Chapter 47: She’s coming to the palace again
“Third sister, how come I didn’t know the Empress Dowager was so favorable to you?”
“Congratulations, you know now!”
Zhao Su gave him a blank look.
The thought of going to the Emperor’s lair made her lose all this energy.
Followed Gao Shu into the East China Gate, let him pick a road away from the Qianqing Palace to Ci Ning Palace, at least all the way without danger, think of the emperor did not have so much work wandering around.
On the way to set a set of high with the words, high with the words that the emperor is quite busy in the past few days, too busy to take into account anything else, which will rest assured that boldly into the garden.
Empress Lu was listening to the pipa music, one side in the cutting of several branches of peonies, in front of the round table set with dry fresh seven or eight kinds of fruit, four courtesans from the side of the hand, there are two small eunuchs holding a copper basin and a handkerchief, another two small eunuchs divided into the left and right lightly shaking a feather fan, next to a fat lion cat lying on the ground and snoring.
From Empress Dowager Lu’s loving face, Zhao Su saw the four words of life winner.
“Good luck Empress Dowager!”
Zhao Su deliberately pinched his voice to ask for peace.
“Uncomfortable?” Empress Dowager Lu enjoined over a slash of her eyes in her busy schedule, “Still pretending to be a little eunuch with me, isn’t this quite good?”
Zhao Su straight waist: “You under the decree, I’m not just crawl also have to climb into the palace well.”
Empress Dowager Lu gave her a blank look.
“Is there any progress on the rebellion?”
“No. I’ve tried, and my father seems to be a little bit reluctant.” Zhao Su handed her a flower: “There was also something that happened at home in the past few days, my aunt turned out to be not a good person, I just finished taking care of this.”
Empress Lu took the flowers, “I knew that if Zhao didn’t renew his marriage for so many years and kept a widowed sister-in-law in the house, something would happen sooner or later.”
After saying this, Empress Dowager Lu sidled her face in a less than satisfied manner, “You’re too slow in this errand.”
“I cheer!”
Empress Lu continued to arrange flowers, “I heard that you beat up Xu谙的儿子?”
Zhao Su knew that she couldn’t get around this layer. She looked at the rest of the people.
Empress Dowager Lu waved her hand and told them all to stand down.
Only after watching the people leave, did Zhao Su excitedly give a high five, “Empress Dowager! You are truly too wise, I don’t know until I come into contact with these ancients, but once I do, I realize how stupid they are!
“That Xu Chong went so far as to tell me that in the future, if I marry there, I can only pass on my family’s name for their Xu family, and I can’t interfere in his affairs. If he takes a concubine, I’ll have to live with it. Also can not be jealous, jealousy he will have to be my seven out of the crime! He’s so capable, why doesn’t he go to heaven?
“But his surname Xu is just a second generation of ancestor shade, so high and mighty, can be so justified to say that the husband is the wife’s program, married from the husband, which if replaced by a man with a bit of ability, he would have to find a niche to put himself up?
“More than relying on ancestry, my Zhao family is not better than his Xu family? Than the ability, he has not made any achievements so far, in addition to playing mind games quite skilful, this guy is nothing, but so confident!”
Xu Chong’s words that day still made Zhao Su very angry.
In the past, reading novels, always think that the ancient times should be like this and that, men practicing their three principles and five rules, women are tamed by this set of principles, resigned to follow the rules for thousands of years in the inner house to endure, which is very normal. Sometimes even criticizing some characters in novels according to the thinking of the ancients.
But it wasn’t until she heard Xu Chong plainly recount those words about treating women as subordinates that she felt that the words and phrases were as sharp as needles in her flesh!
How could a soul raised in a socialist society accept the rules of those represented by Xu Chong?
If she didn’t happen to have a powerful father, would this marriage have been so easy to get rid of?
Even afterward, Xu Shi and Marquis Qingyun scolded Xu Chong’s point, but also only said that he bullied the “Marquis lady”, and did not accuse him of thinking wrong.
In this way, Zhao Su had an incomparable understanding of Empress Dowager Lu’s obsession with preserving the Flower Moon Society!
Still have to change the world!
It still had to be self-improvement!
Maintaining the Flower Moon Society and recognizing its continued existence was indeed much less troublesome than blazing a new trail! Those who planted trees in the past will enjoy the coolness of the future, and Empress Dowager Lu is this former person.
Empress Dowager Lu gave her a look: ”Look at your little interest! Why did God pick you to cross over?”
Zhao Su waisted: “Learning from Mr. Lu!”
Empress Lu said, “That means you still go out too little, you should go out more and feel the difference of the world. Those like Xu Chong, who have no power in their hands and still have to listen to his father, are just mouths to feed, and are not worth worrying about.
“And those who already have the power of speech in their hands, want to pin you down, simply do not need to use their mouths to say it. So Xu Chong such is not worth caring about at all, his biggest role is to expose the general status quo of the current world situation to you. You set your sights farther apart, enlarge your pattern a bit, and focus on those who can sway the rules.”
“You’re right!”
“Set it aside.”
A bottle of peony inserted, Zhao Su said “good le”, very naturally picked up the large flower bottle, put it aside on the ground, and nimbly came back to clean up the tabletop branches and leaves: “If it is not in order to stay in the mansion to wait for the opportunity to turn my father, I will not stay at home all the time.”
Empress Lu sat down and said, “Have you heard of the court’s disposition of Shi En?”
“I’ve heard about it, and it’s true that a lot of people are clamoring for someone to be transferred to fill Shi En’s vacancy. But it seems that my father in the court raised objections, the emperor will go along with the past. What do you think they mean by this?”
“What could it mean? Of course it’s because they’re afraid that if I get evidence that Shi En was framed, it won’t end well then.”
Zhao Su paused slightly, “Then, Empress Dowager, have you found out?”
“The evidence of Shi En being falsely accused was found, but I accidentally found something new.” Empress Dowager Lu pulled out a few sheets of paper from her sleeve. Halfway through handing them out, she recollected them again, “By the way, can you read traditional Chinese characters?”
Zhao Su was speechless, “Then don’t accept my part-time job.”
Empress Lu looked askance and handed it over.
Zhao Su quickly unfolded it, and after reading it, her eyes widened, “The Imperial Medicine Department bought Chen medicine into the palace? They don’t want their lives!”
“I don’t know if they want their own lives or not, but it’s true that they want Shi En’s life.”
This stack of paper is afraid to have seven or eight, it is written clearly, the Imperial Medicine Division picking up herbs related to these people, the use of Chen medicine and new medicine to earn a difference of thirty thousand taels of silver, the flow of this money to the purpose of the unknown, but in the impeachment of Shi En in an account, but it happens to have a few pens respectively from Shaanxi Longyang.
“This must be their trick!”
“The public court is about evidence, it can’t be based on your one sentence of ‘sure’. But at least it shows that they did have a complete set of plans against Shi En. They put a charge on Shion, and they’ve also blocked my mouth–thinking beautifully!”
“That’s right, they still think the Empress Dowager is fooling around!”
Zhao Su numbly shook her fan.
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