The maidservant is too charming. I want to help her become the queen.

"Oh? You admit your mistake?"

The Queen Mother had a playful look on her face, as if she was waiting for Lu Qingqing to say this.

Her fingers tapped lightly on the armrests of the chair, making a crisp sound.

"I didn't even tell you that you made a mistake, so how can you know that you made a mistake?"

This……

Such unreasonable and powerful logic, he couldn't even admit his mistake. Lu Qingqing didn't know how to respond for a moment.

I could only smile awkwardly, secretly hoping that this embarrassing moment would pass quickly.

Unexpectedly, the Queen Mother seemed to be prepared. With a half-smile on her face, she ordered the palace maids to bring out a stack of heavy books, which made Lu Qingqing feel inexplicably nervous.

"You are wrong. You clearly don't know where you went wrong, but you still insist on admitting it. Since you don't understand the principles of right and wrong, I will teach you the palace rules and regulations today, so that you won't make the same mistake again in the future."

A series of right and wrong things made Lu Qingqing depressed and upset, and it seemed that right and wrong became less important.

Anyway, she understood the most important meaning of the Queen Mother's words. She was going to teach her the palace rules and use her as a scapegoat!

The Empress Dowager ordered Lu Qingqing to be taken to a side hall of the Cining Palace, along with the pile of books.

The furnishings in the side hall are similar to those in the main hall, both are equally magnificent and fully demonstrate the majesty of the royal family.

There was only a desk in the side hall, on which were all kinds of writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstone.

Lu Qingqing only took a glance and understood everything in her heart.

It turned out that everything was ready, waiting for her to fall into the trap.

"Mr. Lu, the Queen Mother has instructed you to study the palace rules carefully these few days and copy them three times. I have also prepared the pen and ink for you."

"In addition, the Empress Dowager also instructed that since the scrolls were old, it would be a good opportunity for you to re-copy them and take the best of the three copies to make a new scroll."

The young eunuch who brought her here spoke lightly, bowed and left as soon as he finished speaking.

Only Lu Qingqing and Erxi were left in the side hall, staring at each other.

This Queen Mother was simply treating her like a living printing press!

The palace rules are outdated, but she was asked to copy them again. This is not the way to replace the old with the new!

Lu Qingqing was so sad that she could not even cry!

The books on the desk were stacked one by one, more than half a meter high. The words "Palace Rules" were written on the cover, which was particularly eye-catching.

She pulled out a book and flipped through it casually.

Sure enough, the binding of the book had become loose, the leaves had turned slightly yellow, and the entire book exuded an unpleasant, stale smell. Just flipping through a few pages would instantly cause a cloud of choking dust to rise.

"Cough cough cough~"

Lu Qingqing squinted her eyes and held her breath, but was still choked by the dust. She quickly covered her mouth and nose with a silk handkerchief.

"Ah, looking at how old this scroll is, I wonder when was the last person to copy the palace rules?"

However, procrastination is not a solution.

After all, whether Lu Qingqing copied it or not, the palace rules were there, not one page more or one page less.

After Lu Qingqing and Erxi tidied up the desk, they began to copy it carefully.

It's just writing a few words, no big deal.

I never thought that one day I would be punished to copy the palace rules.

If you stay patiently in the Empress Dowager's Palace for a few days, maybe this matter will be over. By the way, you can also practice calligraphy here to calm your mind.

For many days in a row, Lu Qingqing went out early and came back late, copying books in the Cining Palace.

To her surprise, although she stayed in the Empress Dowager's palace every day, the Empress Dowager did not make things too difficult for her except for copying books.

It seems that the third copying of the palace rules is about to be completed.

At this time, the sky outside the palace gradually darkened, and the deep night slowly spread, slowly swallowing up the last ray of daylight.

Lu Qingqing wrote the last word tiredly in the dim and flickering candlelight, put down the brush as if granted amnesty, and rubbed her sore and swollen wrist.

"Phew~Finally it's done!"

She tried hard to blink her slightly dry eyes, trying to dispel the haziness and heaviness that shrouded her eyes.

Looking at the three thick stacks of handwritten palace rules neatly arranged on the desk, he carefully picked out the one with the neatest handwriting and took it to report to the Empress Dowager.

However, when she walked into the main hall, the Queen Mother's maid Ruoqing told her that the Queen Mother was having dinner and asked her to report back later.

Lu Qingqing stood outside the hall, feeling helpless.

She could only blame herself for finishing copying at an unfortunate time. She had clearly spent the entire day copying the palace rules, and now she was still hungry, yet she had to wait for the Queen Mother to finish her dinner.

She had no choice but to go back to the side hall and wait patiently.

After completing the task of copying the palace rules, Lu Qingqing was in a good mood and began to leisurely admire the furnishings in the side hall.

On weekdays, she only focused on copying and had never observed it carefully. In addition to the desk, there were many rare treasures on the shelf on the side of the desk.

Among them, what she was most interested in was a white rabbit with heterochromatic eyes carved from Hetian jade.

She was about to reach out and take down the white jade rabbit to play with it carefully, but was stopped by Erxi.

Erxi's voice trembled with anxiety, and his flustered expression revealed anxiety.

"My lady, my lady, this belongs to the Queen Mother. We are not allowed to touch it casually."

Lu Qingqing was amused and confused by Erxi's overly nervous reaction. She understood that Erxi was worried that he would be punished by the Queen Mother, but there was really no need to be so cautious.

"It's okay. I'm not stealing the rabbit. I just thought it was cute and wanted to touch it to feel the touch."

Everyone in the palace has always strictly abided by the palace rules. Lu Qingqing is probably the only one who is so bold as to ignore the rules.

She vaguely remembered that among the palace rules she had just copied, there seemed to be a rule that "you are not allowed to move the furnishings in the Empress Dowager's palace without permission."

But what the hell!

It was right in front of her eyes, and there was no fingerprint extraction technology in ancient times. Even if she touched it, no one would know.

Erxi's persuasion was futile, so he had to stand at the door and guard from a distance for Lu Qingqing.

She looked at the diamond-shaped lattice on the door and was actually a little impressed by her young master's courage.

Although she said that she was not allowed, she actually wanted to touch the cute white jade rabbit. Since she didn't have the courage, she would do her best to ensure the safety of her little master!

With Erxi helping her keep watch, Lu Qingqing played even more unscrupulously.

Sometimes I touch the rabbit's delicate and smooth Hetian jade body, and sometimes I poke the rabbit's sparkling colorful gemstone eyes.

The left pupil of the white jade rabbit is blood red, made of bloodstone, and the right pupil is green, made of emerald.

When Lu Qingqing's fingers lightly touched the emerald eye, the feel seemed slightly different from that of the left pupil. The gemstone inlay was not tight and it even shook slightly.

She tentatively pressed slightly in the direction of the shaking, and with a "click", a secret compartment suddenly opened under the white rabbit.