After being a widow for half my life, I found out that my husband was not dead.

"You call me godmother, and I will recognize you as goddaughter. From now on, we will be mother and daughter. It is too unreasonable to say anything about repayment."

The queen held Liu Yunxiang's hand with a playful smile, which showed no sign of the majesty of the mother of a country.

Liu Yunxiang sighed. Logically speaking, she should feel honored that the queen recognized her as her goddaughter, but since the other party was Aunt Qiu, she always felt like she would be cheated at any time.

"But I do need your help with something." The queen chuckled.

Liu Yunxiang pursed his lips, as expected!

The queen didn't say what help she wanted, only that she would be waiting for her at the city gate early tomorrow morning.

Later, the queen invited her to sit in her Mingfeng Palace. She was not interested at first, but the queen insisted on doing her best to be a landlord. Seeing how enthusiastic she was, Liu Yunxiang couldn't refuse and went with her.

When she came to Mingfeng Palace, the first feeling she felt was emptiness. Everything was empty. In such a huge palace, there are not many people in sight, there are no flowers and plants in the garden, there is no water in the pond, there are no trees around, and there are no birds singing.

This is not a palace at all, it just looks like an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere. Fortunately, everything is cleaned very clean.

In the hall, Liu Yunxiang looked around and couldn't help but sigh, the place where the mother of a country lived could be described as a house with four walls.

"The other concubines haven't been to your place, have they?" Liu Yunxiang couldn't help but ask, otherwise the whole of Beijin would probably know that the queen was very poor.

The queen raised her chin: "My palace door is closed all year round. Not everyone can come if they want. So today I opened the palace door for you."

"Then how do you go out on weekdays?"

She seems to be spending more time outside.

The queen laughed: "Climb the wall!"

"Well, it's easy for you to climb over the wall to get out of Mingfeng Palace, but it's not easy to get over the palace wall outside, right?"

The outer palace wall is very high and heavily guarded, so it is not easy to climb in and out.

"There is a hole in the west wall of the Royal Garden."

The corner of Liu Yunxiang's mouth twitched, he got out through a dog hole!

The Queen also wanted to keep her for tea and snacks, but Nanny Bai spent the whole day digging through the tea leaves and couldn't find any tea leaves, so she finally brought her a glass of water.

The Queen frowned, "Didn't the Emperor come here a few days ago and give him a few bags of tea?"

Aunt Bai coughed dryly and said, "You forgot, you took it out and sold it."

The Queen slapped her forehead and said, "It's true."

"The children in the kindergarten were in poor health and suffered from serious and minor illnesses. You pawned everything in the palace that could be pawned. Those with the word 'imperial' engraved on them and could not be pawned, you sold on the black market. In the past, the emperor also I always buy more for you, but I found that you were smuggled out of the palace again, and the emperor didn't care about you. A few days ago, the emperor drank a glass of boiled water, and his mouth was really tasteless, so he asked someone to bring a few bags of tea. , I said you were not allowed to sell it, but you didn’t listen and sold it the next day.” Aunt Bai couldn’t help nagging.

"Okay, I have a sense of propriety!"

"Where is your sense of propriety?"

"I……"

"The emperor came again yesterday. He wanted to drink tea and boiled water. He was so angry that he left immediately. Those concubines in the harem are eagerly waiting for the emperor to come. After he comes, they will serve you with all their heart. You'd better not look forward to it on weekdays. When he comes, he will drink plain water. When he is angry, he will not even say a word of coaxing. He will also say: Hypocritical! This is the emperor, the most respected person in the world. Every time he comes, he leaves with a belly full of anger. "

"Mommy, please shut up and go to the royal kitchen quickly. I want to eat some meat tonight."

"The emperor said to the outside world that you are living in the harem worshiping Buddha. How can you eat meat?"

"He just deliberately tricked me. When the imperial kitchen asked me, you just said that I had returned to secular life."

Listening to the words of the master and servant, Liu Yunxiang kept suppressing his laughter.

Aunt Bai finally left, and the queen let out a long sigh: "So you may not think that I am a queen, but I am really very poor."

Liu Yunxiang nodded, deeply agreeing.

The queen glanced at Liu Yunxiang and then said: "When I returned to Jin'an from Yuzhou, I was entrusted by you to protect Yan Mu. It was really dangerous at that time. I encountered several ambushes and almost couldn't come back. I swear to the death. Disrespectful."

Liu Yunxiang's heart suddenly changed, and she understood what the queen meant by this, but she pretended not to understand.

"Oh."

The queen coughed dryly, "Did you forget something?"

"what?"

The queen was anxious: "Twenty thousand taels of silver!"

Liu Yunxiang seemed to understand now, but then he clicked his tongue again, "But Yan Mu is injured."

The queen pursed her lips and said, "Twenty or thirty top killers are surrounding us. It would be great if we can come back alive!"

After Liu Yunxiang came back, he heard Zijin say that it was indeed dangerous at that time, and several of them were injured.

"Zijin said you were also injured. Where was the injury? Are you healed?" Liu Yunxiang asked.

The queen leaned over and said, "Do you have anything to do with me?"

Liu Yunxiang smiled: "Yes, I care about you."

"It's better for me to be my goddaughter!" The queen hugged Liu Yunxiang, "Then the 2 taels you promised me earlier..."

Liu Yunxiang rolled his eyes and said, "Let's get a discount."

"I fought with my life to get back, no way!"

"With a godmother like you, how can you be so clear with your goddaughter?"

"Oh, what you said, we, mother and daughter, have to figure it out. Besides, look at the place where I live, my godmother is really poor!"

Liu Yunxiang snorted. It turned out that he brought her here so enthusiastically just to collect the debt.

"You are truly unprecedented in your role as a queen."

Liu Yunxiang said, still took out two banknotes from his arms and gave them to her, "No, 2 taels, one cent is a lot."

The queen took it, looked at it carefully, and then hugged Liu Yunxiang, "If you have such a good thing to make money in the future, you must think of your godmother!"

Coming out of the palace, Liu Yunxiang saw the King of England at the door. He was leaning on a tall brown horse, looking at the sky in the distance, motionless, as if he was lost in thought.

Liu Yunxiang walked over and followed his gaze: "Your Highness, what are you looking at?"

The King of England picked it up with his chin, "No, that little bird looks quite clever, but it got dizzy among the branches. It's really stupid."

"It might just be fun."

"Is it interesting?"

"Interesting!"

The King of England chuckled, "Okay, since you think it's interesting, that's fine."

Liu Yunxiang later realized, "You think of me as that little bird!"

The King of England lowered his eyes and twitched the corner of his mouth, "Little birds have wings, do you have them?"

"What do you mean by that?"

The King of England ignored her, turned around and got on his horse, "Anyway, thank you for what happened today."

Liu Yunxiang's thoughts changed, "Don't be so polite. Are we friends? Friends who share life and death together. I will help you now, and you will help me in the future, right?"

The King of England smiled, "Friends are fine too."

The King of England rode his horse all the way, and she followed behind, which was considered as sending her back to the eldest princess' mansion.

As soon as I arrived at the door, I saw the beggar running over. Because he was running too fast, he took two breaths before he could say anything: "An Hong and his men blocked Lao Qi!"