Lu Zhaoyi narrowed his eyes slightly, and glanced out of the door of the palace out of the corner of his eyes, knowing that in addition to Xia Pei in this harem, it was Cai Zhengjun.

And when she came, she also inquired that the emperor was discussing with the courtiers in the Taiji Palace, and in the same way, the movement of herself into the palace was so loud that it was impossible for the people in the palace not to hear the wind.

Therefore, the people outside are either the internal eunuchs sent by the emperor or the maids of Cai Zhengjun.

It's just that she's not afraid.

"Qi Niang is very reckless, okay, wait for ......" Empress Dowager Pu laughed, paused, and then looked at Xia Sheng, who was kneeling on her knees, with a slight pause.

This glance made Xia Sheng stunned, and an inexplicable tense atmosphere spread in the hall.

"Why does the queen mother look at her son like this?"

"I heard that when you went back to Luojing today, you entered the palace and saw your eldest brother, so you hurriedly ran to Qi Niang's mansion, ate the closed door, and came here to block people?"

Empress Dowager Pu's words not only made Xia Sheng speechless, but also made Lu Zhaoyi really stunned.

It seems that the Queen Mother is not confused at all, and she still knows it in her heart.

She has only met the Queen Mother twice, the first time was the Chinese New Year's Eve Palace Banquet, and the Queen Mother saw at a glance that her true identity was Gou Chenzi.

The second time was three months ago, when she came back from Guanzhong, in order to find out what was going on in this marriage, but when she saw the Queen Mother, she was really very indifferent, as if she knew it in advance, and she was not moved at all.

At that moment, Xia Sheng was asked by the Empress Dowager Pu without any excuse, Lu Zhaoyi couldn't look at it, and opened his mouth with a chuckle.

"Queen Mother, this matter will be accepted by Qi Niang, right? The reason is that King Han has been blocked in Yongping, and it is inconvenient for Qi Niang to meet him rashly, so he asked King Han to tell him what to say, so he simply confessed in front of the Queen Mother, so as not to cause gossip."

After listening, Empress Dowager Pu nodded at her again and again, and then turned to look at Xia Pei, "Look, Qi Niang is a sensible person, but you, acting so absurdly, have you considered your eldest brother's face?" z.br>

Xia Pei lowered his eyes and was silent, as if he didn't dare to look directly at the Queen Mother, let alone refute it.

As he spoke, Lu Zhaoyi noticed that the person who was eavesdropping on the door had quietly fled, and he had doubts in his heart.

Why did you only listen to half of it and run away? She thought to herself.

But the next moment, the palace maid stepped into the palace from the outside to report, "Queen Mother, Princess Su of Liang is waiting outside."

When she heard this, Empress Dowager Pu was happy, and she showed a worried look again, "Quick, quick, let my second daughter-in-law come in, it's windy outside, don't catch a cold."

The palace maid retreated, Lu Zhaoyi lowered her head and sighed, Su came here, Xia Sheng couldn't say anything.

However, she asked him to come to the Queen Mother, not really to explain anything, but just to show an attitude.

And this attitude is for Luo Jing's hundred officials and the emperor to see, and it is also a wake-up call for Xia Sheng.

The current situation is no longer the same as before, Luo Jing inside and outside, I don't know how many pairs of eyes are staring at her, just staring at her to see when she makes a mistake, and the wrong place is impeached in front of Xia Pei, cutting off her career path.

Similarly, in the palace, there is Cai Zhengjun who is eyeing her and attacking her, and now it is just some rumors, if she really catches any tricks, it will not turn the world upside down?

Thinking like this, Princess Liang Su Xiuniang had already entered the palace and gave a salute to the Queen Mother.

"Embroidery girl, how can it be such a coincidence today, and you won't say anything." Empress Dowager Pu smiled kindly, waved her hand, and motioned for her to sit beside her.

Su Xiuniang looked at Xia Sheng stunned for a moment, and immediately sneered, "After returning to my mother, my daughter-in-law entered the palace with my husband, and now Your Majesty and my husband are chatting, and I sent someone to call the third brother, but I didn't think that the third brother was hiding here in the queen mother."

When Xia Sheng heard this, he instantly understood, so he got up and said to the Queen Mother, "Since the eldest brother and the second brother are waiting for their son, the son will retire first, and then disturb the queen mother another day."

"Hmm." Empress Dowager Pu nodded, and then ordered the palace maids to send him out of the harem.

Xia Sheng was stunned, as if he was a little lost, and before leaving, he also glanced at the white figure that haunted him, and turned his head to leave.

And as soon as Xia Sheng left,

Empress Dowager Pu looked at her second daughter-in-law, and then at Lu Zhaoyi, as if she noticed the strangeness of the atmosphere in the hall.

"Ah, Xiuniang shouldn't have seen the seven ladies of the Lu family, right? In the future, you should also be concubines, and you young people should get acquainted with each other."

Su Xiuniang is the niece of the original monarch of the Yue Kingdom, as for why she married Xia Ran, it was because of the marriage between the Yue Yuan and the consolidation of the relationship between the two countries.

Later, after the fall of the Yue Kingdom, Su Xiuniang's father, because of her identity as the bride of the Xia family, was not involved, and then the relatives of the Su family also moved to Yedu to settle down.

Today is also the first time Lu Zhaoyi has met Su Xiuniang, the rumored virtuous beauty.

She was already beautiful and dignified, wearing a luxurious dress lined with black almond eyes, which was even more charming and moving.

However, Su Xiuniang is notoriously smart, and when she saw her, she didn't need to be reminded by the Queen Mother, so she naturally knew who she was, so she immediately performed the etiquette of a woman.

"Seven ladies can be described as women who do not lose to men, embroidery girls have long heard of it, last year, the husband went to Huainan County, and after coming back, he has been praising the seven ladies, and he has long wanted to see him."

Lu Zhaoyi was also not polite, and returned a salute, "Huainan disease is not the work of Qi Niang, but everyone worked together to do it, and it is not enough to worry about it. The princess has tormented Qi Niang."

The two looked at each other and smiled, and the atmosphere suddenly became harmonious.

When Empress Dowager Pu saw it, she clapped her hands, stood up and walked between them, stretched out her hand and pulled her left and right to herself.

"At first, Yu was worried that you were not familiar with each other, and I was afraid that there would be a gap, but today, it seems that Yu is still worried too much."

"The second princess is also very admirable, when the second princess was only thirteen or fourteen years old, she was burdened with the fate of the two countries, this deed is not something ordinary people can do." Lu Zhaoyi praised.

When Empress Dowager Pu heard this, she raised her eyebrows, "Of course, I don't want to see whose bride it is!"

Su Xiuniang's cheeks turned red when she said this, and she couldn't help but raise her eyes and glance at Lu Zhaoyi in front of her, who also looked at herself with a smile, her eyes soft and kind.

Seeing her so reserved, Lu Zhaoyi was not polite, pouted and smiled, and couldn't help but raise her head, "Naturally, she is the bride of the Queen Mother's family."

Empress Dowager Pu turned her head and asked, "What about you?"

Now it's time to change her.

Isn't she, who is marrying the emperor and about to become the bride of the Xia family?

Lu Zhaoyi thought of this, and the heat on his cheeks was even worse.

At this time, Su Xiuniang said in a timely manner: "Queen Mother, look at ......

Empress Dowager Pu suddenly realized, and said with a smile: "Look at the old mourning family, I forgot that you are still performing the six rituals."

In the Yongshou Palace, there was a moment of laughter and speechlessness.

After that, they chatted without saying a word, and they talked about an incident that happened on the way back to Yedu's mother's house half a month ago.

The cause of that incident, she and King Liang didn't know, and they met halfway, and they didn't know how it started.

When passing through Chao Ge County, Hanoi County, Liang Wangfu and his entourage happened to pass by and found that several families were copying farm tools in the field and were about to beat people.

When Xia Ran saw this, he immediately called the guards beside him to stop it.

However, because the crowd was so chaotic, those families didn't listen to Xia Ran's admonition at all, and still greeted them with hoes and heads.

「…… Later, we learned that the field was originally reclaimed by the order of Chaoge County, and the family that was originally responsible for the reclamation was extinct, so it was cleverly seized by several local gentry and divided up."

Hearing this, the corners of Lu Zhaoyi's mouth raised slightly, as if she understood, "The second princess suddenly talked about this, I don't think it's for the competition for the fields in Chaoge County, right? Rather, in the Su family in Yedu, something similar happened?"

When Su Xiuniang heard this, she nodded very frankly, and said with a smile: "Qi Niangzi is really smart, I won't hide it from you, when I went back to my parents' house this time, I encountered this kind of thing, not only the Su family, but also near Yedu, there are also many squires who are bullying the Su family."

Empress Dowager Pu was stunned, as if she was a little puzzled, "This matter is obviously a matter of political affairs, what do you mean by this?"

But before Su Xiuniang could speak, Lu Zhaoyi immediately preemptively said, "Queen Mother, right now, King Liang should also tell Your Majesty about this matter, and Your Majesty will naturally deal with this matter. However, the second princess said that she should have something else to ask Qi Niang."

At this time, Empress Dowager Pu understood, and in her eyes, there was some hesitation and annoyance.

"Say that for a long time, you two entered the palace, not to visit Yu, but to beg Your Majesty and Qi Niang?"

Seeing this, the Queen Mother seemed to be really angry, and Su Xiuniang hurriedly defended, "Oh, don't think so about the queen mother, the daughter-in-law is not here to see you!" By the way, it's just something to ask for."

Empress Dowager Pu raised her eyebrows, "After talking for a long time, I still haven't got to the point, since I have something to ask for, then say it directly, you are all a family in the future, won't Qi Niang help if you have something?"

At this moment, Su Xiuniang was speechless, and her eyes kept dodging.

But Lu Zhaoyi seemed to notice something, and his eyes lit up at the moment, and he smiled at Empress Dowager Pu.

Throwing bricks and jade, testing her reaction, but she never got down to business, it seems that there are unspeakable words, and Su Xiuniang can't say it.

"The second princess didn't say it, I think I was afraid that the queen mother would worry. However, Qi Niang has already guessed it, if Qi Niang said it, please don't be excited."

These words obviously made Empress Dowager Pu a little flustered, and she looked at Su Xiuniang nervously, and asked, "What happened to you little couple?"

The most distressing thing about Empress Dowager Pu is her sons, and now the eldest Xia Pei has ascended the throne as the emperor, and he is already the supreme son of heaven in the world. What's more, Xia Pei has been sensible since she was a child, and she hardly needs to worry about it.

As for the third child, Xia Sheng is a literati, and he is humble and polite, and the world admires him for his ability to learn from all articles, except for the bad habit of often getting drunk, she didn't worry about it much.

Only the second Xia Ran, who went out with the army in her teens, is good at riding and shooting, bending bows, and does not understand articles, every time she goes out to fight, she has to pray in front of the ancestral seat of the Xia family.

It's only been less than two years since An's birth, and I'm really afraid that something will happen to this son outside, and she, as a mother, can't help.

At that moment, she saw that Su Xiuniang didn't speak, and turned to look at Lu Zhaoyi, "Qi Niang, you just said that you guessed it, you say, what is the matter?"

At this time, Lu Zhaoyi slowly raised her head, glanced at Su Xiuniang from afar, and saw that the other party bowed slightly, so she slowly spoke.

"Queen Mother, it's not that something has happened, but someone is looking for trouble with King Liang, right? Second Princess?"

Empress Dowager Pu looked at Su Xiuniang again, and saw her nodding gently.

Seeing this, Lu Zhaoyi slowly got up and blessed her body, "Queen Mother, if Qi Niang doesn't meet Your Majesty with the second princess first, another day, Qi Niang will accompany the Queen Mother well, and she will retire first."

Empress Dowager Pu nodded, and then looked at Su Xiuniang, "You two go first!"