Chapter 130 The beautiful girl enters the palace

Empress Dowager Gao was also a person who had experienced many things.

After all, she was one of the concubines in the harem during the reign of Emperor Jianning. It was only because she was not liked by Emperor Jianning that she had an unhappy life in the harem.

But when Zhao Shizhu ascended the throne, she had to endure the troubles of Su Ci, a woman. It made her angry just thinking about it!
"Everything I do is for the good of the Emperor. In order to give him a surprise, I have selected girls of appropriate age from all over the country to enter the palace. Queen, when the time comes, let Concubine Bai cooperate with you to carefully select a group of young and beautiful girls to enter the palace to keep you company. If there is one who is lucky and good-looking and successfully serves you in bed, and gives birth to a son, it will be a blessing for the royal family of our Great Zhou." Empress Dowager Gao was not angry this time, and she chose some hurtful words to stimulate Su Ci.

The hateful thing was that Su Ci was a very accomplished Taoist, and despite her provocation, his expression remained calm, without any sign of anger.

"Forget it, since the Queen Mother likes to make trouble, then let's continue. But I have to say this in advance. When His Majesty returns to the palace and finds out about this, I'm afraid he won't be too happy. Is the Queen Mother prepared to face His Majesty's wrath?" Su Ci said as he stood up. "Since the Queen Mother is so keen on the selection, then let the Queen Mother take charge of this matter. With Concubine Bai and the Queen Mother, I wish you two all the best."

She was a pregnant woman, and instead of doing any laborious work, she also had to take good care of her pregnancy, so she had no time to play these tricks with the Empress Dowager Gao.

Seeing this, Empress Dowager Gao frowned and said, "If the empress doesn't even have this much tolerance, what kind of empress is she? Do you think the emperor is someone you can monopolize?"

"I didn't say anything, Queen Mother, please don't accuse me. I still say the same thing, Queen Mother, you can continue to make trouble, anyway, I will not participate in this matter. When His Majesty is furious, it will not be me who will be hurt." Su Ci said and stood up, "I'm going back to Kunning Palace, goodbye!"

Empress Dowager Gao watched Su Ci walk away, her face turning red with anger.

She really didn't expect Su Ci to be so disrespectful to her and just leave without saying anything.

Nanny Ning also found it unbelievable. How could Su Ci dare to give the Empress Dowager a cold shoulder?
The selection of concubines is an inevitable event in any dynasty. How could Su Ci think that His Majesty would only have her?
Although His Majesty said that he would not hold a beauty contest, if the Empress Dowager arranged it, His Majesty would not refuse it.

Bai Shuang certainly didn't want Zhao Shizhu to participate in the selection, but she knew she was no match for Su Ci, so she could only surrender to Queen Mother Gao. She did whatever Queen Mother Gao asked her to do.

"Your Majesty, please calm down. We should select beauties to enter the palace as soon as possible. It would be best to let the ladies from the capital enter the palace first and select a group to enter Your Majesty's harem. Otherwise, given Your Majesty's temper, the selection will definitely be postponed again. The best way is to act first and report later. When Your Majesty returns to the palace, the first batch of beauties will have already entered the palace and will be ready to serve Your Majesty at any time." Nanny Ning gave advice to Empress Dowager Gao.

Empress Dowager Gao thought this was true, so she instructed Bai Shuang to get the matter done as soon as possible.

Bai Shuang also wanted to see Su Ci and other women fighting to the death in the harem, and for a moment she was full of energy.

Si Xue accompanied Su Ci out of Ci'an Palace and whispered, "Why didn't the queen stop this?"

She was worried that when His Majesty returned to the palace, a new group of people would have entered the harem.

"I'm too lazy to stop them. The Queen Mother and Bai Shuang want to die, I can definitely send them off. Just wait and see, if His Majesty returns to the palace and finds that there are many more beauties in his harem, he will definitely be angry." Su Ci said with a smile, "I look forward to a good show to watch that day."

Sixue and Sanmei looked at each other, and both felt that their master was too generous.

This man's heart is the most unreliable, not to mention that he is an emperor who has three palaces and six courtyards?

Su Ci didn't tell anyone else that she was pregnant. She wanted to give Zhao Shizhu a surprise when he came back, so she even kept it a secret from Sixue and Sanmei.

When Su Ci finished his lunch, Si Xue was still muttering, "The Queen seems to be able to eat more than before."

Sanmei didn't notice and smiled, "Didn't the queen eat a lot before?" Sixue didn't think much about it, "Maybe the dishes made by the imperial chef suit the queen's taste. But I still have to persuade the queen to eat less, otherwise she will be too fat, what should I do if His Majesty doesn't like it?"

Sanmei, in turn, persuaded Sixue, thinking that she was overthinking.

Su Ci felt sleepy after eating and went to take a nap.

In this way, the day passed quickly with just eating and sleeping.

Empress Dowager Gao and Bai Shuang were very excited about the selection of beauties. Within a few days, the first batch of beauties had entered the palace and lived in Chuxiu Palace.

Bai Shuang came to Kunning Palace to find Su Ci on this day, just to provoke Su Ci.

Su Ci slept until noon again. When she heard that Bai Shuang had come, she took an hour to eat breakfast and lunch together before leisurely going to meet the guest.

Bai Shuang was getting impatient as she waited for two hours. She was hungry at this point, but she couldn't go back empty-handed.

After waiting for Su Ci for a long time, she saw the woman smiled at her and said, "Sister Bai, you look so treacherous. Are you thinking of some vicious way to harm me again?"

Bai Shuang managed to force a smile and replied, "Sister, you just love to joke. It's like this, a new batch of beauties came in yesterday, ten of them moved into Chuxiu Palace, and I came here to accompany you to Chuxiu Palace to see the newcomers. If there are any that you like, you can give them positions first."

She just didn't believe that Su Ci could still laugh when he saw those young and beautiful beauties.

When Su Ci heard that there were beauties to be seen, he became excited: "Let's go, I'll go see what the beauties look like."

Bai Shuang swept away his previous dejection and hurriedly led the way.

Kunning Palace was not far from Chuxiu Palace, and Su Ci was too lazy to take the sedan chair. She and Bai Shuang walked side by side to Chuxiu Palace, and then she mentioned Su Hua casually: "Sister, do you still remember Su Hua?"

Bai Shuang was stunned: "Of course I remember."

Wasn't Su Hua burned to death? What did Su Ci mean by suddenly mentioning Su Hua?
"Before His Majesty left the palace, weren't His Majesty and I away from the palace for a few days? In fact, we went to see Su Hua, and..." Su Ci deliberately kept the suspense when he said this.

Bai Shuang was fooled: "Who else?"

"And Liu Hu." Su Ci quietly admired Bai Shuang's face turning pale in an instant.

Bai Shuang was indeed frightened. Su Ci and Zhao Shizhu had met Liu Hu, so how was Liu Hu now? Would Liu Hu have confessed to her?

"Sister, you look so ugly. How come, sister, you know Liu Hu? He is your majesty's enemy. He was skinned alive by your majesty a long time ago and died a miserable death. Su Hua colluded with Liu Hu and also took the Xiaoyao Soup, turning into a living dead. Tsk tsk, the end of these two who colluded with Liu Hu was miserable." Su Ci's smile was full of malice.

There are still a few days until the end. There is still a follow-up to the Xiaoyaotang story. It will definitely be finished this month. If you are interested, go read the new article. It has more storytelling.