Chapter 1008: Trounced

Qiao Mus father and second uncle personally handled the elderly ladys cremation and funeral arrangements.

Qiao Mu didnt meddle, and the Qiao Zhongbang couple had also ordered the servants to keep their lips sealed about what had happened in the small courtyard on Hualing Street that day.

Thats why Qiao Mu simply didnt know that the elderly lady had kicked up another row before passing away.

She merely made a show of observing ceremony and propriety to outsiders by fulfilling her filial duty as the eldest granddaughter.

Frankly speaking, however, the elderly ladys funeral wasnt all that grand, but everything proceeded in an orderly fashion.

After having these few days freed up, Qiao Mu had been drawing talismans the entire time.

Today was her grandmothers encoffining ceremony, so Qiao Mu and her siblings had been busying about with their parents and second uncle until this hour.

They had just eaten a light dinner when someone hurriedly came in and announced that there was a messenger from the palace.

Qiao Mu didnt even raise her eyelid, resting on the small divan with her eyes closed in the same manner as before. Im tired. Go and tell her that as I am in mourning for my grandmothers passing, I fear that entering the palace may agitate their eminences and taint them with bad luck.

Yes. Shaoyao promptly curtsied before quickly walking out.

Nanny Qing, who waited upon the queen, was waiting outside, and she raised her head haughtily. What did the crown prince consort say?

Shaoyao merely repeated what Qiao Mu had said in a neither obsequious nor supercilious manner.

Nanny Qing harrumphed. That is indeed so. Then this old one will go back to report to Her Majesty.

Yet Shaoyao abruptly clutched Nanny Qings wrist and kicked her, causing that old biddy to trip and eat the dirt beside the flower pots.

It seems like you still havent paid obeisance to my master and kowtowed? Shaoyao crossed her arms as she coldly looked askance at Nanny Qing.

You should kowtow three times before leaving. So as to avoid other people from casually gossiping about how the people serving Her Majesty the Queen dont follow the rules, not even observing the slightest bit of etiquette in front of the crown prince consort!