She vaguely remembered that in her previous life, Xiao Zhaolin had a kind of medicine in his hands!
"I'm going back to the palace to report. I'm leaving now."
After bowing and saying this, Su Lijin disappeared.
After returning to the palace, she went straight to find Lu Bingqian.
After hearing her question, Lu Bingqian thought for a moment and said, "There is indeed a kind of hallucinogen that can make people hallucinate and lose consciousness, but that drug has been lost."
"Perhaps, it has not been lost..." she murmured.
After getting the answer, Su Lijin prepared to leave the palace, but unexpectedly, the Queen Mother came to her Kunning Palace.
"Your servant pays her respects to the Queen Mother." Su Lijin looked at the Queen Mother who was surrounded by the crowd and bowed.
Although she was puzzled about the Queen Mother's intention of coming at this time, she did not neglect the etiquette to prevent the Queen Mother from taking advantage of the situation.
Holding the hand of the palace maid beside her, the Queen Mother sat on the chair and looked at Su Lijin and said, "Queen, you have been idle for a while."
Hearing this, Su Lijin said, "Empress Dowager, I have done all the things I should do every day. There are many things to do in the harem, so it is not very leisurely."
She couldn't say she was free, because then the Queen Mother would accuse her of not taking care of anything.
The Queen Mother stared at her and suddenly asked, "Has the Queen started selecting the contestants?"
When Su Lijin heard the word "selection", she immediately understood the purpose of the Queen Mother's visit.
Raising her head, Su Lijin's expression remained calm: "Empress Dowager, that matter will naturally be handled by the Ministry of Rites. I don't need to choose it myself."
Faced with this answer, the Queen Mother was dissatisfied: "As the Queen, you are in charge of the affairs of the harem. Those women were sent to the harem. Naturally, the Queen must select some from them to send to the Emperor."
Su Lijin said calmly, "Your Majesty, you don't know that the concubines I selected before were not very popular with the Emperor after they were sent to him."
She did choose one for Xiao Shengxing, but since he didn't like it, there was nothing she could do.
"Don't like it?" The Queen Mother frowned. "Could it be that the Queen only chooses ugly and untalented people?"
The Queen Mother finished speaking, her eyes filled with warning: "Queen, when selecting concubines, you must not be jealous. You must be magnanimous. The Emperor's harem must have new people. You can't just pick the worst ones. If people find out, they will say that the Queen is intolerant!"
In her opinion, the queen was probably scheming in order to consolidate her position.
"Empress Dowager, the concubines I have selected before are all from famous families, with excellent looks and talents. You can look at the previous records."
Su Lijin curled her lips and said, "I don't know why the emperor doesn't like her. How about you, Queen Mother, find a beautiful girl that the emperor likes and send her over."
Hearing this, the Queen Mother looked at her expression for a long time. Seeing that she did not seem to be lying, her expression improved a little.
"Queen, why don't you whisper in the emperor's ear like other women and ask him to accept the concubine?" the Queen Mother instigated.
Let her whisper in your ear?
Su Lijin really found it funny. The Queen Mother really wanted to force a concubine in, but she was a little too impatient.
She pretended to be depressed and said in a low voice: "The emperor does not love me, he will not listen..."
The Queen Mother frowned: "What do you mean, Queen? You are the Queen, how can the Emperor not love you?"
When Su Lijin heard this, a trace of satisfaction flashed through her heart. Her face was filled with sorrow and resentment as she said, "I have no children, nothing at all. Naturally, the Emperor doesn't love me. Just ask yourself, which monarch would love a childless queen?"
The issue of having no offspring was the excuse that the Empress Dowager had used to force the Emperor to depose the Empress.
This time, Su Lijin used the Queen Mother's words to confront her.
There was a hint of pride hidden in her eyes, and she looked at the Queen Mother, wanting to see her expression.
The Queen Mother choked. She didn't expect Su Lijin to use the issue of offspring as an excuse to confront her. An angry expression immediately appeared on her face.
"Hmph!" The empress dowager was speechless. She glared at Su Lijin, snorted heavily, and left angrily.
Seeing that the Queen Mother was driven away by her, Su Lijin raised the corners of her mouth in satisfaction, looking very contented.
However, she did not forget her original plan, which was to leave the palace.
After changing into Shiqi's clothes, she set out from the secret passage, ready to sneak into Xiao Zhaolin's mansion to find out what was going on.
Standing quietly on the roof, Su Lijin leaned over and was about to lift the tiles when she suddenly heard a familiar voice coming from the house below.
"Your Highness, could you please give me the defense map of that city?"
Ulihan?
Wulihan actually wants the border city defense map?
What exactly are they going to do?
Thinking of a possibility, Su Lijin frowned and solemnly lifted the tile.
Through the tiles, she saw Ulihan, who looked like a man from the Central Plains.
Next to him stood Xiao Zhaolin.
"I didn't expect to run into them plotting right away. What a coincidence."
A sneer appeared on Su Lijin's lips.
"Don't you have a map of the border city's defenses?"
Xiao Zhaolin asked, with a hint of doubt on his face.
Wulihan immediately solved his problem.
Wulihan narrowed his eyes and said, "The border town defense map that Nano gave me last time was fake!"
"What? Fake?" Xiao Zhaolin was shocked.
On the roof, Su Lijin pursed her lips.
The picture she gave was indeed a fake one.
"My Mongolian soldiers suffered heavy losses. If we had not retreated in time, the consequences would have been disastrous."
Thinking of the situation at that time, Wulihan couldn't help but feel angry.
If the border town defense map was not fake, they would not have lost so many people. Those were their Mongolian warriors, and they lost their lives in vain!
His gaze lingered on Wulihan's face for a moment. Seeing that his expression didn't seem like a disguise, Xiao Zhaolin felt puzzled and asked, "Why did Nano give you a fake border city defense map?"
He was really confused. Why would he give a fake one?
Doesn't she know how much damage fake pictures can cause?
Su Lijin frowned, slightly worried that her impersonation of Xiaotao would be exposed. She wanted to keep this identity for a while longer.
Wulihan's face was heavy: "I don't know either."
But he was obviously very dissatisfied with Nano.
"However, Nano is the eldest prince's biological sister..." Xiao Zhaolin said thoughtfully.
Hearing this, Ulihan fell silent. Indeed, then how could she use a fake border town defense map to harm the eldest prince?
What exactly happened here?
Wulihan and Xiao Zhaolin thought about it, their hearts full of doubts that they couldn't solve for the time being.
Pulling back his thoughts, Xiao Zhaolin suddenly suggested, "This time, Ye Shuyin is dead, so I do have a plan."
Attention was drawn to him, and Wulihan asked, "What's the plan?"
Su Lijin's eyes moved and she listened attentively.
"Ye Shuyin died before the marriage, which is a perfect opportunity to create the illusion that I am unlucky in marriage."
Xiao Zhaolin's eyes were full of calculation: "When the time comes, I will say that I am disheartened and want to stay with the Buddhist sect forever."
"What does Your Highness mean?" Ulihan was a little confused.
With his lips curled up, Xiao Zhaolin's eyes shone coldly: "This move of mine will surely arouse the Queen's sympathy. When she sees her off, I will kill her in one fell swoop!"
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