Yao Xi took advantage of the time when he returned to the duty room to wash, changed into a new cotton bag, packed it up and went to the dining hall to serve the Empress Dowager for breakfast.The empress seemed to see her meritorious service in rescuing him, and she was not angry at her attempt to sneak out of the palace.

This is a good sign.

If she was sweeter and more pedantic, she might be able to ask the empress dowager to let her out of the palace, which would be much more practical than escaping.But before that, she had to ask the empress for another matter, asking about the whereabouts of the 8 taels of silver notes.Thinking about it this way, Yao Xi felt that he was pushing his feet a little bit. The empress was not caring about her because of her generosity, and she still begged for this and that.

After entering the dining hall, Yao Xi stood far away, not daring to approach.Although the empress ordered her to wash up and come over to serve, she still remembered how the empress dowager disliked and was afraid of her yesterday.She has something to ask of the empress, and she dare not kill her to dislike her.

"Come here!" Wan Yu raised her eyes and glanced at Yao Xi.

"I don't dare." Yao Xi didn't move, but lowered his head and said, "I have injuries on my body, I don't dare to frighten the empress..."

The corners of Wan Yu's lips curled up, and she immediately said seriously, "You can do what Aijia says." Sometimes she thought it was funny for Yao Xi to talk back to her, and sometimes she felt that telling Yao Xi a little thing was to coax and coerce her into battle. , very troublesome.

"Your servant obeys the order." Yao Xi then walked over, stood next to the Empress Dowager, picked up chopsticks and wanted to serve the Empress Dowager.

"Sit down!" Wan Yu said again.She was a little tired, and felt that Yao Xi would poke and move, but if he didn't poke, he wouldn't move. "Didn't I see you being polite yesterday?" Yao Xi was not only rude when eating yesterday, he was even more daring in that he even dared to post it to disgust her when he knew she disliked it.

It was only later that Wan Yu figured out that Yao Xi didn't mean to disgust her on purpose, but was thinking about leaving the palace at night, and took the opportunity of joking to hug her so that he could remember the painful and tormented years of lovesickness for decades to come.

Ugh--

"I don't dare. This slave escaped from the palace privately, I'm sorry for your empress, I don't dare to sit with my empress." Yao Xi no longer had the usual embarrassment, and showed unprecedented respect to the empress dowager.

There was a smile on Wan Yu's face again. Hearing what Yao Xi said, did he know that he was wrong and would not think about leaving the palace again?She was in a good mood, and Yao Xi said again: "I should ask my mother for advice anyway if I want to leave the palace. My mother has such a good temper, and she is considerate of the people below, so she will naturally agree to this slave's request." Yao Xi planned to send the queen mother away If you hold it high, the empress will be embarrassed and refuse to agree to the matter of the palace.

She is still too immature.For the empress dowager, there has never been such a word as embarrassment.

"Aijia has a good temper? You can speak nonsense. You don't need to put a high hat on Aijia, and you have no reason to stop Aijia if you want to go out of the palace." Wan Yu saw Yao Xi's joyful face after she finished speaking, and she felt even more unhappy. But there is still a smile on his face: "It's just that the 8 taels of silver that the Ai family rewarded you is a dowry gift for you as a male favorite. Since you don't want to be the male favorite of the Ai family, the dowry is not reasonable. The original amount should be returned to the Ai family, right? The Ai family can't have both money and people, can they?"

Wan Yu looked at Yao Xi who couldn't be happy for a moment, and sneered in her heart: Little thing.Do you dare to fight Aijia with your little heart?

Yao Xi was almost so excited to kowtow to thank her when she heard that she was willing to let her out of the palace, but immediately heard her say that she wanted her to return the 8 taels of silver notes, and her heart felt like being poured with ice water on a cold day in the twelfth lunar month.The empress dowager's words are very reasonable, if she wants to leave the palace and not be the empress's male favourite, of course she must return what she has accepted.But the 8 taels of silver notes are lost!

"The servant is about to tell the empress. The servant seems to have lost the bank note when he was fighting with the assassin last night..." Yao Xi said aggrievedly, "I wonder if there is any elder sister or father-in-law who picked it up and handed it in to the empress?"

Wan Yu looked at Yao Xi coldly, and asked, "What do you mean when you lose the banknote when fighting with an assassin? You mean you won't lose it even if you don't have an escort. In the final analysis, it's Aijia's fault! Is there anyone who picked up the silver ticket?" Hand it over to the Ai family? You mean that the Ai family took your lost and stolen property and deliberately didn’t tell you! Yao Xi, you are so brave!”

"The servant absolutely dare not have such an idea! It's all the servant's fault and has nothing to do with the empress." Yao Xi quickly knelt down.

Talking to the empress is really tiring, if you don't pay attention, it will be a disaster!

Wan Yu deliberately teased Yao Xi, but she was afraid of frightening her out. What if Yao Xi dared not talk back to her in the future, how boring would it be?A slap is a sweet date.Wan Yu changed her gentle and amiable tone and said, "Don't just kneel. Come and sit down!"

Yao Xi had no choice but to sit down next to the empress dowager according to the empress dowager's order.

Wan Yu kindly handed the silver chopsticks to Yao Xi and said, "Come on. As usual, let's test Ai's poison!"

Yao Xi's face turned pale.

Wan Yu thought that Yao Xi still had to take care of her health, so she couldn't scare her into a bad meal, so she picked up the chopsticks and ate a bite of food first, "I'm just kidding you. Someone has already tried it." Putting down the silver chopsticks in Yao Xi's hand, pointing to a bowl of porridge sitting on the stove warming, he said to Yao Xi, "Drink that. Don't leave a single drop!"

The mood alternates between heaven and hell, Yao Xi feels that sooner or later he will be frightened to have a heart attack.She put her hands on a cloth towel, took the steaming bowl of porridge on the stove, and lowered her head to eat.There seemed to be red beans and jujubes in the porridge. She didn't like the taste of jujubes, so she had a hard time swallowing them.

Yao Xi was eating porridge, and Wan Yu, who was watching her intently, said slowly: "When will the father-in-law return the money to the Ai family, and when will the Ai family agree to let you out of the palace."

"Ahem..." Yao Xi almost choked to death.It seems that there is no other way but to sneak away. She can't get back 8 taels of snowflake silver even if she sells herself!

Wan Yu stretched out her hand and said back for her: "Elder-in-law, don't worry! Ai's family has done the calculation for you, it is not impossible. The young prison's monthly salary plus the monthly silver in Ai's family's palace, there are several taels a month! "Wan Yu was amused for a while and then said: "You will still be Aijia's male favorite when you leave the palace, and Aijia will give you something else every night after you sleep..." She counted with her fingers: "Two liang. Don't think too little, the girl who is popular in Xiangmanlou is only 20 taels of silver a night, but others can play piano, chess, calligraphy, painting and poetry. You are far behind in talent, and Aijia is your only customer, so the price is naturally lower. "

"..." Yao Xi had nothing to say.She is very good at mental arithmetic, and she spends two taels of silver a night in bed.Even if she waited on the empress every night, and counted the rewards and silver and so on minus the odds, she would have to earn 8 taels for at least 100 years!Not to mention that she can't sleep at all, and she may be ruined at any time if she stays any longer.Yesterday the empress dowager hated her very much, but today, for some reason, she touched her hands and slid her back, and it was not at all obvious that the empress felt that her body was disgusting.

When the empress springs up, it is the day when she will stain the palace with blood!The blood, of course, refers to the blood on the neck.

"Your Majesty, do you mean to let the slaves out of the palace after 100 years?" Yao Xi had already finished his porridge, his stomach was warm and comfortable, but his heart was pressed by a stone, and three large characters were written on the stone pressing her— - "8 taels"!

Leaving the palace after 100 years?The funeral is almost there.

"Hey~ It won't take that long." Wan Yu continued to tease Yao Xi and said, "You forgot that if you do a good job or make great achievements, the Ai family will give you extra rewards."

Yao Xi's eyes sparkled with hope, the empress is really generous in rewarding people.She made money not to repay the 8 taels, but to save money for going out of the palace.Empress, she really can't pay the bill, so she can only let it go.

Thinking of doing meritorious service, Yao Xi brazenly said to the empress dowager, "The servant dares to ask the empress...does saving you count as meritorious service?"

Wan Yu poked Yao Xi's forehead dotingly and said: "Of course forget it! And it's a great achievement. The Ai family not only doesn't care about your sneaking out of the palace, but also rewards you a lot." Wan Yu bad Standing up with a smile, he led Yao Xi to the main hall.

She just watched Yao Xi eat and didn't eat much herself, but she ordered the small kitchen to make something to eat when she was waiting for Taifu Fu to enter the palace last night, so she wasn't very hungry in the morning.

Yao Xi happily followed behind the empress dowager.Niangniang is really her savior, every time she is in a desperate situation, Niangniang will show up to give her a hand.She suddenly felt very sorry for the empress dowager, she was so kind to her, but she only wanted to leave her.

But thinking of getting the reward from the empress soon, Yao Xi's mood became happy again.

"You saved Ai's family twice, and it is priceless treasure that cannot match your great contributions." Wan Yu walked to the desk and picked up a brush, and wrote four big characters in one stroke - "loyalty to the liver, righteousness and courage".

"Xiao Yaozi, let's receive the reward!" Wan Yu put down her pen with a smile, looked at the stunned Yao Xi and asked, "What? Are you not satisfied with Ai's reward?"

"Slave thank you for the reward." Yao Xi knelt down to accept the reward, but felt very wronged.

Co-authorship is such a priceless asset.The empress is too stingy, where is the big gold bar?What about the big silver ingot?Just reward her with a picture that she dare not sell?snort!

***

Here is the Empress Dowager, who just came after Emperor Cheng of the Ming Dynasty.

He didn't sleep much last night. In the middle of the night, he heard that there were assassins in the Empress Dowager's Palace. He left everything behind and hurried over with the Empress, but the Empress Dowager asked him to go back and rest and come back tomorrow.Where can he rest?The matter of the fake eunuch was investigated until midnight, and another one was found.Go to the gate of Taihe and listen to Tang Huaili, and find out another one near dawn.

Three fake eunuchs back and forth...

Concubines don't have many chances to accept kindness, and it's not so easy to conceive an emperor's heir. It is inevitable that some people will be tempted to have sex with others after accepting kindness.

The three fake eunuchs were only found out this time. There may not have been many such things in the palace before!Emperor Ming Cheng suspected that few of his sons and daughters were his own.Ming Chengdi recalled that some time ago Wan Yu told him that Feng Xin didn't look like him, and he even defended Feng Xin, saying that he didn't look like the late emperor, so wasn't he born by the late emperor?

Wan Yu teased him and asked him to send someone to investigate, maybe there would be surprises.At that time, he only thought Wan Yu was talking nonsense, but now that he thinks about it... Emperor Ming Cheng has a headache.

Wan Yu had just finished appreciating Yao Xi's calligraphy and painting, and told her, "Let's mount it in the value room!"

Framed?Yao Xi's head is getting bigger.She is poor and white now, so she has no money to find someone to frame it.Moreover, this is the calligraphy of the empress dowager, no matter what, I have to ask the master of Rongbaozhai to make it...

God!Forget it if she is poor!

The ink on the words had dried, Yao Xi went to the empress and carefully rolled up the paper.There was a court lady outside saying that the emperor was coming up, Wan Yu pinched Yao Xi's little face and said, "Go back! You are not allowed to leave the palace without the family's order, and the eunuch who is going to go out to the palace to handle the mounting work will do it for you!"

As soon as Emperor Ming Cheng entered the palace, he saw Wan Yu touching the face of that little eunuch named Yao Xi with a bright smile on his face.

I really don't see it!He turned away in embarrassment, and waited for the eunuch to leave before going to the chair next to Wan Yu and sitting down.

"The empress dowager should also be a little more careful, the influence will not be good!" Emperor Ming Cheng stayed up all night with a haggard look on his face.

"The emperor should also be a little more restrained. Which ignorant concubine stayed in bed last night and made the emperor so tired?" Wan Yu replied back.

Emperor Ming Cheng was not in the mood to argue with Wan Yu: "What is the origin of the assassin last night, does the Queen Mother know?"

Wan Yu shook her head and sat down on the right hand side of Emperor Ming Cheng. "Check who has gotten someone into the palace recently, don't you know? Those assassins are not from the palace."

Emperor Ming Cheng had anger on his face.In the important place of the harem, fake eunuchs and assassins can also come in. What is the meaning of the existence of the palace gate?Decorate it?

"That's right. Apart from visiting the Empress Dowager, I also have something to tell the Empress Dowager. I summoned Yang Qixun early in the court, and he found out that the assassin in Ning'an Palace was indeed sent by Zhu Xiangchang last time. The evidence is solid! "

"Hmm~" Wan Yu asked, "Did Yang Qiyu find out whether the queen colluded with Zhu Xiangchang and deliberately let the assassin into the palace?"

Emperor Ming Cheng shook his head and said: "The empress has nothing to do with this matter. The assassin killed an eunuch who was out of the palace on business, stole the sign and sneaked into the palace."

"Then copy Zhu's house!" Wan Yu said casually.She can finally know how much money Zhu Xiangchang has.

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