I was given the contraceptive soup and became the emperor's white moonlight

The snow outside the window stopped and fell, then fell and stopped again, just enough to embellish the dead branches on the sidewalk with a few points of silver.

Xiao Xizi, holding a sandalwood box, stepped over a puddle of water and stopped in front of the gate of Linglong Palace.

"Please tell everyone that my servant Xiao Xizi wants to see the Empress Zhaoyi."

"Xiao Xizi?" Su Minglang heard the guard's message and said doubtfully, "Send it."

Xiao Xizi followed the palace maid's footsteps all the way to the main hall of Linglong Palace, where Su Minglang had been waiting.

"Your servant Xiao Xizi greets Empress Zhaoyi." Xiao Xizi knelt on the ground with the wooden box held high in his hands.

Su Minglang waved her hand to signal him to get up. Xiao Xizi handed the box to her and Xiao Ye took it immediately.

"I am here to give you a golden crown on your majesty's orders." Xiao Xizi withdrew his hands and continued, "Your majesty said he would come to Linglong Palace tonight. I hope you can make preparations early."

"I understand." Su Minglang responded. Although she didn't know why Xiao Heng suddenly came to her, she could only make the best of it.

"Is there anything else, Eunuch Xi?"

Xiao Xizi glanced at the people in the room and kept silent.

Su Minglang felt his gaze and waved her hand to let the palace maids leave. "The rest are my own people. If you have anything to say, please feel free to speak up."

Xiao Xizi waited until all the palace servants had left before pulling out a small piece of paper from his bosom, "I have been entrusted by someone to deliver a message to the Empress."

Su Minglang took the note in his hand, opened it and glanced at it, then nodded with an unchanged expression, "Thank you, eunuch."

Su Minglang gestured to Xiao Ye, who stepped forward and stuffed a bulging sachet into Xiao Xizi's palm, "Thank you, eunuch. Please accept the gift from the queen."

Xiao Xizi did not refuse, nodded and said goodbye, leaving a reminder before leaving: "Your Majesty is not in a good mood today, Your Majesty, please pay more attention."

After sending Xiao Xizi away, Su Minglang reopened the note, took another look at it, and then threw it into the brazier. It turned into ashes and disappeared without a trace.

Xiao Ye watched Su Minglang's actions and didn't ask much. She was just a little worried about Xiao Heng's sudden arrival. "Your Majesty, Xiao Xizi just said that His Majesty was not very happy today, but he suddenly wanted to come to you."

"I don't know what your majesty has sent Li Zhao to do recently. That's why he's in a bad mood. Since it has nothing to do with you and me, there's no need to pay too much attention to it. Just treat each other with a normal heart." Su Minglang said this, but he knew very well that Xiao Heng would never come to his temple without a reason. He just didn't know what the matter was.

"That letter was obviously sent by Li Zhao, but why would Xiao Xizi deliver the letter for Li Zhao?" This is what Su Minglang is most curious about now. However, everyone in the palace has a secret. Perhaps these two people have reached some agreement.

But when I think about it, the two people who are closest to and most trusted by Xiao Heng have a private relationship with each other. I wonder what Xiao Heng would do if he knew about it given his suspicious nature.

"There is no point in thinking too much. Let's make preparations early." It was already late. The emperor's coming to Linglong Palace was different from turning over a card. The former required complicated preparations, while the latter only required taking a bath, changing clothes and then going to Taiji Hall.

Xiao Ye nodded and went to make all the necessary arrangements. Nan Xing was concentrating on writing big characters with Nian'er in the back hall. Su Minglang did not disturb them and sat in the main hall thinking about his own things.

The information sent by Li Zhao was very simple, but it was enough to know that Qi Zhongyuan was safe. Su Minglang was not afraid that he would not participate in the selection of the Imperial Medical Bureau. He almost died at the hands of the guards in his previous life, but he went there without hesitation. This time, she rescued him early, and he would not give up such an opportunity.

After careful calculation, the Imperial Medical Bureau's screening should be in the next few days. It seems that I have to ask Xiao Ye to go to the Imperial Hospital to ask someone to check my pulse in a few days. However, I don't know how to find a doctor or ask for medicine, and I don't know whether this child of a medical family has real skills.

I hope he is really as skilled as Hua Tuo as rumored in previous lives!

The procedures for welcoming the emperor were very complicated. Su Minglang was dragged away to bathe and change clothes early. The whole room was filled with burning incense, and the palace maids were coming in and out making preparations. After all this, Linglong Palace was completely brand new.

Su Minglang didn't let Nanxing follow her. She asked Nanxing to keep an eye on Nian'er and not to leave the house without permission. Even if she wanted to go out, she had to follow her closely.

Of course, Su Minglang didn't think Xiao Heng had the ability to recognize the orphan of the previous dynasty, but it was better to have less trouble than more. If Nian'er offended Xiao Heng because of her personality, he would have no way to stop her if he wanted to blame her.

She can only avoid it for as long as possible.

Knowing that she could not see Xiao Xizi, Nanxing felt a little disappointed, but she quickly cheered up and grabbed Nian'er's sleeve tightly to show her loyalty. Nian'er was also a little dissatisfied, but after being glared at by Su Minglang, she dared not say a word.

Xiao Ye looked at the two helplessly and laughed. When Su Minglang walked out, she couldn't help but sigh, "My queen, it would be great if it could always be like this."

"Always like this?" Su Minglang turned around and looked at her, smiling and shaking his head, "Why do you say that?"

"When the Su family wanted you to enter the palace, I thought it was unfair. I know that life in the palace is not easy, and the best fate for those concubines is to die of old age in the palace."

"But you looked very excited at the time, so I didn't say anything." Xiao Ye said this with a bit of frustration, but soon she started to laugh, "But now I am actually somewhat glad that you entered the palace."

"If you were still in the Su family, you would eventually be used as a bargaining chip for a political marriage, marrying a random man you don't know, and then ending your life like every other woman in the backyard."

"But now that you have entered the palace and have your own palace, you no longer have to worry about food and clothing, and you are also favored by His Majesty. Although you are still trapped behind high walls, it is at least much better than being in the Su family."

Xiao Ye's smile became more bitter. She looked up at Su Minglang and said, "But you smile less."

"I know you are not happy and you are worried about something every day..."

"If I had a choice, I would not choose to enter the palace." Su Minglang said softly.

Xiao Ye looked at her in surprise, "But, but you were very happy at that time."

"Yes, I was very happy at that time, but everything is different now." Su Minglang smiled and touched Xiaoye's head, "If I have no choice, I will try my best to live every day well."

"There is no suffering in this world that no one can't endure. If it befalls you, you can only accept it, or hang yourself on the beams with a three-foot-long white silk."

"But I don't want to die in such humiliation."