The men almost immediately understood why Ye Zhou had brought a concubine to the banquet in a fit of rage, while the women were still angry about Huang Mengling. It was inevitable that couples would quarrel, and Ye Zhou couldn't break the rules by bringing a concubine to the palace banquet. Furthermore, the Empress had come to appease Huang Mengling, so Ye Zhou was still wrong.
Everyone has a gossipy heart, let alone the favorite couple of the emperor and the empress. However, when they talk about it after dinner, as long as the women act like the queen, the men will immediately shut up.
It wasn't that they truly thought Ye Zhou had done anything wrong, but rather that the men felt it was unacceptable to discuss the royal family's affairs. A few would offer a few words in reply, and the Queen didn't say who was right or wrong; she was simply trying to appease them.
The queen was listening to a beautiful voice reading the memorials from various palaces requesting her instructions, and the boring affairs became much more beautiful because of this voice.
The maidservant beside Zhang Ru was originally a maid from the laundry department. When she came to the Queen's palace to deliver clothes, Zhang Ru heard her voice. Her voice was melodious, clear, gentle and warm, which touched people's hearts and made them feel comfortable.
Zhang Ru called the palace maid over and took a closer look. She had an ordinary appearance, and her hands were extremely rough from years of washing clothes. There were even scars on them from frostbite in winter. She was trembling with nervousness.
But when she spoke, her voice was truly beautiful, like the sound of an angel. Just like some men, there are also very beautiful, attractive and magnetic voices, but ordinary looks.
Xuanyuan Hao has a very pleasant voice and handsome appearance. In addition, he is tall and straight, and his temperament is decisive and ruthless. It has to be admitted that he is a very charming man.
Zhang Ru asked her, "What's your name? Can you read?"
The young maid said, "Your Majesty, my last name is Li Zhaodi. I know about a hundred characters."
Zhang Ru was curious: "You only learned about a hundred characters and that's it?"
Li Zhaodi said, "Before I had a younger brother, my parents loved me. Although they didn't send me to school, they paid a village letter writer to teach me how to read when I was six. I only learned for a few months before my mother gave birth to a younger brother. I never went back to school again, so I only know a little over a hundred characters."
Zhang Ru said, "From now on, you can call me Baozhu. Stay by my side."
From then on, Li Baozhu stayed by Zhang Ru's side, mainly reading to her. She would teach her any characters she didn't know. Her voice was so pleasant that Zhang Ru would relax whenever she listened to it, becoming so engrossed in it that she once fell asleep without realizing it.
That day, Xuanyuan Hao came to Zhang Ru's place and heard a very pleasant voice reading. He was reluctant to interrupt and stood there listening for a while.
When Zhang Ru noticed him coming, she hurriedly stood up to greet him and ordered someone to prepare lunch. Xuanyuan Hao looked at Li Baozhu and said, "I've seen this girl here before. She never says a word. I never knew she had such a nice voice."
Zhang Ru said, "Lunch will be a while before, Your Majesty, please lie down here for a while and listen to Baozhu read a book."
Xuanyuan Hao said: "Okay."
I lay there and listened for almost an hour. The sound of this pearl was probably what people in later generations called "making your ears pregnant if you listen to it."
Zhang Ru then said, "Why don't you take this girl back to your palace?"
Xuanyuan Hao raised his eyebrows and looked at her: "Is the Queen trying to put someone next to me?"
Zhang Ru said angrily, "You don't know how to appreciate kindness. Then I won't see you off, Your Majesty."
Xuanyuan Hao was moved when he saw her suddenly become angry, but he did not intend to let her go: "You are getting bolder and bolder. You dare to scold your husband."
Zhang Ru thought to herself that she had been discovered by this bastard. Isn’t the first half of the sentence about not knowing how to appreciate a good person just like “a dog bites Lu Dongbin”?
Knowing that he would only respond to soft words and not to hard ones, Zhang Ru immediately leaned over with a smile to apologize. Xuanyuan Hao glanced at the bowl of lotus, shredded chicken and cistanche soup on the table.
Zhang Ru had no choice but to serve him herself and served him a bowl. Xuanyuan Hao refused to take it or drink it. There was no way she could feed him. Xuanyuan Hao just drank a few sips from Zhang Ru's hand.
Then, looking at the plate of smoked meat, Zhang Ru had no choice but to feed him more, followed by the snowflake meatballs. Zhang Ru continued to serve him the meatballs. Zhang Ru thought to herself: Just think of it as raising a rebellious son! Rebellious son! What a jerk! Xuanyuan Hao looked at her calmly. So angry, yet she had to keep smiling.
After all this fuss, Xuanyuan Hao gestured for Zhang Ru to sit down, and several maids and palace maids dared to come forward to serve her and serve her food and drinks.
The Queen was wearing a dark green skirt today, the dark green gradually extending downwards to become a light smoky green, and the hem of the skirt swayed and spread out.
The black top outlines the perfect shoulder and back lines, and the waist belt of the same color is twice as wide as usual, making the small waist look more slender and graceful. Contrasting with the voluptuous curves under the dark green skirt and her always upright posture, she is graceful and beautiful, so beautiful that people can't take their eyes off her.
Xuanyuan Hao was very satisfied with the queen's recent docility and obedience. In the past, the queen was too majestic, which was a good thing, but she was a bit stubborn, which made him always want to scold her.
In the past, when she was scolded, she would always lower her head, her eyes reddened, tears about to fall, and she would remain silent. It was heartbreaking but also infuriating. So, was he wrong to scold her? Was it wrong to scold her? Was this dissatisfaction?
But now, she seemed a bit shameless, and she was also obedient in front of so many servants. In this case... When Xuanyuan Hao left, he saw Li Baozhu among the palace servants half-kneeling and bowing to see him off. He wondered what this Zhu was called. Forget it, it would be better not to mention her name: "Since your master is so sincere, you should follow."
So Li Baozhu bid farewell to the queen and followed Xuanyuan Hao and his group of palace maids to serve in the imperial court.
When she went before the emperor, she mainly read books, but there were times when she got stuck. When she came across a word she didn't know, she made up her mind to read half of the word and read the part she knew.
Xuanyuan Hao was listening with pleasure when he suddenly felt that this sentence didn't make sense. He took the book and took a look. He couldn't help laughing and underlined a few words with a pen: "Go, find your master and learn all the characters. From now on, go to the Queen's Palace to learn for an hour every day and then come back to work."
On the other hand, Huang Mengling, who had not seen Xuanyuan Hao for three months, began to move.
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