Gu Jinke didn't reply to him for a while. She looked at him for a while, and finally smiled and rubbed his hair: "Mr. Xue, you are very good now. I believe you will get better and better, and I also expect you to get better and better, but you shouldn't do it for me. As for the matter of Wang Jun, let's wait and see."
She originally thought that Jiang Mo was also determined, but what happened later?
So she said to Li Yuxin and Xue Luan, "Just wait and see."
Time will give the answer.
Xue Luan was stunned for a moment, but he wrinkled his nose, touched the red rope and copper coins on his wrist, and suddenly became firm again.
Aren’t we preparing today just to tell His Highness my feelings? You just need His Highness to treat him as an unmarried man, and the rest requires his own efforts.
There was silence between the two of them. After a while, Xue Luan handed her the roasted rabbit with a smile on his face again, as if he had forgotten about it.
"Your Highness, let's eat the rabbit. It ran very fast when I caught it just now, and its hind legs jumped particularly hard. I thought the hind leg meat must be delicious! Would you like to try it?" He gestured to describe it, his expression lively and interesting, and Gu Jinke slowly smiled.
The atmosphere between the two of them slowly heated up again.
Gu Jinke played with Xue Luan at the villa for a day and felt very relaxed when he returned. The tense mind of the past few days finally relaxed.
Xin Shuang smiled and said, "Master Xue is simple and sincere, a happy person, and a good kid."
Gu Jinke nodded in agreement.
However, this was just a short break for the day, and Gu Jinke's mind was soon attracted by official business.
Then I got new news the next day.
"Your Highness, Gu Jinxiu has woken up in the imperial mausoleum." Xin Shuang came to report to her.
Thanks to the Queen's concern and the imperial physician who was still working late at night, Gu Jinxiu's injuries were finally under control and she woke up.
Gu Jinke nodded at the table, wondering if the empress could suppress her motherly love and whether she would go to see it.
Originally, she had leaked the news to the Queen and Lord Xiangui, so that the two could see the truth and then control the Empress. However, it was not known whether the news was too big, or because the Third Princess Gu Jinxiu had been deposed. Although the Queen wanted to take revenge on the Empress, she was no longer so urgent. No one knew what she was planning these days, and she was unusually quiet.
As for Xian Guijun, he was instinctively unwilling to believe this news. After all, believing this news would mean denying everything he had worked for in the past twenty years.
Moreover, the Third Princess had already been deposed, and he did not realize how much the Queen favored her.
Originally, he requested the marriage of the Third Princess several times before the Empress reluctantly agreed. How could he be convinced when the Empress barely showed any concern for the Third Princess throughout the year?
This made Gu Jinke look forward to the empress taking some action on such a day, preferably going out of the palace to visit the Third Princess to confirm the news she had released.
But the Queen didn't move at all.
Ever since the Third Princess woke up, she no longer paid attention to the Third Princess, but instead devoted her attention to state affairs, as if her previous concern and favor for the Third Princess was just a whim, and she had completely lost interest in her after the Third Princess woke up.
This made everyone even more confused.
The Queen's thoughts are hard to guess, but the one who is truly happy for Gu Jinxiu's awakening is probably Xian Guijun.
This was the child he had raised with his own hands. The injury to his child was the pain for his father. He secretly used money to bribe people to send the best supplements and daily necessities out of the palace and then to the imperial mausoleum, for fear that Gu Jinxiu would have a bad life in the imperial mausoleum.
The days when Gu Jinxiu was unconscious in the imperial mausoleum were actually quite good, after all, the empress was secretly taking care of her, but she and the people in her mansion were unaware of this.
Few people could bear the gap between being a princess of a country and being a commoner imprisoned in the imperial mausoleum, especially the servants in the princess's mansion. They were also imprisoned in the imperial mausoleum along with Gu Jinxiu, and would have to stay here for the rest of their lives. It was hard not to feel resentment.
Especially Qingxia who is looking forward to his father becoming famous through his son.
He didn't know why he had been drinking the medicine and how he got pregnant, but since God had given him this child, he must have wanted him to be rich and prosperous. However, he didn't expect that before he had the chance to tell others about the existence of the child, he was implicated by Gu Jinxiu and became a servant.
After a few days of confusion, Qingxia had decided to abort the baby in her belly, because if Gu Jinxiu was not the third emperor's daughter, but a commoner imprisoned at the bottom of the imperial mausoleum, the existence of this child would be meaningless and would become a burden to Qingxia.
However, after living together for many years, he did not have the slightest affection for Gu Jinxiu. After making up his mind to abort the child, he went into the room to take a look at Gu Jinxiu first.
Gu Jinxiu was still lying on the bed. She woke up briefly once, but soon fell asleep again. Qingxia tucked the quilt around her and traced her pretty, pale features with her fingers.
"Master, you are no longer the Third Princess. Please do not blame me for making this decision. I had no choice but to do so."
As he spoke, he took her hand and touched his abdomen. The baby was only about three months old and not very obvious, so he didn't feel anything when he touched it. But Qingxia looked at her flat belly and laughed. It seemed that the panic she had felt since she left the message a few days ago was also laughed out of him. He said weakly, "Master, why are you not the Third Princess anymore?"
If so, he only needs to give birth to the child secretly, and the child in her belly will be the eldest daughter or son of the Third Emperor's Daughter's House!
He felt regretful, but suddenly found that the hand on his abdomen changed into claws, holding his wrist, and a sinister and weak voice sounded: "What did you say?"
The last time Gu Jinxiu woke up, she vaguely sensed something was wrong but didn’t investigate further. But now that she woke up, what did she hear?
Isn't she the third princess?
Why isn't she the third princess?
Also, where is this simple house that can be seen at a glance?
Shouldn't she be in Zhaoxian Palace in the imperial palace? Or the Third Princess's Mansion?
An indescribable panic rose in her heart, her voice became even colder, and she stared straight at Qingxia: "You'd better explain it clearly!"
Qingxia was also frightened by her. They had been like frightened birds these days, and their spirits were tense every day. Especially since Qingxia had a child, Gu Jinxiu woke up suddenly and got angry, which scared Qingxia so much that she screamed even though she was grabbed by the wrist, then took two steps back and fell to the ground.
"Ah!" The man's scream was panic and short. Gu Jinxiu had just woken up and didn't have much strength in her hands. She grabbed Qingxia's wrist, and when Qingxia fell, she was pulled down unexpectedly, and fell on Qingxia with a "bang". She gasped in pain when the healing wound was touched, but fortunately there was a human cushion underneath, which relieved the pain a lot.
But this also made her very unhappy. She was about to lose her temper when she saw Qingxia's eyes widen, her face pale as she covered her stomach: "Child! ... Child!"
His trembling voice was sharp and panicked. Gu Jinxiu frowned: "What child?"
Qingxia seemed to be in a trance, and murmured, "Your Highness, your child, who may be your only child, is in my belly."
He chuckled, and suddenly looked up at her, his last words still trembling with pain: "Your Highness, you colluded with the bandits and murdered the princess, and were convicted. You were demoted to a commoner, imprisoned in the imperial mausoleum for life, and even your marriage with the young master of Master Jiang's family was ruined! You have nothing left, and I am pregnant with your child, but just now..."
Tears fell from the corners of his eyes: "This child...is probably gone too."
His body trembled slightly in pain.
Gu Jinxiu's eyes widened: "How is it possible?"
She kept muttering, "How is it possible?"
But as she spoke, she rolled off Qingxia who was on top of her and said in panic, "Imperial Physician! Imperial Physician! Go call the Imperial Physician!"
"Hahaha..." Qingxia laughed, but soon his voice gradually lowered due to the sharp pain in his stomach. He murmured, "Why would there be an imperial physician in the imperial mausoleum..."
Gu Jinxiu's body was also shaking. Why didn't Lord Xian protect her and let her enter the imperial mausoleum?
How was the evidence obtained?
The engagement is over?
She suddenly thought of someone, and went crazy: "Gu Jinke...Gu Jinke...Ahhh Gu Jinke!!!"
It must be Gu Jinke who harmed her!
Their confusion did not attract anyone, but they did run into someone who came quietly to deliver something to Xian Guijun.
The person who came to deliver the gifts naturally knew that Xian Guijun doted on Gu Jinxiu. When he heard that there was a child, he hurried to rescue her. As a result, the matter quickly spread in a small circle among well-informed people.
Gu Jinxiu was practicing calligraphy with a brush in her hand when she heard the news. She was also shocked: "Gu Jinxiu has a child?"
Xin Shuang nodded: "I don't know how Chu Shi got pregnant."
After all, the royal family's attitude towards new maids has always been that they are tools for the princesses to teach them about human affairs and to warm their beds. If the prince marries in and becomes pregnant, it will only be allowed with the unanimous consent of the princess and the prince.
Qingxia's behavior is totally against the rules. If the Third Princess had made such a fuss before she was deposed, the father would have been killed and the son would have been spared.
But Gu Jinxiu was imprisoned in the imperial mausoleum and could not marry and have a daughter, so this child became particularly important.
Gu Jinke couldn't help but shook his head. There was no such child in the original book. It seemed that it had completely deviated from the plot line. However, maybe there was one in secret. After all, when Gu Jinxiu was not married in the early days, Qingxia had always been the one who solved Gu Qianwang's problems.
So she asked one more question: "Where is the child? How is he?"
Xin Shuang frowned and shook his head: "It's probably impossible to save it. It will be a matter of two or three days."
Gu Jinke sighed.
Gu Jinxiu was going crazy. After Qingxia passed out from the pain and no one came to take care of her, and she could not leave the small courtyard, she had to despairingly accept the fact that she had been demoted to a commoner and everything was hopeless.
And the person she envied was still sitting in the position she longed for.
After the news about Gu Jinxiu reached the palace, Xian Guijun and the empress thought about saving her, but on the one hand, they were being watched too closely, and secondly, after hearing people's descriptions, they felt that the chances of saving the child were slim. They also didn't know whether it was a girl or a boy. After some hesitation, they finally gave up.
Gu Jinke was not surprised by their choice. When the effort involved in doing something far outweighs the reward, few people would be willing to invest in it if it weren't for their paranoid emotions.
When Master Jiang heard the news, she knew that she would make the same choice from her perspective, but it did not prevent her from thinking in another direction because of the frustration she had just suffered in the royal family.
The royal family is so cold and indifferent!
She wanted to say this to her grandson, but when she looked around she couldn't see Jiang Mo, so she couldn't help but ask, "Where's the young master?"
"Young Master has been in a daze since he came back from seeing off the five princes. He has been locked in his room and hasn't come out yet. Has your Excellency forgotten?" the servant said.
Tutor Jiang was stunned, and hurried to Jiang Mo's yard with her men and knocked on the door. There was no response from inside, so she could only ask someone to break the door open and go in to check, and then she saw Jiang Mo sitting on the ground with no response.
"Mo'er, Mo'er?" Master Jiang shook his shoulders vigorously, and then he looked up at her with a pale face, his eyes moved slightly: "Grandmother."
Tutor Jiang was too familiar with his condition. He was in this state after returning from filing a complaint at the palace gate. He had finally sent the Fifth Prince out to recover a little, but he didn't expect that he would be in this state again when he came back.
She knew who this was because of. Thinking of Gu Jinke's behavior in front of the palace, Prime Minister Gongzhong's words, and looking at the child's appearance, her heart softened: "If you really like it, go ahead."
She knew the reason why Jiang Mo rejected the princess. On the surface, he was timid, but in his heart he was also concerned. He was concerned about her old bones and the Jiang family.
She rubbed Jiang Mo's hair and said, "Grandmother is still old. If she wants peace and prosperity, it's not impossible for her to accompany His Highness to try again."
She taught and educated people, was loyal to the royal family, and devoted herself to her work. All she wanted was for the people to live better.
Jiang Mo looked up blankly: "Grandma..."
Master Jiang raised his eyes and said, "What I resent is her indifference and stupidity. I completely forgot the promise we made when we were young. I thought she would always be wise."
Her eyes were somewhat empty and distant: "If Your Highness really has this intention, would I really be willing to stay away from such a monarch?"
After all, this was her original dream!
A good bird chooses a tree to roost in. If the original wood is rotten, the good bird will naturally choose a new tree.
She looked at Jiang Mo again and scolded him harshly, "Look at how you look now. You are so depressed every day. Are you worthy of my teachings? You have read so many books and received so many teachings, but have they all been ignored? If you are really timid, don't you even know the principle of cutting off the right path when necessary, or you will suffer the consequences? If you really can't let go, why don't you even know the principle of burning your boats and moving forward courageously?"
Jiang Mo shook his head quickly. He used to think that he could accept Gu Jinke not having him by his side, but the scene he saw outside the city shattered all his assumptions. Facing such a scene, he probably would never be able to face it calmly in his entire life.
He...can't stop.
He pulled Master Jiang's sleeve, choking with sobs and despair: "Grandma... I can't break it off!"
The person I have admired since childhood, the love for him over the years seems to have been integrated into my bones and blood. If I try to peel him off, it would be as painful as peeling off my skin and pulling out my bones. It seems to have become an addiction that I can't break at all.
Master Jiang looked at him and said, "If you can't get rid of it, what are you worried about? Why don't you work hard to solve all the problems like you did when you were studying? Didn't I teach you that running away is the way to solve problems?"
Jiang Mo's eyes lit up little by little as he listened to her scolding.
…
After hearing the news from Gu Jinxiu, Gu Jinke didn't take it to heart. Before she left for Qingcheng Prefecture, she had been rotating through the six ministries. Previously, she had been in the Ministry of Justice under Minister Xue. Because she was secretly worried about the fifth princess, she had been going to the Ministry of War frequently to do her work these days.
Because of her decisiveness in dealing with the Third Princess and General Chen, no one in the Ministry of War dared to underestimate her. Some even held her in awe, especially the Minister of War Qiao She, who took a detour whenever he saw her.
Seeing her timid appearance, Gu Jinke could not connect her with the bright and handsome Qiao Xi. He could not help but sigh and wondered why he had never thought of it wrongly before.
Qiao She has delicate features, but they are not particularly outstanding, and his temperament is a little timid. Qiao Xi seems to be more like his father. Because of Qiao Xi's conversation, Gu Jinke's impression of this man did not improve. Seeing that Qiao She was deliberately avoiding him, she naturally would not take the initiative to bump into him. She was more inclined to look for the Minister of War to learn about the affairs of the Ministry of War.
Seeing her appearance, Qiao She was naturally greatly relieved. In fact, although countless people are afraid of Gu Jinke now, there are also many officials in the court who are ready to get closer to her. Everyone had a vague feeling that this person would be the next empress, and they all wanted to cultivate the relationship between the monarch and his subjects as soon as possible. Qiao She naturally wanted to do the same.
But unfortunately, she had a son from her first marriage who had just arrived in Beijing and turned the whole family upside down and took control of them.
Thinking of Qiao Xi, Qiao She frowned, glanced at Gu Jinke who was standing with the Minister of War, and withdrew his gaze in pain.
The warning from Qiao Xi, the rebellious son, is still ringing in my ears: "Your Highness is the one I protect, you'd better put away your little thoughts, otherwise if you cling to His Highness or do anything bad to His Highness, I will destroy your Qiao family's daughter, official position, family property, and everything you care about!"
Qiao She felt a surge of hatred in his heart. Why didn't his mother and father strangle this evil child to death?
She allowed him to grow up in Qingcheng Mansion without paying any attention to him, which led to him training up a group of loyal and capable people who in turn took control of the family. Now, he is turning against her, his biological mother!
Gu Jinke had no idea that Qiao She hated Qiao Xi, nor did she know that someone was trying to protect her from behind.
She and the assistant minister of the Ministry of War became familiar with the procedures and functions of the Ministry of War. The Ministry of War was mainly responsible for selecting military officers of the Jin Dynasty as well as military registration, military equipment, military orders and other matters.
Gu Jinke therefore used this as an excuse to check the documents at the border where the fifth princess Gu Jinyun was stationed.
The Fifth Princess is stationed at the border near the northwest of the Great Jin Dynasty. From a geographical point of view, if one passes through Cangyang Prefecture and goes northward, one can quickly reach the northwest of the Great Jin Dynasty. There are many grasslands and deserts there, which are completely different from the south of Qingcheng Prefecture, which is reached by going south from Cangyang Prefecture.
Outside the northwestern border, there are fierce and brave people from foreign lands who are probably uncivilized, big and strong, and roam around everywhere. They are uniformly called barbarians by the Jin Dynasty.
The barbarians also have cities and countries outside the northwest, but because their living environment is far less prosperous than that of the Jin Dynasty, the gap between the rich and the poor between the upper and lower classes is also greater than that of the Jin Dynasty. Therefore, if the lower-class people really can't survive, they generally have two choices. One is to sell themselves as slaves to the barbarians' dignitaries or the wealthy families of the Jin Dynasty. Because of their strong strength, they are very popular.
The other type relies on their strong physique to form small forces, constantly disturbing the border, killing, burning and looting to make a living. This also allowed the upper echelons of the Barbarian State to see another way, which was to occasionally have the army disguised as bandits, and directly rush into the Jin State in years of food shortage or famine to loot supplies and men.
The conflict between the two countries has a long history and is constantly escalating. If the two countries are extremely hungry during a famine, they will not even try to hide and will march straight in.
Therefore, there have been intermittent wars on the border. Previously, because of the case of General Chen, the fifth princess was transferred back to the capital, and the empress also sent the eldest prince's wife to guard the border to prevent the barbarians from looting in the coming autumn and winter.
Da Jin had thought about solving this problem once and for all, but the northwest was vast and the barbarians were fierce, and they had been plagued by it for so many years, and there was no way to eliminate the root cause.
Gu Jinke looked at the recorded documents, thinking that disturbing the border and defending in this way was actually not a solution. After all, the court invested countless military expenditures and manpower in the border every year, but the number of Jin people who died every year due to border disturbances was never small, and the number of food lost and men humiliated every year was also not small.
The stationing of a large army can only solve the problem of large-scale invasion by barbarian forces, but it is difficult to defend against small-scale border-disrupting forces.
To solve such a problem, Gu Jinke narrowed his eyes and decided to completely defeat the Barbarian Country or destroy it.
And in this case, she needs a talented general, many excellent generals...
Gu Jinke seemed to be thinking about something and started searching for the famous young general in the court.
While she was thinking about these things, the queen also stood in front of the map with her hands behind her back, frowning.
The weather is getting colder. Are there undercurrents at the border?
Old Five...
The third one...
Princess...
This is why she chose to give up her lover's son, the third princess Gu Jinxiu, and wanted Gu Jinke to be the crown princess.
Ordinary natural disasters and man-made disasters might be encountered by chance, but man-made disasters on the border occur every year. The empress naturally has her own ambitions. She longs for peace and prosperity in the world and for her to be a wise monarch, but border issues are an obstacle to her.
Over the years, she felt more and more that she was powerless. She loved Yuan Shiren and the three princesses she gave birth to, but she also loved her country, her people, and the books that would be written for future generations.
So after the Third Princess woke up, she buried her head in her work, but suddenly she became worried about the border.
…
Their worries were not unfounded. On the official road near Xingling Mansion, the Fifth Prince Tan Xi and the Fifth Princess Gu Jinyun finally met up. Gu Jinyun pulled them onto her horse, pulled the reins, and rushed out: "We have to hurry, the border is in chaos!"
At the northwestern border, there were also soldiers delivering letters on their horses, galloping towards the capital.
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