If a healthy person disappears for no reason, why don't you go looking for him?
"You searched the entire palace but couldn't find the person. If that's the case, it means the person is hiding somewhere you can't find."
"Of course you can't find it, so why are you still looking for it?" Xiao Yu lowered his eyes, picked up the letter at hand and said calmly.
"Impossible..." Lin An subconsciously denied: "The entire palace belongs to His Majesty, how could His Majesty be looking for..."
A place that cannot be found.
Lin An's voice gradually became quieter before he finished speaking.
Because he thought of another place.
It is true that the entire palace belongs to His Majesty, but they have not checked every place.
There was at least one place they hadn't been to.
That is the Empress Dowager’s Wanshou Palace.
At least they didn't check the Wanshou Palace.
Lin An stood there, feeling as if someone was strangling his throat, and his voice suddenly became hoarse.
"Your Majesty..." Lin An spoke softly, not daring to look at His Majesty.
"Go down." Xiao Yu put down the letter and waved his hand.
Lin An didn't dare to speak anymore. He lowered his head and walked out of the door dejectedly.
After the others disappeared, Xiao Yu stood up from his chair.
The person disappeared in the Qianqing Palace, but at this time the two people must have been in the Wanshou Palace.
With the Queen Mother's means, the place where these two people could not be found in the entire palace, it can be seen that she took great pains to hide them.
But the Wanshou Palace is only this big, where is the person hidden?
Xiao Yu couldn't help rubbing his eyebrows with the hand on his forehead.
It would not be a good idea to send people to arrest someone for no reason while the person is in Wanshou Palace.
As for the Queen Mother, she obviously wanted to find something to hold against him, so she captured Zhou Shuyun and Meng Siyao.
If you haven't released him for so long, I'm afraid he has heard what I want to hear.
Meng Siyao knew very little, so the Queen Mother captured her just as a coincidence.
The most important one is Zhou Shuyun.
What Zhou Shuyun said was too bizarre.
What is resurrection, rebirth, or previous life...
He had always been half-believing and half-doubting, but now the person was in the hands of the Queen Mother.
If the Queen Mother used these ghost stories, he would be fine...but he was worried about Shen Fu...
Where are people...
Xiao Yu thought of something and his tightly closed brows slowly opened.
He placed his hands on the armrests and supported himself to stand up: "Come here, set up the Wanshou Palace."
The dragon chariot from the Qianqing Palace moved all the way towards the Wanshou Palace.
When we arrived at Wanshou Palace, it was already time for dinner.
Xiao Yu sat on a chair, and the servants beside him carefully served him meals.
And on the table, there was a table of vegetarian food.
The Empress Dowager had been a vegetarian ever since she converted to Buddhism, but after the late emperor passed away, she changed her vegetarian habit.
Except for the first and fifteenth day of each month, the Empress Dowager's meals were no different from those of ordinary people.
But on that day, the table was full of delicious vegetarian dishes.
"What happened in the imperial kitchen?" The empress dowager obviously didn't expect this. Looking at the huge table full of dishes, she was obviously a little dazed.
"Since it's not the first or fifteenth day of the month, why is the imperial kitchen so poorly staffed?" the empress dowager said, then looked towards the emperor.
"It is a pity that the emperor has to follow me and be a vegetarian."
"If the emperor is not used to the food, let these people leave and serve at a new table."
The Queen Mother said this and glanced behind her. Madam Hu immediately sent someone to remove the dishes and chopsticks from the table.
"No need." Xiao Yu stood up and dropped the chopsticks in his hand: "Why does the Queen Mother have to go through so much trouble?"
He picked up a meatball and placed it in the Queen Mother's bowl:
"Your Majesty, you forgot that before you left the palace, I was also a vegetarian like you."
When the Queen Mother heard this, her expression froze for a moment. She put down her hands that were stroking the Buddhist beads and looked at the vegetarian tofu balls in her bowl.
Is there anything else you don’t understand?
"Did you ask someone to prepare this meal?"
Xiao Yu was not her biological son, but was adopted from someone else.
The Queen Mother had been in the palace for many years, but she had no children of her own.
The late emperor was a romantic man. Compared to the harem of this emperor, his harem was truly full of concubines. There were at least dozens of concubines, big and small, in the palace.
There are many women in the palace, so there are naturally many arguments. Although she was of high rank in the family, she was not the most favored one.
In order to win the emperor's heart, after repeatedly failing to produce an offspring, she finally took Xiao Yu from Concubine Hui.
That is to say, an emperor like this.
But Xiao Yu was already quite old at that time, and he did not have a good life with Huipin.
The Queen Mother brought him into her palace to raise him, but because he was not her biological son, she did not pay much attention to him.
Having been a vegetarian for many years, she had formed a habit and felt nauseous at the smell of meat.
Naturally, no one in the entire palace ate meat, and even meat oil was not allowed.
When Xiao Yu was brought home, he had been eating vegetarian food for more than a year and became extremely thin.
Later, he entered the military camp and recovered better.
It was also because of this that the Queen Mother and he no longer ate at the same table.
After all these years, this is the first time.
The Queen Mother looked at the cabbage and tofu balls in her bowl but did not pick up her chopsticks: "The Emperor asked people to prepare such a table of vegetarian dishes and brought up the incident of the past."
"It seems like you are blaming me?" The Queen Mother looked unhappy, but Xiao Yu remained calm.
"Before I ascended the throne, I was raised by the Queen Mother, but my mother, Concubine Hui, soon fell ill."
"The Queen Mother neither loves me nor cares for me."
"I have been a vegetarian following my mother, and I cannot fill my stomach every day. When times are tough, I have to steal cakes and fruits from under the incense table to fill my stomach. Otherwise, I am afraid I will not survive." When he said this, he just smiled and had no complaints.
But the Queen Mother's expression was still extremely ugly.
"After I ascended the throne, I have been very gracious and indulgent to the Queen Mother and the Rong family, but sometimes the Queen Mother's hands are a little too long."
The Queen Mother did not continue speaking.
The emperor has been good to her and the Rong family over the years. But this good point is not enough to satisfy the Rong family.
For example, there is no trace of the Rong family in the harem, and the same is naturally true in the court.
Thinking of the letter sent from home, the Queen Mother almost crushed the Buddhist beads in her hands.
After Xiao Yu finished speaking, he did not look at the Queen Mother again. He lowered his head and tasted the cabbage meatballs in his hand, but he could not help but raise his eyebrows: "I haven't eaten it for many years, and this vegetarian dish still tastes the same as before."
The Queen Mother's expression changed.
She took a deep look at the person in front of her and asked, "Your Majesty, what exactly do you want to do by coming to my place today?"
"I came to the Queen Mother just to talk to her." Xiao Yu was not in a hurry.
The Queen Mother looked at Xiao Yu and said calmly: "It's not for no reason that you mention the past."
She was not good to Xiao Yu. She raised him as a pet just to make up for his lack of children.
But she didn't expect that he would become the emperor. What he did back then could serve as leverage against her.
"Your Majesty, you have raised me, how can I not be grateful?"
Xiao Yu stood up and personally served a bowl of soup to the Queen Mother: "It's just that I came here today to remind the Queen Mother."
"If it's yours, take it. But if it's not yours, the Queen Mother still has to return it to its owner."
"Lest you take something that doesn't belong to you and cause backlash."
"It doesn't belong to me?" After looking at it for a long time, the Queen Mother finally raised her head and said, "What do you mean it doesn't belong to me?"
"This world belongs to the emperor, but emperor, you are my son." Even if the Rong family fell, she was still the empress dowager.
Nothing can change this.
The Queen Mother looked at the person in front of her and lowered her eyes calmly: "As long as I am still the Queen Mother, is there anything in this world that does not belong to me?"
Xiao Yu looked at the empress dowager for a long time and did not speak for a long time.
There was silence around the two of them, and it was a long time before there was a sound in the yard.
"We found the person!" Lin An ran over quickly from outside and whispered in His Majesty's ear: "Your Majesty, we found the person."
"We searched the entire Wanshou Palace, and found that these two people were hiding under the incense table in the Buddhist hall."
As soon as the words fell, the Queen Mother's eyes opened instantly.
Xiao Yu smiled softly and said to the Queen Mother: "Mother, when you are the Queen Mother, the world is naturally yours."
"But..." Xiao Yu pointed at Meng Siyao and Zhou Shuyun outside:
"I want to take these two servants from the Palace of Heavenly Purity back with me!"
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