I really dare not mess with the Queen Mother

When Zhao Dewang came out of the Wuji Hall, the little eunuch at the bottom of the steps felt that his whole body seemed to have lost a lot of weight, and his face was slumped and he had no energy at all.

The little eunuch couldn't help being surprised when he saw this, could it be that Director Zhao was punished by His Majesty?

But how could it be?

No one in the palace knew that Director Zhao was exquisite in appearance and was quite favored by His Majesty. Not only that, even the empresses and princes in each palace would regularly send some rewards, which was enough to show Director Zhao's status in the palace.

But with Mr. Zhao's current appearance, he really looks like a dead old lady who is about to go to the grave to cry for funerals...

Thinking of this, the little eunuch hurried forward and asked, "Master, what's wrong with you?"

Zhao Dewang didn't even look at him, he just frowned tightly, his face was pale and ugly, he lowered his head and pondered for a while, and thought of something unbelievable, and said to himself: "How is it possible? This is too absurd... No, no, no! No way! No way!"

The little eunuch asked cautiously: "Master, why can't you? Did you hear..."

"Tell me!" Zhao Dewang suddenly grabbed the young eunuch by the collar, and asked him with wide eyes: "If you have a son, I haven't seen you for a long time, and now this son is back..."

The little eunuch was terrified by his appearance, and he didn't dare to refute that eunuchs would never have sons, so he nodded quickly and said, "Mmm, master, please tell me."

Zhao Dewang took a deep breath, and continued with a cold face: "Now this son is back, but he said that he has taken a fancy to his sister, what will you do?"

Little eunuch: "..."

The little eunuch was stunned. Even though he was always out of his mind, he knew who the "son" Zhao Dewang was talking about was.

But Prince Xiao Qi...

Who did he see?

"The slave thinks..." The little eunuch paused, then lowered his voice and said, "The slave thinks that maybe this unfilial son will be beaten to death!"

"Yes, yes!" Zhao Dewang nodded: "This is the reaction of ordinary people, right?"

The little eunuch didn't know why, "Yeah..."

Zhao Dewang let go of his collar, took a deep breath, and said in a low voice, "But His Majesty said, this is what should be done, why do you think it is?"

The little eunuch was stunned: "Should? Should..."

The little eunuch couldn't go on talking anymore, he finally understood why Zhao Dewang came out with that expression of a dead mother, let alone Zhao Dewang, I guess his face is not much better now!

"Yes, His Majesty said it himself. He likes his mother, and he should." Seeing the little eunuch's face gradually turning pale, Zhao Dewang snorted coldly and said, "Don't talk about this, the power of heaven is unpredictable. After all, we The family has been in the palace for so many years, and I don't know what His Majesty and his old man are thinking."

The little eunuch nodded quickly.

Zhao Dewang bowed his head and thought for a while, and then ordered: "Later, you go to the Xianchun Palace of Concubine Chen."

The little eunuch thought for a while, and tentatively said: "Then master, the slave will go later, what do you want to say to Concubine Chen?"

Zhao Dewang narrowed his eyes and sneered, "What are you talking about? It's only 300 taels of silver. What can you say?"

The little eunuch immediately understood, and said with a smile: "Master, you are right, I know how to reply."

Zhao Dewang waved his hand: "Go."

The little eunuch immediately trotted all the way, running to the distance along the central axis avenue.

Zhao Dewang stood at the same place, glanced at the Wuji Hall, pondered for a while, thought of something, raised his head to look at the sky for a while, and finally took a step towards the direction of the House of Internal Affairs.

Zhao Dewang went to the House of Internal Affairs, took a high-quality stove with the eunuch in charge, and ordered four young eunuchs to carry two cages of charcoal fire and walk towards the harem.

He came all the way to Fengqi Palace, and gave instructions to the little eunuch guarding the outer gate, and then the little eunuch went inside to report.

After a while, the little eunuch trotted over quickly, saluted Zhao Dewang respectfully, and then said with a smile: "Director Zhao, the empress has let you in."

Zhao Dewang nodded, stepped over the threshold, and reprimanded the little eunuch behind him from time to time: "Be careful, this is all for the empress, if one accidentally falls, the manager will pick you up." skin!"

All the little eunuchs hurriedly said "yes" tremblingly.

Zhao Dewang led people into the outer hall of Fengqi Palace, as soon as he entered, the palace maid Jinli came up to welcome him.

Zhao Dewang bowed slightly: "My dear girl."

Jinli saluted with a smile: "Hello, Eunuch Zhao." She tilted her head, saw the stove in the hands of the little eunuch, and said with a smile: "Eunuch Zhao, you have a heart, and the stove will be delivered before winter begins." coming."

Zhao Dewang smiled and said: "Our family is a slave, how can we be such a master, it is His Majesty who saw that winter is about to enter, so he ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to build this stove specially for the empress. If it is ready, I will go to the House of Internal Affairs to get it and send it to the empress."

Jinli looked up again, and saw that the stove sent over was different from the ones used in ordinary palaces. The whole body of the stove was carved with phoenixes, and even the two "ears" on both sides of the stove were also carved with phoenixes. Made it look like a phoenix with a high head and neck.

Jinli hastily bowed three times facing the outside of the house, and said respectfully: "My maidservant will temporarily take the place of the empress, thank you for your majesty's kindness!" After she finished worshiping the emperor, she turned around and said to Zhao Dewang: "Elder-in-law, you have a heart."

"It's easy to say..." Zhao Dewang smiled. He glanced left and right, and couldn't help asking: "Huh? Where's the empress?"

Jinli said: "Master, she is reading in the inner hall."

Zhao Dewang paused for a moment, then smiled unintentionally: "I heard that a few days ago, a new bookstore was opened outside the palace. I heard that the books in that bookstore are very exciting. My lady must like it."

Jinli understood immediately, quickly made a "please" gesture, and said: "Eunuch, please come with me."

Zhao Dewang nodded with a smile, and followed Jinli into the inner hall.

As soon as the two of them left, the six little eunuchs who had come in with Zhao Dewang retreated, and for a while there were only two little maids guarding the palace in the outer palace of Fengqi Palace.

One of the little maids stared at the fireplace in the palace and thought for a while, but she couldn't figure it out, so she asked aloud: "Sister, His Majesty sent something here, but he didn't come by himself, so what is he doing to our master?" ..."

"Shh!" Another little palace lady gave her a quick look, and said angrily, "Hush your voice! I'm afraid others won't hear you?"

"But..." The little maid glanced around with some fear, lowered her voice and asked, "I still don't understand, is your majesty treating our master good or bad?"

"Of course it's good! Don't even think about it, you pig-headed one. Although our master is young, who is in charge of the phoenix seal and the sixth palace in this palace?"

The little maid quickly said, "Of course it's our master."

"Then there are other empresses in the palace who dare to bully our master?"

The little maid shook her head like a rattle: "No..."

"That's right! In this harem, our master says nothing. Besides, there is no queen mother in the palace, so our master has the final say in the harem. Although His Majesty seldom comes here, this stove and charcoal fire are enough to show His Majesty's heart." It has our master."

The little maid seemed to understand something suddenly, and she felt happy, but after a while, she asked again: "Then why hasn't our master given birth to a prince so far?"

Another little maid was silent for a long time, and said with some hesitation: "I don't know about this, but... even if the master has no biological flesh and blood, one day the adoptive one will come over, won't he still call our master's mother?"

"Adoption?" The little maid was stunned: "If the master chooses the prince, who will he choose?"

"How do I know this? Anyway, who will the master choose..." Thinking of this, another little maid couldn't help snickering, and said with a low voice: "Anyway, whoever the master chooses, she will not choose Prince Xiaoqi."

"Ah! You are too good at thinking!"

"Well, who knows about such a thing?"

Zhao Dewang walked all the way into the inner hall, and Gu Junran was sitting on the soft bed reading a book.

Zhao Dewang sighed in his heart, the empress is indeed the lord of the six palaces, it is really hardworking to get up and read so early in the morning.

But when he looked at Gu Junran's hand again, he was stunned for a moment.

Zhao Dewang rubbed his eyes, thinking he was wrong.

This empress is reading a book, why is she still holding it backwards?

Could it be...

Zhao Dewang put up a thumbs up with a smile all over his face, and flattered him: "Your Majesty, you are really amazing. Even reading books is different from others. You are indeed the No. 1 in this harem."

Gu Junran raised her phoenix eyes and glanced at her slightly, "It's Manager Zhao."

Zhao Dewang hurriedly saluted: "Slave Zhao Dewang, please greet the empress." He paused, then smiled and said: "Your majesty, you are different from other people even when you read books. This slave really admires you!"

Gu Junran paused, then turned the book upside down calmly, and said lightly, "I accidentally held it upside down."

Zhao Dewang: "..."

Zhao Dewang stopped talking for a long time, but couldn't say a word.

Gu Junran casually threw the book on the table, raised her phoenix eyes to look at him, and said softly, "What's the matter?"

Zhao Dewang thought for a long time, then gritted his teeth, summoned up his courage and said, "The servant came to see you today for one thing."

Gu Junran chuckled: "There are no outsiders here, so let's talk."

Zhao Dewang paused, and said in a low voice: "The servant led Prince Xiao Qi to the Wuji Palace today."

Gu Junran smiled, "Everyone knows about this, you don't need to come here to tell me, just tell me something I don't know."

"No, no, no!" Zhao Dewang quickly waved his hands, and he held back for a long time before lowering his voice and said, "On this journey, my servant, I heard Prince Xiaoqi and my servant muttering about the third princess!"

"Third princess?" Gu Junran raised his eyebrows and looked at him, suddenly becoming interested, "What did she say about the third princess?"

Zhao Dewang struggled and said: "He said that he loves the third princess very much, and...he said that to the servant more than once!"

Gu Junran chuckled playfully: "It's like something she can do."

Zhao Dewang was taken aback: "Ma'am... what are you talking about?"

Gu Junran still had a smile on his lips, glanced at him, and said softly: "She just likes the third princess. Is this hard for you to accept?"

Zhao Dewang: "..."

Gu Junran was a little disappointed and said: "You make such a fuss about such a small matter, I thought it was her who did something so ridiculous."

Zhao Dewang: "..."

Wait... small matter?

Is it trivial to like the three princesses? ?

Zhao Dewang was silent for a long time.

In the blink of an eye, his entire face turned gray again.