I was slightly stunned when I saw Nian Shen.

Perhaps, he had just come out of his mother's room and had been dealing with Chang Qing's question. He might not have expected that when he met me, he would be asked the same question again.

He hesitated for a moment: "I..."

I smiled and said, "Your Highness, do you remember when Your Highness found me in the cold palace when he was a child, I once taught Your Highness a word?"

He thought for a while and said, "Don't be happy with things, nor do he be sad with himself."

I laughed: "Your Highness still remembers it."

"I remember everything that happened with Aunt Qing."

My eyes bent up after laughing, and then said, "Thinking about this sentence carefully, it is actually applicable to all kinds of issues, and it can even be used to consider many issues. For one thing, don't consider who are involved, who are close to you and who are alienated from you. If that happens, you will inevitably have biased and wrong judgments."

"..." He looked at me with wide eyes.

I said, "Original heart, introspection, so that you can make the correct judgment."

Nian Shen looked at me without saying a word, but he seemed to have thought a lot in his heart. At this moment, Kouer and the others came over from the side, and when they saw us talking, they immediately came over: "Your Highness, Miss."

I smiled and said to them, "It just so happened that I was about to come back to pay my respects to the Queen, and His Royal Highness came out."

Kou'er also smiled and said, "It's just right, the Empress is much more energetic now. If the girl wants to pay her respects, it's just right."

"That's good," I said, and looked back at Nian Shen: "Your Highness, I'll take my leave first."

After saying that, he nodded slightly and turned around and walked in.

Nian Shen was still standing there. When I walked to Chang Qing's door, I turned around and saw him turn around and hurried out of Jingren Palace.

I couldn't help but smile gently in my heart.

In fact, no matter what kind of person he is, it may be more important than the ending in front of him.

Just as I was standing at the door and smiling, the person inside seemed to have felt my presence and said softly: "Who is outside?"

Before I could speak, Kou'er said first: "Empress, Miss Yan is here to pay tribute to you."

"oh……"

Her voice was still weak, and the sound was a bit long, but she quickly said, "Come in."

I pushed the door and walked in.

The smell of medicine in the room was stronger than outside. She probably hadn't gone out these days, and the smell of incense was also very strong. When I stood still, I saw her wearing thick clothes, leaning against the couch, with a book on her hand. When she saw me walking in, she raised her head and her pale face showed a little illusory smile under the light smoke rising from the incense burner.

"You're here."

"The young lady pays me a blessing to the Queen."

"Get up quickly."

She waved her hand, and Ku'er and the others hurried over to help me up. Chang Qing waved her hand again: "Sit down."

"Thank you, the Queen."

I agreed and sat on the chair on the side of her finger.

Then, I looked up and looked at her.

I almost never saw her in the past few days after entering the palace. I felt that she was obviously thin, her cheeks were slightly sunken, and the blue black in my eyes seemed to indicate her uneasiness. I said softly: "The Queen Mother's improvement doesn't look very good."

She smiled faintly and said, "I can't eat or sleep, so my complexion will naturally not be better."

"Why did the Empress make things difficult for me like this?"

"It's not that I want to make things difficult for myself," she said, looking at me: "but there are many things that are difficult for me in this world."

...

For a moment, both of us became quiet.

The sunlight outside shines into the house through the thin window paper. One by one, you can see many tiny dust flying in the sky, and the curling smoke becomes slightly revealed in the light.

Chang Qing and I were both watching in vain.

After watching for a while, she covered her mouth and coughed lightly. I hurriedly got up and walked over: "Empress..."

"It's okay," she smiled and waved her hand, but her face turned red, as if she was trying hard to suppress the desire to cough. I looked at her. No matter what happened before, what was happening in the court at this moment, and she still felt distressed after all, and she frowned slightly and said, "Why didn't the Empress invite the imperial physician to come and take a look? Is this disease better than the root cause?"

She coughed twice before saying, "I couldn't feel happy a few days ago, so I found the imperial physician, and there were still some things. After this, I have to take a good look."

My heart thumped.

Waiting for this matter-?

I am not stupid, and she has already made it clear. Her affairs were planned by Taishi Chang and Nangong Jinhong to use troops to Xichuan.

My brows slowly frowned.

I said, "The Empress will wait until the matter is over before looking for the imperial physician. Have the Empress ever thought about how this matter will end?"

She looked up and looked at me.

A faint smile appeared on her face, and the hazy light shone on her face, making the smile seem a little empty. She said slowly: "Actually, I have been thinking about this question."

“…”

"Not only I am thinking, but even the imperial concubine has been thinking."

My heart thumped again.

Nangong Lizhu!

These days, she almost stayed in the door with me, but often met Nangong Lizhu. This matter was hard to say how to be "jealous". However, I didn't expect that she would raise it directly in front of me.

My smile became a little stiff, but I still smiled: "Then, what did the imperial concubine think and what did the queen think?"

She smiled and said, "I don't know what she thinks."

“…”

"What I want is—" she said, looking up at me: "It is probably difficult to be versatile in this matter and not offend both sides."

I couldn't help but smile in my heart - of course.

As we already talk about swordsmanship, it is naturally impossible to be versatile and not offend both.

The emperor had to make a choice between them, Liu Qinghan, or Xichuan.

I said, "Then, the Empress thinks, which side will His Majesty the Emperor choose?"

She smiled faintly: "I am not the emperor. How could I know what decision the emperor wants to make?"

"Don't the Queen want to influence His Majesty the Emperor?"

"Do you think over the years, will the emperor's decision be affected by the concubines?"

When she asked this, I was a little hesitant. Looking back on what Ye Yunshuang said in Yunhua Palace just now, it seems that they are very clear as Pei Yuanhao's women. What decisions Pei Yuanhao wants to make? Once it is related to national policies, they will never let the concubines in the harem participate, or even blow the wind beside the pillow.

But what about Nangong Lizhu?

Chang Qing’s failure to do this is the etiquette she must adhere to as a queen; Ye Yunshuang’s failure to do this is because she is not worth enough, but if Nangong Lizhu were there, some things might be different.

If Nangong Lizhu wanted to say something to Pei Yuanhao, would he listen? Or, to what extent would he hear?

Perhaps, this is the reason why others can't speak out at all.

Chang Qing said: "But no matter what, today's court discussion will definitely lead to a result."

I nodded: "That's natural."

"How about you, you are here in this palace, let's wait for this result together."

"……good."

When she said this word, she had some difficulty for some reason, as if she had tried some effort to speak it out. When she looked at Chang Qing, the bright redness that had just appeared on her face was faded from her cough, and she sank into a bloodless pale.

Jingren Palace seemed to have quieted down at this moment.

I listened to the sound of incense slices burning little by little in the incense burner, and watched the dust slowly floating in the light. The tea in Jingren Palace is gentle and slightly bitter. Only after drinking it and savoring it carefully can there be a little bit of undetectable sweetness, but that point makes people linger.

We just met quietly like this, but we didn't know when we would sit to the end.

And what will the answer at the end be?

Time passed by little by little. Just as the tea in her cup and I were slowly getting colder, there was a sound of footsteps outside, one in front and one behind, one in light and one heavy. Two people should have come, stepping on thin snow and slowly walked to the door of the room.

The next moment, the door was pushed open, and a corner of Pei Yuanhao's bright yellow robe flashed at the door.

Chang Qing and I immediately stood up and saw Pei Yuanhao slowly walking in from outside, and the one who followed him was the prince Nianshen.

Chang Qing hurriedly possessed herself and bowed: "I am paying homage to the emperor."

Pei Yuanhao walked in and raised his hand: "Get up."

Chang Qing had just stood up all the time, Nian Shen also came over and took possession and said, "My son is paying homage to the queen of mother."

Chang Qing reached out to hold his arm: "Get up quickly."

I saluted the side until they had seen the greeting. Pei Yuanhao waved me to get up, looked at me with a slightly frown, and said, "The queen had been saying that she was unwell before, and was afraid that she would give the little princess, so she would not let Qingying come over to greet her. This time - is it better?"

Chang Qing smiled and said, "It's better."

"That's good. You have to know that if you get sick, no one can control my harem."

"…The Emperor was joking."

I don’t know if this sentence is really joking or something else, but Chang Qing just lowered her head and smiled gently, as if she couldn’t hear anything.

When Pei Yuanhao sat down at the seat, Chang Qing hurriedly waved his hand and asked Kuaer and the others to bring tea, and then said, "Your Majesty, have you just finished the morning court?"

"Um."

"Your Majesty has worked hard today."

"It's not hard," he said, but he couldn't help but reach out and rub both sides of his forehead, as if he was extremely tired, and then slowly said, "It's good that things are solved."
Chapter completed!