She immediately pulled Xiao Si.
"Let's go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs first. It's important to finish the errands prepared by the Queen Mother. We can talk about anything later."
Xiaosi felt as if he was being pardoned. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief.
He was really afraid that Sujin would ask further questions.
*
In the imperial study room, the mother and son chatted for a while.
Empress Dowager Zhou stood up and said: "Emperor, you can continue to review the memorial. The Ai family will not disturb you in doing business."
Mo Chuan said respectfully: "My son, I respectfully send my mother off."
Empress Dowager Zhou took two steps, then turned back and said, "Chuan'er, you don't blame the Aijia, do you?" She stared at Mo Chuan, with worry in her eyes.
Although she did it for this country and her son's country, she felt that she had made the right decision.
But what she is most worried about is that her son will not be able to overcome this hurdle in his heart and will develop a grudge against her.
"Of course not. The Queen Mother is wholeheartedly working for her son, for our Xi Chu. Even now, the Queen Mother is still working hard for her son. It is because the son and minister are unfilial and make the Queen worry."
Mo Chuan answered sincerely, with sincere eyes and sincere tone.
Queen Mother Zhou couldn't help but put her heart back in her stomach and showed a kind smile.
"Come to the Aijia palace for dinner. The Aijia will ask Sujin to cook your favorite dishes. You have liked her cooking since you were a child. Look at you eating food from the imperial kitchen every day these days. I'm afraid Are you tired of eating it a long time ago?" She looked at her son lovingly.
"Okay, then I will go to Shoukang Palace to harass my mother." Mo Chuan replied with a smile.
Mother and son looked at each other and smiled.
Queen Mother Zhou felt warm in her heart and her eyes couldn't help but become moist.
She sighed contentedly, turned around and was about to leave, when suddenly she heard Mo Chuan shouting from behind:
"Mother."
"Well, what else is there?" Queen Mother Zhou looked back with a smile.
Her son seemed to have returned to the way he had been when he was a child, nestling in his lap. Every time he was separated, he would look at her with reluctant eyes, trying to think of something to say, but he didn't know what to say.
The current son looked like this again, which made Queen Mother Zhou feel soft in her heart. She just felt that no matter what her son said, she would always agree.
"Actually, it's not a big deal." Mo Chuan smiled and shook his head.
"Then tell me, what's the matter?" Queen Mother Zhou smiled.
"It is indeed a small matter, but I don't know if I should handle it or not?"
"tell me the story?"
"Well, it's like this." Mo Chuan pondered for a moment and then said: "My son received a memorial, and one of the county magistrate's staff discovered an unjust case. This case has been going on for seven years, and The people involved in the case are in high positions of authority…”
Before he could finish speaking, Queen Mother Zhou's face suddenly darkened.
"What's wrong with the high position? Can't the seventh-grade county magistrate not handle it? Since it is an injustice case and seven years have passed, it is even more important to retry the case and avenge the deceased!"
"I think so too. I have already approved it, so that the county magistrate can go and investigate with confidence, but..."
"But what?" Queen Mother Zhou raised her eyebrows.
"I think the county magistrate is brave, and his staff is even more courageous and resourceful. I want to give that staff an official position."
In the laws of Western Chu, officials were selected from the imperial examinations, and ordinary people could not rise to the top in one step, unless there was a special purpose.
This special decree requires the emperor's personal approval.