The most beautiful lady in the harem

The Grand Empress Dowager continued, "You haven't been to the harem since you came back from the autumn hunt. Are the state affairs in front of you so busy? Even if you are busy, you have to take care of yourself and can't devote your whole heart to it."

Emperor Yongjia took a sip of tea and said calmly, "Grandmother knows that there are endless things to do and deal with in this world."

Ever since Emperor Yongjia came in, Qin Liuse stood up and gave up his seat, then stood beside the Empress Dowager with his eyes lowered, serving her.

Listening to Emperor Yongjia's words, my heart was filled with ripples. I didn't know if I was thinking too much, but I always felt that there was something else behind Emperor Yongjia's words.

It seemed to be talking about the affairs of the world, and it also seemed to be suitable for the two of them. I don't know if Emperor Yongjia was talking about himself in a roundabout way.

"No matter how busy you are, you still have to take care of the harem. You know that there is no end to the world's affairs, so how can you keep going on like this?" The Empress Dowager said this, and there was something else in her words.

As he spoke, his eyes kept moving back and forth between Qin Liuse and Emperor Yongjia.

There was no expression on Emperor Yongjia's face, just like before, but Qin Liuse kept her eyes and head down. Where was the harmonious look she had had with Emperor Yongjia before?

Even if the Empress Dowager was old and her eyesight was blurry, she could still see that there was really something wrong between the two of them.

And it must be that Emperor Yongjia was just being unreasonable, otherwise how could he bully a well-educated and reasonable person like Qin Liuse like this?

When it comes to talking about Emperor Yongjia, the Empress Dowager has a stronger position than the Empress Dowager Cixi.

Because they were of different generations, Emperor Yongjia and his biological mother, the Empress Dowager Cixi, had a good relationship but were not close.

On the contrary, it was the grandmother, the Empress Dowager, who spoke more to Emperor Yongjia.

For a moment, the Empress Dowager gave the Empress Dowager a look.

The Empress Dowager Cixi also talked to Emperor Yongjia for a while, and then, receiving the look from the Grand Empress Dowager, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law seemed to have a tacit understanding, so she smiled and said that she was going back to Yongshou Palace.

Qin Liuse came here with the Empress Dowager Cixi, so naturally she would not let her leave alone. So she said goodbye and followed her out of Kangning Palace.

When Qin Liuse was around, the Empress Dowager couldn't say it directly, but now that Qin Liuse was gone, she naturally wouldn't talk to Emperor Yongjia with a mask on.

The Empress Dowager did not like to play along with Emperor Yongjia. "I am about to leave this imperial city. What happened to you two young people?"

Emperor Yongjia rubbed his brows and said to the Empress Dowager with a smile on his face, "Grandmother, didn't I tell you everything? There's nothing wrong, don't worry about it."

The Empress Dowager snorted, "You really think I'm old and confused, you monkey grandson."

Although she didn't quite understand the inside story, her eyes were very sharp.

Several times before, she and the Empress Dowager Cixi had wanted to bring Emperor Yongjia back with Qin Liuse, so they often invited Qin Liuse to their palace to drink tea and talk.

The purpose was to meet Emperor Yongjia and let the two of them meet, but Emperor Yongjia never came before. He only came to sit after dinner at night.

You know, Emperor Yongjia usually came to pay his respects to the two of them during the day. Obviously, he deliberately avoided the time when Qin Liuse came here.

She did come today, but the look in Emperor Yongjia's eyes made him glance at Qin after only a few words.

"I know you are a grown man and you want to be strong, but you should treat your own people differently from other things. You can't be so cold to them. If both of you are like this, then it will not be good at all."

Emperor Yongjia stood up, walked behind the Grand Empress Dowager, gently squeezed her shoulders, and said calmly, "Grandmother, you won't believe anything your grandson says. There really aren't that many problems between Qin and me. We're doing fine."

Emperor Yongjia acted too calm and too determined in front of the Empress Dowager, so much so that the Empress Dowager almost believed him and thought that there was nothing going on between him and Qin Liuse.

The Grand Empress Dowager had no idea that what Emperor Yongjia said was okay was completely different from what she and the Empress Dowager thought.

In the heart of Emperor Yongjia, he felt that he and Qin Liuse were husband and wife, and this kind of quarrel and argument between husband and wife was their private matter and had nothing to do with outsiders.

After all, he treated Qin Liuse as his own family, and husband and wife were one. No matter how noisy things were inside, they were still husband and wife in front of outsiders, and it had nothing to do with others.

But the Grand Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager Cixi did not think so. In the eyes of these old people, they naturally wanted to see the two of them living in harmony like before.

Although Emperor Yongjia said this in front of the Empress Dowager, as long as the matter with Qin Liuse was not resolved, it would be a knot in his heart.

Who knows, today, he knew that Qin Liuse and the Queen Mother were here, so he came to Kangning Palace in broad daylight, perhaps to test Qin Liuse's intention.

But who would have thought that after he came to the Kangning Palace and sat next to the Empress Dowager for such a long time, the woman didn't even glance at him.

It was now time for the Empress Dowager to have afternoon tea. The old aunt arranged everything, looked at the time, and called the maid to prepare.

The two were invited to sit in a side hall, and snacks were served to the Empress Dowager and Emperor Yongjia. The Empress Dowager was eating bird's nest soup, and seeing Emperor Yongjia looking thoughtful, she was also thoughtful for a moment.

Although the old lady gave her grandson a lecture, he was her own grandson after all. The Empress Dowager still believed Emperor Yongjia's words to some extent and thought that he was so worried about state affairs that he was thinking about things even while eating.

She asked with some concern, "But what difficult things happened in the previous dynasty?" She even asked him to have a snack. She was so absent-minded that the Empress Dowager was reluctant to ask him about Qin Liuse's matter.

Emperor Yongjia put all the bird's nest soup in the porcelain bowl into his mouth, shook his head helplessly, and said with a twitch of his mouth, "The ancestor is right, it's tricky, extremely tricky."

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The Empress Dowager would leave the imperial city to spend the winter outside the capital in two days, so Qin Liuse went to Kangning Palace almost every day during the past few days.

But she didn't expect that when she arrived at Kangning Palace today, the Empress Dowager asked her, "I will be leaving the palace tomorrow. Go back and pack your things, stay with me for two days and then come back. It will also give me some company."

Qin Liuse was stunned. She didn't expect that the Empress Dowager would invite her to go with her.