Mo Chuan's face couldn't help but blush slightly, he stood up following Su Jin's support, and suddenly gave a salute to Su Jin.
"Aunt Sujin, thank you for your hard work in taking care of my mother while I am away from the palace."
"Ah, Your Majesty, you are saluting this slave. Aren't you trying to break this slave? I must not do this. It is your duty to serve the Queen Mother."
Su Jin hurriedly knelt down, but was stopped by Mo Chuan.
"Sujin, you just accepted this gift from him. You have watched Chuan'er grow up, so your acceptance of this gift from him is nothing." Queen Mother Zhou said.
Su Jin blushed, but still bowed to Mo Chuan respectfully, complying with the palace rules.
"Didn't you say that today we have the Ai family's favorite horse-hoe cake and sweet-scented osmanthus cake? The Ai family remembers that the emperor also likes this cake, so why don't you go and get it." Empress Dowager Zhou glared at her with a smile.
"Yes, look at my memory, I have forgotten everything. I have prepared not only water chestnut cakes but also jasper stem rice porridge, emerald glutinous rice balls, and fresh soup dumplings."
Sujin walked away with a smile on her face and went into the kitchen. It took a long time before she came out with a tray. Her eyes were red, she had obviously cried in the kitchen.
She knew that the Empress Dowager Zhou and Mo Chuan's mother and son must have a lot to say when they reunited after a long separation, so she deliberately gave them time.
He carried the tray into the Queen Mother Zhou's palace.
Empress Dowager Zhou made an exception and ate two more bowls of porridge and a drawer of small soup dumplings. When she wanted to eat another bowl of porridge, Sujin smiled and refused to serve it to her.
"The Queen Mother usually only eats half a bowl of porridge and one soup dumpling. Today you have had two bowls of porridge, four soup dumplings, and two water chestnut osmanthus cakes. It's not that I'm reluctant to give it to you, but you just want to eat it again. If you go down, the emperor will be hungry."
Su Jin finished speaking with a smile, added another bowl of porridge to Mo Chuan, and then moved the remaining snacks in front of Mo Chuan.
"Your Majesty, you'd better eat more. These snacks are all made by slaves. I don't know if they suit your taste."
Empress Dowager Zhou smiled and said angrily: "You're a guy who only knows how to flatter the emperor. When you saw the emperor coming, you started flattering the emperor and ignored the Ai family?"
Su Jin also smiled and said: "The Queen Mother is right. I haven't seen the Emperor for a long time, so I naturally want to flatter the Emperor. If I make the Emperor feel comfortable, the Emperor will come to visit the Queen Mother often. This is also for you, old man. OK."
Looking at the heartfelt smile on Queen Mother Zhou's face, she felt touched and sour at the same time. Her eyes were red, but her eyes were full of smiles.
She is serious by nature and seldom speaks. She has been a slave in the palace for so many years. She has never said such disrespectful words in her life.
But at this time, she was in a happy mood and blurted out without realizing it.
"You've always been a clumsy girl, how come you're so sharp-tongued today? If I had known you were so good at talking, the Ai family should have sent you out early."
Empress Dowager Zhou was very happy when she heard this. She pointed at her and laughed so hard that she couldn't help but cough repeatedly.
Sujin hurriedly patted her back and handed her a cup of hot tea to calm her down.
"If the Queen Mother sends your slaves out, who will pat you on the back, beat your legs, and make love to you?" She laughed softly.
Queen Mother Zhou drank several sips of tea before she stopped coughing. She looked at Su Jin and glared: "Okay, you girl, how dare you threaten the Queen Mother?"