"Where is my mother?"
Upon learning that Jiang Yu had awakened, Gu Qingyan immediately abandoned his court duties and rushed to Zhaoning Palace.
But what's the point of Granny Ling standing in front of him now?
"Your Majesty, Her Majesty has not yet gotten up..." Ling Mama was at a loss for words. Should she tell the Emperor that the Empress Dowager had just gotten up when the Emperor Emeritus carried her back to bed?
Gu Qingyan's face immediately darkened upon hearing this. "Granny, do you know the crime of deceiving the emperor?"
"This old servant dares not."
Granny Ling immediately knelt down. "Her Majesty the Empress Dowager hasn't gotten up yet. She did get up for a short while, but then went back to rest..."
"Going to rest again?"
Gu Qingyan bypassed Granny Ling and went straight to the door.
"Is the Empress Dowager still resting?" Gu Qingyan's voice rang out, and Gu Lin paused in his movements inside the room.
"Mother, please take good care of yourself. I will come to see you again after dinner."
After saying that, Gu Qingyan snorted coldly, "Also, if Father has nothing to do, you can go to the Hall of Supreme Harmony to discuss matters. Several heads of noble families are waiting for you."
Jiang Yu looked at Gu Lin, who looked ashen-faced, with amusement and couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Ah Yan, that was truly... a stroke of genius.
"You're still laughing." Gu Lin whispered in Jiang Yu's ear, "If this happens a few more times, be careful your future happiness will be gone."
Jiang Yu raised an eyebrow upon hearing this. "Ayan was just worried about me. What's wrong with that?"
In other words, the one who's wrong is some greedy guy.
Gu Lin, who was forced to end the meeting, was obviously very unhappy. He took a few deep breaths and then sat up. "Since A Yan has already said so, I will go and meet those old guys."
He was currently seething with anger and had nowhere to vent it.
......
No sooner had Gu Lin left than Bai Qian carried Jiang Yao to Zhaoning Palace.
"Your Majesty, this is excellent medicine. It will make you feel much better after using it."
Jiang Yu blushed upon seeing the writing on the medicine bottle. "Sister-in-law, this..."
Seeing Jiang Yu's embarrassed appearance, Bai Qian chuckled and said, "I've been through this before. I specially waited for the Emperor Emeritus to leave Zhaoning Palace before coming to deliver medicine to Your Highness."
"Men...sometimes they don't know their own strength, Your Majesty must be careful."
Seeing that Bai Qian was getting off-topic, Jiang Yu quickly steered the conversation back on track. "Sister-in-law, yesterday when the Emperor Emeritus and I were leaving, we specifically told those old fellows that it would be inconvenient to entertain them recently. But just now, the Emperor came over and said that they were waiting for the Emperor Emeritus. Why is that?"
"Sigh." Bai Qian felt a headache coming on just thinking about all this. Jiang Yao, who was in her arms, couldn't sit still. She kicked her legs to signal Bai Qian to put her down, and then secretly moved closer to the pastries.
“Those people went to the Hall of Supreme Harmony early this morning, insisting on seeing Yun Zhi.”
Bai Qian frowned, "After all, Yun Zhi has some connections with them. He came to Dayu hoping to meet Yun Zhi."
"Just as I expected."
Jiang Yu sneered, "Yun Zhi is already dead, how can I give them a living Yun Zhi in return?"
"If you absolutely must see Yun Zhi, then you'll have to go to the underworld to see him."
Jiang Yu's eyes seemed to carry an intense chill, and even Bai Qian couldn't help but shiver.
"Your Majesty, rest assured, if the Emperor Emeritus goes there, he will surely be able to keep those old fellows firmly under control."
Jiang Yu tapped the table. Facing Gu Lin, who was seething with anger, these old guys were probably going to suffer a bit first.
......
The Hall of Supreme Harmony.
As soon as Gu Lin entered the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the air inside seemed to grow colder.
"Your son greets Your Majesty."
Gu Lin glanced at Gu Qingyan, silently reminding himself that this was his child, and if he hurt her, he feared she would never be able to sleep with Ayu again.
Thinking of this, Gu Lin's attention shifted to the heads of the families.
"If I remember correctly, I told you all that I would be unable to entertain you in the next few days."
Gu Lin's direct questioning took them by surprise. The head of the Sun family smiled and said, "We know that Emperor Zhaoyuan is newly married, but we are really worried about Brother Yun. Now that Brother Yun is in the capital of Dayu, we must go and see him."
"Does the wanted criminal of my Great Yu state not come to me to be seen whenever I please?"
"you!"
Even though the Qin family patriarch was very restrained, his expression still changed after hearing Gu Lin's blunt words.
Not to mention respect, there's not even the most basic courtesy!
"What serious crime has Brother Yun committed that warrants such imprisonment?" the head of the Gong family said slowly. "Furthermore, has Emperor Zhaoyuan forgotten that aristocratic families do not belong to any country, so Dayu has no right to punish members of aristocratic families."
"joke!"
Gu Lin seemed to have heard something out of the blue. "I even killed members of the Yun family, and now you're telling me I have no right to punish members of aristocratic families?"
"The Yun family abducted my wife without cause. It is already an act of great mercy that I did not raze Luoming to the ground."
"What? Have you all forgotten my methods after only a few years?"
Gu Lin's overwhelming aura left the crowd somewhat overwhelmed.
Gu Lin slowly walked up to the head of the Qin family. "I have something I'm curious about. How did the Yun family manage to take my wife away and cover it up back then?"
"I don't understand what Emperor Zhaoyuan is saying."
The Qin family patriarch remained unmoved. "If Emperor Zhaoyuan wants to pin these fabricated charges on us, we are not powerless weaklings."
"That's not what I meant."
Gu Lin glanced at their faces with amusement. "I just think that some matters between your aristocratic families are best handled by yourselves. If you insist on making a scene, I don't mind helping you resolve it."
"see a visitor out!"
Gu Qingyan was completely dumbfounded throughout the entire process.
Why is Father so spiky today, that he's rendered those old guys speechless?
“If they come looking for you again next time, saying they want to see Yun Zhi,” Gu Lin said, staring at their departing figures, “then send them to see Yun Zhi.”
"There is something I don't understand."
Gu Qingyan clasped his hands in a fist salute to Gu Lin, "If other aristocratic families knew about the Yun family's abduction of the Empress Dowager back then, why didn't they intervene and allow the Yun family to reap all the benefits?"
Did the Yun family benefit from this?
Faced with Gu Lin's question, Gu Qingyan was somewhat speechless.
“If the day of reckoning really comes, the Yun family will be the first to die.” Gu Lin said slowly. “That idiot Yun Zhi has already walked down the path to his own demise.”
"Go and copy the 'Biographies of Noble Families' once. I think your understanding of noble families is still insufficient."
"I......"
Gu Qingyan's face immediately twisted. The "Biographies of Noble Families" was such a thick book, how long would it take him to copy it?
"Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated. Can't do it? Just say so."
"Of course I can do it!"
Gu Lin curled the corners of his mouth upon hearing this. That book, "The Chronicles of Noble Families," would keep Gu Qingyan in peace for a few days.
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