wow-

Driven by it, the hot soup in the bucket splashed out.

His well-proportioned and muscular upper body was exposed in the air as he moved, revealing his majestic look tinged with murderous intent. He looked very domineering!
“what–“

Fierce and cute!
The Queen Mother stared blankly at the object in front of her which was very close to her, and she couldn’t help but let out a low cry. This was the first time she had seen something at such a close distance. She turned her cheek to the side and shrank her neck slightly backwards.

“Why are you so surprised, dear sister? Haven’t you seen it all before?”

“I didn’t see it so carefully before. Now my sister starts to serve her brother.”

After saying this, she became busy.

As time passed, the water temperature in the bucket did not drop at all.

Li An closed his eyes tightly, and his fair and shiny skin was now flushed.

Just as Li An was still trying to hold back his excitement and wanted to say something to distract himself, he heard the soft and sticky voice of Queen Mother Wei:
“Brother, is that so?”

“How about we just do it as before? This little sister really can’t stand it.”

Lowering his head slightly, Li An could see that the Queen Mother was not being sincere.

It should be an extremely hard job, but the Queen Mother showed some greed on her face. I wonder if she unlocked some new and unique attribute!

“Good sister, bear with it for a while.”

The horrifying shadow slowly covered the Queen Mother’s face, making her want to escape from here. Escape was not something she could bear. She slowly leaned back, but although the wooden barrel was large, it always had a limit, and she was always one step slow!
The mist gradually dissipated. Seeing Li An’s satisfied expression, the Queen Mother rolled her eyes and said hurriedly, “This can be considered as paying off the debt!”

This is just an excuse.

But both of them understood it tacitly.

After washing his body again, Li An calmed down a little and started drinking the bowl of soup, feeding the empress dowager a few sips from time to time.

As for how to drink it, don’t ask!
“If my dear brother finds the soup delicious and feels relieved, you can come to see me more often in the future and I can serve you more, so that I can pay off the debt as soon as possible.”

The Queen Mother has entered the second stage!
Is this an attempt to pay off the debt as soon as possible? Li An didn’t say.

Seeing the empress dowager turning away with her eyes slightly closed and holding the edge of the wooden barrel, Li An felt that he was indeed a little too barbaric just now, and could not help but change the subject softly: “With a good sister in Shoukang Palace and such delicious soup, brother will naturally come often in the future.”

“This is lotus seed soup, which is the best for calming people’s anger.”

Rain was still falling outside the window, covering up some sounds that were difficult to be heard by others, which was a good thing, but a cool breeze blew into the palace, and the queen mother shivered from the cold. “This lotus heart is originally a bit bitter, but my sister simmered it over low heat for four hours, and it has become sweet and refreshing.”

“Lianxin?” Li An muttered.

What is a high level? The gentle words have explained all the hardships.

Savoring the sweetness in his mouth, Li An did not feel any bitterness. Perhaps the bitterness that the Queen Mother tasted in her mouth was caused by other reasons?

“The soup prepared by my dear sister is naturally a rare and top-quality one, but why does it sound like my sister is saying something with a hidden meaning?” He gently hugged the empress dowager’s upper body exposed to the air, and the circulation of his true Qi brought her heart-warming warmth, preventing her from catching a cold on the rainy night.

Feeling the strong body beneath Li An’s beautiful appearance, the Queen Mother explained with a sad and complaining tone: “I heard that my good brother has put Shen Zhong in prison and plans to behead him next month. I wonder if it is true?”

Although Shen Zhong’s incident happened outside the Yong’an Palace, and the people who experienced it with him were not talkative people, many people saw him being taken to the prison by Yu Huatian.

Perhaps the Queen Mother sent someone to ask Wei Hua about everything that happened.
Li An thought.

“This is indeed true,” Li An nodded, “My dear sister, do you want to plead for Shen Zhong?”

“It’s not like I can ask for mercy.”

The Queen Mother gently stroked her lover’s chest and slowly explained, “After all, Shen Zhong is my sister’s man. It was my sister’s idea to let Wei Hua have more contact with him through the imperial merchant smuggling incident.”

“I just didn’t expect Shen Zhong to go this far in the end.”

Li An laughed and said, “Sister, you have done nothing wrong, why do you have to explain so much? Wei Hua is still a member of the Wei family, and your approach is also the common approach of the heads of large families. If other family members are not good enough, they always have to train and promote a talent. I can understand that, and I will not do anything to Wei Hua.”

“Of course, this is Wei Hua’s second chance, and it’s also the last one!”

“If he is really a beast with talent, then his hunting grounds in the court will naturally continue to expand. With the job of an imperial merchant, it is not difficult to see all the beasts following him as soon as he roars. But if he is just a mediocre person and eventually forgotten by the crowd, then it means that the fate of the Wei family is such that only weeds will be left in this huge garden.”

Use objects to describe people.

This bowl of lotus heart soup is like the current Wei family. It was bitter at first but that Wei Hua was still a little short of the right degree. If it could be tempered by time and simmered over low heat, it would naturally become sweet. Now that the situation in Northern Qi is very good, she naturally doesn’t need to worry too much. Perhaps the biggest wish of the empress dowager is to let a talent come out of the Wei family?
This bowl of soup gave Ang Lee a wake-up call.

“As for how to deal with Shen Zhong, I need to think more about it.”

After a pause, Li An recalled that in the original novel, Shen Zhong relied on the dominant power of the Jinyiwei to move between the young emperor and the empress dowager without any rivals in the court, and worked wholeheartedly for Northern Qi according to his own wishes.

If it weren’t for Fan Xian’s instigation at the end, Shen Zhong wouldn’t have revealed the secret that he was actually under the Queen Mother’s command.

Finally, because of Sean’s stubbornness in his decision, he took it upon himself to kill Fan Xian, the chief envoy of the Nanqing delegation, and died at the hands of Uesugi Tiger!
Listening to Li An’s somewhat ruthless words, the Queen Mother did not feel anything strange, but just said: “Brother and Doudou need to spend more time on the affairs of the court. Sister is just a little woman who only knows how to serve brother. If there is anything I said wrong, brother, please don’t laugh at me.”

“Why would you laugh at your sister? Maybe your sister knows your brother’s feelings better than Doudou does.”

Now that the important matter was settled, the Queen Mother put her worries aside.

Hearing what Li An said, I think Shen Zhong would not have died.
Then she reverted to her old ways.

hiss–

You little naughty boy, you’re still wandering around!
Following the Queen Mother’s actions, Li An couldn’t help but take a breath. He was quite sensitive now!
Debts are debts. Besides borrowing and repaying, interest is of course inevitable. Now, I will collect some interest first!

“Good sister~”

“You are such a bad guy!” (End of this chapter)