The Zhao family's father and daughter were busy with their work.
Xianzong was not someone who didn't think about his daughter. While drinking and having fun, and sleeping with his beauties, he also thought about the fact that he had confiscated the Gu family's property and even the house they lived in. How could the third son of the Gu family marry his daughter when they didn't even have a place to live?
"Jingzhong," Xianzong called his chief steward.
Jingzhong hurriedly walked up to Xianzong and bowed, saying, "Your servant is here."
"Return the Gu family's original house to them," Xianzong said, "and return the previously confiscated property to them as well."
Jingzhong said, "Your Majesty, Gu Chen no longer has a title, and the Gu family is now full of commoners, and they still live in the original Zhenguo Marquis Mansion. I think this may not be a good idea."
Xianzong did not follow Jingzong's words and thought about it further, but said: "How can my son-in-law be a commoner? Let him be a general."
Jingzhong said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, the Gu family has committed treason and collusion with the enemy."
Xianzong said indifferently: "Now the world is at peace, I don't need him to lead the troops. The one who collaborates with the enemy is that old man Gu Chen. As for Gu Xinglang, he can just be kept in good health." In Xianzong's opinion, when there is no war, isn't a general just an official?
Jingzhong asked, "So what generalship does His Majesty want to confer on Young Master Gu San?"
Xianzong couldn't remember what rank Gu Xinglang was in the past, so he asked, "What rank was he in the past?"
Gu Xinglang joined the army at the age of thirteen and became famous on the battlefield at the age of fifteen. However, Gu Chen was strict in managing the army and felt that young people would not become useful without tempering, so he only let Gu Xinglang serve as a lieutenant general in the army over the years, with heavy responsibilities but low positions. Jingzhong did not talk to Xianzong about the merits of the third young master Gu, but only said that he served as a lieutenant general in the army.
"Lieutenant general?" Xianzong didn't quite believe it. Gu Chen's grandson was just a small lieutenant general in the army?
Jingzhong said, "Your Majesty, Young Master Gu is only seventeen years old, he is still young."
Xianzong sighed. His daughter is not even fourteen yet! Isn't she younger? "A lieutenant general won't work," Xianzong thought about it carefully and said, "Appoint him as a third-rank general. Find a house for the Gu family and let them live there."
"I obey your order," Jingzhong said hurriedly.
"I do this for Linglong," Xianzong said again.
Jingzhong hurriedly said, "Your Majesty is wise."
As an enemy of the Gu family, Chief Steward Jing was truly happy for Gu Xinglang at this moment. He relied on his wife to become a third-rank captain general. This gigolo was a gigolo. What a slap in the face of the third young master of the Gu family!
"Go," Xianzong waved his hand and asked Jingzhong to go to work, feeling that he had done a good thing for his daughter.
Jingzhong quickly found a house for the Gu family in the capital. It was not as good as the original Zhenguo Marquis Mansion, but it also had several courtyards and a garden. It was better than the others. After the house was arranged, Jingzhong did not delay for a minute and took his people to the temporary residence of the Gu family to convey the imperial edict.
As Jing Da Zongguan had expected, after hearing the edict from Emperor Xianzong, the faces of the Gu family members turned pale and blue, and they were angry but dared not speak.
"General Gu," Jingzhong looked at Gu Xinglang and said with a smile, "Accept my order."
Gu Xinglang lowered his head. How could a useless man with crippled legs become a general of the third rank by relying on a woman? The humiliation made it difficult for Gu Xinglang to breathe. He felt that the air at this moment was like a raging fire, burning his internal organs.
Jingzhong asked, "General Gu, are you going to disobey my order?"
Second Young Master Gu, Gu Xingyan stood up from the ground angrily and said, "A gentleman can be killed but not humiliated! Jingzhong, don't try this on me!"
Hearing his second brother's angry shout, Gu Xinglang's body trembled, raised his hands above his head, and said, "I accept your order. I thank your majesty for his grace."
"Xinglang!" Gu Xingyan saw Gu Xinglang taking the imperial edict with trembling hands, his eyes were bloodshot, and he stepped forward to grab Jingzhong and kill him.
"Xingyan," Gu Chen called out to his grandson.
"Dad," Gu Xingyan's youngest son, Gu Xu, who was just two years old, started crying.
The Second Young Master's wife, Mrs. Lin, withdrew her fingers from pinching her son's little butt, lowered her head and shed tears. She knew that Gu Xinglang was being humiliated, and it didn't matter if she, as the second sister-in-law, died, but she didn't want to see her husband and son die.
Now is not the time to strike the Gu family to death, so Jingzhong appeared to be very generous, bowed to Gu Xinglang, and said: "The Zha family congratulates General Gu."
Gu Xingnuo came over, picked up his third brother, and put him on a recliner.
Jingzhong then said to Gu Chen: "The emperor has also granted the house, so Mr. Gu should prepare well for General Gu's wedding."
Gu Chen's face was as gloomy as water. He glanced at Jingzhong without saying anything.
Jingzhong knew that this family was not happy to see him at the moment, so the eunuch chief steward deliberately stayed for a while longer to disgust the young and old of the Gu family again before leaving with his men.
As soon as Chief Steward Jing left, Gu Xingyan exploded, kicked over a chair in the yard, and angrily said, "This is too much!"
Gu Chen whispered to his old wife: "Take your wife and the others back to their room first."
After the woman and the children returned to their room, the door of the wing room was pushed open from the inside, and Yingnianyun and several others walked out of the wing room.
Gu Xingyan squatted beside the flower bed with his head in his hands, silent.
Gu Xingnuo squatted in front of Gu Xinglang, and the eldest son of the Gu family also had pain in his eyes. Their father died in the battlefield when Gu Xinglang was less than one year old, and this younger brother was raised by Gu Xingnuo, the eldest brother. The eldest son of the Gu family felt sorry for his younger brother, but he could not take his place.
"I'm fine." Gu Xinglang looked up at his eldest brother, smiled, and said, "I'm going to start a family. My eldest brother should congratulate me."
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