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No one followed in the inner room, Xu Shu knew that what the Empress Dowager had to say to her next would not be so simple, and she immediately became very energetic. The matter of the Empress Dowager's token given to the palace was not over because of the Empress Dowager's affairs, the Empress Dowager's suspicion of her was not over yet.
"Sit down, there are no outsiders here, the Ai family just wants to say a few thoughtful words to you!" The Empress Dowager smiled and pressed Xu Shu on the chair.
Xu Shu sat down obediently and touched the teapot on the table to pour a cup of tea for the Empress Dowager and herself. The Empress Dowager praised, "You are a well-behaved child. When you first met you, you were standing there. No matter how the palace maids teas you, you don't laugh. Later, the Ai family asked you why you didn't laugh. Do you still remember how you answered?"
Xu Shu nodded, "I remember, my daughter replied at that time, "My mother told me that I should be polite in the palace, and I cannot cry or laugh." The Empress laughed when she heard this!"
The Empress Dowager laughed now, "Yes! After so many years, the Ai family has never seen a child as well as obedient as you! Seven years have passed, and the Ai family still remembers how you looked at that time. She was wearing a pink skirt and a garland, and her little face was red. She had not covered her cloth belt at that time!"
Xu Shu couldn't help but stretch out her hand to stroke her eyes, "At that time, when she saw the light, she wouldn't cry. Later, she couldn't stand it and had to cover it with a layer of things!"
"Do you regret saving your brother from the fire? If it weren't for being delayed to save your brother, your eyes might not have been blind!" The Empress Dowager asked suddenly.
Xu Shu smiled, "How could she regret it? He is the younger brother of a minister. Not to mention just being blind, even if he was burned to death in a big fire, he couldn't leave him alone!" She never regretted saving her younger brother. No matter in the past, present, or in the future, she would not regret it. She couldn't watch her younger brother being burned to death by the fire.
The Empress Dowager patted Xu Shu's hand in a moved manner, "You can only bear the four words of innocent heart! Yarong her... She is too narrow-minded!"
Xu Shu's heart moved and she couldn't help but feel alert. The Empress Dowager played the sensational card, which made her involuntarily soften her heart, but she was waiting for her here again!
"Miss Deng Wu...is a true person!"
This sentence was quite pertinent. The Empress Dowager nodded, "She couldn't hide her thoughts, but she thought she was hiding well and others couldn't see it! She likes to play tricks whenever she enters the palace. The Ai family and her mother see it, and they only feel ridiculous. Later, her mother didn't take her into the palace. She has only been here more diligently, but she hasn't made much progress!"
The Empress Dowager couldn't help but shake her head. Although the Deng family was her parents' home, since she married into the royal family, she could not only care about the interests of her parents' home. She should consider more about Dayin's interests. It was really hard for her brother to agree with her.
"Ms. Deng Wu has been favored since she was a child, and she is innocent and use some tricks occasionally without any harm!" Deng Yarong's scheming methods are really unpredictable, and no one will see them. Even if she repeatedly plots against Xu Shu, she has never succeeded.
The Empress Dowager sighed, "Who can she calculate her scheming? Look at how many precious flowers she just picked just now, probably who reminded her that she realized that it was inappropriate and wanted to plant it on your head, but she forgot even the flowers on her head, and didn't wash the juice of the flowers all over her hands. The stupid Ai family didn't have the heart to tell her, and asked her mother to take them back and teach them slowly!"
Xu Shu smiled and said, "My daughter thought Miss Deng Wu was joking with her daughter!"
"You! She has falsely accused you and you will not say anything bad about her!" The Empress Dowager sighed, "Last time, Meiren Jiang almost killed you, and you didn't say a word!"
"Miss Jiang is also a pitiful person... Besides, that day was your good day for you, Empress, how could my daughter bother you? Besides, the Empress said she would deal with it, but the daughter did not tell the Empress, and it was not deliberately concealing it!"
"I know that you are the most meticulous child. You always think carefully and considerately. You don't want to say a word more, for fear of making a mistake!" The Empress Dowager looked at Xu Shu lovingly, as if she was an elder who truly cared for her younger generations. If there was no trace of exploration in her eyes, she would be an extremely beautiful scene.
"Mother teaches that more mistakes are made, less mistakes are made! My daughter talks more often outside at home and can easily get annoying!" Li did say this, but she said that Xu Sheng.
"Your mother is too cautious, and your temperament is also with her! Your mother is with you for the first time you entered the palace. You stood steadily, but your mother..." The Empress Dowager shook her head repeatedly, still remembering Li's trembling attitude that day, which was really out of tune.
"Mother is very good..." Xu Shu whispered, not knowing whether it was for the Empress Dowager to listen to it or to convince herself.
The Empress Dowager laughed, "Your temperament... If Yarong is half well-behaved as you, I wouldn't be so embarrassed. The flowers cultivated by the earth dragon are so precious. She pick them as soon as she says she can, without any rules!"
really!
Xu Shu suddenly understood that the person who was following Deng Yarong was the one who was sent out by the Empress Dowager to secretly observe Deng Yarong. What was the purpose of the Empress Dowager asking her to accompany Deng Yarong? Or the Empress Dowager already knew everything about her birth in the Imperial Garden. She just chatted with her just to test whether she would lie? And what was the empress dowager just saying about the empress dowager? Is it related to the fact that she sent someone to secretly follow Deng Yarong?
Although there were too many questions, Xu Shu realized that this time was no longer suitable to go around with the Empress Dowager. Only by saying something about what the Empress Dowager wanted to hear could the Empress Dowager completely dispel her suspicion of herself.
"Actually, Miss Deng Wu's picking flowers is also the fault of his ministers!" Xu Shu suddenly spoke.
"Oh?" The Empress Dowager's eyes flashed, "What's wrong? Could it be that you asked her to pick it?"
Xu Shu quickly waved her hand, "No! No! Miss Deng Wu was having fun with her daughter on the way to the Imperial Garden. The daughter accidentally stepped on her. She was angry and then she was so angry that she could pick the flowers and calm down!"
"She is having fun with you?" The Empress Dowager laughed, "She is making things difficult for you on purpose, right? When she entered the palace when she was a child, she often stretched out her feet to trip over the palace maids and eunuchs who saw others fall down and clapped their hands and laughed. Unexpectedly, she has not changed her habit yet!"
The Empress Dowager knew everything. Xu Shu breathed a sigh of relief and said ashamed, "It's up to me that the daughter of the Emperor was deliberately stepping on that foot. She knew that Miss Deng Wu's foot was there, but she still stepped on it because... because..."
Chapter completed!