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The empress dowager also didn't give Nangong Waner a seat, so there was no other way. Nangong Waner could only hold in the spasms of his legs and stand quietly at the side as he answered.

On the other hand, the empress dowager waved towards Qin Ruxue with a smile. Qin Ruxue immediately sat next to the empress dowager with great joy and played around with her arms.

Nangong Waner could not tell which act he was playing, and neither could he see nor feel suspicious. He just stood at the side, looking at his own nose and heart.

The empress dowager and Qin Ruxue acted out a show of love for a while, and only then did the empress dowager remember that there was still a Nangong Waner standing by her side. The empress dowager held Qin Ruxue's arm and asked Nangong Waner, "I heard that your father is a Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Government, and was accepted as an official by the imperial court during the imperial examinations.

"Reporting to the empress dowager, my father came from a poor family in Jincheng County, and my grandmother had lost her husband in the early years, while my father worked hard to help him study. My father was very diligent in his studies, and he obtained a high ranking in the imperial palace. Nangong Waner's answer was filled with authority, neither servile nor overbearing. For a moment, the empress dowager couldn't find any place to tease her.

The emperor, who was playing chess, was suddenly brought up and couldn't help but look at Nangong Waner. He saw that Nangong Waner had the bearing of a heavenly genius, comparable to Qin Ruxue, who was known as the number one beauty in Shangjing City. Looking at Nangong Waner's demeanor today, he was also incomparably gorgeous. When faced with the empress dowager's interrogation, his expression was clear and indifferent, without the slightest hint of fear.

The emperor couldn't help but look at Prince Zhan. He was truly curious, Prince Zhan seemed to be … Smiling?

As if noticing that the emperor was looking at him, the Prince Zhan looked up at the emperor and said one word to him.

The emperor thought he was seeing things. The Emperor was wondering, what kind of bestowal?

Seeing that the emperor had not spoken for a long time, the Prince Zhan looked at the emperor with a cold face. The emperor only felt a cold light shooting over, and his own face was frozen solid. Miss Nangong has been standing there for so long, you should be tired.

The empress dowager's expression did not change, but she still ordered someone to give a seat to Nangong Waner.

Nangong Waner felt that the moment he sat down, he felt as if he had been reborn, "I'm finally alive, I'm alive".

"Xue'er, I heard that your aunt was playing a good zither. The Emperor and Prince Zhan are playing chess right now. Xue'er, play a song for the Emperor and Prince Zhan." The empress dowager looked at Qin Ruxue lovingly, and patted the back of her hand where she was holding Qin Ruxue's hand.

Aunt, Ru Xue heard that Miss Nangong is extremely talented, and now that she is learning under him, Ru Xue really wants to see his grace. How about we let Miss Nangong play a song first? Qin Ruxue sat there and slightly tilted his face to look at Nangong Waner, smiling in an extremely gentle and generous manner.

Nangong Waner's face revealed a smile, but in his heart, he had already paid respects to Qin Ruxue's eighteen generations of ancestors, "If that's the case, Wan Er will be making a fool of himself."

Back then, when he had just taken the Elder Xiu as his master, the Elder Xiu had insisted that Nangong Waner was a talented girl, that he had to learn all kinds of Zither, Chess, and Painting, and that the teaching methods of the Elder Xiu were very strange, that each field was dedicated to one work. Thus, Nangong Waner practiced a zither song for three whole days.

Nangong Waner sat by the side of the zither, touching the zither, as though he was looking at the accuracy of the sound, his lips moved slightly: "Elder Xiu's own < Great Wind Song >, it has been played by this subject's girl, making it very ugly."

As he finished speaking, Nangong Waner began to play with quite the imposing manner, starting from the start, causing everyone to be stunned. Nangong Waner's zither music did not seem to be loud in the quiet hall, but it seemed to slowly come out with an imposing manner, as though it could split the sky and split the earth, as though he was a magnificent army that could split the earth, with a heroic and earth-shaking imposing manner.

The empress dowager did not expect that Assistant Minister’s Residence's daughter would not be as weak as the rumors claimed, and her body also looked healthy and healthy. The empress dowager felt that she owed the Prince Zhan a bit, and if the Prince Zhan really liked this Nangong Waner, it wasn't impossible for her to enter the Duke's Mansion, but her Xue'er …

The Emperor was also deep in thought, his thoughts drifting a bit further away. I had wholeheartedly devoted my heart to the bright moon, but since I was born in the Emperor's household, I naturally had to bear all the burdens of this world and the hardships of this people in my heart.

Qin Ruxue's face did not look good, it looked like he was enduring very hard, although on the surface he looked very dignified, with the look of a lady, but if you look carefully, his expression was slightly sinister and patient. However, the people in the hall were each thinking about their own matters, and no one paid attention to them.

Prince Zhan raised his head, and looked at Nangong Waner who had already finished playing the zither, with a gentle gaze. The corners of his mouth hooked up, and some emotions flowed in his eyes. Nangong Waner had also felt the Prince Zhan's gaze, so he directly glared at him a few times when no one was looking.

The Prince Zhan laughed even more heartily than before. Nangong Waner really wanted to go over and rip apart his mouth, but he couldn't. He could only roll his eyes fiercely and gouge out the Prince Zhan's eyes a few times.

Nangong Waner was too lazy to continue entangling himself with the Prince Zhan, he looked at the empress dowager and said in a clear voice, "Empress Dowager, Your Majesty, this subject has made a fool of myself."

The empress dowager was finally pulled back from Nangong Waner's thoughts, but she couldn't say anything for a while, she just sat there majestically. Qin Ruxue saw that the empress dowager did not say anything, and took the initiative to open her mouth, "As expected of a student of Elder Xiu, you know very well that you're an expert. Miss Nangong, to be able to become the student of the Elder Xiu, Ruxue is truly envious of you. "

Qin Ruxue smiled gently, looking at Nangong Waner with eyes full of laughter.

Without waiting for Nangong Waner to speak, the empress dowager replied, "That's right, Han'er. Xue'er might be young, but I'm extremely engrossed in learning, so why don't you raise this matter with Elder Xiu for Xue'er and have her study with Nangong Waner in your Prince Zhan's Mansion?"

Prince Zhan accepted the chess pieces. Seeing that he did not plan to go down, the Emperor felt a sense of relief and accepted the chess pieces happily on the surface.

Slowly, the Prince Zhan looked at the empress dowager and said with a calm expression, "Elder Xiu is already old, and your body isn't very well right now. A few days ago, you told me that you don't plan on taking in students anymore."

Elder Xiu was meditating and cultivating at an unknown place when he suddenly sneezed and opened his eyes uncontrollably. After sneezing, he slowly closed his eyes and muttered to himself, "It must be that brat Ye Bai saying bad things about me behind my back, see if I get it back for you or not."

Inside the empress dowager's hall, the empress dowager had a slightly awkward expression. Although she had understood the Prince Zhan's personality in the past few years, she hadn't refused without a care in the world. The empress dowager looked at Nangong Waner and then looked at Qin Ruxue without a trace, sighing deeply in her heart.