"Ride a horse? You want to ride a horse?" Xiaozhu asked in shock, "I just told you not to go to the edge of the forest."

"You cough twice when you walk on flat ground, how can you ride a horse?" Xiaozhu was so anxious, "What if you fall down? There is no doctor here. I don't know if there is enough medicine. If there is no medicine, you have to take a carriage back. If you break an arm or a leg, wouldn't it be fatal to be bumped along the way?"

"No, no, absolutely not!"

"Xiaozhu!" The queen called her a few times, but seeing that she was immersed in her own imagination, she couldn't help but raise her voice and call out.

"I didn't even see a horse hoof print, how come you're going to die?" The Queen pinched her brows helplessly and said, "Okay, stop talking nonsense."

"I just asked you to ask. It is still unknown whether Su Zhaoyi will respond."

"But!" Xiaozhu was about to say a few more words of advice, but was interrupted by the queen's wave of her hand.

"Okay! Just bring a few more people with you when the time comes. We won't go to the woods, we can just walk around the grassland."

"There are guards everywhere here, what could possibly happen?"

Seeing that she had made up her mind, Xiaozhu knew that she could not persuade her any more. She remained silent, but planned to drop by the Wen family to report the news and see if Lord Wen could persuade her.

"Okay, I have nothing to do for you here. Go ask Concubine Su." The Queen put the last page of paper away and casually put the brush into the brush washer. A thick stack of papers had already piled up on the table. "Before you go, go call the eunuch next to His Majesty and ask him to come over. I will explain everything to him in detail."

"Yes, your majesty." Xiaozhu nodded, stepped out of the door hesitantly, and ran towards the Wen family's tent without looking back.

No matter how big the matter is, it is not as important as the fact that your master is seeking death!

Yes, that's right! Xiaozhu had naturally linked the Queen's riding a horse with her death, without any other considerations. No wonder the Queen said she was a bad-mouthed woman.

Even though I knew she was worried, it wasn't polite to say it out loud.

Su Minglang sat in the room bored. She had flipped through the notebook in her hand several times. There was nothing new in the whole room except the Book of Changes in Nanxing's hand.

Xiao Ye is missing. She must have gone to the Su family to look for her parents. Su Minglang had already reminded her about this matter, telling her that she doesn't have to follow them around all the time after she comes. However, she still puts her first. In other words, since she has nothing to do right now, it would be better for her to stay with her parents for a while instead of sitting around doing nothing like Su Minglang.

After this separation, I don’t know when we will meet again.

Nanxing sat aside, holding her book and reading it with great interest. Su Minglang asked her again, and after being sure that she really couldn't understand it, she admired Nanxing even more.

Just as this eerily quiet atmosphere permeated, a voice broke in at an inopportune time, breaking all the peace.

"Empress Zhaoyi, there is a palace maid outside who calls herself Xiaozhu. She said that the Empress's palace wants to see her." The young eunuch standing outside the tent said.

Su Minglang already knew about it since the girl came. After all, it was just a tent and it was not soundproof. Even the person's shadow was already imprinted on the tarpaulin.

"Let her in." Su Minglang had a headache when the Queen was mentioned. She must have a closer relationship with the Queen, but that day he suddenly got angry and turned away without caring. The situation has come to this point, and she doesn't know how to ease it.

Although Su Minglang lived two lives, she was entangled with Xiao Heng from beginning to end in both lives. Although Xiao Heng used her to resist too many attacks for the Li family in the previous life, he used intrigue and deception to solve those problems, but making friends requires sincerity.

In her previous life, Su Minglang devoted her entire heart to Xiao Heng. After being hurt all over by him, she protected her heart early in this life.

Therefore, even after living two lives as a human being, Su Minglang seemed to have no idea how to bring out some of his true heart to interact with others from beginning to end.

"Your servant Xiaozhu greets Empress Zhaoyi." Xiaozhu walked in and was about to kneel down to pay her respects when she saw Su Minglang waving his hand nonchalantly.

"I wonder what the Queen wants?"

"I'm here to deliver a message for the Empress." Xiaozhu paused. This was her first time to come into close contact with Su Minglang. The woman in front of her didn't seem as mean as the rumors in the palace said.

"The Queen intends to go to the playground tomorrow to play, so she sent me to ask if you would like to go."

"The Queen is going to go horseback riding?" Su Minglang frowned and asked, "I have heard that the Queen is in poor health. Riding a horse is dangerous after all. I wonder if you are fully prepared?"

"That's what I said, but the Queen has made up her mind to go." Xiaozhu's face turned bitter when she heard her say that. "Then we can only send more people to protect her."

The more Xiaozhu thought about it, the more fortunate she was that she had gone to the Wen family first and arranged everything.

When she was going towards the Wen family, she ran into the young master of the Wen family head-on from a distance before she got close. She pulled Wen Ji aside and complained to him, saying that if Wen Ji had not agreed immediately and said that he would find more people to take care of her, she would not feel at ease until she saw Master Wen.

What makes Xiaozhu different from others is that she was brought into the palace by the Queen from her parents' home. Although she has never been involved in any important matters, she is one of the few people the Queen can trust. That is why she is more familiar with Wen Ji and others.

The difference between the Wen family and the Su family is that although the Wen family is descended from civil officials, they do not have so many rigid rules. Although Prime Minister Wen was straightforward throughout his life and regarded etiquette and laws as more important than his life, he never looked down on the girls in the family because of their status.

What's more, because they are a family of scholars, all the women in the Wen family are well-read. Mrs. Wen has always believed that a girl can only be valued by her husband's family after she gets married if she is valued in her parents' home.

Therefore, although it cannot be said that the girls of the Wen family are the same as the boys, they do have fewer strict rules than those of other wealthy families.

Perhaps it was because she grew up in such an environment that Xiaozhu developed a lively and cheerful personality even though she was a maid.

I just don’t know if the queen’s gentle temperament is always like this at home, or if it’s because she has been tortured by loneliness and her edges have been worn away.

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