The plot of Quick Wear is always wrong

15

The atmosphere in Kunning Palace was very depressing at the moment. All the palace maids knelt on the ground, not daring to breathe. Empress Xiao turned her Buddhist beads, glanced with her narrow eyes, and asked casually.

"What have you been doing lately?"

Xiao Luo'er, who was kneeling below, lowered her head and was speechless. She was summoned to the palace by Empress Xiao today. As soon as she entered the palace, Empress Xiao asked her to kneel there. Now her legs were numb and sore from kneeling, and she was in great pain.

"Do you really think that the prince likes that female doctor outside the palace?"

Empress Xiao leaned sideways, looking very lazy.

"Brainless thing."

She opened her red lips slightly, but the words she said were not what she said on the surface. Xiao Luoer pursed her lips, not knowing what to say to defend herself for a moment.

"Have you ever inquired about the news in the East Palace?"

Xiao Luoer lowered her head and replied after a long while.

"To answer your aunt's question, I have never..."

A sneer came from above her head, and Xiao Luoer's face became hot as she laughed. She pursed her lips and tugged at the handkerchief in her hand.

"Stupid, there are rumors all over the palace, saying that the prince has a mistress in the East Palace. This rumor has spread everywhere, even to the emperor, but you are so quiet, just playing tricks on that Gu Ya."

Empress Xiao raised her eyes and the Buddhist beads were being plucked faster, making one sound after another.

"The emperor has been constantly weakening the power of my Xiao family in recent days. First, he took away your father's real position, and then successively cut off your brother's power."

She raised her hands, supported her forehead, and closed her eyes slightly.

"I have no real power, and I don't even have the Phoenix Seal. Before Yin Mojing was crowned king, all the important matters in the harem were decided by Concubine Cheng. Now that Yin Mojing has asked for her permission, she has moved to the palace, and the power in the harem has been handed over to the Queen Mother again."

She suddenly laughed twice, as if with some sarcasm.

"What's the point of having power in the harem? Even if I am the queen, it's useless."

She sighed softly, as if she was annoyed, frowned slightly and closed her eyes. She did not ask Xiao Luoer to get up, and Xiao Luoer did not dare to get up. She just knelt like that for a long time, until Empress Xiao opened her eyes again, stood up and prepared to go to the inner room.

"It's getting late, let's go out of the palace."

She said this and without calling Luo Hua, she opened the curtain. Everyone in the hall stood up and someone came up to help them. Xiao Luoer grabbed a handful and stood up with some effort.

She hadn't kneeled like this for a long time.

The last time she knelt for such a long time seemed to be many years ago. She was still young at that time. She was playful and didn’t want to practice the piano, so she hid in the stone cave of the rockery and stayed there for the whole afternoon.

When the servant in the mansion found her, she had already fallen asleep in a daze, but was awakened by the beating of the thin bamboo.

"You are the daughter of the Xiao family who has been carefully nurtured!"