Cining Palace:

"Queen Mother, Your Majesty has sent someone to deliver wine and food." Ling'er ran in from outside.

Empress Dowager Wu was sitting at a table in the dormitory at this time, and on the table, there was an oval bronze mirror.

I have to admit that Empress Dowager Wu is still very beautiful.

Back then, when she married the ancestor Liu Bei, the Empress Dowager Wu was one of the rare beauties in Shu, and there were rumors in the market that her appearance was quite similar to that of Diao Chan back then.

Even when Queen Jing Mourning entered the palace, someone once compared her with the Empress Dowager Wu, although Queen Jing Mourning was slightly better, but Queen Jing Mourning obviously had an age advantage.

Empress Dowager Wu wiped it on the mirror with her hand.

"Ling'er." She didn't seem to hear Ling'er's words, but turned around and asked, "Do you know what the emperor did to Li Yin's house?" ”

Ling'er's eyes rolled.

"Queen Mother, although Li Yin was arrested by His Majesty, the slave maid expected that he would not confess Lord Chen Ji, and the Queen Mother did not need to be so concerned."

Empress Dowager Wu turned around, still staring at herself in the mirror.

"Chen Ji's house is really hateful, even if he deceived the mourning family, he also had to repeatedly argue with the emperor because of this, if he was caught by the mourning family, he would be severely punished."

Ling'er knew that Empress Dowager Wu had a grudge against Chen Ji, but if she really wanted to kill Chen Ji, I am afraid she would not be able to make such a determination for a while.

"Queen Mother, although Lord Chen Ji has done such things several times, according to the slave maid, there are still people behind him who make him bad, if he can completely cut off his contact with the outside world, and ask him to stay by the Queen Mother's side honestly, the slave and maid will ensure that he will not have any more trouble." Ling'er knew how to curry favor with Empress Dowager Wu, so she said.

The expression on Empress Dowager Wu's face changed slightly.

"Tell me about it."

Ling'er took a few steps forward and almost landed on Empress Dowager Wu's back.

"First get rid of all the people who know, and then, the slave and maid will take someone to go outside to find him back, and the queen mother will tell the truth in person, asking him to promise that he will not think about anything wrong in the future, and make people follow him, and not let him step out of the palace gate for half a step. Without the temptation from the outside, Lord Chen could only serve the Queen Mother wholeheartedly. ”

Empress Dowager Wu hesitated.

"If the emperor learns about this matter, he will blame me for thinking about personal feelings and not family feelings."

"How could the Queen Mother be confused." Ling'er said, "Cining Palace is very big, there are dozens of houses where the slaves and maids live, where is the Queen Mother hiding it casually, how can Her Majesty know about it?" Moreover, the enemies outside the city have all fled, and Your Majesty will personally lead the army in the near future, as long as it is not known to outsiders, is it not your world in the palace? ”

Empress Dowager Wu was taken aback.

"Who rumored that the emperor was going to recruit in person?"

"This ......" Ling'er hesitated for a moment, "The slave maid is just guessing, thinking that every time Your Majesty fights with the enemy, he will take the lead, and this time, it should be no exception." ”

Empress Dowager Wu was a little worried.

"Ling'er, you go to the Yixin Palace, and after the emperor's feast, immediately ask him to come here to see the mourning family, and say that the mourning family has something urgent to find him."

"Yes." Ling'er agreed, but she didn't leave, thought for a while and asked, "What the slave maid said just now, can the Queen Mother implement it?" ”

Empress Dowager Wu doesn't seem to have thought about it yet.

"Ling'er, this kind of thing is not for fun, if Chen Ji does not repent and continues to harm my family's emperor, how should the mourning family behave?"

"The queen mother doesn't have to worry about this, everything just needs to be left to the slave maid." Ling'er seemed to have thought about it a long time ago, and she was confident that Empress Dowager Wu had no other choice.

Sure enough, after thinking about it for a long time, Empress Dowager Wu nodded.

Ling'er was overjoyed and walked out of the dormitory.

She didn't go to the Yixin Hall to wait for Liu Yong in person, but asked a palace maid to go, and she slipped out from behind alone.

She was going to meet someone, who was among the people she had just said to Empress Dowager Wu to get rid of.

Bypassing several rockeries in the garden, Ling'er soon came to the vicinity of the imperial study.

Compared to other palaces, it is very quiet.

When Liu Chan was alive, he would come here every ten days to pretend to sit down, and every time he was accompanied by the eunuch Huang Hao, but each time it was not very long, and the kabuki in the palace was called.

After Liu Yong replaced Liu Chan, because he had been in a state of war, even if he had the heart to come here to study quietly, he didn't have time, so this place was even cleaner than the Yanghe Palace in the corner.

When Ling'er came here, a eunuch who was in charge of cleaning the imperial study was sitting in the room dozing off, and was startled when he heard footsteps.

"Ling, Ling'er girl?"

"You are very idle, Your Majesty does not come, you just sleep every day, not like me who broke my leg every day, and you have to be on guard against being scolded by the Queen Mother from time to time." Ling'er looked a little jealous.

The eunuch smiled.

"Miss Ling'er laughed, you are the most favored girl around the Queen Mother, you don't need to do anything personally, as long as you are willing to open your mouth, even the life of the villain can be taken casually."

Ling'er's little face sank.

"When you say this, do you dare to think that this girl is unreasonable?"

"Where, where." The eunuch hurriedly said, "The villain can't speak, I wanted the girl to laugh, but I wanted the girl to be angry, don't blame the villain." ”

Ling'er didn't come to fight with him today.

"Forget it, this girl has something important to do today, so I don't care about you."

"Miss Ling'er came to the imperial study, but do you want to read any books?" The eunuch couldn't guess Ling'er's intention, and asked tentatively.

Ling'er approached and pointed with her hand: "By the order of the Queen Mother, I am here to visit the people behind." ”

The eunuch was taken aback.

"How did Miss Ling'er know that there were people locked up here?"

"This matter needs to be hidden from outsiders, how can Your Majesty deceive the Queen Mother?" Ling'er's face remained unchanged when she lied, and she deliberately lowered her voice, "This person used to be kind to the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother knew that His Majesty would not spare him, so she specially asked the slave maid to come to visit to show that the Queen Mother did not forget the old kindness." ”

"This ......," the eunuch looked embarrassed, "Your Majesty is worried about being known by others, so he will detain this person here, and he has not even sent guards, for fear of arousing the suspicion of others." The Queen Mother asked the girl to come here, and the slave was afraid that His Majesty would blame her. Otherwise, Miss Ling'er should go to your majesty first. ”

Ling'er's little face was cold.

"You guy, you only have Your Majesty in your eyes, is there no Queen Mother? Can the Queen Mother's decree be easily changed? It's okay, the slave and maid will go back to the Queen Mother and ask her to come here in person. As she spoke, Ling'er made it look like she was about to leave.

The eunuch panicked.

"Miss Ling'er stays."

Ling'er stopped, but deliberately made it look as if she had just remembered something, and found a small yellow silk cloth bag in her pocket.

"I just care about fighting with you, but I really forgot, the Queen Mother knows that you usually like to drink tea, and she specially asked me to bring you a bag of good osmanthus sent from the place."

This eunuch had already been frightened by Ling'er's momentum, but at this time, when he heard that Empress Dowager Wu actually gave herself a bag of good tea, she immediately smiled flatteringly.

"I also asked the girl to thank the Queen Mother on my behalf. The girl wants to go, and the slave will take you there, as long as you don't displease the Queen Mother. ”

"That's right." Ling'er said happily.