I live in Beihai Jun Nanhai [Rebirth]

Ji Qinglin was slightly taken aback, and asked in confusion: "The Empress Dowager? Why is she looking for me?"

Ji Qinglin's question was not very polite, and his voice was a little uncontrollable because of surprise. The official sitting next to him gave him a mischievous look with a mustache, and suddenly leaned a little to this side.

The maid was asked abruptly by him, although she didn't show any anger on her face, her attitude was a bit stiff: "My lord, you don't need to ask any more questions, just go with the slave."

Ji Qinglin curled his lips, thinking that the palace is troublesome, if there is anything that can't be said directly here, he sneaks into the back hall to mutter, no wonder there are always so many "secrets about the palace" in the playbook.

But thinking about it, he also knew that the empress dowager was the biggest in the palace at the moment, so it was better not to offend easily, so he got up in a proper manner, and followed the maid all the way to the apse.

Stepping into the gate of the palace, one can see that sitting on the soft couch in the palace is the eight-foot-long queen mother, leisurely holding a teacup in one hand and a cup lid in the other, blowing air slightly with downcast eyes.

Ji Qinglin regained his composure, followed the footsteps of the palace maid and continued to walk in, but he murmured in his heart: Did she think the banquet was boring, so she finally met a new face and asked me to come here for tea and chat?

Just as Ji Qinglin was thinking about it, he saw the Empress Dowager closed the lid of the cup in her hand, put the cup on the small table casually, raised the corners of her mouth and asked with a half-smile, "You're here?"

Ji Qing Linxin said that you are not talking nonsense, but still nodded with a faint smile: "Yes, here we come."

Seeing this, the maid standing beside frowned and shouted coldly: "Kneel down quickly when you see the Empress Dowager!"

Ji Qinglin was startled by the sudden voice, turned to look at her, thinking that this sister was very irritable, but he didn't contradict him, he tore off the hem of his clothes and knelt down according to her words.

As soon as she knelt down, the Empress Dowager glanced at the court lady, and said with an afterthought, "You really are, just say what you said, why are you so loud? Look, it scares the child."

The palace maid was also very cooperative, with a happy body, she lowered her eyebrows and said pleasantly: "What the empress taught is that the servants have lost their sense of propriety, and I ask the empress to punish them."

The queen mother waved her hand: "Forget it, just pay attention to it later."

Listening to the conversation between the two, Ji Qinglin felt it was funny, it was clearly a bad face and a bad face, a slap and a date, all in order to contrast the gentleness and amiability of the Queen Mother with the harshness of this maidservant approachable.

However, it was only the first time Ji Qinglin and the Queen Mother met, and the Queen Mother was acting like this, which made him very puzzled about her intentions.

As the saying goes, "Nothing to be courteous is either adultery or robbery", but Ji Qinglin really couldn't think of anything for the empress dowager, such a worthless boy like himself, that she could plot against.

Since she couldn't figure it out, she could only take one step at a time, and at this moment, the Queen Mother turned to Ji Qinglin, showing a kindly smile like a grandmother, beckoning to him and saying, "Come on, Lin'er, stop kneeling and come and sit down. "

Ji Qinglin smiled obediently: "Thank you, Empress Dowager."

As he spoke, he stood up and patted the dust on his knees, and walked briskly to the Empress Dowager.

The queen mother saw that he stopped but hesitated to sit down, her face was more kind, she stretched out her hand and gently pulled him to sit beside him, patted the back of his hand and said softly: "Lin'er, the Ai family heard that You admire the emperor very much, and yearn for this palace, but is that so?"

Ji Qinglin was a little puzzled: "Where did you hear that?"

He had never even seen the emperor's face before, let alone stepped into the palace gate, so how could he admire him?

As soon as Ji Qinglin finished speaking, she saw the maid on the side glaring at her again. Obviously, this rhetorical question became disrespectful in her ears again.

But Ji Qinglin didn't care about that much at this time, only heard the Queen Mother smiled again: "Where did you hear that you don't need to ask, you can tell Aijia, right?"

Ji Qinglin felt distressed, what should I say?It's just nonsense to say you, I don't know anything about you, and I have no interest in your palace?

He couldn't help but glanced at the maid again, knowing that if he really answered that way, she would probably pull out her eyeballs and stare at him to death, so he nodded and followed the empress dowager's meaning and said with a sneer: "Yes... yes .”

The queen mother seemed very satisfied with the answer, and her smile deepened a bit. Seeing Ji Qinglin's embarrassed face, she comforted her and said, "You don't have to be embarrassed, it's not something to be embarrassed about."

Excuse me?Ji Qinglin was suddenly even more at a loss, why am I embarrassed?Besides, even if I really admire the emperor and yearn for the palace, why should I be ashamed?

The queen mother looked at Ji Qinglin's unpredictable eyes, and didn't know what he was thinking, so she just patted him on the back, and continued to say to herself: "Speaking of which, you and the emperor really hit it off, although it's the first time for him today. Seeing you, I praised you in just a few words, so Aijia called you here today to help you."

After listening for a long time, Ji Qinglin only had four words in his mind: I don't know what to say.

The Empress Dowager smiled, turned her head and raised her chin to the maid and said, "Take it here."

"Yes."

As soon as the palace lady was blessed, she turned around and took down a red lacquered wooden tray from the shelf not far behind her, walked to Ji Qinglin's side a few steps, and held the wooden tray in front of his eyes.

Ji Qinglin took a closer look, there was a folded piece of clothing in the wooden tray, it looked like it was made of high-quality materials and exquisitely decorated, it was completely different from the one on Ji Qinglin's body.

Ji Qinglin was puzzled, the queen mother patted his arm, raised his chin at the clothes and said, "Put it on."

Ji Qinglin was stunned for a moment, and traced the relationship between the Empress Dowager's previous words and the clothes, thinking that it is because I "admired" the emperor that I can no longer wear ordinary clothes, and I must have beautiful clothes, brocade clothes and jade belts?

Seeing that he was frozen in place, the queen mother pointed to the clothes again with her chin, and urged him to change them with a wink.

Ji Qinglin was helpless, although he felt that the Empress Dowager was really unreasonable, but it was inconvenient to speak out, so he reached out and picked up the clothes and shook them off, but after a closer look, he froze in place.

This is... a skirt! ?

Ji Qinglin stared at the Empress Dowager with wide eyes in surprise, but the Empress Dowager turned a blind eye to it, and still had that kind smile: "It's okay, just put it on."

Ji Qinglin simply didn't know how to react, he just stared blankly at the Queen Mother, and roared in his heart.

Unexpectedly, he just showed such a slight resistance, and the Queen Mother immediately put away the smile on her face, and her eyes became cold instantly: "Why? You don't want to?"

The voice was so cold that Ji Qinglin couldn't help swallowing. Seeing her appearance, if she didn't change into this skirt today, she might not be able to stand up and go out, so she could only bite the bullet and said with a dry smile: "Yes, yes."

As he spoke, he curled his lips, took the tray to the bead curtain at the corner of the inner hall, and changed into the skirt with great reluctance.

Because I have never worn a skirt before, I am naturally not proficient at all, and the process of wearing it is very careless. Although it is not worn backwards, the belt is loosely tied, and the front is crooked.

Ji Qinglin raised the curtain and came out, the Queen Mother glanced at it casually, there was a gleam in her eyes, she nodded with a smile, and immediately said to the court lady: "Clean up for him."

"Yes." The court lady took the order, went to Ji Qinglin's side and bowed gracefully: "Please lower yourselves, my lord."

Ji Qinglin didn't understand, so the maid pointed to his bundled hair, and he realized that she was going to comb his hair.

Ji Qinglin inherited the advantages of Master Ji, with a slender figure, standing in front of the maid at this time was much taller than her, the maid couldn't do anything, so Ji Qinglin had to go back to the bed and sit down, letting the maid let his hair down , tied a bun loosely behind his head, pulled him up again, fastened his belt again, and tidied up his clothes.

During the whole process, Ji Qinglin was like a piece of wood, only thinking one sentence in his heart: man is a knife, I am a fish, man is a knife, I am a fish...

As he was thinking about it, he seemed to have brainwashed himself, thinking that Ruqun should be Ruqun, anyway, isn't this life just to see all kinds of unknowns?It's a different kind of experience to grow up so big and not wear a skirt.

Thinking of this, he hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled self-deprecatingly.

After finally tidying up, the queen mother looked him up and down again, just in time to see his slight smile, and nodded with great satisfaction.

"Okay," she stood up supporting herself, and stretched out her hand towards Ji Qinglin, "The banquet is not over yet, help Ai's family back."

Seeing her complacent and taking it for granted, Ji Qinglin smiled helplessly, but stopped thinking about it, and stepped over to hold the Queen Mother's arm.

Going out of the back hall, stepping into the main hall, and walking slowly up the stairs, Ji Qinglin quickly heard the whispers below.

"Huh? Where did this little girl come from? Didn't you see it just now?"

"Looking at this attire, it doesn't seem like someone from the palace, why is it by the Queen Mother's side?"

"It looks pretty good..."

"Why... does it seem familiar?"

Following the queen mother to the top of the steps, Ji Qinglin saw the emperor staring at him with wide-eyed eyes, and the chopsticks in his hand almost fell to the ground.

The queen mother coughed stiffly, the emperor closed his mouth and turned his head to look straight ahead, picked up the cup and took two sips.

After the queen mother sat down firmly, she waved her hand and said, "You should go back and sit down first."

"Yes."

Finally able to stay away from this weird old woman, Ji Qinglin jumped down the stairs in two or three steps as if he had been pardoned, walked back to his seat and sat down under everyone's suspicious eyes.

At this time, Uncle Huo had already returned to the table, and he was taken aback when he saw Ji Qinglin approaching in women's clothing, but he didn't seem too surprised, and lowered his eyes and calmly drank a sip of tea.

As soon as Ji Qinglin sat down, the voice of discussion suddenly rose.

"My God! He he he... he is..."

"Master Ji still has a habit of wearing skirts?"

"What! Is he a girl at all?"

Just as the voices were about to boil, the Queen Mother said in a deep voice, "Everyone."

As soon as this remark came out, there was no sound in the hall, and everyone turned their eyes away from Ji Qinglin and looked at the Queen Mother.

"As you can see, Master Ji has always been a person who likes to surprise. He kept Miss Ji's daughter's identity a secret for 17 years just to give you a surprise today."