Eat the whole family? I emptied the storehouse of the Marquis' Mansion and married the crippled

Xia Ying stayed in the Danyang Marquis' Mansion for three days before being sent to the palace in a red sedan chair.

"Your Majesty, the Marquis of Danyang Mansion sent a girl to the palace."

Jin Yuan quietly entered the imperial study and saw more than 30 memorials on Xiao Mo's desk, and he was reading them carefully one by one.

"Oh, who is it?"

Xiao Mo was quite puzzled. He knew very well what it meant for the Marquis of Danyang to send someone to him at this time. Was this a deliberate attempt to curry favor with him or to disgust him?

"It's a girl named Xia, who looks 70% like the Empress."

"Seven points similar. Have you checked the background of this Miss Xia?"

"I heard that she was a peasant girl from the Ye family farm. She was favored by the Ye family because of her outstanding appearance."

Xiao Mo's interest was immediately piqued. It was really strange that the two strangers looked 70% alike. He was very curious about what the Danyang Marquis' Mansion sent such a person for.

"Bring Miss Xia to me."

"Yes."

After a while, Xia Ying, wearing a pink jacket and skirt, was brought to the imperial study.

She walked forward and saluted Xiao Mo very politely, and her every move didn't show that she was a peasant girl at all.

Especially her hands, which were as white and delicate as cream and didn't look like they were for farm work at all.

Looking at her appearance, her eyes and eyebrows are almost exactly the same as Ye Jintang's. If the two of them stood together, no one would doubt that they were sisters.

The two looked so similar that Xiao Mo couldn't help but think too much.

Suddenly he remembered that Ye Jintang once told him that her grandmother was the concubine of Marquis Danyang, and her surname seemed to be Xia.

It can’t be a relative from Ye Jintang’s grandmother’s side.

Xiao Mo was lost in thoughts, and Xia Ying, who was kneeling on the ground, raised her head slightly and looked at him.

The man in front of her had sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, and was extremely burly. It was obvious that he was a martial artist. He sat there with an intimidating presence, and Xia Ying was so scared that her heart was pounding.

"Since it was sent by the Danyang Marquisate, then keep it."

Xiao Mo's voice sounded above her head, and Xia Ying was ecstatic.

As far as she knew, Xiao Mo had not chosen a concubine since he ascended the throne. All the concubines from the previous dynasty in the harem were released, and even a large number of palace maids and eunuchs were released. Now the entire harem was empty.

If she stayed, she would be the only concubine in the entire harem.

As long as she can seize the opportunity, make Xiao Mo fall in love with her, and give birth to a prince as soon as possible, her good days are ahead.

Xia Ying was helped up, and she walked out of the imperial study happily.

Only after she went out did she realize that Xiao Mo did not give her any rewards or titles, so with what identity did she live in the palace?

Xia Ying didn't know that Xiao Mo never thought about it that way from the beginning to the end. He kept Xia Ying in the palace to investigate her detailed background and see if she had any relationship with Aunt Xia.

As soon as Xia Ying left, Xiao Mo picked up his pen and sent a pigeon letter to Ye Jintang to tell her about this.

Jin Yuan took the letter and sealed it in a bamboo tube, secretly complaining in his heart, "Your Majesty, please return to the capital as soon as possible. If you don't come back, the pigeons in the capital will be exhausted to death."

This is already the third letter sent by carrier pigeon today. Yesterday, Xiao Mo sent six letters to Ye Jintang in one go, and even a cage of pigeons was not enough.

The reason why Xiao Mo sent pigeon messages to Ye Jintang so frequently was very simple: Xiao Mo missed his wife.

After winter came to Ningchuan Prefecture, heavy snow soon blocked the city, and even the powerful carrier pigeons could not fly in.

But Xiao Mo had a solution. He first let the carrier pigeon fly to the city near Ningchuan City, and then asked someone to ride a horse to deliver the letter to Ningchuan City.

However, this method is only useful for now. When the blizzard hits around the New Year, even horses won’t be able to enter Ningchuan City.

While they could still communicate, he wanted to write a few more letters to Ye Jintang to ease his homesickness.

Xiao Mo knew best what winter was like in Ningchuan Prefecture. Winter was not the best time to pick up Ye Jintang and the two children.

In addition, the capital is still in chaos and instability at the moment, so he plans to take them back to Beijing after the beginning of next spring. He has discussed this matter with Ye Jintang, and she agrees.

But people in the capital did not know the reason. Xiao Mo had been on the throne for several days, but not only did he not mention the appointment of Princess Ye Jintang as the queen, he also kept the beauty sent by the Danyang Marquis's Mansion in the palace.

Many people were confused by his behavior.

There were those who loved to guess the emperor's intentions and felt that Xiao Mo probably did not want to enthrone Ye Jintang as the queen. Otherwise, even if she was not in the capital, the imperial decree to enthrone her could have been issued first.

As for the beauty sent by the Danyang Marquis' Mansion, she was just a small toy, so he just kept her.

The beauties sent by the Danyang Marquis' Mansion will be kept, but what about those sent by others?

Some of the smart ones started to think about sending beauties to Xiao Mo.

When the Danyang Marquis' Mansion learned that Xia Ying was kept by Xiao Mo, the whole family breathed a sigh of relief. As long as Xia Ying was kept, there would be a chance.

Madam Ye's uneasy heart finally calmed down. This year was truly an eventful one, with wars and changes of emperors. Many aristocratic families disappeared from the capital in this catastrophe.

The Danyang Marquis Mansion has been able to hold on for so long thanks to her being in charge. Without her, the Danyang Marquis Mansion would have been destroyed long ago.

At the same time, Mrs. Gan was also quite satisfied. She felt that she had made a good move that put her in an invincible position.

Now she just needs to wait for Ye Yanran to come home and she will feel at ease.

As soon as Xiao Mo left Xia Ying behind, an official secretly carried his own daughter into the palace.

In the imperial study, Xiao Mo was discussing matters with several generals, and Jin Yuan came over with his head held high.

"Your Majesty, two more girls were brought into the harem today, and they are both noble ladies from aristocratic families."

"Is it finished yet?"

He just chased away two in the morning, and two more came in the afternoon. If he doesn't accept them, more people will be sent tomorrow.

Xiao Mo, who was in a bad mood, looked at Shi Bin who had a smirk on his face.

"General Shi, it seems that you didn't deal with enough people that day. There are still so many villains who curry favor with the powerful."

The smile on Shi Bin's face froze instantly.

On the night that Xiao Mo attacked the imperial palace, he led his men to raid the homes of six treacherous officials, and the six families completely disappeared from the capital.

That night, the capital city was filled with a strong smell of blood, and Xiao Mo actually complained that he didn't clean up enough?

If there were more, the capital would be flooded with blood.

"Your Majesty, why don't you accept all the beauties? It's not looking good to have no concubines in the harem now."

"Well, very good. I see that you only have one wife, so why not choose two beautiful girls to be your concubines."

Liuli was pregnant, so naturally she didn't come to the capital with Shi Bin.

Now the huge general's mansion is not much better than the harem, it is completely empty.

"No, I will only marry Liuli in this life, and my general's mansion will not take in a concubine in the future."

"You don't want a concubine, and neither do I. The annual expenses of the harem are not small. Now drive out those irrelevant people in the harem and save the money for my Jintanghua."

Shi Bin on the side finally realized that Xiao Mo not only drove out all the concubines in the harem of Xiao Yi and Xiao Changming, but also most of the palace maids and eunuchs.

According to him, the eunuchs gave silver to all the palace maids who had served in the palace for more than three years, allowing them to leave the palace and earn a living.

As for whether or not to need someone in the future, that depends on Ye Jintang's opinion.