Daughter of aristocratic family

The palace maid still knows how to handle things. She took the palace card and asked the school official to arrange a carriage to take her back to the city.

After entering the city, she was stunned again. There were so many restaurants and bars in the city, where could she go to find someone?
Then I thought about it, I can run away from the monk, but I can't run away from the temple. I have to go to Zhao's house and wait. Zhao Wangshu has to go home after all.

Although she didn't know where the Zhao family was, she knew the mansion was there.

The people in the mansion were observing mourning behind closed doors. When the palace maid came to the door, Zhao Xian was startled, "What are your orders?"

"The empress wants to summon Zhao Wangshu, and please ask Mr. Zhao to take me to find her." The palace maid said.

Zhao Xian personally took the maid to Zhao Wangshu's house. Zhao Wangshu hadn't come back yet, but it was Zhao Cui and Zhao Li who saw them.

When she learned that it was the queen who summoned Zhao Wangshu to see her, Mrs. Zhao Cui's heart skipped a beat, "I'm sorry, Wangshu hasn't come back yet."

The palace maid stared at her and frowned displeased. Logically speaking, when the queen summoned her, even if the summoned person was not there, the family should be frightened and send someone to look for her.

"I sent someone to find her. Is it possible that I have to wait for her?" the palace maid asked sternly.

"Don't dare, I'll let my servants find her right now." Mrs. Zhao Cui showed a fearful look.

The palace maid snorted coldly and sat down in the hall.

After waiting for an hour and a half, Zhao Wangshu returned.

When the palace maid saw her, she said angrily: "I'm finally back, let me wait."

Zhao Wangshu was a little surprised when he saw the palace maid. He didn't expect that she would chase her home. It seemed that the Queen wanted to see her very much.

"Sorry, I didn't know you were waiting for me." Zhao Wangshu said without sincerity.

"Come with me." The palace maid took out the palace card and waved it in front of her.

"I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate to enter the palace at this time." Zhao Wangshu reminded with a smile.

Before the palace maid could say anything, Zhao Xian said sternly: "How dare you, your Majesty summons me, how dare you shirk it like this?"

"It's not that I want to shirk, but if I enter the palace at this time, I won't be able to leave the palace before it closes. How can I, a commoner woman with no rank or class, stay in the palace?" Zhao Wangshu said with his head down.

The palace maid chuckled, "I didn't expect you to be quite familiar with the palace rules."

In the previous dynasty, assassins disguised themselves as folk women and entered the palace to assassinate the emperor. This dynasty has learned from the lessons of the previous dynasty, and folk women are not allowed to stay in the palace no matter what reason they are summoned to the palace.

At the beginning of the Xu period of this dynasty, the palace gates of the harem were closed, and anyone caught walking around the palace would be treated as an assassin.

"I learned it before when I was at the mansion." Zhao Wangshu said.

It is okay for the palace maid to take Zhao Wangshu by force, but what Zhao Wangshu did before made the palace maid dare not force her.

I was afraid that she would cause trouble again and no one would bring her into the palace, so she would be in trouble.

Seeing that the palace lady was silent for a long time and seemed to be undecided, Zhao Wangshu suggested understandingly: "Why don't you go back to the palace and report to the empress that you haven't found me? If the empress wants to see me again, come back tomorrow and I promise to stay." What do you think of waiting for you at home?”

The palace maid glared at Zhao Wangshu with resentment. If she followed him when she was in the school grounds, there would be so many things wrong.

"Just wait for me." The palace maid left angrily.

Zhao Xian pointed at Zhao Wangshu, "You are so ignorant." Then he said in a serious tone: "Seventh Aunt, you should discipline her well and don't let her get into trouble, so as not to hurt the family."

"My eldest nephew, you should worry more about your own affairs. If the mansion is sold out, it will really bring shame on the ancestors." Zhao Cui said with a smile.

Zhao Xian was startled, thinking of Zhao He who loved to go to gambling houses, so he didn't bother to lecture Zhao Wangshu any more, and left in a hurry to find his traitorous son.

"Yue'er, what's going on?" Zhao Cui asked.

Zhao Wangshu recounted what happened on the school grounds, "Prince Pazhuo came here to choose a wife. The Queen summoned me at this time and felt that she had bad intentions." "Going to Fanbang to get married is not a good thing. She knows it will harm her family. "Zhao Li said angrily.

Mrs. Zhao Cui frowned, "Yue'er, if you don't want to enter this palace, you won't be able to do it, but don't be afraid. If a cow doesn't drink water, she won't even think about forcing her head down."

"I'm not afraid." Zhao Wangshu was at the school grounds and deliberately refused to go, just to delay time and allow Yun Hao to operate more easily.

Her expectation was not bad. Yun Hao already knew that the queen was going to summon Zhao Wangshu, and he also thought of the queen's intention of summoning Zhao Wangshu at this time.

The next day, Zhao Wangshu went to the palace with the maid who had come to Zhao's house early. When he arrived outside the palace gate, he got off the carriage and saw Yun Hao.

The two looked at each other, Zhao Wangshu pursed his lips and smiled, and Yun Hao nodded slightly.

Zhao Wangshu followed the maid and walked to Yonghe Palace, the queen's residence.

Yonghe Palace was the palace where the queen lived when she was a concubine. She became a successor and did not move to the palace. This shows how little the emperor's love for her was.

When they arrived at Yonghe Palace, the palace maid said to the palace maid guarding the door: "Go and report to the empress, Miss Zhao Wangshu is here."

"Wait a moment." The maid guarding the door went in to report.

After waiting for a long time, she didn't come back. Zhao Wangshu sneered, as expected of Mrs. Zhao's daughter, she was as powerful as ever.

After a full two-quarters of an hour, when Zhao Wangshu's feet were sore from standing, the maid guarding the door came and said, "My Majesty, let you in."

Entering the side hall, Zhao Wangshu saw the queen in regular clothes sitting on the main seat with a gloomy face. When she saw Zhao Wangshu, there was a hint of displeasure in her eyes.

"Wangshu joins the Queen and wishes her well, may you be blessed." Zhao Wangshu knelt down and kowtowed.

The queen snorted coldly, "Zhao Wangshu, do you know your guilt?"

"Wangshu doesn't know." Zhao Wangshu replied calmly.

This answer was beyond the queen's expectation. She was stunned for a moment and said angrily: "You are so brave! I have summoned you to come to the palace, but you dare not accept the summons."

"The Queen understands clearly that Wangshu did not intentionally disobey the decree, but it happened for a reason." Zhao Wangshu said calmly.

"What's the reason?" The Queen looked like she was watching her excuses.

"When we were at the school, Wangshu didn't see the empress and didn't know the people around her. He was worried that she would use her name to frame Wangshu, so Wangshu didn't go with her to meet the empress." Zhao Wangshu said half-truthfully.

"I am the queen, who dares to use my name?" the queen asked sharply.

"My Majesty, some people are so bold that they even dare to falsely convey the imperial edict, let alone the Imperial Majesty's oral instructions." Zhao Wangshu said with a faint smile.

The queen stared at her and said, "Your mother is not good at words. I didn't expect to give birth to a daughter with sharp teeth."

"Your Majesty is exaggerating, Wangshu is just telling the truth." Zhao Wangshu said modestly.

"That's all, I won't care about you, a naughty brat like you. Get up." The queen thought that business was more important, so she told the story.

"Thank you, empress." Zhao Wangshu stood up.

"Come, come to me, let me take a good look at you." the queen said.

Although Zhao Wangshu was reluctant, he could only step forward.

The queen stretched out her hand and pulled her to sit next to her, looked at her face and said, "She is really a charming beauty."

"The beauty of Wangshu Boliu is not as beautiful as the empress." Zhao Wangshu flattered her in vain.