Reading minds and eating big melons! The cannon fodder collectively collapsed

Tonight was a sleepless night for many people, especially Duke Gu. He tossed and turned in bed, his mind full of Yang Wenguang's concerns about his son. He had no desire to sleep at all.

"Why is the night so long tonight?" Duke Gu frowned and sat up. His action woke up his wife Liang, who also sat up and asked with concern: "Duke, are you worried about something?"

Duke Gu said in a deep voice: "You sleep and don't bother me. I have to go to court." After saying that, he wanted to get up and get out of bed.

Liang: "... Duke, it's still early. If you go to court now, the palace gates won't even open yet."

The Duke has never been so active in attending court sessions, and he has to go to court in the middle of the night.

"I'll be waiting outside the palace gate." Duke Gu said as he went to the closet to take out his court robes.

Seeing this, Liang's mouth twitched, but she didn't say anything. She stood up and helped him put on his court robes. "My Lord, remember to eat breakfast before you go out."

Duke Gu nodded and said, "I understand. You don't have to worry about me. Go and have a rest." After that, Duke Gu left the room.

After washing up and eating a few buns, he went out.

It was still pitch black outside, and the carriage was waiting at the door.

The groom Zhang San, who was dozing off in the driver's seat, glimpsed someone coming out in a daze. He woke up with a start, jumped off the carriage quickly, greeted him, and said respectfully, "Duke."

Duke Gu nodded slightly and said, "Let's go." After that, he got on the carriage.

Zhang San saw this and tactfully helped him get on the carriage. Then he sat in the driver's seat and waited for everyone inside to get seated before driving the carriage towards the palace. He wondered in his heart, "What's wrong with the Duke today? Why did he get up at midnight to attend court?"

Duke Gu sat in the carriage with a stern face, and could not help muttering in his heart: It's really hard, he would usually be still asleep at this time. It's all because of Yang Wenguang's shameless concern for his son, which made him unable to sleep well all night. As soon as he closed his eyes, he saw the miserable scene of his son being abused by Yang Wenguang.

When Duke Gu's carriage arrived at the palace gate, the gate was not open yet. There were only a few guards at the gate yawning listlessly. Suddenly, when they saw the carriage coming, the guards instantly perked up, stood straight, stared at the carriage, wanting to see who came to the palace so early.

After the carriage stopped, Duke Gu lifted the curtain and took a look outside. His was the only carriage at the palace gate. He was the only one who had worked so hard to come to court so early. The other ministers were still dreaming in their beds. Thinking of this, Duke Gu felt even more upset. It was all Yang Wenguang's fault that he didn't sleep well. He angrily lowered the curtain, sat in the carriage with his eyes closed, and thought about how to impeach Yang Wenguang later.

Just as day broke, the second carriage arrived at the palace gate. Hearing that another person had arrived, Duke Gu hurriedly lifted the curtain, then stuck his head out to look outside the carriage. He recognized at a glance that it was Ning Xiaotian's carriage.

Ning Xiaotian's youngest son has a handsome appearance, like a little girl, and must have been noticed by Yang Wenguang. Duke Gu thought secretly in his heart, then got off the carriage and walked towards Ning Xiaotian's carriage.

"Good morning, Duke Ningguo."

"Why did Duke Gu come so early today?" Ning Xiaotian asked with a smile.

Usually, Duke Gu is almost always the last one to attend court, but today he was the first one to arrive. It seems someone has offended him.

Duke Gu said angrily, "I get angry just talking about this. That bad guy Yang Wenguang actually dared to target my son. It made me unable to sleep. I came to court at three in the morning, just waiting to report him to the emperor when I go to court."

Ning Xiaotian's mouth twitched when he heard this, and he thought to himself, this Yang Wenguang really did great harm to him. He didn't sleep well last night and even had a nightmare. In the dream, his little son was raped by Yang Wenguang. The little son cried, made a fuss, and even threatened to hang himself, saying that he couldn't live anymore.

Duke Gu finished speaking angrily, and without waiting for Ning Xiaotian to reply, he said to him, "Duke Ning, your youngest son is prettier than a girl, and Yang Wenguang must have been eyeing him. Let's report him to the emperor and ask him to exile him. This kind of scourge cannot be left in the capital."

Ning Xiaotian thought so in his heart, so he nodded and said, "Okay."

As the two were talking, the palace gate opened. They no longer had to wait at the gate and could go in.

The two walked in together, and Duke Gu said as they walked, "When we go to court later, I will speak first, and you can help me out."

Duke Ningguo nodded and said, "Okay."

The two of them quickly arrived at the door of the Golden Palace where court was held and waited. Not long after, several ministers in court robes came in together. When they saw Duke Gu coming so early, their eyelids jumped. Who was Gu Tiezui going to impeach?

"Good morning, Duke Ningguo."

"Good morning, Duke Gu."

Ning Xiaotian nodded slightly, but Duke Gu ignored them and was thinking about what words to impeach him later.

When several ministers saw him like this, their expressions became serious, thinking that things would not be good when they went to court.

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Ministers arrived one after another, and soon the entrance to the Golden Throne Hall was filled with ministers. After the morning court bell rang, civil and military officials entered the Golden Throne Hall in two columns, left and right. After waiting for a while, Emperor Mingqing arrived, and everyone hurriedly saluted.

Emperor Mingqing sat on the dragon throne, raised his hand and said, "All the ministers, please stand up."

After hearing this, everyone stood up one after another.

The Great Chu Kingdom has been peaceful and prosperous recently, and nothing major has happened. The morning court session ended quickly, and the eunuch beside Emperor Mingqing shouted sharply, "If you have a petition, proceed. If you don't, leave the court session."

Upon hearing this, Duke Gu quickly stepped forward and said in a loud voice, "Your Majesty, I have a memorial to submit."

His resonant voice perked up all the civil and military officials, and their eyes all fell on Duke Gu, ready to eat melons.

"My dear minister, please report it." Emperor Mingqing said.

Duke Gu said in a deep voice: "I want to impeach Uncle Yang Wenguang for being disrespectful and doing bad things at an old age, forcing others to keep male lovers, and even trying to do something bad to my son...

Next it was Duke Gu's turn to perform. He rattled off a long list of charges against Yang Wenguang, and then began to criticize him severely, ranging from his work style and ideology, being an unkind official, having evil intentions, harming the officialdom, to causing others to have no descendants. He accused Yang Wenguang of all kinds of crimes he could think of.

Emperor Mingqing was so shocked by his barrage of criticism against Yang Wenguang that before he could react, Ning Xiaotian stood up again to impeach Yang Wenguang, using the same charges as Duke Gu, and even said that Yang Wenguang had ill intentions towards his youngest son. He then requested the emperor to severely punish Yang Wenguang and exile him.

Those ministers who had good-looking sons at home felt a sense of crisis when they saw that Yang Wenguang was so arrogant that he even dared to covet the sons of Duke Gu and Duke Ning. They were all afraid that Yang Wenguang would harm their sons, so they stood up to impeach Yang Wenguang, revealed all the bad things he had done, and requested the emperor to exile Yang Wenguang.

Finally, Emperor Qing of the Ming Dynasty ordered the abolition of his title of uncle of the emperor, stripped him of his official position, confiscated his property and exiled him.

After the morning court session was over, officials filed out. Duke Gu and Ning Xiaotian left the palace together.

"Finally, the emperor has dealt with that garbage Yang Wenguang. I can sleep well tonight." Duke Gu said with a smile, and then said to Ning Xiaotian: "Come on, Duke Ning, let's go to Zui Xiang Lou for lunch at noon today. I'll treat you to celebrate Yang Wenguang's being confiscated and exiled!"

Ning Xiaotian refused, "No, Lord Gu, I have to go back and have dinner with my daughter."

Duke Gu did not force him to hear this and nodded, "Okay, then you can go back. We'll meet again when we have time."