A sigh came slowly, Concubine De picked up the jade comb on the ground, raised her hand to help Qian Shu up. "Qianshu..." She laughed, had there ever been anger in her eyes? "You have been with Bengong for many years, and Bengong has never regarded you as a slave." She put her hands lightly on Qianshu's shoulders, looking at those eyes that seemed to be nervous and sad, feeling helpless again in her heart. "I have been in the palace for so long, and you have always been by my side." Concubine De closed the distance between master and servant, and said in a persuasive way: "I treat you as my own sister, and I never want to treat you like a master. Human relations in the palace are complex, If you are not careful, you will be killed. I want you to go back and see if you can marry a good family, stay in your hometown and stay away from gossip in the palace."

Concubine De is kind and sincere.As the emperor's woman, she could no longer choose her fate, and she was not allowed to leave the palace until she died.Since she can't respond to Qian Shu's feelings after all, she might as well cut off her thoughts completely, let her out of the palace, and give her the best home.Instead of living an unreliable right and wrong life in the harem like her.

Qian Shu didn't understand Concubine De's intentions, she just remained completely silent after hearing those words.Tears welled up in her eyes, the shoulders held by Concubine De trembled slightly, and she tried her best to suppress the excitement that was about to erupt in her heart. "Your Majesty treats your servants and sisters, and your servants are very grateful." There was a hint of tremor in her shallow voice, she took a deep breath, and when she looked up again, there was a pitiful smile on her face. "I have been in the palace for many years, and the slaves have never left the palace. Now with the permission of the empress, if it is possible, Qian Shu wants to leave early, so that she can return to the palace to serve the empress earlier."

Concubine De didn't respond, and there was a trace of misery and unspeakable helplessness in the air.She bowed her head, and then handed a piece of jade tablet into Qian Shu's hand, without explaining its function, but just smiled slightly, and she fell in love with Qian Shu. "Okay." She said softly, looking at Qian Shu's retreating figure, she sat back in front of the bronze mirror, "Come here, comb my hair."

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The queen is sick, and the daily greetings of the concubines will naturally be cancelled.Everyone guessed the cause of the queen's illness, but no one really knew why the queen was dragged into Zhaohua Palace by Concubine Ji wearing a drenched skirt.The queen was suffering from a cold, so the young emperor naturally wanted to visit him, and went straight to the queen's bedroom with a concerned look on his face.

"Qingyao, Qingyao." Sitting by the bed, Zhao Ying stretched out her hands to caress the somewhat pale faces of Su and Qingyao: "Do you feel better? Have you taken the medicine prescribed by the imperial doctor on time?" The young emperor is not deep in the city? , all emotions are on the face.At this moment, he looked deeply at the plain-faced beauty lying on the bed, sighed in his heart, and showed infatuation on his face.

Su and Qingyao sat up slowly, her mind was still in a daze, and her whole body was weak. "The emperor shouldn't have come here." She leaned against the head of the bed, her eyes drooping slightly, exhausted. "The concubine catches the wind and cold by accident, which will implicate the emperor. It is better to wait for the concubine to fully recover before paying his respects to the emperor."

"The queen is worrying too much. I am the Son of Heaven, how can I be easily invaded by the evil wind? Having me with you can also make you feel at ease, and can make those diseases go away from you early." While speaking, the mother held a A bowl of bitter medicine was delivered.Hearing the young emperor's words, he couldn't help but be pleased with the love and harmony between the emperor and the empress, and lost his initial worries about the rumors about concubine Ji dominating the harem.

The bitter medicine was taken by the young emperor. He was holding a soup bowl, and the spoon kept stirring the black-brown bitter medicine. "Qingyao, this medicine must be very bitter, I will feed you." As he said, he carefully brought the spoon containing a little bit of bitter medicine to Su and Qingyao's lips, and the soup bowl was attached underneath to prevent the medicine from dripping brocade quilt top.

Despite the cold, Su and Qingyao's estrangement never changed.She shook her head, took the spoon and medicine bowl from Zhao Ying's hand, and drank all the bitter medicine in the bowl in one go, without frowning, as if the bowl of bitter medicine was like clear water. "Take it." After drinking the medicine, she took the plum from the mother and put it in her mouth, and said to Zhao Ying: "The emperor is the king of a country, and now he is reviewing the memorial, not here to accompany his concubines."

Zhao Ying's face sank slightly, but he couldn't get angry.After a while, he stood up, the concern and anxiety that came when he came was completely extinguished by Su and Qingyao's alienation. "Queen, when will you be able to act like a spoiled child to me like other concubines?" He shook his sleeves, knelt down at the knees of the maids and eunuchs in the bedroom, and left with his heart full of displeasure and helplessness.

It was gloomy.With the support of the palace maid, Su and Qingyao slowly stayed at the door of the bedroom. The outside was already covered with dark clouds, and it is likely that there will be heavy rain soon.She tightly wrapped the robe around her body, and occasionally the wind would blow, messing with her uncombed hair.The maids and eunuchs outside were still busy following the orders of the palace lords. A drop of rain fell on Su and Qingyao's foreheads with the damp and cold wind. She wiped it off with her finger, with a slight sigh in her eyes.

Mingming is the empress, in charge of the seal, and possesses the greatest power and the most expensive destiny in a woman's life.Why is her heart always sighing?Too often, even she herself doesn't know what she is confused about.It seems that she was born looking for, what she was looking for, she didn't know.

"Your Majesty, you are suffering from wind and cold, and your phoenix body is not healthy. You should take a good rest." The old mother cared about the queen's health, and stood behind Su and Qingyao for a while, but finally said bluntly, hoping that she would go back to bed and lie down, so as to avoid The body is blown by the cold and clammy wind for too long, which aggravates the wind chill.

"Nurse Xu." Su and Qingyao didn't look back, looked at the figures that disappeared into the distance, slowly closed their eyes and then opened them gently: "It hasn't rained for a long time, I don't know how long this rain will last .”

"My lady, I don't know how long this rain will last. However, looking at the day, I'm afraid it will be heavy rain." Just as Madam Xu finished speaking, a flash of lightning flashed before her eyes, and then there was a rumbling sound. Thunder came from afar.The thunder was so loud that Nanny Xu couldn't help taking a step back in her elderly body, and hurriedly said, "Madam, there's thunder. You'd better go back to bed and rest."

"It's okay." Su and Qingyao stubbornly rejected Xu Nanny's concern, their eyes always stayed where the lightning flashed across the sky.Suddenly, a blurry white shadow flashed in front of her eyes, she lowered her head, except for the gradually falling raindrops, there was nothing extra to stay in her sight. "Mother Xu, did you see it just now?" She asked, maybe Mother Xu would find out.

"Go back to Madam, this old servant doesn't know what Madam is referring to. However, just now, this old servant seems to have seen a pure white cat with the same body passing by the door of the bedroom." Madam Xu replied truthfully.

When did cats exist in the palace?Su and Qingyao supported the side of the door, watching the more and more pouring rain, and planned to close the door and go back to bed to rest.The eunuchs and maids outside covered their heads with their sleeves and ran to their respective places in the rain.Seeing that the door of the dormitory was about to close, the first flash of white shadows crossed the threshold and appeared in Su and Qingyao's dormitory.

"Oops!" The first person to find it was the little maid who was tidying up. She screamed and realized what she had lost her composure, and quickly knelt on the ground. This little thing broke in suddenly..." While speaking, some eunuchs had already picked up the white fur ball that was motionless on the ground.He wiped off the mud stains on the little guy's body with his sleeve, walked up to Su and Qingyao with it in his arms, and said, "Qi Madam, it looks like a fox."

It is indeed a fox.It's just that its body shape is too chubby, and its two pointed ears can hardly be noticed clearly.Even the pointed beak, which should belong to the fox, is much smoother, it looks like a pure white snowball.The little fox was hugged by the eunuch, instead of struggling, he lay there comfortably, allowing others to stroke him.

"Your Majesty, the old slave saw it just now. I'm afraid it's this little fox." Madam Xu said.

"A fox?" Su and Qingyao looked carefully at the little fox lying in the eunuch's arms. In the deep courtyard of the palace, no fox had ever appeared before, and it was such a snow-white jade fox.It is said that the fox has a spirituality. Judging by its appearance, it must be disturbed by the rainy day with thunder and lightning, and there is nowhere to hide. "It looks a little different." After all, I couldn't help petting the chubby little fox. Su and Qingyao reached out to touch its furry pair of pointed ears, and before they could make any more movements, the little fox jumped on its own. To her shoulders, carefully moved into the arms of Su and Qingyao.

Such a scene brought a rare smile to the corners of Su and Qingyao's lips.She pushed back the servants around her, and did not punish the little palace maid for her disrespect just now. "Foxes have spirituality, what you said is absolutely true." Looking at the little guy who was quite comfortable in his arms, Su and Qingyao expressed their intentions: "If you want to stay here, I will take care of you , and save you the pain of being homeless." After a while, she called the old mother again and said, "Xu mother, take a brocade mat and put it beside the bed, this little fox can stay here with me .”

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It rained heavily all night, and finally subsided in the early morning.It's just that the thunder and lightning did not stop because of the decrease of the rain, the dark clouds were densely covered, and the entire capital was shrouded in thunderstorms.The servants in the various palaces did not slack off because of the rainy weather. They braved the light rain to run around busy, or passed meals, or went to the House of Internal Affairs to fetch things according to the master's order.

After resting all night, Su and Qingyao's cold symptoms improved slightly.She got out of bed with her robe on, and the chubby little fox that appeared yesterday was on the brocade mat into a snow-white ball. She couldn't see her eyes, and she didn't know if she was asleep or awake.Su and Qingyao picked it up, and were about to ask the nanny to comb her hair, when a faint fragrance came.

"Report to Empress Empress, Concubine Ji is outside the bedroom, saying she wants to pay her respects." The little eunuch who walked over told the truth.

"Concubine Ji? Didn't you say that I'm not feeling well, and the concubines don't need to greet you these few days?" Su and Qingyao said.

"Then... the servant let her go back?" The little eunuch hesitated, not knowing what to do.

"Let her in." Su and Qingyao stroked the soft fur of the little fox, turned and returned to the bed.She didn't know what Concubine Ji was planning to do here, it seemed that it would be difficult for her to copy the rules or stay in the bedroom and not go out.

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