It's great, another day of lying down and idling in the palace

After hesitating for three seconds, Nanny Liu looked up decisively.

"Your Majesty, I have thought about it carefully again. It is very likely that Concubine Ji deliberately acted like a spoiled brat in order to avoid entering the palace to see Your Majesty. She definitely did it on purpose!"

Nanny Liu was furious.

Even if it wasn't intentional, she had to say it was intentional.

It's much better to be deliberately set up by someone than to be fooled by a fool.

"is it?"

The Concubine Chen did not comment.

Madam Liu knelt on the cold ground, racking her brains to come up with various evidences, and finally concluded:

"My lady, I am sure that this concubine is a very thoughtful and cunning person."

The Princess was already impatient with what she was saying, so she interrupted her and said, "You said there are paintings she drew, bring them here and let me see them."

"Yes, yes, there are definitely paintings drawn by her."

Nanny Liu rolled over and got up, hurriedly found the painting, and carefully presented it to the queen with both hands.

Fortunately, although Nanny Liu had not seen these paintings, in order to make it easier for people to find them, each person put a piece of paper on the scroll with their name written on it for easy identification.

This greatly facilitated her.

"My Lady, please look."

"You have always had a keen eye, so you will definitely be able to see something. It is said that seeing the handwriting is like seeing the person. In my humble opinion, this painting is the same."

The Concubine Chen looked at the painting that was slowly unfolding in front of her and said nonchalantly, "I want to see who this person is—"

Ok?

As the painting scroll unfolded wider and wider, her beautiful eyes gradually opened wider and wider.

Finally, he held the handkerchief with a frozen expression on his face.

Nanny Liu was standing diagonally opposite to Concubine Chen, and she could not see the content of the painting from her perspective.

"This concubine must be a thoughtful person. Everyone present at the time agreed that her paintings were rare and worth a thousand gold coins. They were rare artistic treasures in the world.

I think this is either very good at winning people's hearts, or it is really that good.

But if her painting is really that good, how could she remain unknown?" So it could only be that she was thinking too deeply.

As she was speaking, she noticed that her queen's expression was not right. She didn't care about anything else and leaned over to take a look.

Just with this one glance, she was stunned on the spot.

"What kind of monster is this?"

She actually surprised Aunt Liu so much that she even spoke in her hometown dialect.

But no one cared about this little thing at the moment.

Looking at the heavily made-up painting in front of her, Concubine Chen was calm and said, "Is this a treasure of art? Everyone praises it?"

Aunt Liu said stubbornly: "...Yes, it is said that the prince likes it very much and praises it highly."

She knew that the princess might have exaggerated, but she didn't expect that she was exaggerating with her eyes closed.

The content on the drawing paper seemed to be a human-shaped woman? Or it seemed to be a humanoid mountain monster?

Anyway, his face is ferocious, but you can tell from the clothes the person in the painting looks vaguely familiar.

What on earth looks familiar?

Just as the two were lost in thought, there was a noise outside the hall.

The Concubine Chen looked up and saw the Emperor striding towards her, followed by Prince Zhao.

The Concubine Chen waved her hand quickly, and the two palace maids who were holding the paintings moved away. She took a few quick steps forward to greet them.

"Your Majesty, why are you here?"

"I met Zhao'er and saw that Zhao'er wanted to come to see you, so we went together."

The old emperor put his arm on Concubine Chen very naturally.

It seemed like a normal action, but Concubine Chen knew in her heart that the emperor's health had been worse than before in the past year.

She is already half buried in the ground at an age when she is about to die, and she has just given birth to a pair of twin sisters who are in their prime. The emperor is in his prime and dotes on them a lot. It would be strange if her health is good.

I even had a minor illness some time ago.

Although the emperor hid it very well, Concubine Chen was an old figure in the palace after all, and she still had some covert channels of information and was able to find out some news.

This is also the reason why Concubine Chen suddenly sent people to Prince Zhao's mansion in a hurry.

The critical moment was approaching, and relying solely on a child less than one year old under the princess's lap was of little use.

If the child was born by the princess herself, that would be a different matter.

But now Prince Zhao's Palace needs a representative and intelligent next generation.

Originally, the eldest son of the palace was the best candidate, but for some reason, Zhao'er seemed to have some concerns about the child.

The Concubine Chen thought so in her heart but did not show it on the surface. She just tried her best to escort the Emperor to his seat.

After the emperor sat down, he looked at the concubine and said, "What were you talking about just now? What artistic treasure did the prince praise so highly? You were talking about Zhao'er."

The concubine only gave birth to this one child, so the emperor didn't need to bother guessing.

"I'm talking about a painting, it's nothing."

Although it was not good-looking, Concubine Chen had no intention of showing it off to be laughed at.

The emperor was very interested: "Bring it out for me to see. I am also very curious about how beautiful it is to make Zhaoer praise it so highly."

Concubine Chen: "..."

She looked at King Zhao. Did she have to lose face today?

When the emperor saw Concubine Chen looking at Prince Zhao, he said in dissatisfaction: "Why are you looking at him? The child is already so big, why do you still need to worry about him?"

"Then don't be too surprised, Your Majesty."

After saying this, Concubine Chen waved her hand and signaled the palace maid to come forward and demonstrate.

The emperor was still thinking, what's so surprising about looking at a painting, but the next second...

He blurted out in shock: "What kind of monster is this?"

Then I reacted and was puzzled: "Why is it so ugly?"

When King Zhao saw the painting, he was silent for a moment and then said in a weak voice, "Although it's not very pretty, it's not too ugly, right?"

The Emperor and his Concubine Chen thought it was extremely ugly, as ugly as a monster, because they were used to seeing good things.

But in King Zhao's eyes, this painting had details and was actually quite good.

After realizing his own thoughts, King Zhao fell silent again.

In fact, he was used to seeing all kinds of good things before, but later...

Concubine Chen explained: "Your Majesty, this was painted by the concubine in Zhao'er's mansion." Don't think that she painted it, she really can't afford to lose face.

After all, the emperor was a man who had experienced many ups and downs. After a brief surprise, he remembered the few words he heard when he came in.

"Zhao'er is still full of praise? Is this actually true?"

The emperor looked at King Zhao and said, "Third brother, what do you think of this painting?"

King Zhao recognized it at a glance. It was a painting by Yun Qing.

His mood was complicated at the moment, but he still gritted his teeth and insisted: "I really like it."

What can he do?

He couldn't say that he didn't like Yun Qing's painting, right?

The emperor was very interested: "Oh? Can you tell me what kind of monster is painted on it?"

Prince Zhao said expressionlessly: "Father, this painting is not of a monster, but of Aunt Liu in my mother's palace."