He could only temporarily dispel his doubts.
Thinking of how he had been tricked by Shiqi, Xiao Zhaolin's expression turned even uglier. "Your Majesty, please have a good rest. I will not disturb you."
After saying that, he turned away.
Two days later, the day for selecting palace maids arrived.
Su Lijin came to Xiu Pavilion, where rows of palace maids were standing neatly. People from each palace had sent people to choose from them.
Her eyes swept across the rows of palace maids and paused on one of them, who was thin and pretty.
"You, and you, come here."
Pointing at two palace maids at random, Su Lijin took a sip of the teacup and asked a few simple questions.
After the two maids answered, she pointed to the corner and said, "That one should come over here too, so I can take a look."
A thin figure stepped forward, head bowed, "Your servant greets Her Majesty the Queen."
"Yes, she is a well-behaved girl." Su Lijin nodded and said, "You should follow me."
"Yes." The little palace maid looked up and it was Xianxian.
Su Lijin stood up.
Today, when selecting palace maids, she intended to let Xianxian follow her, but to avoid arousing suspicion, she still had to go through the process in a formal manner.
After Su Lijin left Xiu Pavilion, she returned to her own palace.
Xianxian followed behind her, her nose moving from time to time. After smelling a fragrance, a hint of unconcealable surprise appeared in her eyes.
She looked up at Su Lijin's back in a daze, her eyes full of shock.
After entering the palace, Su Lijin turned around to look at her, but Xianxian fell to her knees with a plop, kowtowed and said, "Thank you, Madam, for saving my life!"
Hearing this, Su Lijin was surprised and looked at her for a long time with a complicated expression.
Xianxian glanced around and saw that the other palace maids had already left. Then she said, "The Queen is Sister Shiqi, right?"
Su Lijin's face was even more surprised. Xianxian could directly tell her relationship with Shiqi, which meant that Xianxian must have recognized her.
At this moment, Su Lijin had no way to deny it and asked, "How did you recognize me?"
Seeing her like this, Xianxian smiled a little embarrassedly: "Your Majesty has a fragrance on your body. Xianxian can smell it. It is a very special and pleasant smell."
Su Lijin sniffed herself a few times and shook her head in amusement, "Perhaps only people with a unique sense of smell can smell that fragrance."
She felt that the smell on her body was very light. Although there seemed to be a faint fragrance when she smelled it carefully, under normal circumstances, other people would not have the opportunity to get so close and smell it for so long to distinguish it.
She thought that this might be Xianxian's unique sense of smell.
"Xianxian, since you already know that I am Shiqi, can you keep it a secret for me?"
Xianxian nodded repeatedly: "Xianxian will definitely not tell anyone else and will definitely keep this secret."
Su Lijin nodded and said nothing more.
In the next few days, Su Lijin was thinking about one thing.
After the brothel was massacred, she could no longer use her identity as a flying fairy in the brothel.
Now, without this identity, she has also lost a channel to gather information, and she is very worried.
"Now, what should we do?"
While thinking about various feasible channels, something suddenly flashed through her mind. Su Lijin calmed down and stopped immediately.
"Oh, I almost forgot someone!"
Thinking of that person, Su Lijin's expression became excited, and she quickly called Xianxian: "Xianxian, do you know the whereabouts of Tan Tai Chun?"
That’s right, the person she was thinking of was none other than the Jianghu know-it-all, Tan Tai Chun!
In this world, is there anyone who knows more about the world's news and secrets than Tan Tai Chun?
If she could find Tan Tai Chun, she could get information from him, which would be much easier.
Xianxian said, "Your Majesty, Tan Tai Chun was only hired by the madam to look after the brothel. He doesn't stay there often."
Don’t you often stay in brothels?
Su Lijin remembered that every time she saw Tan Tai Chun, it was in a secret room.
I guess it was the madam who invited people to sit in that secret room every time.
However, since the madam was able to invite Tan Tai Chun, it meant that there was a way to contact him, which was exactly what Su Lijin wanted to ask.
"How does the madam usually contact Tan Tai Chun?"
Now that the brothel has been destroyed and there is no news of Tan Tai Chun, the only thing I can do is ask Xian Xian.
Although Tan Tai Chun's whereabouts were secretive, she didn't hold out much hope, but it would be nice to get a few more clues.
Xianxian thought about it carefully, pursed her lips and said, "My Lady, I remember that every time the madam invited Tan Tai Chun, she would go to the peach blossom forest outside the city."
"Go to the peach blossom forest outside the city?" Su Lijin blinked. "Could it be that Tan Tai Chun is there?"
Hearing this, Xianxian thought for a moment and continued, "When the madam goes to the peach blossom forest, she always brings a white jade wine pot."
"White jade wine pot?"
I guess Tan Tai Chun is a wine lover.
But, it is also possible that this is just a code?
Thinking of this, Su Lijin felt that this guess was also very likely.
Sure enough, Xianxian's next words answered her doubts.
"The madam placed a white jade wine pot in the peach blossom forest outside the city, along with the time and location."
Xianxian said: "Tan Tai Chun will arrive at the time and place."
Su Lijin lowered her brows and thought. She now knew how to find Tan Tai Chun, but now she still needed to try it herself.
However, the peach blossom forest outside the city is too far away, so we still have to find a way to get there.
"What excuse can I find to go to the peach blossom forest outside the city?" She thought with her forehead resting on her hand.
At this moment, there was a commotion outside. Su Lijin looked up and saw Concubine Shu walking in with a swagger.
"Empress, you are in the palace."
Hearing this sarcastic remark, Su Lijin was almost too lazy to respond: "Is there anything wrong, Concubine Shu?"
Concubine Shu touched her belly, glanced at Su Lijin, and then glanced at the bedroom: "I didn't expect that Your Majesty's place is quite quiet."
"If I were to say so, it's because Your Majesty is not pregnant that the palace is so deserted. Unlike me, the door to my house is almost broken down by people."
"Today, the Queen Mother sent me a lot of supplements. I'm almost tired of them."
Su Lijin was speechless and curled her lips, saying, "Shu Fei, if you have something to say, just say it. I don't have time for idle chatter."
Concubine Shu smiled and said, "I have suffered a lot during my pregnancy, but this palace is really too stuffy. I want to leave the palace and go back to my parents' home to get some fresh air. I have come to inform you of this."
He said he was reporting, but the tone was clearly boastful.
How could Su Lijin not hear it?
Su Lijin looked at Concubine Shu with a smile. When Concubine Shu was frightened by her gaze, she flatly refused, "No, I don't approve."
"You!" How could Concubine Shu have thought that Su Lijin would reject her mercilessly? She was so angry that her face changed.
Especially Su Lijin's smile, which was extremely irritating in Shufei's eyes, and was no different from a provocation. She wished she could tear the smile off her face!
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