Shu E answered and saluted, and the Queen Mother just read quietly. Shu E didn't know what to do, so she had to stand with her hands hanging on the side.

After a long time, the Queen Mother raised her head and said, "I heard that you have not been in good health recently. ”

Shu E hurriedly said: "It's just that I feel the weather, and I don't like to move around." These two days have been much better. ”

The Queen Mother nodded and said, "Is your mother well?" ”

Shu E was stunned, and immediately remembered that the Queen Mother was talking about Liao's wife of the Cao Mansion, and hurriedly said, "It's okay." When my mother asked me to go home, my mother felt a little sick and unhappy for a few days. And then it was fine. Speaking of the affairs in Cao's house, Shu E couldn't help but feel worried in her heart. It's just that I can't figure out why the Queen Mother asked like this, and secondly, the Queen Mother already knows about the matter of the third young master, and there is nothing else to hide, so I have to tell the truth.

The Queen Mother was leisurely distracted, and sighed lightly for a while: "Your mother has not been easy all these years. ”

Shu E didn't know what the Queen Mother meant, so she had to respond.

"Your younger brother's name is Cao Yan, right?" The Queen Mother asked again.

When Shu E thought of this righteous brother, her heart was very warm, but in an instant, she immediately thought that the Queen Mother not only knew everything about the affairs of the Cao Mansion, but also cared so much about the inquiry, and the uneasiness in her heart became more and more intense.

"Yes, the single name is a '佾' word, and the table word Jingxiu." Shu E said with a smile.

The Queen Mother also smiled: "At a young age, how did you take such an awkward expression." ”

Shu E said: "It was taken by Yu'er herself." ”

The Queen Mother said: "I have heard your father say it before, this young son's personality is a little unusual, different from Chang Xiao'er. Talking and doing things are often unexpected. Then he sighed: "It's a pity that I didn't see him last time he entered the palace, and I don't know how unusual this kid is." ”

Thinking of the last time Cao Tong entered the palace with his sister-in-law Shang Wanyun, Shu E felt palpitations in her heart. It's just that there is no other intention in the tone of the Queen Mother, so she smiled and said: "Yu'er doesn't like to talk or frolic on weekdays, but she has a lot of ideas in her heart. The concubine here still remembers a poem by her younger brother. ”

The Queen Mother smiled: "Read it and listen to it." ”

Shu E thought for a while, and read: "Scoop the water and moon in your hand, and make the flowers and fragrance all over the clothes." There is no worry in the autumn heart, why be sad and groan. The sky is changing day by day, and the star track is new every night. After turning around for years, who can go through the past and the present. ”

The smile on the queen mother's face was slightly subtle, and she nodded and praised: "Poetry is very good, it's hard for him to have such a world in his chest at such a young age." It's just that at a young age, he makes such detached words......"

When Shu E saw this poem that day, she was certainly infected by the far-reaching and detached artistic conception in the poem and Cao Yan's unrestrained mind, but she also thought of his young age, and it was really inappropriate to say such a thing, but it seemed to be an adult who saw through the world. At this moment, after listening to the Queen Mother's words, I feel the same way.

"The concubine also persuaded him when he was at home, but this is his natural nature, which is really impossible." Shu E said.

The Queen Mother just asked about some trivial things in Shu'e's house, and Shu'e was surprised, but she couldn't think of the reason.

The Queen Mother bowed slightly, put down the book for a moment, and said: "In the past, when you were a female historian in the Qingshou Palace and helped the mourning family copy books, the mourning family only hoped that you would have the opportunity to be promoted to a concubine. Now that you have become a beauty, the mourning family thinks about the time when you were by my side. ”

Shu E didn't expect the Queen Mother to say such a thing, and she was also very emotional in her heart, and said busily: "There are many female histories in the Liushang Bureau, all of whom have served the mother and the emperor for many years, and they must be more thoughtful than the concubines." ”

The Queen Mother's gaze crossed Shu E, looked outside the palace gate for a moment, and said, "There are some things that those female historians in the palace can entrust. ”

Shu E didn't understand the meaning of the Queen Mother's words, so she only agreed.

The Queen Mother seemed to be thinking about something, and after a while, she closed the book in her hand, took out a piece of something from the book in her hand, handed it to Shu E and said, "Look at this." ”

Shu E took it with both hands with a little hesitation, and then stood in front of the Queen Mother's table and unfolded it. At a glance, he suddenly covered the paper in his hand, knelt on the ground, and said in fear: "The concubine doesn't dare to look at it." ”

"Get up, since the mourning family asked you to see it, you just watched it." The Queen Mother said.

Shu E stood up, but she still didn't dare to unfold the things in her hand anymore.

The Queen Mother didn't know about Shu E's expression, but just looked at the thing in Shu E's hand and said: "Cao Xi cultivates his family and has a way to educate his children. Your grandfather fought with the founding emperor emperor, Emperor Taizong, and Emperor Zhenzong, and made great achievements. Shu'e, you can be regarded as a family student, you might as well help me think about it. ”

There was irresistible majesty in the Queen Mother's tone, Shu E stretched out her hand to spread out the map of the terrain and troops, and said in a slightly trembling voice: "What does Niang Niang want to concubine to speculate?" ”

In front of me, a large area of rivers and mountains in the Great Song Dynasty is located in the lower right, and the city of Tokyo is only made into a small red dot. However, it occupies a large area of the drawings, but the place north of the city of Tokyo, the Yellow River, which runs for thousands of miles, and the north of the Yellow River has a stretch of mountains, Lanzhou, Linzhou, which is the border of the Great Song Dynasty.

The northwest is painted, there is Xiazhou, there is Yinzhou, is the land of the party people.

The north is painted in the sixteen states of Yanyun, and the vast land in the north is the Liao State.

What the Queen Mother asked Shu'e to see was clearly a map of the borders of Song, Liao, and Xia.

It's just that the words Xia, Song, and Liao are not written on the map.

"Xia Di Li, I want to marry the princess Yelu of Liao, and raise troops to pass through my Great Song border, according to your opinion, where is the garrison of the Dangxiang people's soldiers and horses?" The Queen Mother looked at the drawings and said.

Shu E was shocked, if it wasn't for self-restraint, her hands would almost tremble. Shu'e didn't dare to let her eyes touch the Queen Mother, for fear that the Queen Mother would see through something.

The Queen Mother didn't wait for Shu E to speak, and then said: "You can take a slow look, I'll just wait for you to answer." The tone was flat, but it was irresistible.

Shu E looked at it carefully for a moment, and all kinds of knowledge gathered in her mind. The banks of the Yellow River, Rongzhou, and Lanzhou, as well as Linzhou, where Li Yuanhao was met, were all shown on the map in front of Shu'e's eyes.

It should not be here, nor should it be here. Walking past Shu E's fingertips one by one, Shu E was suddenly shocked in her heart, looked up at the Queen Mother, and then looked down at the map, her heart was full of disbelief, but she was full of incredulity. The map that the Queen Mother showed herself drew everything so clearly.

Could it be, from beginning to end, wrong?

No, Shu E couldn't help but shake her head, it doesn't hurt if she thinks wrong, could it be that the emperor, Dongling, and the third young master will all make mistakes so invariably?

The Queen Mother's eyes were very keen, and she did not let go of the slightest change in Shu'e. Seeing Shu E's surprised and abrupt look, she asked slowly, "If you think of something, you might as well say it." ”