"Is it not possible?" Si Shuo pretended to be innocent and stupid again, his eyes curved with a smile, "But isn't she just a maid in charge of cleaning the imperial garden? She just happened to come to help me clean the house, it's just a change of place to sweep the floor."

Shi Qingmiao frowned, realizing that something was wrong. She wiped the criminal evidence from the corner of her mouth and tried hard to maintain her elegant and good image, forgetting that she had just concealed her true identity, and now her vest was about to fall off.

"What imperial garden maid?" This matter is really not simple. Could it be that the two of them have met before?

Jin Suting had an expression of waiting to eat melon, while Helan Minzhi quietly breathed a sigh of relief and his attention was no longer focused on her.

"She is from my palace, Si Shuo, you must have remembered it wrongly?" The Queen Mother looked at Si Shuo coldly, not caring about the matter of the seven cities.

"Oh, really?" Si Shuo stared at Shi Qingmiao with scrutiny in his eyes, and didn't say another word.

Shi Qingmiao was extremely nervous. If the Queen Mother agreed to send her to that pesky Regent, he would definitely come after her for deceiving him! And she would have to live in Changding Palace. You know, she was most afraid of those monsters and demons.

"Miao'er, are you going?" The Queen Mother now handed the decision-making power to Shi Qingmiao. She really didn't want to deal with Si Shuo anymore.

"I, no..." Before she could utter the word "no", Si Shui spoke first, "Hey, I suddenly remembered that I saw a small animal in the imperial garden just now. What was it..."

"I'll go! I'll go."

Shi Qingmiao's pupils suddenly dilated. This guy was going to report her. He was such a mean-spirited villain!

She didn't want to lose Xiao Si more than being tortured by Si Shuo's soul. After all, Xiao Si was still a cub less than a month old.

No matter what happens if there are ghosts, there is still that annoying person Si Shuo to take care of her. She hasn't done anything wrong, so she won't be afraid!

Seeing her so excited, the Queen Mother frowned and said, "Go ahead, I won't stop you."

After she finished speaking, her throat felt a little uncomfortable and she coughed twice. She felt tired, so she said to Si Shuo, "I'm tired. I'm going to rest first. You can ask my grandson for the follow-up matters."

She pointed at Helan Ruizhe, who was nodding politely at Si Shuo.

On the way back after the banquet, Jin Suting was in the carriage thinking back on what had just happened. She felt strange and couldn't help but ask Helan Ruizhe, "Do you think the Regent has fallen for Shi Shi?"

Shi Qingmiao's face looks like her modern best friend, and Jin Suting is very concerned about her emotional issues.

"I don't understand." Helan Ruizhe is very smart, but he is a novice when it comes to emotional matters.

Unlike Jin Suting, a veteran matchmaker who has won titles such as "gossip detector" and "emotional investigator", she can determine whether two people are having an affair based on her intuition and eyes.

"I think," Jin Suting stroked her chin, looking like Sherlock Holmes solving a case, with only a cigarette butt between her lips, "the Regent seems to be interested in Shi Shi."

However, Shi Qingmiao didn't seem to appreciate it. Jin Suting went further and further on the road of blind guessing until Helan Ruizhe sent her back to the general's mansion.

Before he got off the carriage, he said to Jin Suting, "I see that the old general has been silent for the past two days. Since he won't take action, then we will."

After all, the real old general is old and in poor health, and he can't keep fighting the fake one like this. He wants to fight a protracted war, but Helan Ruizhe doesn't want to. A quick battle and a quick decision is his style.

Just catch him and torture him tonight. This level of disguise seems to be easy to deal with.

"Okay, I believe you!" Jin Suting stood on the steps and patted Helan Ruizhe's head.

She was also worried about her father's whereabouts. After all, the person who treated her best here was her father.

The old general spoiled the originally independent and self-reliant female image into the unreasonable and fussy little princess.

***

In the palace, Helan Ruizhe would definitely not let Shi Qingmiao clean the huge Changding Palace alone, so he arranged for more than a dozen palace maids to clean Fuding Palace inside and out.

When Si Shuo and Fanxing arrived at Changding Palace, they saw a clean and tidy palace.

Maybe it's a little deserted, maybe because there's no one around.

Shi Qingmiao walked out. Now that it was broad daylight, she was not afraid and could stay alone in Changding Palace.

"Greetings, Lord Si." Shi Qingmiao called Si Shuo like this, gritting his teeth as he said these words, wishing he could lift the man up and swing him back and forth seven or eight times to vent his anger.

"I'm the regent, and you're quite disappointed?" Si Shuo smacked his lips in dissatisfaction, looking up and down at Shi Qingmiao, who exuded an aura of "property".

"I dare not, I dare not." Shi Qingmiao smiled falsely. After more than ten years of struggling in the palace, she was the best at pretending.

"Maybe you can try to return to normal." Si Shuo couldn't stand her hypocritical appearance, especially like the dozens of concubines of the old king of Simu Kingdom.

"I'm quite normal~" Shi Qingmiao looked straight at Si Shuo with her big, delicate eyes.

Just when she was about to say, "I'm usually like this," Si Shuo made a "stop" gesture and smiled even more fake than Shi Qingmiao: "If it's because I concealed my identity just now, I'm really sorry. If you keep acting like this and make me uncomfortable, I might lock you up here alone at night."

Shi Qingmiao felt as if someone had opened the top of her head and poured a large bowl of sticky and disgusting noodles into her brain.

The point is, this annoying regent is threatening her again, locking her up here at night, right? Good, she gave in.

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