The most beautiful lady in the harem

Chapter 357: Playing tricks

This time, Emperor Yongjia punished Concubine Li by issuing an imperial edict on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival without waiting any night.

No matter how much Concubine Li pleaded, it was of no use.

Perhaps she had forgotten that Emperor Yongjia had warned her and issued her an ultimatum. But these concubines often forgot what kind of person Emperor Yongjia was, and always thought they could be special cases.

Concubine Li disappeared from the palace overnight, causing a huge uproar in the harem, but this person had already been sent to the imperial mausoleum.

However, no matter how grand it was, it was only lively in the imperial city. Outside the imperial city, not many people knew about these royal secrets.

It was in mid-August that the prince and his wife of Duke Dingguo divorced, and this became known to everyone in the city.

Yan Shouyu couldn't wait for Shi Qiuwu to take the initiative to tell her elders at home that she wanted a divorce, so on the eve of Mid-Autumn Festival, he exposed the ugly deeds of their family in front of the Duke.

In this way, Shi Qiuwu had no way out and could only agree to the divorce and sign the divorce papers.

Although the scandal was exposed, they still chose to divorce. However, the scandal of the Shi family had already been known to everyone in the mansion.

Shi Qiuwu knew she was in the wrong and could not hold her head up among her sisters-in-law. She left the Duke's Mansion with her dowry in a dejected manner and returned to her hometown in Jin.

If the degree of shock Qin Liuse felt when she heard the news could be described, it would be that she was as surprised as snowing in June. She did not expect that Yan Shouyu would actually divorce Shi Qiuwu.

What shocked her even more was that within a few days, she received news that Yan Shouyu was going to remarry.

Who is the second wife? No need to think about it.

But when Qin Liuse heard the rumors, he was as surprised as seeing the sun rising in the west.

It is said that General Yan Shouyu was seriously injured in the northwest and was rescued by a woman from the frontier. They fell in love with each other over time and she became the general's woman in the northwest.

Therefore, that commoner girl was lucky, as she happened to witness the divorce of the Crown Prince and his wife.

Now that Yan Shouyu had a vacancy, he married her. This story spread around and became a good story in the capital.

Due to the civilized customs of the people in this dynasty, it is difficult to find a marriage in the border areas. Many wealthy families in the border areas marry ordinary people. As long as the husband's family is willing to support them, it is not a rare thing.

I will only praise this young man for being a man of true affection and righteousness, and for not despising my wife's family background.

Others may not know, but Qin Liuse knows it very clearly. She doesn't know how Yuan Jiuer became a frontier girl and saved Yan Shouyu.

As soon as I heard it, I knew there was something fishy going on.

Moreover, Qin Liuse thought about it and felt that Emperor Yongjia must have put in a lot of effort in this matter.

Sure enough, when I asked Emperor Yongjia this time, he did not hide anything.

Naturally, it was Emperor Yongjia who revealed the affairs of Shi Qiuwu's mother's family to Yan Shouyu, and the reckoning was imminent.

However, he also promised Yan Shouyu that he would not punish Shi Qiuwu severely. After all, a husband and wife should be bound by love for a hundred days. Yan Shouyu even pleaded for her.

In order to prevent the young prince from losing his biological mother, the man who had benefited from the Shi family was asked to take responsibility. Although Shi Qiuwu was divorced, she retained her reputation and could still discuss marriage.

As for Yuan Jiuer, she was able to become Yan Shouyu's second wife as a frontier girl, which was naturally due to the efforts of Emperor Yongjia.

Otherwise, no one would endorse Yuan Jiuer's identity.

"Your Majesty, how do we bring the son born by Yuan Jiuer into the palace?" Qin Liuse was thinking, Yuan Jiuer was unmarried, but she had a child with Yan Shouyu. If we bring the child in, wouldn't it be bad for his reputation? We can't record him as a child born out of wedlock.

Emperor Yongjia smiled and said, "This is not a problem."

This kind of thing also happens a lot in border areas.

Yan Shouyu was a general stationed in the northwest all year round, serving his country, so it would not be shameful if he imitated the customs and practices of the frontier.

However, it is said that this is because the customs of the people in the border areas are more civilized, and many children from the border areas do not attach importance to the marriage certificate. Some people find it troublesome and actually invite guests first, and then go to the government to write the marriage certificate after the matter is settled.

This is also because the border areas are home to a mixed crowd of people and are often unstable. In some families, there are no elders or brothers, and they have long been killed in battle or drifted away.

There are many lonely people with no one to rely on for the elderly and no one to raise the young.

All this three letters and six betrothal gifts, the so-called parents' orders and matchmaker's words, is difficult to do at all in the frontier.

Only in the Central Plains, a more prosperous region, people would know etiquette when their granaries are full, and would know honor and disgrace when they have enough food and clothing.

Therefore, some men and women who are attracted to each other will get married immediately without having to hold a wedding banquet. They can just find an elder to witness the ceremony and they will be considered husband and wife.

Although Qin Liuse had heard of this before, he was still dumbfounded.

I thought to myself that Emperor Yongjia had said everything.

She had this reaction because at this point, there was still something Qin Liuse didn't understand.

Emperor Yongjia was a man with a terrifyingly deep mind.

I'm afraid he had already thought of all this since he designed Yuan Jiuer to seduce Yan Shouyu.

Qin Liuse thought about everything as he took it one step at a time, and felt that he was very great if he could plan a few more steps occasionally.

Emperor Yongjia was a man who would not release his eagle until he saw the rabbit. He was a man of deep thought. I am afraid that before he made a move, or even before he made a move, he had already thought of thousands of steps to come.

Therefore, it is definitely not a coincidence that Yuan Jiuer has entered the Yan family now.

Moreover, Emperor Yongjia must have known about Shi Qiuwu's family affairs for a long time, which is why he used the beauty trap to frame Yan Shouyu and successfully replaced the old with the new.

Not only did he help him avenge Shi Qiuwu's offense against Qin Liuse in Qiu Garden, and let them divorce so as not to implicate Yan Shouyu, but he also sent Yuan Jiuer, a woman with no roots, no foundation, and no background, to Yan Shouyu's side.

This would sever his connection with Concubine Xiao Defei and prevent Yan Shouyu from being involved with his outside family. Even if Yuan Jiuer became Yan Shouyu's wife in the future, there wouldn't be so many complicated matters.

Of course, what is more important is that Yuan Jiuer's mother's family is not disloyal, so she would not have committed such serious crimes as smuggling official salt, colluding with superiors and subordinates, and embezzling money.

Qin Liuse was shocked, but also felt particularly emotional. He thought back to more than ten years ago, when Yan Shouyu had not made any military achievements, all the glory and honor he had was bestowed by Dingguo Mansion and his family.

Therefore, although he and Xiao Yuanniang were in love with each other at that time, his family could not accept a commoner woman as the prince's wife. He was powerless to resist and could not persuade them.

But now, after experiencing Shi Qiuwu's family, Yan Shouyu has become a well-known man who can hold up the sky.

After making military achievements in the northwest and gaining fame, he asked Emperor Yongjia for the title of Marquis of Shanyang so that he could set up his own business.

In the Duke Dingguo's Mansion, your words are counted, so you can be so forceful and bring Yuan Jiuer home.

Even if the elders in the family may not like Yuan Jiuer, when she becomes the wife of the Marquis and has children, even if the elders in the family do not like her, they will slowly accept her.

What's more, Yuan Jiuer is now a person endorsed by Emperor Yongjia.

If he had insisted on staying with Xiao Yuanniang back then, he would have had to elope with her.

Now, if the elders in his family don't allow him to marry Yuan Jiuer as his second wife, Yan Shouyu can also elope with her, but this elopement does not mean living a hard life.

However, this time he moved out of the Duke's Mansion and lived in the new house bestowed upon him by Emperor Yongjia.

It can be seen that even a man must be capable in order to have a say and be in charge at home.

For a moment, Qin Liuse couldn't help but admire Emperor Yongjia's ability to calculate people.

At the beginning, Yuan Jiuer seduced Yan Shouyu and became his mistress, and she thought it was really the end of it.

Unexpectedly, that was just the beginning.

Emperor Yongjia was so thoughtful that Qin Liuse was a little scared for a moment.

Because Emperor Yongjia's calculations were different from those of others. Other people's calculations were driven by people, but Emperor Yongjia's calculations were planned from the beginning.

What he calculated was human nature.

Therefore, the matter between Yan Shouyu and Yuan Jiuer developed smoothly and there was no need for Emperor Yongjia to intervene at all.

Yuan Jiuer and Yan Shouyu pushed themselves forward after meeting each other.

Perhaps the only time Emperor Yongjia really intervened here was when Yan Shouyu sent people to rescue Yuan Jiuer when he went to the northwest.

However, his intervention was not abrupt. Instead, it made Yuan Jiuer and Yan Shouyu burst into tears of gratitude. After all, it was a life-saving grace.

Qin Liuse had been confident for so long, but now she realized that she seemed unable to see clearly into his heart, nor how deep it was.

Although since his rebirth, Qin Liuse has been following his own plan in every step, constantly vying for favor and climbing up, he has gotten what he deserves.

But in such a comparison, Qin Liuse couldn't help but ponder, how could she move around in the harem so easily, and how could she win the favor of Emperor Yongjia so smoothly... Was it because Emperor Yongjia tacitly approved it?

Because of this incident, Qin Liuse began to doubt his own thoughts. Was his thinking too superficial in front of him? Was his trick too superficial in front of Emperor Yongjia?