Chapter 164 Entering the Palace
Chapter 164 Entering the Palace
Su Tang thought that the Xie family might have left in a hurry yesterday and might not have taken a lot of things with them.
In case the Xie family needs to go back to get it later, Su Tang plans to go to the Xie Mansion in the evening.
Of course, she would also visit the Xie family’s farm in the countryside.
After happily finishing breakfast, Su Tang met the young eunuch beside Eunuch Fu.
"Eunuch De, you are here so early?"
"Your servant greets the Grand Princess. Yesterday, His Majesty and Eunuch Fu asked you to come to the palace during the day."
"Oh, okay. Are you in a hurry? If not, I'll change into something more formal and go with you."
"No hurry, no hurry. Eunuch Fu said that you can come to the palace when you are free."
Su Tang nodded, turned around and went back with Chunmei to change her clothes.
If she doesn't go out on weekdays, she usually wears whatever is comfortable for her. Sometimes, if she doesn't even leave the main house where she lives, she only wears her underwear in the house during the day.
"Okay, let's go. Don't keep father waiting too long." Su Tang changed her clothes and took Chunmei and Xiamei to the palace.
In the Qianqing Palace.
"Tang'er greets father." Su Tang entered the Qianqing Palace and bowed to Emperor Jing who was sitting behind the desk and greeted him.
"Tang'er, come here quickly and serve some snacks to the princess." Emperor Jing waved to Su Tang, then gestured to Eunuch Fu beside him.
Eunuch Fu smiled and personally brought a cup of tea to Su Tang. "The snacks will probably have to wait a little longer. I asked them to get them."
"Thank you for your help, Eunuch Fu."
"Hey, this is what servants are supposed to do."
Eunuch Fu had already sent people to investigate what happened at yesterday's palace banquet.
Originally, Queen Xie wanted to make things difficult for Su Tang, so she lit aphrodisiac incense in several rooms in the side hall. Queen Xie just wanted to make Su Tang look bad in front of others.
But unexpectedly, Xie Simin, the legitimate daughter of Prime Minister Xie, also got involved for some reason. She asked her maid to lure the drunk Cao Ze over, hoping that Cao Ze would defile Su Tang.
Who would have thought that these people would end up losing more than they gained, and they didn't even take Su Tang into account. Instead, Xie Simin, who had the worst intentions, ended up getting involved with Cao Ze.
Empress Xie wanted to deal with Su Tang, and Eunuch Fu could understand it at first.
After all, more than ten years ago, Empress Xie secretly competed for favor with Imperial Concubine Su, and eventually killed Imperial Concubine Su and left Su Tang wandering outside for more than ten years.
Seeing Su Tang coming back and being favored by the emperor again, Empress Xie could not swallow this humiliation, so she attacked Su Tang again.
But Eunuch Fu just couldn't understand why Xie Simin was so vicious to Su Tang.
Originally, Eunuch Fu thought that Xie Simin was trying to please Queen Xie, and perhaps she heard from somewhere that Su Tang had a grudge against Queen Xie, so she took action.
Later, when interrogating Xie Simin's maid, it was discovered that Xie Simin had previously had some conflict with Su Tang in a store in Kyoto.
But who would have thought that just because of such a small matter, Xie Simin would hold a grudge against Su Tang.
Xie Simin didn't know Su Tang's identity at that time, but Su Tang sat in a special position at the palace banquet, so Xie Simin must have noticed it.
However, under such circumstances, she still dared to take action against Su Tang, which shows that she was extremely arrogant and even mistakenly believed that she had enough power and status to do whatever she wanted.
Xie Simin attacked Su Tang without taking Su Tang's status as a princess into consideration.
In Emperor Jing's opinion, Xie Simin did not respect the royal family, and it was Prime Minister Xie who did not respect the royal family, which allowed Xie Simin to be so brazen as to do such a thing to the princess in the palace.
This is probably one of the reasons why Emperor Jingdi finally severely punished the Xie family and Queen Xie.
However, Emperor Jing severely punished the Xie family and Empress Xie because they attacked Su Tang. This also shows on the other hand how much Emperor Jing valued Su Tang at that time.
Only the princes and princesses who are valued by Emperor Jing can make people like Eunuch Fu more respectful, and this is also an unchanging iron rule in the palace.
"At the palace banquet yesterday, I saw that you were enjoying your meal. It seems that the cooking skills of the chefs in this palace are to your liking." Emperor Jing said with a smile while sitting behind his desk.
"Well, I've never eaten such delicious food. But some of the food was cold when it was served. It would be better if we could eat it hot."
"Hehe, the food from yesterday's palace banquet must have been cold when it was brought in from the imperial kitchen. If you want to eat, stay in the palace at noon today and let the imperial kitchen prepare a hot meal for you."
"Then Tang'er would like to thank father first." Su Tang smiled sweetly at Emperor Jing.
Emperor Jing did not tell Su Tang about how Empress Xie and Xie Simin dealt with Su Tang at the palace banquet yesterday.
Since they didn't succeed, don't let Su Tang's ears be polluted by such dirty things anymore.
At noon, Emperor Jing and Su Tang had lunch together.
Su Tang enjoyed the meal very much. Before leaving, Emperor Jing rewarded Su Tang with many novel things.
"These are all novelties that the Principality of Almond paid as tribute. Tang'er, take them back and play with them."
Su Tang looked at the things in the wooden box, one of which turned out to be a Western telescope.
Su Tang picked up the telescope and took a look. "This is a good thing. It can see very far."
"Oh? Tang'er knows what this is used for?" When these things were delivered by the people from the Principality of Almond, they specially sent someone to explain the uses to the eunuchs who received them in the palace.
The eunuch then reported to Emperor Jing the usage of these things one by one.
This was the first time that the Principality of Almond came to Dayong. It was said that they had sailed across the ocean. Most of the things they brought were the first time that the people of Dayong had seen them.
Emperor Jing knew the uses of these things in advance, but he just treated them as ordinary toys.
He didn't expect that Su Tang actually knew how to use the Western telescope.
"Yes, it would be great if this was equipped to our Dayong army, so that we could see the enemy situation clearly from a long distance." Su Tang handed the telescope back to Emperor Jing.
In fact, this single-aperture telescope is much inferior to the military telescope in Su Tang's space. Su Tang just looks down on it.
"Hahaha, I didn't expect this thing to have such a use. Then I won't give it to Tang'er." Emperor Jing took the telescope with a smile and put it back on the table.
Su Tang looked through the pile of things again, and didn't find anything particularly special, so she accepted them all.
"Tang'er is quite knowledgeable. This is the first time I've seen these things.
I heard from your second brother that the place you lived before was just a remote village. Where did you hear about this thing? "
Emperor Jing said that he heard the news from the second prince, but it was actually just an excuse. After recognizing Su Tang, he still asked someone to go to Dahe Village to inquire about Su Tang's past.
After all, when royal bloodlines recognize each other, they should be more cautious.
Su Tang saw through it but didn't say anything. She said with a smile, "I have a master before. My master travels all the time. Maybe he has seen it before. When he chats with me, he occasionally talks about some new things."
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