Jiuxi adjusted the small gold crown on her head and tightened her clothes, fearing that the two eunuchs would notice her. The two eunuchs looked at Jiuxi's handsome face and couldn't guess what she was thinking. They asked tentatively, "Your Majesty, are you going to have lunch with the Empress Dowager?"
Jiuxi touched her stomach and thought that she was indeed a little hungry at this hour, so she nodded and said blankly, "Then let's go to the Queen Mother."
The two eunuchs only dared to raise their heads at this time, and looked at Jiuxi with their eyes narrowed into slits, but they were thinking in their hearts that the emperor seemed different from usual.
While walking on the road, Jiuxi thought that the emperor must be a filial son, going to the empress dowager for lunch every day, or was it that the food cooked in the empress dowager's small kitchen was more delicious?
But when he arrived at the Queen Mother's palace, Jiuxi was a little surprised. This... this was not the place where the Queen Mother should live. There were no glazed tiles, no floors made of gold and jade, and there was a feeling of cold wind. The vermilion gate had faded. When he walked into the inner palace, Jiuxi suddenly felt cold. Gusts of cold wind blew, and even the small golden crown on his head seemed to be shaking. Fallen leaves were floating around. This was clearly the cold palace.
She paused, and the eunuch behind her hurriedly said with a shy smile, "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager has been ill recently."
Obviously, the empress dowager's illness was a big deal, so why was this little eunuch smiling at her so sinisterly? At this time, the content of the storybook swept through Jiuxi's mind again. Perhaps this empress dowager was not the emperor's biological mother, so the emperor treated the empress dowager like this.
Jiuxi's wide sleeves brushed past the faded door and said, "Return to the bedroom!"
Lunch ended in a blur. In fact, the food in the palace was not that delicious, although it was cooked very delicately. Perhaps it was because she had suffered too much and had never eaten such good food, so she didn't think much of it for a while.
She sat on the dragon throne, feeling as if a thorn in her back, and she felt extremely uncomfortable. She put down the brush she had clenched tightly in her hand, put the memorial she had corrected aside, and said to the young eunuch beside her, "Give me a shoulder massage!"
The young eunuch immediately ran over, his fingers still quite slender, and the strength of the pounding on the shoulders was just right. Jiuxi said, "Tomorrow is the ceremony of worshipping the emperor, right?"
The young eunuch nodded and paused his movements. Jiuxi stroked his forehead and said, "Please invite the Fourth Prince into the palace!"
"Your Majesty, it's getting late...you should rest." The young eunuch looked confused. In the past, at this time of year, the emperor would never be so hardworking. He would have already drawn a sign and gone to rest with the concubines.
But, can such a servant, who is always questioning his master's orders, really live long?
Jiuxi threw the inkstone in his hand to the ground and said in feigned anger, "Do I need you to teach me how to do things?"
Under Jiuxi's tyranny, the young eunuch hurried out to summon the emperor's order. Jiuxi was a little tired from sitting, so he walked down the stage and was about to go out for a stroll. Unexpectedly, a burst of fragrance reached his mouth, and then the door of the hall creaked, and the eunuch's spy voice rang out, "Empress Rong has arrived!"
The palace gate was slowly pushed open, and a beautiful woman dressed in gold and silver walked in slowly, carrying a food box, followed by two palace maids who followed closely. "Greetings, Your Majesty!" The voices of the three women were as moving and melodious as those of orioles.
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