The Four Concubines

"who are you?"

"who are you?"

The two people in the snow spoke at the same time.

Yun Xiao raised her eyebrows.

"You speak first."

"You speak first."

They made a sound at the same time.

"Your Majesty, you are awake!" A group of people strode in from outside the door.

"Snapped!"

"Snapped!"

"Snapped"

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The visitors lined up in front of Yun Xiao, kneeling neatly on one knee, "Eighteen Yanyun riders have seen the emperor."

Yun Xiao raised her hand, "Get up quickly, don't worry about these etiquettes." The white snowflakes fell on their black armors, and slowly melted and disappeared.

Scanning the faces of the visitors one by one, Yun Xiao found the leader who greeted her that day, "Didn't I tell General Zhou that I don't need you to come here, I have someone to take care of me."

The captain looked solemn, "It was voluntary by the brothers. The 18 of us were divided into two teams and came here in turn, so that neither side would be delayed."

"Oh! So you are the emperor of Daqin." The woman who had been listening for a long time suddenly said.

Yun Xiao saw her surprised eyes, with a look of incredulity on her face, and stretched out her hands to wrap her arms around her body, "Why? It doesn't look like it?"

The woman was also polite, looked at Yun Xiao and nodded, and said truthfully, "It doesn't look like it. I heard that the children of the royal family in Daqin are all very handsome, you..."

The woman didn't finish her sentence, but Yun Xiao understood what she meant, curled her lips, "There is always one exception."

The woman looked Yun Xiao up and down, and said with a pun, "Well, you are quite different." Apart from being "handsome", the emperor in front of him was even a little thinner and smaller than ordinary Daqin men, not to mention Said that compared with the people in her clan, the whole person was huddled in the black coat, like a puppy wrapped in wolf fur.

"The emperor is awake?" Zhou Chen's voice came from afar.

Zhou Chen has not been idle for the past two days. On the night when Yunxiao fell asleep, it started to snow in Zhanjiang. The people in Zhanjiang were very happy to see the snow, and they began to take out large and small utensils to catch the snow.

In this way, they can save a lot of "water bills".

But the snow has been falling for two days and it hasn't stopped. The people don't know it. Zhou Chen didn't dare to delay. He organized soldiers to distribute the supplies sent by the court to help the people survive this severe winter.

Zhou Chen entered the courtyard, first saluted Yun Xiao, then asked a few words about Yun Xiao's physical condition, and then looked at other people. When he saw the woman, Zhou Chen's body trembled.

He was even so surprised that his tone of voice was an octave higher, "Why are you here?"

"Long time no see, General Zhou." The woman greeted calmly.

Yun Xiao looked at the woman, then at Zhou Chen, scrutinizing the expressions of the two of them secretly, seeing Zhou Chen's nervous face, Yun Xiao showed a secretive smile.

Zhou Chen looked at the woman nervously, not understanding why she appeared here at this time.

There was silence in the courtyard.

In the end, the woman spoke first, "Won't General Zhou introduce me?"

Zhou Chen's expression was serious, "Didn't you already know?" Zhou Chen was annoyed, and he was also to blame. He was a little busy these days, and he didn't notice that there were other people in the yard.

Yun Xiao could clearly feel that Zhou Chen seemed to be very resistant to Yun Xiao asking about her. Yun Xiao raised her eyebrows, thinking to herself that she would not rob someone with him, why should she be so wary of her.

"How did you get in?" Zhou Chen carefully looked around, and Shibaqi also stared at the surroundings.

The woman didn't answer, but looked at Yun Xiao, "Does Daqin treat guests like questioning them in the ice and snow?"

"You are not a guest." Zhou Chen retorted mercilessly.

At this moment, Yun Xiao could hear something was wrong, it seemed that things might be different from what she thought.

But what the woman said is correct, the outsider is a guest. Although Zhou Chen was nervous and wary of her, he did not take any direct action. It seems that they have dealt with each other before. is bad.

Yun Xiao turned around her already frozen body, looked towards the living room and said to the woman, "Miss, please."

"Your Majesty!" Zhou Chen immediately spoke out, expressing his disapproval of Yun Xiao's actions.

"General Zhou." Yun Xiao looked at Zhou Chen and said with a smile, "It's windy outside, let everyone come in."

Zhou Chen understood Yun Xiao's meaning, motioned Shibaqi to follow, and then walked towards the living room.

The woman didn't respond to this, and walked into the welcome hall with steady steps.

As soon as he was seated, Zhou Chen couldn't help but ask, "How did you get in here?" The prefect's mansion has been so loosely guarded that people from Liaojiang can come in casually?If she can come in today, an assassin will come in tomorrow!Thinking of this Zhou Chen couldn't stop worrying.

The woman didn't evade the question this time, "Through the gate, Prefect Wang let me in."

Zhou Chen: "..." Wang Taishou is good everywhere, but he is too informal...

Yun Xiao looked at Zhou Chen's face that turned pale for a while, blushed for a while, and finally slumped again, and was very worried about General Zhou's untimely death.

"What's the matter?" Yun Xiao asked, but seeing Zhou Chen's expression of bitterness and hatred, she turned her head to look at the woman again, "Speaking of which, I still don't know what the girl is called."

"Xiao Chuo." The woman replied.

? ? ? ?

Yun Xiao felt that this woman's name was a little...familiar.

Seeing Yun Xiao's puzzled face, Zhou Chen reminded in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, this is the daughter of the patriarch of the Xiao Clan."

The Xiao clan...?

Yun Xiao couldn't turn his head around for a while, and it took a moment to realize that the Xiao family that Zhou Chen was talking about was one of the two families that did not fight in Liaojiang.

wrong!

Yun Xiao frowned deeply, she felt familiar not only because of the Xiao clan, but also because of other things!

Seeing Yun Xiao's tangled face, Zhou Chen didn't know what happened and whispered, "Your Majesty?"

Yun Xiao didn't seem to hear Zhou Chen's voice, and still had a solemn face. After a while, he looked at Xiao Chuo with hesitant eyes, and called out tentatively, "Yanyan?"

Xiao Chuo looked at Yun Xiao calmly, without any expression change on his face. The two looked at each other for a moment, and Yun Xiao spoke first, "I'm sorry, I got the wrong person."

After finishing speaking, she took the lead to look away. Well, she must have thought too much. Although this woman has the same name as Empress Liao in previous life history, she should not be the same person.

Yun Xiao thought Xiao Chuo's name was familiar just now, and it took him a long time to remember who this person was. In her previous life, most people called her Xiao Yanyan, or Empress Dowager Xiao, and Xiao Chuo's name was rarely mentioned, which caused Yun Xiao to really miss her for a while. The name is on point.

After confirming that it wasn't the same person, Yun Xiao let go of his worry just now. After all, even the eldest grandson Wugou could appear, and it was not impossible for Empress Liao to appear. In terms of political means, she is no worse than the empress.

Yun Xiao is very self-aware. Now she is completely relying on the crystallization of wisdom refined in the past 5000 years to know where Daqin needs to be perfected. If it is really about the ability to govern the country, she can't even match Pang Huaibing.

"Little emperor! Little emperor!" Yun Xiao just put back the heart that jumped into his throat when he heard Wang Xia calling himself from afar.

When Wang Xia entered the door, he didn't care who was in the room, and came straight to Yun Xiao. Before Yun Xiao had time to react, he grabbed Yun Xiao's arm and pulled it out.

"Lord Wang!" Zhou Chen's quick eyesight and quick hands grabbed Wang Xia who was rushing out.

Zhou Chen gritted his teeth and said word by word, "Can you explain to me why you let her in?"

It was only then that Wang Xia noticed Xiao Chuo in the room, and looked at Zhou Chen with an expression of making a fuss, "Xiao girl is not an outsider."

Zhou Chen: "..." She is an outsider!

Wang Xia looked at Zhou Chen's expression with a solemn face, and said in a serious tone, "Boy Zhou, have you forgotten? If Xiao girl hadn't gone back to persuade those people in Liaojiang to agree to exchange grain for water, how could the people of Zhanjiang City You can continue to live, if they block the three bridges cruelly, can you really take people to fight the whole Liaojiang?"

Zhou Chen was said to be blushing by what Wang Xia said, and what Wang Xia said was true, but in the final analysis, this matter is also mutual. If they can get water without going through Liaojiang, then their position will change. It's just that the Liaojiang people begged them to exchange food. In the final analysis, the two sides are fighting each other, and they don't want to go to war.

This is also the reason why he now respects Yun Xiao from the bottom of his heart. Once the waterwheel on this blueprint can really draw water, they will no longer have to be controlled by others.

After listening to the conversation between the two, Yun Xiao looked at Xiao Chuo with admiration. It was not easy for a woman to convince a group of warlike people in Liaojiang.

Wang Xia slapped his forehead, "I don't have time to chat with you, I have something urgent to find the little emperor." As he said that, he was about to grab Yun Xiao's arm again.

Yun Xiao raised her hand to avoid it, and asked, "Master Wang, don't worry, you can tell what's going on first."

Wang Xia didn't care about Yun Xiao's evasive action, carefully took out the blueprint from his arms, and pointed it to Yun Xiao, "Look, that's it, if this allegro is inserted flat like this, Jiang Shui pushes it directly will be pushed away."

Yun Xiao glanced at the position Wang Xia was pointing at, and knew what was going on at a glance. It was the water pushing plate in the groove of the waterwheel. What Yun Xiao drew was a conceptual drawing, and the details were not marked out. If you go in, it will definitely not work. You need to make grooves from both sides, and the water push plate will be stuck with the grooves.

Wang Xia didn't deliberately conceal the drawing, Xiao Chuo understood Wang Xia's personality, seeing how precious the piece of paper was, he was naturally curious, got up quietly and leaned over to look at it.

Feeling the movements of the people behind her, Yun Xiao graciously stepped aside to let her take a closer look. Xiao Chuo's expressionless face, after seeing the blueprint for a while, finally changed and became very ugly.

As if she didn't see her face, Yun Xiao asked very kindly, "Would you like to go and see with us?" She was still thinking about how to let the people of Liaojiang know that Daqin is about to become the rivalry between Zhanjiang and Zhanjiang. The leader in the party, now someone delivered it to her door, of course she had to see it clearly.

Xiao Chuo stared at Yun Xiao, like a cunning wolf staring at its prey, sizing her up calmly, Yun Xiao frowned, "Why, dare you come to the enemy camp alone, and dare not go out with me for a walk?"

"Okay!" Xiao Chuo nodded, "It's better to obey than to be respectful."

Wang Xia couldn't wait for a long time. After listening to Yun Xiao's words, he shot out like a bullet.

Due to the heavy snow in the city, there were not many pedestrians, only soldiers in the army, wielding shovels in twos and threes, to clear the snow in the city.

Yun Xiao misses the down jacket, warm pants, and snow shoes from her previous life very much. Now she basically can't feel her feet, and she has lost contact with everything below her knees.

There were still small snowflakes in the sky, Yun Xiao turned her face to look at Xiao Chuo, who kept her head down and didn't know what she was thinking, after all, she was from Liaojiang, she wore much less clothes than Yun Xiao, and she didn't feel cold.

Seeing that the felt hat on her head had already been covered with a thin layer of snow, Yun Xiao took the umbrella from the hidden guard who had been holding it up for her, and handed it to Xiao Chuo. After all, she was a woman, and this situation was pitiful.

Xiao Chuo raised his eyes and glanced at Yun Xiao, without taking the umbrella, he walked straight past Yun Xiao, Yun Xiao looked at her back, she looked very small in the vast snow, but her back stood upright like a pine tree.

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I'm sorry it's a little late, I have something to do at night, well, I'm going to play games!