All Hail Cousin Brother

The latest website: Immediately there was a court lady, who placed a piece of brocade next to the empress dowager.

Yu Youyao lowered her knees and bowed obediently, "Yes!"

After performing the etiquette, she walked over with lowered eyebrows and lowered her eyes, and sat down beside the empress dowager in an orderly manner.

The Empress Dowager saw that she was neither humble nor overbearing, well-behaved, her smile deepened, she turned her head to look at Mrs. Yu who was still standing, and said softly, "Sit too, don't suffer from standing."

Madam Yu bowed her head to thank her, and the little maid helped her to sit on a cushioned chair.

The empress dowager liked Yu Youyao, so she held her hand: "Good boy, what books did you read at home?"

There was a gentle smile on his face, and he held her hand kindly, like a loving elder. Even when he asked questions, he was an ordinary elder. What he would usually ask after seeing the younger generation was without airs.

Before he knew it, he made people let go of their vigilance and forgot that the person in front of them was the aloof Empress Dowager.

Yu Youyao smiled shyly, and replied in a low voice: "The family invited a female husband, and read "Nv Commandment", "Internal Training", "On Women's Language", and also read "Four Books", and "Five Classics".

Reading Nushu is for Mingde, reading Four Books is for understanding reason, and Five Classics is for knowing propriety.

All ladies should learn.

The empress dowager smiled deeply: "It's good to read more books. Women who read more books can also know courtesy and virtue, and do good deeds when they know what is good." When she said this, she changed the subject and said, "The lady who teaches you is Ye Yingqiu, she is a person with both ability and virtue, in the early years, when she was not divorced, she went to the palace with her mother-in-law to visit Aijia, Aijia liked her pens, used it for many years, and got used to it."

It seems that they are just chatting about family affairs, but Yu Youyao dare not be negligent in every word and every word: "Grandmother also said that as a descendant of the Yu family, you need to read more books so that you can remember your ancestors' virtues, honor your ancestors' merits, and not disgrace you." Family tradition," she pursed her lips and smiled slightly when she said this: "Mr. Virtue is the main thing, you don’t need to be virtuous if you don’t have talent, and you need to be virtuous even if you have talent.”

What is the ancestral virtue and ancestral merit of the Yu clan?

It is nothing more than the word "loyalty" bestowed by Emperor Gaozu himself, and every word and every word of the empress dowager is "virtuous", so she naturally accepted this word.

When the empress dowager heard this,

The smile deepened, and she patted her hand: "All of you in the Yu Mansion are devoted to you, and the Emperor and Ai's family will also remember it."

She picked her eyes and looked at Yu Youyao.

The slender and frail girl was sitting beside her, but she didn't appear flustered or cowardly. She put her legs together and folded her hands on top of her legs. She was soft and slender. She sat upright with a thin and straight back. But it is not rigid and rigid, but has a kind of noble and soft posture that can't be forced.

Such a posture, although polite, is good, but in front of the nobleman, it is inevitable that people will feel that she is disrespectful to the nobleman.

However, she slumped her shoulders and bent her neck, revealing a submissive and respectful attitude.

Anyone who sees it will sigh: "What a character!"

The Empress Dowager looked at the beauty vase made of white porcelain on the Duobao Pavilion. The delicate porcelain was so white and smooth that it was smoother than jade. Smooth and beautiful.

Leaving aside her status, she really admired Yu Youyao: "No one is as good at teaching as your grandmother."

These words were obviously complimenting grandma, but they were complimenting her in a different way. Yu Youyao smiled shyly, not wanting to mention the words of her elders, so she subconsciously rubbed the sash around her waist.

The Empress Dowager noticed her actions and looked down. Yu Youyao had a colored ribbon around her waist that only clan members were eligible to wear, and a palace sash hung on it.

This is probably the palace sash that Aunt Shen picked out for Yu Youyao back then.

The Empress Dowager laughed again: "My youth is incorruptible, and I can look at it and laugh at it. Zi Muyu is kind and graceful, and I choose the character Youqing when I am young. I am clean to be honest, and my heart is to be kind." , she paused for a moment, and then said: "Seeing you today, it's just as Ai Jia thought back then, it's teaching your grandmother to teach you how to behave."

This was the empress dowager's comment on her back then, and Yu Youyao was flattered: "Your servant is ashamed!"

The empress dowager patted her hand, and changed the topic: "My good boy, what the Rongjun palace did absurdly earlier made you feel wronged."

Yu Youyao's eyes turned red, and she hurriedly said: "The emperor and the empress dowager love the courtiers dearly, and they uphold justice for the courtiers. The courtiers have been deeply favored by the emperor, and they are deeply impressed, beyond words." Having said that, she suddenly got up and walked away. Going to the Empress Dowager, I knelt down and worshiped: "I heard that the Empress Dowager is worried about the drought and sympathizes with the suffering of the people. I want to raise money to relieve the disaster. My minister is also willing to share the worries and problems for the emperor and the Empress Dowager. For the great Zhou Dynasty Tens of thousands of Limin people are doing their best."

As soon as she finished speaking, the little maid who was serving in front of her handed back the brocade box she was holding to Yu Youyao.

Yu Youyao reached out to take it, and raised the brocade box above her head: "Although the minister does not have the virtue of the empress dowager, she still has the heart of virtue."

The Empress Dowager glanced at Aunt Shen.

Aunt Shen hurried forward and took the brocade box.

The empress dowager then said in a gentle voice: "You are interested, get up quickly, you are the head of Shaoyi county bestowed by the emperor, and you have the title of patriarch, don't kneel down at every turn."

Yu Youyao lowered her head and wiped her tears, said in a hoarse voice: "My daughter, I thank the emperor and empress dowager for your kindness."

After finishing speaking, she bowed again, and then the maid helped her up and sat on the brocade tree.

The empress dowager stuffed the handkerchief in her hand: "Wipe your tears quickly, the emperor has sealed you as the head of Shaoyi County. up to you."

This is a promise.

It's just that the weight of the promise depends on how much money she has donated.

With lowered eyes, Yu Youyao carefully took the empress dowager's handkerchief, wiped away her tears, and handed it to the serving maid.

The maid hurriedly handed over a cup of tea.

Yu Youyao used it a little, and finally she calmed down a bit: "The minister has 60 grain and oil shops and 20 medicine shops in the south of the Yangtze River, and has sent the old servants of the family to Zhejiang with the tokens to bring these grains, oils and medicinal materials Transferred to Zhejiang to assist General Ye Shen and the officials specially dispatched by the imperial court to rescue the people."

I just donated silver for the drought, and now I donate food for the flood.

Sixty rice shops, twenty medicine shops, grain, oil and medicinal materials are all profitable businesses, and the sum is not a small sum.

The empress dowager shook her hand solemnly: "County Master Shaoyi, you understand the righteousness, and thank you for the emperor and the thousands of Li people in the Great Zhou Dynasty."