"Your Majesty, the lights in Biluo Palace are out."
Chu Jiaoli nodded slightly and raised her eyebrows at Bai Xue, indicating that she already had the answer.
Bai Xue scratched her head with her little hand, and then said: "My Lady, why don't you go back to Biluo Palace to sleep? Did you and His Highness have a fight?"
Chu Jiaoli just smiled, held her little hand and said, "Let's go, it's time for us to go to sleep."
Bai Xue followed Chu Jiaoli out of the threshold. She suddenly raised her head and said to Chu Jiaoli: "Attendant Chu is here, are you not happy?"
Chu Jiaoli paused and looked down at her: "Do you know her?"
Bai Xue pursed her lips and said, "Sister Jiaotang said that Master Chu is a bad person, and he used to like to bully the empress the most."
Chu Jiaoli frowned and murmured: "This Tang'er, what nonsense did you say to Xue'er..."
She knelt down, touched Bai Xue's head, looked into her watery eyes, and said: "Xue'er, if you encounter Master Chu, you must stay away, you know?"
Bai Xue nodded obediently, and like a little adult, she took a small step towards Chu Jiaoli, raised her little hand and patted Chu Jiaoli's shoulder comfortingly, saying: "Master Chu has been very careful these days.
Don’t be afraid if you don’t come to the house, Bai Xue is here.”
Hearing Bai Xue's innocent thoughts, Chu Jiaoli's eyes suddenly turned red. She hugged Bai Xue and gave her a hug. She looked up at the vast night, blinked her eyes and said, "Xue'er is so good..." p>
In front of the dressing table, the maid was combing Chu Jiaoli's hair.
Chu Jiaoli looked at the dazzling array of jewelry in front of the stage, and then looked up at her slightly tired face in the bronze mirror, feeling no joy.
Another maid led a young woman in from the house and said: "Your Majesty, Miss Sun is here."
"Sun Ling has met the empress."
Hearing this, Chu Jiaoli showed a faint smile, looked sideways at the woman who was kneeling down to salute, stretched out her hand to lift her chin, and looked at her fair face. She had a beautiful face, showing an innocence that was ignorant of the world.
Good.
She opened her lips and said: "You are beautiful."
Sun Ling is a simple girl. Looking at Chu Jiaoli, she responded with a generous smile: "The Crown Princess is even more beautiful."
Chu Jiaoli chose a pair of pink butterfly hairpins from the table, rolled up her sleeves and put them on for her. She stroked the tassels on the hairpins with her fingertips and said, "From now on, call me sister."
Biluo Palace.
Beigong Tengxiao sat in front of the bookcase, flipping through the memorial with one hand, raising his hand to pick up a cup of tea and taking a sip. When he heard the report, he frowned and said: "What list?"
Jing Yue, who reported the report, said: "My subordinates took a look and saw that they were all women. They were not from famous families. After checking, they were just the daughters of businessmen. From time to time, the empress took out the list and took a look at it. When she pointed out a person on the list, she would die.
I brought the man here and..."
"What else?" Beigong Tengxiao took another sip of tea, really not knowing what she was doing.
"Also let those women be worthy of the queen's sisters, and reward each of them with the same jewelry that His Highness gave to the queen before."
Hearing this, Beigong Tengxiao spit out a mouthful of tea, and the panicked maid beside him quickly wiped the corners of his mouth and clothes with a handkerchief.
Beigong Tengxiao pushed the maid away in annoyance and said: "Get out, everyone!"
"Yes." The maids left one after another, leaving him and Jing Yue alone in the room.
Beigong Tengxiao frowned tightly, with no joy in his face: "The thing I gave her is a copper coin and I cherish it very much. How can I give it away casually?"
"I don't know."
Beigong Tengxiao was stunned for a moment, then realized and said: "She is choosing a concubine?"
