The emperor was stunned by Gu Hui's words. He suddenly realized that he had seen Gu Hui's tone and expression somewhere before.
Yes, I saw it at my grandmother's house.
Back when Madam Peng was still an unmarried young woman, someone in the court impeached her family. At that time, he was still the Crown Prince, and his father, the Emperor, was on the throne. His father was a kind-hearted man who neither wanted to punish Madam Peng nor scold the people who impeached her.
At this point, the Empress Dowager made these remarks.
Why can't women?
Women also have a heart to protect their country. If she has the ability, what right do you have to impeach her?
You make it sound so fierce, why don't you go?
All you do all day long is impeach this person and that person. The Great Zhou Dynasty is ruined by officials like you...
The imperial study fell silent, and Gu Hui looked at the emperor nervously.
The emperor suddenly smiled: "Your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents haven't come to the capital yet, have they? We'll discuss this matter after they arrive. I promise you, as long as you can obtain the consent of your three elders, I will grant your request!"
Gu Hui was surprised that the emperor agreed and was about to express her gratitude when the emperor added, "However, in addition to the consent of your elders, you also need the consent of General Peng. He will be leaving for Kuncheng at the end of October and will be in the capital for the foreseeable future. You'll have to work hard on your own!"
Gu Hui: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"
The emperor then looked at Gu Xin: "Little Xin Xin, give me the warhorse you won. Whatever you want, I'll give it to you. Don't even mention going to the battlefield, you're too young."
Gu Xin shook her head: "Your Majesty, I don't want anything. I would like to ask Your Majesty to bestow the three hundred warhorses I won upon Brother Yuanyuan."
The emperor was taken aback.
Gu Xin said shyly, "When I was playing the zither just now, I was thinking about Brother Yuanyuan fighting on the battlefield! Brother Yuanyuan said he was a captain of a three-hundred-man regiment, which is exactly three hundred bolts of silk for him. Is that alright, Your Majesty?"
The emperor looked helplessly at Gu Shouxin: "Gu the Second, your daughter was carried off by a wolf, aren't you angry?"
Gu Shouxin said, "Your subject knows how to train wolves!"
"Hahahaha..." The emperor laughed, "Alright, alright, you Gu family are amazing! Fine, if the daughters don't want any rewards, then I'll reward your whole family."
As a result, the Gu family was rewarded with a grand five-courtyard mansion and a thousand taels of gold.
After the Gu family returned home, the Empress's gifts arrived. Empress Xue bestowed upon them some cloth, silk, headdresses, and other women's items.
Immediately afterwards, Empress Dowager Jiang and the Grand Empress Dowager bestowed their rewards, essentially saying that the Gu sisters had rendered meritorious service to the court and brought honor to the Great Zhou Dynasty.
News travels fast in the capital, and by that very evening many families knew about it. Even the Empress Dowager had bestowed a reward upon them. The Gu family had truly struck it lucky!
Some patriarchs instructed their wives to always remember to invite the top scholar's wife and two children to any banquets they held in the future, and to try their best to help the daughters of the family build good relationships with the top scholar.
Of course, some felt that the Gu family's status was not high enough; they were just a top scholar who had only helped the emperor win warhorses.
The Gu family was unaware of all this, because they had received a letter informing them that Grandpa and Grandma Gu had arrived in Tongzhou and would be heading to Beijing the next day.
Tomorrow is the first day of the tenth month. Gu Shouxin couldn't leave his office, so he sent Cai Xiaolian and the two children out of the city to pick up Gu Xin. With Bai Yi always by Gu Xin's side, Gu Shouxin wasn't worried.
The man in white arrived just before Lu Zheng left. The scheme Lu Zheng set up had already been completed, causing the Lin family to suffer significant losses.
Grandpa Zhou's seed shipment headed towards Kuncheng halfway there, and never actually came to the capital. The Lin family suffered a double loss and had long since come to hate the Gu family.
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