Xu Jinyi politely walked up to the front and dignified the Empress Dowager and bowed, "Your Majesty, I am willing to share your worries."
The Queen Mother laughed heartily. "Well, worthy of being the daughter of Duke Xu, she has the bearing of a military family. Your Majesty, what do you think?"
Fu Shiyan reached out and helped Xu Jinyi up: "Since you are my destined daughter, I will naturally not go against God's arrangement."
After the banquet, some were happy and some were sad, and Prince Fu's mansion was in a mess.
Xu Jinyi returned home with his family, waiting for the arrival of the imperial edict.
"Master, what should we do? Is our daughter really going to enter the palace?" Mrs. Xu sent away all the servants as soon as she returned to the hall, and spoke anxiously.
Duke Xu also frowned: "It's already a done deal and cannot be changed. If I had known this would happen today, Yi'er should not have entered the palace."
"Dad, why don't we let my sister pretend to be sick and avoid it." Brother Xu said.
Xu Jinyi couldn't bear it anymore and spoke up, she really wanted to.
Unexpectedly, when she said this, Xu's mother became even sadder: "Master, why don't you resign from your post and leave the capital. It's better for us to give up this wealth and glory."
Xu Jinyi: “…”
"Mother, I know the emperor. I entered the palace voluntarily, without any compulsion."
Only then did everyone look at Xu Jinyi seriously, which made Xu Jinyi feel uneasy.
"Dad and Mom, don't worry, Fu Shiyan treats me very well, and is there any better husband than him in this world?"
"The harem is clean. No other woman can get close to me except me. I don't have to worry about him selecting concubines in the future. Once I enter the palace, I will be the only one in power. There is no better choice than this."
"In my opinion, his strange illness is a good thing. He doesn't have to worry about running into a villain like Lin Ze."
Xu's mother looked at her daughter and suddenly realized that she was right. Once she entered the palace, no matter what her position was, she would be the only one.
There won’t be any bad things happening. Thinking about it this way, this seems like a good thing.
Duke Xu: "Nonsense! How can you address His Majesty by his name?"
Xu's mother didn't care about that, and there were no outsiders around. "Then what position did His Majesty promise to give you? Did you discuss it?"
Xu Jinyi raised her chin and said, "I, Xu Jinyi, will never be a concubine, so I will never enter the palace except for the position of queen."
Duke Xu frowned at the arrogant tone.
"Hush, what you said is too rebellious. If the imperial decree comes down and it's not for the position of queen, will you still disobey it?"
Brother Xu disagreed with his father: "My sister is naturally worthy of the most honorable position in the world."
Duke Xu would never hit his own daughter, but it was different for his son. Without any hesitation, he kept hitting Brother Xu on the head.
"Hiss... Dad, what are you doing?"
"Your sister is young and ignorant, and you are fooling around. Do you think the ministers in the court will agree to a woman who has been married twice to become the queen? Even if the emperor agrees, it will be difficult."
"The most she could be is a concubine. It would be difficult to rise any higher."
At this time, Sun Defu arrived with the imperial edict and a large group of palace maids, eunuchs and guards holding the imperial gifts.
Sun Defu smiled so hard that the wrinkles on his face were visible. When he finished reading the imperial edict, Duke Xu's jaw almost dropped.
"Eunuch Sun, did you read it correctly? To be canonized as Empress?"
"That's right, Master Xu, you will be the father-in-law of the emperor in the future. Congratulations."
Duke Xu received the imperial edict in a daze and was completely unaware of it.
It was Xu Jinyi who winked at Jinxiu and asked her to give Sun Defu a handful of gold leaves.
"Thank you, Queen."
Sun Defu finally saw the real person, and he looked embarrassed when he thought about the many times he had run into the emperor.
How could Fu Shiyan be so stingy with the person he loved? Therefore, the treasures he gave as a reward could hardly fit into his yard.
After looking at these things, Xu's mother believed that the emperor might really like her daughter.
She also began to believe what Xu Jinyi said, and believed that the emperor would treat her well after entering the palace.
Duke Xu realized what was happening belatedly and bent down to salute Xu Jinyi. Xu Jinyi was so frightened that she quickly helped herself up and called her family members to follow her in saluting.
"At home, there are no such rules. Just keep things the same as before."
The news that Xu Jinyi was canonized as queen soon spread throughout the capital, and everyone lamented her rough fate.
Not only did she get divorced because of her bad marriage, but now she has to enter the palace with the important task of giving birth to an heir.
Some people also said that how could a divorced woman like her be the mother of the nation?
Wang Shitou also heard these words and immediately asked someone to spread what Xu Jinyi had done.
When the news got out, the whole capital was in an uproar.
I never expected that a woman like Xu Jinyi could do such a big thing so quietly.
She, a woman, solved the problems that so many court officials could not solve.
There was not even any publicity, let alone taking credit for it.
If the pawnshop owner hadn't let it slip, they wouldn't have known that the majority of the refugees outside the city had disappeared because of her.
It turned out that after the divorce, Xu Jinyi saw those refugees on the road and knew their final fate, and she couldn't bear it.
Then she sold all her dowry, used the money to rent a hundred acres of fertile land, and exchanged the remaining money for coarse grains.
Then she signed short-term contracts with all the refugees who were able to work, asking them to work on her farm.
Providing one meal a day solves the refugees' problem of where to go, allowing them to eat through their own labor and avoid starving to death.
The imperial court can take care of the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled people.
After knowing what Xu Jinyi did, to be honest, no one had any objections to her becoming the queen.
While everyone was lamenting Xu Jinyi's actions, Lin's mother was crying at home.
"My silver, that dowry is at least 200,000 or 300,000 taels? She just squandered it all like that. Is she crazy?"
"It's all because of you, you unlucky star. If it weren't for you, would that gold nugget have been able to fly away?"
"Could my eldest grandson turn out to be a fool? I spent so much money on ginseng and medicine, and in the end I got a fool in return."
“What a sin!”
Lin's mother beat and scolded Jiang Hui. Jiang Ruize had woken up this morning, but he had become a fool and no one could recognize him. He could only drool and shout for food.
The worst thing is that I don’t even know how to go to the toilet, and I poop and pee in my pants.
Jiang Hui felt wronged. Looking at Lin Ze who didn't say a word, she could only let Lin's mother beat and scold her.
Lin Ze's mind was filled with Xu Jinyi's charming appearance today. Now that she was really crowned queen, he finally knew what pain was.
Without even looking here, Lin Ze went to the woodshed with a gloomy face.
He couldn't bear to watch Xu Jinyi enter the palace and have nothing to do with him anymore.
Dujuan lay dying in the woodshed, his body covered with marks from being beaten with sticks, and the ground was stained with blood.
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