Not long after Guo Sheng left, the Empress Dowager Jin ordered someone to summon Li Xia into the palace.

Li Xia hurriedly changed her clothes, Fugui drove the car, and Mrs. Yan picked a few old and calm mothers-in-law to follow and rushed to the palace.

When Li Xia entered Xuanning Palace, Concubine Yao Xian had already arrived, and she was sitting in front of the low table in front of the kang, grinding tea powder and preparing to make tea.

Li Xia gave the Empress Dowager Jin a salute, and bent her knees at Concubine Yao Xian, Concubine Yao Xian hurriedly put down the tea mill in her hand and stood up, and the Empress Dowager Jin waved her hand and said: "She is young, you can bear this half-courtesy, you don't have to be too restricted." ”

Concubine Yao Xian had already returned the salute, smiled in response, sat down again, and continued to grind tea.

Li Xia's heart moved slightly, the Queen Mother's words could have a taste of teaching.

"I called you to ......" As soon as Empress Dowager Jin opened her mouth, the voice of the waiter came in from outside the weeping flower gate, and Jiang Niangniang arrived.

"You go and greet you." Empress Dowager Jin signaled to Li Xia, Li Xia agreed, and went out to the door of the palace unhurriedly, just in time to meet Queen Jiang who turned from the verandah to the door of the main hall.

Li Xia saw the salute, lowered his hand sideways, and asked Queen Jinjiang to follow up, standing outside the palace gate, smiling at Concubine Su who was walking leisurely.

Su Guifei turned a corner, as if she had just discovered Li Xia, and walked a few steps and said with a smile: "Don't dare to work girl." ”

Li Xia bent his knees with a smile, and did not answer, but only owed his body to let Su Guifei in.

In the hall, the Empress Dowager Jin sat with a little ease, watched Su Guifei and Li Xia sit down, and said with a calm face: "I have lived for more than sixty years, and the flat ground in the palace is filled with water more than a foot deep. ”

"The death of the father and son of the Chang family is not enough to atone for the crime." Empress Jiang's voice was fierce.

"I heard that since Chang Shifu took over the capital water superintendent, the rivers inside and outside the capital have not been dredged and repaired once, and it has been thirty or forty years, and it has lasted so long. Su Guifei smiled and sighed in her tone.

Concubine Yao Xian ordered tea and handed over a cup by herself.

"These are all government affairs." Empress Dowager Jin took the tea and took a few sips, "The water in the city is deep, and it is said that it is more than one person deep, and a lot of houses have been poured down, alas." Empress Dowager Jin sighed, "There are more than ten miles outside the city, and the crops are soaked in water, and I am afraid that this year there will be no harvest." Let's talk about how to help a bunch of poor people in and out of the city. ”

"There must be a charter for this matter, lest what the palace does, and what the outside people follow with the wind, either all the porridge shacks are built, or the families send money out indiscriminately, and good things become bad things." Empress Jiang answered first.

"That's what it means." Empress Dowager Jin nodded in agreement, "Calling you over is to discuss and discuss, how to arrange this matter is the best." Let's talk about it first. Empress Dowager Jin looked at Empress Jiang.

Empress Jiang chuckled, "It's nothing, but it refers to a general person, but anyone who wants to do good deeds should first go to her and report how much silver there is, and give silver to soup and medicine, and there is a general manager." ”

Su Guifei pursed her lips and smiled, "That's what I mean." ”

Concubine Yao Xian was concentrating on the tea. Li Xia listened to everyone's words with a solemn face.

"Well, this general person, I think let Jiu Niangzi work hard, we are all in the palace, it is inconvenient to report in and out, if there is anything, you can come over at any time, ask me, ask Jiang Niangniang." Empress Dowager Jin simply pointed to Li Xia as the general leader, looked at Li Xia, and explained softly.

A hint of surprise flashed on Empress Jiang's face, and then she smiled and held back, took a sip of tea, and said with a smile: "The mother assigned it is very much, we are in the palace, it is really inconvenient." However, Jiu Niangzi is a little smaller, not to mention such a cumbersome event, it is the housework in your house, and Jiu Niangzi has just begun to learn with it, right? ”

Empress Jiang said, looking at the Empress Dowager Jin, "Jiu Niangzi is a smart person, and she has experienced it after a few times, but this disaster relief matter is trivial and complicated, but it is very important, you have to find someone to pick up the missing and fill in the gaps by Jiu Niangzi's side, and assist one or two, I think, let Yonsei go, the snow disaster in the year before last, the disaster relief inside and outside the capital, he took care of it single-handedly, and he took care of the trivial matters of the Shangyuan Festival every year in the past few years, and he was very familiar with it inside and outside the city. ”

Su Guifei's lips were next to the rim of the cup, and she couldn't hold back the smile on her face, and her eyes looked at Li Xia obliquely.

Concubine Yao Xian looked up at Empress Jiang, and then drank tea.

Li Xia's expression was calm and timid, and the Empress Dowager Jin looked at Li Xia's expression and snorted, "If Yonsei can help, this matter will be more appropriate, Ninth Sister, what do you see?" ”

"When I was in Gaoyou, I followed A-Niang Zhang Luo twice to give porridge and medicine, as Jiang Niangniang said, the big thing is not a big deal, it is extremely cumbersome, and every little thing is very important. In the past few days, all the yamen have been so busy that they can't even take care of their families, my father, and the fifth brother, haven't been home for two days, Jiang Gongzi is leading the messenger, I'm afraid that there is not much free, can I ......?"

Li Xia's timid gaze went from Empress Jiang to Concubine Su Guifei, then to Concubine Yao Xian, and then to Empress Dowager Jin, "Let the fourth and fifth masters also do a favor?" ”

Empress Dowager Jin snorted, with a smile on her face that she didn't intend to hide, "This is extremely true, it just right, the fourth brother and the fifth brother are idle, and the sixth brother, go together, this is a matter of blessing." ”

Empress Jiang looked at Li Xia with a little surprise, for a moment, chuckled, and nodded dryly: "I also think it's very suitable, Jiu Niangzi is really smart, it's really rare." ”

Concubine Su Guifei glanced at Li Xia, then at Empress Jiang, and then at Concubine Yao Xian, the smile on the corner of her mouth appeared from time to time.

"Then it's agreed, I'll send someone to tell the emperor in a while, the fourth brother and the fifth brother, and Yonsei, the emperor has to say something." Empress Dowager Jin's words settled, Empress Jiang stood up first, bent her knees and retreated, and Concubine Su followed closely behind Empress Jiang, as when she came, she retreated one after the other.

Concubine Yao Xian also stood up, Li Xia was about to retire together, and the Empress Dowager Jin looked at her and said, "You stay, I have a few words to ask you." ”

Watching Concubine Yao Xian go out of the palace gate, Empress Dowager Jin motioned for Li Xia to sit on the edge of the kang, "How do you think of asking the fourth brother and the fifth brother to help with this?" ”

"This is an errand for the mother, it is a family matter, and it is the filial piety of the fourth brother and the fifth brother." Li Xia pondered his words.

"Well, Jiang Hou pushed Jiang Yanshi to this matter, don't take it to heart. You remember, the first thing to do as a royal daughter-in-law is to be generous and decent, not to be subordinate. Empress Dowager Jin spoke in a gentle tone.

Li Xia hurriedly got up and responded, and a slight strange feeling surfaced in her heart, in the past, the Queen Mother had never said such a thing, she had always taught her, or told her, those who have no lower limit of the evil in the hearts of people.

"Go back, let the Yan family give you a hand, and send someone to tell Brother Yan about your messenger, and let him pick a few people for you to use."

Li Xia hurriedly agreed and bowed his hand to retire.