The most beautiful lady in the harem

"Your Majesty, if I had really listened to my sister and left the palace, would the ending have been just like the dream?" Qin Liuse asked with a look of fear on her face.

Emperor Yongjia stroked her hair and said, "It is not impossible for the Qin family to have such a character. They are not from the same father or mother, so she is not really a sister, and you don't need to respect her like this."

Qin Huaijin is now indeed a thorn in Qin Liuse's heart. When he thinks of how his mother died under the knife for him in his previous life, Qin Liuse wants to strangle Qin Huaijin to death with his own hands.

In fact, Qin Liuse was a little nervous when he spoke about Qin Huaijin's matter today and told Emperor Yongjia about the dream.

It was not a big deal to bring up Qin Huaijin's previous words again, but Qin Liuse was really worried about this dream that Emperor Yongjia would think he was making a big deal out of nothing.

Unexpectedly, Emperor Yongjia said to her, "The Qin family's affairs will be settled in a while. You stay for a few more days, and I will take you back."

Qin Liuse curled her lips. A month had already passed since she started living here. If she stayed any longer, she might not be able to return to the palace in time for the New Year.

After waking up in the middle of the night, it should have been difficult for her to fall asleep, but Emperor Yongjia gently caressed her, and Qin Liuse felt sleepy again in his arms before she even lay down.

After sleeping until dawn, Emperor Yongjia had breakfast and immediately got up and rushed back to the capital.

Qin Liuse was unusually virtuous and helped him to dress and tie his cloak, and then she carried the little princess and walked her to the gate of the villa.

Watching Emperor Yongjia mount his horse and gallop away, for a moment, she felt as if she was the young lady accompanying her husband on a long journey to fight on the battlefield.

The little princess was at the age of learning to talk, and she kept chattering. When she saw Emperor Yongjia was gone, she pursed her red lips and pouted, "Father is gone."

Qin Liuse touched a few hairs on her forehead and comforted her, "How about mother call father back, and Yingjie will go back with father?"

Comparing the two, with a choice, the little princess immediately opened her arms and hugged Qin Liuse's neck tightly, "Follow mother!"

Qin Liuse chuckled, tapped her pink nose, and said with a smile, "You change your attitude so quickly!"

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This winter, the entire court was extremely busy and also extremely nervous.

First, Emperor Yongjia dismissed the harem, and despite the criticism and gossip of his ministers, he refused to give in at all.

Those girls serving in the palace naturally made repeated memorials, hoping to shake Emperor Yongjia's decision.

There were also those who had already felt the benefits of their daughters' remarriage, so they stopped and put their energy elsewhere.

Because the capital was nearby, many wealthy families who had heard the news had already started to inquire about which families had daughters serving in the palace.

These days, the doors of these people's homes are almost trampled down by customers, so they want to settle down quickly so that they can win the beauty.

This is the reason why people who move live and trees who move die.

Seeing that Emperor Yongjia had no intention of being shaken, these ministers gave up the idea of ​​submitting memorials and instead began to select a new son-in-law.

This is one of the major events. Another major event this winter was the drum outside the imperial city, which was struck after a long absence.

The person who beat the drum for reporting came all the way from Suzhou and Hangzhou, exhausted.

The person the visitor wanted to sue was none other than Qin Boyuan, the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple and the father of the Imperial Noble Consort.

It is said that Qin Boyuan has a reputation as a virtuous person in the capital, but in his hometown, he is like a local tyrant.

Because the emperor was far away, he took a lot of bribes from the rich people in the county, and allowed his clansmen to use his name to do whatever they wanted, abduct women, and make money everywhere... All these things were reported to the court one by one.

Emperor Yongjia naturally made a lot of contributions to the fact that this man was able to travel thousands of miles through the ice and snow to the capital.

Although there was no disturbance when he sat on the dragon throne, there was no need for Emperor Yongjia to take any action at all. With various forces competing in the court, there were people who would confirm all the charges against Qin Boyuan one by one.

Emperor Yongjia was naturally furious when he saw that a junior official of the Dali Temple abused his power for personal gain. He immediately dismissed Qin Boyuan from his post and ordered a thorough investigation. Before the truth came out, he also ordered people to settle the citizen who came to complain to avoid revenge and silence.

The person who filed the complaint was originally arranged by Emperor Yongjia, which shows that Emperor Yongjia already knew all the relationships and situations behind the scenes.

Therefore, under the leadership of Emperor Yongjia, the matter was thoroughly investigated in less than half a month.

The evidence was conclusive, the Qin family was dismissed, and Qin Boyuan's family was exiled to the frontier by Emperor Yongjia. Emperor Yongjia seemed to turn a blind eye to them and even did not let them live for a year before sending them out of the capital.

For a time, people in the court even praised Emperor Yongjia for his impartiality and for not showing leniency just because the man was his father-in-law.

He also praised Qin Liuse, the future queen, for not whispering in her mother's side and interfering in state affairs. She was definitely a good mother of the country!

It is naturally a blessing for the people.

Qin Huaijin, who had been staying in the palace and unwilling to return to her parents' home, felt as if she had lost her soul when she heard the news. She wished she could tear Qin Liuse, the plague god, into pieces and feed him to the dogs.

Somehow, overnight, all the prosperity of the past was gone, even the mother's home that I relied on was gone.

The imperial edict stated that Emperor Yongjia did not allow her to be exiled to the border with the Qin family because she was once a member of the royal family. Instead, she was demoted to a temple to practice and pray for the royal family.

She hurried to find Emperor Yongjia, and this time, she ran into him.

Unexpectedly, Emperor Yongjia said to her coldly, "I only let you off the hook for the sake of the Imperial Noble Consort and didn't ask you to walk a long distance to the border. You can do whatever you want."

Qin Huaijin said puzzledly, "We are all daughters of the Qin family. Why is she not implicated at all, but I have to practice cultivation? I also want to stay by the emperor's side and serve him."

Emperor Yongjia sneered. He originally wanted to tell her that she and Qin Liuse were not sisters at all, and that the Qin family was just using her.

But on second thought, if I didn't say that and reveal that they were not real sisters, it might make her even more unhappy, so I said it.

"She is different from you. She is her and you are you. I am willing to bear the infamy of the court for her. You are not qualified."

This was the first time that Emperor Yongjia was so ruthless and spoke such harsh words to her. Qin Huaijin's face turned pale when she heard it. She never thought that she was inferior to Qin Liuse, except for that face.

"Why?" Qin Huaijin's face was full of tenderness and sadness, as if Emperor Yongjia had let her down.

"Is there something wrong between me and my sister? It was clearly me who served the emperor first. If the emperor does this, how will people outside laugh at my sisters and my sister?"

As soon as Qin Huaijin opened his mouth, it was as if he had greased the mouth, and he even linked the matter to Qin Liuse's reputation.

"Why?" Emperor Yongjia sneered, "Shouldn't you ask yourself?"

Qin Huaijin didn't understand what Emperor Yongjia meant, so he looked up at him innocently.

Emperor Yongjia felt it was irritating to look at this face that didn't resemble Qin Liuse at all, but claimed to be a sister.

He said coldly, "Do you really think that calling me sister makes us sisters? Do you want me to list all the things you did behind my back and settle accounts with you in detail?"

In fact, if Qin Huaijin dared to agree and listed them one by one, Emperor Yongjia might not know them so clearly and might not be aware of everything.

But at this moment, she was already feeling timid, so how could she dare to agree to what Emperor Yongjia said?

I just hated Qin Liuse in my heart and wished she would drown in the Yuanyang Spring!

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Qin Liuse would naturally not be drowned, nor would she be ignored as those people wished.

Instead, on the seventeenth day of the twelfth lunar month, he returned to the palace from Yuanyang Spring with his two children in great glory.