The emperor and the queen will take a three-day break from court after their wedding.
Today is the first day of court after the holiday. The ministers came here early and there were carriages parked at the entrance of the palace.
Ministers with good relations gathered together and whispered.
Several of Li Yunze's apprentices, including Zhang Daqian and Mao Dan, are currently serving as officials in the court.
For the remaining few who are younger, Li Yunze asked them all to take this year's scientific examination. Those who pass the examination will be assigned to the corresponding departments, or they will be released to practice for a few years.
Zhang Erqian was still the magistrate of Taizhou, and that boy was very capable.
He was appointed as the magistrate of Taizhou at the age of twelve. In just four years, he has already managed Taizhou very well.
Taizhou City is now much wealthier than several nearby states.
Li Yunze plans to transfer him to the capital in a while, and then he will be placed in the Sixth Department for training. If there is a suitable position, he will be given the top position.
When the time came, the heavy palace door slowly opened.
The ministers entered the palace one after another.
Li Yunze and Ye Yutong were still having breakfast.
The breakfast for the two of them was very simple, including red dates and millet porridge, boiled eggs, scallion pancakes, and a few cold side dishes, all made by Li Yunze.
At this time Li Chaoyang walked in.
Li Yunze assigned him a palace, but he rarely went back.
Sometimes I live in the palace, sometimes I go to Ye Mansion to stay for a few days.
He took a fried cake and put it in his mouth, "Brother, your cooking skills are getting better and better. You are better than the aunts in the big kitchen. Make more tomorrow and I will come over to eat."
Li Yunze felt that this younger brother was really blind.
I wonder if I can find him a wife, so that I can spend the whole day hanging around him and Tongtong.
Ye Yutong brought the peeled eggs to Li Chaoyang, "Chaoyang, why don't you sit down and eat some more."
Li Chaoyang took the eggs and ate them, then shook his head and said, "Sister-in-law, I ate in the cafeteria. I just came to see what you were eating."
"Then you come over to eat tomorrow. I will cook and fry you dough sticks tomorrow."
Before Li Chaoyang could speak, Li Yunze frowned and said, "Why frying fried dough sticks so early in the morning is so troublesome?"
Li Chaoyang smiled, took another scallion pancake, and ran outside and said, "Sister-in-law, I will come over for dinner later."
Ye Yutong smiled and said: "Okay, tell me in advance what you want to eat."
Li Yunze glared at her, "You can do whatever he wants to eat. Why don't you ask your man what he wants to eat?"
Ye Yutong peeled another egg and put it in his bowl, and asked with a smile: "Then what do you want to eat? I'll make it for you tonight."
Li Yunze then smiled and moved closer to her. He originally wanted to eat you, but he was afraid of offending his wife, so what he said became, "Just rest, I'll make dinner."
Ye Yutong smiled and nodded, looked at the time, and urged: "Eat quickly and go to court. The ministers should have arrived."
Li Yunze finished the millet porridge in the bowl in a few seconds, "Then I'm leaving. If anything happens, let me know. If someone makes you angry, don't bear it."
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Ye Yutong had a leisurely meal, and the maids began to comb her hair and change her phoenix robe.
When the concubine had almost arrived, she took the palace maid to the palace next door.
This was specially packed away by Li Yunze so that she could meet his wife.
As soon as Ye Yutong walked to the gate of the palace, she heard a sharp voice inside criticizing her, "What a big arrogance to have so many people waiting for her."
Sitting below her was a richly dressed lady. She blew her nails and said lazily:
"Auntie, why are you angry about this kind of thing? It's not like you don't know that our queen is a peasant girl who has never seen the world. How can she understand these rules?"
This statement is close to saying that Ye Yutong has a bad background and is uneducated.
Suddenly a pin drop could be heard in the palace, and even the lower-ranking wives did not dare to speak. His eyes couldn't help but look at the Queen's mother.
The first-class ladies sitting opposite were drinking tea calmly, but they also glanced at Li Wenxiu from the corner of their eyes.
Seeing that she was chatting and laughing with Mrs. Song, the expression on her face did not change, as if she had not heard the conversation between the two princesses.
Everyone knew that this was probably not a simple person.
"The Queen has arrived."
All the voices stopped immediately, and there was silence in the palace. Everyone looked in the direction where the Queen came.
I saw that her face was very delicate, and it would be no exaggeration to say that she would captivate the country.
She was wearing a red phoenix court dress embroidered with gold, with layers of fine fabrics ironed on her body.
The skirt was embroidered with gorgeous golden phoenixes. As she swayed as she walked, the phoenix spread its wings gently, as if it was about to fly high into the sky.
Seeing that everyone was stunned, Mrs. Song gently pulled Mrs. Yao next to her, and the two of them took the lead and knelt down.
"See the queen, a thousand years old, a thousand years old."
All the women reacted and immediately knelt down and kowtowed.
Only the two noble ladies who had just attacked Ye Yutong sat there without moving.
One of them is Li Yunze's aunt, Princess Hedon, and the other is Li Yunze's aunt, Princess Fanghua.
The two of them sat there drinking tea leisurely, their eyes full of disdain.
Ye Yutong didn't even look at either of them, and walked to the table as if there was no one else around.
At this time, Linglan looked at the two eldest princesses and shouted: "Which woman from this family dares to be so unruly? How dare she not kneel down when she sees the Queen? Come and drag her out."
"How dare you." Princess Fanghua slapped the table, "How dare a little palace maid be so rude to this princess and turn against you."
Linglan looked at her in surprise, and then said in disbelief:
"You are actually a princess? Then why don't you even understand the rules? The Queen is the mother of a country. Even if you are an elder, you must pay national tribute to her. Do you want me, a palace maid, to teach you these things?"
"You...you..." Princess Fanghua pointed at Linglan, and she was so angry that she couldn't speak clearly.
Her face turned green and white. She had never been taught such a lesson in her whole life. She didn't expect that a little palace maid would dare to accuse her in public.
"What a sharp-tongued little girl." Princess Hedon snorted coldly and looked at Ye Yutong aggressively, "Daughter-in-law of Ping'an, is this your attitude towards your elders?"
Ye Yutong took a sip of tea slowly and said calmly: "Princess, are you telling me the rules? I only know that you don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you."
"What are you thinking?"
"Why, the princess doesn't understand?" Ye Yutong put the tea lid into the cup, and a clear voice sounded in the hall.
She looked at the two princesses with sharp eyes, "In that case, I will send two nuns to teach the princesses what royal rules are.
You two should not go out of the house during this period. When will you learn the rules before going out to meet people? People in the province say that our aunt from the Li family does not have a tutor. "
The pleasure princess said angrily: "You...you dare."
"What can I not dare to do? I am doing this all for the sake of the royal family's face. If it is known that the royal princess is so ignorant of the rules, it will be a disgrace to our Li family. I will never allow you to bring shame on the ancestors of the Li family." Discredit.”
Ye Yutong said it with great justice, and then ordered Lingmei:
"You personally send the two princesses back to the palace, and then tell their consorts what happened just now, and let the two consorts supervise them at home. If you can't learn the rules well, you will never leave the palace. The royal family cannot afford to lose this person. "
"Yes, concubine."
Princess Fanghua almost fainted from anger, pointed at Ye Yutong and cursed indiscriminately: "Bitch, you are so brave, how dare you insult me like this, I will never spare you..."
She wanted to scold her again, but Lingmei's slap had already hit her.
Clear slaps resounded in the hall, and no one dared to speak out.
After more than a dozen slaps, Princess Fanghua's face was swollen, and blood flowed from the corners of her mouth.
Lingmei wiped her hands with a handkerchief, then stuffed the handkerchief into her mouth and said coldly: "Pull it down."
The married woman kneeling below didn't dare to breathe.
The first-class ladies kneeling in front of her didn't think much of the newly crowned empress at first, but now they have stopped scorning her.
I didn't expect that the Queen Empress would have such courage and momentum at such a young age.
The two princesses have been arrogant for many years, and the previously powerful Queen Mother Qiao has to avoid them.
I didn't expect that the Queen would be dealt with so easily.
It seems that they should be more cautious in what they say and do in the future.
The queen doesn't even give face to the princess, let alone the court ladies like them.
Ye Yutong glanced at the fateful woman kneeling below, and after a while he said calmly: "Everyone, get up."
"Thank you, Queen."
