After the first fool

Chapter 54 Returning to the Palace
The cool wind blows in from the window, it is gentle and soft, only a palace lantern shimmers in Fengqi Palace, Mo Xiaoran put down the curtain, yawned, and fell asleep leaning on the jade pillow.

At this time, in the Palace of Compassion and Ning, the scent of sandalwood is overflowing.

The queen mother was wearing a goose-yellow long dress, leaning lazily on the soft couch, fiddling with the Buddhist beads on her wrist.

Bai Zixu walked into the hall slowly behind Li Quan, who was carrying the palace lantern. His handsome face, peach blossom eyes are full of charm, and a soft smile on the corner of his mouth is like a breeze blowing on his face. Kind of noble.

"Queen, is there something wrong with letting your son come over so late?"

The queen mother sighed: "The queen has returned to the palace."

Bai Zixu's gentle eyes instantly flashed two sharp lights, like two sharp knives, cold and cold.

"Isn't there still one day to go back?"

The Empress Dowager rubbed her brows, and also saw Bai Zixu's dislike for Mo Xiaoran, "She made a big fuss in the Prime Minister's residence, and the Prime Minister's wife entered the palace in person, please invite Ai's family to welcome her back in advance."

"Hmph, even the prime minister can't teach her well?" Bai Zixu felt resentment in his heart, "Queen mother, I will be in charge in half a month, and when I regain the military power from Bai Mo, I will abolish the queen!"

The cold eyes were unpredictable, and the words he uttered were also cold to the bone, which showed how much Bai Zixu was dissatisfied with Mo Xiaoran, "If she hadn't a prime minister behind her, where would it be her turn to be the empress?"

The queen mother looked at Bai Zixu lovingly, "Even if you want to abolish the empress, don't you have to wait until you have a proper name? Mo Xiaoran's stupid reputation is famous all over the world, and the things she did are worthy of the name of a fool. What do you want?" After deposing the empress, who will take the position of empress? Concubine Xue?" The queen mother shook her head, took Bai Zixu's hand, and said in a gentle voice: "If Concubine Xue is the empress, I am afraid that the prime minister will not be reconciled. He has two minds, how do you fight with Bai Mo?"

"Can we just let the idiot run amok in the palace?" Bai Zixu couldn't hide the anger in his heart, thinking of that idiot made him unhappy!
"Mother and son, we can only bear with it for a while." The queen mother comforted, "Now that the news of the queen's return to the palace has spread, the Ai family sent someone to call you, and they want you to go to Fengqi palace for a while. suffered."

"What?" Bai Zixu jumped into a rage, his cold eyes were covered with ice.

Let him see that idiot?impossible!
He wanted to stay away from her, how could he go to Fengqi Palace?He didn't even want to step into that place.

"It's just a joke, you go and sit down, as long as you can live a decent life, the face of the royal family can't be damaged, understand?" Empress Dowager's eyes burst into a beam of brilliance, the more noisy the fool is, the more he wants to show the royal demeanor at this moment However, Bai Zixu never accompanied him back home, so he must not treat her badly at this time.

"Do you know the rumors in the imperial city these days?" The queen mother asked with a smile after changing the subject.

"My son knows that the prime minister's wife is making her unable to eat because of her foolishness. I have already beat the prime minister and sent someone to quell the rumors." Bai Zixu said calmly. The city is full of wind and rain.

"Where did the rumors come from? And who spread them?"

Bai Zixu thought for a while, then said uncertainly, "But the regent?"

"You have to investigate! This rumor is obviously using a fool to target the prime minister. The prime minister is now the head of the country. His reputation is closely related to ours, so there must be no loss." The queen mother smiled meaningfully, "Investigate thoroughly! How dare you incite rumors? There must be ghosts in my heart, and I have other plans."

"Yes, my son remembered it."

Seeing that Bai Zixu was so obedient and well-behaved, the queen mother also felt comforted, "Son, the prime minister's wife is a lesson for you. Now it seems that someone is secretly targeting the prime minister, that is, targeting us. At this time, you have to be more magnanimous. Today Wan Feng Qi Palace and his party, you have to go, you must not lose your tongue."

She paused, and seeing that Bai Zixu was still hesitant, she couldn't help but let out a long sigh: "Bai Mo has the name of the god of war, and he has won the hearts of the people. It will not happen overnight if you want to overthrow him. You have to improve your reputation all the time. Since ancient times, those who win the hearts of the people win the world." The idiot's fuss has spread throughout Dongyao. At this time, you are acting, so you can naturally get the name of a benevolent monarch. If even a fool can tolerate it, the hearts of the people will naturally lean towards you."

Bai Zixu's eyes lit up, and he also felt that this was the reason. The more foolish he was, the more tolerant he was, and his reputation would naturally increase.

"What's more, in this way, if you want to abolish her in the future, it will be a matter of course, and others will not be able to find the fault."

"Yes, my son will go to Fengqi Palace to see that idiot." Bai Zixu nodded immediately, bid farewell to the queen mother, and led a group of eunuchs and court ladies towards Fengqi Palace.

In Fengqi Palace, the lights are said to be only a faint oil lamp flickering in the palace.

Many imperial guards were dozing off. Some people looked up and saw the rows of palace lanterns approaching from far to near, and hurriedly poked their companions.

"someone is coming."

"It's Eunuch Li."

"Could it be the emperor?"

Everyone looked at each other, thinking that the sun was coming out from the west, and the emperor would come to Fengqi Palace in person?

"The slave kowtows to the emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live."

"Get up." Bai Zixu hurried over, lifted them up, and called them to stand up. He squinted his eyes, looked at the deep and clean Fengqi Palace under the night, and frowned slightly: "Is the queen resting?"

"Back to the emperor, the slaves don't know." They have been guarding outside, how can they know the situation in the palace?

"I'll go in and have a look." Bai Zixu lifted his robe, and walked steadily around the peach blossom forest in the courtyard, the cobblestone path, and the moonlight shone brightly on the ground.

Xiao Zhu, who was resting in the outer hall of the bedroom, suddenly jumped up from the soft couch when he heard the sound of three kneeling and nine knocking outside the hall.

The emperor is here?

She was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, she opened the bead curtain and ran towards the inner hall.

"Miss, it's not good, the emperor is here."

With Mo Xiaoran's vigilance, how could she not know the emperor's arrival?Then please An Sheng soared into the sky, waking her up from her sleep.

"Why panic? When he comes in, tell him that I'm asleep."

In the middle of the night, a lonely man and a widow, if a gun goes off, she is not in the mood to chat with Bai Zixu.

Where did she come from, where did she go, and what to do, so as not to disturb her lucid dream.

"But..." That's the emperor.

"Could it be that you really want to see me serve the bed? Hmph, do as I say." Mo Xiaoran burrowed her head into the brocade quilt, revealing only her loose black hair.

Xiao Zhu sighed heavily, there was nothing he could do about her.

At this time, the door was pushed open from the outside, and there was a creaking sound.

"The emperor is here--" Li Quan's iconic duck voice lingered in the palace.

Xiaozhu rushed from the inner room to the bedroom, knelt down on the ground to greet Bai Zixu.

A pair of black riding boots with gold silk edges came into view, facing upwards, was a goose-yellow dragon robe with wide sleeves and a narrow waist, with a delicate ribbon tied around the waist, "Where is the queen?"

A clear voice came from the top of his head, and Xiaozhu slammed his forehead on the ground: "Go back to the emperor, the empress has gone to bed."

"Really?" Bai Zixu glanced at her, there was no warmth in his eyes, it was rare for him to come over, and the queen fell asleep?

Pushing aside the bead curtain, striding into the inner room, one can see behind the pink curtain, a round and bulging object wrapped in brocade quilt, and the fluffy blue silk pillow falls on the jade pillow, like a dark bush.

Even through the quilt, Mo Xiaoran could clearly feel Bai Zixu's sharp and cold gaze. Did this person come here specially to see her?When did Bai Zixu care so much about himself?Or did he have other plans?
No matter how I think about it, the latter is more likely. Mo Xiaoran continued to lift the corpse, and the bedroom was completely silent, except for the sound of long breathing, infinitely magnified.

Like a cold wind blowing into the house, the room is icy cold.

"Since the empress has settled down, I won't be able to stay for a long time." Bai Zixu evoked a gentle smile, turned and left the inner room.

"Serve the queen well, don't neglect her." He reminded Xiaozhu aloud when passing by Xiaozhu.

"Yes!" Xiao Zhu didn't dare to look up at his face, and knelt down to send Bai Zixu away, then quietly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, as expected of the emperor, such a terrifying aura.

"He's gone?" Mo Xiaoran lifted the quilt, sat on the head of the bed, stared at the wide-open palace door with cold almond eyes.

"Well, miss, why do you think the emperor came so late?" Miss thought over and over again, but still didn't have a clue.

"It's convulsing." Mo Xiaoran rolled her eyes, "Or Liao Xue is not in the palace, and he is empty and lonely."

"Empty... lonely..." Xiaozhu murmured, and then the corners of her mouth twitched violently, only her young lady dared to say this.

"Don't worry about her, keep sleeping, anyway, the soldiers will cover you up." Mo Xiaoran didn't bother to guess Bai Zixu's thoughts, got into bed, closed her eyes and fell asleep.

After a night without dreams, Li Quan came to Fengqi Palace early in the morning with the imperial decree in his hand. Mo Xiaoran hadn't woken up yet, so how could he entertain him?
Xiaozhu took the place of the queen to receive the order.

In order to appease Mo Xiaoran when she returned home alone, the queen mother gave a thousand taels of gold to comfort Mo Xiaoran's wounded heart.

The eunuch carried the wooden box full of gold ingots into the palace, and Mo Xiaoran slipped out of the bed, lifted the lid and took a look, the gorgeous gold almost blinded her eyes.

"Xiao Zhu, come here." He picked up a certain gold ingot and handed it over, "Take a bite and see if the gold is real or not."

"Miss!" Xiaozhu stomped her feet embarrassingly, "How could the things given by the Queen Mother be fake?"

"Hmph, there are too many counterfeit and shoddy things, what if they just pretend to be fake?" Mo Xiaoran didn't think that the Queen Mother would be so kind and gave her a thousand taels of gold, picked up an ingot by herself, and bit it hard with her teeth, "En ,it is true."

Xiao Zhu covered his face speechlessly, he really didn't know what to say.

"Come on, put away the things. When we leave the palace, we will have to rely on them to live." Mo Xiaoran patted Xiaozhu's shoulder without feeling shy, and generously took the gold as her own.

As for the reason why the Queen Mother sent the gold?
It was nothing more than wanting to tell the world and show off the royal magnanimity. Even if it is a fool who behaves mischievously in the palace all day, the royal family will accept it tolerantly. It is to make up for it. Let her go back to the prime minister's mansion alone.

A typical slap in the face and a sweet date.

Not long after Mo Xiaoran went back to the palace first, Liao Xue followed her back to the Chaoyang Palace in a mighty manner. Bai Zixu even greeted her at the Meridian Gate in person. Such a supreme favor made Liao Xue's prestige even higher To the extreme.

(End of this chapter)