"The weather is nice, I laugh freely in the sunshine, my eyes can't help but look at you"
——Si Shuo
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Okay, if it weren’t for the fact that he still had seven cities in his hands, Shi Qingmiao really wanted to kick up a tantrum and run away.
"It's not a good idea to live there." She heard that it was the house where the concubine gave birth. This was Shi Qingmiao's last stubbornness. If she really lived in the side hall, she would never dare to sleep alone at night.
When she was a child, the old maids told her many terrifying legends about Changding Palace in order to scare her and stop her from running around. She can still remember one or two of them now, and she gets goosebumps all over her body when she thinks about them.
She is timid and afraid of ghosts, insects and thunder.
"Are you so unwilling to live in Changding Palace?" Si Shuo certainly didn't know the story behind this. He even thought that Changding Palace was quiet enough and he liked such an environment very much.
"No," Shi Qingmiao's eyebrows were twisted together, "The feng shui of that place is not good, can I change to another room?"
"Over there," Shi Qingmiao casually pointed to a side hall, "Isn't it also empty and can be lived in? It's not like there's only one side hall."
"It's too far." Si Shuo looked at the room and thought it was too far from the main hall. He secretly wanted Shi Qingmiao to live closer to him. An idea suddenly occurred to him and he said, "Then you live in the main hall and I'll live in the side hall."
This is even worse!
Although Shi Qingmiao is deeply loved by the Queen Mother and is even treated as her own granddaughter, she is ultimately just a palace maid.
Is there any rule that palace maids live in the main palace?
"No, no!" Shi Qingmiao refused with all her might, "This is against the rules."
Si Shuo leaned lazily against the palace wall, squinted his eyes and said, "Rules are dead, but people are alive."
"Besides, there are only you, me, and Fanxing in Changding Palace. No one else will know, so it doesn't matter where we live."
That’s true…
Shi Qingmiao is a sleepyhead and likes a comfortable big bed. She has not yet experienced how comfortable the big bed in the main hall is.
"Okay then." Si Shuo wouldn't stay here for long anyway. She secretly told herself in her heart, just a few days, just a few days.
"Oh, right!" Si Shuo thought of the little guy in the Imperial Garden just now, "Let's go to the Imperial Garden!"
"Let's go later." The palace maid who was cleaning the imperial garden was very careful at this time. Shi Qingmiao was afraid of being discovered.
"Why?" Si Shuo looked at her, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.
Shi Qingmiao pouted and said, "There are too many people in the Imperial Garden at this hour. I'm afraid of being discovered."
"I found out once I found out." Si Shuo said this like a scumbag.
Before he could even finish his sentence, Shi Qingmiao interrupted him: "If they find out about Xiao Si, will he still be alive?! The Queen Mother doesn't like dogs. If she finds out that I'm secretly raising a dog, I'll be dead!"
Si Shuo was so angry that he couldn't open his eyes. No wonder Shi Qingmiao wanted to keep it secretly. It turned out that the Queen Mother didn't like dogs. He touched his nose and said, "I plan to take it back. There are so many flowers and plants in the Imperial Garden, and there will be more mosquitoes in the summer."
"Are you crazy?!" Although Shi Qingmiao was also afraid that Xiao Si would be bitten by mosquitoes, no one in the palace dared to keep a dog.
"I'm not crazy." Si Shuo wondered why this little girl was so fierce. Could it be that smallness brings great power, and that she is the essence of everything? He used to think the woman with the loudest voice was his mother, until he met Shi Qingmiao. "I want to take Xiao Si in because I can raise her."
"You don't dare to keep dogs because you are citizens of Fuding. Why can't I, a foreign regent, keep one?"
Shi Qingmiao thought about it carefully and it seemed to make sense, but she didn't know that Si Shuo, this cunning man, was just lying.
"If the Queen Mother asks, just say that this is the dog I brought from Simu Kingdom and that I raised it."
Shi Qingmiao nodded in agreement, but still said, "We can't go now. We should go later when there's no one around. If we go now and someone sees us, it will be troublesome."
"That's fine." Si Shuo thought it made sense.
"Then let's go to your room first?" There was no way to avoid this topic.
"Okay, okay, okay."
Thus, the Regent of Simu Kingdom and the little maid in the palace of Fuding Kingdom successfully established a shining friendship.
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After a busy day, night finally fell in Funing City.
People returning home late use the moonlight to find their way home, but West Street seems to be bustling as always.
In the general's mansion, Jin Suting lay nervously on the bed. Helan Ruizhe said that he would come after nightfall, and then they would go together to catch the fake old general.
To be honest, she had never seen the fake old general once since she returned to the general's mansion, and she just instinctively believed what Helan Ruizhe said.
She was also worried. After all, he was her father. Even if his soul was not in this body, so much time had passed that she had long regarded the old general as her biological father.
Just as he was thinking this, Helan Ruizhe jumped in from the window.
Jin Suting immediately got up from the bed, and the person who just came in signaled her not to act rashly.
"I'll go with you!"
Helan Ruizhe sat down next to her and said softly, "You stay here. It's inconvenient for two people to move around."
Jin Suting lowered her head, feeling worried and scared: "Well, you must come back safely."
"Don't worry, it's not a big trouble." Helan Ruizhe had quietly led people to surround the general's mansion in the dark. If anything unexpected happened, people outside could break in immediately.
"Just sleep well, I'll find the old general."
After saying that, Helan Ruizhe walked out of the room and closed the door quietly.
Suxuan Courtyard was very quiet. Xiaoqi and Xiaoba had already rested. Helan Ruizhe flew to the roof. Suxuan Courtyard was closest to the old general's courtyard, and they got up and reached his roof in no time.
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