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"Master, the sky is almost dark, should we wait until tomorrow?" Ya Nuo asked hesitantly.

Ye Haitang paused for a moment, and then shouted again: "Then tomorrow! I must see her tomorrow at the latest! "

However, Ye Haitang did not mind at all. She ruthlessly stomped on the chair again as she cursed with a sinister look on her face, "All of you are not letting me live a comfortable life, I will not let you feel comfortable either! Situ Min, aren't you a princess from the East Mausoleum? A man whom I've taken a liking to, you think you're worthy of getting involved with! "

Xiao Ruyue, "…"

"His Majesty clearly wants to use me to deal with the Imperial Consort Ye. Is he putting Min Er in danger?" Xiao Ruyue quickly retracted the profound look in his eyes and met Yuwen He's gaze.

"Your Majesty is really praising Min Er." Xiao Ruyue almost wanted to grind her teeth.

Yuwen He grinned, feeling extremely happy.

After dinner, Yin Lin carried the tea up and looked at the empress, who was sitting next to him, as his eyebrows knitted together. There was confusion and doubt on his face.

Seeing the way His Majesty and the empress interacted, she was increasingly at a loss. At the beginning, she had been ordered by His Majesty to come to the Phoenix Palace and thought that this was just a formality.

None of the nobles in the palace had ever made His Majesty genuinely smile once before.

The Empress, however …

As Ya Nuo greeted them at the door, he carefully looked around to see that no one was around before bringing Yao Ziyan in.

There were no outsiders in the hall. Ye Haitang sat high up on the ground and upon entering, he immediately knelt down respectfully on both knees. She greeted respectfully: "Disciple pays his respects to Martial Uncle!"

Ya Nuo seemed to have gotten used to it long ago as she stood quietly at the side.

Ye Haitang made a "En" sound, waved her hand, and said: "Get up. Why did you come to the palace fifteen minutes late today?

"I dare not. As soon as I received Martial Uncle's message, I came." Yao Ziyan said respectfully, her attitude was completely different from her arrogant and despotic attitude in front of others, "I wonder why Junior Master is summoning me so urgently? Weren't they supposed to meet in the palace if there were no matters? Why did you call your disciple directly to this glazed pavilion? "

"Are you doubting my actions? Yao Ziyan, don't forget who gave you the thing you have right now! " "I have a reason for calling you here at this time. You and I are both in the Palace, yet you didn't come to the glazed pavilion, so you still want me to go out and attract more attention?"

If the imperial concubine left the palace and entered with the imperial concubine, which of them would attract more attention? Besides, people in the palace were not allowed to enter and exit at will.

"Yes, yes, yes, it is disciple who has no complaints. Please don't be angry, Uncle-Master!" Being yelled at by her, Yao Ziyan immediately panicked, and said repeatedly: "If martial uncle has something to say, please do your best, disciple will do it."

"Hmph." Ye Haitang snorted from her nose, looking down at her humble attitude with disdain, but also filled with a sense of accomplishment. "Didn't you become the empress's red teacher, and come to the palace every day to teach her embroidery? You should have heard about the rumors in the palace. "

Yao Ziyan was startled, then immediately understood what Ye Haitang meant. It must be because of the rumors in the palace about empress pets, so she immediately nodded her head.

"Very well, I want you to do something for me!" When Ye Haitang said this, his mouth raised into a sinister smile.

As Yao Ziyan had taken a detour to the glazed pavilion, it was already too late to invite the Phoenix Palace. Xiao Ruyue casually asked as she believed Yao Ziyan's excuse that she was delayed on the way here, so she did not seem to mind.

But, in reality, Xiao Ruyue had already found out about the matter of Yao Ziyan sneaking off to the glazed pavilion.

Today was still the same as before, Yao Ziyan had already taught him how to draw patterns and choose needle and thread, and now she was already working on it, no one was a novice, it was just consolidating and training on the original foundation, it was naturally easier to teach him a lot. In addition, with Xiao Ruyue's "talent and intelligence" and "diligence", Yao Ziyan had taught her with a sense of accomplishment, and had even thought that she had taught him very well.

Little did they know, Xiao Ruyue herself was one of the top three.

In front of Xiao Ruyue was an embroidery rack, and the prepared materials were all excellent quality silk. She wanted to embroider a hundred birds of prey and phoenixes on it, and said that it was meant for him, so Yao Ziyan believed her.

Xiao Ruyue pretended that she did not understand and followed along.

However, Yao Ziyan was a little distracted today, so she noticed it and asked her if she had something on her mind. Yao Ziyan casually said that she was fine and continued embroidering.

"Speaking of which, asking the Wei Wangfei to teach me how to embroider the woman red truly wronged the Wei Wangfei. These things are all matters of the embroidery ladies, and I was the one who gave in to the Wei Wangfei because of a sudden interest. I am truly ashamed." Xiao Ruyue stopped his acupuncture and sighed.

When Yao Ziyan heard the two words "Embroidery", a trace of unease flashed across her face, but she immediately replied nonchalantly, "For Empress to think highly of this subject and let her enter and leave the palace to teach you is already this subject's greatest honor. How could she be called condescending?

In her heart, if Yuwen Chenglian wanted to be emperor, he had not yet become one. The current monarch and empress were the biggest. The empress was the mother of a nation. For her to be the empress' teacher, how much face did she have?

Therefore, when Yao Ziyan agreed to it, she only thought about how much face this errand could give him. After going back, the greedy Yuwen Chenglian, upon learning that there was such an opportunity to enter and leave the palace, naturally raised both his hands in support. One had to know that even the royal family, and even the Emperor's own uncle couldn't enter the palace as they pleased.

"But outsiders do not know how they will look at me. I have just arrived and am also a member of a neighbouring country. Some people might even think that I am deliberately bullying the Wei Wangfei to establish my own might. " Xiao Ruyue sighed, as he spoke with a worried expression.

Yao Ziyan immediately stopped his acupuncture and put it away, then walked in front of Xiao Ruyue to comfort her, "Empress, don't worry. You've been so kind to everyone since you came to the palace. No one will think so. "

As he said that, he picked up the cup of tea that he had just brought over and gave it to Xiao Ruyue with both hands.

As if comforted by her words, Xiao Ruyue's heart felt better, and he took a sip of the tea.

Yao Ziyan watched her until she finished her tea, and then secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

What she did not notice was that the moment Xiao Ruyue lowered her head, a trace of ridicule flashed past her eyes.

Xiao Ruyue had met with trouble when she was trying to embroider the needle onto the phoenix's head. She called Yao Ziyan to come forward and explained it to her, before giving the needle back to Xiao Ruyue to let her continue.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Ruyue had only taken two needles and pierced them.

"Yah." Xiao Ruyue pulled his hand back in pain, only to see that her finger had already condensed into a drop of blood. She habitually put her hand in her mouth to suck on it, but she was stopped by Yao Ziyan, who covered her wound immediately with her embroidered handkerchief.

Xiao Ruyue's brows furrowed slightly. She did not say anything, and relaxed.

Yao Ziyan then said: "It is normal for women to have their embroidery pierced, but the Empress cannot lower her guard. "It's better to just wrap her up. There's no harm in stopping the bleeding later on."

Xiao Ruyue acted as though she was slightly embarrassed, "This palace is too natural, in a while I will have Yin Lin compensate you with a brand-new handkerchief."

Xiao Ruyue's entire focus was on that handkerchief. She had first offered her some tea and then intentionally pricked her with needles just so that this handkerchief could appear? That's right, had done it on purpose just now. She had purposely taught him a very unique acupuncture technique, so that Xiao Ruyue would have her hand pierced.