Chapter 263.1: Recognizing Each Other
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The elderly woman felt that in this situation, she should order the other party to kneel down, despite the fact that she didn't understand what was going on. However, before she could speak, the guard had already knelt down before her.
The elderly woman：“…”
Grand Preceptor Zhuang also looked excited and went up to her, cupping his hand in salute.
"Who are you?" The elderly woman asked.
"This official..." When Grand Preceptor Zhuang's words reached his lips, he remembered that she didn't remember the past, thus he changed his words, "I am your eldest brother! You are Zhuang Jinse, I am Zhuang Boyong, don’t you remember me?"
"Eldest brother?" The elderly woman looked at him suspiciously.
"That’s right!" Grand Preceptor Zhuang said excitedly, "Do you remember?"
The elderly woman didn't answer his words. Instead, she looked at Old Chief beside her and asked, "Did you ask someone to push him?"
"That servant was so outrageous that he dared to turn me away..." Grand Preceptor Zhuang swept his eyes disgustedly at the messy-looking old man beside the elderly woman. For some reason, he felt particularly annoyed with him, and seeing him standing with his sister, he felt an urge to rush up and beat him up.
The elderly woman looked at him and said in an impatient voice, "What did you just say?"
Grand Preceptor Zhuang was stunned by this unfriendly tone, "I said… he dared to turn me away?"
The elderly woman: "Before that."
Grand Preceptor Zhuang repeated, "That servant was so outrageous?"
The elderly woman nodded, walked up to the gate, and hooked up her finger at Grand Preceptor Zhuang.
Grand Preceptor Zhuang stepped forward and said, "Sister."
The elderly woman patted him on the shoulder, saying, "Turn around and face outward."
Grand Preceptor Zhuang had no idea what this was all about, but still turned around according to her words.
The next second, he only felt a pain in his buttocks, finding himself suddenly kicked out by the elderly woman. He stumbled on the threshold and threw himself on the ground.
Before he could react, the elderly woman slammed the gate shut!
Servant?
Servant your ass!
When was your turn to bully this old woman’s man!
Grand Preceptor Zhuang was shut out of the gate. Knowing well that he would never see Empress Dowager Zhuang again today, he gritted his teeth in secret and reluctantly left for home.
On the way back, he wondered why Empress Dowager Zhuang did this to him. Was it because she didn’t recognize him so she treated him as an evil person, or was it to seek revenge for that messy-looking old man?
What a joke. Since when did Empress Dowager Zhuang treat a servant with such care? She treated human life like dirt, and even the imperial princesses could easily be given away by her for marriage, so how could she defend that servant against an injustice?
Actually, it wasn’t only Grand Preceptor Zhuang who was confused. Old Chief felt the same.
Zhuang Jinse charging at him with a knife to cut him alive was believable, but Zhuang Jinse standing up for him was something he could never imagine.
But this something unimaginable had just happened.
He wasn’t a fool, and he wouldn’t deceive himself into thinking, ‘Oh, she didn’t do that for my sake, she was just wary of strangers.’
He was a person whose body was already half-buried to the ground, was face still something he should care about at this juncture?
Old Chief touched the bridge of his nose and said wryly, "That..."
He wanted to say thank you, but the words wouldn’t come out.
Both master and disciple had the same disposition. Most of the time, they could talk with great eloquence without getting stumped, but when it came to important moments like this, it was as though their tongues were tied like a knot.
The elderly woman had none of his awkwardness at all as she walked back to the kitchen without care. In her view, she just did a perfectly normal thing.
She hadn’t finished eating the rice cakes yet. If she didn’t eat it now, it would get cold.
Old Chief looked at her hurrying back and guessed that she had gone to look for food again. Was this foodie really the all-powerful demon empress?
For the first time, Old Chief doubted his own perception.
Could it be that Zhuang Jinse's nature wasn’t as bad as he saw it? Or was there something that he misunderstood about Zhuang Jinse before?
However, she could be washed clean of everything else, but the fact that she made a business out of the former Emperor’s dragon body was not something that could just be forgotten!
Back then, other imperial consorts and concubines racked their brains to occupy the position of the Emperor’s favorite, but she was something else. She took the green head plaques of the harem to her Kunning Palace, and whoever wanted to sleep with the Emperor must pay her up first, and this chance was only given to the highest payer!
[T/N: Green Head Plaques are used by the Emperor to indicate who he is going to sleep with.]
She also set up a reward system wherein those who were able to conceive a dragon seed would be rewarded with 1000 taels of silver, and if the baby was born safely, they would be rewarded with another 2000 taels of silver.
Furthermore, whoever gave birth to an imperial prince first would be given a chance to sleep with the Emperor for free once.
It was uncountable how much money exactly she had earned ah!
However, the most infuriating thing of all was that the previous Emperor had been kept in the dark all along, and was even smug that he had such a virtuous Empress who was always looking for a beautiful woman for him. That was how the title of Zhuang Jinse, Empress Xiande(virtuous), came about.
By the time the former Emperor knew the truth, it was already too late. The power of the imperial court had already fallen into the hands of Zhuang Jinse and the Zhuang Family.
The Emperor died with hatred, and Zhuang Jinse abolished the Crown Prince, helped the present Emperor to ascend the throne, and began her reign from behind the curtain that extended as long as twenty years.
Zhuang Jinse, what kind of person are you really?
If one day you remember who you truly are, will you go back to the original Zhuang Jinse, or will you continue to be Liulang and JiaoJiao's Grandaunt?
Xiao Liulang went to the orchard and picked up Gu Jiao and Little Jing Kong who were on their way back.
One big and one small had a very refreshed look on their faces, as if they had done something great.
Little Jing Kong was skipping merrily!
Beating up a paihuazi made him happy!
Meeting JiaoJiao made him happy!
Today was another day for him to feel cool and heroic!
After they returned home, Gu Jiao went to fetch some water to wash Little Jing Kong's hands. Old Chief called them for dinner and began to set the table.
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