The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 1134 Make an appointment

When will he return to office and attend court? This is a question worth thinking about.

Sheng Yuan felt that she needed to think about it seriously.

Sheng Yuan was helpless about this question that everyone asked her.

  Doesn't she want to go to court?

Others only saw that the person sitting next to the throne in the imperial hall was her elder sister, and that the commander of the two departments in charge of Kyoto's security was her uncle, and they thought that she had risen to a high position and could rely on her power to do whatever she wanted.

But she knew clearly that as long as the crown prince was not decided and the transfer of imperial power was not smooth, then she and her sisters would be dancing on the edge of a knife and playing with knives on the edge of a cliff, and there would be the risk of being doomed at any time.

In this situation, she had nothing better to do than to go to the morning court to deal with all those open and covert attacks.

"If I don't attend court, there will be baskets of letters of advice thrown on my desk. If I go to court, I don't know how many 'bitter words' and 'earnest persuasion' I will have to listen to." Sheng Yuan's face was about to wrinkle when he thought of the "well-intentioned letters" that could be piled up into a small mountain. "Too many people like to take advantage of others. I'm afraid that if I punch one of my old ministers, there won't be enough doctors in the imperial city."

If that happened, she would probably be written into the "Records of Flatterers" and her name would be passed down through the ages.

"If you don't want to go, then don't go!" Sheng Xiangxun's mind flashed with the scene of his little daughter "kicking the Inspector and punching the six ministries and six departments". He could not hold it in any longer and immediately expressed his support for his little girl's plan.

Not only did he support his younger daughter in not attending court, he also planned to take his eldest son with him to avoid being lazy.

"That's right. You don't have any real job, so it doesn't matter whether you go to court or not. Going there will only make you a target for those people in the Censorate. Why bother? It's not like we're handing out welfare or offering political achievements." Upon hearing this, Zheng clapped her hands and encouraged her husband and children to be quiet.

But it's useless for this family to keep a low profile. There's a relative right in front of them who is eager to bring the entire family onto the stage, so they can't keep a low profile even if they want to.

Just after lunch, Sheng Yuan was about to take his parents for a walk with An Yu to help digest the food, when he heard the steward report back that Duke Sheng had invited Sheng Yuan to his house for a chat.

"Don't go!"

Sheng Yuan answered crisply. Her father also agreed very quickly: "Yes, we won't go."

However, An Yu and Zheng felt that it was inappropriate.

"If you have the ability, you should have sorted out the cause and effect and made a clean break when you had a conflict. Since you didn't fall out at that time and your relationship still exists, why are you being rude now? Even if you don't want to maintain face, you have to have an explanation. Otherwise, aren't you just enriching the work of the Censorate?"

When Zheng was talking, An Yu nodded beside her: "Face, face, we have to consider some face."

"Haha." Sheng Xiangxun glanced at An Yu, who "had a mouth to criticize others but no mouth to criticize himself", then turned his head and nodded to Zheng in an extremely flattering manner, "Madam, you are right! It is my husband who was inconsiderate."

After complimenting Zheng for a few words, he looked at the little girl very seriously and said earnestly, "Yuan Jie'er, you should go!"

Sheng Yuan blinked, and seeing the three of them nodded at her in unison, she had nothing to say.

Okay, let’s go.

……

"Sister Yuan, where are you going?" Sheng Yuan had just left the nursing home with her head down when she met Shu who was walking towards the garden. As soon as the two sisters-in-law met, Shu asked with a smile.

Sheng Yuan looked at her, then at the servant of the Duke's Mansion standing behind the steward not far away, and said with a half-smile, "The Duke's Mansion has sent someone to call me over."

Shu suddenly realized, "Oh, this is an appointment with the commanders of the Nine Cities Military and Horse Office and the Five Military Command Office. We can't delay! Sister Yuan, wait a moment. Sister-in-law will arrange a carriage to take you there."

"...Okay." Sheng Yuan swallowed the words of rejection and nodded in acceptance.