Chapter 16 Meeting the Queen Mother
Soon, Gu Jingchun and the other three arrived at the main hall together.
As soon as they approached, Chu Qianlan led the two of them to salute.
"Your Highness, the wife of the Marquis of Yong'an, and your two daughters, pay their respects to the Empress Dowager. We wish her blessings as vast as the East Sea and a long life as long as the Southern Mountains."
After Gu Jingchun saluted, he heard a kind voice coming from above.
"Okay, everyone get up."
The three of them stood up, and Gu Jingchun looked up at the Empress Dowager.
The empress dowager was about fifty or sixty years old. She wore only a jade hairpin in her gray hair and wore a brown gold-woven palace dress. She looked elegant, majestic and dignified.
But there was a smile on her lips, and her face was full of kindness and generosity, showing her to be the model of a mother of the country, which made Gu Jingchun couldn't help but respect her.
Maybe it was because Gu Jingchun’s gaze was too intense.
The Queen Mother's gaze also fell on her.
She looked at Gu Jingchun and found that although she was dressed simply, her face was extremely stunning.
Especially her demeanor and her calm yet powerful eyes, so bright that the empress dowager took a few more glances at her.
But in a flash, the Queen Mother said:
"I heard that Marquis Yong'an recently found his lost daughter. I'm sure it's this girl!"
Chu Qianlan frowned slightly when she saw Gu Jingchun dare to look directly at the Empress Dowager. She tugged at her clothes secretly to remind her, and bowed respectfully, saying, "Your Highness, it is my daughter."
"I have lived in exile for many years and grew up in the countryside. I don't understand the rules of the palace. If I have offended the Queen Mother, I hope you will forgive me."
The Queen Mother shook her head upon hearing this.
"What Madam Yong'an said is not true."
"Although your daughter grew up in the countryside, her demeanor is no less than that of the carefully nurtured noble ladies present here."
Upon hearing this, the expressions of the ladies present changed, with some displeasure in their eyes.
After all, no one wants their daughter to be compared to a widow who was raised in the countryside.
Moreover, few of them agreed with what the Queen Mother said. After all, they were arrogant and had never looked at Gu Jingchun directly.
When Gu Jingchun heard this, he bowed quickly.
The Queen Mother liked him even more when she saw him.
"Yes, this child is not only good-looking, but also has good sense."
Moreover, she was sure that this child had something special in mind.
The Empress Dowager had seen countless people throughout her life and believed that she had some vision for people.
As she spoke, her eyes fell on Gu Yunjin again.
At first, she didn't like Gu Yunjin.
Although she was trained as a princess since she was young, her every move was of a noble lady and her work style was very disciplined.
But she just doesn't like it.
She always felt that this woman was too fake, like a fake person, with all her thoughts hidden behind the human skin, but she still had to pretend to be kind and lovely on the surface.
The Queen Mother never liked this kind of people, so when she learned that she was not the biological daughter of Marquis Yong'an, she actually felt relieved.
After all, she didn't want to be the bad guy.
If the emperor really wants Chen Hechuan to marry Gu Yunjin, she will definitely find a way to stop it.
When the ladies of the noble families present heard the Queen Mother's words of praise and noticed that her eyes were constantly looking between Gu Jingchun and Gu Yunjin, they suddenly became a little panicked.
Madam Situ had been observing the Queen Mother's reaction and immediately said jokingly, "Your Highness's opinion agrees with yours."
"Although this girl grew up in the countryside, her temperament is noble and pure, not inferior to those noble ladies in Tiandu who have been carefully nurtured since childhood."
"If Miss Gu hadn't gotten married, she would have become the object of pursuit by another noble young man in Tiandu."
"It's just a pity that Miss Gu got married so early."
Mrs. Situ sighed as she spoke.
The Queen Mother was also slightly surprised when she heard this.
"Are you already married?"
Chu Qianlan quickly replied, "Her Majesty, I was married when I was in the countryside, but my husband died young, leaving me alone."
Chu Qianlan said this while pretending to wipe her tears with a handkerchief.
Seeing that Chu Qianlan was deliberately hiding the matter of the child, the people present quickly responded.
"That's right. Miss Gu was left alone at such a young age with a child of three or four years old. It was thanks to Marquis Yong'an that he sent someone to retrieve her in time. Otherwise, Miss Gu's future life would have been difficult."
Now, the Queen Mother was even more surprised.
She only knew that Marquis Yong'an had found his real daughter, and she didn't know that Gu Jingchun was actually a widow and even had a child. She sighed with some regret.
The ladies present also breathed a sigh of relief.
She thought to herself, it was fortunate that Gu Jingchun was a widow, otherwise, their daughter would have no chance at all.
After all, they were not the blind Chu Qianlan, who could clearly see from the empress dowager's eyes that she was very fond of Gu Jingchun.
After hearing this, Chu Qianlan couldn't help but secretly look at the lady who spoke.
She was now trying every possible way to conceal the fact that Gu Jingchun had a child, but she never expected that she would reveal it in front of the empress dowager.
This is troublesome. When the Third Prince takes a fancy to Gu Jingchun, she will have to spend a lot of time explaining the matter of this child.
Thinking of this, Chu Qianlan couldn't help but think of his plan again.
I don’t know how the people in the Marquis’ Mansion are preparing now.
Once they sent the child away, she would have no worries at all.
After paying her respects to the Queen Mother, Chu Qianlan stayed in the main hall and talked with her like the other ladies.
She took the opportunity to ask Gu Yunjin and Gu Jingchun to go out for a walk together.
However, before Gu Jingchun left, she took out a jade-carved puppy pendant from her sleeve and hung it around Gu Jingchun's neck.
"This is a new gadget I made specially for you. It's very cute.
I thought you'd like it, so I thought I'd leave it for you. I forgot about it because I was in such a hurry to leave today. Fortunately, it's not too late yet, so how about you try it on first?"
Gu Jingchun looked at the puppy pendant.
The puppy is brown all over, and is carved very delicately and lifelike, with curly hair. It looks silly and very cute. If it were a little fatter, it would look like a cute little lamb.
Most women will like it when they see it.
The same was true of Gu Jingchun in his previous life.
In her previous life, after Chu Qianlan gave her the thing, she couldn't let it go. She felt that her mother still cared about her, so she carefully gave her such a lovely jade pendant.
But no one knew that the shape of this carved puppy was exactly the same as the puppy that the third prince had raised before.
The third prince was bullied in the palace in his early years because of his intellectual impairment.
It was this little dog that always accompanied him and protected him.
If any eunuch or palace maid bullied him, the puppy would bravely bite them away.
As a result, I was beaten several times.
Every winter night, when the third prince was cold, the little boy would hug it to keep warm.
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