Sure enough, wherever the news spread, besides the excitement, there were also officials lurking around, watching the drama unfold!
Old Chen joined the Minister of Justice and his entourage, asking, "What are you saying?"
The Minister of Justice turned around and saw that it was Old Man Chen. He grinned and whispered in his ear, "We were just talking about how the Emperor is a big liar, and he completely fooled Father Zhou."
"A big conman?" Old Chen asked curiously. "What's going on?"
"Who knows? That's where it ends." The Minister of Justice sighed in regret.
Cheng Gonghuan, standing nearby: ......
"I know that."
He spoke in a low voice, and several heads immediately crowded around him. Meeting the bright eyes of his colleagues, Cheng Gonghuan finally experienced the joy of being the one cutting the melon, and then he excitedly recounted what had happened in the palace that day.
"So that's how it is! Our Emperor is truly wise!"
Several officials nodded in approval, praising him as worthy of their emperor.
Cheng Gonghuan remained silent. Could you all please tone down those sinister expressions on your faces? Otherwise, I find it hard to believe that you are praising His Majesty and not expressing something through your expressions.
However, the emperor really mastered the art of getting something for nothing.
By the way, did Princess Jingmin have any descendants?
These days, I keep hearing about Princess Jingmin's descendants, and now Chuanwen has finally become interested in this. Although it's a long time ago, she still dug into it.
The first generation consisted of a man and a woman, both residing on their fiefdoms.
[The second generation consisted of three men, but they encountered a rebellion and had to flee! However, two of them died on the way, leaving only one.]
The third generation, consisting of three women and two men, settled in Banpo, Yizhou. However, they encountered a famine and had to flee with their families. The siblings got separated during the escape, but fortunately, they all survived.
The eldest brother led his youngest sister to flee to Aizhou and settle down. The second brother and his two older sisters traveled north to Haizhou. On the way, the older sister took pity on the refugees traveling with her and gave them some food. When the refugees saw that they had food, they swarmed around them and robbed them, leaving them not even the family genealogy book.
[Uh... a refugee stole the family genealogy. He originally intended to sell it, but after trekking through mountains and rivers to the city, the people there immediately knelt before him, claiming he was a member of the royal family! The refugee was terrified; they had actually robbed a member of the royal family! After leaving, he threw the genealogy away, and luckily, someone found it. Hey! This person was the ancestor of the feng shui master.]
Meanwhile, regarding Princess Jingmin's descendants, the fourth generation settled down in Aizhou and Haizhou, respectively.
However, let's not even talk about those poor beggars in Haizhou; the brother and sister in Aizhou were also bad at business, and their family fortune declined generation after generation. By the eighth generation, they were so poor that even their education depended on their wives mending clothes and doing laundry.
Wen Xue sighed inwardly. This really proved the saying that a family cannot remain prominent forever.
The old man and the others on the periphery listened to the woman's wailing with one ear and Chuanwen's thoughts with the other. They sighed inwardly. When Princess Jingmin left the capital to go to her fiefdom with her husband, she was full of glory. Who would have thought that a few generations later, her children and grandchildren would be so poor that they had to beg for food!
"Cough cough cough!"
As the group was sighing, Chuanwen suddenly choked on his saliva and coughed violently, as if he had been greatly shocked.
Wenxue quickly helped him back, while the people on the outside looked at each other, wondering what was wrong.
The woman also glanced at Chuanwen. What's wrong with you, girl? Just watching the fun isn't enough, you're trying to steal the show!
So, in order to drown out Chuanwen's voice, the woman cried even louder.
[Cough! The eighth generation branch is actually Er Gou's family!!!]
The message almost burst open. Wenxue said, "Ergou's family is fine, but look how badly you've choked yourself."
However, the next second, Wenxue's hand, which was behind Chuan Wenshun's back, froze. Who?!
The people on the outside were also stunned, their eyes filled with disbelief. What had they just heard?
"Scatter! Scatter!"
Several servants ran over to disperse the crowd. The woman's face showed panic. Could it be that the Zhou family was going to beat her again?
"What are you doing in broad daylight!"
The woman stood up in fear, ready to flee quickly if things went wrong.
She came over to make a scene, wanting them to pay for her medical expenses, but she didn't want to get beaten up herself!
"You just want money, right? Here you go! Now get out of here!"
The head servant tossed the woman a bag of loose silver. To her surprise, she actually got some money. She opened the bag and was quite satisfied. Her expression immediately changed, and she chuckled and quickly left.
Zhou Shuqin watched the woman leave from afar before she breathed a sigh of relief. If they hadn't been afraid of making a big fuss, they wouldn't have let that vulgar woman off so easily!
He then spat in the direction the woman had left and cursed her as a slut!
As she was cursing, she saw Wen Xue in the crowd, and Wen Xue also saw her.
The two women looked at each other. Zhou Shuqin immediately put away the ferocity on her face and tried to give Wen Xue a gentle and ladylike smile, but the other woman rolled her eyes at her and left with the country bumpkin from the Marquis of Changxing.
Zhou Shuqin's smile froze on her face. She racked her brains but couldn't figure out when she had offended Wen Xue.
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