Chapter 74: 太后召见

The Empress Dowager’s Call in

With the remaining two hundred acres of land, she could plant some corn and potatoes and such, but as of now, it was not that season for planting it yet. 

She went through the vegetables in the space and sorted out all those vegetables and fruits and such that she could plant now.

Lu Yunluo had stayed in the Cold Palace for the past two days, keeping busy.

Outside the Cold Palace, since the eunuchs and palace maids who did farm work with her every day were able to share two buns and a steamed stuffed bun when they went back at night.

Sometimes when they brought them back to their living quarters to eat, they would receive envious looks from countless people.

Just by smelling the flavor, she knew that it was much tastier than bean paste and rice paste. They also heard that it was particularly easy to withstand or endure from hunger.

So some people began to offer silver to buy the buns and steamed stuffed buns from their hands.

In short, now inside the palace, people who can eat the buns and steamed stuffed buns, in addition to the emperor, only in the cold palace, people who work in the field, as if even the empress dowager have never eaten it before. 

For a while, many eunuchs and palace maids began to envy the people who went to work in the cold palace.

At the moment, the people from the inner court division had asked them if any of them volunteered to go to the Cold Palace, and they all disliked the bitter work in the farmland and were unwilling to go.

　

But now, the people who work there can come back early every day, moreover, they can still eat such delicious food, and no one scolds them and hits them at every turn. They suddenly begin to regret it. 

Unfortunately, the Cold Palace does not need workers anymore.

When the Empress Dowager learnt that the palace had come out with new food, she fiddled with the chickens, ducks, fish and meat aka rich food on the table a few times as she felt tasteless or bored with the food. 

The hot weather made her look at these big meat dishes without the slightest appetite.

With a wave of her hand, she had her lunch removed.

When she got up, Sister He at the side immediately stepped forward and assisted her to sit down on the couch.

The palace maids then made a pot of tea and brought it up.

“That Niang Niang in the Cold Palace ah, this time is considered to have made a great achievement, the Emperor decreed to exempt her from the status of a sinful woman, and also gave her dozens of palace maids and eunuchs, so that she can properly grow this wheat in the Cold Palace.” Sister He messaged the Empress Dowager while telling all the news she had inquired.

The empress dowager closed her eyes and allowed Sister He behind her to pinch her shoulders, “Having made such a great achievement, I should reward her with something.”

After a long interval, the empress dowager opened her eyes, “Go to the Cold Palace, call her over.”

“Yes!”

When the Empress Dowager’s person arrived at the Cold Palace, it was the hottest time in the morning.

Lu Yunluo was lying sluggishly on her bed for a lunch break.

In these few days, the internal affairs department’s supplies are sent here by carload, and the ice has been sent quite a lot over, so there is no need for her to do it by herself, just using the internal affairs department to send it is already enough.

A basin of oversized ice was placed on the table yet Lu Yunluo still felt a little hot. She was thinking whether she should take advantage of no one and hide in her own space. 

Speaking of which, this space is really magical, always in a comfortable temperature, like spring all the year round. In the summertime, it’s quite good to hide inside it to avoid the heat. 

A movement came from the front door, it seemed that someone was coming.

Because she was far away, she didn’t hear clearly what was said.

Not a moment later, Sister Zhou came in and said, “Niang Niang, Sister He from Ning Xin Palace is here, saying that the Empress Dowager wants to see you.”

Empress Dowager?

Lu Yunluo sat up.

The original body’s memories did not contain any information about the Empress Dowager in the slightest.

Zhou Mama had Yin Shuang fetch a basin of water in, and while combing Lu Yunluo’s hairstyle, she said, “As far as this old servant know, this Empress Dowager is the Emperor’s birth mother’s biological little sister, and when the Emperor was six years old, the Emperor’s birth mother passed away due to an illness. Later on, she was raised in the Empress Dowager’s palace and the Emperor has always been respectful and loving towards her.”