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Su Mu walked to the side of the censer with a serious expression. He picked up some ash and placed it under his nose.

"Is there something wrong with the incense?" Chang Xi felt a little uneasy. Like Su Mu, he also took a bit of incense and placed it under his nose to smell it. It still tasted the same!

Su Mu crushed out the incense and cut off a small part of it with a silver scissors. He turned around and said to Chang Xi, "Don't use this incense for now. We'll talk about it after I ask around." Su Mu had some guesses in his heart, but he wasn't sure. After all, she had only studied medicine for a few months. It was just that she had coincidentally seen this kind of fragrance from the medical skills left behind by the old man.

Chang Xi nodded and put the incense away.

Chang Xi arranged for people to send Su Mu back.

Su Mu walked along the stone path with the incense in his hand. His mind was filled with Lin Yi's performance in recent days.

She had indeed neglected many of Lin Yi's changes. Even though he had just ascended the throne and was burdened with a heavy burden, there was no reason for his personality to change so much. Furthermore, many times, Lin Yi seemed to be unable to control his emotions.

Back at the Shoukang Palace, Su Mu met the empress dowager, or rather, the empress dowager was waiting for her.

The empress dowager sat in Su Mu's small courtyard. Behind her stood her palace maid, the green comb. Seeing Su Mu walk over, the green comb mocked and smiled at her with a hint of pride.

It was already very late. Su Mu wasn't sure what the empress dowager wanted to do, so he could only remain as he was and kneel in front of her to pay his respects.

"Rise." The empress dowager cast a glance at Su Mu and said lightly, "I came here tonight to teach you some rules. Your mother was a mountain woman, but she was lucky enough to catch your father's eye. She didn't know much, didn't teach you well, and didn't remember her sins. "

She couldn't tolerate someone slandering her mother like this, not even if that person was the empress dowager. Fortunately, Su Mu was still rational and didn't say anything directly.

"But you are different. You will be one of the imperial concubines, and if Lin Yi isn't tired of you, there is a high possibility that you will be placed in the imperial concubine position, so there are some rules that cannot be broken." But you are different, you will be one of the imperial concubines, and if Lin Yi isn't tired of you, there is a high possibility that you will be placed in the imperial concubine's position. Her Majesty meant it.

Su Mu understood what she meant and instantly felt extremely ashamed and angry.

"This one has already decided on a auspicious day with the Ministry of Rites. The third of July is the auspicious day of a beautiful morning. Then, it will be the grand ceremony for Hu Chi." The time was a little tight, but the army of the Hu Family stationed outside the city had not left yet. Her Majesty had no choice but to retract her time.

The empress dowager didn't care about what Su Mu was thinking, she just stated her request in a serious tone, "Before that, you should temporarily stay at the Sapphire Shrine and don't go out. You should also properly learn the rules." "A green comb."

The comb came forward, a book in its hand.

Su Mu lowered his head in silence. He looked at the embroidered shoes he was wearing. His hands hung behind his back as if he had no intention of taking them on.

The comb looked at Her Majesty.

The empress dowager personally walked over, took the book from the comb in her hand, and placed it under Su Mu's eyelids. "This is the 'Female Commandment' compiled by the founding queen herself. This one hopes that you can read every word of it."

Su Mu knew that if she wanted to avoid offending the Empress Dowager, she should obediently accept the book now. However, she did not want to. Su Mu was not clear on whether Song Zhi Qiu had learned the so-called "Female Commandment", but she knew that her mother carried elegance in every movement. She was a rare and extraordinary woman in the world. For someone like the empress dowager, whose personality had been obliterated by all sorts of rules, Su Mu would only feel annoyed.

Su Mu raised his eyes and looked at the empress dowager with calm and collected eyes. He refused to accept the book.

"Aren't you afraid of offending This Dowager?" "The Emperor cannot control this harem."

Su Mu felt it was a little funny. "The empress dowager's loathing for me was revealed without any concealment before I entered the palace. Since the empress dowager doesn't like me, then why should I listen to her? In any case, whether or not you listen, the empress dowager, you won't change your attitude.

Her Majesty was so angry that her chest trembled. Her mother had nurtured her with all her might. Once she entered the harem, she was like a fish that had entered water. Later on, she gave birth to Lin Yi, who was adorable and cute, and he was even favored by the late emperor. With the addition of the pressure from her mother's clan, she was quickly able to sit on the empress's throne as she wished. Even though her mother clan inevitably weakened, with Lin Yi around, no one dared to directly humiliate her. Even Imperial Concubine Yan had to give her some face to stop openly provoking her.

"Since the empress dowager forced me to enter the palace, she was going against me in the first place. You should have accepted that I would disobey your orders." Su Mu said.

Su Mu bowed and walked towards his room. Before closing the door, he added, "You're so angry that your body's hurt. Empress Dowager, you shouldn't lose your life because of me."

Su Mu closed the door, leaving all the noise outside.

"This girl really doesn't know what's good for her," she complained as her hand stroked the Empress Dowager's trembling body. In other words, the empress dowager was kind and willing to bring her to the palace. In this servant's village, these kinds of people have long since been dipped in pig cages. "

The empress dowager placed a slap on Green Comb's face and cursed, "Talking too much."

The green comb on her face instantly turned red and swollen. She frantically knelt on the ground and begged for forgiveness.

The empress dowager stood at her original spot for a long time, a fierce light flashing through her eyes. The child could be left alive, but Su Mu had to die.

After making her decision, the empress dowager calmed down and said to the comb, "Get up."

The empress dowager brought her green comb and left Su Mu's courtyard, but Su Mu did not know what was going on.

Su Mu's room was filled with books that covered more than half of the room. Some of these books were solo books passed down from the ancients, while others were personally compiled by the old man. Many of these books were profound mysteries that even practitioners of medicine would spend their entire lives trying to touch upon.

These books were brought to the capital by the old man's reliable escort. It was only after Lin Yi showed his face that Su Mu was able to get the books.

The old man had been exploring a lot of books, but he didn't like to organize them. When he had first sent them over, he had mixed them all together. Su Mu spent a great deal of effort to arrange the books into categories. However, the book that Su Mu had been trying to find was yet to be found. Su Mu refused to believe that it was true, so he took out all the books and looked for them one by one.

"It shouldn't be?" Su Mu searched through the book twice but still couldn't find the book she was looking for. However, she clearly remembered that there was a book about Miao Jiang's poison, and the incense was similar to the Calming Spirit Incense that Changxi had brought. She had wanted to compare it with some of the other books.

"How strange." Su Mu mumbled to himself. She wasn't in the habit of throwing things around, but even after searching the entire room, she still couldn't find the book. Su Mu couldn't help but suspect if someone had stolen her things. It was unlikely that he was a palace maid or a eunuch. After all, these books were not worth much in the eyes of ordinary people.