After returning to the palace, Empress Cao went to the small room.

"The Empress lets you in."

Shangshu Zhao was still worried about gains and losses. After entering, he knelt on the futon next to him, and he didn't dare to come out.

Empress Dowager Cao knelt in the middle, her lips slightly moved, but she was silently reciting the scriptures.

Later she turned her head and glanced at Zhao Shangshu and said lightly: "You are twenty-seven years old."

Well!

Coincidentally, you know everything?

Then what did you ask about this before?

Zhao Shangshu was completely confused.

"Your parents have given birth to too many children. After you came out for many years, they have long forgotten you..."

"You..." Zhao Shangshu finally couldn't help asking: "Empress, you actually know..."

Empress Dowager Cao said coldly: "At twenty-seven years old... a woman reaches twenty-seven years old, and then she will be withered... in this palace... someone comes!"

One person came in outside the door.

Empress Dowager Cao said coldly: "Tell the official family that Zhao is so sad that he is not happy about his work, so he drives him out!"

"Empress!"

Zhao Shangshu seemed to hear a bolt from the blue. She lay on the ground and said sadly: "Empress, I am wrong. I am willing to be punished, but I am not willing to leave the palace."

What can she do when she leaves the palace?

Returning to Yizhou from a thousand miles away?

She is twenty-seven years old, and it is difficult to find a suitable man to marry at this age. Moreover, the dowry requirements of the women of the Song Dynasty are generous...

Her home will not accept such trouble or burden.

Maybe it will be kept, but that is a walking corpse!

She raised her head, "I am willing to be in the palace for the rest of my life..."

As long as you work hard in the palace, at least you don’t have to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation, it can be called an iron rice bowl.

But what about outside?

What can she do in Bianliang City when she goes out at her age?

It's probably just a brothel in the end.

She doesn't want to go!

I would rather die than go.

"go out!"

Empress Dowager Cao lowered her eyes, her lips moved slightly, and she began to recite scriptures silently again.

"Empress..."

Just as Zhao Shangshu was about to beg, two eunuchs came to raise her.

Empress Dowager Cao has a respectable status, so it is not a problem for her to drive a palace maid out, but it is a bit troublesome to have a female official Zhao Shangshu or a high-level female official like Shanggong.

But she said that Zhao Shangshu was indifferent to his work, so this could be done.

No one around you can tolerate any loss.

Later, someone reported, "Empress, the saint nodded, saying that you have something to do and just talk."

I heard that there was a female official who was unreliable in doing things, so Gao Taotao did not disagree with it, so he immediately came.

Empress Dowager Cao nodded to a female official and then began to recite scriptures silently.

"Zhao, leave the palace!"

Zhao Shangshu collapsed on the ground and said in despair: "I won't go out, I won't go out!"

"You can't help it!"

The two eunuchs came with a cold face, probably planning to take her out of the palace.

“Go out.”

The female official came, and a bag was hung on her arms and handed it to Zhao Shangshu.

But Zhao Shangshu was so heartbroken that he could not raise any interest in her.

"have a look."

The female official hesitated for a moment and finally said, "You open it and take a look."

Zhao Shangshu slowly opened his bag...

"That's paper money?"

An eunuch looked at the stack of paper money and couldn't help but look greedy.

"This must be one or two hundred coins."

"There are very few paper money, and no one has it. She can exchange money for the fragrance when she leaves the palace. She is so developed!"

An envious voice came from all sides, and everyone understood one thing.

It would be no bad thing to drive her out of the palace with Empress Dowager Cao!

Otherwise, why did you even send so many banknotes?

Shangshu Zhao recalled today's experience, and when he thought of Empress Dowager Cao's questions, he immediately understood.

"Empress... I will not leave the palace! I am willing to serve you for the rest of my life!"

Empress Dowager Cao was unwilling to bury her life in the deep palace, so she just found an excuse to throw her out of the palace.

It’s a mess, everyone has this kind of minor problem, it will happen every once in a while, and it won’t be criticized...

"The Queen Mother asked you to go to the Shen family."

Zhao Shangshu looked up at the female official in disbelief. When he was in the Shen family, the Empress Dowager asked Guoguo to look at him, and asked how kind he looked at her.

Guoguo returns to be kind...

This is what the Queen Mother planned for me!

She actually left the palace for my violation of the rules!

What is quiet and thoughts about moving are clearly an excuse.

"Empress..."

Zhao Shangshu cried loudly on the ground.

"Quarrel!"

Empress Dowager Cao frowned and someone came out and said, "The Empress said it's too noisy."

Shangshu Zhao then followed the people out of the palace and arrived at the Shen family.

"Why isn't the uncle's family?"

She has been thinking about this question since she woke up.

The female official smiled and said, "The uncle's family... has too many people and has a lot of trouble. There are only three people in the Shen family. Adding an unborn child is just four people. The matter is simple."

Someone went to knock on the door. After opening the door, Zhuang Laoshi looked at it. Seeing that it was them, he smiled and said, "My little lady is unwilling to go to the palace to learn martial arts!"

The female official said lightly: "The Empress said she is destined to be with your little lady. Since your little lady likes Zhao, I'll give it to her."

What?

Zhuang Laoshi said with a confused look on his face: "Who are you sending to?"

When Zhao Shangshu walked out, he didn't know whether he should be happy or sad, and said blessedly: "Slave Zhao."

"No, no!"

Zhuang honestly jumped to the side, not daring to accept her gift.

After entering, Guoguo rushed over when she heard the news. Seeing that Zhao Shangshu looked sad, she asked, "Did the Empress give you to me?"

"yes."

Empress Dowager Cao looked cold and tough, but she was rescued from the palace with extremely delicate means, which made her not moved.

Guoguo asked curiously: "What are your name?"

After leaving the palace, he naturally could not call him Shangshu Zhao anymore.

She looked up and thought for a long time, "I remember when I was young, my family was called Nu Wuwu."

Most women are unknown, just have a surname and ranking.

That's how Zhao Wuwu was.
To be continued...