In addition to the daughters of civil and military ministers, there are also some ministers who are highly valued by the emperor.
It was not until Yan Chou arrived that the daughters finally calmed down.
After all, their purpose was not to appreciate the flowers, but to use the name of appreciating flowers to be noticed by Yan Chou so that they could enter the palace.
Fu Yun followed behind Yan Chou. He was only wearing a blue robe today. Without the yellow robe, Yan Chou seemed like a noble young man, with a handsome face and a slender figure.
The Empress Dowager looked towards him, but when she didn't see Xie Shizhu, she frowned slightly and said dissatisfiedly, "Emperor, why didn't the Empress come?"
Yan Chou said indifferently: "I don't know."
The Queen Mother was stunned and felt a little unhappy.
However, these court ladies were all smiling.
Everyone has ulterior motives.
They discovered that the queen was not as favored as rumored by the outside world.
Fang Yiran usually attracts attention, but ever since her father was sent to the desolate waters, their family fell into decline and they were instantly marginalized.
It was the Empress Dowager who took the initiative to summon Fang Yiran to the front, and only then did a smile appear on Fang Yiran's face.
She hurried to the Empress Dowager's side and whispered softly, "Your Highness, Your Highness, Your Highness."
The Empress Dowager felt very distressed when she saw Fang Yiran's haggard face. She was such a lively girl, but her personality was changed by the Emperor's anger.
The Queen Mother took Fang Yiran's wrist and deliberately pulled her to her and the Emperor, saying kindly, "Why do you look so unhappy?"
Fang Yiran smiled bitterly and said, "I am just unwell, nothing serious is wrong. Thank you, Queen Mother, for your concern."
While speaking, he looked at Yan Chou's face from time to time, trying to get his attention.
It’s a pity that Yan Chou’s gaze was careless and he kept glancing in a certain direction.
Then, Fang Yiran saw a woman in a light green brocade robe slowly walking towards him, and the place where the emperor was looking was the route the woman would pass.
Fang Yiran's face froze and he clenched his fists.
Lin Xuan leaned close to the Queen Mother's ear and said, "Queen Mother, the Queen is here."
A trace of disgust flashed in the Queen Mother's eyes.
Xie Shizhu walked in front of everyone, and everyone except the Empress Dowager bowed to her.
Xie Shizhu raised a weak smile, her face pale. "I'm late, I hope the Queen Mother will forgive me."
The Queen Mother snorted coldly, "Isn't being late a common occurrence for a queen?"
Xie Shizhu pursed his lips and did not make any excuses for being late.
The Empress Dowager was too lazy to argue with her as she had important matters to attend to, so she waved her sleeves. Xie Shizhu stood up from the ground and automatically stepped back behind the crowd.
Yan Chou caught a glimpse of her deliberately moving away from the corner of his eye and frowned slightly.
Fu Yun was a little surprised. Normally, if the empress dowager said this, the emperor would definitely refute it on behalf of Xie Shizhu.
But today I remain indifferent.
Has the queen fallen out of favor?
Fu Yun thought that this was not a bad thing. Xie Shizhu was not loyal anyway. If it were any other woman, she would have been thrown into jail long ago.
The Queen Mother said, "Please take your seats, everyone."
"yes."
The emperor, the empress dowager, the queen and some ministers were in the pavilion, while the rest of the women were outside admiring the flowers.
The Empress Dowager signaled Lin Xuan to make tea. Lin Xuan understood and asked other palace maids to make tea for the ministers, while she walked towards Xie Shizhu with the boiling hot tea.
Lin Xuan bent down and handed the tea to Xie Shizhu.
When Xie Shizhu reached out to hold the tea, Lin Xuan suddenly let go, and the steaming hot tea splashed onto Xie Shizhu's right arm. She frowned in pain and stood up quickly.
Yan Chou stood up slightly and then sat down slowly.
Lin Xuan's face turned pale. She raised her hand to lift up Xie Shizhu's sleeve, but was stopped by Xie Shizhu: "I'm fine."
"Queen," Lin Xuan said nervously, unwilling to remove her hand from Xie Shizhu's arm, "This tea is boiling water. If you get burned, you'll get a scar if you don't take care of it in time."
But Xie Shizhu still held his sleeves with his hands, his face a little panicked, and said hurriedly: "It's okay, after the flower viewing is over, just call the imperial physician."
Her panic-stricken look made Lin Xuan sneer in her heart.
The Empress Dowager frowned and said, "Queen, let my maid take a look at you."
The minister next to him also echoed: "Queen, it's not good to leave a scar."
Xie Shizhu bit her lip and loosened her hand slightly. Lin Xuan seized the opportunity and pulled up her sleeve. When she saw the mark on her arm, she was stunned.
The Queen Mother also looked at her arm and frowned slightly after seeing it. This was not the result she wanted.
There was a bite mark on Xie Shizhu's fair skin, similar to that of a man. It was very clear and must have been there not long ago.
As for who it belongs to, everyone knows it.
Lin Xuan opened her eyes wide in disbelief. She continued to pull up the wide sleeves on Xie Shizhu's arms without giving up. Her fingertips tightly grasped Xie Shizhu's wrist, leaving nail marks.
Xie Shizhu subconsciously took a breath and stammered, "It hurts."
Lin Xuan stood there in a daze. Apart from the marks of burns and bites, there was no trace of toad blood at all.
The next second, she felt a force on her side and was kicked to the ground. She felt a piercing pain in her waist and could not get up for a long time.
Fu Yun followed Yan Chou's instructions and asked Lin Xuan to leave the Queen, but his method was a bit rough.
Suddenly, Xie Shizhu's malicious value dropped to 80.
Xie Shizhu hurriedly rolled down his sleeves to cover the marks on his arm, lowered his eyes, and his face turned pale. After being scalded by boiling water, the scabbed wound on his arm split open again and bled.
Yan Chou saw the wound he had bitten himself last night. He was so angry at the time that he didn't care how serious the wound was and never thought that it was so deep.
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