Today is the day for the official audience. A group of maids helped Su Liuyue to put on the green nine-row green background with five-colored shaking翟 pattern. This is the formal dress for the Crown Princess or the wife of a prince, usually only worn on important occasions such as sacrifices and enthronement.

This was another long round of dressing up, and Su Liuyue couldn't help feeling a little impatient. When she thought that such dressing up would become a common occurrence in the future, she wanted to sigh.

Marrying into a royal family is not as comfortable as marrying into an ordinary family.

At this time, she was almost done dressing up. Zhou Yunke looked up at her through the mirror, then suddenly walked up to her and said in a calm voice, "I will wear the last Nine Jade and Four Phoenix Crown for the Crown Princess. You all leave."

Su Liuyue was slightly stunned. She watched through the mirror as Zhou Yunke slowly walked behind her and took the intricate and exquisite Nine Emerald Four Phoenix Crown that was placed aside. She frowned slightly and said, "It's quite heavy."

When Su Liuyue saw this exaggerated hair crown just now, she was mentally prepared. She straightened her body immediately and said righteously, "It's okay. It will only take a while. Your Highness can put it on directly."

Zhou Yunke seemed to laugh when he saw her like this. He adjusted the hair crown and slowly put it on her head. His phoenix eyes kept looking at her through the mirror. Suddenly, he lowered his body and said softly, "You will inevitably have a hard time these days. After a while, I will report to my father and take you out of the palace to live in our mansion outside the palace."

Su Liuyue was a little surprised, "Is this possible?"

Zhou Yunke raised his lips slightly, "Have you forgotten? You are not only my Crown Princess, but also my aunt's student. My aunt has already asked for grace from my father to let you continue investigating the case. My aunt is my father's only sister, and her words are sometimes more effective than mine.

Since you have to go outside to investigate cases often, it is inevitably inconvenient to live in the palace. There was a period of time in the previous dynasty when the atmosphere was very open, and there were cases where concubines in the palace also had private residences outside the palace.

Besides, you are my Crown Princess, so you don’t have to be bound by the same constraints as the concubines in the palace.”

As he spoke, he gently adjusted the position of Su Liuyue's hair crown, smiled with satisfaction, and said, "It's OK."

Su Liuyue had no time to complain about this huge and gorgeous hair crown, as her heart was already filled with joy that kept rising up in her.

She originally thought that it was a great privilege for her to be able to go outside the palace from time to time, but she never expected that she could live outside the palace.

If she could live outside the palace, one can imagine that her life would be much more casual, and it would be much more convenient for her to visit relatives outside the palace.

Seeing the smile spreading in Su Liuyue's eyes, Zhou Yunke couldn't help but smile even more. He stretched out his hand to Su Liuyue and said, "Let's go. Father and mother are waiting for us in Taihang Palace."

Taihang Palace is where important banquets are often held in the harem.

The audience was also an important part of their wedding, so the teaching nanny had already explained it to Su Liuyue.

The audience is mainly a formal meeting with the emperor and the empress, and the protagonists of the audience are mainly the emperor and the empress. Su Liuyue does not need to deal with other concubines and princes in the palace today.

After the audience ceremony, she and Zhou Yunke had to go to the Taimiao to pay homage. All in all, it was another busy day.

Previously, because the imperial decree granting the marriage was issued suddenly and her wedding date with Zhou Yunke was tight, Su Liuyue had not yet entered the palace to meet the Empress.

However, Su Liuyue originally thought that the Emperor and the Empress would find a reason to summon her to the palace before the wedding, or at least see her before her wedding to Zhou Yunke.

In fact, the fact that the emperor granted her and Zhou Yunke's marriage without even meeting her was itself a bit strange. If she put herself in his shoes, if her children got married in the future, she would definitely want to see their spouse in person before she would feel at ease.

I don’t know if it’s because His Majesty and the Queen are too confident with Princess Changxi as the guarantor, or... there are other reasons.

Su Liuyue couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "Do your father and mother get along well?"

It was so chaotic yesterday that she forgot to ask.

The teaching nanny who was previously sent to the Su family would never dare to comment on the emperor and the queen casually, so she could not answer her question.

Zhou Yunke seemed slightly stunned, and after a moment of silence, he said: "Relax today. They won't do anything to you in such an occasion." This answer made people somewhat concerned.

She can relax today, but what about tomorrow?
In such an occasion, they would not do anything to her, but what if it was in another occasion?

Su Liuyue couldn't help but look at Zhou Yunke thoughtfully.

Although she had a premonition that the family atmosphere in Zhou Yunke's home would not be very good.

But now it seems that the atmosphere is worse than she thought.

However, as Zhou Yunke said, today's audience was a very formal occasion. Both the Emperor and the Empress wore the most formal dresses, and they were accompanied by a group of palace maids and eunuchs. Every step was guided by specific procedures, so even if someone had some ideas in mind, it would be difficult for them to carry them out.

When Su Liuyue saw the emperor for the first time, the first thought in her mind was that they, father and son, really did not look alike. The emperor had thick eyebrows, big eyes, a wide nose, dark skin, and only regular looks. Plus, he was getting old, so no matter how luxuriously he was dressed or how straight he stood, he gave people an indelible sense of age.

With his looks, he might have looked quite heroic when he was young, but now, he can only be described as a middle-aged man with a sense of vicissitudes of life all over his body, and has nothing to do with words like handsome and delicate.

However, the King of Wei and the King of Liang, whom he had met before at the lotus viewing banquet hosted by Princess Changxi, looked more like him.

Under the guidance of a group of servants, Su Liuyue walked to the front of His Majesty holding a round bamboo container filled with dates and chestnuts. When she slowly knelt down, His Majesty looked at her with deep scrutiny. After a while, he said, "Stand up. You are indeed a rare beauty. No wonder my prince is so in love with you. He originally didn't want to marry a wife, but he rushed to the palace to ask me for marriage just for you."

The word "in a hurry" is somewhat ambiguous.

Su Liuyue had a hunch that the emperor had some complaints about her, but so what? She wasn't going to live with him in the future.

Su Liuyue bowed again and said, "Thank you, Father."

He placed the bamboo object in his hand in front of the throne and stood up.

The servant at the side immediately handed her another bamboo container filled with dates and chestnuts. Su Liuyue held it and slowly walked to the Queen.

If Zhou Yunke doesn't look much like the emperor, then he and the queen, except for their phoenix eyes, are exactly like they were copied from the same mold.

Anyone who sees them will have no doubt that they are mother and son.

Although the Queen is old, perhaps because of her good foundation, her face shows signs of age, but she still has charm. When she was young, she must have been one of the most beautiful women.

Even now, she always has a gloomy face, but it is difficult to conceal the charm on her face.

The moment Su Liuyue saw the Queen, she knew that she really disliked her. Not only did she dislike her, she was also obviously quite hostile towards her.

She recalled some rumors among the people. The Queen had wanted to marry her niece, Princess Zhenning, to her son, but Zhou Yunke didn't buy it at all. It was normal for her to dislike her for this.

Su Liuyue pretended not to notice the unfriendly look on her face, and slowly knelt down to salute the Queen.

But the Queen Mother was slow to call her up.

Zhou Yunke, who was standing next to Su Liuyue, immediately frowned and looked at Queen Chen with a bit of coldness. Queen Chen then bit her lip secretly and said in a slightly cold voice: "Get up, since you have married into the royal family, you should take the royal family's reputation seriously in the future, and don't do anything that will be ridiculed and talked about."

The malice in this sentence cannot be concealed.

Su Liuyue's eyes twitched slightly. Before she could think of how to respond, she heard the emperor's cold and heavy voice with deep dissatisfaction, "Why are you saying this on the day of your two children's wedding? You have been the queen for so long, but you still think you are the rude and impolite daughter of a merchant who can't even speak properly?" (End of this chapter)