It was in the Cining Palace.

"Ninth Uncle, you're here. You're back from the northwest?"

She turned her eyes and saw the man with white hair and red clothes sitting on the red sandalwood ring chair with two phoenix wings wrapped around the table carved with flowers and embedded with jade. Commandery Princess Jingle's tears stopped for a moment. She just stared for a moment and threw herself at him.

"Ninth Uncle, I miss you so much!"

The man was the cold-faced King Xiaoyao, Huanan He, who was escorted back to the capital by the captain of the bodyguard personally from the northwest.

He just entered the Palace. He heard that the Emperor was busy with government affairs and had no time to see him. He had to come to the Cining Palace to greet Imperial Mother Xiao Miaoyin.

Listening to the girl's heart-rending cries, the man pulled up a good-looking smile, gently surrounded her with two powerful arms, and his voice was warm as cotton.

"Ying'er, who bullied you? Tell me."

The girl suddenly stopped crying, left her head from the man's broad chest, wiped her face with her small hand, and said.

"It's Lady Yun that brother took into the Palace! She hit me and slapped me three times in a row. Yuexin and others saw it, and several concubines in the imperial harem also saw it!"

"What? How dare she hit you?"

Imperial Mother Xiao raised her voice fiercely and shouted angrily. Her beautiful eyes outlined by dark black liner pencil were wide open, and her eyes were as dense as fire.

Huanan He's surprised face immediately became cold and he raised his grey and shaped eyebrows.

He turned to Imperial Mother Xiao and sneered.

"Why is it her again? I've heard a lot of rumors about her on my way to the northwest."

"She must have some seductive method!"

Commandery Princess Jingle became fierce. She stamped her feet on the colorful Persian tribute blanket and clenched her black fingers into a fist.

"A married woman can monopolize His Majesty's favor. She must have confused brother with some magic!"

"Ying'er—"

Empress Dowager Xiao, who sat opposite her, scolded fiercely and suddenly changed her face. In an instant, clouds covered her finely made-up face.

"No nonsense!"

The girl covered her lips with her hands, looked at the woman and complained.

"I'm not talking nonsense. Didn't you say she married before..."

"Well, stop talking!"

Imperial Mother Xiao brushed her sleeve with her arm and turned to sit back in her chair.

"Oh, that's interesting."

The haired silver-haired man brightened his eyes and smiled. He cast his evil and deep eyes on Jingle's crooked little face, and then moved to Imperial Mother Xiao.

"Your Grace, what the girl said is true? There are three thousand beauties in the imperial harem. Shouldn't His Majesty be so hungry?"

Imperial Mother Xiao's face was dignified. She was angry and helpless. She just waved her hand and sighed sadly.

"Hey, let's not talk about this. Ying'er, go and ask Madam Tongjiang to wash your face and comb your hair in the warm Pavilion. I'll judge for you later."

Jingle pouted. She stared at Huanan He, who had clear and handsome facial features, and twists her waist and started to act coquettish.

"No, I want Ninth Uncle to accompany me and tie my hair!"

Then her little hand took his big hand and dragged it to the warm Pavilion.

"How naughty!"

Empress Dowager frowned.

"You are getting more and more unruly. How did I teach you?"

The girl disagreed and continued to hold the man's white palm, saying in an aggrieved voice.

"I like Ninth Uncle. I want to marry Ninth Uncle in the future. I want to be Ninth Princess."

"Hehe, if I marry you, won't I take the love of Your Grace? Good girl, go and dress up first. I'll wait for you."

The man smiled cunningly and coaxed the girl to Tongjiang, the maid of the palace.

Jingle was dragged into the warm Pavilion by Madam Tongjiang.

"Excuse Ying'er behavior. Come back and sit down quickly."

When the trouble was solved, Imperial Mother Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, showed a kind face, and picked up a bong to smoke.

Huanan He lifted his robe and sat down, his eyebrows slightly narrowed.

"Your Grace, I've just said half of what I said. When I travelled to the northwest, several things I encountered were directly related to the concubine in the palace.

Your Grace, with all due respect, now the Empress' position in the imperial harem is vacant. You are His Majesty's biological mother and should come out to argue the case. Even for the sake of people all over the world, you should advise His Majesty to be more moderate. Doting on the concubine will not only cost the Treasury money, but also lead to more wars and disasters. "

Imperial Mother Xiao listened to Huanan He's generous speech quietly, and her face was as silent as a pond.

A flash of light suddenly flashed in her narrow eyes, and her smile was thin if there was any.

"I have advised him."

Her long fingernail set with red gold agate gently knocked on the shell of the hookah. The woman shook her head and said slowly and powerlessly.

"At the beginning, I said that the woman was unlucky and could not be brought back to the palace. The emperor wouldn't listen. Now he has been in power for a long time. If I ask too much about everything, it will only hurt my relationship with him. However, the b*tch hurt Ying'er by being favored by the Emperor. I will never make her feel better."

As she spoke, she looked at Huanan He and said with a smile.

"Tell me about you. You're so old that you always run outside the capital, which worries the Emperor. No matter how good it is outside, can it compare with the capital?"

Huanan He took out a smooth and semi-transparent stone from his sleeve pocket, threw it up, caught it, and then threw it up. He said to himself.

"Does His Majesty miss me? He manages everything every day. He doesn't ride with me and summon me to talk to him many times. Instead of sending me to the capital and raising me in captivity like pigs, cattle and livestock, it's better to leave me in the western tribes and let me live and die."

"Hey, you can't be so depressed," said Imperial Mother Xiao, glancing at the silver-haired man with her side eyes, sliding her fingers over the golden slender bong nozzle and smiling.

"Tomorrow I will select some talented and beautiful young women from the royal academy and send them to your house. What do you think? Xin'er is the Emperor. Naturally, he should attach importance to the world. How can he accompany you everywhere all day?"

"Who said to choose a woman for Ninth Uncle!"

There was a sound from the warm Pavilion. The well-dressed Commandery Princess Jingle trotted over like a whirlwind, leaned down on Huanan He's lap, hugged him tightly, and shouted for fear of being lost.

"Ninth Uncle is mine. Ninth Uncle only belongs to me. I don't allow Ninth Uncle to have other women!"

Imperial Mother was so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth. She looked ashamed and angry. She quickly turned her head to one side and scolded coldly.

"You can't do this. It's too unruly. Get off your Ninth Uncle quickly!"

"No, no..."

The girl simply started to make trouble. Her delicate white pointed chin pressed against Huanan He's neck nest and said with a pouting smile on her mouth.

"Ninth Uncle, I love you. You can only marry me."

"Hahaha..."

Huanan He smiled so that tears were about to flow out. He restrained himself and pushed the sticky little girl away.

Carefully examining her angry and unhappy expression, the man said solemnly.

"Ying'er should be good. You are still young. You should accompany and care about Your Grace. Don't make her angry. Come and see what fun I bring you this time?"

He gently put the warm stone in his hand into the palm of her hand.

When the girl saw this, her little face, which was not very happy, became darker and colorless.

"Ah? Is that all?"

Huanan He raised his eyes and joked.

"Dissatisfied? As a beloved Commandery Princess, what else have you never seen or played? Come and see this stone. It's like a five-petaled plum blossom. It's rare. I left it especially for you."

"Well, thank you, Ninth Uncle."

The girl held the stone and answered with drooping eyes.

—

In the Miaoyin Hall.

In front of the dressing table, after listening to the report from the eunuch, Noble Concubine Hui Shi Yuanqing's long eyelashes trembled and was stunned.

After a moment's hesitation, she trembled and looked at the chief maid Hongjing.

Hongjing gave him a wink, and the eunuch quietly withdrew.

Hongjing folded her hands, carefully approached her master and asked softly.

"Your Grace, what should we do? You must make a decision as soon as possible."

Noble Concubine Hui looked awe-inspiring. She pinched the emerald gilded double butterfly hairpin with her five fingers and gnashed her teeth.

"I didn't expect that she was such a person!"

Hongjing complained.

"Yes! She just recovered and did such a thing. She beat Commandery Princess Jingle today and organized a banquet in the palace without saying anything. Will she pay attention to you in the future?"

Noble Concubine Hui fiddled with the gold hairpin, held her forehead with her hand, and said in distress.

"Lady Yun is not easy to deal with. She killed the prestige of Concubine Liang and the other five people. Alas, their salaries were suspended. Fortunately, she didn't dare to rag me out. I'm afraid that even if they are released in the future, they won't help me anymore!"

Outside the screen window, the rain beat the banana leaves, making a clanking sound, faint and graceful.

The sound of night watches came from the boundless night, straight to the end of palace road.