also discovered that they had clashed, and quickly spread the news. Princess Yushan and Duchess Qingjiang heard the news and couldn't just sit back - the two happened to arrive at this moment, asked about the situation, and Duchess Qingjiang blamed Su Shaoyang for being muddle-headed: "Even if you think Fourth Brother and Sister are deceitful, do you have to push people into the snowy ground? Are you really fighting a war?"

  Yu Shan Gong Zhu didn't want to say "Zhen Xiao Gu Niang" was bad because of Su Shao Ge, so she interrupted and said: "The most important thing now is to see if Song Biao Sao is hurt or not?"

  Qingjiang Junzhu didn't mention Su Shaoyao anymore, and instead surrounded Song Yixiao to inspect her. She immediately discovered that her sister-in-law's skirt was half-soaked with snow and frowned: "You'd better hurry up and change your clothes! Otherwise, in this icy weather, the cold air will get into your body!"

  "It's too far to go back to Mingguang Palace, why not let Madam Song go to Pinglan Pavilion first to borrow a bathroom, and the maids will bring over the clean clothes from Mingguang Palace?" Just as Princess Yushan was about to speak, the palace maid behind her interrupted, "Otherwise, if Madam Song walks out of Lanqiu Palace wearing this wet dress and then goes all the way to the side hall of Mingguang Palace, she will not only feel uncomfortable but also catch a cold!"

  The palace maid made this suggestion, but not entirely for Song Yixiao's physical well-being, mainly still for self-protection - Princess Yushan bringing everyone to Lanqiugong to build a snowman today was already quite inappropriate, and later changing it to a snowball fight was even more so. If as a result of this, one of the first-grade officials contracted pneumonia or fell ill, afterwards the princess would probably just receive a few scoldings, but these palace maids on either side would definitely be made into scapegoats - what kind of good outcome could they have then?

  Although most people in the room had seen through the palace maid's intentions, her words also struck a chord with Qingjiang Junzhu: "If a woman accumulates coldness, it will affect her fertility..."

  Although it's common for men to have three wives and four concubines these days, children born to the legitimate wife are still different - not to mention her brother and sister-in-law have such a good relationship! The Jian family also has Jian Limo who refused to remarry or take concubines after his first wife passed away, who knows if Jian Yuxi will follow in his uncle's footsteps?

  It has something to do with whether her younger brother can have an heir, and the mistress of Qingjiang County also manages the outer ladies-in-waiting who go to the palace concubine's residence to borrow a bathroom. Anyway, from the Empress Dowager to Emperor Xianjia to the Empress, none of them will bother with such trivial matters.

  He immediately decided: "Pinglan Pavilion is a small place, and it's not very convenient for Warmth to come. With so many of us going together, I'm afraid we'll scare her - how about this, Fifth Sister you accompany Fourth Brother's wife over there, just say what I said, and ask Warmth if we can borrow the bathroom, I'm sure she won't refuse!"

  A warm and gentle person would never refuse!

  She was still depressed about not being able to keep Song Yixiao, but the person who had just left for a short while came back again. To say nothing of Qingjiang County's words, even if there were none, she would definitely be extremely welcome!

  Listened to Nian Wu Yan roughly said what happened, and immediately ordered it down.

  After a while, the palace maid of Pinglan Pavilion prepared the bathroom and came to report.

  Everything was going smoothly until the servant sent by the young lady of Qingjiang County arrived with a change of clothes and found out that she was taking a bath. Out of consideration, he said: "I've just come in from outside, I'm all wind and snow, I'm afraid if I go into the bathroom, I'll freeze Song Furen!"

  "Qin Ye, you go and deliver it to Mrs. Song!" Nie Wu Xiang was about to let her maid Wan Xiang take over the clothes, but before she could speak, Nuan Shu Ren had already instructed a palace maid - she didn't think much of it and just said a few words of apology and thanks.

  But when Song Yi Xiao heard the knock on the door, she remembered to grab her long hair to cover her arm. Unfortunately, she only considered Qin Ye's perspective standing at the door and didn't expect that Jin Xun had water on his hands from helping her bathe, so he asked Qin Ye to help bring in the clothes rack.

  As she walked in, Qin Ye put down the clothes rack and turned to bow and retreat. When she lifted her head, she happened to see a point of bright red among Wu Ya's long hair, like fire and blood, dazzlingly beautiful.

  How could people in the palace not recognize the guardian of the palace?

  Qin Ye was shocked and almost lost her composure on the spot, hurriedly lowering her head to cover up.

  Note: After checking, Xiaoyuzi's doctor suggested that she should not get out of bed for two or three days, and it seems that she can get up in five days. However, this should be the physical condition of modern people. In ancient times, everyone was a lady who did not leave the house, so let's assume they would lie down for seven or eight days.