Sparing their lives, demoting them by one rank, and keeping them away from Yulin City is already a great favor from the emperor! This is also thanks to Prince Duan's willingness to forgive them and plead for them!
At the same time, the emperor also solemnly announced the marriage between Prince Duan and Qi Luoyuan, the fourth daughter of Qi University Scholar.
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone instantly forgot the miserable plight of the Lin and Ming families. They all smiled happily and congratulated His Royal Highness Prince Duan.
The Qi family was generous and didn't bother with trivial matters, so even the wedding date was not changed. Qi Luoyuan was willing to marry into Prince Duan's Mansion on August 8th.
In fact, isn't it also because he is afraid that Prince Duan will regret it if he does too much, or that he will count the days until next year?
It would be safer to marry into Prince Duan's Mansion as soon as possible. After all, if you can encounter such a pie in the sky once in your life, you must have practiced great virtue for eight lifetimes!
Ming Yuli was going to the northern border to be an official. It was a mystery whether he would be able to return to Yulin City in this lifetime, so his family had to move.
Men, women, young and old followed him to take office, except Ming Ruoxi, who had harmed them to such an extent.
Because she had been carried to the Lin family in a sedan chair.
Lin Chengxuan is a playboy. He now has six wives and concubines and three sons.
Ming Ruoxi suddenly went from being the daughter of a first-rank official and the legitimate future princess consort of His Royal Highness Prince Duan, to being the seventh concubine of a second-generation rich man who had accomplished nothing.
Moreover, once her family members left, she would be left alone and helpless, and would have to live in the Lin family's backyard with her tail between her legs.
So, Qin Qingyao originally thought that she and Lin Xiafeng could have a mutually beneficial relationship and could love and hate each other for several rounds. She really overestimated her.
Given her current status and position, Lin Xiafeng probably wouldn't even bother to look at her, let alone waste time fighting with her.
Ming Yuli had been an official for many years, and he had countless subordinates who followed him around all day long. However, when his family left Yulin City, no one saw them off.
However, the Qin family and people from the Wuling Palace came to see Qin Qingsang off.
Mrs. Qin held her eldest daughter's hand and cried uncontrollably. Hu Ku was thousands of miles away from Yulin City. If she left, she might never see him again in her life.
Minister Qin was still angry about the Ming family's bullying of Qin Qingsang before, and even said that if she didn't want to go, then she shouldn't go. It would be better for her to stay in the Qin family with the children than to suffer in that bitter and cold place.
Qin Qingyao's eyes were red. She knew that her parents were worried about her and couldn't bear to let her go, but as the saying goes, one should follow the chicken when marrying a chicken, and the dog when marrying a dog. The Ming family would never let her stay in the Qin family with her child, and she would never leave her child.
So, she was willing to follow him to the northern border.
Dugu Yu saw that Qin Qingyao was filled with worry and reluctance to leave, so he said to Qin Qingsang in front of the Ming family, "Big sister, please take care of yourself. When I have time in the future, I will take Qingqing out for a walk. If we reach the northern border, we will definitely visit you and the children."
"Then I'll be waiting for you. Okay, little sister, the journey is long and we can't delay any longer. You should go back soon. You and the prince, take care of yourselves!"
Qin Qingsang then whispered in Qin Qingyao's ear, "You should give birth to a little prince for the prince sooner rather than later!"
Qin Qingyao's face flushed red. "Okay, okay, I got it. Big sister, take care of yourself and wait for us to see you!"
Qin Qingsang smiled brightly, "Okay, I'll wait for you three to come and see me together!"
Qin Qingyao, "..."
After bidding farewell to Qin Qingsang, Dugu Yu took Qin Qingyao by the hand all the way back to the palace, and then asked, "What did my elder sister say to you?"
"Ah? No, nothing. Is it true that you said you would take me to the Northern Frontier?"
Dugu Yu continued walking without looking around, but smiled mysteriously, "So do you want to go?"
"Yes, I don't know what the world outside Yulin City is like. I really want to go and see it."
"good."
"Okay what? Will you take me there?"
Dugu Yu just walked without saying a word, while Qin Qingyao kept jumping up and down beside him, "Tell me, will you take me with you?"
"Keep it a secret!"
"Are you keeping it a secret from me? Anyway, I want to go out and play. If you don't take me, I'll find someone else to go with me!"
The smile on Dugu Yu's face disappeared instantly. He stopped and turned to look at her, "Who else do you want to go with?"
Qin Qingyao curled her lips in triumph, "Keep it a secret!"
"I asked you to keep it a secret!"
Dugu Yu stretched out his hand and lifted Qin Qingyao onto his shoulder, spanking her. "Speak or not!"
"How dare you hit me! If you don't want to tell me, then don't tell me!"
"Just talking tough, huh? Let's see who's tougher, you or me!"
…
"Dugu Yu, you are committing adultery in broad daylight, bullying the weak, and you are shameless!"
Dugu Yu nodded and accepted his wife's evaluation very humbly, "You want it? Here, give it to you..."
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When Qin Qingyao said she was going with others, she actually meant going with her own children in the future. But how could she have the nerve to say such shameful words out loud?
If I tell you the truth, it will irritate someone and I will turn into a wolf and eat her up!
But even if she didn't say it, a certain jackal crushed her persistence and shame, and she finally confessed with a groan.
Dugu Yu was quite satisfied with her answer. "You want your child to take you out to play? I'll grant you that!"
Qin Qingyao didn't know what had stimulated Dugu Yu today. His desire was so strong that she didn't have the energy to ask.
It's strange, though. They've been married for almost a year, so why isn't she pregnant? Should she see a doctor?
But this kind of thing is really hard to talk about! Anyway, they are still young, she is only eighteen, it is not too late to become a mother when she is twenty.
So, let’s spend two years of comfortable life with Dugu Yu together!
Thinking of this, Qin Qingyao felt at ease and forgot about the Qin family's information about urging her to have a baby.
…
Some are happy while others are sad. When someone is demoted, it means someone else has to be promoted to fill the vacancy.
With the sudden emergence of a first-rank official position in the court, various forces will inevitably be interested, and the most active among them is the prince.
There has always been no shortage of talented people around him. Recently, he has been successful in both love and court. He is indeed a little too proud of himself when doing things, so his words and actions inevitably reveal a sense of arrogance that no one else can do it better than him.
As soon as Ming Yuli vacated his position, he began to anxiously recommend talents to the emperor and blatantly placed his own people in the position.
According to his usual character, when he is extremely confident about something and is determined to do it, he will not discuss it with anyone, not even the Grand Tutor.
It’s just like the previous statement that disaster victims can eat beans if they have no rice.
So after he finished praising people eloquently and explaining why his Prince's Guardian Jin Yongde had to take over the position of Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate, the entire court fell silent.
The prince was full of confidence, thinking that he had convinced everyone and that his words were irrefutable, but the Grand Tutor had almost buried his head in his chest.
Although the Prince's Guardian was a second-rank official, it was an empty title with no real rank. He was just a person close to the Prince, and did not interfere in politics or take charge of affairs, and had no real power.
Anyone with a little bit of common sense would know that it would be impossible for him to enter the court so easily, let alone become a first-rank official all of a sudden.
Is the prince so naive as to think that all second-rank officials are eligible for promotion to first-rank?
This way of employing people and this attitude of appointing and dismissing officials are simply astonishing.
No one spoke, and the emperor remained calm. In the end, he just said that he should think about it again and there was no need to fill the position in a hurry.
Compared to the Crown Prince's eagerness for quick success and his eccentricity, His Royal Highness Prince Duan has been much more well-behaved recently.
In fact, it’s not that he is smart and knows how to avoid suspicion, but he has been distracted by his own marriage recently and has not spared any brain cells to think about the vacant seat.
So he did nothing and said nothing, but he accidentally won the favor of the emperor and all the officials.
When Dugu Yu went back and told Qin Qingyao about the prince's heroic deeds at the morning court today, Qin Qingyao laughed so hard that she almost choked on her porridge.
"Hahaha, the prince is indeed the prince. I give him a hundred thumbs up for this true-to-life performance. I'm not afraid of him getting too proud!"
Dugu Yu picked up some food and stuffed it into her mouth, "Eat!"
"Well, how's Prince Duan doing lately? Is he still getting criticized?"
Dugu Yu said angrily, "After what happened, he's now the victim. The emperor is already sympathetic, so who would be so tactless as to confront him?"
"Why……"
Qin Qingyao sighed, still finding it funny. Ling Jingxuan was Ling Jingxuan. Even if he was kicked out by the heroine, he still had the aura of the male protagonist.
Moreover, the prince is still the stupid villain who is in a hopeless situation. Why did Lin Xiafeng choose him?
However, he is the queen's legitimate son and the eldest son of the royal family, so he is the rightful crown prince. Those who follow and support him in the court are still the majority.
He already had a lot of helpers, and with Lin Xiafeng, she would definitely bring more helpers to the prince. By then, if his subordinates were all talented people, he would have no problem sitting firmly on the throne even if he was a pig.
What's more, there is Lin Xiafeng. It is possible that the crown prince will not be as popular as the queen Lin Xiafeng in the future. It is not impossible for her to work hard and become the second Wu Zetian and act as the agent of the government!
The more Qin Qingyao thought about it, the more likely it seemed. Then, she felt a dull pain at the tip of her nose, as if she had been bitten by Dugu Yu.
"Husband, why are you biting me?"
"If you don't eat well, I'll eat you!"
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The situation in the court is changing rapidly. Prime Minister Lin is punished by the emperor to stay at home for a month to reflect on his mistakes. He will not attend court for a month, and someone will have to share the government affairs that he should have handled.
To put it in a friendly way, it is called agency or help; to put it bluntly, it is the division of power.
In a month, those jackals would take away all the flesh and blood that the Prime Minister could from his position, and they would definitely not leave him even a trace.
Prime Minister Lin was extremely frightened at this time. He even suspected that the emperor had long had a problem with him, so he used the matter of his children as an excuse to weaken his power and lower his prestige in preparation for sidelining or even disposing of him?
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