On the same day that the Tianhezong convoy arrived at Jingzhou Mansion.

The capital, Ouchi Imperial Palace.

Taihua Palace, in the imperial study.

……

Just after the early dynasty, the gorgeous mature woman wore a golden and red moire robe, sat on a wide chair carved from wenge wood, took a deep breath, and stretched her waist with her fragrant shoulders.

"Uh-huh-~"

After a high fluctuation of the two touches of heart, the woman sighed in a low voice, first stared at the pile of folds in front of the case for a while, and then looked at the Zhu Pi Xiaoyanghao in her hand.

“……”

Shout~

Syllable...

With a flick of the jade hand, the brush crossed an arc and fell into the pen holder.

"Hmm... It's too late to approve it after a while..."

With a string of whispered muttering, the empress kicked off the two big red embroidered shoes tattooed with majestic golden dragons, and the graceful warm fragrant dragon leaned softly and lay down on the wide chair with three layers of soft couches.

Tsk, lying down is more comfortable than sitting...

In this way, after closing her eyes and taking a few breaths, the empress slowly opened her eyes again, and then bit her lower lip a few times, and looked at a plate of delicate red fruits next to the side of the case.

“……”

Although I have eaten two breakfasts, a bird's nest white fungus and a hawthorn soup, if I don't have anything in my mouth, it's still itchy...

Especially when you are lazy during the excerpt.

It's not that you don't have enough to eat, it's not that you're hungry, it's that your mouth is hungry, and to put it bluntly, you're hungry.

Of course, it's the one above.

However, at this time, the empress looked at the plate of cherry tomatoes paid tribute by Tuoshan Kingdom, but she was a little hesitant.

After all, this year, the expenditure on buying all kinds of snacks and snacks in the palace seems to have exceeded the money for buying rouge gouache.

Tut...

If this continues, if there are rumors that I am a glutton, then my majesty in front of civil and military officials is not...

……

The reason why Longwei is powerful and unpredictable is the most important point.

……

Therefore, as the emperor of the Great Zhou, it is actually very necessary to hide or hide his preferences as much as possible.

In particular, the feeling of "liking to eat" is not a very elegant preference.

But there is one thing to say, at the moment, the maids in the imperial study have been cleared out, and the tea is just gone, if you just eat some fruit because you are thirsty, it is also reasonable, and it has nothing to do with preference, right?

Yes, reasonable.

With such thoughts, the empress's heart relaxed at once, and she decisively reached out and grabbed a cherry tomato from the plate.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty—"

“？！”

However, at this moment, the hurried footsteps of a maid were heard outside the door.

"Your Majesty, Xing'er asks to see you."

“……”

The empress frowned, her nose wrinkled slightly, put down the cherry tomatoes in her hand, quickly sat up, picked up the shoes that had been kicked off and put them back on, and grabbed the brush back from the pen holder.

"Come in..."

"Yes."

Squeak –

The one who opened the door and came in, is the empress's most trusted personal maid, who entered the palace at the age of six, and the empress gave her the name Xing'er, usually in addition to taking care of the empress's diet, daily life, dressing and other life, she will also be responsible for some of the empress's news exchanges outside the Jinluan Palace.

"What's the matter, panic."

The empress stared at the folds on the case, and did not raise her head in the face of her usual henchmen.

The maid Xing'er couldn't help but chuckle in her heart, and secretly looked up, but saw that the saint was cold, and it seemed that she was not in a good mood.

"Huh...?"

“！”

After a little stunned, the empress only raised her eyes, but her clear eyes were as heavy as a thousand pounds.

The powerful aura of the person who is superior in force and status, there is no need to artificially exaggerate, it just naturally and casually emanates and falls on Xing'er, which is enough to make this sixteen-year-old little girl sweat on her forehead for a moment, and unconsciously hurriedly bowed down and said:

"Saint, there are three things, one is about the movements of the county lord of Qingli, listening to Yuxuan's latest flying pigeon biography report, the county lord has arrived in Yangzhou Prefecture, and he will be able to arrive in Beijing in a few days."

"Hmm... And there's more. ”

Long Wei is unpredictable, although the saint has always been very gentle to himself, but at this time, Xing'er is still very respectful, and she doesn't dare to raise her head:

"The second thing is about the disappearance of Zhou Ning, the governor of Qingzhou Prefecture, which is said to have been confirmed by Li Pei, a henchman under Zhou Ning, and the preliminary estimate is that he lost his foot and drowned after drinking, and the officials are dealing with the follow-up."

Qingzhou Prefect...

If I'm not mistaken, I went to Beijing the year before last to say goodbye...

Originally, he was also an old man who was about to leave office at the end of his term, and it was a pity that he couldn't enjoy his old age in peace, but there were many candidates to take over...

The empress didn't care too much about this, what to do.

But the third thing that Xing'er reported made her ponder for a while.

"The third thing is from Jingzhou, saying that the holy daughter of the Tianhe Sect seems to be inspecting the industries in various places, but in fact, it is mainly the incense pavilions in various places, and now it should have arrived in Jingzhou Mansion."

"The Holy Maiden of the Tianhe Sect?"

When the empress heard this, she first subconsciously glanced at the cherry tomatoes on the table, and then her eyes couldn't help but flash a trace of suspicion and curiosity.

……

The Holy Maiden of the Tianhe Sect dispatched at this time, could it be related to the movement not long ago?

In other words, the woman on the Tianshan Mountain...

I don't even know who the sect leader of the Tianhe Sect is...

Alas.

I don't know the best, it's impossible to expect them to abandon their old hatreds, I just hope that they don't have any contact, even indirect contact, otherwise they will inevitably have trouble in their lives...

……

"I've got it all right, is there anything else?"

"Back to the saint, it's gone."

As soon as Xing'er spoke, the next moment she waved her little hand to change her words:

"That's not right! Apricot means that there is nothing else to report, no... It's not that the Holy One is gone... Holy Wisdom, please! ”

“……”

The little maid was about to kneel down as she spoke, but the empress was plain on the surface, but she was a little speechless in her heart.

I didn't think about it at all, this girl was probably scared by herself...

That's it, next time I invite her to take a bath with her, and repair the gap again.

……

In the end, even after Xing'er left, she never knew why the saint was in a bad mood.

In fact, the empress's mood quickly began to improve after Xing'er left.

Shout~

Syllable...

Skillfully skimming off the pen and kicking off the little shoes, the warm and soft dragon body once again lay down on the side of the wide chair.

The cold and majestic monarch of a country with sweaty palms of the little maid in that town just now seemed to disappear all at once, and all that was in the imperial study was a lazy and enchanting beautiful woman.

"Ahem... I have passed on my word that I will concentrate on reviewing the recital today, and before sunset, no one will see anyone unless there is something very important. ”

cleared her throat, the empress's red lips opened lightly, obviously she was just speaking at an ordinary volume, but the sound with wisps of echoes was like Zhong Lu, and it resounded throughout the entire Taihua Palace.

"Yes!"

The Yu Lin Guards and servants inside and outside the Taihua Hall responded in unison, and the momentum was quite impressive.

After ordering these words, the empress in the imperial study stretched out her snow-white arm and grabbed a cherry tomato from the plate of the case.

After a pause, he grabbed another one.

Two...

Three...

In the end, I simply grabbed a large handful, saved it in the palm of my hand, and ate it slowly one by one.

In addition, as a pastime, the empress did not forget the other end of the case, and also kept a crumpled booklet, on which were written the words "The Divine Daughter of the Great Wei", which was a miscellaneous novel from the previous dynasty.

The content of the book is very simple, it tells the story of a wanderer who inadvertently broke into the palace, met the queen, gradually developed feelings with him, and was found to be martyred. Because of the identity of the protagonist and the overly delicate description of love between the two in the book, it became a banned book as early as the previous dynasty, and this one on the table can be said to be the only one.

The empress herself is not partial to these solitary books.

She loves to read essays, as long as they are good.

However, the Great Zhou Dynasty was already martial, and the first emperor was even more conquestful, so the level of literature and art was not as good as that of the previous dynasty.

Not to mention the small talk book, even the poetry and songs, there are not many excellent in the current dynasty, and the things that the literati and scholars are currently studying are some old things from the past dynasties.

If we want to flourish in this area again, what is needed is a more lasting rule of peace, which has a heavy task and a long way to go.

Before that, the empress lying on the chair could only bite the juicy and sweet cherry tomatoes while flipping through this kind of forbidden book of the former dynasty with relish.

Right now, the empress is reading the tenth chapter.

"Jianghu... When I meet the queen again, it's hard to fall in love... Cannonball Kim Luan...? ”

Faced with this title, the empress didn't think much about it at first, but she just felt a little strange, and said in her heart how could this plot still involve the punishment of cannon branding.

But looking at it, the empress's expression froze, and a cherry tomato on her lips was unstable, and juice splashed out of her ground.

Originally...

That's what it means...

Can... But that's the Golden Luan Palace! It's on the dragon chair! She is a queen, even if she falls in love with the young heroes of the rivers and lakes, she doesn't have to cheat with the young heroes of the rivers and lakes, how can she be on the dragon chair of the Jinluan Palace...

Belch!

The empress temporarily closed this book of "The Goddess of Great Wei" and was very angry.

The dizziness on the face of the angry pretty is flushed red.

No wonder it's a banned book, it's just a bully! Disobedience!

Not to mention anything else, why does the queen sit on the dragon chair?

But the position of the emperor! If you want to steal a man to play on the dragon chair, then it should be the emperor who is qualified, right?

Of course, this does not mean that the empress herself would think of smuggling a man to the Jinluan Palace and doing things on the dragon chair, which is really too unseemly and unseemly.

She has only been on the throne for thirteen years, and as the king of a country, such a narrow thing as men and feelings will only be considered in the Year of the Monkey.

But now that you've thought of it...

I don't know what the male guard that my sister Su Yinhua likes is like...

……

No one knows her sister's situation better than her sister, and the empress is inevitably a little curious about the only man that her sister has been interested in since she was a child.

If the so-called young man really came to Beijing one day, and his identity is indeed clean, then he might as well go and see it himself.

After all, he is my sister's first man, and I, the "royal sister-in-law", also have the right to check for my sister...