The next day, An Xin got on a carriage to attend the morning court under the worried gazes of Leng Xiangbai, Jiang Zhou and Chi Lan.
An Xin looked at the gray sky outside and pulled her clothes closer. She hadn't gotten up so early in a long time.
She didn't expect that she, a foreign envoy, would also be told to attend the court meeting in Bei Ming.
“…”
An Xin always has a feeling of being a dead dog.
The autumn in Beiming is colder than that in Daqian. An Xin looked at the sky outside and lowered the curtains of the carriage to block the cold wind from coming in.
The carriage rumbled to the palace gate and An Xin stepped on the horse stool put down by the coachman and got off.
Si Han instructed Eunuch De to arrange a eunuch to welcome An Xin. The eunuch was originally standing at the corner of the palace wall with his hands folded to avoid the wind, but when he saw An Xin get off the carriage, he hurried over.
"I am Xiao Fuzi, paying my respects to Lord An," the eunuch named Xiao Fuzi came up to An Xin and bowed respectfully.
This was specifically instructed by his master, Eunuch De, who said that this female official was valued by the new emperor and asked him not to look down on this female official from a foreign country just because she still had some reputation among the servants in the palace.
An Xin looked at the young eunuch in front of him with a gleam in his eyes, guessing that he might have been arranged to lead the way. He raised a faint smile at the corner of his mouth and nodded to him, "Let's go."
When Xiao Fuzi saw the smile on An Xin's face, he was stunned. He didn't expect that this female official would be so friendly to him, a small eunuch.
This man is much more amiable than those ministers in the court who are so arrogant and conceited that they feel that these rootless people have polluted their eyes.
At least Xiao Fuzi did not see any contempt or disdain for them in the eyes of the female official.
Xiao Fuzi carefully brought An Xin all the way to the palace where Bei Ming held the morning court.
An Xin's arrival surprised many Beiming officials, and they all cast puzzled looks at him.
They heard that this time seven or eight envoys from other countries were kept by the new emperor.
But they didn't expect to see them here. Although there was only one foreign envoy, this also made the officials of Beiming feel a little unusual.
There was disgust and wariness in the look he gave An Xin.
"Who dares to come to the Mingjing Palace to attend the morning court? Go back to your own country if you know what's good for you, and don't embarrass yourself here."
An Xin turned sideways and looked at an official with a white beard and a wrinkled face, wearing first-rank clothing. The way he looked at her was as if he was looking at something dirty.
An Xin was very familiar with these looks, because she had experienced such looks when she first entered the Daqian court as a woman.
Normally, facing such malicious and contemptuous looks, An Xin would not feel any pain. There are many people who despise her, but these people are nothing compared to her.
But An Xin was unhappy.
At that time, she could still give face to Emperor Sheng An who had been so kind to her. As long as those people didn't get close to her, she would pretend not to see them.
If there really were people who complained that their lives were too comfortable, such as the wife of the Prince of Anguo, and that prince who dared to block her door.
No matter how rich and powerful he is, or whether he is a prince or a noble, An Xin, this scoundrel, is so bold that he will just beat him up.
What's more, these Bei Ming officials can just confront him and still be polite to him.
If by doing so she could force Si Han, the new emperor of Beiming, to voluntarily release the envoys under pressure from officials who disliked her, An Xin would feel that she had done a good thing.
An Xin raised his head proudly and raised his eyebrows provocatively at the old man in front of him who was wearing the first-rank official uniform.
"I just like seeing you looking at me with displeasure but unable to do anything to me."
After saying that, he glanced at all the officials present and said with a swagger, "If you have the guts, ask your emperor to send me back to the government office!!"
"Arrogant, too arrogant."
Xiao Fuzi stopped when he arrived at the Mingjing Hall where the morning court was held. The place in front was where the ministers stayed, and the eunuchs were not allowed to come here without special instructions.
Seeing that the ministers were ready to make things difficult for An Xin, the female official who was specifically appointed by the emperor to attend the morning court,
He was the one who brought An Xin here. If anything happened to him, I'm afraid the emperor would not let him off easily.
But he was just a small eunuch, and these ministers looked down on eunuchs.
His words were not even as good as fart in front of these ministers, so how could they stop him from attacking the female official?
A cunning look flashed in Xiao Fuzi's eyes. He hurriedly bowed to An Xin, then turned and ran towards the emperor's bedroom.
Si Han washed up with the help of his personal eunuchs and palace maids, then took the dragon robe and put it on.
Eunuch De found his apprentice at the door of the emperor's bedroom. He anxiously poked his head inside, thinking that the boy was still not stable enough and he would find time to teach him a lesson.
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Si Han also noticed something unusual at this time. He glanced at the door and said in an unhappy voice, "Come in if you have anything to say. Why are you lingering around the door?"
Xiao Fuzi, who was found winking at his master at the door, was frightened by Si Han's cold voice. He quickly stepped over the threshold and knelt on the jade floor with a plop.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I just took Envoy An to the Mingjing Palace and ran into those adults who also came to attend the morning court..."
"Oh!" Si Han frowned, "What happened?"
Xiao Fuzi reported to Si Han in detail how An Xin was bullied by the officials as soon as he arrived there.
Si Han raised his eyebrows after hearing this, and a sneer appeared on his feminine face: "You don't have to worry about being punished. Anyway, that female official will offend them sooner or later. It's okay if those officials don't regret it when the time comes."
“I just hope I don’t overestimate her. I hope she can be like her student who became the prime minister of the Daqian Dynasty through her own strength.
Help me get back the money owed to those Beiming borers who have owed the national debt for many years, fill the national treasury, and relieve me of my worries. I will definitely not treat her unfairly. "
Si Han was wearing a yellow five-clawed dragon robe, a five-dragon jade belt around his waist, and a pearl-curtain neck hat on his head. He walked and sat on the dragon throne with a solemn face.
More than a hundred officials stood in rows inside and outside the hall and watched the emperor come in and sit on the throne.
They all knelt on the ground and shouted: "Long live the emperor, long live the emperor, long live the emperor."
Si Han looked down with a dignified expression at the only person who was standing and saluting. He knew that no matter whether she was meeting the previous Emperor Sheng An or the new Emperor Daqian who was half her student, she would not have to perform the ceremony of kneeling and bowing.
If he forced her to perform the ritual of monarch and subject, he would probably never be able to use her in his life.
Si Han's heavy eyes flickered, and he pretended not to see it. He said to the other ministers kneeling below, "My dear ministers, please stand up."
After all the ministers stood up, they looked at An Xin unfriendlyly.
An Xin didn't care and curled the corners of his lips.
(End of this chapter)