The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 92
The empress dowager didn't comment on the emperor's words, she smiled, and asked him again: "People in the palace are saying that you have hidden a palace maid by your side to pamper you, is there such a thing?"

Xie Zhao felt guilty for a moment: Xue Li was still listening in the bedroom.

But the empress dowager couldn't know this, so he didn't even dare to look over there.His eyes narrowed slightly: "The queen mother takes care of too much."

"Is there such a thing?" The Empress Dowager said in a serious voice, she looked at him coldly and wanted to ask the bottom line.

Xie Zhao looked back at his mother, knowing that it was good to deny it now, but there was a stubbornness in his heart that made him not want to lie about this matter.

But Sydney is in the bedroom...

He gritted his teeth and looked back at the empress dowager without saying a word. The coldness in the palace became heavier and heavier between the two of them looking at each other.

After a while, the Empress Dowager laughed again: "You don't need to lose your temper, Aijia just came to ask what you mean."

"The queen mother wants to hear 'what do you mean'?" The emperor's tone was obviously not good.

"You can take any young woman in the world if you want, but I heard that this girl has no status until now." The knife was scraping lightly, "You put her in the harem, Aijia doesn't care; but you just leave her in front of the emperor, no way. Zichen Palace is the residence of the emperor, and it is also the place where you manage the government. Let such a person Sticking to the side every day, it hurts the face of the Tian family and breaks the rules of the palace."

The empress dowager paused for a moment, and her eyes became more lingering: "You should know who you are. The women around you will always try to seduce you for the sake of prosperity and wealth, but you have to abide by the rules yourself!"

The empress dowager was already speaking a lesson, the main hall was silent, and in the sleeping hall, Xueli covered her mouth in astonishment, more or less feeling that the empress dowager was talking about herself—because there was no one in front of the emperor. The palace maid was more taken care of by the emperor than she was, and on the other hand, she didn't believe it anyway, let alone imagined that she was going to the harem.

After a while, she heard a sigh.

Xie Zhao's tone was extremely blunt: "Five years ago, I said that there was only one thing I didn't discuss, Queen Mother."

The empress dowager's face suddenly changed, and she looked at him with a hint of puzzlement: "What does this have to do with that?"

"It's nothing to do, but today I want to add one more thing." Xie Zhao smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, and it disappeared in a blink of an eye, "I didn't discuss with that girl. Queen Mother, don’t let her worry about you in private, I am your son and the emperor of Daqi, if you make her feel sad by doing her, you can’t blame him for trying his best to return the sorrow.”

In the dormitory, Xueli shivered from the cold words.

In the main hall, the empress dowager also shuddered: "You..."

She didn't quite understand, and her tone was a little relaxed: "Aijia didn't let you have her. What's wrong with putting her in the harem? Do you have to take this matter against Aijia?"

"This is my own business." Xie Zhaodan looked at his mother, and the smile in his eyes was full of sarcasm, "How many favorite concubines died and how many children were lost in the imperial father's harem, mother, you know much better than me Now, I also know what kind of talents you think are worthy of being prosperous in the harem. You let her into the harem one by one, I understand in my heart what kind of intentions you have in mind.

He raised his chin slightly, with an undeniable dignity: "I like her, and I need her to live well."

The empress dowager took a breath in astonishment, her teeth clenched uncontrollably, and it took a long time to calm down.

She looked at her son who was directly across the table from her eyes, and suddenly felt thousands of miles away.It seems that this person has no kinship with her anymore, he is just the emperor of Daqi.

She made up her mind, and glanced at the surrounding palace people who lowered their heads tightly, not daring to raise their eyes at all, and eased their expressions, showing a dignified look again.

As if there was no such dispute just now, she said flatly: "The emperor remembers to visit Concubine Hui and Concubine Shu more often. Your harem will be safe only if you don't let the two of them feel cold."

Xie Zhao smiled disdainfully.

The Empress Dowager still looked at him indifferently, her eyebrows raised slightly, as if she must wait for a reply.

Xie Zhao felt more and more that it was ridiculous to forcibly whitewash the peace in the future, and he nodded without hiding the sarcasm, and after a "promise", he said, "Respectfully send the empress."

After sending off the empress dowager, the Qingliang Palace still hasn't recovered from the dead silence just now for a long time.

The table was still full of delicacies, and the emperor leaned back in his chair and contemplated.He obviously lost his appetite to continue eating, but the palace servants next to him looked at me and I looked at you, and none of them had the courage to go forward to withdraw the meal now.

After a while, the door of the dormitory opened slightly.

Xue Li almost moved out with her feet on the ground, looking around in a panic, trying to find a proper measure for herself from the faces of other palace people.

But no one looked at her, they poked there with no expression, each of them looked like stone statues.

So she didn't dare to move after walking a few steps, she hesitated where she was, not knowing what to do.

I have nothing to do, so I can only poke here to install stone statues like others.

After a while, there seemed to be a slight sound of water splashing.

She raised her eyes, and it turned out that His Majesty was pouring wine by himself.

His hand holding the jug was very steady, and the white porcelain wine jug was held between his slender fingers, and the wine in the jug was slowly left.Just a light reflected there, illuminating the slender column of wine in all kinds of colors, revealing an indescribable depression.

After filling a glass, he put down the jug, still moving steadily.Then he picked up the wine cup and drank it. Instead of gulping it down like Sydney thought, he sipped it slowly, as if he had endless patience to taste it.

The palace people around did not dare to raise their heads, but at the same time, they held their breath and watched the emperor's every move.

After drinking a glass of wine slowly, the sound of throwing porcelain objects came suddenly!

"Your Majesty, calm down!" Everyone in the hall immediately knelt down, including Chen Jijiang, who only dared to say these four words, and fell silent again after finishing speaking.

The emperor breathed a little slower, frowned, stood up and felt that it was time to go to the bedroom to see Sydney.

He was just angry, and she might be frightened again, that stupid pear... After hearing what happened just now, she must not know how to deal with it now.

After walking a few steps and raising his eyes, he noticed that she was kneeling not far away, not daring to raise her eyes.

"..." After a moment's hesitation, he stepped forward to help her.As a result, as soon as he took two more steps, she hurriedly moved aside, obviously feeling that she was blocking his way.

Xie Zhao, who was getting angry, touched her mind and felt dumbfounded. Regardless of her intentional avoidance, he also stepped aside, stretched out his hand and pulled her up, sighing: "I scared you."

Sydney suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

She hadn't been so afraid of him recently, she got angry just now and she put her heart on hold again, she felt a little more relaxed after listening to his coaxing, raised her eyes and peeked at him, and said: "Your Majesty, don't be angry, the Queen Mother also..."

She wanted to say "The Empress Dowager also has good intentions", but when she got to her mouth, she felt that she might be angry, so she quickly changed her words: "The Empress Dowager is also thinking about the rules in the palace!"

She persuaded him softly, while speaking neatly, at the same time she looked timid.

Xie Zhao was guilty at first, but when he saw her like this, he took the initiative to bring up this matter, and coughed lightly with a slightly stiff face: "What the Queen Mother said just now... don't pay attention to it."

——This sentence made Sydney stupid!
Just now she was hiding behind and had been guessing wildly whether this person was referring to herself, but they had neither mentioned their name nor their identity from the beginning to the end, which made her want to believe that she had reasons and wanted to convince herself that it was not justified.

In the end, he explained it like this...

If what the Queen Mother just said was not about her, how could there be any reason to persuade her to "don't care about it"? !
Xue Li's face turned pale, and she looked at him in astonishment, eyes full of incomprehension and disbelief.

Xie Zhao looked at her expression and calmed down, feeling that those words were not enough to reassure her, coughed lightly, and said again: "I know you are not... the kind of girl that the queen mother said, I don't think you are... "

In front of her, he couldn't utter the words "bewitching" that the queen mother said.I just felt that any doubts about her in this aspect would pollute her, but in the end I couldn't force the word out, and it turned into another "cough..."

The more he talked, the more he confirmed the fact that "it was you", Xueli's mind went numb!
Just now she hid in the bedroom and heard him say clearly "I like her, I need her to live well".

She was almost convincing herself that it wasn't her!When I first heard this sentence, from the perspective of a bystander, my heart softened!

The words that flashed through my mind at that time were: Your Majesty is so domineering!
But he he he...

Xueli's expression was so complicated that she was about to cry, and the more she thought about it, the more she couldn't calm down, and she tried to convince herself that "this person is not referring to her" failed.Standing in front of him, she felt at a loss. After struggling for a long time, she looked up at him with panic and helplessness in her eyes.

She said: "The palace maid that His Majesty and the Empress Dowager mentioned just now...is, is it a servant girl?"

This time it was Xie Zhao who was dumbfounded.

He thought she must have understood this level, so he explained it because he was afraid that she would feel uncomfortable because the empress dowager spoke badly...

In the end, she didn't understand it. Did she realize it after listening to his explanation? !

For the first time, Xie Zhao felt what it was like to be so embarrassed that he wanted to bump into a pillar!
Chen Jijiang, who also mistakenly thought that the window paper had been successfully pierced by the empress dowager, was surprised when he heard Xue Li's question, and then he secretly raised his eyes to see the surprised expression on His Majesty's face, and said in his heart: Well...

Messed up.

In the next few days, the atmosphere in Qingliang Hall was so dull!
The past few days have been neither cloudy nor rainy, and the sun is shining outside. A glass of water can be drained in a short while, but the Qingliang Temple is so stuffy that it seems that there is a dark cloud pressing down on the top of the head.

Generally speaking, if something happened, Yuqian would take a breath to prevent mistakes.This time it was rare for everyone to keep their mouths shut. Those who were on duty that day, from the inner hall to the outer hall, no one would say a word, which made those who were not on duty curious in vain. .

The only situation that was clearly on the table was that the imperial catering lady took sick leave.It has been four days so far. Some people say it is a high fever, while others say it is heat stroke.

At that time, Xue Li was lying in the room in a daze - she really wasn't pretending to be sick.

It should be considered the category of "sick sick".That night, she tossed and turned in a chaotic state and didn't sleep all night. She felt something was wrong early the next morning. After the imperial doctor came to see her, she said it was "caused by convulsions."For the next four days, just such a low-grade fever that was not serious and did not affect my strength lingered.

In fact, she sincerely hoped that the low-grade fever would turn into a high-grade fever, so that she would have no energy and could have a good sleep!

Now it's burning at a moderate level, making her feel uncomfortable and restless, it doesn't affect her wild thinking at all, the more she thinks, the harder it is to fall asleep, the harder it is to fall asleep, the more random her thoughts...

Zixian asked for leave to accompany her, and Yuxiang, who felt that Sydney was not in the right state, was uncharacteristically inactive.Either lying on the stomach next to Xue Li, or lying on her stomach next to her bed. When Xue Li sighed, it also "wheezed" out a breath.

Anyway, the atmosphere in the room was gloomy.

In fact, after four days, many people came to visit.First of all, Yuqian basically came all over the place, not even those who were sweeping the floor outside were left behind.But most of them were blocked by Zixian at the door. Only Chen Jijiang and Xu Shishui came in smoothly. They both told her to rest well and talk about what she needed, and never mentioned what happened that day.

In the imperial dining room, Cui Wan and Song Min, who was transferred from Shangshi Bureau together, came to visit. The two of them didn't know what happened that day, so they brought many kinds of Sydney's favorite snacks, and also told her to take good care of her illness, and nothing else needed to be done. She worries.

In addition, An Jin has been here, and even many concubines from the harem have also been here. Su Zixian unceremoniously blocked all of them from the outside—it’s okay to offend others, and they all came in to prevent people from recovering from illness. up?
On this day, she was full of smiles and very tactfully but firmly sent a beautiful lady away. Zixian walked to the bed and made a gesture to wipe off her sweat, complaining: "It's fine if you come to see you sincerely. Oh... oh my god! I haven't met them in person, and there are all of them who are so anxious to cry, can you be more fake? It's your majesty who doesn't bother to see them and prefers you."

"Woo..." When Xueli heard this, she lay down on the pillow and wanted to cry.

What is this!A few days ago, they were wondering if An Jin wanted to "climb the dragon's couch", and she laughed and scolded Zixian who said that for being shameless - did she actually want to go to the dragon's couch herself? !
Seeing that she was doing nothing wrong, Su Zixian pushed her in, sat on the edge of the couch and asked her, "You cry later! Let me ask you, how do you feel about Your Majesty?"

Xueli blinked with her face stuffed in the pillow, but said nothing.

"Tell me!" Zixian pushed her anxiously, "Your Majesty likes you, do you like him? I think... His Majesty doesn't care about any concubine now. If you like him yourself, you will follow him." He's fine too?"

Listening to her words, Xue Li's face turned red and hot, especially the words "followed him", which made her feel very embarrassed, and a burst of hotness went straight from her face to her heart.

Zixian was still talking to herself full of fantasies: "Think about it, the person who owns the world has no one in his heart. How wonderful it is that you live in it? Life will be easier in the future! It will be even better if he is in your heart." , the future is boundless, it is a good thing to look at horizontally and vertically!"

Ahhh, why does she have such a shameless friend!

In the embarrassment of Xueli, the more she heard this, the more she collapsed. Even if Zixian's words were true, she still wanted to kick him away.After being bored in the pillow for a while, she raised her head, turned over to lie on her side, and pulled the pillow into her arms to hold her.

Zi Xian squatted on the side of the couch and looked at her with sparkling eyes: "Your Majesty Chen told me in secret when you came, His Majesty knew you were suffering from excessive convulsions so he didn't dare to bother you, and told me to go back if you got better." It's been four days, can I go and answer today? Your Majesty is thinking of you."

"No!" Sydney stopped her immediately.

What's wrong with four days?For four whole days, her mind was in a mess, and she couldn't figure out anything!

What did she say when the Majesty came down?Say "Your Majesty, I like you too" or "Your Majesty, I don't like you" or "Your Majesty, I do whatever you want"?Neither sentence will work!
Besides...

Xue Li hugged the pillow and frowned: "I'm still sick, what if I pass it on to His Majesty? It's a serious crime! Your Majesty doesn't blame Concubine Hui and the Queen Mother!"

"Yo, it's already decided that His Majesty won't blame you?" Su Zixian smirked, patted her on the shoulder, and said, "What are you thinking? I've been here with you for four days and haven't uploaded it yet. Your Majesty's majestic seven-foot man... you say that he is weaker than me, do you believe it yourself?"

"Woo..." Xueli made the same noise again, she lowered her head and lay down on the inside of the bed to cooperate with her Yuxiang: "Wow!"

In short, this day Su Zixian brought "shameless and skinless" to the fullest, and the idea of ​​"I want to match you and Your Majesty" was almost written on his forehead.Fortunately, Xueli was determined and did not nod her head. After expressing to her that "I really can't see His Majesty at the moment", she said harshly, "If you don't go, I will ignore you again."

——At this point, Su Zixian was pretty good, glaring at her for a while, then angrily clapped her hands and beckoned Yu Xiang to go play with her!

When Yu Xiang got out of bed, she stepped on Xue Li's lower abdomen, and she almost vomited blood...

This guy is growing up too fast.

After more than an hour, Zixian was clearly annoyed on purpose, and had fun chasing around the house with Yuxiang, and she wasn't too tired!

After playing until Yuxiang was gasping for air, one person and one lion sat on the floor together again. Zixian took out freshly baked meatballs from the cabinet and fed it. He patted his head after feeding one: Yuxiang is good.

Sydney was furious, her best friend planned to fool her into marrying a lion who would occupy her!
Angrily facing the wall, thinking about things and ignoring others, she didn't give a good face when Yu Xiang, who was full and full, came to rub her against her. When she was annoyed, she turned around and pushed Yu Xiang down: "Get out! I don't want is you!"

The door sounded "Duk Tuk".

Both of them were startled, Zixian thought it was someone coming to visit again, frowning angrily and going to open the door, a familiar voice came from outside with low hesitation: "Sydney?"

(End of this chapter)