"Miss, Madame instructed you to go to the other courtyard as soon as you receive the letter." The guard who came to deliver the message reminded.

Xia Qingyun left Qinghe and the other three, hurriedly confessed a few words, and returned to the other courtyard. The mother and the two duchesses were already waiting in the front hall, ready to go.

"In such a hurry?" She was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "Could it be that something happened to the imperial court?" ”

Mrs. Zhenguo's face was worried, and she said: "The urging is so urgent, I'm afraid that there is a change in the court, and it is difficult to walk on the road because of the ice, let's hurry up." ”

The wheels of the two carriages were covered with non-slip chains, and it was very bumpy to walk, Xia Qingyun was worried about her mother's body, so she was ingested into the treasure pavilion.

In the other carriage, because Mrs. Huguo was by her side, she couldn't bring Mrs. Zhenguo into the Treasure Pavilion, so she had to let the Qingmei people take turns to use their magical powers to make their carriage go more smoothly.

The farther north we went, the more gloomy it became, and after noon the snow rose in the air, and the fields soon became white, and the coachman shouted at the horses carefully, and the speed of the car slowed down considerably.

It was nearly midnight before the carriage drove to the capital, the city gate was closed, the guards showed the waist card of the town prince, and the soldiers guarding the city hurriedly opened the city gate to let them go.

The Zhenguo Mansion was brightly lit, and Si Hongrui and Si Hongjin were sitting in the front hall, with an endgame in front of them, but neither of them was thinking about the chess game.

The servants came in to report that the lady's carriage had entered the city, and they breathed a sigh of relief. The wind and snow are combined, and it is really not the weather to rush, but the matter is urgent, and there is no room for a moment's delay.

"Master, what's wrong?" Mrs. Zhenguo, who was full of tiredness, entered the door. Seeing that Si Hongjin was also there, he knew that the matter was not trivial, so he asked without caring about changing clothes.

Si Hongrui retreated and said solemnly: "Yesterday, the emperor issued an edict that the court will be restored tomorrow, and the two classes of senior members must be listed. The queen also issued an edict to order the ladies above the second rank to enter the palace to meet them, so she asked you to rush to the capital overnight. ”

For more than a year, the State of Qi has been the regent of the crown prince, and some ministers even think. The emperor couldn't afford to fall ill. The crown prince's accession to the throne is just around the corner.

As soon as the holy decree came out, the members of the two classes were all sincerely afraid, and those courtiers who usually camped with friends were even more trembling.

The emperor used his iron and bloody hands to bring down other princes who were a hundred times stronger than him. Ascend the throne strongly. He also personally conquered the northwest and southwest frontiers. Sweeping away the four razes, and governing the country with the rule of law, we are discerning. is known as a generation of Mingjun, and there is no room for a little sand in his eyes. When the court returns to the court, it is not certain which officials will be investigated and prosecuted, so everyone is in danger, and there is a great tendency for mountains and rains to come.

Xia Qingyun Fu Niang sat aside and listened quietly, she didn't understand that the affairs of the court had nothing to do with her, why did she let her come back with the two duchesses?

The Lady Protector thought of this and asked the same question.

Si Hongjin said: "That day, my brother entered the palace to meet him, and the emperor asked about the treatment, and the elder brother said that he would accept Qingyun as a righteous daughter and get her to recommend a hidden miracle doctor. ”

"What the emperor means," Si Hongrui said, "If you want to make Qingyun the county lord, I am worried that I will summon you on the same day before I can rush back together." ”

"It's a great event!" Mrs. Huguo hurriedly got up to congratulate her brother and sister-in-law and Xia Qingyun's mother, but Xia Qingyun didn't see any joy on her face.

She knows that there is constant fighting in the palace, she just wants to grow tea quietly, make a fortune, and find her biological parents with a prominent reputation.

"Why are you upset?" Mrs. Zhenguo noticed that her expression was different, and comforted her softly: "Don't be nervous, there are your father and uncle in the court, the queen mother and queen of the harem have always been tolerant and kind, and I and your aunt are protecting you, you just need to enter the palace and kowtow a few times, and receive the order to thank you." ”

As Mrs. Zhenguo said, at noon the next day, not long after Si Hongrui returned from the court, the emperor's decree arrived, canonizing Xia Qingyun, the righteous daughter of Zhenguo, as the lord of Taiping, and giving Dongchuan Town to her as the fief of the county lord. The date of the canonization ceremony is set on the sixteenth day of the lunar month after New Year's Day.

This is a unique thing in the Qi country, in addition to Xia Qingyun, there are two county lords in the Qi country, one is the county lord of Changping, the daughter of the emperor's uncle, and the other is the county lord of Anping, the daughter of the eldest princess, both of whom are relatives of the emperor, Xia Qingyun is the first county lord outside the royal family in the history of the Qi country, and he also has his own fief!

The entire Dongchuan Town, including Xia Qingyun's hometown Beixi Village, will be her territory in the future, not to mention ordinary people, even if her father and mother see her, they will also salute.

Niang has been the maid of Mrs. Zhenguo, knows etiquette, and as soon as the palace people who passed the decree leave, she walked out of the back hall and paid homage to the hot newly baked Taiping county lord according to etiquette.

"Oh, mother! It's tormenting my daughter! Xia Qingyun hurriedly flashed aside, helped his mother and complained: "What kind of truth is this, when a mother salutes her daughter, in the future, in her own home, you can't use this!" ”

She doesn't like others to kowtow to her the most, let alone her own mother. The title of the lord of this county has not seen any benefits, and the etiquette alone is troublesome.

However, more 'troubles' followed.

First of all, Mrs. Zhenguo returned from the harem and brought back the queen mother's decree, rewarding Xia Qingyun with 1,000 taels of gold, 3,000 taels of silver, 30 pieces of brocade of various colors, a set of red gold head noodles, a set of jade head noodles, a number of palace flowers, and a number of rouge gouache.

After thanking the order, he sent a reward to the palace people, and someone at the door came to report that the palace teacher had arrived. The queen was worried that Xia Qingyun grew up in the folk and was not familiar with court etiquette, so she specially sent two grandmothers to teach palace etiquette.

I met with Mama Jiaoxi, and as soon as I sat down and said a few words, the tailor sent by the palace came to measure her size again, and sewed the dress worn during the canonization ceremony, a total of three sets from the inside to the outside, and tossed for more than half an hour.

This is not the end, the news that the righteous daughter of Zhenguo Gong was named the county lord spread faster than the wind, the congratulatory stickers flew into the palace like snowflakes, and the congratulatory gifts were carried into the courtyard on the left and on the right, piled up as high as a hill.

After dinner, Mrs. Zhenguo personally inspected the gift list, looked at them one by one, and thanked all those who gave gold and silver, or gifts that were too expensive, and returned them intact.

Xia Qingyun lazily lay on the table beside him, looking at the silhouette of his mother in a daze.

"What do you think?" Mrs. Zhenguo glanced at her while closing the gift list, Xia Qingyun has always been light and light, and it is rare to see her put on a sad face and listless.

"Mother, being the county lord is so tiring and troublesome." Xia Qingyun straightened his waist, held his cheeks and asked, "Can you discuss with the emperor and ask him to take back his fate?" ”

She treated the emperor's illness because she didn't want turmoil in the Qi country, and the people were innocently affected, not because she wanted any reward. Mama Jiao Xi gave her a lecture for half an afternoon, and those red tapes alone gave her a headache, and then thinking about the palace fights she might encounter in the future, it made her head and two bigger. (To be continued......)