"Do you think that after serving the Ai family for so many years, the Ai family will not be willing to beat you and punish you?" Queen Mother Zhou said coldly, without any expression on her face.
"This slave accepts the punishment."
"Okay, the Ai family will fine you two years of fines. What did you just say?" Empress Dowager Zhou softened her tone again.
Su Jin bit her lip and whispered: "The Queen Mother, for the sake of the reputation of the Emperor and the Princess, I feel that it is not easy to make a big fuss and make it known to everyone. It is better to send people to secretly search for the whereabouts of the Emperor. I believe that the Emperor will not let him down." The Queen Mother's expectations must have been met by some accident, so the Emperor was unable to come back in time for the morning court meeting."
Her words were like a basin of cold water poured on Queen Mother Zhou's head, which immediately extinguished a lot of her burning anger.
Not bad!
Empress Dowager Zhou was so angry that she even ignored this point.
She nodded slowly and said to Su Jin: "Get up! What you said makes sense. You immediately send people to secretly search for the whereabouts of the emperor. For Princess Anle, you declare a decree to the Ai family and let her shut up and think about her mistakes. There is no Ai family. According to the decree, she is not allowed to leave the house again!"
Hearing this, Su Jin breathed a sigh of relief and replied: "Yes, Queen Mother, I will take care of it now."
Just as she turned around to leave, she was stopped by Queen Mother Zhou again.
"Go and get the little boy next to the emperor to the Ai family. If the Ai family has anything to ask him."
"Yes." Su Jin agreed and went out, secretly feeling a cold sweat for Xiao Si.
As soon as Xiaosi heard the Queen Mother Zhou's call, she was sweating all over her body.
He instinctively knew that something was wrong. The emperor was missing, and even his personal eunuch did not know his whereabouts. If the Queen Mother asked about it, he would be blamed.
If Empress Dowager Zhou gets angry, at best she will give him a meal of bamboo shoots and fried meat, at worst, the head on his neck may be moved.
"Aunt Sujin, can you tell me, Xiaosi, why did the Queen Mother call the servants?"
He followed Sujin and asked anxiously while walking towards Shoukang Palace.
Su Jin glared at him angrily: "You still have the nerve to ask? You have lost the Emperor, and the Queen Mother is looking for you!"
Xiao Si suddenly had a bitter look on his face: "Aunt Sujin, isn't this an unjust death of a slave? This foot grows on the emperor's leg, and the emperor's kung fu is so good. He can go wherever he wants. Xiao Si is just a How can you, slave, influence the emperor's wishes? If the Queen Mother starts to blame her for a while, I beg Aunt Sujin to put in a good word for Xiaosi."
Su Jin snorted: "Good words? I just said a word and was fined two years of silver by the Queen Mother. You'd better ask for your blessings."
When Xiaosi heard this, she was so scared that her legs went weak: "Aunt Sujin, I still won't go see the Queen Mother. You have served the Queen Mother for so many years. When the Queen Mother is angry, she will fine you two years of silver. If I say something wrong, If you say that, you won’t be able to save the head on this neck!”
"Sigh! Dare you disobey the Queen Mother's summons?" Su Jin turned around and grabbed Xiaosi's ears, scolding her in a low voice: "Answer the Queen Mother's words carefully in a moment. You know what you should and shouldn't say!"
"Aunt Sujin, this slave really doesn't know anything." Xiaosi almost knelt down to her.
Although he knew martial arts, he did not dare to struggle and allowed Su Jin to grab his ears and bring him to the Queen Mother Zhou.
With a "plop", he fell to his knees.