Wan Yu excitedly pushed the chess box away and stood up.

The chess piece that Emperor Ming Cheng worked so hard to pick up fell to the ground in an instant.

He looked at the sunspots all over the floor with heartache, and truly felt that he was no longer the person the queen mother cared about most.Right now, the Empress Dowager cares most about that little eunuch named Yao Xi.Emperor Ming Cheng was suddenly a little jealous of Yao Xi, and also somewhat missed the time when he was intimate with the Queen Mother.

He even suspected that the queen mother suddenly lost patience with him because she called the word "mother queen" on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival.Wan Yu has been longing for him to call her a queen mother. Does this girl not care about him after her wish is fulfilled?

"Where is she?" Wan Yu asked looking at Ping'er's empty back.Since the person found it, he brought it back!

Ping'er replied: "It is inconvenient for people from the shop to enter the palace, and the servants are not sure if that person is Yao Xi, so let them wait at the outer gate of the palace first."

"What do you mean you're not sure if that person is Yao Xi?" Wan Yu's expression turned ugly.It's fine that Ping'er couldn't recognize Yao Xi when she gave the portrait, but why couldn't she recognize Yao Xi even when everyone was in front of her?Her family, Yao Xi, is not the kind of passer-by who grabs a handful on the street.

Ping'er lowered her head timidly and said: "My servant is blind, please forgive me." She used to think that she knew what Yao Xi looked like, but when she saw Yao Xi in the Empress Dowager's painting, she began to suspect that she might really be blind.

"Let's go! Follow Ai's family to have a look." Wan Yu quickly stepped out of the palace gate, and asked someone to prepare a sedan chair to go to the palace gate.She thought it must be Yao Xi, how could she find the wrong person in comparison with the lifelike portrait?

After crossing the stream, Wan Yu ran into Long Yi who just came back from somewhere.

"Longyi has seen the Queen Mother." Longyi stepped aside and saluted Wan Yu.

Wan Yu deliberately smiled and said to Long Yi: "The Ai family has to pick up Yao Xi's child back to the palace, so I won't talk to you more." She said this with a bit of showing off.Didn't Long Yi, a dead girl, insist on telling Yao Xi's whereabouts and let her own people find it by herself?

Eh!I really found her!Are you angry?

Seeing the disbelief on Longyi's face, she proudly said: "There is nothing in the world that can stop Aijia!" After speaking, she led the people away swaggeringly.

Longyi couldn't believe it.

She clearly told her cousin Sun Yan that even if the Queen Mother sends someone there, it won't be easy to find her!Besides, the time is not right, even if the Queen Mother has finished talking with her and sent someone to fief the land, the soonest she can arrive in Beijing will be tomorrow!Long Yi couldn't figure it out, she was worried and didn't go back to the palace, so she waited by the roadside for the Queen Mother and Yao Xi to come back.

The head shopkeeper of the capital branch of Wanfu Silk Factory went to the palace in a carriage to report to the Empress Dowager.After getting the painting given by the Empress Dowager yesterday, they almost searched all the inns, restaurants, teahouses and theaters in the capital, and finally found the person in the painting this morning.

"Where's Yao Xi?" At the gate of the outer palace, Wan Yu stepped out of the sedan chair and asked the shopkeeper and others who were kneeling and saluting.

"Go back to your mother. My father-in-law refused to admit his identity and always wanted to escape, so the younger ones made their own decisions and tied him up." The shopkeeper waved to the clerks behind him, and the clerks quickly jumped into the carriage and led A young man in blue shirt with his hands tied and his mouth gagged came down.

When Wan Yu heard from the shopkeeper that the man wanted to escape, she felt that something was wrong. When someone brought her to her, Wan Yu's face that was expecting excitement turned black instantly.Who is this man?What about her Yao Xi?

"Can you find faults just by looking at the portrait? What good does the Ai family want you!" Wan Yu lost her temper in disappointment.

The shopkeeper hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy, and said aggrievedly: "You guys have never seen Eunuch Yao, and I really looked for it according to the portrait." This young man in blue is not exactly the same as the person in the portrait, at least there are seven or eight Very similar!He didn't dare to talk back, and quickly came up with an idea: "You guys are negligent. Eunuch Yao is a eunuch, and you guys should have a body check. If it's a man's body, it's not right, but if it's an eunuch's body, it's not wrong gone."

There are not many eunuchs with such good looks.The shopkeeper silently praised his wit in his heart!

He ordered wrong.It's time to wax.

Yao Xi is a girl's family, how could the Empress Dowager allow someone to examine her body?

"How dare you!" Wan Yu became even more angry. "Try to touch one of Yao Xi's hairs! Continue to search according to the portraits. If there are any suspected Yao Xis, they will be brought here at this time every day to be identified by the Ai family." There will inevitably be deviations between the portraits and real people, Wan Yu is magnanimous Forgive the shopkeeper for the mistake.

"Little one obeys the order." The shopkeeper led the staff to continue on the journey of finding people.

When Wan Yu ran into Long Yi on the way back, she felt a little resentful.Just now, after chatting with Long Yi and finding Yao Xi, now his face suddenly hurts.She ignored Longyi and hurried back to her own palace.

***

In the middle of the night at the Princess Chang's mansion, Yao Xi decided to make a bed on the floor and let Miss Biao sleep on the bed.

In the end, Sun Yan rejected Yao Xi's kindness: "Aunt Liufang will definitely search the house tonight, I have to stay awake, and my father-in-law should rest early."

"I slept through the afternoon, and I'm not sleepy, why don't you stay with Miss Biao!" Yao Xi said politely.She was ashamed to leave Miss Biao to watch the night alone, and fell asleep heartlessly.

The words were nice, but after a while, Yao Xi, who was full of food and drink, dozed off. She sat on the chair and fell asleep with her head drooped.Sun Yan, who spent the long night with a book, took a look at Yao Xi, closed the scroll and threw her back on the bed, pulled the quilt over and sat back at the table, picked up the scroll and continued reading.

Sun Yan was not wrong, Aunt Liufang led people to search room by room in the middle of the night, not even letting go of her house.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Sun Yan threw away the scroll, ran back to the bed, took off her outer shirt, got into the quilt and lay down on her side, blocking Yao Xi behind her and began to fall asleep.

"Miss Watch."

Aunt Liufang knocked on the door.

Sun Yan pretended to be fast asleep and didn't make a sound.After Aunt Liufang yelled a few more times, she yawned lazily and said, "Haha—is there something wrong, Auntie? I've already fallen asleep, so please talk about it tomorrow if you have anything to do!"

Liu Fang tactfully but firmly put forward the request to search the house.

"The door is unlocked!" Sun Yan's tone was not very friendly.When Aunt Liufang came in, she pulled the quilt up to her neck to protect her body tightly and said, "Auntie, you can watch it if you want! It's really disturbing the family because of someone who has never been here before—" Sun Yan wanted to say something Still authentic.

"I've caused trouble for Miss Biao." Liu Fang said apologetically, and then looked for her with a serious expression.She searched everywhere but there was no sign of Yao Xi, the only thing she didn't search was Miss Biao's bed... "I don't know if it's convenient for Miss Biao to get up?"

"What? You want to search even the bed? Auntie suspects that Eunuch Yao is on my bed?" Sun Yan kept turning her body sideways, trying her best to block Yao Xi who was sleeping soundly under the quilt.

Liufang said hurriedly, not daring.

"My aunt has the support of the empress dowager, so why not dare? But a day of tossing is enough. I still have to sleep in the middle of the night, so please go out!" Sun Yan closed her eyes and stopped talking to Aunt Liufang.After the sound of footsteps disappeared and the sound of the door closing again, Sun Yan slowly opened her eyes.

She got out of bed and put on her clothes, and lifted the quilt to see that Yao Xi was not awakened by the loud noise just now, and was still sleeping peacefully.

Being able to eat is a blessing, and being able to sleep is also a blessing.Eunuch Yao is a very lucky person!

The next day, after breakfast, Liu Fang led the people back to the palace to return to their orders.Miss Biao was very cooperative and asked her to search the house twice, since she couldn't find Yao Xi, she couldn't delay any longer, maybe Yao Xi really isn't here!

After Liu Fang left, Sun Yan also ordered someone to pack up her things, planning to send Yao Xi back to the palace after lunch.

"Are you leaving after lunch?" Yao Xi couldn't wait to return to the palace as soon as possible.Aunt Liufang said that the empress dowager was much emaciated because of her, and she had to go back to serve the empress quickly.

While ordering her servants to pack their luggage, Sun Yan explained to Yao Xi: "There is only one way out from here, and I am afraid that I will meet Aunt Liufang halfway and I will not be able to explain it clearly. Father-in-law, don't worry, after passing that part of the way, I will take you across the road." The shortest way is to go back to the palace overnight, and I will be there tomorrow morning."

Hearing what Ms. Biao said, Yao Xi was relieved a lot, and set off on the road after lunch.

***

The treasurer of Wanfu Silk Factory strictly enforced the principle of the empress dowager casting a wide net, and arrested all the sons who were two points similar to the portrait of Eunuch Yao.Kidnapping a young boy from a good family for no reason will result in a lawsuit.Fortunately, the empress dowager personally issued an order to greet the government, so the shopkeeper could go unimpeded.

Anyway, after the empress dowager has seen it, anyone who is not Eunuch Yao will be sent home properly, and they are not really committing crimes.

It's just that Wan Yu's move has attracted new gossip.There began to be rumors that the empress dowager ordered a handsome young man to be forced into the palace to be her male favourite.It is said that those men who were captured and released were not favored by the empress dowager.

Therefore, besides being violent, the Demon Empress also gained a bad reputation of wantonness.The bad news about the demon queen robbing the beautiful boy disappeared without a trace. Overnight, all the young men who thought they were half-attractive were afraid to go out.

Of course, there are also people who are willing to sell their appearance for the sake of glory and wealth, and those who deliberately dress up to be the servants of the Queen Mother. Unfortunately, those people are all over the street twisting their waists and swaying their hips, and no one has come to arrest him and enter the palace.

***

Yao Xi and his party rushed all night, and they actually arrived in the capital at dawn.

"Miss Biao really did what she said!" Yao Xi lay on the car window and looked at the capital city in the dawn, beaming with joy. She would see the empress dowager soon.

"After returning to the palace, if the empress dowager asks the father-in-law where he has been these past few days, what will the father-in-law plan to say?" Sun Yan also lifted the curtain of the car and asked Yao Xi as she looked at the bustling capital that was getting closer and closer.

Miss Biao must not be involved. If honestly speaking, Princess Longyi kindly sent her out of the palace, the empress should not make things difficult for Her Royal Highness.Yao Xi thought for a while and said: "Just say that after being sent out of the palace by Princess Longyi, she stayed in the suburbs of Beijing for two days. Don't worry, Miss Biao, I will never mention your residence." She can't lie and say that it was the palace that she left, The empress will hate her, if that is the case, the empress will definitely ask her: What do you do when you come back after you have left?

Besides, Aunt Liufang has found Princess Longyi's fief, so the empress must already know something.It is not deceitful for her to say this, after all, Princess Longyi's fief is in the south of Gyeonggi.

"Thank you, father-in-law." Sun Yan thanked gratefully.Yao Xi is really repaying grievances with kindness, this is because of cousin Longyi's abruptness.Whether or not to pursue this matter depends entirely on the mood of the Empress Dowager, as it concerns so many people in the house, she really dare not take risks, so she can only ask Yao Xi to help cover it up with a cheeky face.

"Miss Biao, you're being polite." Yao Xi said shyly, "Princess Longyi obviously meant well, but I want to sue Her Highness in front of the Empress Dowager... What's more, if it wasn't for Miss Biao, my life would have been so bad yesterday morning. It's gone."

"If you hadn't been sent out of the palace, such a dangerous thing wouldn't have happened." Sun Yan was even more embarrassed. "There is still some way to go to Miyagi, let's find an early shop to rest our stomachs before we go on our way?"

"Yeah." After driving all night, Yao Xi was also hungry.

In the early morning, the shop was steaming.Sun Yan ordered two drawers of steamed stuffed buns and several bowls of broth, and said to Yao Xi, "Be careful that it's hot. It's still early, let's not hurry, eat slowly."

"Guests take it easy." The proprietress of the shop earlier brought the food and couldn't help but look at Yao Xi and Sun Yan.It's really a handsome boy and a pretty lady, what a good couple.She kindly asked Yao Xi, "It looks like you just entered Beijing this morning, right?"

Yao Xi smiled politely and nodded.

"Could it be. Young Master, it's better not to show your face..." The proprietress looked around and said in a low voice: "Young Master just entered Beijing, I don't know. These two days, the Empress Dowager is going everywhere to catch good-looking young men to enter the palace to be male favourites! Young master's appearance, tsk tsk, dangerous!"

Yao Xi was drinking soup and almost choked to death.What?The empress dowager catches handsome guys everywhere to be her male favourite?

She doesn't believe it!Aunt Liufang clearly said that the empress didn't think about eating and drinking because of her.

"I'm done." Yao Xi and the Empress Dowager were separated for several days, losing their appetite for the first time.She only drank two mouthfuls of soup and didn't eat a single bun.

Sun Yan looked at Yao Xi sympathetically.How ruthless the kings have been since ancient times!The Queen Mother is no exception.

After walking for a long time, the carriage stopped at the gate of the outer palace. Yao Xi said to Sun Yan before getting out of the car: "It's better for Miss Biao and I to enter the palace separately. I will go to the Yamen of the Siyuan Bureau to wait for them to go out to pick up the goods from the palace. I'm going into the palace, where's Miss Biao?"

Sun Yan took out Longyi's token from her waist, shook it, and said, "I have this. Do you need to take your father-in-law there?" She didn't know if the Siyuan Bureau was far away, and it was inconvenient for Yao Xifang to walk there.

"No need. Just turn a corner and walk for a short distance." Yao Xi laughed and jumped off the car.When she was about to make a detour to the side palace gate, she saw many people surrounded by the outer palace gate.Curiosity drove Yao Xi to go over, and then she saw a heartbreaking scene.

The empress dowager was sitting on the sedan chair at the gate of the palace, and a bunch of young men of various colors stood in front of her.Those sons are of different heights and clothes, but they have one magical thing in common—they are all handsome.

Yao Xi recalled the rumors he had heard at the early shop.The kind proprietress said that the empress dowager was looking for a male favorite and told her not to show her face, it turned out to be true!

The empress sent Aunt Liufang to find her, and at the same time searched for a new love on a large scale.Is this grasping with both hands?

Yao Xi covered his aching chest, angrily stood at the end of the line of beautiful men, waiting to be inspected by the empress dowager.

Wan Yu felt that everyone's eyes were broken, so many people were arrested, but none of them looked like Yao Xi.She rested her chin and looked at the long queue in front of her, and said coldly: "No. Next! No. Next!..."

She had seen more than a dozen people, she was really tired, and was about to order someone to drive back to the palace, when a familiar figure appeared in front of her.Wan Yu blinked in disbelief, and after making sure she hadn't misunderstood the person, she slowly stood up and walked over.

The world was instantly quiet, and all the messy people disappeared, only Yao Xi stood in front of her and looked at her.

But why is the girl not happy seeing her at all?Wan Yu didn't bother to ask Yao Xi where he went and how he got back.He just stepped forward and hugged him tightly, resting his chin on the top of Yao Xi's head and not speaking for a long time with red eyes.

As long as you come back safe and sound, nothing else matters.

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