Chapter 397

Du Xiaoli raised her head and pointed to her dark circles under her eyes.

"Ai Jia has a look." the Empress Dowager didn't get angry after hearing that Du Xiaoli even boiled out the dark circles under her eyes. She turned to look at Du Xiaoli's eyes and said painfully, "it's really a heavy dark circles. Haven't you had a good rest these days?"

Du Xiaoli nodded obediently. Now she has to be pitiful.

"Empress dowager, the young lady received an urgent call from the emperor and rushed back with King Ding all night. She didn't have much rest on the road. After she came back, she has been busy trying to find a way to cure the Queen's illness and the things at the military camp." Xia yuan said to one side.

"It's so hard, why don't you have more rest at home." the Empress Dowager's discomfort dissipated as soon as she heard it.

"I don't want to see grandma Huang first, go back and have a good sleep for two days." Du Xiaoli said with a smile.

"Well, I know you're busy. Now get up first. The ground is still cold," said the Empress Dowager.

She is a person who has lived in the Imperial Palace all her life. She can't see Du Xiaoli's means, but it's undeniable that she still plays a role in flirting with herself.

The older she gets, the more she looks down on rights and wants to enjoy the happiness of her family like ordinary people. But because of her noble status, everyone is respectful to her and is not close to her.

Han Mingxiang would be close to her when she was a child, but as she grew older, she was not as casual as when she was a child.

Menggu brought Du Xiaoli a single stool, put it beside the Empress Dowager's rocking chair, smiled and said, "please sit down, princess."

"Thank you, Menggu." Du Xiaoli got up, sat on the stool and said with a smile.

"You don't even come to see AI family. AI family sometimes wants to play mahjong without anyone to accompany." the Empress Dowager looked at Du Xiaoli sadly and said.

"Grandma Huang can find concubines in the palace. Mahjong is not difficult. She can learn it as soon as she learns." Du Xiaoli said.

"No, those concubines are busy competing for favor one by one. If you see them more, you will be annoyed to look at them." the Empress Dowager simply refused.

Even if those concubines would come to accompany her, the purpose was not simple. She didn't want to call them to her palace to block herself.

Du Xiaoli thought for a moment and said, "grandma Huang, I have a candidate. Why don't we have a table today?"

The Empress Dowager still believed in Du Xiaoli's vision. With an itch in her hand, she asked, "who?"

Half an hour later, Fu Yalan and Ji Liuxia met at the gate of the palace.

"Sister Yalan, you're here too?" Ji Liuxia just got off the carriage and saw Fu Yalan getting off.

"Liuxia, you were also called into the palace?" Fu Yalan asked in surprise.

"Yes, a father-in-law just sent an oral order saying that the master of the palace asked me to enter the palace." Ji Liuxia said.

"Me too," said Fu Yalan. "Maybe we're the same master."

"But I don't know who it is. What a mystery!" Ji Liuxia said.

"OK, where is this place? You dare to complain!" Fu Yalan stopped Ji Liuxia and said, "now that we're all here, we'll know when we go in."

"Let's go in," Ji Liuxia said, holding Fu Yalan's hand.

"OK."

At this time, a eunuch came out of the palace, came to them and said, "ladies, please follow the miscellaneous family."

"Thank you, father-in-law." Fu Yalan replied politely.

"Let's go, the master is still waiting!" the father-in-law shook off the dust in his hand and took the lead in leaving.

Fu Yalan and Ji Liuxia hurried to keep up and became more and more confused. Finally, Ji Liuxia couldn't help calling her father-in-law.

"Dare you ask your father-in-law, this is the way to the Forbidden Palace. Did the Empress Dowager call us?"

My father-in-law smiled and said, "you'll know when you arrive."

Ji Liuxia also wanted to ask. She was stopped by Fu Yalan. Fu Yalan shook his head at her. Since his father-in-law said so, it's no use asking again.

After walking for a while, my father-in-law took them outside the forbidden area.

"Here we are. Let's wait here. I'll leave first."

"Ah -"

My father-in-law said to go, leaving two people waiting at the door.

"No one went in and announced it. I don't know when the people inside will know we're coming. Will they wait..." for a long time

Before Ji Liuxia finished her last two words, tea appeared at the gate of the Forbidden Palace, which startled Ji Liuxia.

"Ladies, please follow me. The Empress Dowager has been waiting for you for a long time." tea said with a solemn smile.

"Thank you, aunt tea." Fu Yalan said with a smile.

Tea turned and left. Ji Liuxia patted her chest and followed tea in.

I don't know what the Empress Dowager asked them to do. They were both worried, but when they entered the side hall and saw the people who built mahjong with the empress dowager, they knew that they were worried for nothing.

Du Xiaoli found them coming in, waved to them and said, "sister-in-law and Liuxia, come here quickly. You two are so slow. It took so long to come." Fu Yalan and Ji Liuxia went in and saluted the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager stopped them and said, "Xiaoli said you two are good at playing mahjong. AI family asked you to play mahjong. Won't you have a problem?" "It's the blessing of the concubines to be able to play with the Empress Dowager. Where will there be any opinions?" Fu Yalan said with a smile after getting up. "Then don't make yourself at home and take your seat quickly." the Empress Dowager pushed down Du Xiaoli's mahjong and said eagerly. "But we didn't bring silver tickets into the palace..." Ji Liuxia said awkwardly. "It's all right. I didn't bring it with me. Grandma Huang said that she would give us 1000 Liang silver for gambling for the first time." Du Xiaoli waved the silver ticket in her hand. Menggu came with 2000 Liang silver tickets and gave them to Fu Yalan and Ji Liuxia. In order to give money conveniently, the silver ticket was specially found with a small face value. "Let's talk about it first. None of you is allowed to release water today. Don't think that the AI family doesn't know that you used to release the AI family's water when playing mahjong. As long as the AI family ordered Hu, you've passed it." the Empress Dowager made rules when she came. "It's boring to win but not lose, isn't it, Menggu." Menggu smiled and said: "Ladies and princess, just do as the LORD says, or if the Lord doesn't enjoy himself, you'll have to fight with her all day." "well, let's start." The Empress Dowager rubbed mahjong and urged. Fu Yalan and Ji Liuxia looked at each other before they reached out to build mahjong. Although the Empress Dowager said not to release water, they didn't dare to protect her all the time. They all had a tacit understanding and occasionally Hu her.