Chapter 1841: Have you noticed that Prime Minister Gao seems to have changed?

Meanwhile.

The Xiongnu.

The Mobei Royal Court.

A gust of autumn wind swept through, raging across the Xiongnu Royal Court.

"Father Khan, why, for no apparent reason, did I suddenly feel a chilling cold?"

Inside the royal tent, Bater suddenly shivered and looked toward Helian Cha.

Helian Cha's majestic gaze swept over, and just as he was about to speak, he too inexplicably felt a chill and shivered in turn.

"Strange, this Chanyu also feels an extremely bone-chilling cold!" Helian Cha frowned.

"Father Khan, the old shaman divined last night that the Yaoguang star in the sky was turning red. He called it 'Yaoguang's blood, a calamity for the gods.' Do you think it could be that Living Yama has cooked up some new poisonous scheme against our tribe..."

Bater seemed to think of something and suddenly spoke up.

Last night, Helian Cha had ordered the old shaman in the royal court to divine the future. The result was that the old shaman, after observing the celestial phenomena, actually said the Yaoguang star was red and that the Xiongnu tribe might face a great disaster. This had enraged Helian Cha so much that he had him beheaded on the spot.

Only a very few people knew about this.

Helian Cha's expression changed, and he reprimanded him directly.

"Shut your mouth!"

"Everything has a great cause and effect. Don't you know that disaster comes from the mouth?"

"It must be that autumn has arrived and the grassland is too cold; we aren't wearing enough! Come, quickly put on this white fox-fur coat; you won't be cold once you put it on!"

Helian Cha took down a white fox-fur coat and personally draped it over Bater.

Bater also said repeatedly, "Right!"

"It must be that the grassland chill has deepened, Father Khan... you should also quickly put on a heavy coat, don't let yourself freeze!"

Bater brought over a long coat and draped it over Helian Cha.

"Father Khan, put it on well, it's much warmer now."

"Pull the tent curtains tight as well. The weather has turned cold, and the cold wind blows into the royal tent from time to time; how could it not be cold?"

"Yes, yes, yes! I'll do it right away! It's all the fault of this damn cold wind!" Bater said hurriedly.

"I will also order someone to boil a pot of mare's milk wine and steam some Da Qian millet to warm our bodies!"

"Is it warmer now?"

"It's warmer!"

"That's right, this Chanyu said it was just an illusion earlier!"

"Father Khan is wise!"

"..."

Da Qian.

The Imperial Palace.

The vast Imperial Study was silent.

Wu Zhao leaned back on the dragon throne, her hands crossed, her gaze unfocused as she looked ahead, seemingly lost in thought.

"Your Majesty, are you troubled by something?"

Xiao Yuan, seeing Wu Zhao's expression, tentatively asked.

As soon as Wu Zhao returned to the palace and arrived at the Imperial Study, she sat on the dragon throne, looking ahead in deep contemplation without saying a word.

This made Xiao Yuan somewhat worried.

Everything had been perfectly fine earlier at the Duke Prefecture...

Wu Zhao raised her phoenix eyes, her icy gaze landing on Xiao Yuan, filled with majesty.

Xiao Yuan hurriedly knelt on the ground and lowered her voice, "This servant noticed that since Your Majesty left the Duke Prefecture and got into the carriage, you have been lost in thought, your brows tightly furrowed, which is why I dared to ask. I beg Your Majesty to forgive my sin!"

"You are indeed clever. Since you guessed correctly, what sin is there?"

"Get up!"

Wu Zhao said indifferently.

Xiao Yuan felt a shock in her heart upon hearing this.

"This servant dares to ask, what is troubling Your Majesty?" Xiao Yuan asked cautiously.

Once Xiao Yuan said this, a silence fell.

In the Imperial Study with only Wu Zhao and her, the oppressive atmosphere made Xiao Yuan's psychological pressure deepen with every passing second.

Sweat seeped from Xiao Yuan's forehead, and just as she couldn't help but want to kneel again.

Wu Zhao spoke.

"Xiao Yuan, have you noticed that Prime Minister Gao... seems to have changed, that he is different from before?"

Wu Zhao raised her head, her brows locked, her phoenix eyes extremely deep.

This remark left Xiao Yuan stunned.

Your Majesty... is troubled by this?

"How has the Prime Minister changed? Is Your Majesty overthinking it?" Xiao Yuan probed.

"Overthinking?"

Wu Zhao repeated the word, her brows furrowing even tighter.

"Then can Your Majesty tell me, how is the Prime Minister different? Although this servant is of low status, I have been clever since childhood; perhaps I can help relieve Your Majesty's worries."

Xiao Yuan continued.

Xiao Yuan had served her since childhood and was not an outsider, so Wu Zhao raised her phoenix eyes and spoke slowly.

"The Prime Minister's eyes are different from before!"

"His eyes?"

Xiao Yuan looked stunned.

"In the past, even the first time he tore down the recruitment edict, the Prime Minister was still a mere playboy, yet facing a life-or-death crisis, he dared to peek at my legs in the Jin Luandian!"

"Later, every time I summoned him, if I kept the Prime Minister to discuss matters in the Imperial Garden, he would sit opposite me, looking straight ahead, but in reality, he was always openly staring at my chest!"

"I couldn't flare up, and I couldn't say anything, but that was the fact!"

"But today, when I went to the Duke Prefecture, he actually sat on my side, and his eyes deliberately avoided me, no longer so brazen!"

As Wu Zhao spoke, her brows furrowed even tighter.

In her eyes, this was all too wrong.

Xiao Yuan was left bewildered.

This... isn't this a good thing?

But why would Wu Zhao be like this?

Xiao Yuan's gaze flickered.

Wu Zhao continued, "Not only that, when Chen Sheng went to get the Xiongnu sheepskin map, I once said, with these words from the Prime Minister today, it would be worth it for me to wait not just one day, but even ten days!"

"That was a test!"

Wu Zhao raised her eyes, speaking with an extremely certain tone.

"The Prime Minister is extremely lecherous. He would definitely associate such words as 'waiting one day' or 'waiting ten days' with other things. If it were in the past, let alone these few sentences, even if it were some inappropriate jokes, he would have forced them out."

"But today, he was expressionless, as if he hadn't heard them at all."

"This point is too abnormal!"