For a while, Wu Shulai called softly outside and said, "Your Majesty, it's time to drive to the Hongde Hall to speak." ”

The emperor's face changed, but fortunately Wu Shulai couldn't see it outside, otherwise he would have been scared half to death. Qingcheng put down the pen, turned around and took the cloak with the dragon pattern embroidered by Ming Huang Su on the kang, waited for the emperor to tie it, and saw the robe at his feet rolled up a corner, so he knelt down and gently smoothed it.

The emperor said: "Have you gone to Shoukang Palace to greet the Queen Mother these days?" ”

Qingcheng knelt on the ground, and suddenly heard the emperor speak, and wanted to straighten up. The skirt of the winter coat was small, and she got up in a hurry, and with a stumble, she threw herself on the emperor.

The emperor stretched out his hand to hold her, raised his eyebrows, and said, "What does this mean?" ”

Qingcheng steadied herself, her face was already flushed, and she said in a low voice: "The concubine is rude..."

The emperor suddenly became a little angry and said, "What's the matter with you? I said no formality, no formality! What you say to me is always just "the concubine is rude" and "the concubine doesn't dare"—can't you say two things that I love to hear? ”

Qingcheng was even more hurried, knelt down again, and opened his mouth, but he really didn't know what to say to please the emperor.

The first time Wu Shulai saw the emperor's face in Qingyun Zhai, his heart chuckled, and he suddenly felt like he had fallen into a thousand-year-old ice, and he was frozen all over. The warm sedan chair had obviously arrived at the door of the Hongde Hall and was about to be carried in, but the emperor suddenly said: "Go back!" ”

Wu Shulai was stunned, thinking that the emperor was going back to the Heart Cultivation Palace, so he said: "The slave will let the Minister of Cultivation go to the Heart Cultivation Hall to speak." ”

There was no sound in the sedan chair, and Wu Shulai didn't dare to claim without permission, so he had to wait quietly. His clothes were drenched with sweat, and he was still thinking about the emperor's "go back" just now, and he faintly felt that a great disaster was coming. Snow fell in the air, grain by grain, burrowing into his collar, and the cold soaked to the bone.

I don't know how long it took, but I felt that my toes had been frozen like a wooden stick, and the emperor said in a flat tone: "Let Wang Wenzhen bring the book fold written yesterday to the Heart Cultivation Palace." ”

Wu Shulai finally breathed a sigh of relief, and replied resignedly: "Yes." ”

Seeing that the emperor left with a displeased expression, Hai'an hurriedly entered the east room to take a look. Qingcheng was cleaning up the pen and ink scrolls on the table, and when he saw her, he ordered: "Bring a bowl of lotus seed tea." ”

Hai'an didn't dare to ask more, promised to go out, boiled lotus seed tea, and when he entered the house again, he saw Qingcheng sitting on the kang, facing the glass window and making a pestle. She lightly put the tea on the small kang table with vermilion lacquer plum blossom pattern, and said, "Little master, please drink tea." ”

The hot tea was steaming and spreading like smoke and mist.

Qingcheng came back to his senses, as if he was stupid, staring at the dark green tea for a long time, and pondering with his head bowed.

When it arrived, the snow was falling heavier and heavier, and it was like a tear, flying all over the sky. After the emperor finished approving the last book, he straightened his waist, looked out the window, and saw that the wind and snow were raging, so he showed a slight melancholy.

Li Yu took the green head and stepped forward, and the jade plates were neatly arranged in a vermilion lacquer plate, with the names, surnames, and grades of the masters of the harem written on them. He had already entered the hall, but was stopped by Wu Shulai and said, "Today is 'calling', so there is no need to present a sign in front of him." ”

In January, the emperor always sleeps alone for a few days, and does not let people sleep. Li Yu didn't care about it, and went down with the sign. Wu Shulai knew what was involved, and he didn't dare to tell anyone, but he just treated Su Guiren in the future, and he didn't dare to covet it.