She smiled and waved to them easily. When she walked around Nangong Shuo, Nangong Shuo couldn't help but grabbed her arm: "Xiao Yu!"
An uncontrollable "light rain" made Shangguan Yu's heart clench tightly, and the smile that had been forced on his face suddenly subsided.
With her back to Nangong Shuo, she took several deep breaths to calm down her sad mood a little.
The corners of her lips raised again, she looked sideways at Nangong Shuo and asked, "Is there anything else, Your Majesty?"
"I……"
Nangong Shuo frowned slightly, but in the end he didn't say anything. He just shook his head to Shangguan Yu, "It's nothing, I just asked you to walk slower so that the injury will heal."
Nangong Shuo's answer made Shangguan Yu's eyes flash with a hint of loneliness, but he still smiled and nodded to him, "Well, I understand. Your Majesty, you'd better go quickly. Don't keep the concubine waiting."
After that, he waved his hand to Nangong Shuo, reached out and took away the broad palm that had been holding her arm, turned around and left.
The raised corners of her mouth no longer had the strength to hold them up, and she dropped them feebly.
After taking several deep breaths, I put back the tears that kept rolling in my eyes.
Gu Zixu stood next to Nangong Shuo, looking at Shangguan Yu's lonely back, his heart ached.
"Is this good?"
He turned his head to look at Nangong Shuo and asked.
But Nangong Shuo smiled bitterly, "Does this allow me to say whether it's good or bad?"
At the same time, he turned his gaze to Gu Zixu and asked.
For a moment, the two brothers fell into silence, only to hear Nangong Shuo continue: "You should go back to the house first, and I will go to Cihui Palace to have a look."
Cihui Palace——
"Your Majesty, you are here. Come and take a look at the girls the Ai family has chosen for you. If you are dissatisfied with anything, just tell the Ai family."
She handed the pictures of beauties drawn by several painters to Nangong Shuo, and continued with a smile: "The Ai family felt that you were busy with government affairs these days and didn't have time to choose so many, so they took the initiative to choose a few for you. Don't you think so?
Would you blame the Ai family for making their own decisions?"
"Mother and concubine are worrying too much."
Nangong Shuo didn't have much appreciation or interest in the pictures handed to him. He just glanced at them with the corner of his eyes and put them aside.
"The one my mother and concubine chooses must be in line with my wishes. I have no objections."
After saying that, he stood up from Cihui Palace, intending to leave, "Mother, concubine, it's up to you to choose the concubine. I still have some government affairs to deal with, so I'm going to leave first."
His cold eyes showed no joy at choosing a concubine. After saying this, he left without looking back.
As soon as Nangong Shuo stepped out of Cihui Palace, the attentive smile on Princess Wang's face was immediately replaced by a hint of calculation.
She threw aside the paintings in her hands and smiled coldly, "Of course the Ai family knows that you have no objection. Your thoughts are entirely focused on Shangguan Yu."
This time the draft was not so much a draft, but more accurately, it was just that the princess added a few more concubines to the emperor's harem.
Two days later, the list of concubines came down. As expected, the rumored daughter of the Xia family became the biggest winner in this selection of concubines.
The princess chose a total of three women for the emperor, one was Xia Shuting, the daughter of Xia Feiliang, the other two were Xu Min, the daughter of Xu Xinglong, the imperial censor, and Qiao Qian, the daughter of Qiao Xi, the official minister.