"yes!"

Xu Shu woke up from her nap and Lu He said back and forth, "Mrs. Xiao came to pay tribute to the Empress Dowager not long ago, it was the second day after Miss Xiao San returned home!"

really……

"It turned out that it was the guidance of the Empress Dowager. No wonder the Xiao family moved so quickly!"

These things are a bit interesting. Xu Shu smiled slightly. The Empress Dowager first denounced Empress Dowager Chun'an and Empress Dowager Huixian in front of her and the emperor, without giving them any face. She prevented them from making things difficult for Xu Shu in the future, and kept protecting Xu Shu quietly. Then she asked the Xiao family to win over the Zheng family through marriage, as if she wanted to form an alliance with the Zheng family.

But how could the Zheng family be so stupid to be flirting with tigers? The Deng family has done a lot of things to destroy bridges across the river! The Deng family wanted to win over the Zheng family, which must be to eliminate other threats. Now, the only thing that can make the Deng family work hard to win over the Zheng family is to eliminate.

The Deng family's desire for power has always been so distinct. Even if it can be suppressed for a while, it cannot be suppressed for a lifetime. Once there is a chance, it will expand wildly.

No wonder Emperor Yingzong would rather hurt himself than hurt one thousand enemies to suppress the Deng family. The Deng family is indeed arrogant when they are in power and will never learn to be content with one thousand!

Such a person is available but not trustworthy, but urgently used but not reused!

Since the Xiao family has already gone to the Zheng family according to the instructions of the Deng family, the Zheng family has also sent someone to the palace to ask about her what she means, then the Empress Dowager should come to find her next...

Xu Shu sighed quietly, she really couldn't relax for a moment, but when the Empress Dowager found her, the Deng family would solve her problems in order to show her sincerity, which would save her a lot of trouble. Now the thing that troubles her the most is the five women left in the Pingning Prince's Mansion. As soon as Xiao Jiayi left, the remaining people would feel a little nervous. However, given that Miss Huang is still in the Prince's Mansion, they choose to wait and see more. As long as Miss Huang leaves, the rest will not be worth mentioning. The Huang family has close contact with the Deng family. If the Deng family wants to form an alliance with the Zheng family, this sincerity should be brought out...

"Empress, the flower room is sending chrysanthemums!" Yuzhu opened the curtain and entered the inner hall. Although it was already August, there was still a trace of heat left. Yuzhu came in from outside, and there were still fine beads of sweat hanging on the tip of her nose.

"There are chrysanthemums at this time?" Xu Shu went out through the window, and the eunuch placed various chrysanthemums in the yard, most of which were in bud.

Yuzhu pointed to the pot of chrysanthemum in the middle and introduced, "This is a newly cultivated chrysanthemum in the flower room, half yellow and half red. The emperor gave it to the mandarin duck chrysanthemum! He specially sent it to the empress to watch!"

"It's really..." Xu Shu narrowed her eyes and looked at it for a while, and she felt it was fresh, "But mandarin ducks are paired, and the chrysanthemums are only half yellow and half red. It's not appropriate to call mandarin duck chrysanthemums!"

If someone else heard that this was a name given by the emperor, he would only praise the meaning of it, but how could he really care about it like Xu Shu? Yuzhu couldn't help but smile, "What's the name that Empress thinks is good?"

"..." Xu Shu thought for a while, but she didn't think of a more suitable one. She couldn't help but shake her head and laugh, "Then call it Yuanyangju!"

Yuzhu chuckled.

"The Empress's birthday is coming..." Lu He suddenly said when she saw the chrysanthemum outside the window.

Zheng Wanyi’s birthday is August 15th, and Xu Shu’s birthday is Double Ninth Festival. It’s not all about to arrive!

Xu Shu smiled faintly and said, "I will forget if you don't say it..." Xu Shu has not celebrated her birthday in recent years. First, she has been delayed by foreign affairs and has no time and energy to think about it at all. Second, she has fewer and fewer days left, so she instinctively rejected this matter.

"Even if the Empress forgets, the Emperor will not forget it!" Yuzhu laughed.

Xu Shu bent her lips slightly. Although Zhou Jin didn't look like a meticulous person, she always kept her birthday firmly and never gave her birthday gifts.

"I won't forget something?" Zhou Jin listened to the laughter in the room, and his originally dull mood couldn't help but get better.

"See the Emperor!" Yuzhu and Lu Hefu saluted, and then retreated. Over time, they gradually realized Zhou Jin's temper. Zhou Jin liked to stay alone with Xu Shu and did not like someone to serve him.

"What did you say just now? I smiled so happily!"

"I laughed at the fact that your name is not appropriate enough!"

"Why isn't it appropriate? The mandarin duck couple wants to blend like chrysanthemums. You have me and I have you, walking together with you, sharing the joys and sorrows, never separation!"

"It's unreasonable!" Xu Shu sneered, but secretly hurt her heart because of Zhou Jin's words "never separate".

"I never reason with you!" Zhou Jin smiled and leaned over and rubbed Xu Shu's neck, and suddenly sniffed hard, "What did you eat today for lunch!"

The hot air that Zhou Jin breathed squirted on his neck. Xu Shu felt itchy and pushed Zhou Jin away, "Mom is here, so a milk soup in the imperial kitchen, but I didn't eat it!"

"Be good, the milk is dry and hot, and it is not easy to cure, so you can't eat it!"

Xu Shu nodded, "Is there anything wrong with you looking for King Ji today?" It would be no small matter for Zhou Jin to look for King Ji Duan Ran so seriously.

"The King of East China Sea wrote a letter saying that pirates were raging along the coast recently, and the repeated expulsions have not been eliminated. Once winter comes, the pirates will find it difficult to get on the shore after the fog on the sea. Therefore, the pirates plundered before the winter begins and stored supplies for the winter. More than ten villages along the coast have been looted by the pirates. The King of East China Sea wants to gather troops to wipe out the pirates, but because the harvest this year is not good and there is a lack of food and salary, I want the court to allocate food to him!"

The fief of King Donghai relies on the sea and is often attacked by pirates. This is common. King Donghai also writes to the court every year to gather local troops to wipe out, but this is the first time he asks the court for food and pay. Before, the King Donghai always uses his fief taxes as food and pay.

"What is the King of Donghai doing?" Although he had known that the King of Donghai was unjust, the court would only have tens of thousands of burdens of grain at most. It would be impossible to rely on this little food and salary to recruit soldiers and horses to rebel. But since it is impossible, why did the King of Donghai do this? Didn't he know that his doing this would attract suspicion from the court and the emperor's suspicion?

"I couldn't understand what King Donghai was about for a moment, but this spring, the East China Sea area had a severe drought, and the harvest was really bad, so I planned to allocate 5,000 dan of grain to him and ask King Ji to personally escort the grain and grass!"

"What does King Ji mean?"

Zhou Jin shook his head, his face slightly annoyed, "King Ji... is a hero. As long as there is no big mistake, I won't care!"

Xu Shu's heart couldn't help but sank, "What did King Ji say?"
Chapter completed!