C212 (1/2)

Dong Shu never thought that she would be blocked by the Madame Liu again, she was puzzled, after all, this was the palace of the, there were too many people here, why would she do that? Wasn't she afraid of being discovered?

Just as Madame Liu was about to speak up, the Madame Liu who was blocking her path first looked at her and asked, ”I invited you out to meet a few days ago, why didn't you come out?”

Hearing Madame Liu's words, Dong Shu was stunned for a moment before realizing what she meant.

”Your words are funny. You just got someone to send a note without a signature. How would I know who the person who asked me out is?” Dong Shu's tone was sincere; after all, she did indeed think this way after receiving the letter.

Madame Liu had thought of many reasons why Dong Shu hadn't come to see him, but she had never thought that she wouldn't come to see him because of this reason.

She had a complicated expression on her face as she looked at Dong Shu. Before Dong Shu left, she spoke again: ”Qing Xiang Restaurant is a wedding business given to me by my mother, almost everyone in the capital knows about it.”

It was for this reason that the Madame Liu thought that Dong Shu would guess that the owner of the note was her when she said that she would meet Qing Xiang Tower.

Dong Shu really didn't know about this.

However, when she thought of her mother-in-law's stunned expression after seeing the note, she understood that her mother-in-law probably knew about this, but she didn't choose to tell her.

Dong Shu was not angry, after all, she was not close with Madame Liu, and it was for her own good that her mother-in-law did not tell him.

After thinking about it, Dong Shu looked at the Madame Liu and said straightforwardly, ”I don't really know anything about the other women in the capital that the secondary wife should know about.”

Seeing that Dong Shu did not hide his origins, Madame Liu looked at her in surprise and asked, ”You actually do not care so much about your origins? You, don't you feel that your origin is such that your identity is inferior to ours? ”

Madame Liu did not understand that since her mother was a Shu daughter, her father was also a bastard.

Although she was their eldest daughter and father, her life when she was young wasn't too good because her parents were both born from a concubine.

After that, even if she entered the Third Prince Palace, because her parents were born from a concubine, she could only be a side concubine. Her son could only be a concubine.

Now that the Third Prince was going to be adopted, even if there was a throne in the future, it would still be his eldest son, and it had nothing to do with his son.

Although it wasn't that there weren't any concubines in the royal family who sat on the throne, but because she was born in a concubine, her son was not valued by Ye Jingche ever since he was born. Even later on, her son's husband was not a master teacher.

Now that her son and Madame Zheng's son stood together, it was obvious that the two children were different.

Madame Liu felt that the reason her son was in such a situation was entirely because of her birth.

Origin was a topic that she had always avoided. However, she had never thought that Dong Shu would actually be able to speak of this matter frankly.

Seeing Madame Liu acting in such a way, Dong Shu shook her head in confusion. ”I have never felt that my birth was bad. Whatever background I have is given to me by my parents. Father and mother have already given me my life. As for how I will live in the future, it will all be up to me. ” Saying that, Dong Shu paused for a moment before continuing with a smile: ”Perhaps we women do not have as many chances, but doesn't the previous dynasty also have female generals? Was there a businesswoman in charge of the house when I first started the country? As for men, they had more opportunities to study, study, and join the army. They had the opportunity to change their fates. How you are born is only a matter of time. How far you can go in the future will depend on yourself and not your parents. ”

After Dong Shu said all that to the Madame Liu, she no longer bothered with her and directly walked past her into the palace.

When Dong Shu was almost at the entrance of the hall, Madame Liu finally regained her senses. She originally wanted to thank Dong Shu, but she only saw that she had already left.

Turning around, seeing that she had walked to the entrance of the great hall alone, Madame Liu suddenly looked at her back and laughed.

This smile was different from any fake smile from before. It was a true smile that came from the bottom of his heart.

Dong Shu did not know about all this, upon returning to the main hall, she lightly stomped her feet, took off her cape and handed it over to the palace maids, then quickly walked over to Old Madame Xu.

Seeing that Dong Shu was back so quickly, the Old Madame Xu stopped her conversation with Zhang Old Madame and turned to look at her.

”You're back so soon?”

”En, there's nothing else for the Empress to do now.” Dong Shu didn't want to talk about the situation in Empress Hu in front of everyone. After she finished speaking, she looked at Old Madame Xu and said softly, ”The Empress sent someone to tell me that she wants me to accompany her later. Now, let me tell Mother first.”

When Dong Shu saw that Old Madame Xu had just finished saying these words, Old Madame Xu immediately laughed, ”This is the Empress's favor, I still have your sister-in-law by my side. You can rest assured that you will accompany the Empress later.”

To Dong Shu, this was indeed a favor.

Today was the New Year feast after all, and the members of the Imperial Family and ministers were present as well as their families. The reason Empress Hu was able to have Dong Shu accompany them was to support Dong Shu.

Seeing that her mother-in-law was not angry, but actually happy, Dong Shu finally relaxed.

As for the matter of him being blocked by the Madame Liu, she did not plan to tell him that. After all, there were too many people here and there were also people from the Zhang Family.

Not long after Dong Shu returned to the great hall, the concubines in the harem, as well as those qualified to participate in the annual feast, also arrived one after another.