"The Queen Mother, please intercede for this old slave! This old slave was punished like this by Your Majesty because he was doing things for you!"
After Yan Xiu left with Zhu Sijia, Aunt Zhao knelt at the feet of Queen Mother Zhang with a look on her face.
She has been serving in Zhangtai Palace for many years. Previously, the Queen Mother was the only one in the harem, and any rewards would be sent to Zhangtai Palace first. Queen Mother Zhang was so generous, and they and the others in the palace naturally benefited from it.
So many years of leisurely and contented life in the palace had already worn down her bones to the point of being vulnerable to heavy blows.
But Yan Xiu made her kneel for a whole year. She was already over fifty, and she had to go to Changle Palace to kneel for three hours every day for a junior. She was ashamed of herself. This kind of punishment was even worse than killing her. !
However, Queen Mother Zhang gently kicked her away: "As a slave, your life belongs to the master. If I ask you to kneel down, it won't cost you your life."
She looked at Yan Xiu's fading back, narrowed her eyes and said, "I wonder if an idiot like Zhu Er will be easily impressed by His Majesty's little trick."
"The reason His Majesty is so angry today is not because the Aijia is making things difficult for the woman he likes. It's because he thinks the Aijia's hands are stretched too far, and he is unhappy."
After all, Yan Xiu is no longer the little boy who needed her to sit behind the curtain and listen to politics.
He has never been an obedient son.
His desires are growing day by day, and his ambition is growing day by day... One day, the control of this imperial city will completely fall into his hands.
"Why don't you go to Changle Palace? Do you have to wait for that foxy thing to continue provoking in front of His Majesty before you accept your fate?" Empress Dowager Zhang didn't even look at her, and scolded Aunt Lin with her backhand, "Take the lives of the noble ladies of Xijing City." The list is sent to Zhangtai Palace."
"No, the Ai family wants the entire Great Qin."
I wish Scarlett better luck if she doesn't want to be used by her.
Inside Changle Palace.
The air pressure around Yan Xiu was extremely low, so much so that the people in the palace did not dare to take a deep breath, and they could all whisper to each other while cleaning the palace.
Zhu Sijia changed into thick clothes in the dormitory. Seeing this, she smiled and said: "You guys should step aside first. It's enough for me to serve Your Majesty here."
For a moment, Yan Xiu and Zhu Sijia were the only two people left in the hall.
Before Zhu Sijia could sit across from Yan Xiu, she was pulled over by him, and the silk fabric on her legs was rustled up by him: "Do you want some medicine?"
"I'm fine!" Zhu Sijia was so frightened by him that her voice suddenly rose to the top of her voice, and she said with a forced smile, "I didn't kneel for long today, and His Majesty came to save me. There will be no bruises."
She held Yan Xiu's hand and straightened her skirt.
Yan Xiu agreed with her and smiled bitterly, more with helplessness: "I am useless. If I can be like the emperor's grandfather, why can't I even protect my own woman?"
Zhu Scarlett had never seen him look so frustrated.
He is the one who is sure to win in the hunting grounds, the one who is at ease on horseback, the one who is high-spirited at the falconry meeting, and the one who will be awe-inspiring in Yu Nei in the future... Zhu Sijia has seen them all.
Therefore, Yan Xiu is even more precious when he loses something.
Zhu Sijia sat on his lap, hugged his waist, pressed her forehead against his chin, and said in a soft and sweet voice: "How can your majesty be useless? When your majesty ascended the throne, I was still counting sheep in the village in the north. The group is here.”
"Your Majesty has been masterful in both literature and martial arts since childhood, and the emperors and masters of the three dynasties have been full of praise for you. When you were sixteen years old and went east to conquer the Qi army, your Majesty's battlefield legends were spread everywhere in the twelve cities in the north. At that time, I I'm thinking in my heart, this emperor's brother is really the most outstanding man in the world."
"Brother Tianzi?" Yan Xiu listened with his ears pricked up, but he heard this sentence most clearly, "It sounds very nice. Please tell me a few more words."
The person's little mouth speaks sweetly.
A few words can dispel the haze from him.
Zhu Sijia didn't expect that her nonsense words could make him grasp the point. If she really wanted to scream out loud in the day, wouldn't Yan Xiu be ashamed?
But when she looked up at him, the expression on Leng Yu's finely polished face could not be more serious.
It was as if he wouldn't give up if he didn't hear her say those four words today.
Zhu Sijia's thin fingers on the back of Yan Xiu's waist wrinkled his dragon robe. She cleared her throat, and after a moment she negotiated terms with Yan Xiu and said, "Your Majesty, please make an agreement with me first. You will be happier." I’ll call you that again, my concubine.”
Yan Xiu's expression remained unmoved: "I will only be happy if you call me."
Zhu Scarlett: "..."
When Yan Xiu saw her face full of embarrassment and her eyes wandering wildly, he laughed out loud, and the clear laughter echoed in Changle Palace: "I won't tease you anymore, let's get down to business."
"Are you satisfied with your stay in Changle Palace? Your promotion ceremony will be held in nine days. If you need anything, just ask me."
Zhu Sijia was astonished: "The ceremony for the promotion of Jin?"
Yan Xiu said: "Well, it's my decision."
Since it was his decision that no one could shake, Zhu Sijia had become accustomed to not refuting his actions. She hesitated and said, "Did Your Majesty go to Qintian Supervisor to make calculations and choose an auspicious day?"
"What are the auspicious days of the zodiac?" Yan Xiu sneered at officials like Qin Tianjian, "I only believe in the theory that man can conquer heaven."
He said that any day is auspicious.
After Yan Xiu finished speaking, he remembered Zhu Sijia's past. Didn't she leave home at a young age because of the accusation from the Qin Tian Prison?
Sure enough, the light in Zhu Sijia's eyes dimmed inch by inch: "I'm so abrupt, I just care too much about these things..."
If you're a good person, don't let him cry again. He doesn't have much experience or patience in coaxing people.
Yan Xiu really had nothing to do with her, so he explained angrily: "If you hadn't wanted to hold a wake for your maid, it should have been held today. I sent Li Woyun to pay an audience, so I went to the Imperial Study Room first."
As soon as he let go of Zhu Sijia, Zhu Sijia hooked her arms around his neck and pecked his chin gently. A warm and soft touch came, followed by a gentle kiss:
"Your Majesty, go quickly, don't keep Master Li waiting."
I have been coveting his jaw for so long, and today I finally felt what it tastes like.
The area where Yan Xiu was kissed by her seemed to start to feel hot and numb, an indescribable feeling.
A bit of crimson crept onto his cheeks. If he hadn't had something to discuss, he would have wanted to return it tenfold, to her plump and flawless snow cheeks.
She was obviously still in a state of distress just now, so why did she suddenly have the strength to kiss herself again?
Women are more difficult to understand than the Bible.
Yan Xiu was still puzzled when he walked out of Changle Palace. He touched his face all the way back to Taiji Palace.
Changle Palace was empty.
Zhu Sijia called back the palace servants who had just retreated to continue cleaning, and prepared to go back to the bedroom to catch up on some sleep.
She stretched herself and was thinking about everything that had just happened. Yan Xiu...why was he so easy to deceive in some aspects?
She couldn't bear it anymore.
Before she even touched the bed, the palace maid came to report again: "I would like to express my congratulations to Jieyu, and Princess Zhenzhen would like to see you."
Zhu Sijia's sleepiness was swept away: "The one from Beiliang? Why is she also in the Great Qin Palace?"
In the main hall of Changle Palace, a group of Beiliang people dressed in Qin costumes carried in boxes of gifts, while Princess Zhenzhen warmly invited Zhu Sijia to take a walk in the Imperial Garden.
I wish Scarlett had visited the Imperial Garden several times and went happily.
After arriving at the Imperial Garden, she discovered that not only the two of them were there, but Yan Xing's biological mother, Princess Chen, was also there.
