Empress Abandoned in the Cold Palace: Queen Juan, she doesn't talk about martial arts

Chapter 31 Leave
It was night, after Mrs. Xi received the emperor's verdict, she sat on the side of the bed in a daze as if she had lost her soul.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew in through the window and extinguished the candles in the bedroom.

Because all the servants in the palace were dragged to investigate, they didn't guard the candles, and the palace fell into darkness.

She could only get up to light the candles by herself, but unexpectedly, she was suddenly hugged from behind.

Noble Xi was stunned, and a look of astonishment appeared in his eyes.

"Your Majesty, is that you?" She asked expectantly.

The man behind him has already kissed her.

In the dimness, she couldn't see the man's appearance clearly, but she thought that maybe after this night, she could still become the noble person she once was.

She tried her best to cater to her, and she didn't know how long it took, Mrs. Xi got up and lit the candle after she felt that the person beside her fell asleep.

But after seeing the appearance of the man lying beside her, she fell powerlessly to the ground.

It's him
The guard who had an affair with him.

Xiao Shengyun didn't really intend to kill, and according to the investigation by the hidden guards, the two were considered to be in agreement.

Su Lijin remembered that the matter between the two of them in the previous life was left alone, so she proposed to send the guards out of the palace, thinking that noble Xi would also leave the palace in a few days.

Who knew that the guard was really worried about Mr. Xi, so he came back again.

Noble Xi covered her mouth, trying hard not to cry out.

Why him, why not the emperor,
What if he hadn't lied to himself that he was the emperor?

If he didn't look at her with gentle eyes in the imperial garden?
If he was pregnant with Xiao Shengyong's flesh and blood, would he be able to rise to the top?

Noble Xi's tears rolled down her cheeks, she picked up the scissors beside her, and approached the man who was still soundly sleeping on the bed step by step.

In the morning of the next day, the servants finished their investigation and came to Xi Guiren's palace one after another. The maid opened the door and came in. What caught her eyes was a strange man lying on the bed with a pair of scissors stuck in his heart.

There is also Mrs. Xi who is lying in front of the table, neatly dressed, but has already cut his wrist and committed suicide.

The matter of nobleman Xi was widely known, but the truth of the real suicide was suppressed by Xiao Shengyun.

It would not be good for anyone if the truth of this matter got out, besides, the two of them were already dead, so it would be better to let it go.

The Queen Mother's birthday banquet that followed diverted the attention of the people in the palace.

The matter of Noble Xi gradually ceased to be mentioned.

After all, in this harem, how long can a person who lost the dragon fetus and committed suicide by cutting his wrist be remembered in the palace?

On the day of the birthday banquet, all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were present, so Su Lijin sat beside the emperor and looked at the troupe below who were still performing operas, and found it very interesting.

Just when everyone was in high spirits, only the Queen Mother's complexion remained bad.

She looked at Su Lijin with a cold face for a day, and then said coldly: "Hmph, the empress is too perfunctory, the Ai family's birthday banquet was so hasty."

In fact, the annual birthday banquet is similar, and the opera that the queen mother likes is added. Now it is just because of the dispute between Su Lijin and the queen mother in the investigation of nobleman Xi's miscarriage.

The Empress Dowager just wants to make use of it.

Listening to the Queen Mother's words, Su Lijin didn't feel annoyed at all, and even said with a smile: "What the Queen Mother taught is that the concubine is still young after all, and has no experience in many things. In the future, the Queen Mother needs to give more advice."

The Empress Dowager did not expect that Su Lijin would actually follow her own words, and a look of astonishment appeared in her eyes.

Although he was unhappy, he could only keep his mouth shut in the end.

Xiao Shengyun saw that Su Lijin didn't move his chopsticks much, and thought he didn't eat anything, so he picked up food for her himself.

"Try it, the new dishes made by the Imperial Dining Room taste very good, you should like it."

Su Lijin pursed her lips and chuckled, agreed and ate the food on the plate.

This loving scene fell in the Queen Mother's eyes, somewhat dazzling.

They just don't know the rules and don't know how to measure.

While her face was still cold, Concubine Shu suddenly opened her mouth.

"Empress Dowager, today is your birthday. The concubine specially found someone to find the purple coral in the South China Sea. May the Queen Mother be as blessed as the East China Sea and live longer than Nanshan!"

Wei Shu's words brought a smile to the Queen Mother's face.

She usually likes these things very much, and she can't put it down even more for the rare purple coral.

Su Lijin looked at Wei Shu below, and seeing Wei Shu smiling slightly at herself, she knew without guessing that she had shifted her target to herself.

as predicted.

"The ability of the concubine is limited, and after all, I still couldn't give the Queen Mother a better gift, but today is the Queen Mother's birthday banquet. The Queen Mother has arranged this place so well, so she must have prepared a gift carefully?"

It's really not safe for a moment.

Sighing helplessly in his heart, Su Lijin got up, took the gift box handed over by the maid and came to the Queen Mother.

She leaned over and said with a smile on her face, "Empress Dowager, this is the concubine's birthday gift."

The Queen Mother stretched out her hand to open the gift box, thinking it would be some rare treasure, but she didn't think it was just a box of heavy Buddhist scriptures.

The complexion changed slightly, the queen mother frowned dissatisfiedly, and was about to say something.

Su Lijin didn't wait for her to open her mouth, and directly expressed her heart.

"The concubine wants to get this gift, the empress dowager must like it. If the empress does not devote herself to worshiping the Buddha every day, there may never be a peaceful day in the harem. It can be seen that the sincerity of the empress dowager has moved the gods and Buddhas."

"The concubine knows that she is stupid, but she also wants to imitate the empress dowager, so she simply copied these Buddhist scriptures with her own hands, praying to the gods and Buddhas that everything will go smoothly for the empress dowager."

Although the Buddhist scriptures in this box are really not valuable.

But what Su Lijin said sublimated the meaning of this gift.

Even if the queen mother wants to lose her temper now, she can't say anything else.

Although she was disgusted in her heart, the queen mother still reached out with a smile on her face and took the Buddhist scriptures in person.

"The queen has a heart, Aijia likes your birthday gift very much."

Su Lijin was calm on the surface, but she had already burst into laughter in her heart.

After all, this was just copied by the maid herself. It can be said that she didn't give anything for this birthday gift.

On the contrary, the queen mother can't say anything dissatisfied, killing two birds with one stone.

But Su Lijin's actions made others a little dissatisfied.

The prime minister sitting below looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but speak.

"After all, the Empress Dowager is the mother of a country, why can't she even give any presents for the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet? Anyway, the Empress Dowager Shu also gave a purple coral."

Su Lijin turned her head and looked at the prime minister.

The prime minister continued: "Could it be that the embezzled money, will the empress still have no money to prepare for her birthday?"

The prime minister's words were clearly mocking Su Yuan's corruption.

(End of this chapter)