There are only two women in the harem now, one is Li Xuanyi's wife and the other is his mother.
These two people are the reason why he is still alive in this world.
On the fourth day after arriving at the palace, Su Yumo was strolling in the garden when he saw an old woman admiring flowers from afar.
Her hair was gray and her hands were wrinkled.
But his eyebrows and eyes are still thick, dark and bright.
She wears plain clothes and has fair skin, looking like an immortal from otherworldly realm.
Many palace servants followed behind her, so she must be a person of high status.
Is she Li Xuanyi's mother?
The palace maid behind her whispered in her ear: "This is the Empress Dowager."
The palace maids serving in Fenglai Palace have all been screened by Li Xuanyi.
Background, character, behavioral habits, and most importantly, being pleasing to others.
This kind of joy is not to flatter, but to make people laugh.
Finally, within ten days, twenty-five people were selected from the fifty people to be responsible for all affairs of Fenglai Palace.
Before Su Yumo was kidnapped, they lived in Fenglai Palace, cleaning and decorating it every day until its owner came on the third day.
She was a little shy, and the first time they pulled her collar down, she grabbed it to stop them from moving.
Seeing her panicked look, they thought they had used too much strength and decided to try again.
As a result, she started running around the hall.
She ran very fast and it took them a lot of effort to surround her.
After a final stalemate, they turned around.
Later, Eunuch Lin told them that they no longer had to obey the Emperor's orders, as they only had one master, her.
This master did not treat them as servants and did not allow them to kneel when she was alone.
She didn't have to let them wash her, but she could dress her.
Sometimes she would let them lie on the bed with her and chat.
The bed is very big and can easily accommodate five or six people.
How fortunate they were that they had not done anything bad in the past ten years and had also secretly learned some skills.
After a few days they were no longer so particular when they were alone together.
As soon as the palace maid finished speaking, the people over there looked over here.
Su Yumo bent his legs and bowed, "Greetings, Her Majesty the Queen Mother."
She didn't like these red tapes, but this was the choice of the times and she couldn't influence it alone.
The Queen Mother smiled slightly and said, "Get up, no need to be so polite."
Su Yumo stood up, walked past several trees as thick as a person, and came to the front of the empress dowager.
"Xuan Yi told me about you a long time ago. I had been studying in the palace before and had never seen you. I didn't expect to meet you the first time I came out. It's fate."
The Queen Mother's voice was delicate and soft, reminding Su Yumo of the sound of the radio in the car when they were out for a trip.
As she was listening, she leaned back in her chair and fell asleep. For the first time in her life, she drooled, and the saliva dripped onto her best friend's clothes.
"The Empress Dowager likes reading?"
"Yes, I've always liked it. Life was so hard before that I didn't have the opportunity to study. Now that I have it, I should make good use of it. Isn't Xuan Yi by your side?"
Li Xuanyi was originally planning to accompany her, but before leaving, a minister came to him to discuss the deployment of troops, kissed her hand and left.
Li Xuanyi: You don’t kiss other places either.
Suddenly a colorful butterfly flew over and landed on a flower in the Queen Mother's hand, spinning non-stop.
"Xuan Yi is very busy, maybe this butterfly was sent by him." Su Yumo said, pointing at the butterfly.
The Queen Mother was startled when she heard this, then smiled and covered her lips with her hands, "That's really possible."
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Pavilion of Cheng'an Palace
Four light blue gauze curtains swayed gently in the wind, which was not very strong. Perhaps they were tired of the static life and tried to roll outwards.
The lake is quiet, with no visible signs of flow. Hundreds of goldfish in the water are scrambling to eat the food that has just been scattered, causing ripples.
"Xuan Yi often mentioned you to me, and it's not a lie."
The Queen Mother placed the flowers she had picked in a green jade vase on the table, but the butterflies on it had long disappeared.
Su Yumo sat on a stone bench with no support behind him. He tried his best to keep his back in line, with his hands on his abdomen.
If you sit on a chair with a backrest for too long, your body will unconsciously lean forward when you sit on a chair without a backrest, causing your neck to lean forward.
She didn't think anything of it before, but after these few days, she discovered that everyone here always kept their backs straight, whether they were standing or sitting, straighter than a flagpole.
For the sake of her own health, she felt it necessary to correct her sitting posture.
"Yeah?"
She thought the Queen Mother just said it casually to improve their relationship.
Just like when two actors meet, one of them will always say, "I've seen your play."
"When he was very young, he suddenly ran into my room and said that he wanted to bring a girl back to me so that I could embroider new clothes for the two of you."
"We were having a hard time back then, so I didn't think much of it and just treated it as a child's joke."
"Later, he would always talk about you in front of me. He would only say a few words each time, but he didn't take it personally and was always cheerful."
"Later, he passed the imperial examination and entered the imperial court, and our situation became even more difficult."
"The Duke didn't want him to be too prominent because he was a bastard, so he often suppressed him and sabotaged his plans. The Duke's wife would punish me by making me kneel in the ancestral hall for a whole day just for something as trivial as pouring water."
"The Duke's son took the exam several times but never made the grade. Since then, he's taken to drinking and taking out all his anger on Xuan Yi. Whenever Xuan Yi resists, his body is covered in whip marks."
"Every time I went to see him, he wouldn't let me see his back."
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