"What else did you think?" Consort Xu De scooped up some sunflower seeds and started cracking one open.
Even though it wasn't very graceful, she didn't care at all.
When she was in the military camp, she would sit on the ground with the soldiers, drinking and eating meat heartily. Having been through all that, she found the people in the palace too pretentious with all their fussy decorum.
At that moment, the two were sitting in a small hall chatting, one cracking sunflower seeds and the other watching. After finishing a handful, she continued with fresh ones.
Lian Hua stuck out her tongue, "Grandma said it was a strategy. I forgot about it earlier; otherwise, I could have just let someone go to Huaying Hall and tell my sister."
She hadn't expected the news to spread so quickly; Xiao Jizi and the others had just returned, and people had already arrived.
