"...I'm not afraid. I'm a bachelor, so what if I lose my life?" Hongmi has always been willing to take risks, and it is precisely this courage that has allowed him to survive to this day.
Madam Cai shook her head. "Xiao Hong, you're not alone anymore. Those children you adopted, and Zi Wu—who could do without you?"
Hongmi hesitated for a moment, but quickly put it out of her mind. "If this is fate, then accept it. Anyway, I'm the kind of person who never regrets what I've done. Besides, don't you feel sorry for Zhuangzhuang? She was infected with the Mother-Child Fate Gu right after she was born. She's so small, and she has to share more than half of her milk with my sister-in-law to keep her alive. She's six years old, but she's the height of a four-year-old. Don't you feel sorry for this child?"
Ms. Cai: "Of course I feel sorry for her too."
Hongmi: "I can't have children, but Zhuangzhuang is someone I raised single-handedly, he's like my child, and I absolutely cannot watch him be treated unfairly. It's time to go home from school, I'll go pick Zhuangzhuang and the others up."
Madam Cai sighed, watching her resolute back, and said, "Forget it, I'll plead for her later and see if she can be punished less severely."
Mu Run was stunned, as if struck by lightning. She and Zhuang Zhuang had been infected with the same-fate Gu?
Just to keep her body alive?
...
When Long Qian replaced Fu Yunchen, he only maintained a semblance of civility and did not touch any state affairs or official matters. In extremely urgent situations, he would leave it to the three provinces to handle themselves, and they would take responsibility for any problems that arose.
After this had been the case for six consecutive years, the civil and military officials understood that the Prime Minister was probably tired and wanted to rest during these seven days, so there were basically no official reports to be submitted. Once the seven days were over, they all came in at once, piling up like a mountain.
Fu Yunchen remained engrossed in official documents and memorials, enough to keep him busy for two days without eating or drinking.
"Her Majesty the Empress has arrived!"
Fu Yunchen looked up, and before he could respond, he saw Mu Run enter the room.
Mu Run first glanced at the stacks of memorials piled up on several tables, then looked at Fu Yunchen. After a moment of silence, he picked up an official document. It accused a local official of corruption, bribery, adultery, murder, and other illegal acts, with conclusive evidence. Fu Yunchen simply wrote one word: "Execute him in the autumn!"
Seeing Mu Run looking at the official document, Fu Yunchen asked, "Is there a problem?"
Mu Run handed him the official document, "Change it to immediate execution!"
Fu Yunchen took it, glanced at it, and then picked up his pen to make changes.
Mu Run looked at the others, his gaze paused slightly, and he closed the memorial, his eyes filled with thought.
Fu Yunchen looked at the memorial in her hand, raised his eyebrows slightly, and knew what it contained: "Sun Sijin, the female magistrate of Nian County, has married one husband and three male concubines, and has been impeached."
"You didn't approve it?" Mu Run opened the memorial again.
Fu Yunchen asked, "What does Your Majesty think?"
Calling her "Your Majesty" means treating her as an empress, not a wife.
Mu Run looked up at him and said, "Men can marry wives and concubines, and women can marry husbands and keep male servants. What's wrong with that? As long as it's consensual."
Fu Yunchen looked at her and said, "Yes, Your Majesty."
"If capable men can have three wives and four concubines, then women can naturally have three husbands and four wives. Or, I can issue an imperial decree that all men and women in the world, regardless of their status or rank, shall have only one husband and one wife."
“That’s fine too.” Fu Yunchen picked up a blank imperial edict, dipped his brush in ink, and handed it to her.
Mu Run looked at the blank imperial edict, recalling the legal provisions on monogamy... In the end, he took the pen but did not write on the edict. Instead, he wrote on a blank piece of paper.
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