Transmigration: Lady Chi Woos The Ice cold Professor Jun
Chapter 200: A royal decree

Chapter 200: A royal decree

Who exactly had come for her mother to caution her on her behavior so thoroughly? Not even Minister Su aroused this much tension. It had to be someone way higher on the pole than the minister.

"T4, can you check?"

"Accessing the security cameras now." T4 responded. A few seconds later, he said "Deng Chenzi, one of the royal butlers who work personally for the emperor."

Chi Lian was frazzled, what did the royal butler want from her? Was he here for foodstuffs and fruits?

With many questions in her mind, she walked out of the house. There was a few guards standing outside, they wore proper suits with gold and yellow lapels. She could easily tell that they were armed and their aura was quite dangerous. It was as clear as day that they did not belong to any common household.

These were royal guards; she had seen a few of them when the Queen dowager and Grand emperor were in B city.

Royal guards only followed members of the royal house or someone who was delivering a royal decree. Times may have changed but in the empires some things remained the same. When it came to commoners, if one was summoned by the emperor, they would take one knee to the ground unless he commanded them to stand up. Women had to take both knees to the ground, otherwise, in a short dress one would reveal her inner garments to the emperor and that was simply unheard of.

Chi Lian who came from the modern twenty first century found these rules appalling. In the world she came from, people knelt before no one but the God they worshipped. Kneeling before a fellow man was disturbing. It was a habit she was yet to learn. She had not yet met the emperor anyway so for now it was a non-issue.

But these same rules followed a royal decree, once it was presented; all commoners had to bow as long as it was not personally presented by the Emperor himself.

"Miss Chi Lian, daughter of the honored Chi family, prepare to receive the royal decree." A booming voice announced.

"Host, now is the time to bow." T4 hurried to remind her.

He was always reminding her of little things like that since she was yet to fully assimilate herself with the culture of the empire.

For a few seconds, her neck stayed up, she was still looking at the men in front of her in shock or doubt.

Mama Chi had not gone far, she was hiding in the doorway like a thief and peeping outside. When she heard the announcement of a royal decree, she froze in shock. How blessed where they to receive the emperor’s decree she thought.

But when she saw that her daughter was still ignorantly standing upright, her heart almost dropped. Was this girl trying to get her head chopped off for disrespecting the Emperor?

Quickly she run out of the house to Chi Lian and slapped her on the butt. "Hurry, bow." She said anxiously, her hands pushing Chi Lian’s stiff head down.

Chi Lian neck bent and she bowed.

The royal butler stepped forward and said, "Miss Chi Lian, for your help to the empire in saving its citizens from the bombing a few months ago, the emperor appreciates and he has rewarded you with these items.

One trunk of gold, thirty bolts of Mulberry silk, a deed to the fifteen acres of land behind your house, a shop in the courts plaza, five kilograms of Hesawi rice seeds, five kilograms of Kenmai rice seeds, five kilograms of super rice seeds."

T4 started laughing when the royal butler started reading the wide variety of rice seeds which the emperor had rewarded her with.

"Hahaha, he really takes you as his personal farmer." The fox even clapped his paws in extravagant joy. "Oh this is so precious; they should see the look on your face. Even the royal guards are smiling in secret. Is he rewarding you or mocking you? If people hear about this, they are going to call you a peasant."

While it was ridiculous that she was being rewarded with seeds, she also noted that these seeds belonged to the most precious crops in the world at least back on her earth, that’s what they were. Hesawi rice of the Arabs cost almost one hundred dollars per kilogram back on earth, it was meticulously grown but it could survive in harsh desserts. The emperor wasn’t rewarding her; he wanted her to develop a rice variety that was similar to it or find a way to replicate its development for the regions of the empire in the North which suffered from harsh weather like long droughts and winters.

She could read between the lines, she was no fool.

"Miss Chi, you can look up now." the royal butler said.

Chi Lian and Mama Chi raised their heads and smiled at the butler, "We thank the emperor for his grace." They said.

"And I shall relay your words to him." He looked Chi Lian in the eyes and said, "I trust that you have understood the Emperor’s message."

"Yes I have." She answered.

"In that case, you should take the trunk filled with gold upstairs immediately and admire it in private. It has what you need. I shall take my leave now." he nodded and turned around.

With that, the royal guards and the royal butler left, leaving Chi Lian and her mother leaning against each other because the situation had been insanely tense.

"Chi-Chi, why would the emperor reward you with seeds?" Her mother asked curiously.

"Maybe he wants us to grow them." She answered through gritted teeth. The sneaky emperor had rewarded her with land and then given her seeds. Wasn’t this akin to telling her to use that land to grow those seeds?

"At least you received gold, hurry up and look at it, the royal butler said you should admire it immediately." Her mother consoled her with her words. "Don’t worry; we are all making money now by working hard. If there is anything you lack like jewelry and the like, just tell me, I will buy it for you."

While her mother called the butler and maids to transfer the boxes that had been placed at their door inside, Chi Lian wondered if she should remind her mother to buy herself jewelry before offering to buy it for her. When the family lost their fortune, Mama Chi sold all her precious jewelry to make some money for them to feed and pay off their debts.

Now that they were back on their feet, she could afford to buy them for herself however she was still living frugally, very afraid to spend money because the sudden descent of their family into poverty had traumatized her that much.

Perhaps this was a conversation to have with her father, if Mama Chi did not want to spend money on herself, her husband should do it for her.

"Chi-Chi the trunk of gold has been taken to your room." Her mother called.

"Coming." She replied. She made her way into her bedroom, and found the trunk at the foot of her bed.

She opened it curiously, wondering why the butler had been so cryptic about it.

Her eyes were met with a dazzling vision of gold bars with the seal of the royal treasury stamped into them.

"Oh, how beautiful." She exclaimed happily. She picked up a bar in each hand and smelt it, giggling like a fool. "T4, these are the things I like." She said.

"The things I give you are more precious than gold. In my world, gold is basically a useless mineral." He retorted.

"Then take all that useless gold and give it to me, I will help you dispose of it." She answered.

She took all the one hundred bars of gold out of the trunk and finally got to the bottom, there was something else. "What’s this?" she asked herself.