All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

"You didn't talk so much before, why do you talk so much today?" Chu Yan asked him, looking at him.

Xu Huan smiled without saying a word.

On the contrary, it was Mu Huai'an who respectfully reminded: "The emperor is about to receive an audience with all the officials in Zhaode Hall, His Highness should move there."

Although the emperor went to the emperor's mausoleum to pay homage, the political affairs would not be delayed. After arriving at the palace, he would meet his Majesty in the Zhaode Hall, the main hall of the palace.

Chu Yan nodded, turned his head to Shen Lingxi and said, "You go with me."

As soon as these words came out, Xu Huan couldn't hide his surprise.

Even Xu Ziyao behind him raised her eyebrows in surprise.

Shen Lingxi knew that Chu Yan had kindly brought her by his side to prevent those female ghosts from harassing her again.

She didn't think much about it at first, but when she saw the female ghosts around, they all cast teasing looks at her...

Shen Lingxi's cheeks were slightly hot.

It was only then that I realized that it was one thing to help out, but it was another thing to take her to court...that was another matter.

"Thank you Your Highness for your kindness, there is no need." She hastily declined, "Poverty Dao is in this courtyard, and there are still rituals to do."

Chu Yan raised her phoenix eyes slightly, "Are you... sure?"

Shen Lingxi nodded hurriedly.

She originally thought that those female ghosts knew she could see them and would definitely entangle them, so they subconsciously hid beside Chu Yan.

But after getting along for a while, when she found out that the female ghosts were not as "dirty talkers" as before, she relaxed a lot.

In this way, she might be able to take advantage of Chu Yan's absence to have a good "talk" with them.

Seeing that Shen Lingxi insisted on staying, Chu Yan thought for a while, "I'll be back as soon as possible."

In the conversation between the two, there was an indescribable intimacy implied in the tacit understanding, like a couple, the living people and the female ghosts watching by the side were all meaningful.

Seeing this, Mu Huai'an darkened his brows and eyes.

Chu Yan glanced at his face, and said directly: "Let's go."

Saying that, he walked out first.

Mu Huai'an took a look at Shen Lingxi, and followed with Xu Huan.

But Xu Ziyao was half a step behind, smiled at Shen Lingxi, and saluted, "I have admired the Taoist priest's name for a long time, and when I saw her today, his reputation is indeed well-deserved. I don't know when I will have time, and Ziyao hopes to ask the Taoist priest for advice. "

Shen Lingxi's eyes flickered slightly. She had never met the Xu family before, and this was the first time seeing her today.

Besides, she hasn't done anything since just now, let alone "respecting her name for a long time".

With her current status as an "outsider", she doesn't need to be too polite with this stranger.

Shen Lingxi smiled and bowed her hands to return the salute, "Miss praise, I don't dare to be poor, but now I still have the emperor's life, I'm afraid I don't have time..."

"That's okay." Xu Ziyao smiled very brightly, "Anyway, my brother and I will stay in the capital before the Taoist priest is free."

As she said that, she also bowed to Shen Lingxi, smiled and turned to follow Xu Huan and the others.

Seeing them go away, those female ghosts surrounded Shen Lingxi with laughter.

"Little girl, don't worry, Mr. Xiao Lang didn't even look at that girl from the beginning to the end."

"Yes, yes, we will look after him for you. If he is the kind of person who is waiting for 'seeing differences', sisters will find you a better one."

Shen Lingxi was a little dumbfounded.

It's only been a while, these "grandmothers and sisters" are actually one-sided and she's here.

Although Chu Yan went to court, there were many eunuchs and maidservants guarding the courtyard of Anhua Palace.

In order to deceive others, Shen Lingxi imprisoned herself in the main hall directly in the name of practice.

Those female ghosts also followed in, all in one place.

Shen Lingxi greeted them.

Knowing that they all have cheerful personalities, Shen Lingxi also cut straight to the point: "I have something I want to ask you all. In exchange, I am willing to help you get rid of this palace and reincarnate."

When the female ghosts heard her words, they looked at each other with different expressions.

Liu Meiren was the most straightforward, covering her lips with a smile, "We appreciate the kindness of the little girl, but to help us out of trouble, we have to destroy two things. But this palace is the residence of the emperor, and every brick and tile is for the imperial use." If you are a little girl with no power, how dare you do such a thing, and it will not cause you to lose your life, so why bother."

Hearing what she said, Shen Lingxi became even more curious, "You might as well tell me what it is, maybe I have a way but I don't know."

Liu Meiren met the eyes of those female ghosts for a few moments, hesitated for a while, and then said slowly: "I want to destroy a temple and a well..."

*
Outside Anhua Palace, by the pond.

Mu Xue'e was dragged out by two eunuchs, she thought that no matter how bad it was, these servants would always have a sense of propriety and would not embarrass her too much.

But I didn't expect to throw away her two eunuchs, and my subordinates didn't show any kindness.

Throw her directly into the pond, into the new mud pit after the rain.

With a "plop", the mud pit splashed a lot of water.

Mu Xue'e screamed, and rolled in muddy water all over her body, Yuehua's skirt instantly turned into a muddy water skirt, and her waist was about to be broken in two.

"You dog slaves, how dare you treat this county lord like this! This county lord will definitely let the queen's aunt chop off your heads!"

She cursed loudly, but the eunuchs seemed to have been instructed, and there was no trace of fear on their faces, they turned and left expressionlessly.

Mu Xue'e grew up so big, how had she ever been insulted like this, she was so angry that she sat in the muddy water and cried loudly.

In a panic, she yelled to go to the queen to complain, but was stopped by the round-faced maid beside her.

"Girl, don't be impulsive." The round-faced servant girl, although she is not very old, is rare to be calm when things happen: "After all, the empress is only the aunt of the emperor's grandson. Even if you go to her and cry in front of her right now, the empress will not be harsh. His Highness. On the contrary, he still feels that His Highness doesn't like girls."

"My servant said something that shouldn't be said. The portrait of the girl this time is not among the emperor's selection of concubines for His Highness. If this incident alarms the Emperor, the girl will have no chance to marry His Highness."

Mu Xue'e choked up crying, raised her tearful eyes and looked at her, "You saw it just now, do you think His Highness likes me? If he doesn't like me, why should I marry him."

"Before we got married, he was so ruthless that people threw me away. If I marry him, one day I make him angry, and he will kill me!"

The round-faced maid cleaned up the muddy water for her with a handkerchief, and said in a persuasive manner:
"The girl is so beautiful and lovely, and she comes from a famous family. As long as he is a man, as long as he is not blind, he will like the girl."

"Miss was just impulsive. The Taoist nun was sent by the emperor, and she was appointed by the emperor. If you were to make things difficult for her, it would be a crime of disrespect, let alone in front of General Xu..."

"Could it be that the girl forgot that Xu Ziyao is the emperor's favorite candidate for the emperor's grandson concubine. General Xu only needs to talk to the emperor about the premise, and if the emperor blames her, the girl will have to hang up? It's really worthless Xu Ziyao."

"Presumably His Highness is also thinking of the girl. Didn't the Eldest Young Master remind the girl at the beginning not to talk too much?"

Mu Xue'e was crying so hard, thinking about it for a while, it seemed to make sense.Only then did she wipe away her tears aggrievedly, let the servant girl help her, and stood up from the muddy water.

"Then what should I do now? I don't dare to go to Cousin Ning anymore, I...I'm so afraid of him..." Thinking of Chu Yan's eyes, Mu Xue'e burst into tears again, His legs were shaking.

Seeing this, the round-faced maid hurriedly persuaded: "Since the girl has had a quarrel with His Highness, it is better to avoid it now. You are a golden branch and a jade leaf, and you don't need to come to His Highness. The emperor feels that His Highness likes girls, and when the time comes, he will give the marriage decree, and the matter will be settled."

She paused, and then said: "However, the girl still has to be careful of two people, one is Xu Ziyao, and the other is Yiyanghou's daughter Li Yuejiao, these two are the emperor's favorite candidates for the emperor's grandson concubine."

Hearing her mention these two people, Mu Xue'e's face instantly showed contempt.

"Xu Ziyao still has her father who is the Lord of the Town to support her. What is Li Yuejiao, she is worthy of competing with me for the position of concubine. No, I'm going to beat her now. I'll take the emperor's uncle The Taoist nun who was sent has nothing to do with her, so what can she do with her? Even if she is unlucky today, the county lord just has nowhere to vent his anger..."

*
The Yuxiu Palace to the west of the palace is the palace where the noble ladies who entered the palace this time lived.

In addition to the main hall, Yuxiu Palace has five side rooms on the left and right, just enough to accommodate the noble ladies entering the palace this time.

The queen specially gathered these noble ladies together in the name of praying and copying scriptures.

First, it was to find an opportunity for them to meet Chu Yan.

Secondly, it was also under the emperor's order that the aunts in charge of the palace were sent to observe the character of each noble lady one by one.

The Anhua Palace where Chu Yan lives is on the east side, and the surrounding palaces are strictly guarded. Because Mu Xue'e is the empress's niece, the news that she was thrown out by the emperor's grandson did not spread in the palace after all.

So, when she walked into the main hall of Yuxiu Palace wearing a half-dry mud coat and tightly wrapped cloak, no one noticed anything unusual.

There was only a small maidservant with a small body and big eyes, who saw the clue and ran into the wing room at the farthest corner while no one was paying attention.

In the room, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old woman was sitting in front of the dressing table.With her slender fingers, she twisted a snail, facing the bronze mirror, and delicately painted her eyebrows and eyes.

The woman's facial features are extremely beautiful, especially those eyes, which are like mist and smoke, as beautiful as willows blowing on a spring embankment, charming and charming.

This woman's surname is Li and her name is Yuejiao.

She is the daughter of Li Xiangyang, Marquis of Yiyang.

Yiyanghou's branch, the ancestors were former nobles, because of the sudden emergence of the Chu family, the power was like a broken bamboo, and seeing that the former dynasty's vitality was exhausted, they resigned and defected to Gaozu, and picked up a meritorious service.

Yiyang Hou Li's family, from the ancestors, although not very capable, but the best at drilling.

From the previous dynasty to the present, although there have not been many promising children, the past few decades can be regarded as a long-lasting prosperity.

The title of title has been passed on to Li Xiangyang, and it can be regarded as the pinnacle on the way of drilling camp.

Li Xiangyang was the emperor's companion, the prince was still alive at that time, and he is still King Huan today.

No one ever thought that this King Huan would be the Ninth Five-Year Lord in the future.

But at that time, Li Xiangyang had already relied on his own efforts to become the emperor's close friend, and often had a good night's sleep with the emperor.

This time the emperor chose a concubine for the emperor's grandson. Given the family background of the Li family, it was not qualified at all, and it did not meet the emperor's standard for choosing a concubine for the emperor's grandson.

But the emperor still ordered Li Xiangyang in private to send the most beautiful daughter under his knees to the palace for election.

The emperor's original words were: "Even if the queen mother stops her and she cannot be chosen as Liu Lang's concubine, as long as she is beautiful, I can make her a good concubine."

Therefore, Li Yuejiao, originally the daughter of Yiyang Hou's concubine, was recorded under the name of her aunt overnight just because she was the most beautiful under Li Xiangyang's knees.

Because of this, her portrait was sent to the palace, and she was also stuffed into the team for this mausoleum sacrifice.

The little servant girl rushed in unexpectedly, Li Yuejiao was so startled that she stroked Daimei's hand, trembling like a distant mountain eyebrow, she turned into half an earthworm.

Li Yuejiao turned her head and gave her a displeased look, "Recklessly, be careful that the person in the main hall will catch you and slap your mouth!"

The little girl shivered, but then, thinking of something, she laughed out loud.

"Girl, this servant just saw that the Lord Bingqing seems to have fallen into the mud."

She walked up to her master, and said with great relief: "Her footprints are covered with muddy water, and she is so tightly wrapped in a cloak, she must have fallen hard. Even walking, she supported her waist, twisted and twisted, like a big white hair I don’t know where the goose fell so badly.”

Li Yue's charming eyes were like silk, and she glanced at her with a smile, "Look at your schadenfreude, don't let others look at you, if you implicate me like the two people who were dragged out of the palace gate today, wait until you go back to the house, you and I Don't even think about having a better life."

The little girl was so frightened that she quickly stopped laughing, seeing Li Yuejiao's bad eyebrows, hurriedly went to the side and twisted the veil, and handed it to her.

"Girl, don't scare the servants. Didn't Lord Hou tell you that no matter how bad this time is, you can still be a good concubine... No matter how arrogant that Bingqing County Lord is, he won't be able to stop the emperor from naming you." The little maid muttered.

Li Yuejiao's eyes rolled slightly, she took the handkerchief, and snorted slightly: "Didn't you hear them say that Mu Xue'e is already the chosen candidate for the emperor's grandson concubine? If the rumors are true, I will really be sealed as a good concubine and enter the East Palace. Is there a way for me to live if my subordinates are asking for a living?"

Thinking of the scene at the entrance of Caicai Palace just now, the little servant girl shivered with fright.

"Girl, what should we do?" She pursed her lips, and was about to cry out in anxiety, "If we don't get selected, going back to Da Furen will definitely not make it easy for us. But you said again, if you get selected, it will be a dead end." ...Girl, this servant does not want to die."

"Who would want to die if they can live?" Li Yuejiao sighed softly, her beautiful eyes stained with a touch of melancholy.

After a few breaths, her red lips slightly curled up, and she waved to the little maid, "Come here, you go and do something for me, as long as this thing is done, we can not only live, but also live happily... ..."

The little maid hurriedly listened to Li Yuejiao's words.

At first, her expression was full of fear, but at the end, she bit her lips tightly and nodded as if she was going all out, "Don't worry, girl, this servant will definitely handle this matter properly..."

With that said, he turned and opened the door, and walked out.

When Li Yuejiao was left alone in the room, she wanted to use a handkerchief to wipe off the badly drawn eyebrow.

But suddenly, she seemed to think of something, put down the handkerchief in her hand, twisted the snail again, and drew half an earthworm on the left eyebrow...