Origin System, I have a barren mountain

When Zhenying arrived, she was dressed as a palace maid, and her eyes were filled with panic.

When Cheng Yunmo saw Zhenying, he felt that the clothes she was wearing seemed to have moved, directly covering something for her.

It was a spider, but it was so small that you wouldn't have seen it unless you looked closely.

Zhenying knelt on the ground, "Greetings, Empress Dowager, Your Majesty the Empress."

Mu Wanwan gestured for someone to help Zhenying up.

Wu Hua approached Zhen Ying, looked her up and down, and seemed quite satisfied.

A faint light emanated from between Zhenying's eyebrows, and Wuhua immediately reached out to catch it.

"Great quality, very good."

The one-eyed silkworm machine lying beside Zhenying's shoulder remained completely still throughout.

Cheng Yunmo hadn't seen a one-eyed crippled machine in a long time, and now that he saw it, he was bewildered by its appearance.

"Come here, bring over a dog!"

Immediately, a palace maid came and brought over a dog, but the dog looked rather silly.

Everyone present witnessed a scene where Wu Hua, with her bare hands, managed to shine a faint glow directly onto the dog's forehead. The dog immediately became lively and active, almost like a completely different dog.

When everyone saw this scene, their eyes were filled with even more fear as they looked at the Empress Dowager, because if she had such power, then all of them would be under her control.

When the man in black saw this scene, he subconsciously looked at the young imperial advisor's reaction.

Looking at this scene, Cheng Yunmo suddenly understood what the Empress Dowager meant by bringing her here. It was to prove to everyone in front of so many people just how powerful the Empress Dowager really was.

Li Lai never expected that the Empress Dowager would suddenly appear and help him so much.

“Cheng Yunmo, look at Zhenying, she doesn’t know anything.”

Wu Hua turned to the side, her gaze fixed intently on Cheng Yunmo. "You can't lay a hand on Li Lai right now. Otherwise, if anything happens to Li Lai, Zhen Ying will be doomed."

The man in black couldn't help but feel a little flustered. Faced with such a situation, no one could remain indifferent.

Cheng Yunmo looked at Zhenying. Although she didn't know what Zhenying was doing at this point in the original timeline, when she saw the one-eyed crippled machine, she suddenly felt that Zhenying might not have been treated well after returning to Xu Kingdom, and might have encountered danger.

"Cheng Yunmo, I'm not joking. I don't even consider you a threat."

Cheng Yunmo held back, because she saw that Zhenying, without a light source, seemed to have her intelligence impaired as well. She had just picked up something from the ground and put it in her mouth.

When Mu Wanwan saw this scene, she became even more respectful to the Empress Dowager, because she knew very well that with the Empress Dowager's help, her position as Empress would only become more and more secure. Therefore, she was also unusually cold towards Cheng Yunmo.

"Cheng Yunmo, why don't you kneel before the Empress Dowager? Is this how you learned manners?"

Mu Wanwan did it on purpose, and everyone present could see it. Zhenying was kneeling on the ground eating, so making the young imperial advisor kneel down at this moment was clearly meant to show everyone what kind of person the young imperial advisor was.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, Cheng Yunmo slowly knelt on the ground, respectfully following the rules of the Xu Kingdom.

People couldn't help but feel a bit contempt for her. After all, this little national advisor had never been well-regarded. She was considered cowardly and incompetent, and despite possessing so many abilities, she had never done anything that made them feel ashamed.

However, they have all forgotten that the food produced by the entire Xu Kingdom originally fed many of its people.

Fortunately, although the Empress Dowager was extremely capable, she seemed to be restricted by something and did not stay there for very long.

After the Empress Dowager left, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Mu Wanwan looked at Cheng Yunmo, who was standing right in front of her, and said, "Cheng Yunmo, from beginning to end, I have never acknowledged that you are the Junior Imperial Advisor. Since you are not, you should change out of your clothes and not let others think that you are of noble status."

When this scene came into everyone's view, everyone looked at Cheng Yunmo with a hint of caution.

However, two maids appeared out of nowhere and suddenly ran out, blocking Cheng Yunmo's way.

"Your Majesty, how could you do this?"

The appearance of the two maids caused quite a commotion.

Mu Wanwan looked at the two maids, wondering about their identities and why they hadn't been sealed away.

Only then did the man in black notice that the spider webs behind the two maids had been completely removed.

"The Empress Dowager has just left. Do you two need me to bring her back?"

What was meant to be a scare tactic on the two maids turned out to be quite unexpected. The two maids were not afraid at all and said in unison, "We really do want you to bring back the Empress Dowager, but we doubt you would agree?"

Mu Wanwan's face suddenly turned ashen; she hadn't expected that these two maids seemed to know something.

At that moment, a figure appeared in the prison.

I have never seen a prison so lively. It is full of people, except for one room where there is only one person.

When the person who came saw the person locked up, he was startled and quickly tried to open the door, only to find that what looked like an ordinary lock was impossible for him to open with the key.

Not only that, he hadn't done anything wrong, yet somehow he had alerted others.

In no time, the area outside the prison was filled with people who had come to arrest him.

"Lord Liu, what's wrong with you? This place is already under surveillance by the Empress." The newcomer looked at Lord Liu with a gleeful expression.

When Lord Liu saw it was him, his expression darkened, because they had a grudge from a long time ago. He just didn't expect that the person guarding the prison gate this time would be him.

"It's you, Your Majesty the Empress! Has she gone mad? How could she imprison the Empress Dowager in such a place?"

Lord Liu couldn't help but point to the only cell and look at the Empress Dowager.

"Oh, you mean the Empress Dowager? Well, I don't want to talk about you anymore. After all, Empress Dowagers are everywhere these days. Do you need me to find you a few?"

Lord Liu looked at the speaker with some shock, not quite understanding what he meant.