Xiao Xi stood at the door of the Xuanzheng Palace, looking at the Queen Mother.

She couldn't see the Empress Dowager's expression clearly.

The road in the palace is smooth and straight, but Xiao Xi feels that during her years in the palace, she will encounter a fork in the road from time to time.

You can't take the wrong fork in the road.

Like right now......

Naturally, the ministers who read poetry and books knew better than her, and their arguments were very unreasonable. The emperor is young, and the queen mother hangs the curtain to listen to the government, which is a precedent.

It was because the Empress Dowager had already sat on the dragon chair with the little emperor in her arms, that it had become an issue that had to be discussed.

If Xiao Xi is determined to fight with the Empress Dowager, of course there will be courtiers to support her......

What are her odds?

After winning against all odds, will she be able to control the little emperor and his ministers?

The people who support her against the Empress Dowager today, how will they treat her and the Xiao family in the future?

The answer is obvious.

Xiao Xi waited in Shoukang Palace every day, but he didn't know when the Empress Dowager chose the youngest son of the King of Shu, and he didn't know what role Concubine Yue and her maiden family played in this.

There are other concubines, many of the concubines' maiden families should not be underestimated, in the past few years, are they really just playing cards in Shoukang Palace? From the birthday banquet of Wanshou Mountain, to the violent death of the first emperor, and then to the accession of the little emperor, who participated in this link and what is the role of each person?

Xiao Xi couldn't see clearly.

If it were her fifth cousin, who was very smart and raised as a queen since she was a child, she would probably be able to see it clearly.

Concubine Yue wanted to eat red oil hot pot, so she prepared a table of red oil hot pot for Concubine Yue.

She can't hear the sound outside the strings, and she can't see through the undercurrent, everyone in the Xiao family is exquisite, but there is a stunned young lady like her, her mother used to even say that even her eldest brother's eldest son, her little nephew, is smarter than her.

If it weren't for this, her parents would not have allowed her uncle to promise her to the Lin family, who was in a humble family.

Later, after the first emperor finally agreed to marry the daughter of the Xiao family, the grandmother and the eldest uncle thought twice and presented the Geng paste of several school-age girls in the clan into the palace.

She was chosen by the Empress Dowager.

Xiao Xi looked at the little emperor sitting next to the Empress Dowager again.

This kind of thing has been done many times by the Empress Dowager.

With a single thought and a word, it is easy to change the lives of others.

Hold power over somebody's life and death.

Like the two kings of Wu before and after, like the current little emperor, like Xiao Xi himself, as well as the first emperor and many people.

That's power.

Strong and unmistakable.

Thunder, rain and dew are all Jun's grace.

For Xiao Xi, it was the Empress Dowager who chose her to be the queen, she should be grateful to Dai De, and she should also be grateful to Dai De if the emperor did not enter the middle palace after 12 years of marriage......

Xiao Xi's eyes were slightly red, and he suddenly understood what the Empress Dowager said about "stars in the sky".

And she just needs to walk through the Xuanzheng Palace, walk up to His Majesty, and take the little emperor's hand......

Xiao Xi walked into the hall.

The eyes of everyone in the hall fell on her.

It's like on a big wedding day, the whole city of Kyoto is watching her.

She didn't like the gaze.

She doesn't like and doesn't want the stars in the sky.

Xiao Xi stopped in front of His Majesty Dan and knelt down meticulously.

Because Xiao Xi did not fight for power, some courtiers who did not support the Empress Dowager to listen to the government gave up their opinions, and a few courtiers persevered and turned to support the little emperor's biological mother, that is, Princess Shu.

If the little emperor is the blood of the first emperor, then his mother-in-law and biological mother should be the queen mother of the two palaces, but like now, the little emperor is not the blood of the first emperor, what about his biological mother and adoptive mother?

Is it a gift or a blessing?

The courtiers and scholars argued endlessly, from the first year of Xinghe to the second year of Xinghe, until the empress dowager once again held the authority, and the boiling discussion gradually subsided, but in fact there was no conclusion. So much so that more than ten years later, the Empress Dowager drove to the west, and the little emperor grew up, and someone turned up this issue from the pile of old papers.

That's for another time.

Those who fought for the fame of Princess Shu actually didn't know the little emperor's mind.

Even Xiao Xi, who watched the little emperor grow up day by day, sometimes didn't know much about the little emperor's thoughts.

Before the Spring Festival in the first year of Xinghe, the King of Shu and his wife traveled thousands of miles to order the little emperor's grandmother to enter Beijing with a New Year's gift, in addition to the gifts to the Empress Dowager, Xiao Xi, and the concubines, there are also the objects that the little emperor used to use, and the clothes, shoes and socks sewn by the princess of Shu herself.

Xiao Xi deliberately ordered people to arrange those utensils in the Heart Nourishing Hall little by little without a trace, and when she was there during the day, the little emperor did not behave differently than those utensils.

She was absent at night, but the little emperor had to press one or two of them under the pillow to sleep.

It's a little kid who is twisted.

The Empress Dowager was busy with government affairs, and sent the errand of raising the little emperor to Xiao Xi, Xiao Xi treated this errand with special care, but the little emperor wanted to go to the court, learn literature and martial arts with the princes, and serve the Empress Dowager, listen to the Empress Dowager's personal instructions, he had very little time to rest, let alone have fun, and there were always a number of internal officials and grandmothers around him, so Xiao Xi had very little room to play.

Xiao Xi has no experience in raising children, and her space for play is limited, so she rarely intervenes directly with the little emperor, and most of the time she just pays attention to him silently and accompanies him silently.

In addition to his awkward temperament, the little emperor is actually a very worry-free child.

The Empress Dowager probably lost her hand at the first emperor, this time she ate a trench and grew wise, and the little emperor who was selected was smart and calm, self-disciplined and motivated, and the little internal official who had an active mind secretly presented him with crickets and other things, and he only looked at it with little interest after completing his homework.

Most of the time, he is like a delicate doll with no emotions and no preferences, wearing a dragon robe and fulfilling the role of "emperor".

Xiao Xi herself is like this, she has played "Queen Xiao" for twelve years, and now she is playing the Queen Mother.

The difference is that she entered the palace when she was fifteen years old, and when she was young, she had her mother, sisters and sisters at home, and the elder brother of the Lin family.

She grew up in the lively Jinling City, admired lotus flowers on the shore of Xuanwu Lake, took a cruise on the Qinhuai River, worshiped the Buddha in the Dabao'en Temple, and made a wish under the glazed pagoda.

She had seen the world, and then entered the palace.

And the little emperor was just a five-year-old child.

The rivers and mountains are his, but he has never walked or seen those rivers and mountains, and he doesn't know how the people outside the palace walls live.

Xiao Xi felt that it shouldn't be like this.

She carefully selected some Fang Zhi travelogues, placed them in the little emperor's study, and told him some different customs and customs in various places through meals and utensils, perhaps because she gradually became familiar with Xiao Xi, the little emperor was quite interested in Xiao Xi's words, Xiao Xi became more and more attentive, and once she let the little emperor figure out how the silk paid tribute by Jiangsu and Zhejiang came from, she specially ordered the Internal Affairs Office to buy silkworm seeds and mulberry leaves, and raised silkworms in the side hall of the Heart Raising Palace.

When the little emperor saw the white and chubby silkworm chrysalis, his eyes widened in surprise.

This is the first time Xiao Xi has seen the little emperor's emotions so bluntly.

For Xiao Xi and the little emperor to get close to this matter, the empress dowager is happy to see it, her old man not only did not intervene, but also praised Xiao Xi's good method, and from the surface to the inside, in the imperial garden to make farmland, told the little emperor to go every day to see, and at the same time taught the little emperor to recite "Compassion for Nong", and said to the little emperor that he would be a good emperor with the people in mind in the future.

The little emperor is a good boy, and the teachings of the empress dowager are always carefully remembered and meticulously completed.