Empress dowager, the queen sighed

The shameless Empress Dowager cut open the bamboo strips and placed the bamboo strips needed for the lanterns on the table.

Then I compared the bamboo strips with the empress dowager, and found that the strips were too small. Unfortunately, I said, "No, let's go find bamboo again."

The Empress Dowager got up, took the Emperor Sword and took the Empress Dowager to cut bamboo.

Green bamboos are the most abundant in Changle Hall. There are a lot of bamboos planted behind the sleeping hall. There are large bamboo forests. In the early spring, some spring bamboo shoots have already sprouted.

Bamboo was grown last year, and after one winter day, it failed a lot.

Gong'e took good care of it, and it looked good.

Seeing the Empress Dowager chopping bamboo with the imperial sword, Pei Yao's eyelids twitched a few times, "Do you want to change to a machete?"

Desperate things.

She glanced at the gauze on her palm, and the sword she fed with blood was used by the Empress Dowager to chop bamboo?

"A good sword is used on the blade, why bother to be so restrained, empress dowager, come here." The empress dowager grabbed the little empress dowager and asked her to stand in front of the bamboo, comparing her hands, "This one is much taller than you, Can."

After speaking, he picked up the sword and cut it off from the bottom, and it broke with one sword.

Pei Yao was dumbfounded, "Good sword."

"Cutting iron is like mud, now it's just cutting a root of bamboo." The Empress Dowager bent down and squatted down, took out a dagger, and chopped off the excess branches and leaves, leaving only the bare bamboo poles on one side.

In the same way, he cut down a dozen or so roots before stopping.

The Empress Dowager tied the bamboo together again with cloth and motioned for the little Empress Dowager to come over, and put the bamboo on her shoulders, "Thank you for your hard work, I will make a big one for you later."

Pei Yao glared, then stretched out her injured hand, "It still hurts."

"Carry it yourself." The Empress Dowager dropped a sentence, and it's not like she hasn't carried it before. When she was eight years old, she followed her over two mountains in order to find two bamboo strips to make lanterns.

Bigger and bigger, but lazy.

Pei Yao groaned and groaned, and walked back to Changle Hall silently without any difficulty carrying the bamboo.

When they arrived outside the hall, Ruoyun and Qingzhu hurriedly came to greet her, and Ruoyun asked, "Why is your mother carrying it by herself?"

"Your mother's idea." Pei Yao said angrily.

The green bamboo was placed in the center of the hall, and the empress dowager sat on the floor, sitting on a futon, and the group of pendulums meandered on the floor tiles.The emperor's sword tapped and tapped, and the longest one was selected and began to be cut.

Pei Yao took a sip of water, then sat down and watched her movements, her busyness reveals elegance.

It is said that beauty is attractive, Pei Yao put her hands on her knees and watched her slender hands shuttle back and forth among the green bamboos, she smiled, "The empress dowager has lived for a hundred years, but she has learned all the work in the world gone?"

"Almost." The Empress Dowager replied casually, drawing out the length with her fingertips, and then began to cut it after confirming the size.

Pei Yao asked her with admiration: "Then, what kind of work do you think is the most difficult to learn?"

"Kung Fu." The Empress Dowager paused slightly. She had learned many things, and learned all the things she had never learned before. The only thing she had to do was kung fu, which took decades.

Chu Yuan once said that her bones are not suitable for learning martial arts.

She didn't believe it, so she decided to learn it. Although she was a small success, she spent many years.

"So it's like this, do you cook rice and soup?" Pei Yao asked curiously.

The Empress Dowager looked up at her after hearing the words, "Aijia's cooking is better than yours."

Pei Yao still snorted, "If it wasn't for your good looks, I would have left."

"If Ai Jia hadn't read that the Empress Dowager still had some good looks, he would have killed you a long time ago." The Empress Dowager said bluntly, indeed, before Pei Yao, many women tried to get close to her.

In the end, all died.

Pei Yao felt that this sentence had too many meanings, the empress dowager's character was still being refined, but good or bad had nothing to do with her.

The empress dowager is the empress dowager of the big man, not hers.

She rested her head on her knees and stared at the Empress Dowager without blinking her eyes, "If someone more beautiful than me comes to seduce you, will you be tempted?"

"You are the one who pinched the heart of mourning, so you can move as you please?" The Empress Dowager sarcastically said without hesitation.

Pei Yao smiled lowly, covered her eyes with her hands, and curled her lips.

Fu Lu quickly walked in from the outside to report, "Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager, there is an army outside Luoyang City, it seems to be Pei Sui's backup army, and it will join the main force soon."

The backup army did not expect Pei Sui's disastrous defeat, and retreated fifty miles. They did not see the main force at the agreed time and lost their way.

The Emperor Sword in the hands of the Empress Dowager finally stopped, glanced at Pei Yao, remained silent for a moment, and ordered: "Tell the Emperor, lend those [-] infantry to Aijia for use."

Fulu took the order and retreated immediately.

The Empress Dowager continued to cut bamboo strips, as if there was nothing to do just now.

Pei Yao understood, and moved closer to her, "Miss Li, are you going to fight?"

"I don't want to, I want to continue with the empress dowager." The empress dowager's tone was melodious, and her blunt words made people blush, but she didn't feel it, and instead continued to fool Pei Yao, "Aijia wants to find a suitable lamp paper, you just Wait here for Aijia."

Pei Yao didn't believe her nonsense, and she tactfully didn't expose it, her brows were tightly frowned, and she only asked Miss Li: "Have you ever regretted it?"

"What did the Queen Mother say?"

"Teach Pei Sui."

"Regret, regret to death, now, I want to use the emperor's sword to pierce his heart." The Empress Dowager did not shy away from Pei Yao, she said what she wanted to say.

Pei Yao knocked her on the head with the bamboo stick that had been cut, "Don't you care about me?"

The Empress Dowager sneered: "Will you be sad when Pei Sui died?"

Pei Yao shook her head: "No."

"Why does the Ai family still care about you?" The Empress Dowager stood up, her expression softened a little, and she said, "The Ai family had people hunt deer, and they can eat venison by themselves at night. Eat more, it's good for your health."

"Venison." Pei Yao smiled with her eyes bent, the venison was so delicious, her eyes changed when she looked at the Empress Dowager, she stood up and walked towards the inner bedroom.

After a while, he took out a candy box and handed it to the Empress Dowager: "I made toffee."

There is a lot of milk in the palace, so the candy made is different, sweeter than oranges.

"When did you do it?" The Empress Dowager was suspicious and dissatisfied: "Eating alone will rot your mouth."

"Forget it, I'd better have a bad mouth." Pei Yao got angry and reached out to snatch it. She forgot the empress dowager's kung fu. No one can get anything in front of her, let alone her.

The empress dowager stepped back, the sugar box fell firmly in her palm, she took out one and put it in her mouth, the aroma of milk poured into her throat wantonly.

A little sloppy.

She hid the candy box in the sachet, and said to Pei Yao, "Be obedient and wait for Ai's family to come back, eat all the venison, and don't go out of the palace."

Pei Yao agreed, and said, "Is there any deer blood to drink?"

After all, the Empress Dowager's expression changed a bit, and the corners of her lips twitched indecently, "What are you doing with deer blood? I'll make you some more bullwhip soup?"

Pei Yao didn't understand: "What is that?"

The Empress Dowager couldn't bear to look at her, and finally turned her eyes away and walked away.

"Is this the case?" Pei Yao didn't understand what she meant, so she sat down and continued cutting bamboo strips to make a lantern, and she would do it too.

After the Empress Dowager left the Changle Palace, she asked the emperor for a token and left Luoyang City directly.

When going out of the city gate, Guo Shi led people to guard him. He knew the Empress Dowager, and he could see clearly when the city gate was engaged in diplomatic battles.

Women have such good kung fu, and they are still No.1.

He looked at the back of the empress dowager leaving, and thought of his fiancée who was executed by Ling Chi.

Pei Min was in pain before his death. He couldn't calm down that such a dignified and elegant girl would be executed in such a cruel way.

After the Empress Dowager left, the city gate was closed. Without the order from above, the city gate would not be opened. He happened to be guarding this crucial city gate.

Guo Shi looked at the sky, the corners of his lips tugged with difficulty, what a beautiful little girl she was.

****

Luoyang is surrounded by martial law, everyone is in danger, but in the palace, it is the opposite. The palace people start to put up lanterns when they have time. I heard that the empress dowager's reward is very generous, which may be money that they will never earn in their entire lives.

Even Qingzhu Ruoxiang beside the queen mother followed suit.

The Empress Dowager returned to her Weiyang Palace, yawning lazily, looked to the left, green bamboos were making lamps, and looked to the right, Ruoxiang was also making lamps.

She sighed: "You two are crazy."

"Your Majesty said it lightly, but that is a generous reward. The servants and others just want to earn more money." Qingzhu laughed.

Pei Yao didn't think so, and analyzed to them: "Think about it, there are thousands of people doing it in the palace, let's not talk about your skills, just talk about the intrigue and cunning between you. If you do it, if Half way was ruined by others, wouldn’t it be a failure.”

Qingzhu Ruoxiang looked at each other, as if there was some reason, and asked at the same time: "What should the servant do?"

Pei Yao suggested: "Don't do it, don't do anything, the hope is too slim."

Qingzhu Ruoxiang showed an indescribable expression, the empress dowager became more and more lazy because of being spoiled by the empress dowager.

They shook their heads slightly and continued to work hard.

Pei Yao was frustrated, they were all poisoned by Yin Zi, and there was no cure.She climbed onto the bed and turned out the script to read.

Two days later, many lanterns were piled up outside the Hall of Changle, each more exquisite and dazzling, but the Empress Dowager did not return.

Ruoyun had no choice but to invite the emperor and the queen mother to choose the most exquisite lantern.

The emperor has become more and more proficient in dealing with government affairs recently, with a smile on his face and eyes, just the youngest demeanor, the little maids all lowered their heads when they saw it.

Pei Yao was playing with a lantern with blooming peonies in her hands, and she twirled it so lifelike, she picked this one, Ruoyun took it with a smile, and found the name at the bottom of the lantern.

But the emperor didn't agree with her, so he looked around and chose a peach blossom lantern, which was not as exquisite as the peony, but more elegant than the peony.

Ruoyun smiled and said, "It's better to wait for the Empress Dowager to come back before making a decision."

"Don't wait for her, whoever chooses will be rewarded." Pei Yao felt that Ruoyun's suggestion was not good, so she directly ordered Qingzhu to get the reward silver, and then looked at the emperor: "What is your majesty going to reward?"

"No matter how good a treasure is, it is worse than silver. I will reward you with 500 taels of silver." The emperor laughed.

Pei Yao frowned, what did the little emperor do with such generosity, she was reluctant to part with so much silver, thought of a plan, went into the empress dowager's bedroom, and found the silver box.

Ruoyun covered her face, the little queen mother just said that whoever chooses will be rewarded, why did she slap her in the face so quickly.

The emperor rewarded him with 500 taels of silver, so Pei Yao had no choice but to part with her.

On that day, it was the empress dowager's love that was cut.

The empress dowager blocked Pei Sui's reinforcements in the mountains for two days, and the Han army cooked and sang all day without practicing.

The Empress Dowager sat in the main tent and cut bamboo strips. After waiting for two days, she finally got someone.

Bailishu is here.

She didn't come as a teacher of the Han Dynasty, but as a military teacher of the Pei family army.

"Queen, long time no see." Baili Shu greeted Li Lexi, looking at Li Lexi, the emperor's sword was used to cut bamboo, I don't know if it was because she was free or because she had a big heart.

The Empress Dowager did not raise her head, her mind was concentrated on the bamboo strips, and she said slowly: "It's less than half a month, you came to be a lobbyist for Pei Sui?"

Bailishu looked at the Emperor Sword in her hand, and asked softly, "You hate Mrs. Li, why do you still help Mrs. Li?"

"Help?" The Empress Dowager sneered, looked up at Bailishu, with obvious sarcasm hidden in her eyes: "The Ai family gave Pei Sui a chance, but he refused to listen. Since he is so ignorant of the rules, the Ai family will no longer listen." Teach him."

There are no rules.

Pei Sui was arrogant and conceited. Xu Shi had never suffered a loss in his life, so she taught him what it means to 'suffer a loss'.

Bailishu was silent for a long time before he opened his mouth in a low voice, "What condition did Pei Yao refuse you?"

"Pei Yao is the princess."

"Sure enough, sure enough." Bailishu was not surprised and understood what she was doing in an instant.

"You want to return the throne to Chu Yuan?"

"Yes." The Empress Dowager did not hesitate.

Bailishu clutched his forehead, shocked in his heart, "For a hundred years, you have never given up. You only think about Chu Yuan, disregarding the common people in the world, disregarding the lives and deaths of the people. Li Lexi, it is your father who is responsible for you. People don't matter."

"I have nothing to do with the common people in the world, why should I care?"

"The people have no relatives or reason with me, why should I care?"

"My father died at my hand, and he atoned for his sins."

"No one can stop what I want to do."

Bailishu was stunned, and tried to wake her up: "You know, that's Pei Yao, not Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan is the talent of an emperor, and Pei Yao is a fool who cannot be supported."

"You came here today to save them?" The Empress Dowager sheathed the emperor's sword, "It's impossible to save people. If Ai's family is here, they will die."

Bailishu felt that the person standing in front of him was a lunatic, an out-and-out, hopeless lunatic, "What if Pei Sui agrees to make Pei Yao the princess?"

"The Ai family doesn't believe in Pei Sui. If you are unfaithful once, you won't use it a hundred times."

The fingertips in Bailishu's cuffs trembled, and after a long time, he let out a breath slowly, looked at the Emperor Sword, and said, "What if Pei Yao isn't her?"

"Perhaps there is something wrong with your calculations?"

"Will the Empress change her mind?"

She couldn't stop what Li Lexi did, she could only let her down fundamentally, she couldn't admit that Pei Yao was Chu Yuan.

The Empress Dowager stared at the lying man in front of her, pulled out the Emperor Sword that had just been sheathed, and walked up to Baili Shu, "Take a drop of your blood and use it."

Bailishu put his fingertips on the blade and stroked lightly, blood dripped on the blade.

She stared, the Empress Dowager was equally undistracted, the blood coagulated on the blade, forming a scab.

Then, the Empress Dowager cut her fingertips, and the blood dripped up and melted into the blade.

"Pei Yao's blood is also incorporated." She chuckled lightly.

Bailishu was so surprised that he was speechless, the Empress Dowager looked indifferent, without any expression, she wiped the blood off the blade and put it back into the sheath.

"Bailishu, the Ai family will not let Pei Sui go, it's too late to regret."

"Li Lexi, you are joking with the people of the world, tens of thousands of lives are not as good as a Chu Yuan in your heart?" Bai Lishu stared into the eyes of the Empress Dowager, motionless.

Li Lexi's heart was festering, and there was no cure for it.

The Empress Dowager answered calmly: "What do people in the world have to do with me?"

"Chu Yuan will be happy after saving tens of millions of lives. She doesn't want you to be immersed in hatred."

"Are you Chu Yuan? If not, shut up and get out. If you don't go out, the Ai family will take your blood to sacrifice the flag."

Bailishu couldn't persuade her and left angrily.

After leaving the camp, she stopped. Li Lexi led the troops here, and the defense of the palace must have relaxed.

She looked back at the camp where the smoke was curling up, and took a deep breath. If there was no Pei Yao, Li Lexi would be busy fetching water from a bamboo basket.

****

After eating too much venison, her body felt much warmer, but Pei Yao didn't want to eat it, and she was talking about chicken.

Tomorrow is the Shangyuan Festival, and the Empress Dowager probably won't be able to make it back. She sent the bamboo strips she had cut into the warehouse and made another box of candies.

The emperor also sent a lot of candies, which were bought outside and tried by others, and the flavors were many.

Pei Yao didn't eat, and the Empress Dowager was not here, if she was poisoned, she would die.

The sugar was thrown aside and did not move.

On the day of Shangyuan Festival, the emperor sent someone to bring over some snacks. Pei Yao glanced at it, touched it again, but did not move.

After lunch, the national teacher came and was received by Pei Yao. She chewed the orange candy and said in a bad tone, "What are you here for?"

"What are you eating?" Bailishu stared at the little girl in front of him. Her facial features were similar to Chu Yuan's, but her demeanor and temperament were quite different.

Even if the souls are the same, she doesn't like it.

What she likes is Qi Emperor Chu Yuan.

"Orange candy." Pei Yao asked someone to bring some for her to eat, "What is the national teacher doing here?"

Bailishu took the orange candy, put it in his mouth without thinking, and smiled, "Tell your empress one thing, the Empress Dowager wants to kill Pei Sui."

Bitten too much sugar, her cheeks hurt, Pei Yao covered her face, rubbed it, and imitated the empress dowager's cold tone: "The two armies are against each other, life and death are in the sky. She wants to kill Pei Sui, and Pei Sui also Will kill her. The national teacher came to tell me that he wanted me to save Pei Sui?"

"Your Majesty has no father-daughter relationship with General Pei?" Baili Shu was also helpless, one or two were nothing, they were inhumane.

Pei Yao didn't want to chew the orange candy anymore, so she picked up the toffee and ate a piece, it melted in the mouth, "Does he have a father-daughter relationship with me?"

"I came here by mistake." Bailishu knew that he couldn't persuade him anymore, and chewed a mouthful of orange candy, which was the candy she had sent in yesterday.

Looking at the empress dowager again, picking up toffee to eat again, she smiled.

"Since the empress does not listen to the minister, the minister will leave."

"Stay here for a snack, you're tired enough, just meddle in your own business." Pei Yao muttered, the last sentence in a very low voice.

But with today's words, she can understand that the national teacher Bailishu has rebelled.

Pei Yao sighed, and felt that it would be a waste to let her eat the snacks given by the emperor, and it would be better to give them to dogs.

She changed her mind again and said, "Don't eat, just go."

Bailishu was kicked out of Weiyang Palace, and before she stepped out of the palace, she saw a group of Imperial Forest Army approaching, and she stood at the corner.

The Imperial Forest Army came straight towards her, aggressively.

It was only now that Bailishu realized that the little queen mother had actually sent someone to arrest her, she was so daring.

She sneered, "You want to hold me too."

Except for Li Lexi, she has never lost.

****

Pei Yao stopped eating sugar, her cheeks hurt, she rinsed her mouth with water, and went to bed.

When she woke up, it was dark, she immediately ran to the bed, "Is the Empress Dowager back?"

"Not yet." Qingzhu replied, seeing that the queen mother was a little lost, she comforted her: "It's still early, maybe I'll be back in the evening. Would you like to go and see the lanterns, this year's Lantern Festival in the palace is very beautiful."

Pei Yao was not interested, so she retreated back to her bed and told Qingzhu: "I won't go, the Empress Dowager came back and told me, I'll sleep for a while."

"Okay, servant girl let the kitchen cook some of your favorite food." Qing Zhu leaned over and withdrew.

At this time, the servant came over in a hurry, and he hurriedly reported: "Miss Qingzhu, Bailishu has escaped."

"Didn't catch it?" Qing Zhu was shocked, she was still able to escape in the palace.

The servant nodded: "The national teacher is very skilled in martial arts."

Qingzhu waved his hand, "I'll go tell the Queen Mother."

Bailishu, who was out of the palace, became a rat crossing the street. Everyone shouted and beat him. He couldn't stay in the city, so he had to leave Luoyang City.

Guo Shi let her out of the city and ran all the way, not daring to relax.

No, I met the Empress Dowager who was returning to the city on the way. When the two met, Bailishu reined in the reins. There was a carriage behind the Empress Dowager. She looked at the carriage behind, "What is the Empress Dowager doing?"

"It's just a gift for the Shangyuan Festival." The Empress Dowager's eyes fell on Bailishu's back, "The national teacher has returned to the city?"

"It's something." Bailishu said guiltily.

The Empress Dowager drove her horse forward, it was dark, and she couldn't see the figure clearly. After getting closer, she realized that Bai Lishu's expression was wrong, "Going to see the little empress dowager?"

"Just talking about the old days."

The Empress Dowager smiled lightly, turned her wrist, and immediately drew the dagger from the saddle, stabbing Bailishu directly.

Shocked, Bailishu quickly leaned on the horse and galloped the horse. The Empress Dowager did not chase after her, and the dagger in her hand flew out.

The dagger hit the horse's buttocks, and with a neighing sound, the horse collapsed.

Bailishu was thrown off the horse and rolled onto the dust. She looked at the carriage covered by the black cloth and took out a fire bag.

In an instant, the flames overflowed, and the coachman hurriedly put out the fire, shouting that it was on fire, it was on fire.

Inside the carriage was a lantern as tall as a person, supported by bamboo slats, and the whole carriage was on fire at the slightest light.

The horse was frightened and galloped forward quickly, almost rushing towards the Empress Dowager.

Satisfied, Bailishu took the opportunity to run away.Yesterday she put oranges in the candy, and today the little queen ate it, and when the queen mother went back, she would see a dead body.

The Empress Dowager watched Bailishu run away, she didn't bother anymore, the lantern was gone, what could she use to tease Pei Yao.

She stared at the burnt carriage, sighed and felt helpless, and made a mental note that when she saw Bailishu, she would also cut off her remaining hand.

The coachman burst into tears immediately, feeling sorry for his carriage.

The empress dowager hated it so much that she took out some money and threw it to him, and went back to the city by herself.

Guo Shi opened the city gate and saw the Empress Dowager walking alone, he was puzzled and looked behind, but there was no one, so he ordered people to close the city gate.

The figure of the empress dowager was already far away, he looked at the figure in a daze, if she came back today alone, would she leave alone tomorrow?

When the Empress Dowager returned to the palace, she saw rows of lanterns hanging outside the Weiyang Hall, all of different shapes, exquisite and beautiful.

Along the way, the mood of the whole person has improved a lot.

The corners of her lips deepened.

The author has something to say: Pei Yao: National Teacher, I am so grateful to you!

Seeing this, you should understand that this is not a substitute.

感谢在2021-08-1318：03：26～2021-08-1418：03：26期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦～