The imperial study was very different from what Chen Jia imagined, Chen Jia thought that the imperial study was the emperor's private office, and the emperor should be in it to handle official business and summon ministers. But when I entered the imperial study, I found that this was the emperor's study at all.

There are bookshelves, books, desks for the emperor to work, and a dragon couch for the emperor to rest. It didn't feel like a place to receive a courtier, but like his private space.

Chu Xiuyu didn't salute when he saw Chen Jia enter the study, but he was busy looking around, so he coughed twice.

"See the emperor!" Chen Jia hurriedly knelt on the ground.

"Flat!"

"Your Majesty." Chen Jia got up and stood near the bookshelf.

"I heard that you and Cheng Hu saved Yelu Chumeng, the third prince of Jin Anguo?" Chu Xiuyu asked with a slight frown.

"Yes."

"What was he doing when you met Yelu Chumeng, the third prince of Jin'an?"

"He was being chased by the men in black!" Chen Jia replied honestly, she didn't bow her head, but she didn't look at Chu Xiuyu's eyes.

"It is said that all the men in black were killed, why didn't you leave them alive at that time?" Chu Xiuyu looked at Chen Jia, and his voice grew louder.

"The last two left behind were killed by suicide!" Chen Jia raised his eyes to look at Chu Xiuyu, quickly looked away, felt that something was wrong, and turned his gaze back, only looking at the emperor's nose.

"Did they leave any clues?" After Chu Xiuyu asked this, he didn't have much hope. After all, there is no living mouth.

"They spoke with the same accent as Jeruchumon." Chen Jia said.

"Hmph, so they want to use my territory to kill people!" Chu Xiuyu frowned, angry in his heart!

"I don't dare to say that." Chen Jia shook her head and disagreed.

"Tell me about it, then? Who wanted to kill him? Chu Xiuyu's sharp eyes were staring at Chen Jia, he didn't believe that this Chen Jia had any other opinions.

"First, it may be that his own brother wanted to kill him, and the motive was to seize power." Chen Jia folded his fingers and analyzed it carefully. She nodded her head as she spoke, and she quickly forgot how disparity she had from the person she was talking to. She was as casual and relaxed as she had been in meetings in her previous life. And pacing back and forth. The cake dress on her body swayed with her elegant steps, looking very smart.

"Is there a second one?" Chu Xiuyu's tone slowed down, and he couldn't help but approach Chen Jia.

"Second, there are people who want to provoke disputes between the two countries, that is, people from other countries know that the three princes of Jin'an have come to our country, so they send people to kill them, and they deliberately send people with the same accent to assassinate them. also opened his mouth to provoke, just to confuse everyone and make Shenghe Kingdom and Jin Anguo suspicious of each other. Chen Jia said as he turned his back to Chu Xiuyu and paced, wanting to stay a little further away from Chu Xiuyu. She analyzed carefully, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and turned around suddenly, only to find that Chu Xiuyu was less than twenty centimeters away from her.

"And the third and fourth." Chen Jia opened his mouth glutinously, and stepped back without a trace.

"What is it?"

"Chen Jia didn't dare to say it." Chen Jia was a little entangled.

"I forgive you for your innocence, you can say it!"

"Well, the third is the bitter trick he directed and acted by himself, and the fourth is that the emperor is dissatisfied with him and sends someone to give him a dismissal."

"Full of nonsense!" As soon as Chu Xiuyu opened his mouth, Chen Jia was startled.

"Your Majesty, you said that I am not guilty!" Chen Jiasheng was afraid that he would be late, and Chu Xiuyu's next sentence was "Drag out of the noon gate and behead!" ”

Chu Xiuyu took a deep breath, he almost frightened her just now.

"Okay, your eldest brother has made meritorious service, I have conferred on him the official position of the sixth grade, and you have not been rewarded for meritorious service, what reward do you want?" Chu Xiuyu looked at Chen Jia and said softly.

Chen Jia heard this and thought seriously, "What kind of reward is good?" ”

Chu Xiuyu saw that Chen Jia seemed to be seriously thinking about what reward he wanted, so he wanted to tease her. "How about you being a beauty?"

"What?" Chen Jia was flustered, and secretly said in his heart: "Not really!" I'm only ten years old, does this emperor have pedophilia? ”

"Tell me, what reward do you want?" Chu Xiuyu said.

When Father-in-law Dexi saw a little eunuch coming, he hurriedly greeted him and asked about the situation.

"Chen Jia wants a thousand taels of gold!" Chen Jia blurted out. She didn't dare to look at Chu Xiuyu anymore, she just hoped that she could give him the impression that she was a fan of money and let herself go.

When Chu Xiuyu heard Chen Jia's words, he was also stunned, he looked Chen Jia up and down, and was about to speak. But I saw Dexi walk into the study. "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother and all the ministers are waiting for the emperor to come in the Tongle Palace! Please ask the emperor to change his clothes. ”

"Okay, since that's the case, Chen Jia, you go to the Tongle Hall and wait first!"

Chen Jia hurriedly thanked him and went out, and was taken to the Tongle Hall by a palace maid in the imperial study.

As the name suggests, Tongle Hall is the palace that holds banquets in the palace, the whole palace looks golden and brilliant outside, the inside is like an empty theater, as soon as you enter the door, you will see the vast hall, the hall is erected with the golden pillars of carved dragons, in the middle is a large circular dance floor, there are dancers dancing inside, and the sound of silk and bamboo is endless.

The dragon chair directly above was empty, and there was a woman about forty years old sitting on the right, Chen Jia guessed that this must be the queen mother, only to see that she was kind and kind-eyed, and her skin was delicate, although she was slightly relaxed due to the ruthlessness of the years, but she looked no worse than Sun Aoting's mother. She was dressed in a bright yellow flying phoenix palace dress and sat on a chair. There are two palace maids next to him, one left and one right.

Next to the Queen Mother is there, it should be the queen mother, but unfortunately although the queen mother is beautiful, her complexion is not very good, and she looks a little tired. On the seat next to the queen sat several concubines of high positions in the palace, all of whom were twenty years old and went to school, young and beautiful. On both sides of the dance floor, there are quite a few seats, almost full. But they are all single seats, and each seat is served by a palace maid.

Chen Jia glanced at it and saw that Jiang Qian was on the left seat, and there was Old Man Sun sitting not far from him, and there was a chief on the left wearing a bright yellow python robe, which should be a prince, and next to him should be his princess, who looked very charming. It is said that the two brothers of the current emperor are under house arrest for competing for the throne, and the current Xian Wang Ye only has a little uncle of the emperor, that is, a younger brother of the former emperor's mother.

Jiang Jinrong, Mrs. Jiang and Jiang Youchun sat on the right, and there were some other female dependents on the right, all of whom were seated by the wives of the commanded and the daughters of some ministers, and there were no less than 60 people present in the entire Tongle Palace. Most of them are officials and family members of the third grade or above. Chen Jia skimmed a few beautiful beauties with natural beauty, and was about to take a closer look, but heard the sound of the palace maid kneeling on the ground beside him.

"Slaves and maids see the Queen Mother, see the Queen Mother." The palace maid with Chen Jia knelt down and saluted, and Chen Jia hurriedly painted a scoop according to the gourd when he saw this. just replaced the slave maid with Chen Jia, and added a sentence of "Thousand years old Thousand years old!" ”

"Flat!" The Queen Mother looked kind, she saw that Chen Jia was dressed strangely, and she looked at it twice. Everyone also looked at Chen Jia, and the ladies boldly began to talk to each other.

"Chen Jia!"

Chen Jia was thinking about who was so bold and dared to make noise in the hall, but he saw Yelu Chumeng walking towards him in a gorgeous brocade robe.

"Queen Mother, this Miss Chen Jia is the woman who saved my life on the way."

"Oh, is this girl invited by the third prince?" The Queen Mother asked with a kind smile.

"Not really!" Jeruchumon told the truth.

Chen Jiazheng was very embarrassed by Yelu Chumeng, but saw Jiang Qian stand up and walk over.

"Queen Mother, this daughter is Jiang Qian's granddaughter! The name is Chen Jia, and the word cherishes fate. This time I came to the state banquet at the invitation of the emperor! Jiang Qian saw that the Queen Mother asked about Chen Jia, and hurriedly spoke.

"It turned out to be an invitation from the emperor, Chen Jia, right? How old are you this year? ”

"Back to the Queen Mother, Chen Jia is ten years old this year." Chen Jiaying was blessed, and said in her heart: "Jiang Qian opened his mouth, don't embarrass him!" ”

Seeing this, Jeruchumon turned and went back to his seat.