usatvline Chapter 345: Doing Good Deeds for Children
Chapter 345: Doing Good Deeds for Children
Xie Ci'an held Gu Jianchu in his arms, leaned forward and kissed the corner of Gu Jianchu's lips, "Queen, if you have any questions, just ask."
Gu Jianchu was indeed filled with doubts. She stared intently at Xie Ci'an's profile, as if trying to form her words. After a moment's hesitation, she said, "Wu Guiyi and that young guard committed such a debauched act within the palace. How could the Emperor just let them go?"
It's still such a big green hat.
Gu Jianchu didn't dare to say such words.
Xie Ci'an lifted up Gu Jianchu's slightly cold fingers and kissed them on his lips.
Ever since the weather turned cold, Gu Jianchu's hands have hardly ever been warm. Even lighting a charcoal brazier can only barely keep his hands warm.
"They don't like me, so why should I force them to stay? A forced melon is not sweet. Besides, I already have Ah Chu. I don't even remember who those women are. Instead of letting them grow old in the palace, it's better to let them go and let them live the life they want. After all, they haven't done anything wrong. They are just victims of their fathers and brothers who want to plant spies around me. I am doing this to let the ministers of the previous dynasty see, don't try to plant people around me anymore."
"By the way, please do good deeds and accumulate virtue for me, the Queen, and our future children."
Hearing this, Gu Jianchu stared at the man in front of him in a daze. He never expected that Xie Ci'an would think this way.
"What? Is the Queen dissatisfied with my handling of the matter, or does the Queen want to keep some sisters in the palace?" Xie Ci'an stroked Gu Jianchu's waist with his fingers, but his eyes were staring intently at the eyes of the girl in his arms.
Gu Jianchu shook her head. "Of course not. It's a good thing that Your Majesty is willing to let them return home. How could I disagree? I'm just surprised that Your Majesty would think this way."
If the emperor does not favor them, or favors them once and then abandons them in the palace, they will be trapped within these palace walls forever.
Xie Ci'an issued an imperial decree the next day, but did not force them to leave the palace. It was based on voluntary consent. Those who were willing to leave the palace could leave, and those who were unwilling to leave could stay in the palace. Their monthly salary would be paid as usual, and all other benefits would remain the same. However, they had to move to the temporary palace to prevent them from causing any trouble in the harem.
When this imperial decree was issued, both the former court and the harem were shocked.
Some even suspected that it was Gu Jianchu who instigated the emperor to do so.
Several censors in the Censorate wrote memorials to impeach the emperor. There were few women in the harem to begin with, and if the current women were sent out of the palace, only the queen would be left. This was to allow the Gu family and the queen's family to dominate.
However, those memorials were directly rejected by Xie Ci'an, who told them that they did not need to submit them any further. What had been decided would not be changed. If the ministers in the Censorate were really bored, they could go to the outskirts of the city to help reclaim wasteland. Upon hearing this, those ministers immediately became obedient.
Although those people in the Censorate had behaved themselves, the ministers in the court were not completely obedient and openly mentioned the matter at the morning court session. After all, letting those concubines leave the palace would affect their interests. Although they were of no use in the palace, they were at least chess pieces.
Xie Ci'an did not get angry, nor did he refute them. Instead, he gave them a task.
There happened to be a group of palace maids in the palace who were old enough to leave the palace. Those maids had no relatives, and he and the queen were worried about them. They were planning to arrange marriages for them directly with good families so that he and the queen could feel at ease. They were just worrying about who to arrange marriages for them, but they didn't expect that these ministers liked to have three wives and four concubines so much, and they directly arranged marriages for those palace maids who were about to leave the palace.
The ministers complained and wanted to refuse, but were rejected by Xie Ci'an.
It was not until afterward that they realized that they had been tricked by Xie Ci'an. Those palace maids were not those who were preparing to leave the palace, but those who had made mistakes in the palace.
The emperor would not let the palace maids who made mistakes stay in the palace. Every once in a while, these maids would be gathered together and either dismissed from the palace or sent to a temporary palace. Most of these people who made mistakes were not easy to deal with. It was obvious that the emperor sent them to him not only to monitor them, but also to let these women provoke wars and make their lives at home difficult.
They couldn't deal with people who came out of the palace casually, so they had to keep them in the mansion.
After this incident, those ministers became as obedient as the civil servants in the Censorate, and never mentioned the emperor dismissing his concubines from the palace again.
They now also recognize the fact that the current emperor is not the previous emperor and is not under their control at all. Even if he is under their control, it was when the emperor had just ascended the throne. At that time, Xie Ci'an was still immature and could only deal with them everywhere, so he would still listen to them. Now the emperor has become fully grown and will not listen to them at all. Once they anger the emperor, he has plenty of ways to make trouble for them, and the kind of torture that makes them speechless and unable to say anything.
For example, what happened this time.
In the past, they might have had a chance to place their own spies in the palace. But now, even if they try their best to place their own people in the palace, it will be of no avail. The emperor does not favor them at all. They are just useless chess pieces in the palace. They will also make the emperor think that they have rebellious intentions under his nose.
Now, it is just right for Xie Ci'an to dismiss all the concubines from the palace. No one needs to place his own spies in the harem. In this way, everyone can be treated equally and no one can make any small moves in the harem.
As for the Gu family, things are different now. They don't need to marry into anyone, because once they do, it will inevitably make the emperor suspicious. It is better to keep things plain and simple, which is exactly what Nanping Hou wants.
I don’t know if it’s because of the cold weather, but Gu Jianchu has been particularly sleepy in the past two days. She was still asleep after the emperor finished his morning court session this morning, and now she has gone to bed again at noon. She has slept for two hours before waking up.
His face was paler than usual, and he looked particularly listless.
Gu Jianchu had just sat up from the couch when he couldn't help sneezing twice.
Hearing the noise, Xie Ci'an put down the memorial in his hand and immediately came to Gu Jianchu.
Xie Ci'an leaned over and helped Gu Jianchu sit up. "Why are you sneezing all of a sudden? Are you sick? I'll ask Doctor Lin to come and take a look at you."
Gu Jianchu also felt that her body had been particularly weak in the past two days. It seemed that she had no interest in anything and just wanted to rest. "Maybe it's because the temperature has suddenly dropped in the past two days. I just need to rest for a while."
"I see that you haven't been in good spirits these past two days. Let's ask Imperial Physician Lin to come and see you. This way I can feel at ease." Xie Ci'an took the rabbit fur cloak beside him and wrapped it around Gu Jianchu, while asking Cheng Song to call Imperial Physician Lin.