Yanmenchun

In Kunning Palace.

The queen summoned Shen Tuchan.

Shen Tuchan stood meekly aside, while the queen sat on top and slowly twirled the bead string in her hand.

A thin cloud of smoke slowly overflowed from the crane censer on the side, and the quietness of needles falling could be heard in the hall.

In this suffocating silence, the queen changed her movements, causing a little rubbing sound of cloth.

Shen Tuchan's expression was calm, as if she didn't feel the coercion at all.

"I heard that you have reached Ji?" The queen saw that she was not afraid, so she opened her mouth to break the silence.

Shentuchan said with a smile: "Go back to your mother, I just reached Ji."

The empress hummed in an unclear manner, looked Shentuchan up and down and said, "Shentu has a good woman."

Shen Tuchan did not answer this sentence.

The empress obviously didn't care if she said or not, and said: "Your parents are dead, so there will be no one to worry about your marriage. As the mother of the country, I will take care of this for you."

Shen Tuchan looked up at Feng Yan this time.

The empress met her eyes, with a warning in her eyes: "There are many talented people in the capital, but if you stay in the capital, it will inevitably make the king of Yan care. This palace will find a good marriage for you outside the capital."

Shen Tuchan looked at her with a smile, and made an attitude of listening attentively.

"The king of Xiankang lost his wife. You were the concubine of the county when you married, and the scenery in Shu is pleasant and free, which suits your temperament." The queen twirled the beads in her hand, and said uncompromisingly.

Shen Tuchan didn't seem surprised, she just smiled and said: "Madam, the king of Xiankang County is over forty, right?"

The Queen sneered: "So what?"

Shen Tuchan stood respectfully in front of the queen, she tilted her head slightly, and expressed a relaxed attitude: "Your Majesty, what if my daughter is not willing?"

The queen seemed to have heard an extremely ridiculous joke, and said with a smile: "You don't want to?"

Shen Tuchan nodded.

The queen looked at her very amusedly: "Shen Tuchan, do you know what it means to overestimate yourself? In this world, no one can say no to the emperor."

Shen Tuchan tilted her head slightly, showing a girlish attitude, she said with a smile: "Your Majesty, didn't the minister say that she would have something to do with His Highness King Yan?"

The queen restrained her smile, raised her eyebrows and looked at her: "So what?"

This is the second time she has said this sentence in a short period of time.

Shen Tuchan stopped laughing, she turned her head to look at the crane-shaped incense burner, and said slowly: "Your Majesty, since my daughter refuses His Highness King Yan, you won't get the slightest tolerance from you, so why don't my daughter just cling to you?" Where is His Royal Highness King Yan?"

The queen's face was stern in vain: "What did you say?"

Shen Tuchan turned her head and looked at her: "I obey your will and marry to Sichuan. You said that if my daughter's life is not good and you cry to His Highness King Yan, what will His Highness do for your daughter?"

There was no smile on her face, as if she was already in that situation.

"You dare to threaten me, do you want to live?" the queen sneered.

Shen Tuchan said without fear, "You can't kill me."

Without waiting for the empress to ridicule, he said again: "Unless you don't want your highness's son anymore."

The two confronted each other silently.

Shen Tuchan smiled again and said: "Your Majesty, all of this can be peaceful and peaceful. You don't want to move my ministers, and my ministers don't move Your Highness. If you insist on moving your ministers, my ministers also want to see it. Your Highness wants to see it for my ministers' sake." to what extent it can be done.”

The queen looked her up and down: "You are already old enough, so is it possible that you will never marry for life?"

"It's okay." Shen Tuchan's face was calm.

The queen snorted coldly: "What if I don't believe it?"

Shen Tuchan's tone was relaxed: "As you wish."

The queen was about to laugh angrily. She hadn't been threatened like this in many years.

Shen Tuchan seemed to have grasped her seven inches, obviously very confident in Jiang Lan's love.

If Shen Tuchan showed any fear and worry today, she would definitely get this woman out of the capital, or kill her directly.

But she smiled at Yan Yan without fear, and even seemed to really want to see what Jiang Lan could do for her.

The queen was somewhat really angry, and couldn't help but said: "You keep saying that you won't enter Prince Yan's mansion, but you have been using his feelings to protect yourself, and obviously you haven't refused him decisively. How can I let her go if you hang on to her like this?" you?"

Shen Tuchan's expression suddenly showed a hint of sadness, she looked at the queen without hesitation: "Your Majesty, my servant likes His Highness, so naturally I don't want to hurt him, people are more or less obsessed with certain things in their lives, maybe His Highness is also, Maybe in a few years, His Highness will not care about Shen Tuchan at all, but I don't want to recall it in the future, regretting that I didn't treat His Highness any better at this time."

She paused and said, "Please forgive me a little bit."

The queen did not expect that she would be so straightforward and calm, at this moment, almost purely, confessing her feelings for Jiang Lan.

Shen Tuchan looked at her with a smile, this is her step for the queen.

The queen looked at her for a moment and said, "Forget about this matter, Shen Tuchan, you'd better pray that Jiang Lan's temper will slow down."

Once this protective net is released, she must kill Shen Tuchan.

But Shen Tuchan didn't take it seriously at all, and said with a smile: "My daughter-in-law resigns."

Coming out of Kunning Palace, the maid who sent her out said with a smile: "Miss Shentu, I'm afraid that what you said in the palace today will more or less reach His Highness's ears."

More or less, of course, what she said about Jiang Lan was more, and what was less was when she said she liked Jiang Lan.

Shen Tuchan smiled and said, "Thank you for reminding me, Auntie."

But the maid asked: "Miss, are you really not afraid that the empress will kill you?"

Shen Tuchan didn't answer her, but instead looked towards the direction of the imperial garden: "Your Majesty won't kill me."

She answered so decisively that the maid was very puzzled.

Shen Tuchan explained with a smile: "Because Your Majesty is not sure about my weight in His Highness's heart, and His Highness King Yan's temper, you should be aware of it."

The maid smiled and said nothing.

Shen Tuchan said: "Auntie, I want to go to the Imperial Garden for a walk, stay for a while and then leave."

The maid hesitated for a moment and nodded, "Maidservant will accompany you."

"No, thank you, aunt, for sending me off." After Shen Tuchan finished speaking, she looked in the direction of the Royal Garden alone.

The palace maid took a few steps forward and said: "Miss Shentu, next time the empress calls, if you don't want to come, you can directly refuse, His Highness will protect you."

Shen Tuchan looked back at her in surprise: "You are..." Jiang Lan's person?
The maid hurriedly saluted and left.

It was autumn, and the chrysanthemums in the imperial garden were in full bloom.

Shen Tuchan walked back and forth in the imperial garden, as if she was seriously judging which pot of flowers bloomed better. She was walking around when she saw Li Jingshu who was also alone.

Shen Tuchan walked up to meet her slowly, she said meaningfully: "Miss Li, what a coincidence."

The tail sound dragged on slowly and long.

Li Jingshu's face was cold: "Miss Shentu, if I say it's really just a coincidence?"

Shen Tuchan didn't believe it, but it didn't matter, she just came to cooperate with Li Jingshu, even if the queen didn't call her, she would find other reasons to enter the palace.

She looked at Li Jingshu and said with a smile: "Unfortunately, Miss Li, I have finished admiring the flowers and I have to go."

Li Jingshu still had a calm expression, looked up at her and said, "That's even more coincidental, I've finished the reward too, so I'll give you a ride."

The two walked side by side, and neither of them said a word.

When she walked under a beautiful red maple tree, Li Jingshu suddenly said softly: "Shentu, my aunt is going to seal my marriage."

Shen Tuchan's heart moved slightly, she stopped and turned her head to look at Li Jingshu, and said with concern, "Which family is it?"

Li Jingshu wanted to cry for a moment: "It is said to be the Xiankang County King of Shu."