As Bai Tao was worried, although Shangguan Hui's true identity has not been announced to the public at present, the Northern Emperor's previous actions have caused a lot of discussion in the palace.
At this time, in the inner hall of Shoukang Palace, the Empress Dowager was half leaning on the soft couch, listening to the nanny conveying what happened during the day, her eyebrows raised slightly, and her expression showed a hint of surprise.
"You said that the emperor first met the prime minister from the Southern Dynasty alone, and then summoned Shangguan Hui into the pavilion?"
“That’s right!”
Madam Qi, who served the Empress Dowager for the longest time, nodded and responded.
"What have our people heard?" The Empress Dowager asked again. After living in the deep palace for a long time, she naturally has already integrated the rules of survival in this palace. Among them, it is particularly important to install eyeliners in each palace.
"I've asked. At that time, His Majesty drove out all the palace servants he was serving close to him, leaving only the eunuch Gao Yun to serve him. You know, the Empress Dowager, that Gao Yun is sincere to the Emperor.
Very naturally, he couldn't ask anything from his mouth."
"You can tell me, what other abnormalities are there?"
As he asked, the Empress Dowager stared at and thought, thinking that this matter would definitely not be simple.
Upon hearing the words, Madam Qi thought about it seriously, and suddenly realized something. She hurriedly reported it to her master, "I heard that the emperor later summoned the Censor Bai to the palace."
"Censor Bai? But that Bai Tao?"
“That’s right!”
The Empress Dowager narrowed her eyes slightly and thought about the key points carefully. What is the relationship between the prime ministers from the Southern Dynasty, Shangguan Hui, Bai Tao...?
After thinking for a long time, she still couldn't figure out anything. She rubbed her eyebrows and ordered Madam Qi, "Go and find Gao Yun, be sure to ask what the emperor had to talk to those three people."
"But Gao Yun may not be able to say it."
The Empress Dowager smiled coldly, and a few rays of light that were inconsistent with her old attitude appeared in her eyes. "No one loves money."
Madam Qi suddenly realized, "I'll do it now!" As she said that, she respectfully blessed her body and retreated!
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That night, the moon was bright, and the Cheng Mansion, which had been lively for a whole day, finally regained the original silence. The servants who had been tired for a day returned to the servant's room to rest. Therefore, the courtyard where people came and went during the day
, it seems particularly deserted at this moment.
Shangguan Hui walked out of the room and looked at the long-standing figure under the faint moonlight. I don’t know when it started, but Hua no longer only wore white shirts every day, sometimes blue and sometimes silver gray. He was looking for some changes.
So, did he say that he would always wait for her oath? Is it as firm as before, or...
Hearing the footsteps, Feng Yebei did not turn back, but he had already judged who the person with these shallow footsteps was based on his keen hearing.
"It's so late, why haven't you rested yet?"
Turning around, the silver mask and the silver white of the moon shine together, as if shrouded in the mist, giving people a sense of distant and coldness.
"Do you want to come over and have a drink?"
Shangguan Hui shook the wine pot in his hand and made an invitation with a smile. Although she didn't like drinking, she especially hated the choking and intense smell of wine entering her throat. But since she came to the North, she sometimes had to drive away the cold.
Have a drink. After a long time, I no longer feel that it is so bad.
"Whose lady will be like you, who will not sleep in the room when you are at night, but run out to drink and have fun? The emperor will have to worry about it in the future."
Feng Yebei made fun of her without hesitation, his eyes full of fun. Having said that, he still walked towards her. Seeing her sitting down at the stone table in the yard, he also sat down.