At this moment, Qin Feng saw through his thoughts. His eyes narrowed slightly, and a dangerous aura emanated from his whole body.
He slowly approached, step by step pressing forward.
“Don't tell me you really have some improper thoughts about the Empress Dowager?”
Hearing this, Lan Xi immediately turned his head away, pretending not to know anything.
“How could that be? You're just overthinking. I only have admiration for the Empress Dowager. Where does the affection between a man and a woman come from? Isn't Minister Qin in a hurry to go to the harem to find Maid Xiao? Then why don't you go quickly? Don't be late, or you'll keep Maid Xiao waiting for a long time.”
Qin Feng had been pursuing Xiao Xiao for quite a while. Even a fool could tell what was on his mind when seeing his expression.
Seeing this, Qin Feng's gaze gradually turned cold.
“Don't forget your previous identity. We only kept you here because you sincerely surrendered. If you have any other thoughts, it's better to put them away. Otherwise, I can't guarantee whether you'll still see the sun tomorrow.”
He remembered that the attitude of that National Teacher had also been strange recently. All this was starting to get interesting.
After saying that, without waiting for Lan Xi's reply, he hummed a tune and swaggered away.
Lan Xi didn't come back to his senses for a long time. Was his purpose that obvious? Now even a man like Qin Feng could see it. What about Shi Muyuan? Did she already know?
At this moment, the person Lan Xi was concerned about was in the imperial garden, teasing the newly arrived little thing.
Afraid that she would be bored, the young emperor specially sent someone to find this snow - white cat from outside the palace.
After a few days of training, the cat was no longer as naughty as when it first came, but it still retained some of its natural instincts. It was so cute that the young girl couldn't put it down.
“Your Highness, you've been holding it all day today and only focused on teasing it. You haven't eaten well yourself. Why don't you let me hold it for a while and you go eat something first?”
“No. It will be scared if it's away from me. Even though you've spent a lot of time with it, it has scratched you several times. It's okay. I'll eat by myself when I'm hungry later.”
Shi Muyuan looked at the few scratches on Xiao Xiao's hand with concern. She felt a bit heart - ache, but she really couldn't get angry with the cat.
Every time she pretended to scold it seriously, the cat's look would stop her. Fortunately, Xiao Xiao didn't mind. Otherwise, she would really have to part with it reluctantly and let this little ball know what a dark room was.
Yes, she really didn't know what name to give it. After thinking for a long time, she finally chose these two uninspiring words.
This was the scene Qin Feng saw when he came over. At the same time, he also noticed the few scratches on the hand of the woman he loved.
Since he had just taken office, he was really too busy. He didn't expect that due to his negligence, the woman he loved would have a few more scratches on her body.
The hostility around him flared up, and when he spoke to Shi Muyuan, there was less respect than at the beginning.
“May I ask if the Empress Dowager knows who caused those injuries on Xiao Xiao's hand?”
Shi Muyuan opened her mouth, about to tell him the reason, when she suddenly saw that he had already noticed the cat.
“It seems that it was this cat that made Xiao Xiao get hurt. How about I take it back? Otherwise, I'm afraid the Empress Dowager might get hurt accidentally.”
Hearing this, Shi Muyuan smiled helplessly.
“It won't dare to do it again. How about just letting it go?”
“If we don't handle it well now, there will definitely be problems in the future. Your Highness, don't worry. I will never let you see such a bloody scene.”
After saying that, there were all kinds of sounds under the table.
Shi Muyuan looked guilty and didn't know what to do for a moment.
Just then, a voice came from not far away.
“I wonder what you all are doing?”
Following the voice, several people looked over. Shi Muyuan looked at the woman curiously.
“Miss, may I ask where you come from?”
Obviously, the woman didn't expect to be asked like this. She was stunned for a moment, and the cat named Tuanzi jumped into her arms at some point.
“I, I...”
“Ah, Cousin Miss, why are you here? Greetings to the Empress Dowager, greetings to Minister Qin. Cousin Miss just arrived at the palace and is not very familiar with everything here, so she got lost. I hope you won't mind.”
Looking at the maidservant kneeling on the ground and kowtowing in a hurry, there was a bit of doubt in Shi Muyuan's eyes.
“What's wrong with this maidservant? I don't seem to have seen her before.”
Xiao Xiao raised her eyebrows and stepped forward to answer her master's question.
“She's a maidservant beside the Imperial Concubine. She doesn't often come out, so that's why she's so rash. I'll send someone to the Imperial Concubine's palace later to say something. Next time, she will never offend Your Highness again.”
As she was speaking, Xiao Xiao was grabbed by her master.
“Hey, it's just a little maidservant who is ignorant. Don't scare her. Cousin Miss finally came to the palace. If there are misunderstandings in the future, it will affect our relationship.”
She spoke implicitly. Fortunately, Xiao Xiao understood her master. So the moment she opened her mouth, Xiao Xiao said, “Your Highness is right. To show our apology, how about keeping Cousin Miss in our Shoukang Palace for a few days to take care of her?”
The two of them sang in chorus like this. Where had that maidservant ever seen such a grand occasion? Before she knew it, her cousin miss had been left in the palace.
Seeing her cousin miss being taken to the Shoukang Palace, the maidservant was so anxious that she was about to cry.
“Your Highness, please let Cousin Miss go back with me first. It's really hard to explain to the Imperial Concubine.”
Shi Muyuan rolled her eyes and showed no mercy.
“If there's something, let your master come to me in person. I just want to get along with your cousin miss. But your master doesn't allow this and that. Do I have to go to her in person and talk to her?”
Since the words had been said to this extent, there was nothing the maidservant could do. She could only swallow the rest of her words and went to find her master with a sad face.
Shi Muyuan sat in her own bedroom all the time, holding the woman's hand, looking very friendly.
“You said your name is Hui'er? Smart and virtuous. Not bad. It seems that your family has good upbringing. Your parents should be reasonable people.”
He Hui had been sitting with the Empress Dowager for so long that she had almost revealed all about her family background.
Shi Muyuan didn't expect that the woman she casually pulled was actually the precious legitimate daughter of the He family, a great aristocratic family.
She had other thoughts in her mind. When night fell and she had arranged He Hui to rest, she looked at Xiao Xiao and said,
“The Emperor has almost taken control of the government now, but I'm still not very relieved. I hope to prepare something for him.”
Sure enough, they had been master and servant for many years. As soon as she opened her mouth, Xiao Xiao immediately understood.
“Your Highness, do you want to involve the He family? I'm afraid that whole family won't agree.”
That great aristocratic family was different from other ordinary aristocratic families.