Mu Huagui

Chapter 99
Only then did the princess stop crying, and shouted, "As long as you love the child, my son is the only one who can handle the work in the Great Zhou Dynasty. It is useless for you to be the emperor's uncle. Let you go to the emperor and find someone else to bring your son back." You can't even do it during Chinese New Year. Now you are pretending to be a good person again, you father and son are trying to piss me off."

After speaking, he let go of his hands, hugged his son and looked left and right. It took a long time before he let go and said, "Go back to the yard to wash up, and come over to eat."

"Decree." Zhou Mingyuan held his mother's hands behind his back, and was a little moved when he saw his mother's cheeks that had lost a lot of weight for him.

After a good wash, the servant girl Lian Ye brought a tray full of food and spread it out on the table.Zhou Mingyuan smiled and said, "I'm going to eat in my mother's room later, you can use these for yourselves."

Lian Ye raised her head and looked at Shi Zi blamingly, with a sweet noise and chuckled, "I heard that the princess will be cooking for a while, so Shi Zi is lucky."

"What, mother, mother cooks herself, so the lotus leaf is really smart." Zhou Mingyuan stopped being polite, and sat down to eat a big piece.After eating half full like wind and clouds, he rinsed his mouth carefully under the service of Lianye.Only then did I walk slowly towards my mother's yard with the sound of bamboo.

And Chen Jiao'er and Lu Huo'er were also taken to the princess's courtyard after taking a bath, and had dinner together.When Zhou Mingyuan arrived, the concubine was pulling Chen Jiao'er to talk, "This dress was temporarily prepared by the needleworker, so don't dislike it. Let them drive out a few good ones these days. Such a pretty girl, she should Just dress up nicely."

"It's already very good. The princess doesn't need to prepare these things specially for Jiao'er. I'm bothering the manor, so I can trouble you there." Chen Jiao'er was wearing a moon-white spring shirt, with a blue-green phoenix flower-edged skirt underneath, and a coat over it. A cloak of wrought gold silk.It may be that she just took a shower, and her slightly damp hair is loosely tied into a double spiral bun.

The prince pulled Lu Huo'er to ask about General Lu, and when he learned that General Lu died at the age of 87, he stroked his neatly trimmed beard and commented in relief.

After seeing Zhou Mingyuan, Zhang's mother beside the princess hurriedly greeted the servants to serve the dishes.Looking at a table of delicacies and delicacies, it is anxious to make people pleasing to the eye.Only the father and son who knew about it exchanged a helpless look, silently praying that the guests would not sweep the princess's face too much on the spot.

Chen Jiao'er's complexion changed slightly, and she quickly took it calmly.She has eaten Qingshui tofu in Chen's house, so these naturally can't trouble her.Lu Huo'er lives in the mountains and forests, so he doesn't have high requirements for food, as long as he has enough meat to eat.The prince was rather startled watching the guest pick up the dish, one bite, two bites... until he swallowed it, he still didn't show any special expression.

On the contrary, Chen Jiao'er nodded frequently, commenting on how this dish was full of color, fragrance and taste, and how that dish was cooked just right.Princess Le De couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear, and she still didn't forget to turn her head and glance at her husband.

Lu Huo'er originally thought the taste was extremely weird, but seeing Chen Jiao'er's actions, he thought it was because he was not used to it, so he stopped making any noise, and started eating with a big mouthful while holding the bowl.

The prince and the prince looked at each other, could it be...the two put a chopstick into their mouths at the same time.Uh... That's right, my princess made it herself, there was no replacement, and there was no sudden master chef.Still as usual... unpalatable.

The prince was already half full before he came, so he just needs to move faster and pretend that the food is delicious.Only the prince was alone, with a bitter face, sitting there like chewing wax.And when the wife notices, she quickly put on a look of enjoyment, which is really a test of acting skills.

When Chen Jiao'er returned to the courtyard that was prepared for her alone, a maid came forward with a food box, "This is the pastry that Shi Zi asked Sister Wanqian to bring, and it is said to be a cushion for you."

"I'm not hungry, send it to Mr. Lu."

"Mr. Lu's elder sister Wanqian also gave the same one." The servant girl said.

Curved the corners of her mouth and smiled knowingly, Wang Hao's culinary skills are really an open secret in the palace.Before opening the food box, I heard a woman's voice from outside, "Miss Chen, your servant is here with your luggage. Now you..."

"Let them in quickly." Chen Jiao'er stood up and opened the door by herself. Seeing this, the maid rushed forward and rushed to push it open.

Cherry and Aunt Su both stood outside, Chen Jiaoer called them into the room, and told the maids to go down and do their work, as there are only cherries in the room.

Cherry took Chen Jiao'er's hand as soon as she entered the room, her eyes were red, "Miss, you don't despise Cherry, right? I just saw that there are many maids doing rough work in the palace who are more capable than Cherry."

"Silly girl, no matter how capable you are, you can't compare to my cherry. I only want you as a girl."

Cherry blushed and smiled through tears, "I'll make tea for Miss, the tea here must be very fragrant."

When Chen Jiao'er brought the cherries to Zhou Mingyuan's study, she saw Lu Huo'er sitting in it.Thinking that he hadn't seen Zhou Mingyuan for a few days, his heart sank, did something happen.

Seeing that the two of them had arrived, Zhou Mingyuan said, "The emperor had a very unpleasant quarrel with Uncle Xian Wang for conferring General Lu. According to General Lu's achievements, the Emperor originally wanted to confer the title of Lord Zhenyuan, but Uncle Xian Wang refused to give in. If it wasn’t for a group of veterans, I’m afraid even a Marquis of Zhenyuan would not be able to confer the reward. This time, I have wronged you.”

The facts are exactly as Zhou Mingyuan said, this time thanks to the Queen's grandfather, Lord Zhen Guo, who brought the military officer to play actively, the Xianjun King finally dared not offend all the military officer.The result of the compromise between the two parties was to posthumously confer the title of General Lu as the first-class Marquis of Zhenyuan.

Chen Jiao'er and Lu Huo'er had no objection to this result, and their purpose of disclosing their identities was not for rewards.It's not for his own future, but to lure out the murderer who killed the descendants of the Lu family by using his body as an excuse.

Seeing the expressions of the two of them, Zhou Mingyuan breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the emperor had spent so much effort to find them, so he naturally hoped to use them for him.Use this matter more to buy the hearts of the people in the world, and more importantly, the hearts of the military officers in the court.

King Xianjun has been in charge of the Ministry of War for many years. If the emperor hadn't married Zhen Guogong's eldest granddaughter as queen, he might have continued to be weak.Finally, there were signs of recovery. If the handling of General Lu's affairs was not handled properly, the military attache would rebound, and the situation would be lost instead.

The next thing is to announce to the world that the title will be granted, and the descendants will be given corresponding guards of honor and mansions.The houses in the Hou's Mansion have corresponding specifications. The emperor designated a mansion in the inner city that was just taken back, and ordered the Ministry of Rites to take full responsibility for it.During this time, Chen Jiao'er was admitted to the Hall of Compassion to accompany the Empress Dowager, while Lu Huo'er remained in the Dongjun Palace.

The Empress Dowager stared at Chen Jiao'er with joy, and the more she looked at her, the more she fell in love with her. "The last time I saw you, I thought it would be great if this little girl stayed in the palace. Unexpectedly, after a long circle, she still entered the palace."

Aunt Fu jokingly said, "My ancestor's wishes come true, it's God's will."

"Yes, yes, God's will." The Empress Dowager laughed heartlessly.She didn't notice that the complexions of the concubines sitting next to her had changed a few times.

"With the sweetheart, the empress dowager won't love Huiyi any more." Empress Wei Huiyi is the eldest granddaughter of the Duke of Zhenguo.The most important thing is that he has outstanding temperament and extraordinary manners. He is filial to the empress dowager at the top, respects the emperor at the middle, and treats people generously at the bottom.

The empress dowager was really satisfied with this granddaughter-in-law, and laughed out loud after hearing this, "If you don't want to be jealous of the emperor, why would you be jealous of me, an old woman."

At present, apart from the queen, there is a vacancy for the imperial concubine, the fourth concubine, and only one of the eight concubines, who is the concubine Wei Ruling who was appointed by the empress after entering the palace.There are only four beauties, Ming beauty Ming Qiniang, Wei beauty Wei Ruyu, Tang beauty Tang Xiaodie, and Chen beauty Chen Qiluo.

The beauties are not qualified to speak on this occasion, they all smiled and said nothing.Of course, everyone has their own expressions, some with friendly eyes, such as Ming Qiniang and Tang Xiaodie, some with complex expressions such as Wei Ruyu, and some with unwilling and resentful expressions such as Chen Qiluo.

Concubine Wei has been flattering the queen since she entered the palace, but the queen is the only one who follows suit.At this time, of course, he continued with a light smile, "The empress governs well, the sisters in the palace are harmonious, there is vinegar to eat, and the ancestors will make fun of our juniors."

After a group of people chatted and laughed, seeing the empress dowager showing sleepiness, the queen led everyone to get up and leave.Aunt Fu placed Chen Jiao'er in the side hall of Ci'an Hall. Apart from Aunt Su and Cherry who followed up the palace, there were also four maids who served nearby, eight maids who were rough envoys, and four eunuchs who ran errands.

Asking Mrs. Su to reward everyone, Chen Jiaoer began to prepare the evening dress.There was a grand banquet in the palace that night, held in the name of the emperor, to officially introduce Lu Huoer and Chen Jiaoer, the descendants of Marquis Zhenyuan, to everyone.

At this time, there is no need to hide your clumsiness, take out a set of bright red chrysanthemum dress with crab claws carved in silk and bright gold for formal occasions, and a complete set of phoenix wings spread gold inlaid with jade and seven treasures headdress.Seeing Cherry's eyes straightened, Aunt Su didn't even know what kind of bun to wear.

Chen Jiao'er asked the four court ladies standing silently in the inner room, "Which one of you knows how to comb your hair?"

"My servant Licorice once served the Empress Dowager to dress up. If you are worried, you may as well ask your servant to try it." Licorice said with a standard bow.

"I used to do makeup for the Empress Dowager. If I have any worries, I will leave the bun for the evening to you."

"Yes." Licorice stood up with a smile on her face. She was good at combing her hair with one hand, but unfortunately the Empress Dowager was getting older, and she became more and more impatient with combing her hair in a complicated bun.

She only served for one year before she was transferred to the main hall to serve tea, and Aunt Fu helped the Empress Dowager comb the simplest bun, which won the empress dowager's heart.Thinking of this, Licorice felt more and more to seize this opportunity.

"Tang Meiren and Ming Meiren are outside, and they said they want to visit Miss Chen." A young eunuch walked quietly to the front of the house, and lowered his head to ask for instructions from the maid serving inside.

"Miss..." Before the maid could speak, Chen Jiao'er replied, "I heard, please come in."

Before anyone saw it, I heard it with a smile. Tang Xiaodie was just as innocent as she had seen in the Liu Mansion.She stepped forward and grabbed Chen Jiao'er, as if everyone had been good sisters all along, "You, since I moved out of Chen's residence, I've been worried about you. It turned out that it was hard for us to hide it from us. Should we be punished?"

(End of this chapter)