Chapter 22, she took your handle?
The two of them walked out of the hall door in synchronization, the emperor stopped under the hipped corridor: “The late emperor spent his entire life’s work to set the kingdom, and cultivated me to be this succeeding ruler, so I will do my duty no matter what.
“The matter of military pay will be handed over to the Governor, nowadays many pairs of eyes in the court are staring at this case, among them there are many old ministers beside the late emperor.
“So this matter of Shi En must be handled with rigor and care, not letting people pinch their words, otherwise, the several administrations we discussed earlier will surely encounter obstacles.”
Marquis Qingyun respectfully bowed down deeply, “I will certainly handle this with caution.”
The emperor nodded: “It’s getting late, I will also go to Ci Ning Palace to accompany the empress dowager to have a dinner.”
When ready to turn around, next to hear here eunuch four happy bowed back came up: “report emperor, the empress dowager today lunch from the beginning of the afternoon has been used to not Zheng, according to the empress dowager’s work and rest, the evening for fear that will not be serious meal again.”
Speaking of the two people at the same time stopped, there is a moment of work, the emperor only stared up eyebrows: “a lunch with more than an hour, but the empress phoenix body coloring sickness?”
“The empress dowager is good. Just this day …… this day’s lunch, is also the vegetarian girl under the kitchen.”
The Marquis of Qing Yun next to him was shocked and almost fell down the steps!
Empress Dowager Lu as the nation’s highest status people, all enjoy nothing is the most elaborate, can say Ci Ning Palace dining room sweeping eunuchs have to be extraordinarily resourceful, the entrance to the food how can it be casual? In the case of Shi En both sides of different positions, she actually let Zhao Su cooking again and again?
Marquis Qingyun asked urgently, “What about Sister Su? How is she?”
Four Happiness looked envious: “Not only did Miss Su cook for the Empress Dowager, she was also left behind by the Empress Dowager to have a meal together before leaving the palace.”
“……”
This is even more shocking isn’t it?
How many people in this world can sit on an equal footing with the Empress Dowager and eat at the same table?
The emperor was also puzzled. He looked at Marquis Qingyun: “Did the Empress Dowager still look for you in the past two days?”
“No! From yesterday to today, no more looking!”
“But she looked for Sister Su.” The Emperor furrowed his brows. “Yesterday I heard someone from Ci Ning Palace say that the meal that Sister Su’er cooked for the Empress Dowager was actually just a pot of reddish soup with some usual vegetables put into it, and then served with two fritters-
“The Empress Dowager’s golden honor, I’ve never seen her eat such coarse food, so that’s fine, the point is why does your Sister Su’er know how to cook?”
Marquis Qingyun really didn’t know how to answer this question. After all, up until now, Zhao Su’s cooking only existed in legend!
“What did she cook today?” The emperor asked.
Speaking of this, Four Happiness was energized!
“Back to the emperor, Miss Su made an antique soup with nothing more than lamb, haggis, and turnip and cabbage, but Eunuch Gao said that it was a hot pot – you don’t know, that lamb was sliced as thin as paper by Miss Su and as big as half a palm, and placed in a hot pot with star anise, cinnamon leaves, and chili peppers. Chili these boiled into a fragrant thick red oil rolling soup, a shabu-shabu into a melt-in-your-mouth meat rolls ……”
“Okay,” the emperor interrupted him with his hand, “actually add chili, the empress dowager’s stomach can stand it? She ate it okay?”
“The empress dowager ate well! After the meal took a nap, also drank the fresh vegetable juice that the girl squeezed before she left, and then went to the garden for a walk.”
The emperor was silent for a while.
Marquis Qingyun also followed in silence ……
……
Zhao Su’s advanced age was already twenty-four, not really fifteen, and although it wasn’t as powerful as Empress Lu’s kind of perverted schoolmaster, the brain that had successfully passed the college entrance exam certainly wouldn’t have any hard wounds.
She was certainly deeply grateful to Aunt Ning who raised this body, but once she jumped out of the original owner’s field of vision and listened to her ears, there were some things she couldn’t hide.
From the memories first inherited from the original owner and relayed with those around her, it is not that no one in this large family has ever wanted to properly educate the original owner, but when Xing, who is the great-uncle’s mother, reached out, Aunt Ning blocked it, and when Marquis of Qingyun invited a female teacher to seriously teach, Aunt Ning also blocked it.
Of course, you can also think that this is just a “defeat” of the “mother”, no bad intentions, but when it comes to the Qingyun Hou renewal of this matter, Auntie Ning an outsider to intervene in the not quite right, right?
From her childhood experience of following her grandmother around the small county, Auntie Ning’s attitude is more or less problematic.
Without moving, she sent Aunt Ning away, and then after going back to the house to think, she had someone set up dinner in the hexagonal pavilion in the courtyard, and then had someone go and invite Yun Wanyi and Hua Wanyong.
As a result, while waiting for the dinner, the two of them didn’t arrive, but instead waited for the windy Marquis Qing Yun first!
“Girl! You ran into the palace again today to cook for the Empress Dowager?”
Marquis Qingyun phrased it rather restrainedly, as if he was afraid of getting confirmation.
But Zhao Su was just that direct: “That’s right, I even ate with the Empress Dowager!”
“Why did the Empress Dowager treat you like this?”
“…… Probably because I look cute?”
Marquis Qingyun choked.
He was being tasked with a curatorial mission, and it was rare for him to take the initiative to find him, so Zhao Su couldn’t let him off the hook: “I just had a meal with the Empress Dowager, why is father so nervous?”
“How do you know, the Empress Dowager has been staring at me very closely lately!” Marquis Qingyun sat down on his butt, looking frazzled, “It’s just that I’ve been able to avoid it. And she couldn’t catch me and suddenly turned her head to be so enthusiastic about you, naturally the drunken master is not interested in wine, how can she not make me nervous?”
“Why is she staring at father? Could it be that father has committed a crime?”
“It’s not because–”
Marquis Qingyun shut his mouth in mid-sentence, “That’s all! I can’t understand even if I talk to you.”
“If you don’t understand, then the Empress Dowager might ask me to cook every now and then. There’s no harm in me cooking, but if she wants to put something in the food to falsely accuse me, what can I do?”
Marquis Qingyun was also subdued by her words, and only after three seconds did he say, “Tell me honestly, these two times you went to the palace, what else did the empress dowager say to you?”
“She talked about the Flower Moon Meeting.”
“How?”
“Just about how successful the Flower Moon Society was founded. Since the founding of Great Liang, countless women have changed their destiny because of this initiative, and have been able to hold their heads up high as human beings ever since ……”
“Come on, a Flower Moon Society has benefited some women but caused chaos in the dynasty! The order of the dynasty has been disrupted, playing from the death of the first emperor, the case around the Flower Moon Society has not stopped.
“Three years only, one after another ten or more officials above the fourth grade implicated in the horse, on this immediate, there is a big trouble here on the shelves, she still with you to blow the flower moon will?”
Zhao Su did not finish her sentence, Marquis Qingyun interrupted her.
This is not the same as what Empress Dowager Lu said!
Zhao Su said, “Isn’t it a good thing to benefit women? How could something go wrong?”
“I can’t understand by talking to you.”
Marquis Qingyun shook his head and picked up the tea handed by the maid, perfunctorily.
Zhao Su straightened up, “The big trouble father is talking about is definitely Shi En.”
Marquis Qing Yun looked up, “You know?”
“Auntie said so.”
Hearing this, Marquis Qingyun’s face floated with a trace of brooding obscurity, and his expression chilled: “Why did she tell you this?”
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