She thought silently: Queen Mother, I really didn’t mean to help the Emperor and Miss Shen deceive you, but I really can’t bear to beat the mandarin ducks. If you know the truth in the future and want to beat or scold me, just do it to me. Come on, I just hope you will never break them up.
Mrs. Zhou did not doubt her words at all. She excitedly took Sujin's hand without even asking a question.
"You came back just in time. The Clothing Bureau has just sent us the styles of dresses prepared for the Emperor's wedding. The Ai family are all spoiled for choice. Come and help the Ai family choose. Which one is best to wear on the Emperor's wedding day?"
Su Jin smiled and said: "Okay, I'm just afraid that the slave's taste is not good and the one I choose will not be in line with the Queen Mother's wishes."
"You have been with the Ai family for so many years, and the things you do are always in line with the Ai family's wishes. The one you choose must be the most satisfactory to the Ai family." Empress Dowager Zhou smiled.
As Mo Chuan expected, Queen Mother Zhou did not ask further questions because she was too busy.
There were only three days left before the emperor's wedding. There were so many things she had to prepare for these three days that she was so busy that she barely had time to sleep. Even though she was so busy, Queen Mother Zhou didn't feel tired at all. Everyone is trapped in a mood of excitement and joy.
Seeing Queen Mother Zhou like this, Sujin was both happy and worried.
As the wedding gets closer, she becomes more and more nervous.
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The news that the emperor was about to get married spread throughout the streets and alleys of Kyoto like it had wings overnight.
This is the second great joy for the people.
Moreover, they heard that the queen the emperor wanted to marry was a commoner girl. She was not a noble girl with a distinguished family background or a lady, but an ordinary commoner girl like them. This made them respect and love the emperor. A few more points added.
They all asked which family's girl was so lucky that she suddenly flew up a branch and turned into a phoenix.
However, after asking around, no one found out about the family background of the future queen, let alone her name.
But these are not important, and they do not reduce the people's love for their young emperor in the slightest.
They are now warmly clothed, well-fed, and the abundant life they live is all brought to them by the young emperor, so every household begins to get busy with the emperor's wedding.
Lanterns were decorated in front of every house, water was sprinkled to clean the streets, and the streets of Kyoto were swept clean. Everyone's face was filled with joy, as if it was not the emperor who was getting married, but themselves.
This news naturally reached Chu Shaoyang's ears.
Ever since Shen Ningyuan married Dong Qin, he had never left home and never left the palace. Every day, he locked himself in the stone room in the underworld where Shen Ning was imprisoned, lying on the bed where she once lay. Go up and get yourself drunk.
He never went to the morning court, and he did not care about anything that happened in the court.
Because she left, she took his heart with her. His chest was empty and he was drunk all day long.
Sometimes when he was drunk, he would hug the two cold iron chains and cry silently. He would think of all the wrong things he had done to her, and regret would bite his heart like a poisonous snake.
"Ning'er, I know I was wrong, I really know I was wrong now!"
He pressed his face against the cold iron chain in pain, as if she was still in his arms.