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Halfway through the singing and dancing performance, the emperor and empress left the banquet and went to the harem.

Before leaving, he asked the eunuch to call Xie Yuan and Shen Liuzhen.

Xie Yuan and Shen Liuzhen followed the emperor and empress out of the main hall. The sound of vocal music was getting smaller and smaller, but it gradually grew louder again.

Not only that, but from time to time, eunuchs and guards can be seen leading the team of singers and dancers performing in the front hall to the back.

Xie Yuan looked at the empress who was chatting ahead, and couldn't help lowering his voice and asked Shen Liuzhen:

"What's going on here? Why are you holding another banquet in the harem?"

As Shen Liuzhen walked, he put his head closer and said in a low voice:

"You forgot, there is also the Empress Dowager Bao. With her status, she can't go to the front hall to stay with the officials, but your majesty wants to treat her well, so she can only hold a banquet in the harem. The front is almost the same. Stay with her for a while later."

Xie Yuan frowned upon hearing this, but didn't say anything.

At this moment, Emperor Ulay suddenly turned his head and called them both.So Xie Yuan and Shen Liuzhen quickly walked a few steps and arrived in front of the emperor.

Ulay first said to Xie Yuan in a gentle voice:

"General Xie, if the Empress Dowager Bao says something about you later, do me a favor and don't argue with her."

Before Xie Yuan said anything, Shen Liuzhen asked:
"Is it because of the incident on the street a few days ago?"

Emperor Ulay sighed and said:
"Yes, I know that General Xie is definitely not a person who makes trouble for no reason and beats people indiscriminately. But the Empress Dowager Bao and I are not much different from my own mother, so I can treat an old man happy, do you think so?"

Emperor Ulei didn't have any airs of an emperor. At this moment, those deep eyes looked at Xie Yuan, discussing and begging sincerely, just like a friend or brother.

Seeing him like this, Xie Yuan felt a little moved in his heart, so he lowered his Danfeng eyes and responded gently: "Okay."

Seeing this, Empress Feng Boyang raised her smoky brows and eyes, as if smiling, but with a little reluctance at the corners of her mouth, she said softly to Xie Yuan and Shen Liuzhen:

"It's hard for the two of you."

Shen Liuzhen cupped his hands with a smile, and said, "The empress is serious, it's what the courtiers should do."

When Xie Yuan heard this, he rolled his eyes at Shen Liuzhen in his heart, thinking: What kind of courtier has to accompany the emperor to fulfill his filial piety, and come as soon as he opens his mouth to flatter him, without blushing!

In this way, a group of people arrived at a large hall in the harem.

The singing and dancing performances in the hall were lively, and the aroma of wine and food wafted over as soon as they entered. It was obvious that the banquet had been held for a long time just like before.

Because of the arrival of the emperor and the empress, the dancers in the middle stopped and lined up on both sides, standing with their heads bowed in order to let them pass.

At this time, Xie Yuan saw for the first time what the legendary Queen Mother Bao looked like.

She was sitting in the center of the hall, more than 40 years old, neither that old nor young.

She was wearing a Han woman's standard gown, very gorgeous, but her face was very ordinary, with some swollen eyes, small eyes, she didn't look like a Xianbei, she might be a mixed beard, or she might have some Han blood.

In short...combined with the things she did before and the rumors, Xie Yuan was even a little disappointed.

I feel that she is not the kind of powerful character I expected... It's just an old nanny who has been honored by the emperor.

When the Empress Dowager Bao saw Emperor Ulei coming, she quickly stood up from her seat with a smile, stepped down from the high seat, and greeted her. Like an old mother, she grabbed the emperor's hand and said:
"Your Majesty, why did you come here? There was a monkey just now, who is very smart and can learn how to spin a plate like a human. Hahahaha..."

Xie Yuan raised his eyes to look at the emperor, and saw that the emperor Ulei had a warm expression on his face, with a smile all over his face, and followed the Empress Dowager Bao's hand.

Xie Yuan couldn't help but sighed.

She suddenly remembered that Ulay had discussed with her about her parents and relatives.He said she couldn't understand him.

Indeed, a child born in the emperor's family was raised as a heir since childhood, and his mother was killed not long after he was born, and a nanny took the role of his mother. She had never experienced it before, and could not even imagine it. arrive.

Empress Feng Boyang noticed Xie Yuan's change, so he took her arm affectionately and said with a smile:

"This is in the harem, I have the final say, there is no need to be formal, go, sit with me."

Xie Yuan glanced at Shen Liuzhen, and Shen Liuzhen blinked, signaling her to obey the Queen's wishes, so he followed.

So the emperor and Empress Dowager Bao sat together, the queen pulled Xie Yuan to sit together, and Shen Liuzhen sat alone on the lower right side.

The moment the Empress Dowager Bao pulled the emperor to sit down, when she turned to look at the empress, she glanced at it, obviously displeased, but soon put on a smile again, as if nothing happened.

And Xie Yuan saw it, and the queen Feng Boyang naturally saw it too, but the queen always wore her gentle, mysterious and profound smile, pretending to know nothing, looking forward, and gently pulling Xie Yuan to sit. down.

To be honest, based on Xie Yuan's simple and cruel life experience, she was wrapped up in this, and she was really uncomfortable and uncomfortable.

I really don't understand why some people can feel like a fish in water in this atmosphere and enjoy it, such as Shen Liuzhen...

Xie Yuan took a look, and sure enough, he saw Shen Liuzhen smiling, raised his wide sleeves, and raised his wine glass to a person on the opposite seat.

Xie Yuan looked over and noticed that opposite was a young man who looked very similar to the Empress Dowager Bao, and looked a little older than them.

"Come, come, my son, what are you doing in a daze? Come and greet His Majesty the Emperor." The Empress Dowager Bao enthusiastically waved to the young man.

The man was staring at Shen Liuzhen in a daze, but when he heard that, he stood up from his seat suddenly, as if he was shocked, and almost overturned the case.

Then he bowed his body, held the wine glass, looked at the emperor, his eyeballs flickered in panic, and looked really not smart...

Empress Dowager Bao's expression became bitter all of a sudden, she took the emperor's hand and said:

"Poor child, he has never seen the world, so don't blame him, Your Majesty."

Ulay said heartily: "There's nothing strange about this, Brother Huashi has an introverted personality, hasn't he always been like this."

Then he said gently to the man:
"Sit down quickly, we are all from our own family, so we don't need to be polite."

The man sat back timidly.

Xie Yuan frowned, looked at his hand holding the wine glass again, and speculated that this person was the one who was sitting in the first carriage on the street and peeping through the gap in the curtain that day.

Xie Yuan seldom judges people by their appearance. In the past, in the military camp, the soldiers were so ordinary-looking and flawed. She rarely had any special impressions and treated them equally.

And this person... I don't know if it's because the Empress Dowager Bao gave her a bad impression, or what, Xie Yuan hates it no matter what he thinks of it!