C5

"Send Imperial Concubine Xue back to the palace and ask for the imperial physician. "My beloved concubine, the prime minister and several ministers are still waiting for me to discuss the political situation. I'll come see you again tonight." After a pause, Qin Shuo added, "In the future, without my permission, I am not allowed to visit."

Imperial Concubine Xue's crying movements were stiff. She thought the emperor was blaming her for coming to the Imperial Palace without permission.

Unbeknownst to him, Qin Shuo was thinking: The empress even dared to hit Gu, how could a few empress concubines be a match for her?

Sad, he hurried back to the study room, where a few courtiers were already waiting.

Meanwhile, Hu Xiao was in his own palace, crossing his legs. He was drawing and writing his daily work and rest schedule while listening to Zhilan's praise and flattery.

"Empress, you were so impressive just now!" Zhilan clapped her hands and said excitedly, "I can't stand Dongting Kingdom's women. They always act like the weaklings in charge of the wind, and they even have a lot of rules. Especially Imperial Concubine Xue. She would always come before the emperor and speak ill of you. This time, let's show her some colors so that the women in the East Court's imperial harem know that we, the south Yue, aren't a vegetarian! "

Ye Zichen raised his eyebrows and smiled.

She now understood that this land was divided into the Eastern Court, Southern Yue, Northern Qiang, and Western Frontier.

East Court and South Vietnam have been allies since ancient times, for the good of both countries, Hu Xiao was conferred the title of East Court Queen. In the future, her child would become the king of the Eastern Court Country.

Nonsense, okay?

Hu Xiaoxiao rolled his eyes. She accepted the teleportation, but that didn't mean she accepted the identity of the empress and her wife!

So what if Qin Shuo was the emperor?

To Hu Xiao, he was just a stranger!

Why hadn't she transmigrated into an ordinary South Vietnamese woman?

What was the use of having such a noble identity if one wanted to dress up as the princess of the Southern Yue who had become the empress of the Eastern Court?

Hu Xiao had heard it from Zhilan. The Eastern Courtyard adored literature, while the Southern Yue was a martial artist. In the Southmoon Kingdom, women were no worse than men. There were even some female generals that could beat a man until he lost his helmet and armor!

The East Court was not as open as the South Vietnamese. Women had an underground status in the East Court and needed to rely on men to survive.

He angrily poked the brush into the paper and drew a huge period.

Hu Xiao said to Zhilan, "Put this training form on the wall. Send someone to prepare these and send them to the Imperial Palace."

"What is this?" Zhilan looked at it curiously, but could not make out the drawing on it.

"A carpenter or a craftsman." Hu Xiaoxiao was not used to brushes, and was afraid that Zhilan would not understand her calligraphy, so he explained to her what these diagrams were and how to make them.

Zhilan had a strange expression on her face as she heard this. With difficulty, she asked, "Empress, do you really want these?"

"Nonsense!" Waving his hands, Hu Xiaoxiao smiled perfunctorily as he chased Zhilan away. "Go quickly."

"Yes."

At the same time, the young Monarch who had been threatened by Hu Xiaoxiao had once again become distracted in the meeting.

"Your Majesty?" Zhao Qiyan called out to Qin Shuo twice, then looked at Prime Minister Yin gloomily. "I'm not that bored with what I'm talking about, am I?" Could His Majesty be distracted by his words?

Yin Fufeng rubbed his nose, smiled and said, "Your Majesty has been busy these days, perhaps you are too tired and a little weak."

Qin Shuo came back to his senses and heard that Yin Fufeng was trying to explain himself.

He rubbed his glabella and accidentally touched his eye sockets. He could not help but suck in a breath of cold air due to the pain.

The officials looked at each other and clasped their hands. "Please take care of your dragon body, Your Majesty."

"No problem." Qin Shuo raised his hand, indicating for everyone to sit. They were all Qin Shuo's trusted aides, and he did not try to cover it up. After a moment of hesitation, he opened his mouth, "Gu Ruoyun does have a matter to worry about."

"Your subject is willing to share his worries on behalf of the Lord." To be able to sit in a high position, which one of the people present wasn't smart?

One after another, they expressed their loyalty.

Pulling back his eyebrows, Qin Shuo recounted the Queen's unusual behavior during this period of time. He simply concealed the fact that the injury in his eyes was caused by her, saying that she was the one who had the gall to laugh.

What a joke! To let an official know that he, a genius, had been beaten up by his own wife, how shameless would he be?