Chen Xiaohua stood there stupidly for a long time without moving, as if she couldn't bear these blows for a while. She originally thought she could ask Lu Ziyuan to let her leave the palace, but in the end, all her plans were shattered.
As they say, after going out, can a person return to the village? Even if she goes back, what will she do if her parents have moved away? She will die of hunger and thirst there?
Lian Guanlang dismissed the rest of the people and told them to do whatever they were supposed to do, and then took Lu Ziyuan into the house to rest.
Until the next day, Lu Ziwan did not meet Chen Xiaohua in the same yard. Knowing that she was still in the yard, he was probably sure that she would not repay her for being lazy, so he hid without fear.
Although Chen Xiaohua is someone Lu Ziwan hates, after all, she will not push her to a dead end because she is an old friend.
Early the next morning, the palace maids brought breakfast. Looking at the stacks of exquisite side dishes, Lu Ziyuan had to sigh at the luxury of palace life. It was just breakfast, and the side dishes and desserts filled the whole table.
Both of them were not used to being watched while eating, so they dismissed the palace maid. Lu Ziyuan held the bowl with a good appetite and shook her head while eating, "Luxury! It suddenly reminded me of a saying, Zhumen's wine and meat are smelly, and the roads are frozen to death.
bone."
"Eat." Lian Guanlang shook his head helplessly. The emperor was born to be rich and noble, so how could he know the suffering of the common people in the world? "I think we should see if we have a chance to find Master Du after we leave the palace. We met yesterday.
Holy Spirit, there are many officials from the Imperial Medical Office who are going to treat the Queen Mother today, and I think there will also be people from the Imperial Medical Office."
"I understand, it's hard to tell when there are others around." Lu Ziyuan still wanted to leave Xiao Ming alive and out of the imperial city.
Not long after breakfast was taken away, someone from Cining Palace came to invite someone, and the two of them got up and left the courtyard to go to Cining Palace.
Cining Palace is the palace of the empress dowager of the past dynasties, the biological mother of the emperor. Compared with the palace of the eldest princess, Cining Palace is on a higher level of magnificence. On a hot day, you can feel it even if you step on the white jade bricks with your shoes on.
The coolness radiated from the white jade bricks, which are warm in winter and cool in summer, were laid all the way from the entrance of the palace to the Queen Mother's bedroom.
"The Queen Mother Xuanlu Ziwan, Lian Guanlang comes to see you." She was still waiting at the palace gate to be summoned, but this time it was obviously much faster.
When I followed the maid from Cining Palace into the palace, I didn't know what kind of unique craftsmen and stones were used in any part of the palace. It was much cooler inside the palace than outside.
"A common woman meets the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother is a thousand years old!"
"Common people see the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother is a thousand years old!"
Before Lu Ziwan knelt down, the Queen Mother personally supported her and said, "The Ai family knows that you are pregnant, so we can dispense with these common courtesy. Everyone, please get up and sit down!"
"Thank you, Queen Mother!" The two of them sat on the chair brought by the palace maid. Before their buttocks could even touch it, they heard their father-in-law announcing the emperor's arrival outside.
From an angle that no one else could see, Lu Ziwan turned her face sideways and rolled her eyes, she couldn't stand it~
The Queen Mother escaped from kneeling, but the Emperor made up for it. When everyone was kneeling on the ground, the Emperor pretended to ask everyone to get up quickly.
"Why did the Emperor come to the Aijia so early in the morning?" The Queen Mother looked a little happy, "The Emperor has many things to do, and he has not been to the Aijia for some days."
"Hey, there has been a severe drought in the north recently, and refugees have fled in all directions. Many places have become empty cities." The emperor sighed and sat down on the right side of the Queen Mother.
As soon as the emperor mentioned the matter in the drought zone, the smile on his face suddenly disappeared. Lu Ziyuan immediately looked at Lian Guanlang and blinked at him. There were no other officials in Cining Palace now.
Time to mention it?
Lian Guanlang quickly took Lu Ziyuan's hand and shook his head gently, signaling her not to be too impulsive and to wait patiently for what the Emperor and the Queen Mother would say.
"Didn't we allocate funds and food a few days ago? If we run away, we won't get any support from the court, and we won't be able to survive. After a while, everyone will go back, right?" said the Queen Mother.