Quick Wear: Host, are you playing here?

After returning, Liu Cai respectfully took people and things to renovate Jing'an Hall. As soon as he entered, he saw the woman who was so thin and looked like she was about to faint at any time now looking at him with a smile.

Liu Cai admitted defeat, and even the imperial concubine, who was favored by the emperor, had to give him some courtesy. Now he was afraid that he would be controlled by the person in the cold palace.

Hua Xia waved at him, and Liu Cai resigned himself to the task and stepped forward, and was handed a blueprint.

"Mother, what is this?"

"This is called poker. Ask someone to make some thick rice paper, and then draw these patterns on it, and make it more regular."

This is a novel thing. Liu Cai took the drawing in his hand and examined it carefully. His body still hurt, so he didn't dare to ask more questions and went down to do it.

250: [Host, what are you doing? ]

Hua Xia blinked: "In ancient times, it was boring. There were no mobile phones, so of course we had to find some entertainment."

250:...Do you remember that we are not here to play, but to complete a mission?

Hua Xia slept on the big soft bed that night. Xiao Luzi said that it was the same bed that the Empress Dowager used.

However, inside the hall there was not only a large soft bed and utensils moved from the Xuanyi Hall, but also a Buddha statue being enshrined, with candles lit and emitting an eerie glow.

"Idiot, how come there is no such belief in the main world?"

250: [It’s just religion. People in our main world generally believe in the Lord God.]

Hua Xia sneered and said with disdain: "That thing? Why would you trust him?"

250: [? ? ? ]

Liu Cai was indeed an old player who had experienced many ups and downs in the palace. His movements were more agile than those young eunuchs. He finished the drawings drawn by Hua Xia in the afternoon of the next day.

"Old Liu, don't go." Hua Xia called out to Liu Cai, who was about to run away after handing her the cards, and raised the cards in his hand: "Come here, play a round."

Liu Cai walked over reluctantly at a turtle's pace: "Slave, I don't know how." Although he was quite curious about how to play this thing, he always had a bad feeling.

"We still need two more people." Hua Xia turned her head and saw two little eunuchs hiding in the corner who didn't want to be discovered. "Little fool, Little Quanzi, you two come here."

After briefly explaining the rules of the game, the four people tried playing twice. Lao Liu got excited, Hua Xia became the landlord twice, and the three eunuchs lost two times.

He refused to believe in evil and rolled up his sleeves: "Come again!"

Hua Xia: "Okay, but it would be boring to just play like this. Let me tell you the rules of our betting."

Lao Liu: “Okay!”

When Hua Xia heard the straightforward agreement, she immediately smiled. Xiao Quanzi and Xiao Shazi trembled with fear, and took out a few pieces of silver that they had kept in their pockets for a long time and put them on.

So, after half an hour, the three eunuchs who had lost everything stood in a row and stood at attention.

Hua Xia stood in front of them, holding a branch picked up from the ground in her hand, walking back and forth in front of the three people.

"You two owe me five copper coins. You, Lao Liu, owe me at most five taels of silver."

Old Liu stroked his bare thumb, which originally had a white jade ring on it but was taken away by Hua Xia: "…Madam, I will come again tomorrow!"

The next day, because the two young eunuchs had too little money, they were kicked out of the card game by Lao Liu. He then found Xiao Luzi, who had some private money, and a colleague from the inner court.

When I went back again, my colleague said, "Lao Liu, thank you!"

Liu Cai brought the commission that Hua Xia gave him for recommending the person and left happily.

250: [Help!!!] Let’s just say, can you please get down to business?

Faced with the system's questioning of her being passive and slacking, Hua Xia told him that the palace would hold a Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in ten days and all dignitaries would be present, and they could find the villain first by then.

250: [But! Host, you are the deposed queen and cannot attend the palace banquet.]

Hua Xia: "I sneaked in. Don't worry, I've made arrangements. I played cards with Lao Liu and the people in the inner court these two days to improve our relationship so that they can do things for me!"

250: [......] Can he believe it? Is it really not for fun?

Hua Xia: "Of course, having fun is only a small part of the reason."

250: [!!!] He just knew it!

It was Liu who told her about the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet. This old man looked serious on the surface, but he was actually gossipy. When he was young, he worked hard to climb to the position of chief steward, perhaps just to know more gossip.

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Before the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet ten days later, the old man hurried to Jing'an Hall that day.

After Xiao Taozi got to know everyone, she dared to tease the old man: "Manager Liu, this is Jing'an Palace, do you understand? The queen is taking a nap!"

Old Liu said, "Xiao Taozi, go wake up the empress and chant the Buddha's name. Chun Xing is coming!"

Xiao Tao was stunned and quickly ran to the inner hall to call Hua Xia.

Hua Xia sat in front of the compassionate Buddha, holding a string of red sandalwood prayer beads, sitting cross-legged on a cushion, fiddling with the prayer beads while muttering to herself.

"Why is this old woman still checking on the guards? Why is this old woman still checking on the guards?"

Chun Xing came in and watched this scene. Her expression eased a little and she coughed softly, "My lady, the Queen Mother sent this servant to tell you something."

"Please come to the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in two days. Your uncle will also be there."

uncle?

Hua Xia turned her back to Chun Xing and coughed fragilely, saying, "Thank you for your help, auntie."

After Chun Xing returned to report, Liu Cai walked in and asked quietly, "Madam, did you reveal the truth?"

250: [What? Why is this person a whistleblower? ? ]

Hua Xia: "No, Lao Liu, I will give you an extra 10% commission in the future."

Old Liu chuckled and said, "Thank you, Madam."

"My lady, the Queen Mother has invited you, so you don't have to pretend to be a maid and stand. The seat I gave you will be replaced with a silk cushion."

Hua Xia smiled slightly and patted Liu Cai on the shoulder: "That's quite reasonable."

Liu Cai is very smart and is now addicted to poker, so Hua Xia taught him a few ways to play poker.

Two days later, Hua Xia put on the dress sent by the Queen Mother, which was embroidered with phoenix and cloud patterns. It was not right for her to wear such dress as the deposed Queen now, and no one knew what the Queen Mother was planning.

"Idiot, who is the original owner's uncle?" Hua Xia was walking on the path in the Imperial Garden. The Mid-Autumn Banquet was still one hour away, and she could take advantage of this time to go to Xuanyi Palace and get some valuables back.

250 said: [The original owner's uncle was called Xin Han, with the courtesy name Zhongqing, a famous talent in Jiangnan. ]

Hua Xia nodded thoughtfully, and was about to take Xiao Tao to a small path in the imperial garden and take the shortcut to Xuanyi Hall when she suddenly heard someone calling the original owner's name.

"Yue'er!"

Hua Xia stood up from the bushes and looked in the direction of the sound, only to see a handsome and handsome man looking straight at her with a frown on his face, looking displeased.

The man was followed by a young eunuch, who was now walking towards Hua Xia with big strides, almost making the eunuch unable to catch up.

After approaching, the man looked her up and down, reached out and plucked a leaf from Hua Xia's head, and said in a bad tone: "Why are you running around?!"

"Don't you care about etiquette at all?!"

Hua Xia was full of questions. Seeing the man suddenly appear in front of her and pointing at her, she got angry: "Who are you?!"

The man's expression suddenly turned cold: "What? You don't even recognize your uncle?"