"You did not disappoint me."

Empress Dowager Zhao looked down at him condescendingly, the smile on her face faded again, and she said lightly:

"A case was solved on the first day I took office. It seems that I was right to give you a life that day. I won't take it back for the time being."

Zhao Cuo was used to her arrogance and understood that his current anger was just incompetent rage, so he just lowered his head calmly and said nothing.

"But there is one thing I am curious about."

The Queen Mother raised her thin eyebrows lightly.

"Have you, Zhao Cuo, decided to serve me obediently?"

When she said this, the corners of her pink lips also raised, she looked at the young man who lowered his head in front of her with interest, and said with a smile:

"In the drinking boat, that prince of some county jumped out and yelled a few words, so you beat him up in my name. That wasn't the end of it. Then you used your executioner powers to search him.

Get the boat."

The Queen Mother Zhao paused for a moment, her beautiful pale golden eyes half-squinted, and then she continued to speak unhurriedly.

"At that time, the Execution Department only received a report about Yin Bi Huafang secretly selling illegal salt, right? It was still anonymous. According to normal circumstances, due to the reasons behind the brothel, you would not dare to go there without substantial evidence.

Checked."

Zhao Cuo did not dare to be careless. Empress Dowager Zhao had never been a woman who was easy to fool. Her words just now showed that she was very aware of the behavior of the middle and lower-level officials in the Execution Department.

"Then what made you go to Yunbi Huafang to make a big fuss based on just an anonymous report letter? Could it be that you heard that the woman had some grudge against me, so you went to her place to cause trouble in order to seek revenge?

I was so happy, but I accidentally discovered that Fu Shou Ointment was being sold secretly there. Isn't that the case?"

The Queen Mother said with a smile.

"Your Majesty... you are wise."

Zhao Cuo whispered, not surprised that the Queen Mother Zhao thought of this. This is what he wanted this woman to understand.

The young father-in-law's current goal is to win her trust.

Everything is going according to plan.

"Ah!"

Empress Dowager Zhao suddenly sneered, the smile on her face was instantly covered with ice and snow, and she looked at Zhao Cuo with eyes that seemed to freeze her.

"You are so brave."

After saying that, she ignored Zhao Cuo's confused eyes, turned to the maid, stretched out her small white jade hand, and said coldly:

"Where's the poem?"

A piece of paper with regular ink marks appeared in Fei Wu's hand. He quickly walked to his master and handed it over with his head lowered.

'what's the situation?'

Zhao Cuo had a question mark on his face. He was a little confused about the situation. Why did the Queen Mother suddenly turn against her?

The doubts in the young grandfather's mind were quickly cleared.

Along with a poem he liked very much.

"I will never let go of Qingshan..."

As Mr. Zhao's face gradually turned grim, the Queen Mother slowly finished reciting a poem, and the smile on her pink lips became wanton.

"Really well written."

She couldn't help but praise her, but her eyes turned playful when she looked at Zhao Cuo, and she chuckled and continued:

"But why don't I believe that you, who can write such a poem, are the ones who went to Yunbi Huafang to cause trouble in the absence of insufficient evidence and no search of official documents just to please me?"

'ha?'

Zhao Cuo's mind was suddenly in knots. Is this the problem? The poem he wrote on a whim caused him to fail?

"Young Master Zhao is really proud and arrogant."

The mother-in-law looked at the poem in her hand playfully.

"The tenacity and unyieldingness throughout this poem perfectly express your feelings. Do you want to fight against me to the end?"

Zhao Cuo was speechless. When he silently wrote this poem to encourage himself, he never expected that he could interpret so many things.

"It can be inferred from this that you went to search Yinbi Huafang to show your favor to me because you wanted to gain my respect, use my resources to grow slowly, and then find an opportunity to kill me?"

When the Queen Mother said this, the smile in her eyes became more intense, as if she had heard some joke. After holding the supreme power of the Yu Dynasty for decades, no one dared to provoke her like this.

"Your Majesty, you are worrying too much."

Zhao Cuo tried to speak in a flattering tone, but when he found that he couldn't do it, he could only speak in a dull voice.

"I am just the son of a noble nobleman, and my cultivation level is only at the first level. How can I have the capital to be my enemy?"

"That's why it's interesting."

Seeing Zhao Cuo's helpless expression and unwillingness to say completely unbelievable words of submission, the curvature of the corners of the Queen Mother's mouth was even more beautiful, and she said with a smile like a flower:

"Most of those who dare to make trouble with me are dead. The rest are either protected by the fire bearer, or they just turn their tail between their legs. You are nothing but you still try so hard to fight me. I like you.

backbone."

Zhao Cuo closed his eyes and ignored her words. Young Master Zhao will no longer be dominated by his emotions, but he also knows that he may be in trouble today.

"So cute."

Empress Dowager Zhao chuckled lightly, raised her slender and flawless jade arms and gently touched Zhao Cuo's hair, then suddenly leaned over to his ear and exhaled like a blue breath:

"But bullying you, an eighteen-year-old child, is not in line with my status. I will eat you when you grow up. Do you feel ecstatic when I say this?"

Zhao Cuo didn't know why he was not surprised at all by her words. Inexplicably, he felt that the probability of Queen Mother Zhao killing him was 50-50, or that this woman would not let him die so easily.

"Of course I forgive your arrogance with conditions."

The Queen Mother continued to stroke his hair with gentle force, with an obvious smile in her tone, as if she had thought of some good idea.

"You compose a poem on the spot. If it makes me happy, I will give you another life and give you a reward for your contribution to cracking the Yinbi Painting Boat case. You know how to choose? Don't waste my precious time.

How kind."

"I will do whatever the queen says."

Zhao Cuo said a little perfunctorily.

"Are you talking to me with this attitude again?"

Empress Dowager Zhao narrowed her beautiful eyes, took back the hand on his head, and said with a cold snort:

"I'll give you half a quarter of an hour. If you can't write a poem that satisfies me, I'll have someone notify your sister to collect your body."

"Please ask your Majesty to ask the question."

Zhao Cuo took a deep breath and stood up and said.

"Well……"

The Queen Mother pondered and raised her hand to point to the screen with paintings of Jiangnan landscapes.

"I'll take the scene above as my title. I allow you to write on it with a pen. Jiangnan is my hometown. If you don't write well, this screen will be used as a shroud for you."

"Jiangnan."
Chapter completed!