After Li Zhao rolled back, Song Yu was very tactful and helped his emperor clear the area.
Gu Jingxing saw Dan Ruo lowering her head slightly and explained uneasily, "I didn't intend to conceal my identity before."
Dan Ruo looked up at him with a hint of anger:
"I was wondering why someone would place secret guards around me to monitor me. I've only come into contact with one other man, Young Master Zhong, in all these years. But I also thought that Young Master Zhong, a doctor of his caliber, wouldn't be that difficult to endure. So it's the Emperor. Then please, Your Majesty, withdraw the secret guards."
Gu Jingxing slowed down his tone: "I am not monitoring you, I want to protect you."
Dan Ruo's bright eyes were filled with doubt, and she asked in a daze, "Why does Your Majesty bother to protect your servant?"
Gu Jingxing touched his nose and coughed lightly: "I have seen your body before, so I must be responsible for you. I plan to marry you as my queen."
Dan Ruo quickly stretched out her index finger to block Gu Jingxing's mouth, then looked around for fear of being heard. Unexpectedly, Gu Jingxing curled his lips and smiled, "Don't be afraid, they can't hear you."
As Gu Jingxing spoke, the heat from his mouth passed through her index finger, burning her so much that she immediately withdrew her finger as if she had received an electric shock. A blush flushed on her face, but she pretended to be indifferent.
"Your Majesty, you are joking. I have been married before. Your Majesty was trying to save me at that time. You are not responsible for it."
"I am serious. I will issue an order tomorrow." Gu Jingxing said seriously.
Dan Ruo quickly shook his head, tears in his eyes:
"Your Majesty is foolish. Since ascending the throne, you have worked diligently to govern the country and have loved the people. You are a rare wise ruler. How can you be criticized by future generations for marrying a woman who has been married twice?
If the emperor insists on doing this, I will cut off my hair and become a nun today."
Seeing this, Gu Jingxing directly took Danruo's hand.
"I have always been ill and cannot touch women. If I do, I will break out in rashes all over my body. I will have convulsions and pass out before I even have sex. That is why there has not been a single woman in my harem for so many years.
Look, I'm holding your hand right now, and I don't feel uncomfortable at all. It's obvious that you are my destiny, sent by God. As one of my subjects, don't you have to help me solve my problems? "
After hearing this secret, Dan Ruo was so stunned that he forgot to pull his hand back.
"So you think you should have pity on me and become my queen." Gu Jingxing coaxed.
Dan Ruo was confused for a moment, then sobered up and said, "If the emperor needs me, I am willing to sacrifice myself for him, but I don't need to be given the position of queen. I don't want to tarnish the reputation of a wise ruler."
Gu Jingxing was overwhelmed by the kindness of this silly girl who only cared about him, and could not bear to refuse: "Okay, but I will only have you as my woman. In my heart, you are my queen."
"If the Emperor finds a woman he loves, or any other woman he can touch, I will leave at any time."
Seeing Danruo's look of disbelief, he knew that she had been deceived by Du Jun and no longer trusted men. He would use time to prove it to Danruo.
"Then Your Majesty, can you let go of my hand and let me leave?"
Gu Jingxing reluctantly let go, and when she wasn't paying attention, he quickly kissed her forehead lightly, "Go home and wait for my order."
Gu Jing walked for a while, and Dan Ruo's shyness faded away. She smiled and said, "It's time to start the task of having a child."
When Madam Shen found Danruo, her face was beaming. The master said that her daughter was blessed with great fortune. She heard that it was a sign of great luck. She had been plagued by villains for a while, but now the villains have been eliminated. Good things will come to her in the future, and everything will go well for her.
Dan Ruo looked at the purse on her mother's waist, which was gone, and asked, "Mother, how much money did you give to the master?"
Madam Shen said cheerfully, "The master said that although the villain has gone far away now, he might come back and haunt us again, so I spent four hundred taels of silver to kill him.
The master said that everything will go smoothly for my son in the future, and asked me to offer six hundred and sixty merit coins to the heavens for you, your future lover, and your future child, to ensure a stable future.
Danruo knew it was a scam as soon as she heard it. She could set up a stall in front of the Temple of the Goddess of Childbirth tomorrow. Not only could she earn real money, but she could also earn merit points from heaven.
When Dan Ruo came back from burning incense with Madam Shen, the master's stall had long disappeared. As expected, he could just take one order a day and run away.
--The next day--
By the Will of Heaven, the Emperor proclaims: Chen Danruo, the youngest daughter of the Minister of Personnel, is beautiful and virtuous, and is hereby granted the title of First Rank Virtuous Consort. She will enter the palace on June 15th. This is my imperial decree.
Everyone in the Shen Mansion was confused when they received this decree. Even Minister Shen, who had been in office for many years, did not react.
The main reason is that the emperor has always shown that he is not interested in women, and the harem is useless. It's not that no one has advised the emperor to take care of his offspring, but they really can't persuade him. The key is that the empress dowager still supports the emperor.
The eunuch who announced the decree nudged Minister Shen, who, upon realizing what was happening, shouted, "I thank you for your great grace."
When the Queen Mother found out, her heart was alarmed. She called Gu Jingxing over and pretended to be happy:
"The Emperor is willing to marry a daughter of the Shen family, but has that strange symptom healed? If so, we can hold a beauty pageant. You're only 28 this year. If you can give birth to a few more princes, your sister in heaven won't blame me for not taking good care of you."
Gu Jingxing was completely unprepared for this woman who had devoted herself to her aunt's succession since she was a child: "I accidentally discovered that I don't have that strange problem with the daughter of the Shen family."
The Queen Mother cried with joy, "That's great, but it's a pity for Your Majesty. After all, the daughter of the Shen family is a second marriage. Tomorrow I will bring your cousin to live in the palace for a while. What do you think?"
Gu Jingxing waved his hands repeatedly: "I don't like my cousin, aunt, please don't delay my cousin's prime years."
The Empress Dowager agreed. She had always put the Emperor first in everything over the years and would always ask for his opinion in advance, so even though they were not biological mother and son, the Emperor was very confident in her.
Soon it was June 15th. Dan Ruo changed into the ceremonial attire for a concubine, and eight large sedan chairs were carried into the palace from the main gate. Gu Jingxing had already been waiting there to hold a grand enthronement ceremony.
The old ministers in the audience blasted the Minister of Rites who was in charge of this matter, saying that this was not in accordance with etiquette.
The Minister of Rites waved his hand, and the matter was over.
There was a virtuous concubine who was carried in from the middle gate first, so the empress who was carried in from the middle gate later should behave in the same way.
When they learned that the emperor wanted to take the youngest daughter of the Shen family and Li Guijia as his concubine, they felt it was inappropriate. However, after all, she was not to be crowned as the empress, and Minister Shen was in charge of the Ministry of Personnel and was in charge of the evaluation of officials.
So everyone just had a few arguments in the court to express their opinions, and what was more important was to fight for a place for their daughters to enter the palace.
Now everyone in the court knows that the virtuous concubine who just entered the palace is not easy to mess with.
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