She lowered her head and stood still.
Xiao Yu held the teacup in his hand, pinched it with his fingertips and turned it back and forth twice, then his eyes fell on Concubine Shu.
She changed into a long dress with a cloud-pink pattern and a moon-blue brocade robe embroidered with a few lilies.
The clear and elegant colors make the whole person look more graceful.
It is somewhat different from the past.
Xiao Yu withdrew his gaze from Shu Guipin and his eyes fell on her face again.
Shu Guipin's face was naturally good-looking, otherwise she wouldn't have been favored for so long.
After being in the palace for many years, Shu Guipin has been favored for a long time. Although she is not as delicate as she was when she was young, I don’t know if it is because she has been favored for a long time.
She is less dazzling and more graceful in the simple and elegant dress.
Xiao Yu looked at it for a few seconds before retracting his gaze: "Get up."
He turned the teacup in his hand, the small blue porcelain cup in his hand, and his bony fingers manipulated it with ease.
"What were you doing when I came here?"
Xiao Yu seemed to be asking casually, but Shu Guipin's heart tightened subconsciously.
She clenched her palms tightly in her sleeves and lowered her head: "I was taking a nap when Your Majesty came."
She didn't expect that His Majesty would come!
When Shu Guipin thought of this, she clenched her palms tightly, squeezing them so hard that they almost bled.
Almost... She almost...
When Shu Guipin thought of this, her face turned grim. In Xiao Yu's eyes, that look seemed quite pitiful.
"I came here today because I have something to ask you." Xiao Yu put the teacup in his hand on the table.
The small cup fell on the table with a crisp sound.
Xiao Yu raised his head and said calmly: "I don't mean to cause you any trouble."
Shu Guipin raised her head and looked at His Majesty.
Hearing this, a hint of helplessness emerged in his eyes.
She still had some hope in her heart just now.
Why did His Majesty come to find her? She hadn't seen His Majesty come for such a long time, and he suddenly appeared to find her.
She thought the Emperor came to see her.
But with these words, the hope in Shu Guipin's heart was completely extinguished bit by bit.
No one goes to the temple unless he has something to do.
His Majesty would only come to her Yikun Palace when he had something important to do. Otherwise, he would probably never come in his entire life.
She had long forgotten that there was a noble concubine like her in the Yiku Palace!
Shu Guipin took a deep breath, opened her trembling eyelashes, and looked at His Majesty: "I want to ask you, Your Majesty, I have not left the palace all my life, what do you want to ask me?"
There was a hint of resentment in Shu Guipin's words.
Xiao Yu tapped his fingers on the table a few times, with a hint of displeasure between his brows.
He pointed in Lin An's direction.
Lin An, who was standing behind him, immediately took a few steps forward, took out the things in his arms, and put them on the table.
"Noble Concubine Shu." Lin An bent his body and lowered his head respectfully.
"Have you ever seen this thing?"
Shu Guipin followed Lin An's movements and saw Lin An lift the veil little by little, revealing a thumb-sized pearl earring inside.
It was a very ordinary pearl earring.
If it was before the release of the emperor, I'm afraid Concubine Shu wouldn't even want to look at it.
The pearls are not big, not round enough, and have no glossiness.
Shu Guipin had as many things as she wanted. When she was in great favor, she even had pearls as big as pigeon eggs. Pearls like this would probably never even have a chance to appear on her dressing table.
Such things are really hard for her to see.
"What do you mean by that?" Concubine Shu glanced at him, the disdain in her eyes undisguised.
Lin An saw this look, and naturally it could not escape Xiao Yu's eyes either.
The fingertips that were tapping tightened, and he held the tea beside him and said, "You don't know what this thing is?"
The clenched palms loosened again.
Shu Guipin turned around and looked at His Majesty: "What does His Majesty mean by this?"
"Of course I recognize this pearl earring, but even if I am a favorite, it is only because of the favor you have shown me before. I am afraid that such a thing will never fall into my hands, right?"
There was sharpness in Shu Guipin's words.
Lin An stood aside and couldn't help but shudder.
"Shu Guipin, Shu Guipin, you misunderstood." Lin An explained from the side.
But Concubine Shu's eyes were fixed on His Majesty.
The gaze was deep and seemed to be exploring.
Xiao Yu paused while turning the jade ring. After waiting for a moment, he finally said, "You misunderstood."
He could see that Concubine Shu was not familiar with this thing.
Xiao Yu's eyes fell on the table, and the pearl earrings were placed on the handkerchief.
This is a problem that bothers Shen Fu and also gives him a headache.
"I'm just asking you, have you ever seen this thing?" Xiao Yu pointed at the pearl earrings and asked with his head down.
Shu Guipin's eyes fell on the earring.
Where had she ever seen anything so bad? Such pearls could not attract her eyes at all.
But...Shu Guipin couldn't help but clench her hands again.
She didn't know why His Majesty asked this.
But she knew the Emperor's character very well. If he was not absolutely sure, he would never put this thing in front of her.
She had never seen anything like this, but these pearl earrings... pearls...
Shu Guipin thought of Fang Jinlan, who had always loved pearls.
After a long silence, she finally shook her head and said, "I have never seen it."
"You haven't seen it." Xiao Yu moved his eyes away from Concubine Shu Guipin and tapped her lightly with his fingertips.
Then he asked, "I heard that you have a younger sister?"
When Concubine Shu heard this, her knees subconsciously weakened.
She knelt on the ground with her head bowed, kowtowed and apologized: "I deserve to die."
Shu Guipin bit her lip and kowtowed on the ground.
"I did this on my own initiative and allowed my sister from my natal family to visit me in the palace."
Concubine Shu Gui's face was pale. She knelt on the ground and saluted, not daring to raise her head: "It's just that I was ill at the beginning, so I asked my sister from my natal family to come to the palace. I just wanted to visit you."
"Please punish me, Your Majesty!"
Shu Guipin was crying with tears in her eyes.
Xiao Yu looked at her like this, but he felt no ripples in his heart: "I don't want to punish you."
He casually asked Lin An to help the man up, but his deep voice was merciless:
"This thing is not yours, it may be hers."
Xiao Yu waved his hand and said, "Lin An, call Shu Guipin's sister!"
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