Chapter 246: The Last Wish of the Ancient Father and Daughter Whose Luck Was Taken Away 13 (End)
Wei Ang ran too fast, and the onlookers didn't get to eat the ripe melon, just like eating half-cooked rice, which didn't feel right at all.
Chang'an and Gu Laoliu returned to the inn, and their spirits left their bodies and headed straight for the palace. Of course, it was not their own sense of direction, it was all thanks to the invisible Wolf Brother.
After entering the palace, Xia Qiuju was overjoyed, thinking that she would soon become a powerful person, but she did not expect that the secret guards would hand her over to the Shanggong Bureau.
The meaning is very clear. It has nothing to do with the Eastern Palace. How will the Shanggong Bureau arrange it?
Those who can get the position of Shang Gong in the palace are all smart people, and even more ruthless. After the secret guards left, Shang Gong Su immediately changed her expression, from amiable to serious and indifferent.
Su Shanggong ordered someone to take Xia Qiuju down, "See what she is good at and arrange her to a position that suits her."
Chang'an and Gu Laoliu sat on the roof of the Shanggong Bureau, watching Xia Qiuju being taken away by the palace maid with a confused look on her face. The two walked further and further away, and came to a dilapidated palace.
The maid said coldly: "Just go and serve Concubine Ming, someone will bring you the necessities of life later."
"I was brought back by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and I'm going to see the Crown Prince," Xia Qiu Juhua finally reacted. She was terrified and felt that things shouldn't be like this.
The palace maid pushed her in with an expressionless face, and the door slammed shut. No one paid any attention to Xia Qiuju no matter how she shouted.
Ming Fei was a crazy concubine who lived in the cold palace. She yelled like a madman every day. Now there would be someone to yell with her.
"You get what you ask for."
Her ending can already be guessed. There is nothing big to hear. Gu Laoliu sealed Xia Qiuju's memory of her previous life. From now on, she should just stay in this deep palace obediently.
"Dad, this doesn't seem right. The original owner's last wish was not to let Xia Qiuju enter the palace."
Gu Laoliu blinked twice, "Really? That doesn't matter. As long as Wei Ang awakens, it won't matter whether Xia Qiuju enters the palace or not."
She was locked up with that crazy woman, and she would never be able to leave that dilapidated palace in her life.
The imperial examination came as scheduled. When Yun Yue sent Gu Yuanshan back from the exam, Gu Laoliu gave him a pile of papers, which recorded all the evidence about the general's mansion and the general's wife's family, the Minister of War's mansion.
The crime charged against the General's Mansion is not punishable by death. The more serious crime is to go back to his hometown and grow sweet potatoes. If someone wants to step on him, he may be exiled to a bitter and cold place.
The Shangshu Mansion was really doomed. They used inferior weapons, embezzled military pay, and tampered with the soldiers' cotton-padded clothes, resulting in many border soldiers freezing to death every winter.
"Thank you, sir," Yun Yue's eyes were red as he held the evidence. He knelt down and bowed deeply to Gu Laoliu, then left the inn.
As for where he went? He went to a pit.
This incident soon caused a response. Three days later, people from the General's Mansion and the Minister of War's Mansion were thrown into prison, and an imperial edict was posted on the same day.
The emperor, in recognition of the general's contribution to protecting the country, took back his military power, removed him from his generalship, demoted him to a commoner, sent him back to his ancestral home, and forbad him to take up official duties for three generations.
This was considered the best outcome, but all the direct descendants of the Shangshu Mansion were beheaded in public, and the female members were demoted to slavery and exiled to the border.
It just sounds good on the surface, but everyone knows in their hearts that the women in the Shangshu Mansion are being used as military prostitutes.
Do some officials think that this punishment is too much?
Immediately, other officials jumped out to ask him, "Those soldiers and sergeants who were frozen to death in the army, did they freeze to death? Those soldiers who died on the battlefield because of inferior weapons, did they deserve to die on the battlefield?"
"The luxurious clothes and delicious food they enjoy in the capital are all the blood and lives of the soldiers at the border. Since they have enjoyed the benefits, they should pay the price."
"How could the women in the harem know these things? They were all done by Minister Wang and his followers. Don't you understand that the disaster should not affect your family members?"
Some civil officials were still arguing and wanted to save the women in the Shangshu Mansion.
The court was as noisy as a vegetable market. The emperor sat at the top, watching them quarrel indifferently without trying to stop them.
He would not change his decision. How could there be any rule in the court that family members should not be affected by the disaster? If he took a step back today and let the women of the Wang family go, the people behind him would take this incident as a sign of the times.
They must be beaten once and for all to scare them and let them know that if one person commits a crime, the entire clan will suffer.
Wei Ang tried several times to persuade the emperor to change the punishment, but every time he opened his mouth, he was forced back by the emperor's cold eyes.
What he wanted to say was that killing people was not enough, so why punish them in such an insulting way? They could chop off their heads or exile them to a bitter and cold place, there were many options.
The emperor said coldly: "This method will make them remember it best."
If we talk about cruelty, it has to be the emperor.
He looked at the prince with some dissatisfaction, "You are too kind. If you don't change, you won't be able to control those people in the future."
Chang'an and Gu Laoliu, who were squatting on the beam, nodded in agreement. In other planes, some people were directly demoted to a custodial institution. They didn't know which bastard came up with such a disgusting punishment.
Among the women of the Wang family, there is a girl with great merits. She is a concubine's daughter from a side branch. Chang'an has rescued her. That girl will set a precedent for women to join the army in the future and become a legendary figure in this dimension.
No matter how much trouble there was in the court, the outcome could not be changed. The examination was over and the results were announced. Yun Yue, oh, no, he should be called Gu Yue now. He changed his name on the day the General's Mansion collapsed and had no connection with it at all.
Gu Yue didn't even have breakfast and ran out of the inn like a monkey.
Gu Yuanshan thought he was too excited, "Why are you panicking?"
He was confident that as long as no one replaced his article, he would be on the list. As for where he would rank? It didn't matter. As long as he was on the list, he wouldn't have to go back to farming.
Changan drank a mouthful of white porridge. They had been drinking it for half a month. Now everyone looked like a bowl of porridge to her.
"Uncle, you are the first. Let's have something delicious tomorrow morning."
"Plain porridge is nutritious," he gulped down a large bowl, and then asked, "How do you know that uncle is the first?"
"you guess."
"I, your uncle, am a genius who is unique in the world."
Gu Laoliu threw a steamed bun to stop him from bragging.
An hour later, Gu Yue came back with a smile on his face, "Congratulations, young master, for winning the first prize."
Gu Yuanshan pretended to press down the corner of his mouth, with an expression that said, "This young master already knew this." He took out a silver ingot and said, "Use it to buy some candied haws."
Changan, Gu Laoliu and Gu Yue: Didn't we agree that if we don't have food allowance, we can only drink plain porridge?
After the joint examination, the palace examination followed. Gu Yuanshan participated in it in a relaxed manner. He was not aiming for the top prize, but for the first place in the second class. Wasn't the requirement low enough? He would definitely pass.
It is true that he passed the exam, but he was only the first in the first class, the new top scholar chosen by the emperor himself.
Looking at Gu Yuanshan, who was parading in the street downstairs with a big red flower and a tall horse, he said, "Mission accomplished."
Chang'an and Gu Laoliu did not return to Fuhua Village, but went straight back to the ferry.
The memories of them disappeared from this world as they left. The second son of the Gu family and his daughter in Fuhua Village passed away as early as last summer.