A kitten dressed as an empress

Wen Ruyan looked at Zhao Yao who was in front of her through the gap between her fingers and said, "There are so many good-looking things, but I only have one pair of eyes. If I lose them, they won't grow back."

"What are you thinking?" Seeing the girl's fearful defense, Zhao Yao let go of her ears.

The girl slowly relaxed her vigilance and responded with a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, you don't have such perverted hobbies."

In ancient times, many emperors had all sorts of weird hobbies. Greed for money and lust were common occurrences. They were most afraid of sadism or strange collection habits.

"Pervert?" Zhao Yao looked at the girl's changing expression appreciatively, feeling a little strange in her heart.

Wen Ruyan smiled and said, "Pervert is to describe some rare and strange behaviors."

If this is the truth, it is estimated that it will be too much to eat.

Zhao Yao stretched out her hands to smooth the girl's wrinkled skirt and said, "For the emperor, killing people for their hearts is nothing more than a common thing, what else is so strange in the world?"

"Then it's not a good idea to kill people for their hearts."

The girl blinked her eyes lightly, and said solemnly.

The hand resting on the folds of the skirt slowly withdrew, Zhao Yao put his hand on the side of the girl, moved slightly closer, looked down at the small round mole on the side of the girl's neck and replied: "If someone likes to eat meat, there will be someone who likes meat." Be a vegetarian, where there is strength, there will be weakness, the emperor is the strongest in the world, and the weak can only survive if they obey."

Just as Wen Ruyan was about to refute, she turned her head to look at Zhao Yao who approached at some point and asked, "Why are you so close?"

"You have a mole on the side of your neck." Zhao Yao stretched out her hand to lightly touch the fair neck.

"Mole?" The girl climbed onto the bamboo couch, and stood by the bank facing the lake.

Zhao Yao approached in confusion, and saw the girl looking seriously at the lake, her slender neck was reflected in the clear lake, and she could vaguely see some undulations on the collar.

But the girl didn't care about it, Zhao Yao slightly pressed her lips and touched the water with her fingertips, causing ripples, and the alluring picture was also blurred.

Wen Ruyan was a little puzzled by Zhao Yao's sudden disturbance, so she had to give up the idea of ​​looking in the mirror from the water.

"What are you doing?" The girl stared at this direction, greedily sinking half of her palm into the lake.

Zhao Yao looked away with a guilty conscience, and said with thin lips: "It's just a mole, what does it matter if you can see it or not?"

"It has a lot to do with it." Wen Ruyan stretched out his hand to touch it tentatively, and replied, "I've never had a mole, but now I suddenly have a mole, maybe it will grow and grow more in the future."

The girl poked around randomly, but she couldn't find the right place.

Zhao Yao, who couldn't stand it anymore, stretched out her hand to hold the girl's hand and pressed the mole on the back of her neck and said, "Here."

"This position is blocked by hair, how did you find out just now?" The girl blinked her eyes clear and bright, and asked casually.

Zhao Yao let go of the girl's hand, put her hands together in front of her body, and replied without meeting those bright eyes, "I just caught a glimpse."

Wen Ruyan gave up looking for moles, sat cross-legged at the side, poured out a cup of tea and said, "I'm hungry, it's time for lunch."

"If you like, you can stay and eat in the water pavilion."

"Okay."

Chunyue carried the palace people with dishes into the waterside pavilion. The interior was extremely spacious, with green curtains hanging down to block some corners, and the empress was seen lying on the bamboo couch holding a scroll in her hand.

There was no one else around, Chunyue frowned slightly and looked around unwillingly.

The palace people prepared the dishes, and then retreated out of the room one by one. As usual, Chunyue always had to serve her, but recently there was something abnormal.

"You go out." Zhao Yao stood up slowly, slowly closed the book in her palm, and glanced at the corner of the skirt hidden behind the big blue and white porcelain vase from the corner of her eye.

Chunyue lowered her head and pursed her lips, hesitantly stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, if there are prawns today, why don't you let the servants serve you to peel the prawns?"

Zhao Yao tilted her head and looked suspiciously at the palace man in front of her, raised her brows lightly and said, "Then why didn't you deal with it well before?"

The palace man knelt on one side and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me for not making proper arrangements."

"Forget it." Zhao Yao put down the book, looked at the head that was restlessly exposed, "You step back."

"Yes."

Chunyue crawled out of the waterside pavilion, planning to summon the palace servants with a serious expression, she must find out that person!

Wen Ruyan sprang out from behind the big blue and white porcelain vase, looked sideways at the outside of the pavilion and muttered, "Where has Nanny Li been recently?"

"In the early spring, I suddenly couldn't move, and now I'm sick and recuperating in bed." Zhao Yao sat in front of the low table with her lapels straight, and turned her head to see the girl sitting on one side very skillfully, washing her hands in the water beside her and automatically peeling the prawns.

It is the hottest day at noon, and there is no other sound except the noisy cicadas.

"Here, here you are." The girl placed the peeled shrimps on a small plate, and then pushed them in front of Zhao Yao.

Zhao Yao held the prawns with her chopsticks, and the girl beside her held a wooden spoon to fill up the rice, spread the prawns covered with sauce on the rice and swallowed them in one big gulp.

"Aren't you afraid of choking?"

Wen Ruyan chewed the rice carefully, shook his head with his cheeks slightly puffed up, and said, "No."

Zhao Yao sipped the soup, and waited for the girl to put the shrimp in front of her before eating with chopsticks.

Not long after, Zhao Yao stopped chopsticks and reached out to pick up the tea to rinse her mouth.

"Don't eat now?" Wen Ruyan put the peeled shrimp in a small plate.

"Yeah." Zhao Yao wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, and saw the girl rolled up her wide sleeves to reveal her lotus-like arms, "You can continue to eat if you want."

The girl nodded and silently put the shrimp in the small plate into the bowl and said, "Then can you help me tidy up my sleeves?"

Zhao Yao stretched out her hand and tied the sleeve robe, saw the half-empty rice bucket on the side and said, "Can you still eat?"

"Yes." The girl skillfully peeled the shrimp shells, "you should eat more when you are young, otherwise, if you eat more in the future, you will come to Sangao."

"What are the three highs?" Zhao Yao gently brushed away the fine hair scattered on the girl's cheeks with her fingertips.

Wen Ruyan thought for a while and said, "It's the most common disease among our middle-aged and elderly people."

"Then if you eat like this, won't you be more likely to get sick in the future?"

"It doesn't have to be."

Wen Ruyan probably didn't expect that because of these words, Zhao Yao, who just let herself eat well, would ruthlessly ask people to remove the dishes.

Wen Ruyan looked at the unfinished shrimp reluctantly.

"You've eaten enough." Zhao Yao handed the vanilla to Wen Ruyan and said, "Soak it in water to wash your hands, it can get rid of the fishy smell on your hands."

"Oh." Wen Ruyan reluctantly soaked his hands in the basin.

Chunyue, who was conducting a thorough investigation in the backyard at this moment, interrogated the members of Yuqing Palace one by one.

"No one from the palace went to the waterside pavilion in the morning. Everyone is busy cleaning up and taking care of the potted plants. There is no time to be lazy."

"Isn't it? Suddenly the big guys are not allowed to eat. It's really an arrow with chicken feathers."

"Right now, Nanny Li is only sick, and Chunyue is so majestic. We will suffer a lot in the future."

Chunyue compared the figure and appearance of the palace people, although she was suspicious, but these people were all in the conservatory in the morning, and each of them had someone to testify, no one had time to sneak out for a private meeting.

Isn't he a palace servant of Yuqing Palace?

The palace people removed the dishes, Chunyue looked at them a few more times, and found that there was something very wrong with them.

On weekdays, the Empress ate very little, but the sudden increase in her food intake in recent days was really suspicious.

But there was no one else in the water pavilion, could it be that the kitten ate it?

Chunyue exited the water pavilion, feeling a little puzzled.

Wen Ruyan walked slowly to digest his food, holding the round noodle fan in his hand and shook it a few times.

"I told you to eat less before, so you should suffer now." Zhao Yao frowned slightly when she saw the girl's discomfort.

"It's not that you have a limited time for a stick of incense. Naturally, I seized the time to eat."

Who would have thought that after eating too fast, the last cup of tea would enter his stomach, which would make him feel uncomfortable.

Zhao Yao approached and raised her hand to take away the round fan from the girl's hand, fanning the wind lightly and asked: "It's your own fault, but you still blame me?"

The girl approached greedily, Zhao Yao stepped back slightly, raised her hand and patted the approaching face away.

"Ouch." Wen Ruyan covered his face with his hand, and looked at it sadly, "You hit me?"

"I……"

Zhao Yao put the round fan aside, stretched out her hand to gently grab Wen Ruyan's wrist covering her face, and said apologetically, "Let me take a look."

The girl snorted softly, but she still let Zhao Yao hold her hand.

There was a faint pink mark on her fair face, which didn't look deep. Zhao Yao rubbed her fingertips lightly and explained: "It was just an accident, I have tried my best to control my strength."

Wen Ruyan picked up the round fan on the side with one hand, and fanned himself. Seeing Zhao Yao's strange and sincere explanation, he felt less resentful.

But he still tried his best to pretend to be serious with a sullen face: "You are not allowed to do anything to me in the future."

Zhao Yao stared at the young girl, her eyes flicked over those bright eyes, she slightly held the slender and cool wrist between her fingers and said, "As long as you are obedient, I will never do anything."

I thought the girl should show a smile, but she didn't expect the hand in her palm to break free suddenly.

"I'm a human being, why do I have to listen to you?" Although Wen Ruyan knew that the conflict in the last quarrel had not been resolved, seeing Zhao Yao's unreasonable and straightforward demands made him furious.

The girl changed her mood all of a sudden, asking questions like a cat blowing fur.

This is too much like the atmosphere during the quarrel that day.

Zhao Yao looked at the girl Ying with a slight frown between her eyebrows: "I don't want to quarrel with you."

"I didn't want to quarrel with you either." Wen Ruyan tried to breathe as calmly as possible, and clenched the handle of the round fan between her fingers, "I don't think I'm the kind of person in the palace who will let you order me around, and it's really not suitable for me. This magnificent palace."

"What do you want to say?" Zhao Yao frowned and tightened her thin lips, her expression was very serious.

Wen Ruyan looked up at Zhao Yao slightly and said, "Why don't you let me out of the palace, and I'll pay you back when I earn money outside the palace, and treat it as a repayment for your care during these days, how about it?"

"Don't think about it."

"Okay, then I will do things for you in the palace, but I am also a dignified person, you can't demand me like you treat your favorite cats and dogs."

Zhao Yao couldn't understand the girl's words, but she still captured the specific words.

"You want dignity?" Zhao Yao really didn't know how to let the girl understand that the palace people in the palace are the lowest slaves, even cats and dogs have more dignity than them.

"En." The girl nodded firmly.

"Since you want to be a palace servant in the palace, I will give you a chance, and I'm afraid you won't be able to persist."

The girl replied confidently: "I will impress you."

"Okay." Although Zhao Yao was a little annoyed in her heart, her angry face was not good-looking, "I will wait and see!"

Chunyue, who was originally guarding the waterside pavilion, saw a palace maid wearing a palace dress suddenly walking out of the waterside pavilion, and immediately stepped forward.

"Stop!" Chunyue shouted hastily.

Wen Ruyan turned around and didn't expect to meet Chunyue, so she froze in embarrassment for a moment.

Cuihua's identity is probably not very useful.

Chunyue was also stunned on the spot, why did Cuihua, who had an accident last year, reappear?

"You, are you a human or a ghost!" Chunyue took a few steps back timidly.

"For a long time, the sun is so bright outside, do you think ghosts can come out?" Wen Ruyan approached with a smile.

Chunyue hurriedly calmed down, looked at the shadow of the palace man, there was no shadow of a ghost.

"Cuihua?"

Wen Ruyan thought for a while and said, "I'm Xiaohua, a new palace official, who is Cuihua you're talking about?"

"Are you new here?" Chunyue sized her up suspiciously.

"Sister Chunyue, please take care of me in the future."

This new palace lady looks so much like Cuihua, no wonder His Majesty is fascinated by her.

"Okay." Chunyue restrained her expression, and she had another plan in her heart.

Wen Ruyan became a servant of Yuqing Palace just like that, originally she was afraid that Zhao Yao would deliberately make things difficult, but Chunyue never let other people serve her close to her.

Arrange for Wen Ruyan to wash and brush in the backyard all day long.

"Xiao Hua, wash these dishes well."

The cook was eating melon seeds, chatting non-stop.

Wen Ruyan held this large handful of vegetables, his bones stiffened terribly, his head was thrown back, and the bones creaked.

A few palace people outside held brooms in their hands and gathered in the backyard to chat.

I always thought that the kitchen was only busy with meals, but who would have thought that I would have to get up early in the morning to prepare.

"I heard that Nanny Li suffered a stroke and couldn't move. She hasn't been able to get oil or water for half a month. I think she's probably on the verge of death."

"What are we worried about, anyway, Chunyue is still watching eagerly by my side."

The cook shook the melon seed shells to the ground, poked her head to eavesdrop a few words, then cursed Sui Sui: "That old woman should have died a long time ago!"

Wen Ruyan shook off the water stains on the vegetables, thinking that if she hadn't seen the cook fawning over Mammy Li, she would have almost thought that the two of them had some kind of deep hatred.

The interpersonal relationship in the palace really has a tendency to develop sickly.

Wen Ruyan stretched her waist and cleaned up the crumbs of the melon rind by herself with a broom.

As the sun set, the entire sky was dyed bright red. Wen Ruyan was humming a song while biting a simple rougamo.

"Little Hua." Chunyue suddenly appeared from behind, making Wen Ruyan jump in fright.

"So it turns out, Sister Chunyue." Wen Ruyan held the Rougamo in his hand, and looked at Chunyue with some hindrance, "What are you doing here so late?"

Chunyue said with the attitude of a nanny in charge: "The lights will be turned off later, why are you still cleaning?"

Wen Ruyan took a bite of the roujiamo and replied, "I'm heating hot water in the kitchen, and I'm waiting for a hot bath."

I thought that the palace people would secretly run from the backyard to the empress' side hall, but who would have thought that after two days, they would actually be doing things seriously.

So much so that Chunyue wondered if she had guessed the wrong person.

But now that the Supreme Emperor has been sued, there is no way out now, even if it is for the dead ghost, she can only blame her for being unlucky, insisting on having a face exactly like that Cuihua.

Wen Ruyan only felt that Chunyue had a particularly scheming smile, and felt a little apprehensive, no wonder the palace people were talking behind their backs.

"It's my turn to guard the outer hall tonight, why don't you come with me?" Chunyue approached slowly.

"But..." Zhao Yao was so angry that day, now Wen Ruyan really doesn't dare to hang around in front of her.

Chunyue stretched out her hand to hold Wen Ruyan's hand and said very kindly: "It's nothing to worry about, the ordinary empress will fall asleep when she arrives, and then you can rest."

When it was late at night, she would be knocked out, and then silently handed over to someone outside to take her away.

Wen Ruyan didn't expect that he was already being watched, but he just physically and mentally resisted the sudden night shift.

Obviously he is just a child!

Zhao Yao, who was in the side hall, sized up the person who hung his head and wanted to hide, held the teacup between his fingers, sipped the tea and said, "The tea is cold."

Chunyue immediately stepped forward, but unexpectedly, the empress did not put down the teacup, but instead looked at the little flower very bluntly.

"What are you doing in a daze!"

The empress seldom showed her emotions on weekdays, most of them directly punished the palace servants, Chunyue was taken aback by this sudden reprimand.

Wen Ruyan approached with tea, Zhao Yao put the teacup aside, and she didn't even want to take a second look.

Obviously just pouring tea, who can show such a high-spirited look.

Wen Ruyan, who was slandered in his heart, stretched out his hand to open the tea lid and pour the tea, and did not look at Zhao Yao in a fit of anger.

After retreating to the corner again, Wen Ruyan leaned against the wall, but couldn't let go of the tea in his hand.

Chunyue stopped on one side to fan the wind, her eyes were looking at the empress's increasingly indifferent expression, and her heart was even more confused.

Could it be that the wrong person was really mistaken?

Although mosquito repellent plants are lit in the hall in summer, there are still moths around the lamps.

The girl carrying the hot tea dared to lean against the wall and take a nap secretly.

If this is missed, the tea will not be scalding normally.

Looking at the shadow cast on the book, Zhao Yao said in displeasure, "I haven't caught this moth yet."

"Yes." Chunyue replied, looking at the drowsy person leaning against the wall, "Little Hua, hurry up and catch the moths."

Wen Ruyan opened her eyes angrily, put the heavy teapot aside, then reached out and rolled up her sleeves and walked towards the lamp next to the desk.

There were countless moths outside the lampshade, Wen Ruyan looked at the dense mass, stretched out his hand and waved it, but just drove the moths away slightly.

But after a while, it flew over again, Wen Ruyan had no choice but to pick up the memorial at the side, and slapped the big moth.

Chunyue suddenly regretted why she was brought to serve the Empress.

This little girl is really unreliable in doing things.

Seeing that the girl didn't notice the memorial in her hand at all, Zhao Yao shook her head and said, "Enough."

Wen Ruyan stopped, and was about to put the memorial in his hand aside, and continued to take a nap against the wall, when he was stopped.

"You dare to destroy the memorial, how brave you are."

Chunyue on the side wanted to get into the hole immediately.

Wen Ruyan, who hadn't noticed it before, looked down at the memorial in his hand, and suddenly regretted it.

"Go out and kneel, don't get up without my order."

In the middle of the night, he was punished to kneel outside the hall. There were so many mosquitoes that it was frightening. Wen Ruyan stretched out his hand and scratched his face, looking up at the sky full of stars above his head.

When Chunyue came out from the inner hall, she looked at the person kneeling in the courtyard.

I'm afraid it's impossible to take her away silently tonight.

Chunyue, who didn't want to annoy the empress, couldn't plead for mercy, but went back to her room early instead.

In the middle of the night, there was silence in the Yuqing palace. Wen Ruyan gave up Zhao Yao's illusion that he would discover his conscience and let go of himself. He took a sneak look around and stood up from the ground with great difficulty.

He thought to himself that it was so late anyway, no one would know even if he went back to sleep, at worst, he would just come back and kneel earlier tomorrow morning.

Just as Wen Ruyan turned to leave, the door of the side hall opened, and Zhao Yao stood on the steps holding a lantern and said, "Who allowed you to get up?"

"Ah!" Wen Ruyan was so frightened that her heart almost stopped.

Zhao Yao frowned slightly and approached, Wen Ruyan covered her heart with her palm and said, "Why are you silent when you walk?"

In the middle of the night, a person holding a lamp suddenly appeared, it was really scary.

"It's you who are too dull."

Wen Ruyan snorted dissatisfied and read: "It's so late, why are you still awake?"

Zhao Yao pursed her thin lips slightly, looked at the starry sky behind the girl and responded, "No one in this palace dares to call me you except you."

"So?" the girl asked puzzled.

Sometimes the girl's reaction is not only unlike the common people in the southern country, but also unlike anyone Zhao Yao has ever met.

"If you call the emperor's surname directly, you should cut off your tongue, and if you look directly at the emperor's appearance, you should cut out your eyes." Zhao Yao held the lantern handle tightly between her fingers, and looked straight at the girl, "If it wasn't for the gift I gave you, you His head should have fallen to the ground."

Wen Ruyan pursed her lips and responded angrily: "It's fine if you die, I don't need to make you angry in the future, maybe I don't have to stay here and suffer."

When I fell asleep in this inexplicable place at the beginning, I thought about whether I would take the risk of rubbing myself, and maybe I went back suddenly.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Zhao Yao never thought that the girl who had vowed to fight before would actually think about death.

The girl responded with reddish eyes: "Didn't you just say that my head should have fallen to the ground?"

That was obviously just angry words, at most it was just to intimidate her to be obedient.

Zhao Yao could clearly feel an inexplicable impulse in her heart, she wanted to reach out and hug the girl in front of her.

If you die, there is nothing left.

But in the blink of an eye, the girl suddenly disappeared. Looking at the scattered clothes, Zhao Yao saw a fluffy ball crawling out from the collar of the clothes.

"Meow!"

So angry.

They were still arguing, why did the medicine suddenly lose its effect!

Wen Ruyan, who felt shameless, collapsed in his clothes, not wanting to see Zhao Yao's expression.

Zhao Yao leaned over and grabbed the little milk cat with her head buried in one hand, and poked her chubby cheek with her fingertips, but she didn't get any response.

The little milk cat stretched its pink and tender paws towards this direction, it seemed to be angry, but the force was extremely light.

"Don't be angry." Zhao Yao pressed the soft little paw with her fingertips, and embraced the little milk cat with one hand, "I was just angry, didn't you say a lot of angry words?"

"Meow!" It's obvious that I was persecuted unilaterally, okay?

The little milk cat broke free angrily, although it was useless, Zhao Yao pinched the little ear with her fingertips and said: "Good boy."

Whoever wants to be good, I will fight to the end with you!

Zhao Yao fiddled with the small trembling little ears with her fingertips and said very seriously: "I don't like you talking about the word death indiscriminately, and you are not allowed to do this in the future."

This man is really unreasonable!

The little milk cat opened its mouth and bit the protruding hand, Zhao Yao didn't break free but let her, turned and walked towards the side hall.

The lamps in the long corridor of Yuqing Palace were dimly lit, but a shadow suddenly trembled. Chunyue covered her mouth with her hand and dared not make a sound.

That palace man is actually a monster!

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