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  She brought in a basin of water and put it on the washstand, then immediately went to the bedside to start making the bed.

  Chu Ke coughed and called out: "Yiren?"

  Yiren placed her hand on the bedside, twisted her body to look at her, Chuke also didn't make a sound as she looked back at her. Yiren understood and straightened up, lowering her head to give her a bow: "Yiren greets Second Madam."

  "Is there an empty house in this courtyard?"

  "What?!" The person being asked was taken aback.

  Chu Ke looked at Yiren with a raised eyebrow and a faint smile, and after a long time, he slowly said: "Clear out an empty room in the courtyard for me, I want to put my things there."

  Yi Ren hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice: "How big does the second lady want? This courtyard is probably... not suitable."

  Chu Ke raised an eyebrow and shouted out: "Jing Er?"

  Jing'er and Qingguo were already waiting at the door. They knew that if Third Miss didn't call them, they wouldn't dare enter the house.

  Jing'er walked in by herself and asked, "Miss?"

  "From now on, just call me Er Nainai. " Chu Ke said: "Tell Qing Guo to tidy up the clothes on the bed and organize the wardrobe, and put all these things in. Today, find an empty room with Yiren girl and put those boxes outside in."

  Jing'er nodded and was about to call in Qingguo from outside, when Qingguo softly called out from the outside: "Miss, a nanny has arrived from the Prince's residence."

  Zhu Yi Zhen immediately knew what she was doing, and quickly went over to the bed, rummaged through it, found the blood-stained white cloth, and personally took it out to give to the nanny.

  Yi Ren stood by, her eyes fixed on Zhu Yuchen with a hint of grievance.

  Zhu Yi Zhen didn't feel anything at all. He busied himself washing up, then sat in front of the dresser watching Chu Ke Hui do her hair, this time openly and complacently, when Chu Ke Hui used a hairpin to poke him again. He then very righteously and confidently snatched the hairpin away, lowered his head and smiled as he whispered in her ear: "Can't I look at my wife now?"

  Chu Ke'er's face turned red as she gave him a white eye, her face stern and not speaking. Zhu Yi Chen knew she was thin-skinned and didn't want to make a scene in front of the maid, actually he wasn't too comfortable either, seeing the maid had finished styling her hair, immediately said: "Let's go out."

  Chu Ke looked up at nothing above his head, raised an eyebrow in surprise, and saw him smiling at himself. He could only purse his lips and not speak.

  Jing'er and Qingguo have finished tidying up the bed, Qingguo carried a large pile of clothes out, while Zigu put down her comb and Baiguo took out the remaining water from washing her face.

  Zhu Yicheng was just about to chat with Chu Keqi, when he found that Yi Ren was still standing at the door. He slightly frowned and said: "Didn't you ask Nainai to find an empty room? What are you doing here?"

  "Servant... doesn't know how big to find."

  "Ask Jing'er and she'll tell you." Chu Ke said with his back still turned.

  She looked at them and saw that Second Master had already leaned down and was whispering something in Second Madam's ear, both of whom were laughing, so she could only come out.

  Zhu Yuchan took out a transparent red jade hairpin and pinned it to her hair, looked at it and smiled: "Very pretty."

  Chu Xueqin smiled with pursed lips, this red jade hairpin was given by him, because he had seen Chu Xueqin wear a pair of red jade bracelets before, so he thought she liked red jade.

  Chu Xue looked in the mirror and thought she looked quite good, but her hair was too plain on top. She found a jade pendant hairpin and pinned it to one side, using two phoenix hairpins to hold up the hair on top. After looking at herself, she smiled and stood up: "This is more like it."

  He was still looking at himself with a lingering thought. Hurriedly pushing him: "Let's go?"

  Zhu Yichan had no choice but to walk out with her, smiling and saying: "At this time, we have to wait, it's just the right time for Chen to pay his respects."

  "It's better to be early than late." Chu Ke said, "If I don't want to be taken advantage of, I'll do my part well and not give others a handle to grasp."

  Zhu Yichan said in a soft voice: "She can't handle it, her mother is blocking the way in front! Her mother is her nemesis."

  Chu Ke was amused and couldn't help but laugh.

  The two arrived at Shang Fangyuan, and what Zhu Yuchen did not expect was that the Zheng Fei had already gotten up and was waiting for them in the main hall.

  The maid led them into the house, and Chu Ke saw a woman in her thirties or forties sitting at the top, staring at her with no smile on her face.

  She followed Zhu Yuchen and knelt down on the couch, calling out: "Mother." She offered a cup of tea.

  The empress dowager looked at her coldly and did not rush to accept, but said in a light tone: "Yesterday morning, you asked me to wait for you... Never mind, I won't hold it against you. From now on, this can't happen again. You're the younger generation, you should come over earlier, and also be more disciplined. Our prince's mansion is part of the imperial family, if the daughter-in-law doesn't have discipline, when she goes out, she'll lose face for the Great Ming Dynasty's imperial family! As for what time I eat, what time I take a nap, someone will tell you later...

  Zhu Yichan was furious! Just now he was saying that the Empress couldn't control Qie Xi, but now he had been slapped in the face! As a son, he couldn't say much and could only look back, trying to hint at his maidservant to quickly go and call for Concubine Xi. But when he looked around, he was greatly disappointed - his two former maidservants had already been replaced by Yiren and Yiyi, who naturally wouldn't help him find Concubine Xi. Qingguo and Baiguo reacted, but they didn't know where Concubine Xi's courtyard was!

  Still so quick-tempered, thought for a moment and immediately turned around and left, can't even ask anyone?!

  But there's no need to ask, the concubine has already entered the courtyard. Seeing her still dazed, she recognized that this maid was beside her daughter-in-law. She thought for a moment and understood, quickly walking up the steps and lifting the curtain to enter the house.

  "Wow! Sister is up so early today! I remember saying that I would come over to pay my respects earlier, but sister said she wanted to sleep and didn't want to be disturbed, telling me to come at the end of Chen hour. What's going on today? Could it be...?" The consort came in with a string of words, her smiling footsteps not stopping as she took the delicate tea from Chu Ke's hands and handed it over to the main wife, then personally helped Chu Ke up, laughing as she looked him up and down.

  When Chu Ke'er lowered her head, she found that Rong Fei's face was extremely ugly and she was holding a teacup in her hand, at a loss for what to do.

  The concubine smiled and let her go, turned around to pay respects to the empress first, the empress hesitated for a moment, helplessly told her not to be too polite, the concubine then sat down on the right side, Zhu Yuxuan and Chu Keqi also kowtowed to her.

  The cup of tea was quickly taken away, and the concubine smiled and said: "Good daughter-in-law, from now on, let's live a happy life together."

  Her maid held a plate and waited beside her. She turned her head to take a look, then smiled and asked Zheng Fei: "Sister, what have you prepared for your daughter-in-law?"

  The Empress lazily responded, gesturing to her maid, who then carried a basin to Chu Ke's side. The Empress only then said in a soft voice, "Remember what I just said."

  Chu Ke replied softly: "Yes."

  Zhu Yichan didn't say anything either. His mother arrived and the Empress wanted to set things straight, but it seemed like heaven was not on their side.

  Chu Ke accepted the pair of bracelets from the tray, smiled and turned around, her maid came forward and respectfully took over the tray.

  The concubine brought over the tray of gifts she had prepared and placed it on her lap, pointing at Chu Ke'er and saying: "Daughter-in-law, there are three sets of jewelry here: a set with red jade, a set with sheep fat jade, and a set with emerald jade. Each set includes a bracelet, earrings, necklace, hairpin, hair clip, comb, and hair tie."

  Chu Ke nervously lifted her face to look at her.

  The concubine hadn't finished speaking, pointing to a pair of diamond rings: "This pair of diamond rings is for you and Yixuan, one each. This jade Ruyi, put it in the bedroom, bless us with everything going smoothly. This row of precious stones, red ones make good hair ornaments, blue ones make good necklaces, and there are also green, black, and white... daughter-in-law can decide for herself what to do with them, we have a skilled craftsman in Shuozhou, I'll get Yixuan to take you there when the time comes!"

  Chu Ke was shocked and stared at a full plate of jewelry, stunned like a wooden chicken!

  Zhu Yuchan rarely saw Chu Keqi with such a silly and stupid expression, smiling and staring at her with an uncloseable mouth.

  The queen was dumbfounded!

  The concubine smiled and looked at Chu Ke'er, beckoning the quiet girl at the door to come over: "Give it to our nanny to hold."

  Chu Xue finally reacted and of course couldn't refuse, so she could only knock her head again: "Thank you, Imperial Mother."

  "Get up!" The concubine said, and personally came over to support her, when she helped her up, Chu Kei had already turned bright red, Zhu Yuexun smiled and also stood up.

  Chu Ke took the tray handed over by Ce Fei with both hands and turned around to give it to her maid.

  "Sit down, sit in the past."

  The two of them sat down at the lower table, and Ce Fei smiled as she looked at Zheng Fei, then pointed to the two women in their thirties who had been standing behind Zheng Fei all along: "These two are the king's aunts, Bing Yiniang and Shan Yiniang."

  Chu Ke nodded at the two aunts in the morning.

  The concubine saw the introduction was almost done, turned her head and smiled at the proper wife: "Sister, tell them to go back? The daughter-in-law's things need to be packed up."

  The empress's face was not pleasant, and she said to Zhu Yuxuan: "Go out for a while, don't forget what happened last night, go out and take a look, don't stay at home all day guarding your daughter-in-law!"

  "Yes, Your Highness."

  The concubine smiled and waved her hand: "Go back! Pack up your things, if the daughter-in-law is short of anything, just tell the maid to come and tell me."

  Chu Kei hurriedly thanked and bowed repeatedly before leaving.

  The two walked out of the courtyard, and Zhu Yucheng smiled and said: "Don't worry, today is Mother's unknown time for the Empress to pay her respects in advance. It's a matter of setting rules, Mother will definitely not call it off."

  Chu Ke smiled and said in a low voice: "This is also what should be."

  "It should be so, but if one has a heart that torments people with this, then it shouldn't be." said Zhu Yichen.

  Chu Ke smiled, but in her heart, she actually felt quite at ease. With her mother-in-law backing her up, she wasn't afraid of the empress's schemes anymore.

  The two returned to the house and saw Jing'er still picking vegetables, so they took some green fruits and left.

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