"Why did the Emperor come without telling you in advance? The Queen didn't sleep well last night. She just squinted for a while and didn't pay attention to what was going on outside. Really, how come those palace maids and eunuchs are on their errands? The Emperor didn't even announce his arrival. Has the emperor been waiting outside for a long time?"
The Queen Mother felt uneasy and asked tentatively.
Seeing the Queen Mother's disheveled appearance and loose bun, the Emperor raised his lips sarcastically and walked around with his feet up.
The adulterer was nowhere to be seen, so he must be hiding somewhere.
"My son has just arrived, but it's not the right time to disturb my mother's rest."
The emperor's tone was calm and there was no hint of emotion or anger, but it made the queen mother even more flustered.
She knew the emperor. The more angry he became, the calmer he became. Just like a volcano on the eve of an eruption, he only waited for an opportunity before he would erupt violently.
The emperor walked around in the hall, and the queen mother's nervous eyes also followed, showing no intention of paying any attention to Liu Man.
[Okay, I am invisible, you can’t see me, you can’t see me! 】
Liu Man touched her nose in embarrassment and took a few steps back silently. This was a war between the Queen Mother and the Emperor. She was a little noble, so it was better not to get involved.
Liu Man didn't notice that behind her was a wardrobe made of red sandalwood carvings of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea.
In the process of retreating, she suddenly bumped into the closet, which scared Liu Man's breath. She seemed to hear unusual movements in the closet!
[Is Huaiyong hiding in the closet behind me? Aren't affairs generally supposed to be hidden under the bed? 】
Liu Man was just thinking about how to remind the emperor when she saw the emperor spreading his long legs and walking straight towards her.
"What is your Majesty doing? Do you think there is a thief in my palace?"
Seeing the emperor suddenly walking towards Huaiyong's hiding place, the Queen Mother finally couldn't maintain her calm and stood up suddenly and shouted.
Liu Man took a sensible step and moved aside so as not to delay the emperor's inspection of the wardrobe.
[The Queen Mother is right, there is a flower picker. 】
"There is no need for the queen to be angry. It's just that I heard that a rat in the sewer hid in the Shoukang Palace and came to check on the queen. It would be bad if the rat disturbed the queen."
The emperor opened the wardrobe door forcefully, and several piles of clothes were neatly placed inside, with no sign of being tampered with at all.
How could there be no one?
The emperor's brows furrowed tightly, Liu Man's heartbeat clearly told him that Huaiyong was hiding inside, and there was no mistake.
Seeing that the emperor found nothing, the Queen Mother breathed a subtle sigh of relief.
"I've checked, but there's nothing in it. Can Your Majesty be relieved? Why don't you tell the Ai family who is the uneasy and well-intentioned person who has ulterior motives and deliberately destroys the relationship between our mother and son."
The Queen Mother had been pampered for many years and had a majestic aura. At this moment, she raised her eyelids and looked at Liu Man fiercely, which was really a bit bluffing.
But under the pressure of the Queen Mother's power, Liu Man still looked slightly moved. Looking carefully, she seemed to be speechless.
[I didn’t say anything. It was all your son’s fault. Why are you watching me? However, where is Huaiyong hidden? I clearly feel that there is something unusual about this cabinet. 】
System: [Host, Huai Yong is hiding in the dark room under the cabinet, trying to find a way for the emperor to find it. There are many good things hidden in that dark room. 】
Liu Man was a little curious about what good things the Queen Mother hid in the basement.
"The Queen Mother misunderstood the Emperor. The Emperor was just worried about the safety of the Queen Mother and was a little anxious. However, I seemed to have heard some noises in the closet just now. The Emperor is a man and wants to avoid taboos, so let me come and take a look.
If something dirty really got in and stung the Queen Mother, it would be bad. "
Liu Man pretended to hold back her fear, but because the Queen Mother was willing to take risks, she gently turned over the Queen Mother's clothes with trembling hands.
The Queen Mother opened her mouth to stop her, but saw the Emperor's unkind expression and closed her mouth.
That's all, after all, that Liu Guiren doesn't look smart, and he probably won't be able to find the entrance to the secret room. As long as nothing is found, the emperor can't convict her easily.
But what the Queen Mother didn't expect was that Liu Man reached out and touched back and forth in the closet. She didn't know where she touched it, but she saw the cabinet suddenly trembled.
Click——
A tunnel suddenly opened at the bottom of the cabinet!
Liu Man stretched out her hand in a panic and said uneasily: "My Queen Mother, please forgive me, I accidentally touched a bulge and pressed it out of curiosity. Unexpectedly, the cabinet suddenly started to shake."
[This old woman is really treacherous. She placed the mechanism in the box where she keeps her pants so that no normal person can find it.
I never thought that one day I would end up touching the panties of a sixty-year-old woman. 】
"Idiot, you...what are you touching with your dishonest hands! You don't understand any rules. Didn't my nanny teach you the rules before entering the palace?"
The Queen Mother did not expect that she would accidentally touch the mechanism. What should she do? If the Emperor discovers Huai Yong, I am afraid that there will be a rift in the relationship between mother and son!
"Your Majesty, I really didn't do it on purpose. It's all because of this disobedient hand! Why don't you hit it? I will definitely endure it."
Liu Man shivered at the Queen Mother's roar and stretched out her hand to look pitifully at the Emperor.
[Your Majesty, just say a word and let your mother bully me! Only an incompetent man would let his mother-in-law scold his wife. Although we are just the most familiar strangers, we can't let me be bullied! 】
The emperor lowered his eyes and glanced at Liu Man, who was addicted to "acting". If he hadn't heard her arrogantly orchestrating herself in her heart, he might have really believed it.
But business was important, and he had no time to listen to the Queen Mother's sophistry.
Perhaps the moment he heard the Queen Mother and Huaiyong hanging out outside the palace, the image of the Queen Mother in his heart collapsed.
"Liu Guiren did this unintentionally, but I am very interested in this secret passage. How about the Queen Mother accompany me to have a look?"
The emperor said and winked at Xun'an.
Xun'an exited clearly, and soon came in with several guards with swords. Regardless of the Queen Mother's obstruction, he directly entered the secret passage to clear the way.
"Mother, please!" the emperor said with a half-smile.
The place to enter the secret room is narrow and steep. It is not spacious for a slender woman like Liu Man, and it is even more awkward for the emperor who is nine feet tall and has a strong body.
Just halfway through, I heard Xun'an's voice coming from below.
"Your Majesty, my servant discovered an assassin and has now subdued him."
Hearing these words, the Queen Mother secretly thought something bad, and in her daze, her feet fell down and she almost fell down.
Fortunately, Liu Man next to her took action, grabbed the Queen Mother's collar, and lifted the Queen Mother up to stand up like a plucked chicken.
[I am still kind. If the Queen Mother had been left alone, she would have fallen down from such a high step and suffered comminuted fractures all over her body. She might still be paralyzed in bed in the future. 】
Although she didn't want to see the Queen Mother, Liu Man couldn't bear to watch the Queen Mother being seriously injured.
However, Liu Man was deliberately slow before picking up the Queen Mother. Now, even if it was not a fracture, it was a sprained ankle. According to the principle of breaking a muscle for a hundred days, the Queen Mother could not even think about suffering any more in the past three months.
