Empress Dowager Dou smiled faintly when she saw this, looked at Lu Qian, and said to Lu Qian, "Xiao Qianzi, you should go back first. It's not peaceful in the outer imperial city recently. If there is any trouble, tell the Ai family as soon as possible... "
Lu Qian cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, the young one has withdrawn."
Queen Mother Dou said a little strangely when she saw Lu Qian bowing and leaving without saying a word.
"Don't you have anything to tell the Yi family?"
Lu Qian naturally understood the implication of Queen Mother Dou's words.
Yu Li's abnormality today must be due to being forced into helplessness.
The instigator behind this is most likely Empress Dowager Dou.
As for why he did this, Lu Qian didn't quite understand.
Maybe to continue testing yourself?
Lu Qian pretended to be stupid and replied, "Reporting to the Queen Mother, I have nothing else to do."
Seeing Lu Qian's performance, Empress Dowager Dou smiled faintly, and then said, "For example, let Shuyang marry into the Japanese country..."
Seeing what Empress Dowager Dou said, Lu Qian felt a little more convinced.
Queen Mother Dou was indeed testing her attitude towards this matter.
"My little one, although I feel it's inappropriate. But this matter is beyond my control... I just want to help the Queen Mother hold a birthday banquet." Lu Qian bowed his body and answered.
Empress Dowager Dou nodded with satisfaction at Lu Qian's answer and said, "Sure enough, he is the person that the Ai family likes, he knows how to measure!"
Lu Qian didn't say much and stepped back.
On the way out, I took a look at the side hall where Concubine Li lived.
Concubine Li must have her reasons for doing this.
What she said just now seemed to imply that she should not cause trouble.
Seeing that Lingwei didn't follow her, Lu Qian didn't wait for her either.
Instead, he left directly. He had some things to figure out.
...
Lingwei wanted to leave with Lu Qian, but Queen Mother Dou stopped her.
"Lingwei, you must keep a close eye on this little Qianzi these days. You must tell the Ai family exactly who you have met and what you have said." Empress Dowager Dou said to Lingwei.
Lingwei nodded in agreement, and then said to Queen Mother Dou, "Queen Mother, is there something wrong with him?"
Empress Dowager Dou narrowed her eyes slightly and said, "The Ai family just wants to see if this little Qianzi is a human or a ghost!"
Although Lingwei didn't quite understand it, seeing that Empress Dowager Dou was unwilling to say more, she didn't ask any more questions!
...
Lu Qian left Kunning Palace and went straight to Yangxin Palace to find Gao Weixin.
Gao Weixin was not surprised at all when he saw Lu Qian coming.
Before Lu Qian could speak, Gao Weixin said
"Eunuch Lu, you are finally here! You said you wanted to change the menu for the birthday banquet... Now, we have changed it. Come and take a look."
He said and gave Lu Qian a wink.
He followed Gao Weixin to a room, and then said to Lu Qian, "Lu Qian, you should be here about Princess Shuyang, right?"
Lu Qian nodded and said, "Why don't you advise His Majesty?"
Gao Weixin said with a grimace, it turned out that His Majesty did indeed say that.
However, Gao Weixin knew that the people in Liyang Palace were Lu Qian's pain point.
So I thought of many ways, and also found many people in private to follow the emperor's advice.
The emperor finally gave up the idea of replacing Ningping with Shuyang.
Let the Huo family find a way to either make the Japanese prince give up, or marry Princess Ningping.
I thought this matter would just pass.
Who would have thought that Queen Mother Dou and Concubine Li came to see Your Majesty early this morning.
Concubine Li kept saying that Ningping was of noble status, while Shuyang was of low status.
Letting Ningping marry her would be detrimental to the country's prestige, so it would be more appropriate to let Shuyang marry her instead.
After saying that, Queen Mother Dou said that he had received reliable news.
Wan Gan pulled the small countries in the Western Regions and various small countries in Nanyang.
The country wants to cause trouble for Daxia.
The Japanese prince yesterday was a precursor.
Queen Mother Dou said that she had not yet figured out what their exact plan was.
So before that, we can't anger those small countries.
Don't make the Huo family angry!
If something goes wrong with the Huo family, the fall of Daxia is not far away.
To avoid causing chain effects.
After Xia Jiuyuan finished listening.
Naturally, he was eager for this, so he agreed immediately.
Listening to Gao Weixin's words, Lu Qian also roughly understood Empress Dowager Dou's intention.
Lu Qian said to Gao Weixin, "Eunuch Gao, please help me find out if the Huo family came to see the Queen Mother last night? Or did the Queen Mother come to see the Huo family?"
Gao Weixin seemed to have guessed something, and said to Lu Qian, "Are you suspicious that the Huo family and the Queen Mother have united?"
Lu Qian nodded and said, "That's right! Although the Queen Mother asked me to help him, she didn't believe me at all..."
Gao Weixin nodded and said he would investigate.
Lu Qian said, and then said to Gao Weixin, "By the way, didn't I ask you to bring Qiangwei over? Why don't you come in..."
Gao Weixin said, "Qiangwei has a face from the Western Region and is very eye-catching when entering the palace... I just wanted to find the right time."
Lu Qian nodded.
...
After Lu Qian returned to the Outer Imperial City, Lingwei had returned.
Wait at the door.
"Xiao Qianzi, where have you been? You came out before me, why are you coming back now?"
Looking at Lingwei's look, it was obvious that the Queen Mother followed him and said something.
Because Lingwei would not ask so anxiously before.
As he spoke, Lu Qian took out a recipe and said, "Isn't this the birthday banquet recipe that I asked Eunuch Gao to watch and change? We discussed it..."
Lingwei was very alert and took the recipe, read it, and then nodded.
Seeing this, Lu Qian quickly pretended to be aggrieved and said to Lingwei, "Miss Lingwei, does the Queen Mother have any misunderstanding about me? Why do I feel that the Queen Mother does not trust me..."
Seeing Lu Qian's appearance, Lingwei quickly comforted her and said, "Don't think too much... The Queen Mother may just want to test you. Just do your thing well, and the Queen Mother will definitely see your sincerity. Don't worry, as long as You are devoted to the Queen Mother, and I will tell the Queen Mother truthfully."
This Lingwei is still careless.
She was really loud-mouthed, and she directly told the Queen Mother's intentions.
Apparently the Queen Mother heard something again...
However, Lu Qian didn't care.
In the outer imperial city, the palace ladies were rehearsing intensively.
Lu Qian was still worried about Shuyang, but Lingwei was following closely.
I tried to shake it off several times, but couldn't shake it off at all...
Until the afternoon, a young eunuch next to Gao Weixin came over with a recipe.
"Eunuch Lu, this is an improved recipe based on what you just said."
Before Lu Qian could take it, Lingwei took the recipe and started checking it.
Although she is a loudmouthed person, she is extremely thoughtful.
Compare these two recipes.
Fortunately, Gao Weixin is also a careful person, and the names of the dishes have indeed been changed.
He gave the recipe to Lu Qian.
Lu Qian found the small note inside according to the agreement between the two people.
It's written clearly above.
"Last night Huo Xiaolin sneaked into Kunning Palace late at night!"
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