After leaving Zhangtai Palace, Yu Xin followed Zhu Sijia and walked side by side with her.
The two got to know each other through Hua Ben. When Yan Xiu was away from the palace, Yu Xin took the initiative to visit Changle Palace every now and then, and Zhu Sijia often returned visits with gifts.
Their relationship has become much closer.
"The Queen Mother's move is really insidious. She clearly wanted to take the opportunity to cause trouble, but she naturally pushed it onto you."
If Empress Dowager Zhang hadn't learned that Zhu Sijia was co-managing the Sixth Palace and taking away the power from her hands, would she have suddenly resumed the ancestral system of asking for greetings every day?
This rule was abolished by the third empress of Qin a hundred years ago.
Spring and Autumn are okay, but if we encounter winter and summer, especially this winter, how can we suffer the spoiled concubines in the palace?
Zhu Sijia looked around: "Chief Minister, be careful, we haven't left Zhangtai Palace yet."
Yu Xin didn't care: "So what if I hear it? If you want to kill me or cut me into pieces, it's up to you. It's just a pain for Jieyu. They will definitely hate you even more for what happened today."
Zhu Sijia said calmly: "Hate as much as you want, there are only one or two people in the palace who hate me."
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Since the last time Yan Xiu had a cold war with Zhu Sijia, he didn't come to Changle Palace for several days.
Zhu Ya was busy doing business during this period and rarely had time to stay in the palace with Zhu Sijia.
The weather has warmed up slightly today, but not much. Zhu Ya will successfully resolve the issue of purchasing a restaurant and give herself a long-lost holiday.
Although she was not in Changle Palace, she was still aware of any disturbance in Changle Palace. Seeing Zhu Sijia being indifferent and acting like a normal person, she was more anxious than anyone else:
"Jieyu, why don't you go and coax His Majesty?"
Zhu Sijia was very busy because of the Laba Banquet. The money given by the Ministry of Internal Affairs was not much, but the expenses and ostentation should not be too messy. There were too many old accounts that she needed to clear.
"Coax?" Zhu Sijia asked her while immersed in sorting out the account books, "How can I coax? I lost such an important thing. His Majesty is angry and he must not want to see me."
Yan Xiu's sight of her would only increase his worries. It would be better for her to wait until Yan Xiu's anger dissipated before appearing in front of him again.
Zhu Ya snatched the account book from her hand: "I can also read the account book, and I will help you read it! Listen to what I say, your majesty needs your care exactly at the time. How can you do the opposite and avoid it?"
Zhu Sijia: "Care? It would be great if Your Majesty doesn't punish me. How can you care about me?"
Zhu Ya: "This... Jieyu, please forgive me for being presumptuous. Before you entered the palace, no one taught you that if you make the person you like angry, you should take the initiative to apologize and make the person happy. Problem?"
Zhu Sijia smiled and said: "Where did I get the person I like? No one has ever taught me these things."
Zhu Ya: "My servant is boldly teaching you now. Don't be afraid of your Majesty's punishment. Your Majesty clearly has you in mind, so he took the initiative to give you a step down."
"If Your Majesty really didn't care about you, he would have found any reason to never see you again. How could he fulfill his promise and let you help manage the harem?"
Zhu Sijia listened to Zhu Ya's words, rubbed her sore wrist, and thought carefully.
Yan Xiu, will he fall for her? Will he be someone who needs to be coaxed? Ever since he was little, the whole world has been coaxing him. Will he be indifferent to these methods?
Zhu Ya directly pulled Zhu Sijia to the makeup mirror:
"It's too late to think about so much, Jieyu, if you don't mind it, how about I let my slave do the makeup for you? A woman wants to please her own appearance, so if you dress up beautifully and go to see His Majesty, even if he doesn't say it on the face, he will feel the same in his heart. Will be very happy.”
"What's more, if you think about it carefully, what kind of pearl has your majesty not seen? What does he lack most? If you sincerely want to apologize, you should accompany him to do the things he likes to do, such as making tea with him around the stove, Read history books and military books for him."
Zhu Scarlett felt that this plan was feasible, so she closed her eyes with confidence: "Okay, I believe you, you can put on makeup for me."
Except for some occasions when makeup is required, Zhu Sijia chooses to keep her face bare most of the time. Yan Xiu can count the number of times she has seen her put on makeup on one finger.
Rather than repeatedly applying various colors of makeup on her face, she prefers to take care of her skin from the inside out, which is why she maintains this delicate and smooth look.
When Yan Xiu was intimate with her, what he liked to do most was to interlock his fingers with hers and smell her faint body fragrance repeatedly.
Thinking of this, Zhu Sijia's face quietly turned hot. Zhu Ya, who was standing aside, saw through it without saying anything, covering her mouth and laughing silently.
Zhu Ya's hands were nothing short of miraculous. If you look closely, her face didn't seem to have changed much, but the rouge was really applied under her eyes and at the end of her eyes, making her look beautiful and beautiful.
After Zhu Ya put on her makeup, she called Aunt Zhong to tie her hair and change her clothes.
Zhu Sijia stood in front of the mirror, checked it over and over again, and then walked out of Changle Palace.
I don’t know if Yan Xiu will like her, but she likes it very much.
She went to Changle Palace empty-handed. Last time she carried a food box, but this time she didn't even carry it, for fear that the delicacies would freeze if left to cool on the road.
The main door of Changle Palace is closed.
Hu Shunhai stood under the eaves and relied on the stove to keep warm. When he saw Zhu Sijia approaching, he didn't even recognize her. He reacted and stopped her:
"Zhu Jieyu, His Majesty has decreed that no one is allowed to enter or leave the Tai Chi Palace."
Zhu Sijia's smile and the snow on the eaves were frozen together by Tian'er. She hesitated and asked, "Is it anyone?"
Hu Shunhai couldn't bear it, but he had to tell him: "It's anyone."
Zhu Sijia wanted to give him some money and ask him to be accommodating, but Hu Shunhai stayed away and whispered:
"Your Majesty is discussing important matters with all of you adults in the palace. I would like to ask Jieyu to retreat first. I will inform your Majesty of Jieyu's thoughts after the matter is over."
An inexplicable soreness surged into his throat, making it a little more difficult to speak.
Is this what it feels like to return without success?
She had made all preparations to see Yan Xiu, and was even prepared to let him handle her and not get out of bed today, but he was busy with political affairs and did not see outsiders.
Zhu Sijia suddenly felt that there was no difference between her and the concubines who came to Tai Chi Palace to ask for trouble.
Are there any special cases? Even she would be rejected by Yan Xiu.
Zhu Sijia refused to give up and insisted on waiting for Yan Xiu outside the palace. Beifeng slipped into the gap in her collar, making Zhu Sijia shiver from the cold.
Hu Shunhai was so anxious that he could not help but said, "Jieyu, it's windy outside. You should go back to Changle Palace first. Your Majesty should take the old slave to task for your frozen body."
Zhu Sijia sniffed: "Please rest assured, father-in-law, this is my own decision, and I will never drag you into the water, father-in-law."
Hu Shunhai finally told the truth: "Oh! This old slave is not afraid even if his head is chopped off by your majesty. To tell you the truth, what your majesty and the others are discussing is the assassination of your brother Wu Xingbo on the road."
"It won't help if you stay here. It's better to go back to Changle Palace and deliver some medicine to Wu Xingbo! He is seriously injured. The imperial doctor in the palace came one after another. I heard that it stopped half an hour ago. Blood!"
