After returning to the Lin Mansion, Lin Chunhuan took a lot of effort to explain what happened today.
Although Lin's father felt that the emperor's sending the imperial guards to ask for her dowry was nonsense, he was reluctant to say anything harsh when he saw the boxes of property that originally belonged to their Lin family being carried in.
That’s half of the Lin family’s wealth!
These things have been accumulated by generations of ancestors for who knows how many generations. If he was not an only child, he would definitely not be willing to spend so many things to add to his dowry!
Moreover, Father Lin also tasted something from this incident.
Even the Imperial Guards were willing to give way, and those people even called her Queen. It seemed that the Emperor was not just fond of his Huan'er!
Thinking of this, Father Lin happily hummed a little tune again and asked the servants to move all the things to the warehouse.
There was quite a commotion today. After Captain Meng returned to the palace, he immediately reported the whole incident to the emperor. After all, that was the residence of the Yuan family and General Yuan!
Everyone knows that the current emperor and General Yuan are friends for life and death. Today, Miss Lin has brought shame to the general's family.
If it were any other time, the emperor would have been furious.
But today, the emperor just smiled and said nothing. He even gave these ten people many rewards and said, "Letting you go is to support the future queen."
“You guys did a great job.”
When Captain Meng and his companions received their rewards and left the palace, they were still dazed.
Even though they carried out Lin Chunhuan's orders without hesitation when they were outside Yuan's mansion, they couldn't help but feel scared when they thought about it afterwards.
I didn’t expect...that everything was actually fine!
"Captain."
The youngest of the imperial guards swallowed his saliva and said, "The emperor loves Miss Lin so much. If he really makes her the queen, then we..."
They are the ones who helped the future queen!
Even if the Queen doesn't remember this favor in the future, at least she can become a familiar face today. If there are any opportunities for promotion in the future, this will be an advantage for her!
Captain Meng had obviously thought of this, but he was always tactful and didn't show his emotions on his face. "Well, the affairs of the royal family are beyond our ability to guess."
"Everyone, collect your rewards. You've been busy all day. Go back and see your wives and children."
The imperial guards had no idea that the emperor was happily designing a phoenix crown for Lin Chunhuan himself.
This is the first empress after the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, the phoenix crown cannot continue to use the old system of the previous dynasty. But he doesn't trust anyone else to do this, so he just does it himself!
Today, Huan'er treated Yuan Shaojun so heartlessly, without even giving him any face. It seems that she has really given up on that little bastard.
It’s better to give up, it’s better to give up!
Before the emperor could finish his thoughts, the eunuch Wang's footsteps approached, "Your Majesty, Qin Huashan has sent a message that the Queen Mother will return to the palace in three days."
The emperor paused as he was drawing the design. He felt a sense of guilt. "The Queen Mother is coming back? Didn't she say she would stay until the end of the year?"
"Your Majesty, you're joking. Choosing a queen is a major event. The Queen Mother would naturally be worried if she didn't come back to see the future queen in person."
The emperor was speechless for a moment.
Although he had already thought that his mother might come back when he sent the message to Qin Huashan.
But I always hold a glimmer of hope. After all, my mother has been ascetic and devoted to Buddhism over the years, and has never cared about anything in the court or the harem. In addition, as she grows older, her health is not as good as before, and she may not be willing to run back and forth.
Unexpectedly, I still have to come back.
"Well, if that's the case, let's quickly have Xingqing Palace cleaned up and prepare to welcome the Queen Mother back to the palace."
Wang Youquan received the order and left, but the emperor could no longer draw the design in his hand.
It seems that he has to go to Lin Mansion again tomorrow.
Lin Chunhuan didn't expect that the emperor would come again so soon. Although he couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart, he still looked docile on the surface.
"Sir, you left and came back, and just one day later you came to my place again. If you didn't know, you would think I had some rare stuff here that made you dream about it."
Fortunately, today the emperor did not wait until Lin Chunhuan fell asleep and come secretly. Instead, he walked in from the main gate and talked with Lin's father for a long time before finding an opportunity to be alone with Lin Chunhuan.
He stretched out his hand and pulled her to sit on his lap. "Isn't Huan'er's existence enough for me to be obsessed with her?"
"Sir, you always make fun of me!"
"Well, I've come here today specifically to tell you that the Queen Mother will be returning to the palace soon, roughly within ten days. You must prepare to see her."
Lin Chunhuan's smile was still on her face, but before it could fade away, it froze on her face. It took her a while to come back to her senses. "To see... the Queen Mother?"
Speaking of the Queen Mother, Lin Chunhuan felt a little scared.
Although the emperor came from a grassroots background, the empress dowager was not a rural peasant woman.
On the contrary, the empress dowager came from a family of prime ministers and was the youngest daughter of the old prime minister of the previous dynasty. She was well-known in Kyoto for her knowledge. Otherwise, it would have been difficult for her to teach a founding emperor on her own.
It was just that the emperor of the previous dynasty was incompetent and favored treacherous ministers. The treacherous ministers did not get along with the old prime minister, so they threw a pot of dirty water on the old prime minister, accusing him of treason.
All the males in the Prime Minister's Mansion were either killed or exiled. The Empress Dowager, who was still unmarried at that time, was also implicated in this incident and sent to the Music Bureau.
The hardships during those years are beyond the imagination of outsiders.
Logically speaking, the women in the Jiaofangsi were almost all relatives of criminals. Not only could they not marry ordinary people, they couldn't even redeem themselves with money. However, the empress dowager relied on her own abilities to struggle out of that hellish place and became a concubine of a wealthy family in Huaishui County.
Only after reaching the Huai River did the empress dowager live a few years of peaceful life. It was also at that time that she gave birth to the current emperor. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. A few years later, the rich man fell ill and died suddenly.
The mistress of the house could not tolerate the mother and son, so she drove them out of the house and left them to fend for themselves. In those years, there were constant natural disasters and man-made disasters, and there was a severe drought for three consecutive years. The empress dowager and the young emperor at the time struggled to survive on their own.
Finally, when the emperor was fourteen years old, the previous emperor's incompetence and tyranny aroused public anger. Uprisings sprang up everywhere as if overnight. The emperor resolutely left home to join the uprising, which lasted for nine years. In the end, he seized the world, founded a new dynasty, and named the country Ming.
It can be said that if there were no empress dowager, no matter how capable the current emperor was, he would not have survived the uprising, let alone rule the world and become a wise ruler.
Seeing the hesitation in Lin Chunhuan's eyes, the emperor gently held her hand and said, "Don't be afraid, Huan'er. Although your mother is a little cold, she is actually a very good person. She will like you."
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