Emperor's Lazy Queen

Chapter 9

Thus, Du Xiaoyue, who was half asleep and half awake, was helped to the main hall by red silk and green bamboo and a group of court ladies, and knelt on the ground to listen to the order.

"By God, the emperor's decree..." The eunuch who came to announce the decree screamed, but when Du Xiaoyue heard the first sentence was an old-fashioned TV station, she lost interest and changed the half-sleep to full-sleep .

After 3 minutes, the imperial decree was finished, and the eunuch who announced the decree smiled and said to Du Xiaoyue who was kneeling on the ground with her head on the ground: "Empress, please accept the decree and thank you!"

After just saying one sentence, Du Xiaoyue didn't respond, her head was still on the ground.The red silk and green bamboo on the side looked at each other. Needless to say, Du Xiaoyue had already fallen asleep, she could sleep with her head on the ground, and she was not afraid of the cold weather!

"Miss, the edict is finished, I want you to thank you!" Hong Si said softly.

"Miss, wake up quickly, I want to thank you." Qingzhu also whispered beside her, while secretly tugging at the corner of Du Xiaoyue's clothes.

Du Xiaoyue felt two small voices making noise in her ears, like mosquitoes, and when she was about to reach out to wave the mosquitoes away, she felt a chill on her forehead, which made most of the sleepy ones run away.He raised his head abruptly, and saw an elderly eunuch holding a yellow object in his hand, and handed it to himself with a smile.Regarding this sudden incident, I stopped thinking about it for a second, and then I remembered that I was receiving an order just now.

"That... father-in-law finished reading?" Du Xiaoyue said in a daze, "I can get up now, don't I need to kneel?"

"Uh... Please get up and receive the order!" Eunuch Liu has served the emperor since the last emperor, and the current emperor is the second emperor he has served. It has been more than [-] years and has announced a lot. I have seen the expressions of many people when they received the imperial edict: surprise, fear, worry, sadness, joy, madness... but I have never seen anyone who received the imperial edict with a blank face, and did not immediately accept the edict , but talking nonsense—today is a lot of knowledge!
Say it earlier!Du Xiaoyue complained in her heart, what's so good about reading a decree, it's not about knowing characters, it's good to show it to others, and you have to kneel down and listen to someone read it once!While complaining, Du Xiaoyue got up slowly, took the imperial decree handed over by Eunuch Liu, opened the imperial decree to see what was written on it, and said: "Eunuch, please sit down, tea is served on the green bamboo."

"Thank you for your kindness. It's just that this old slave has to go back to report to the emperor, so we can't delay too long." Eunuch Liu said with a smile, "I also ask you to come to the Hall of Supreme Harmony before the second quarter of the hour to answer the emperor's summons."

"Oh, good!" Du Xiaoyue replied with a smile to Eunuch Liu, and then continued to look at the things on the imperial decree, omitting the pile of incomprehensible things, Du Xiaoyue grasped a few key words: Hall of Supreme Harmony, After listening to the seal.

"The old slave will leave first!" Eunuch Liu bowed to Du Xiaoyue.

"Okay, red silk, give it to Eunuch." Du Xiaoyue raised her head again and said with a smile.

When Eunuch Liu turned to leave, Du Xiaoyue suddenly threw the imperial decree on the table, turned around, sat on a chair casually, and asked while yawning: "Qingzhu, what time is it?"

"It's three o'clock." Seeing Du Xiaoyue's eyes half-closed again, Qing Zhu quickly said, "Miss, don't sleep now, change your clothes first, don't you want to meet the emperor, go up to court? Then It is mandatory to wear court clothes."

"Oh, I have court clothes? Why don't I know?" Lalan's voice sounded, eyes closed.He clearly said that it is enough to send out a calling letter, so let's send it out, why do you have to go over there to thank you?I don’t know if there was a summoning letter sent yesterday. It was only sent when the incident was imminent, and it was sent early in the morning. It was clearly disturbing people’s dreams...

"Miss, the court clothes were delivered yesterday, and at that moment, Miss was concentrating on reading... reading, and I told Miss at that moment, and Miss agreed!" Qingzhu replied.

"Oh!" Is there such a thing?Du Xiaoyue thought about it in her mind, but she didn't have any impression, so she gave up automatically, "Okay, let's change clothes!" Alas, a boring and restless day has begun, and I don't know if it will happen in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. What's going on!

When Du Xiaoyue knelt on the icy ground again, she suddenly realized something: Few of the ancient emperors lived long. Kneeling, it's fine for those younger than him to kneel, even those ministers who are old enough to be his father have to kneel, it's a strange thing that they don't lose their lives!

For example, this emperor named Tan Wenhao—it seems to be called this name, I heard Hongsi mentioned it once—is sitting on the emperor's throne in the center of the Hall of Supreme Harmony at this time, and went to Zhaoyang Hall to announce the decree The father-in-law took another imperial decree and read it to the general officials and Du Xiaoyue who were kneeling under the Highness, and Du Xiaoyue wanted to sleep again after reading it. This feeling is like the weekly training of the principal when he was in junior high school. Listen! Just want to sleep.

However, Du Xiaoyue didn't dare to really sleep. The red silk and green bamboo were not with her. If she really fell asleep after a while, no one would remind her to receive the decree when the decree was announced.When the last word "Qin this" entered Du Xiaoyue's ears with incomparable accuracy, Du Xiaoyue had the feeling of seeing the sun at night - the light broke through the darkness, she could stop kneeling and stand up!
However, Du Xiaoyue was in trouble again, what should she say when she thanked her?Alas, this is the first time I was awarded the title, I have no experience, why didn’t I think of this issue earlier, it’s good to discuss it with the red silk and green bamboo-even if three cobblers are not worth one Zhuge Liang, but half of them are worth it let's go!
"My concubine, thank the emperor for your grace!" Du Xiaoyue thought for a while, but she couldn't think of any words to express her gratitude. She suddenly remembered that when she saw a commoner kneeling for an official in a book, what she loved to say was "grace" , Grace", he just said so.

"Queen, get down!" Tan Wenhao's cold voice sounded in the hall, empty and majestic, "Queen, come to my side."

"Yes!" Du Xiaoyue stood up after replying, and walked towards the golden throne trembling slightly.It's not that Du Xiaoyue is afraid of anything, it's just that she wants to act out that fear of the emperor.At the same time, every time I take a step, I count one step in my heart, and the uneasiness in my heart increases. There is a feeling in the dark: Du Xiaoyue, you seem to be on a road of no return!

When Du Xiaoyue stood beside Tan Wenhao, the ministers in the court also knelt down slowly, and said in their mouths: "The empress is a thousand years old!"

Du Xiaoyue saw that Du Kangyong was also kneeling. Although Du Xiaoyue didn't admit that he was her father in her heart, he was still the father of this body. He was considered an elder, and the elder would lose his life if he knelt for the younger!
"Hey, longevity..." Du Xiaoyue subconsciously read out what she wanted in her heart again, but as soon as the words came out, Du Xiaoyue quickly shut up, watching the people below kneeling and worshiping endlessly, Du Xiaoyue looked at it again Feeling bored, alas, the emperors and queens who watched TV show before being worshiped by others seemed very beautiful, but standing on the top, you will know how boring it is, and the high place is too cold, maybe this is the reason.

After praying, Du Xiaoyue also said generously: "Get up!" Kneeling on the ground was very cold and hard!

But after saying a word, no one got up, Du Xiaoyue was stunned.Glancing at Tan Wenhao who was sitting next to him, he just looked calmly at the group of kneeling people.Turning her head again, thinking about some plots played on TV before, Du Xiaoyue tried to say softly: "Let's talk about peace!"

Sure enough, the group of ministers stood up.well!What a bunch of boring people, do you have to be flat to get up?If you don't say those two words, will you have to kneel on the ground all the time? !
"Okay, let's retreat!" Tan Wenhao said lightly, his voice could not refuse.After speaking, she stood up and walked down the Golden Luan Hall without looking at Du Xiaoyue.Du Xiaoyue didn't know whether to follow or stay. It wasn't until the father-in-law at the side made a gesture of invitation to Du Xiaoyue that she also had to leave with the emperor.Following Tan Wenhao step by step, Du Xiaoyue stopped slightly in front of Du Kangyong when she walked past the officials who bowed to see him off. Du Kangyong just lowered his head, unable to see his expression clearly, but Instead, Du Xiaoyue saw two ministers who looked three points similar to Du Kangyong, looking at her.Du Xiaoyue smiled slightly, knowing that those two were the two elder brothers who had never met each other—Du Yehan and Du Chuyang.

Gently nodding her head as a greeting, Du Xiaoyue didn't dare to stay longer, and followed Tan Wenhao out of the main hall.Du Yehan and Du Chuyang looked at each other: this little girl seems to be a bit more courageous, when she saw her two elder brothers before, she was like a mouse seeing a cat, but now she actually knows how to say hello!But just now when she went to the emperor's side, it was obvious that she was trembling all over, as if she was very frightened—this meant that she was still timid!

After leaving the gate of the main hall, Du Xiaoyue still followed behind Tan Wenhao, while the red silk and green bamboo waiting outside the main hall also followed closely after seeing Du Xiaoyue coming out.The five of them just walked one after the other, silent all the way.

"What does the queen want to tell me?" Tan Wenhao suddenly stopped, and turned to look at Du Xiaoyue who was walking with her head buried.

"Uh..." Seeing that the figure in front of her had stopped, Du Xiaoyue stopped quickly, and at the same time, she was thinking about how to answer the emperor's sudden question - Du Xiaoyue followed him, not for any special reason, mainly because After leaving the main hall, he didn't know whether to follow him or go directly to his bedroom. After thinking about it, he followed the emperor just to be on the safe side.

(End of this chapter)