Chapter 142 Leaving the Palace
"Really? You, you want to take me out of the palace?" Huan'er asked in disbelief.
Lin Qian nodded: "You are very talented. I would like to take you as my apprentice and teach you medical skills. Are you willing?"
Huan'er was stunned for a moment, then she sank to her knees with a plop: "I do, I do! Master, please accept my disciple's greetings!"
"Okay, get up! You are the third oldest, and you have two senior brothers above you. However, your eldest brother has already passed away." Lin Qian said.
Speaking of Xu Chengde, Lin Qian felt a little sad.
"Master, if I leave, what will happen to Yu Ma and the others?" After happily becoming the master, Huan'er hesitated again.
Now, she is the only one willing to take care of those people. If she leaves, there will be no one to take care of Yu Ma and the others.
Lin Qian touched Huan'er's head and said, "The emperor is a good emperor. He will take care of these people. You don't have to worry."
Huan'er smiled and said, "Then I will go and tell Yu Ma and the others the news that I have accepted Master as my disciple." After saying that, Huan'er skipped away.
The emperor really took these things to heart. On the second day after Huan'er became his apprentice, Eunuch Su sent people to renovate the place where the old palace maids and eunuchs lived.
Special personnel were assigned to take care of them, and the food expenses were also increased.
Although they still couldn't live a life of luxury, they could still have enough food and clothing. The old palace maids and eunuchs were very happy about this.
In the past few days, Eunuch Su finally completed the questionnaire survey. There are more than 300 palace maids who have reached the age and agreed to leave the palace, and 122 of them are willing to learn medicine from Lin Qian.
Lin Qian was a little surprised by the number of people and asked Eunuch Su, "Eunuch Su, how many maids are there in the palace?"
Eunuch Su said, "There are more than two thousand palace maids in the palace now, and there are even more eunuchs, about three to four thousand."
It was the first time that Lin Qian knew that there were so many palace maids and eunuchs in the palace.
"Okay, I understand. I will take them with me when I leave the palace." Lin Qian said.
Eunuch Su nodded, then smiled and said, "Miss Lin should be able to leave the palace soon."
Lin Qian raised her eyebrows. It seemed that Wei Xiaoran was quite capable, but she didn't know how he did it.
At night, Wei Xiaoran sneaked into the palace again.
"I heard from Eunuch Su today that I should be able to go home soon. Have you resolved the affairs in the court?" Lin Qian looked at Wei Xiaoran and asked.
Wei Xiaoran nodded, rubbing his brow as he sat at the table. "Well, it's almost resolved. I think the Emperor will issue an edict to crown her queen tomorrow."
"How did you do it?" Lin Qian was very curious. Even the emperor suffered greatly from it, so how did Wei Xiaoran come up with a solution in such a short time?
Wei Xiaoran said: "Of course, we should treat them in their own way. They forced the emperor to marry, so the emperor forced them to marry as well.
The daughter of the Minister of War was married to the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery as a concubine, and the granddaughter of Lord Xu was married to the dandy son of the Vice Minister of Personnel.
After all the mismatched matchmaking, the ministers were almost in tears, saying that their daughters and granddaughters wanted to stay for a while longer and didn't want to get married.
Lin Qian was dumbfounded. If he remembered correctly, the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery was already in his forties, right? Bai Yuwei was about the same age as her. How could she be given to the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery as a concubine?
"Aren't you guys going a bit too far?" Lin Qian frowned. Although Bai Yuwei was hateful and the Minister of War was not a good person, marrying a 40-year-old at the age of 15 or 16, wasn't that a bit too much?
Wei Xiaoran said: "Master Bai is the one who danced the most happily. The emperor will definitely pay attention to him first. It is not an insult to Bai Yuwei. The wife of the loyal and brave marquis is in poor health and I am afraid she does not have much time left. She has not been able to give birth to a son or a daughter for the loyal and brave marquis.
Bai Yuwei was married as a concubine, and after the wife of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery passed away, she became the principal wife.
Although it would be possible for the Marquis of Zhongyong to marry Bai Yuwei as his principal wife after his wife passes away, it's because the Emperor is so narrow-minded."
The title of Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery is hereditary. As long as Bai Yuwei gives birth to a child, it will definitely be the crown prince. From this aspect alone, Bai Yuwei's marriage is really good.
That’s right, Marquis Zhongyong is a bit old, and is not much older than her father, the Minister of War.
Lin Qian found it a little hard to accept, but this was in ancient times, and this kind of situation of an old man and a young wife was very normal.
The emperor was now proud of himself. The court was now very quiet, with no one talking too much.
The next day, the imperial edict conferring the title of empress was delivered to the Shen Mansion on time.
"Hahaha! I'm so happy! Xiaoran! When I get married, I'll toast you with two more glasses of wine. You're my matchmaker!
If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have met Junqi, and it would be impossible for me to get married so soon!"
Looking at the emperor's smug smile, Wei Xiaoran really wanted to scratch his face.
When the emperor issued the imperial decree granting the marriage, he said that the date of the empress's coronation would be October 28th.
It was clear that the two of them were Wei Xiaoran's first partners, but in the end, it was the emperor who got married first, which made Wei Xiaoran a little dissatisfied.
No matter how unwilling he was, there was nothing he could do. The wedding date between him and Lin Qian had already been set and it was impossible to advance it.
"Congratulations." In the end, Wei Xiaoran could only say this with a forced smile.
The emperor didn't mind Wei Xiaoran's fake smile at all, and laughed even more wildly in his ear.
"Your Majesty, I see that you are laughing so vigorously, so I believe that your health should be fine. I will take Qianqian out of the palace today." Wei Xiaoran said.
The emperor nodded. She kept Lin Qian in the palace just to threaten Wei Xiaoran. Now that the matter has been resolved, he naturally has to let her go.
He also generously gave Lin Qian a mansion with a wave of his hand. The location was very good, right next to Wei Xiaoran's Prime Minister's Mansion.
Wei Xiaoran's mood finally cleared up, and his thanks to the emperor finally seemed sincere. The emperor smiled and patted his shoulder.
When Lin Qian left, she was followed by more than a hundred palace maids. Fortunately, the emperor gave her a big house, otherwise Lin Qian would not know where to let these palace maids live.
After returning home and discussing with Zhao Xiu and Lin Changcan, they moved in after the imperially granted house was cleaned up.
Lin Qian planned to use the original Lin Mansion as a teaching place to teach the children that Xu Jingcheng and Qu Lingxiao had selected from the beggars.
The more than one hundred palace maids also lived here and were taught by Lin Qian herself.
Wei Xiaoran's mood was like riding a roller coaster, sometimes up in the sky, sometimes down in the ground.
He thought he could finally see Lin Qian every day, but unexpectedly, Zhao Xiu and Lin Changcan moved in, but Lin Qian still lived in the original Lin Mansion.
Moreover, Lin Qian was even busier every day because she was teaching Huan'er and the palace maids medical skills, and she had no time to accompany him.
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