Xiao Langyan pressed his eyebrows and seemed a little tired. He continued: "Let your father find a way to quell these impeachment memorials for her in the court."
"Be more sincere." He opened his thin eyes and warned coldly.
Cui Lianfu finished writing a letter and felt cold all over.
In the past, she just thought that the emperor liked Shen Dingzhu's beautiful appearance, so he was very protective of her.
But now, Cui Lianfu suddenly realized why her aunt Concubine Xian said that Shen Dingzhu was Xiao Langyan's Achilles' heel before she died.
Because he doesn't like her appearance, but he loves her as a person!
Such obvious favoritism makes Cui Lianfu feel hopeless. With Shen Dingzhu around, when will she become the queen?
After she finished writing the letter, Xiao Langyan checked it over and then nodded lightly, allowing her to seal it with paint.
After that, Xiao Langyan had no intention of leaving and returned to the couch to sleep.
Cui Lianfu stood there, not daring to move. Xiao Langyan was so moody in her eyes that she didn't even dare to talk to him anymore.
I really don’t know how Shen Dingzhu usually serves him?
After a while, Xiao Langyan seemed to think of her.
He opened his thin eyes and said, "Go and rest on the soft couch there. I don't need anyone to serve you today, so I'll stay with you for the night."
Afterwards, Xiao Langyan really fell asleep peacefully.
Cui Lianfu thanked her repeatedly, climbed onto the narrow soft couch, and silently rolled up the quilt.
Her tears fell into the pillow, and she felt as if she had swallowed a lot of coptis. She had not lived like this before Shen Dingzhu returned to the palace.
At that time, although Xiao Langyan did not come to the harem, he would not torture her. During the holidays, he would ask her to arrange palace banquets.
The suppressed cry came out extremely weakly from under the quilt.
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Shen Dingzhu didn't see Xiao Langyan for several days. She didn't know how his injury was recovering. She finally asked Chunxi to ask Eunuch Xu Shou, but he was blocked by Eunuch Xu Shou.
Chunxi said: "No matter the reason, Eunuch Xu Shou just said it was okay and told the queen not to worry."
Shen Dingzhu was pruning the flowers on the windowsill and looked at him in surprise: "You haven't seen the emperor either?"
"No." Chunxi finished speaking and lowered his head.
Shen Dingzhu frowned: "Is there anything else you are hiding from me?"
Aunt Song sighed: "Just tell the queen, this is what the queen should know."
Chunxi could only say: "I heard that the emperor just asked Feng Guiren to accompany him to listen to music."
Shen Dingzhu thought for a while and then remembered who this Feng Guiren was. I heard that he was from Xiaojiabiyu, and he was more gentle and pleasant.
Shen Dingzhu nodded: "I understand."
After that, for several days in a row, she could hear that Xiao Langyan had asked different people to serve him, either to polish his ink or to accompany him to listen to music and enjoy the rain.
In the evening, Xiao Langyan went to Cui Lianfu's house.
Half a month later, he was still like this, except that he didn't see Shen Dingzhu.
Gradually, Shen Dingzhu finally realized that Xiao Langyan was probably angry with her.
However, she asked herself that she had never offended him in any way, and she didn't know what he was angry about.
However, one afternoon, Shen Dingzhu had nothing to do and took the palace servants to pick pink jasmine in the imperial garden. Unexpectedly, he happened to meet Cui Lianfu.
After not seeing each other for several days, Shen Dingzhu almost didn't recognize the haggard woman in front of him.
Cui Lianfu's eyes were dark blue and her expression was listless, like a flower wilted by frost. She no longer had the interest in dressing up as before, so she wore simple clothes.
"Concubine Cui De?" Shen Dingzhu called her from behind like a wandering spirit.
Cui Lianfu froze in place as if she was electrocuted. She turned around and saw Shen Dingzhu, trembling with fear.
Shen Dingzhu was surrounded by palace people. She was like a hibiscus, which made Cui Lianfu feel even more ashamed.
She hurriedly said hello: "See you, Your Majesty, I am feeling dizzy and uncomfortable and want to go back, so I will take my leave."
With that said, Cui Lianfu lowered her head and left in a hurry.
Shen Bi stood next to Shen Dingzhu and frowned: "Empress, what's wrong with her? She looks like a mouse meets a cat."
Shen Dingzhu was also confused: "I don't know."
The next day.
The maid next to Cui Lianfu stumbled to Yaoguang Palace to ask to see Shen Dingzhu.
"My Lady! Please save our master, please!"
Shen Dingzhu put down the book, her wide skirt embroidered with auspicious clouds and flowers, and moved quickly across the smooth ground.
"What's wrong?"
The palace maid cried and said: "Just now our master accidentally bumped into Feng Guiren who was accompanying the emperor on a garden tour. Feng Guiren accidentally pushed our master into the lake. The emperor did not order fishing, so we did not dare to help."
"My dear, please, our mistress doesn't know how to swim. If this continues, she will drown!"
Shen Dingzhu's eyebrows twitched, how could Xiao Langyan treat Cui Lianfu like this?
Her current identity is entirely dependent on Xiao Langyan. Logically speaking, she should completely ignore him in order to support all his decisions.
However, Cui Lianfu did nothing wrong, I'm afraid it was the plaster that harmed her.
Shen Dingzhu sighed and said in a majestic tone: "Shen Bi, please change my clothes."
By the Qinxin Lake, Xiao Langyan was sitting in a pavilion, and next to him stood a gentle beauty with low eyebrows and smooth eyes.
At this moment, the beauty had tears in her eyes and covered her sprained hand: "Your Majesty, I'm fine. Please ask someone to bring Concubine Cui De up."
Xiao Langyan glanced at the lake next to him.
Cui Lianfu was soaked all over and was lying on the edge of the lake. No one dared to let her come up without Xiao Langyan's order.
Just now, Cui Lianfu kept begging for mercy and admitting her mistake, but Xiao Langyan seemed not to hear it.
At this moment, she seemed to be running out of energy, her face was so pale that she almost fainted.
Xiao Langyan withdrew his gaze. He did not look at Feng Guiren, but simply said: "She is arrogant. She wanted to hurt you but ended up falling into the water. She should be taught a lesson."
At this moment, Xu Shou had sharp eyes and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, the imperial concubine is here."
Xiao Langyan's hand holding the tea immediately paused in the air, and Feng Guiren raised his watery eyes to look.
A soft sedan chair with floating flowers came quickly.
The curtain was lifted, and Guiren Feng looked straight at the door of the sedan.
At this time, a stunning beauty with delicate white skin and pink cheeks bent down and walked out.
Her figure is both plump and slender, perhaps better than the billowing snow chest, or perhaps the uncontrollable waist, and the palm-sized hibiscus face, which is so bright and beautiful.
As long as she stood there, everyone would look at her unconsciously. She was a beauty among beauties.
Feng Guiren looked at Xiao Langyan's expression out of the corner of his eye and saw that although he pretended not to care, all his attention was glued to Shen Dingzhu.
She secretly tore the veil tightly, cursing the fox-like imperial concubine in her heart.
Shen Dingzhu saw Xiao Langyan sitting in the pavilion, and Feng Guiren standing next to him.
The early summer wind carried the fragrance of lotus, blowing on her face. The black hair beside Shen Dingzhu's ears swayed, and the hairpins in her hair were shining brightly.
She stepped over and glanced at Cui Lianfu when she passed by. Cui Lianfu was lying on her back dying, and she kept saying: "Your Majesty, I don't dare to do it anymore, and I don't dare to do it anymore..."
Shen Dingzhu walked into the pavilion: "I am here to see the emperor."
Xiao Langyan didn't look at her, and just drank cup after cup of tea. His tone was cold and distant: "What are you doing here? If you are interceding for Concubine Cui De, I advise you not to talk too much."
Shen Dingzhu's slender eyelashes blinked lightly, her tone gentle and unchanged: "I came here yesterday to enjoy the scenery and lost a red jade hairpin. I was planning to arrange for someone to salvage it."
"But Concubine Cui De is in the water, and it will be bad if she is hurt, so I want to ask the emperor to show mercy and let me order someone to fish her out, and then fish out my hairpin."
Xiao Langyan sneered: "My Concubine Shen is really compassionate."
Shen Dingzhu knew that he understood her excuse, so she lowered her fair neck and did not refute. Although her posture was delicate, she was tenacious and unyielding.
Seeing that Xiao Langyan didn't speak, Shen Dingzhu took it as his acquiescence, and turned to wink at Chunxi and others.
Shen Bi and the others quickly took action and dragged Cui Lianfu up. Shen Dingzhu took off the mint light green cloak that was used to protect the sun, walked over and helped Cui Lianfu wrap it around her body.
Cui Lianfu's eyes were stunned, water drops dripping down her hair, and she was embarrassed, but she looked at Shen Dingzhu with a blank expression.
It seems that she didn't expect that her dignity would be given to her by Shen Dingzhu.
"Go back, I have arranged for an imperial doctor to be waiting in your palace to take your pulse." Shen Dingzhu whispered.
Before Cui Lianfu could react, she was helped away by her maid.
After Cui Lianfu left, Shen Dingzhu returned to Xiao Langyan.
"Your Majesty, is there anything else you need to do later?" she asked proactively.
Without waiting for Xiao Langyan to answer, Feng Guiren said flatteringly: "Back to the imperial concubine, the emperor has made an appointment with the master of painting to come to the palace to discuss the theory of painting. Do you want to go with us?"
Shen Dingzhu looked at her, her beautiful eyes were dark, and for a moment, she smiled: "Well, since it's unfortunate, I'll take my leave first."
She left Chunxi and the others behind to do some fishing, while she herself returned to the palace in a sedan chair, leaving only a lingering scent of fragrance.
Xu Shou opened his mouth, and finally gave Feng Guiren a helpless look, as if he thought she was stupid, and sighed silently.
Xiao Langyan's complexion can be described as black as ink.
He looked at the small joy and self-righteous victory in Feng Guiren's eyes, and his eyes became even more sinister and terrifying.
"You are very capable. Now you can make decisions for me?" Xiao Langyan's voice was cold.
This powerful pressure, coupled with a fierce aura, made Feng Guiren stunned.
"I don't dare. I just reported the truth to the imperial concubine." She hurriedly lowered her head.
Although Feng Guiren had heard how favored Shen Dingzhu was earlier, Shen Dingzhu did dote on her for a few days when she first returned to the palace.
But what now?
The emperor still did not go to her palace, but ordered himself to accompany her in the garden and listen to music.
Feng Guiren became more courageous and felt that if she fought hard, she would be comparable to Shen Dingzhu.
But now when she looked at Xiao Langyan, the emperor who had just allowed her to push Concubine Cui De seemed to have suddenly changed.
A layer of cold sweat broke out on Feng Guiren's back, and his legs became weak.
