was so busy and busy, waiting until the morning of the tenth day of the first lunar month, at the appointed hour, the carriage in the palace was waiting at the gate of the Chu Mansion.

The palace people who came to pick up people were still Jiang Zhixia's old acquaintance Mama Huang.

Chu Tiankuo looked coldly at this out-of-specification reception, and his face gradually darkened.

You must know that the ordinary audience is that the wives themselves ride the carriage to the gate of the palace. Where can I get the carriage from the palace to pick it up?

When he heard Zhixia talking about this matter worriedly, he knew that whether to admit his relatives or not, I was afraid that it was no longer up to him to decide.

Now he only hopes that before everyone has a clear news, he will quickly transfer back to the border city. Otherwise, I'm afraid I can't easily leave.

Chu Tiankuo accompanied Jiang Zhixia to sit in the carriage in the palace, and arrived at the palace gate smoothly.

Crossing the palace gate, I saw two sedan chairs waiting.

"I also invite General Chu and Mrs. Chu to get on the sedan chair and go directly to Fengyi Palace to meet the queen." The eunuch waiting on the side said with a smile on his face.

Jiang Zhixia looked at the eunuch's clothes------ it was the costume of the chief eunuch in charge."

The eunuch's eyes were sharp, and when he saw Jiang Zhixia looking at her, he said with a smile: "Madam may not recognize the slave." The slave is the head of Fengyi Palace, and he has to be given the surname Liu by his mother. ”

Jiang Zhixia suddenly understood.

She knew that this manager Liu, he was the queen's confidant, and he had been following the queen when she entered the East Palace as the crown princess.

After the queen entered Fengyi Palace, he naturally became the head of Fengyi Palace.

However, Manager Liu is the chief of all the eunuchs and grandmothers in Fengyi Palace, and she is just a small rough palace maid in the apse, so naturally there is no intersection.

Jiang Zhixia only occasionally glanced at some large occasions with a large number of people, and naturally couldn't remember it.

As for Manager Liu, there are so many palace maids in Fengyi Palace, so naturally they don't know her even more.

However, it can also be seen that the queen mother really attaches great importance to them, and even the chief steward of her palace has been sent to greet them.

"Don't I have to go to the front hall to meet the emperor first?" Chu Tiankuo asked with a frown.

Since he learned that he was going to enter the palace for an audience, he also quietly inquired about some of the process of the audience.

Basically, the men go to the front hall to meet the emperor first, and the female dependents go directly to the harem to meet the queen.

What's more, there is also Jiang Zhixia, a person who understands the rules of the palace.

"No, no. The emperor said, let the general and Niangniang talk about the relationship between sister and brother. After the court finished discussing the matter, he went to Fengyi Palace to see the general. ”

Manager Liu said with a smiling face.

As the confidant of the queen's mother, of course he knew that this general Chu was the brother of the queen's longing in-law.

Chu Tiankuo frowned, glanced at Jiang Zhixia, and sat in the palace sedan chair.

There are so many places that don't conform to the rules today.

When they arrived at the gate of the main hall of Fengyi Palace, they stopped the sedan chair, Chu Tiankuo and Jiang Zhixia came out of the sedan chair, and the palace people who had been waiting for a long time came forward and led them into the main hall.

In the main hall, Queen Liu Rumei was already restless. If it weren't for the rules, she would have run to the door to meet her.

When Chu Tiankuo and Jiang Zhixia came in and made a big salute according to the rules, they saw Liu Rumei walking over from the seat above.

"Brother," the queen shouted at Chu Tiankuo with tears in her eyes.

Chu Tiankuo's expression was stunned, and a girl with a bun chased after a small figure in his mind, shouting 'Brother, Brother' in a stack.

He quickly came back to his senses, lowered his head to hide the look in his eyes, and replied in a low voice: "The minister has seen the queen mother, the queen mother Wan'an." ”

The queen was stunned for a moment, "You used to call me Sister." ”

Seeing the queen's stunned appearance, Chu Tiankuo's expression moved, and he didn't say anything after all.

However, the queen seemed to fall into a memory, and muttered: "Only our family shouted like this." When you were just born, my nurse asked me to call you eighth brother, and I felt that the relationship was too distant. Therefore, I stubbornly only called my brother. One day, I chased you, and because I was in a hurry, I kept shouting, 'Ah, brother, slow down'. After repeating this, my aunt happened to come to the house and saw this scene, so she said to me: 'You are special, everyone else calls you brother, you call brother'. Sister also thinks this is very special. So, when you can speak, I'll teach you to call me Sister A. Let's call the eldest brother brother. Only the three of us shouted that. ”

Chu Tiankuo was silent, but Jiang Zhixia, who was listening next to him, was a little moved.

The palace said that the queen was dignified and generous, and there were few gaffes.

However, looking at the queen with tears in her eyes now, she feels more humane.

Seeing that Chu Tiankuo was unmoved, the queen lowered her head a little gloomily.

Immediately, she turned around and wiped her eyes with a handkerchief, then turned around and said to Jiang Zhixia with a smile: "This is my brother and sister, right?" It's a pity that when you got married, Sister Ah couldn't see it. ”

Jiang Zhixia saw that her eyes had turned to her, she suddenly became nervous, and wanted to kneel down to make a big salute, but she was held up by the queen.

"Brother and sister don't have to be polite to Sister A." After the queen picked up Jiang Zhixia, she looked at it carefully.

Although she was looking at Jiang Zhixia, the corner of her eyes kept looking at Chu Tiankuo.

Seeing that because of her scrutiny, Chu Tiankuo was nervous and wanted to step forward, and she knew it in her heart.

"My brother and sister are really good-looking. It's a pity that Sister Ah didn't know it before. The queen said to Jiang Zhixia with a smile.

Chu Tiankuo couldn't help but ease his expression when he saw the queen treating Jiang Zhixia so gently.

Now that the ceremony was over, the queen led the two of them to the inner hall at the back, wanting to say something confidant.

Therefore, except for her henchmen and the big palace maid, she waved everyone else away.

Seeing that there were no outsiders, the queen asked the two of them to sit down. She didn't sit down herself, but had the small table in the middle of the chair removed, and the three of them sat side by side and stared at them closely.

Jiang Zhixia was stared at a little helpless. She raised her eyes and looked at Chu Tiankuo, only to see Chu Tiankuo's expressionless face.

"Brother really looks like his mother when she was young." The queen looked at Chu Tiankuo for a while, and then said with a smile.

Chu Tiankuo was silent.

The queen had no choice but to turn to Jiang Zhixia's side helplessly, "Did my brother and sister use to be in the apse?" I've never seen it. ”

"Back to Niangniang's words," Jiang Zhixia stood up and was about to salute back, but the queen hurriedly pulled her down.

"My brother and sister are just ordinary sisters, so I don't have to be so polite."

The queen looked at her younger brother who was about to stand up, and hurriedly reassured.

Seeing this, Jiang Zhixia had no choice but to whisper: "If you go back to Niangniang, it is in the apse." Slaves and maids used to be rough palace maids who were unequal, and they couldn't appear in front of nobles. ”

Hearing Jiang Zhixia call himself a slave, Chu Tiankuo's face became even darker---- he knew that this palace was not a good place. As soon as Zhixia came, his status became lower.

And when the queen heard Jiang Zhixia calling herself a slave, and saw her younger brother's black face, she hurriedly said, "You must not be like this." You are my brother's wife, so naturally you are my brother and sister. In the future, you are only allowed to call me sister. ”

In this way, Chu Tiankuo, who was eager to protect his wife, softened his face a little.

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