Buddhist palace maids want to be rich

Chapter 209
So busy, until the morning of the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, at the appointed time, the carriage in the palace was waiting at the gate of the Chu Mansion.

The palace servant who came to pick him up was Jiang Zhixia's old acquaintance, Nanny Huang.

Chu Tiankuo looked coldly at the reception that exceeded the standard, and his face gradually darkened.

You know, for ordinary audiences, the wives go to the gate of the palace in a carriage by themselves.Where can I get the carriage from the palace to pick me up?
When he heard Zhixia talking about this matter worriedly, he knew that it was probably not up to him to decide whether to recognize his relatives or not.

Now he only hopes that before everyone has clear news, he will be transferred back to the border town as soon as possible.Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't be able to leave easily.

Chu Tiankuo accompanied Jiang Zhixia in the carriage in the palace, and walked steadily all the way to the gate of the palace.

After stepping through the palace gate, I saw two sedan chairs waiting.

"I also invite General Chu and Mrs. Chu to get on the sedan chair and go directly to Fengyi Palace to meet the empress." The eunuch waiting at the side said with a smile on his face.

Jiang Zhixia looked at the eunuch's costume—it was the costume of the chief eunuch in charge.

The eunuch had sharp eyes, saw Jiang Zhixia sizing her up, so he smiled and said, "Madam may not recognize Nu. Nu is the chief manager of Fengyi Palace, so I have to be given the surname Liu by the empress."

Jiang Zhixia understood immediately.

She knew that Manager Liu was the queen's confidant, and he was with the queen when she entered the East Palace as the crown princess.

After the empress took charge of Fengyi Palace, he became the chief manager of Fengyi Palace as a matter of course.

However, Director Liu belonged to all the eunuchs and maids in Fengyi Palace, and she was just a small maid in the back hall, so naturally there was no intersection.

Jiang Zhixia only occasionally glanced at some large occasions with a large number of people from a distance, so naturally he couldn't remember.

As for Director Liu, there are so many maids and nuns in Fengyi Palace, so naturally they don't even know her anymore.

However, it can also be seen from this that the empress really attaches great importance to them, and even sent the chief steward of her own palace to welcome them.

"Don't I need to go to the front hall to meet the emperor first?" Chu Tiankuo asked with a frown.

Since he learned that he was going to enter the palace for an audience, he also quietly inquired about some procedures for the audience.

Basically, the men go to the front hall to meet the emperor first, and the female relatives go directly to the harem to meet the queen.

What's more, there is Jiang Zhixia who understands the palace rules.

"No, no. The emperor said, let the general and the empress talk about the relationship between siblings first. After the court has finished discussing the matter, he will go to Fengyi Palace to see the general."

Manager Liu said with a smile on his face.

As the empress' confidante, of course he knew that General Chu was the real brother of the empress' heart and soul.

Chu Tiankuo frowned, exchanged glances with Jiang Zhixia, and each sat in the palace sedan chair.

There are really too many places that are not in compliance with the rules today.

At the entrance of the main hall of Fengyi Palace, the sedan chairs stopped, Chu Tiankuo and Jiang Zhixia got out of the sedan chairs, and the palace servants who had been waiting for a long time came forward and led them into the main hall.

In the hall, Empress Liu Rumei was already fidgeting.If it weren't for the rules, she would have rushed to the door to meet her.

When Chu Tiankuo and Jiang Zhixia came in, and after paying respects according to the rules, they saw Liu Rumei walking over quickly from the upper seat.

"Brother," the empress shouted to Chu Tiankuo with tears in her eyes.

Chu Tiankuo was stunned for a moment, and a scene of a girl with buns chasing after a small figure and shouting "Adi, Adi" flashed in his mind.

He quickly came back to his senses, lowered his head to cover the look in his eyes, and replied in a low voice: "I have seen the empress, the empress Wanan."

The queen was stunned for a moment, "You used to call me sister."

Seeing the queen's lost look, Chu Tiankuo's expression changed, but he didn't say anything after all.

However, the queen seemed to be lost in memory, and murmured: "Only our family called it that way. When you were just born, the wet nurse asked me to call you eighth brother, and I felt that the relationship was too distant. Therefore, I The stubborn ones are only willing to call you younger brother. One day, I was chasing you, and because I was anxious, I kept shouting 'ah, brother, slow down'. Repeatedly, my aunt happened to come to the house to see this situation, and said to me: 'You are special, Others call me brother, but you call me brother. Sister also thinks this is very special. So, when you can speak, I will teach you to call me sister. Let’s call elder brother brother together. Only the three of us are That's what you shouted."

Chu Tiankuo said nothing, but Jiang Zhixia, who was listening beside him, was a little moved.

Everyone in the palace said that the empress is dignified and generous, and she rarely loses her composure.

However, looking at the now tearful queen, she felt more humane.

Seeing that Chu Tiankuo was unmoved, the queen lowered her head sadly.

Immediately, she turned around and wiped her eyes with a handkerchief, then turned to Jiang Zhixia with a smile and said, "This is the younger brother and sister, right? It's a pity that sister couldn't see it when you got married."

Seeing that Jiang Zhixia's eyes turned to her, she immediately became nervous and wanted to kneel down to salute, but was lifted up by the queen.

"Siblings and sisters don't need to be polite to elder sister." After the queen lifted Jiang Zhixia up, she began to look at him carefully.

Although she was looking at Jiang Zhixia, she was always looking at Chu Tiankuo from the corner of her eye.

Seeing that Chu Tiankuo was nervous and wanted to step forward because of her sizing up, she knew it in her heart.

"Siblings are really talented and good-looking. It's a pity that sister didn't know them before." The queen said to Jiang Zhixia with a smile.

When Chu Tiankuo saw the Queen treating Jiang Zhixia so gently, he couldn't help but relax a bit.

Now that the meeting was over, the queen led the two of them to the inner hall behind, wanting to say something intimate.

Therefore, except for her confidant nun and the eldest maid, she waved everyone away.

Seeing that there were no outsiders, the queen asked the two of them to sit down.She herself did not go to sit on the front seat, but asked someone to remove the small table in the middle of the chair, and after the three sat side by side, she stared at them closely.

Jiang Zhixia was so stared at that he was at a loss.She raised her eyes to look at Chu Tiankuo, only to see Chu Tiankuo's expressionless face.

"My younger brother really looks like my mother when she was young." The queen looked at Chu Tiankuo for a while, then said with a smile.

Chu Tiankuo said nothing.

The queen had no choice but to turn to Jiang Zhixia, "Were the younger brothers and sisters in the apse before? I haven't seen them before."

"Return to your mother's words," Jiang Zhixia stood up, and was about to salute and reply, but the queen quickly pulled her down.

"Siblings just think of me as an ordinary aunt, so there's no need to be so polite."

Seeing her younger brother about to stand up, the queen hurriedly comforted him.

Seeing this, Jiang Zhixia had no choice but to say in a low voice: "If you go back to the empress, it is in the apse. The slaves used to be low-ranking rough envoys, so they can't appear in front of nobles."

Hearing Jiang Zhixia calling himself a slave, Chu Tiankuo's face turned darker - he knew that this palace was not a good place.As soon as Zhixia came, her status became lower.

When the queen heard that Jiang Zhixia called herself a servant girl, and saw her younger brother's dark face, she hurriedly said, "You must not do this. You are brother's wife, so naturally you are my younger brother and sister. From now on, you can only call me Sister."

In this way, Chu Tiankuo, who was eager to protect his wife, relaxed a little.

(End of this chapter)