"Report to the official position? Hahahaha... The official of the Qing Dynasty who can control me has not yet been reincarnated!"
Zai Chun laughed loudly, pushed aside the skinny boy who was blocking the way, strode into the hanging flower door, and broke into the inner house of Chongqi Mansion!
Chongqi's mansion looks like it has been around for a long time. The wooden rafters, slates, blue bricks, hardwood window lattice, etc. have all shown the vicissitudes of time!
But the standards are very high, and many of the carvings and paintings are very detailed. It stands to reason that such a large house with three entrances cannot have only so many people serving it.
But when Zai Chun broke into the hanging flower door from the main entrance, he saw a total of four male servants, an old concierge and three young servants.
After entering the hanging flower door, the two little girls screamed and hid in the side room!
Zai Chun couldn't help but feel a little fond of Chongqi's family. This was indeed an old family that had been with the Qing Dynasty for two hundred years, and could be considered a true direct descendant!
There must have been prosperity and decline in the past two hundred years. They carefully manage the industries left by their ancestors, and they are currently quite poor!
For such an old house, there are only about twenty servants to support it, but now looking at the front yard and the back house, I'm afraid there can't even be more than ten people!
The reputation of the Chongqi family for being clean and honest seems to be well-deserved!
Suddenly there was a crisp sound of clinking porcelain in the main hall of the inner house, and a young figure was about to run away through the window. Zai Chun became interested and strode in. He opened the curtain and said, "Stop!"
Just like the body-fixing method, a woman of about sixteen years old was wearing a half-worn goose yellow cotton-padded jacket with silver thread and a long shiny black braid trailing behind her back.
She was completely dressed in home clothes, not even a few pieces of jewelry on her head, and her face was bare with no trace of makeup at all!
When the girl saw a soap-colored man coming in, she screamed in fright, turned her head and covered her face with her hands, "Who is that person? How dare you be so rude... a swindler!"
The girl was so frightened that she ran away as if she had cast a immobilization spell!
Zai Chun looked at the little girl's figure up and down. It was indeed a good S-shaped figure with perfect proportions, and there was not a single flaw on her bare face!
Just as he was peeping rudely, an adult woman stood in front of Zai Chun, and saw her Wan Fu Jin An saluting Emperor Tongzhi!
"Slave Guarjia, please give me your regards to the long live Lord! My little girl is rude, please allow her to go to the inner house for a while!"
"Hey? Do you know me?" Zai Chun saw that the person blocking the way was actually his mother-in-law!
Guarjia said politely, but looked at the emperor with unfriendly eyes. She was obviously very angry at this rude behavior, but the other party was the emperor, and she had nothing to do.
"It's not difficult to guess... How big of an event is His Majesty's return to the capital? Although I haven't seen it with my own eyes, I have heard it discussed by my husband and his servants!"
"Although your men have changed into regular clothes, the leather boots on their feet are of foreign style. Who in the capital besides the new Yulin Army would dare to wear such leather boots?"
"Are these the father-in-laws in the palace? I often see my slaves when they visit the princes' homes!"
"You can bring out the new army of the Royal Forest, and you have my father-in-law waiting with you. You are still about the same age... If you are not long live, who else can be?"
Yes, yes, the mother-in-law is a smart person, and the father-in-law is the only Eight Banner Champion in the Qing Dynasty. It seems that this daughter-in-law's IQ is definitely no problem!
Zai Chun nodded and looked at the large and small tea sets on the table, as well as the faint aroma of Tieguanyin. "Hey... are you making tea? It looks like Kung Fu tea from Fujian and Vietnam!"
"How about you make me a drink?" Zai Chun glanced at his future wife, Arut, but this wife just gave him a back and didn't look back.
"No!" the sixteen-year-old Arut said categorically, "Your Majesty, please respect yourself. This is the inner chamber, where women stay. As a man, you should not force your way in!"
"Since he is the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, he should know the etiquette!"
"...Yes, I was making tea just now, and what I learned was the Kung Fu tea from the Fujian and Yue areas, and I also learned it for Your Majesty. I heard that the new troops trained by Your Majesty are all soldiers from Fujian..."
"I secretly guess that His Majesty is very concerned about the scenery of the South, so he learned some southern tea-drinking methods... But this Kung Fu tea was learned for the Emperor, and I will never make you a cup today!"
"Because you are rude! As a woman, how can I see foreign guests without my father's summons? As an emperor, how can you break into the inner house and harass the female family members?"
"Didn't your Majesty learn nothing else when he studied in Europe? Did he just learn the rudeness of foreigners?"
"This slave's life is not worthy of being looked upon by the Long Live Lord. You'd better go back..."
"However, although my life is low, I will not hesitate to die for the sake of honor! If Your Majesty does not withdraw, then give me three feet of white silk and hang me here!"
Oops... Zai Chun and everyone around him were all dumbfounded. They had never seen such a strong-willed woman. How old are you at this age to learn how to sacrifice yourself to save the day?
No one would think that she was joking. Every word Arut said was resounding and decisive, touching people's hearts!
"No! No, no... I'm leaving now. I have no ill intentions. I just came to see what kind of person the woman the Queen Mother has chosen for me is like!"
"Hey... In this court, everyone wears a mask. It's not easy to see their true face in daily life!"
Zai Chun touched his body, took out a gold pocket watch purchased in London, and placed it on the table. "I don't have anything good to give you when we first meet. I bought this watch in Europe. I give it to you as an apology." Apologized!"
After saying this, Zai Chun turned around and left. When he was about to leave the Chuihua Gate, he turned around and took a peek, and found that Arut's back was still facing him, with no intention of looking back.
"Hey... don't think too much about it. Your Arut family has a Mongolian surname, and your ancestors were also nobles from the grasslands. The etiquette between men and women is not that strong!"
"According to Mongolian and Manchu customs, even if we meet, it is not against etiquette. I will apologize to your father for this matter, so don't feel any psychological burden!"
Arut still didn't look back, still stubbornly facing the emperor with her back!
Zai Chun smiled and shook his head and left Chongqi's house. At this time, the old servant Ding and several servants already knew the identity of the emperor. They were so frightened that they knelt in the doorway and kowtowed as hard as they could.
"Okay, I'm paying a private visit incognito. Just don't make it public. No one will know!"
"Let's go out of Andingmen and hurry up!"
Zai Chun left, but Arut in the inner house shed tears. Her mother took her hand and stuffed the pocket watch into her pocket, "Stop crying, Long live the Lord didn't do anything to you!"
"Uuuuuuuuuah... Mother, can I not enter the palace? This emperor is so rude and rude. He is obviously a drunkard and a womanizer!"
"If my daughter marries such a person, she may be in trouble in the future!"
Arut threw himself into his mother's arms and cried bitterly, but the pocket watch was left on the table!
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