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This medicine had been lingering in his Shouan Palace for more than half a month. palace maid took the fried medicine and entered the Inner Palace, but didn't bring it to Empress Dowager Li, instead she poured tea into the flower pot placed in the Inner Palace Hall.

The bonsai was changed every day. All of them were the same color of marigolds, and no one could tell the difference.

Empress Dowager Li squinted her eyes and meditated on the brick bed. She lit some sandalwood incense in the incense burner to counteract the smell of the medicine that she did not like.

"His Majesty is still at the Qixiang Palace?" Empress Dowager Li closed her eyes and asked.

The palace maid hesitated for a moment, not knowing how to return the information that she found out, but the Emperor did not seem to think of hiding it. Even though he did not reveal it openly, he did not hide it well. Fortunately, the Empress Dowager Li did not expect any other answer, and only coldly snorted, "Two people in the same palace, looking at each other in the sky, what's there to look at?"

"You said, this palace maid of Qixiang Palace really didn't serve His Majesty?" Empress Dowager Li still found it hard to believe.

"Gu mama went to see for herself, so the esteemed Empress won't believe her." The palace maid said softly, "Even if it's Palace Manager Cui, didn't she already say that when His Majesty interacts with the Empress, even the palace maid rarely follows you around? So for the rest of the time, his majesty probably won't need your palace maid to wait on you."

"Do you think the Imperial Noble Lady Jia is lying?" Empress Dowager Li asked.

palace maid lowered her head, "Imperial Noble Lady Jia doesn't have any reason to lie."

"Then if that person really does exist and cannot be found even if all possible candidates are eliminated, then the most impossible person would be the person you are looking for." Empress Dowager Li opened her eyes, "The person serving Your Majesty at Imperial Noble Lady Jia's bedchamber that night, was the empress."

palace maid could not help but hold her breath. "But how can the empress do such a thing?"

"Yeah." The Empress Dowager Li sneered, "A dignified empress, for the sake of trying to please, can even do such a despicable thing. This Dowager truly misjudged you back then. "

The palace maid did not reply.

"So does Your Majesty. She's allowed to cause trouble like this." The Empress Dowager Li said, "If people were to know about this, it would really be a loss of face for the imperial family."

The more Empress Dowager Li thought about it, the angrier she got. "Go, get the empress here." After spending a lot of effort, she managed to change Shouan Palace's reputation. In the end, she found out that the person was the empress. And back then, due to the appearance of the Imperial Noble Lady Jia, she couldn't hurriedly chase after him, but in the end, the Emperor still hadn't gone to the imperial harem. From the moment she entered the Imperial Palace, she had never suffered such a crushing defeat. How could she calm down?

"Empress, empress isn't in Qixiang Palace anymore." palace maid sighed in her heart.

"His Majesty is at the Qixiang Palace. Where did she go?" Empress Dowager Li asked.

"His Majesty isn't in the Qixiang Palace either." The palace maid said, "His Majesty and the Empress changed into casual clothes and left the palace at noon." With that said, he knelt down, prepared to receive the Empress's wrath.

But Empress Dowager Li was surprisingly calm. Her eyes were cold, and palace maid only raised his head to take a glance before hurriedly lowering it. She didn't dare look again. Ever since she came to serve the empress dowager, she had never seen the empress dowager display such a terrifying expression.

"I was still thinking about how to find an excuse." The Empress Dowager Li casually said, "You're out of the palace?"

"It's good to be out of the palace."

"The empress's body is weak. It's normal for her to come back from the palace with some dirt on her."

palace maid's body trembled more and more.

"Go and ask Gu mama to go find Cui Yun. She knows what she has to do." Empress Dowager Li closed her eyes after she finished speaking.

The interior of the room was filled with the fragrance of sandalwood. Inside, there was also a faint medicinal fragrance mixed in, calming the mind and calming the body.

She held onto Zhu Yijun with her ten fingers, waving them around whenever she sees something she wants to buy. Then, Zhu Yijun got people to pay for the things she wanted, and held onto the things she couldn't carry very quickly, so Wang Rong looked behind her and said, "Old master, why don't we find a teahouse to rest, and let them take the things back to the carriage?"

"But …" Zhu Yijun said. He couldn't say that he was a bit tired after leaving, especially when compared to the ecstatic Wang Rong. Being able to sit and rest was exactly what he wanted right now.

Chen Ju asked the waiter where the water for the tea was coming from. The waiter, seeing that their group wore extraordinary attire, naturally took great care, "The water for the tea making in the main hall below is naturally from the well in the backyard, but the second floor is different. The guest will order whatever water the customer wants, regardless of whether it is last year's snow water, or the first rain this year, or perhaps the spring water from the Jade Spring.

"Don't talk so much, just bring the best water." Chen Ju threw a silver bean to him, "Don't think about lying to me, otherwise, be careful of your dog head."

"Of course not." The waiter received the reward and smiled like a chrysanthemum. "In front of an expert like you, how about water? You can taste it and you'll know. How could I dare to do something like that?"

Chen Ju personally tasted the water the waiter sent over. Although it was worse than the palace, he did not care too much about it outside the palace, so he used a small furnace in the private room to boil some water, and soaked the tea that he brought out from the palace. As for the snacks, he ate the same piece of palace maid food first, then placed it in front of His Majesty and the Empress.

Wang Rong He's attention was quickly attracted by the scenes on the stage. There were only a few people singing in the palace, and Wang Rong didn't like to watch the scenes, so she naturally found it boring. However, she had never heard of anything outside the palace.

Zhu Yijun looked at her, "You're actually enjoying this?"

"Your Majesty doesn't like it?" Wang Rong turned her head and asked.

"No start, no end." Zhu Yijun said.

"Send someone to get the record book, and let His Majesty see the performance after going back home with Faculty Division." Wang Rong He said.

There was a passage about women going to the Desolate Temple to take shelter from the rain on a rainy night, and coincidentally meeting their enemies who wanted to break the engagement. On the stage, girls and children came and went, and then I would push and pull and say some beautiful words with YIN, and then, all the good things would come out of my mouth. The people in the hall cheered upon hearing it, and Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Rong and said, "This way of singing, is absolutely necessary."

"That won't do." Wang Rong He said, "If Your Majesty wants to hear this, come out and listen next time."

Zhu Yijun laughed, "The Empress is still shy."

"I am ashamed on behalf of His Majesty." Wang Rong He said, "The person singing this song is very magnanimous, only those who want to hear this name should feel ashamed."

After listening to a short conversation at the teahouse, Wang Rong and the time she didn't want to take a break, so she spent it at the teahouse. But seeing that Zhu Yijun was tired, she decided to not stroll around the streets, and instead went to the shop. He just sat there, while Wang Rong and the others listened to the introductions, and if anyone was interested, they would buy it.

Wang Rong was generous and the shopkeeper loved this kind of guest the most as he busied himself with everything else. In the end, when the bill was settled, Wang Rong He would ask the shopkeeper to send something else over.

Zhu Yijun frowned, "You still lack that gift."

Wang Rong He turned to him and said, "You don't understand, this is fun."

"What I should give, what I should give." The manager said.

After strolling for another hour, Wang Rong finally said, "Let's go back."

When he arrived at the carriage, he found that there was not enough stuff left. He had already ordered another carriage to carry the goods back. Wang Rong He sat in the carriage and started to beat his legs, feeling a little tired. Walking around the palace was different from shopping.

Zhu Yijun lifted her legs onto his lap and massaged it for her, "And here I thought you're really not tired?"

"You won't feel tired when you're strolling around. You'll only feel tired if you don't stroll around." Wang Rong smiled and said, "Is Your Majesty tired? When we get back, I'll soak his feet and massage his body. "

"That will wait until you have time." Zhu Yijun said, "Even though I bought so many things, I still need some time to organize them."

"Is Your Majesty happy to be leaving the palace today?" Wang Rong asked with a smile.

"I know you're happy." Zhu Yijun said.

"Your Majesty, do you not feel happy when you see the citizens living and working in peace?" Wang Rong He said, "Look at those shops I went to, the things inside were all extremely luxurious and exquisite, which means that the common people have the money to pursue these good things, and these things have a market."

"The feet of the Emperor are naturally flourishing." Zhu Yijun was not blind and arrogant, "If I were to go to other places now, they might not be so lively."

"Even at the feet of the Emperor, there are many people who freeze to death every winter." Zhu Yijun said, "Right now, as soon as winter comes, I am afraid that I will hear about another snowstorm. The dead are exempt from taxes and exist every year, I do not want to hear about it ever again."

"But it's going to snow, even His Majesty can't control it." Wang Rong He said that she also knew about this, which was why she was in such a rush to get new food from overseas.

"Let's not talk about that. You are very happy today." Zhu Yijun said.

"If Your Majesty is worried about the hardships of the winter, you can give the money to all the temples in the capital to take them in for the winter." Wang Rong suggested.

"courtier, you don't know this, but everything will be fine if you come out of our secret treasury. If you come out of our treasury, you will die of old age. Zhu Yijun laughed and shook his head, "Besides, using the National Treasury's money will require officials to get their hands on it. Who knows how much money will be left after you pass through all these stages, when that time comes, you will be tired to the point of suffering."

"The incense in the temple is still burning." Wang Rong He said.

"That is for Bodhisattva. If you really took it out, this commoner wouldn't dare to use it." Zhu Yijun said, he knew that Wang Rong was not like those other women who only cared about Buddha, but it was not good if they did not respect him at all.

"Even if I die soon?" Wang Rong didn't believe him.

Zhu Yijun only laughed, the small talk he had with Wang Rong didn't mean for him to differentiate between right from wrong. Wang Rong rolled his eyes and said, "In the past, there was a man who worshipped Bodhisattva wholeheartedly. Sooner or later, he would offer his services. Before he starved to death, he had a plate of fruit from before the Bodhisattva table. That person was unwilling to eat it, so he starved to death just like that. Before he died, he puzzledly asked the Bodhisattva, "If I serve the Bodhisattva so sincerely, why didn't the Bodhisattva bless me?" Bodhisattva's heart is filled with pity, I have already placed the fruit in front of you, if you don't eat it, you will starve to death, what else can I do? "

Zhu Yijun laughed and used more strength in his hands, "You even made up stories to coax Rong Chang to sleep, tell me stories."

"That's the truth." Wang Rong He said.

"Yes, the Empress is right." Zhu Yijun nodded. However, he did not say that reaching out to help in such a desperate situation was like the heart of man.

How could the government allow the temple to win over so many people?

Even big families in the capital would have a better chance of doing charity work. If they were not careful, they would be on fire.

Wang Rong was always kind, so kind that she was a little naive.