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Chapter 163 Female Official Manager
"I am Cai Yan, honored to meet the Queen Mother!"

Cai Yan was led by a female official to Changle Palace and began to pay her respects behind a pearl curtain.

"Sister Wen Ji!"

What surprised Cai Yan was that the person waiting for her was not Empress Dowager He who had just been restored to the throne, but Dong Bai.

Dong Bai walked out from behind the bead curtain, took her hand and said with a smile.

"Xiaobai? Why are you in the Queen Mother's bedroom?"

Cai Yan asked curiously.

She received an order from the empress dowager, saying that the empress dowager had been living alone in the deep palace for a long time and wanted someone to accompany her. She heard that Cai Yan was an unparalleled master of the zither, so she specially issued an edict to invite Cai Yan to the palace to accompany her.

Because Liu Bian was restored to the throne, Empress Dowager He returned to the palace, so even Grand Tutor Dong Zhuo moved out of the palace and temporarily lived in the Grand Tutor's Mansion.

correct!

The Tai Shi Mansion was actually a part of the Imperial Palace. They simply demarcated the southwest corner of the Imperial Palace, rebuilt a circle of walls, and then opened a new door and called it the Tai Shi Mansion!
At first, people still had some discussions about this act of direct occupation of the imperial palace, but they were suppressed on the grounds of saving manpower so that the saved money could be better used to help the victims.

Even though we are all superior celestial dragons and don't care about the lives of ordinary people, this is like a moral curse: we can do it but we can't say it!

Both the Emperor and the Grand Tutor said that this was done to save money. They both took the lead and set an example themselves. Why do you still think there is a problem?

Besides, when Emperor Ling of Han was alive, he was a big player. The imperial palace was not only magnificent but also covered a huge area. One third of the entire Luoyang city was occupied by the imperial palace. It was nothing to separate a piece from it now.

It was precisely because Dong Zhuo had nominally moved out of the palace that after receiving the edict from Empress Dowager He, Cai Yan walked in without any hesitation.

Although Dong Zhuo would not be attracted to her because of Cai Yong, as a lady from a noble family, if she were with Dong Zhuo, she would always be subject to gossip, right?

What Cai Yan didn't expect was that although Dong Zhuo had moved away, Dong Bai was still in the palace!

"Oh! It's been a while since I last saw Sister Wen Ji. I miss you!"

Dong Bai hugged Cai Yan and started to act coquettishly.

Dong Bai actually felt a little guilty towards Cai Yan.

She now understood that Cai Yan was actually quite happy when she was teased by a bad guy in Cai's mansion, and she was just meddling in other people's business.

However, even if Dong Bai was allowed to choose again, she said that she would definitely snatch it away.

It is true that Dong Bai had a very good impression of Cai Yan. She always felt that Cai Yan was quiet, well-educated and the ideal elder sister in her mind. However, when it came to matters such as lifelong happiness, she would not hesitate to kill Cai Yan, not to mention her godsister, even if her biological sister dared to stand in her way.

"Xiao Bai, even if you are naughty, there must be a limit. How can you fake the Queen Mother's order?"

Cai Yan had no choice but to tap on Dong Bai's forehead and say something.

"I'm not pretending! I was ordered by that woman in the first place!"

Dong Bai retorted disdainfully.

He Lingsi has now become the empress dowager of the Han Dynasty and nominally the supreme leader of the empire.

But!
Dong Bai's people are everywhere inside and outside the Changle Palace. The words of the Queen Mother He Lingsi are definitely not as effective as those of Dong Bai.

Li Qingyuan said that if Empress Dowager He had not played tricks on him at the beginning, she would definitely be the Empress Dowager now.

But since He Lingsi just started teasing him, don't blame him for teasing her! Besides, these people were just looking at Queen Mother He and asking her not to have any inappropriate thoughts. In other aspects, He Lingsi still enjoyed the treatment of the Queen Mother, so it was not unfair to her.

"By the way, Sister Wenji, I'll take you to see my husband!"

Dong Bai saw that Cai Yan was about to start teaching him a lesson, so he spoke quickly.

"What? What husband?"

Cai Yan blushed immediately. She had known about the affair between Dong Bai and Li Qingyuan for a long time. She even cried at home for several days because of it!

After meeting Li Qingyuan, Cai Yan had thought about their future and children in her dreams. After all, it is not easy to meet a man of your dreams these days.

But who would have thought that in the blink of an eye, the other person became Dong Bai's husband. Cai Yan was completely dumbfounded!

Although Li Qingyuan has not officially married Dong Bai yet, who doesn't know that Dong Zhuo has already agreed to their relationship?

"Oh! Sister Wen Ji, stop pretending. I'm not jealous!"

Dong Bai said that if she hadn't been treated as a toy by someone a few days ago and couldn't even stand up, she wouldn't be so easy to talk to!

It is simply a fantasy to expect a woman not to be jealous these days, because there is no such thing as a jealous woman in the world.

However, being jealous also depends on whether your own conditions allow it.

Facing Li Qingyuan who was firing at full force, Dong Bai couldn't even hold on for ten minutes, so naturally he didn't dare to be jealous.

"Who! Who's pretending!"

Cai Yan was somewhat insincere. It would be a lie to say that she was not excited. But when she thought that the other party was Dong Bai's man, she felt that she should keep a distance from him.

She is a woman of great talent, she is not like those superficial women -

"Why, Yan'er, do you think there's something wrong with my plan?"

Cai Yan collapsed in the man's arms, unable to speak.

There was no way out. Being held in the man's arms and feeling the strong masculine scent coming from him, Cai Yan felt as if all the bones in her body had gone limp.

"Yes! You can!"

Cai Yan nodded quickly.

Just now Li Qingyuan told her that Cai Yan would be allowed to reside in the palace in the name of Empress Dowager He, and it would be announced to the outside world that Cai Yan would be the head of the female officials in Changle Palace.

There were female officials in the Han Dynasty, and Cai Yan's identity was just right, so there would be no problem with this imperial edict at all.

The reason for doing so was that the Cai family was a famous family after all, and Cai Yong was a great scholar of the time. Even though Cai Yan was already a widow, it was unlikely that the old man Cai Yong would agree to let her become Li Qingyuan's concubine.

So it would be better to let Cai Yan enter the palace directly. After all, the imperial palace is now Li Qingyuan’s back garden. Entering the palace is like entering her own home!
By the way, just like Dong Zhuo’s Grand Tutor’s Mansion, Li Qingyuan’s Imperial Tutor’s Mansion was also a separate area carved out directly from the imperial palace.

The only difference is that the walls of the Grand Tutor's Mansion are two feet wide and more than eight meters high, almost as high as the city wall, while the walls of the Imperial Tutor's Mansion are only two meters high, and it seems that there is a door?
"Then Yan'er, shall we discuss the art of playing the zither first?"

Li Qingyuan couldn't help but feel amused when he saw Cai Yan's desperate look.

Who would have thought that this most talented woman in the Three Kingdoms was actually a flower maniac?
(End of this chapter)