Peasant Woman's Decreed Life as a Wife

Chapter 1249: Chapter 1246 Rewards Chapter 1249: Chapter 1246 Rewards Everyone was used to his temperament, so none found it strange.

After finishing breakfast, Chu Heng spoke with the elders for a while before a visitor arrived from outside the residence.

Steward Luo stepped forward to report, “My lord, someone from the palace is here to summon you to an audience with the Emperor.”

Chu Heng had been ready for this.

He uttered a sound of acknowledgment.

“See to their needs and ask them to wait for fifteen minutes,” Chu Heng did not immediately head out.

Seeing this, Steward Luo had no choice but to stabilize the visitor from the palace after noticing the lord had returned to the inner courtyard, realizing something at once.

In the inner courtyard, Chu Heng saw the figure leaning on the soft couch, and his eyes instantly warmed. He quickly approached, reached out and wrapped his arms around her waist. “Ah Yu, what are you looking at?”

“Classic of Mountains and Seas.” Ye Muyu’s cheeks were slightly red; the book was incomplete, but that didn’t stop her from finding it interesting.

Chu Heng flipped through a few pages and joined her for a while.

“Ah Heng, aren’t you busy?” Ye Muyu silently allowed him to accompany her, but she noticed people walking back and forth outside the room.

This was clearly abnormal.

Sure enough, she heard Chu Heng’s somewhat apologetic voice, “The Emperor has summoned me; I’ll go in a while.”

Ye Muyu was startled into sitting up, and Chu Heng quickly supported her, “Don’t rush, take it slow.”

He was careful, as if she were a fragile pearl.

“I’m fine, you should hurry to the palace, don’t delay,” Ye Muyu urged, lightly patting his shoulder, prompting him to change clothes quickly.

They had been delayed for quite some time, and she didn’t want Chu Heng to fool around any longer.

Chu Heng was reluctant, but Ye Muyu leaned in and kissed him, “Go now, I’ll wait for your return.”

Only then was Chu Heng satisfied.

He changed his clothes at the fastest speed before entering the palace.

In the palace, when Chu Heng arrived outside the Imperial Study, He Dequan had already been waiting at the door. Upon seeing him, He Dequan hurried to greet him from afar.

“Minister Chu, the Emperor has been waiting for quite some time.”

Chu Heng cleared his throat, “Thank you, Eunuch.”

He Dequan saw that he had lost a lot of weight; the flesh he once had now seemed to be merely skin and bones. His heart, which had been in his mouth, settled down. It seemed Minister Chu had indeed suffered a great deal.

He Dequan stood at the entrance of the great hall, waiting.

After entering, Chu Heng went straight in to salute the Emperor Xuanming, “Your servant greets Your Majesty.”

Emperor Xuanming seemed to be in a good mood, “Minister Chu, rise.”

Seeing the much thinner Chu Heng, Emperor Xuanming was already pleased with him, but now he felt a pang of pity. In any case, compared to Duke Zheng who dallied in power plays, Chu Heng, this Loyal Official, was clearly more needed by him.

The Emperor and his minister talked for a full hour, followed by the issuance of rewards. Chu Heng was also invited to have lunch in the palace.

By the time the news had spread through the Capital,
Elder Master Zhao stood up and personally went for an audience with the Emperor.

When the rewards were bestowed, Ye Muyu went to the front courtyard to accept the honor. A succession of gifts bestowed by the Emperor was brought forth, and quite a few onlookers gathered at the gate.

Ye Muyu had already ordered the servants to reward the Eunuchs from the palace with silver.

As soon as they left,
Madam Liu and Chu Zhiwen could hardly wait to instruct the servants to set off firecrackers at the gate to drive away bad luck and to distribute copper coins as silver rewards to passersby.

For a time, it was extraordinarily lively at the entrance of the Chu family residence.

The commoners, who had been criticising Chu Heng, were now praising his capabilities.

When Duke Zheng heard that Elder Master Zhao had gone to the palace, he narrowed his eyes and sent people to gather information.

As for the Qi family, their expressions drastically changed after Elder Master Zhao had gone to the palace.

“Chu Heng has returned, and Elder Master Zhao has also gone to the palace; could there be some connection between the two events?”