The county magistrate's daughter only wants to farm

Gu Huaiyi brought his wife and children to visit his parents.

"Just come back! Just come back!"

Mrs. Gu had tears in her eyes and gestured for the two to get up.

Gu Zheng also changed his usual seriousness, raised a suspicious arc at the corner of his mouth, and asked the question that everyone was wondering, "Why did you come back so suddenly? You didn't even write a letter to let me know in advance."

"My son suddenly received the imperial decree for transfer, and he returned in a hurry, so he didn't have time to write a letter."

"Transfer?"

"Yes, I was transferred to Jingzhao Prefecture to work."

"Father got promoted?" Gu Yin asked curiously, "Doesn't it take three years as a county magistrate to get promoted?"

Although Gu Zheng was somewhat surprised at his third son's sudden promotion, he thought about it and felt that it was possible.

Hearing his granddaughter's question, he explained, "You can only be promoted after completing three years in office. That's for ordinary assessments. Now that the emperor has issued a direct decree, it's naturally different."

After all, it is just a matter of the emperor's words, but it also requires the official himself to have outstanding political achievements.

"I see." Gu Yin nodded in understanding. After thinking about the key point, he asked his father, "Dad, how many people from Ning County Academy passed the provincial examination this time?"

"Ten people!"

Without waiting for Gu Huaiyi to answer, Gu Chenjun's clear and childish voice sounded first.

"What! Ten?" Gu Zheng looked at Gu Huaiyi in shock, "Is what Xiao Qi said true?"

Gu Huaiyi smiled and nodded, with a look of great pride on his face.

But he was admitted from the Ning County Academy under his jurisdiction. There were only twenty students in the scholar class, and including his own son, there were eleven people on the list. This result was unique in the entire Daji Dynasty!

"No wonder..." Gu Zheng sighed and leaned back in his chair.

"After the provincial examination results were announced, I heard that the Ning County Academy was surrounded by students from nearby areas."

Gu Chenjun described with a smile, "I heard that those scholars who failed the provincial examination banged their heads against the wall in regret!"

When everyone heard his description, they burst into laughter and then began to ask about the current situation in Ning County and their recent situation.

By the time Gu Huaiyi and his family returned to their yard, a long time had passed.

Seeing that her parents were in good spirits, Gu Yin couldn't help but reveal her brother's affairs to them.

"Good boy!" Gu Huaiyi laughed loudly, "Your parents are not in the capital, but you have arranged your own marriage!"

"Mother was worried that you hadn't found a girl at your age. Now I'm relieved. The girl from the Song family is straightforward and a good girl." Xue had been smiling since she entered the room. When she heard that her son had actually found his future mother-in-law by himself, she was so happy that she felt dizzy.

Fortunately, he quickly thought of the main thing, "In this case, our family must come to propose marriage as soon as possible."

"Dad, Mom, you've been traveling for a long journey, so you should wash up and rest for a while. It won't be too late to arrange the marriage after you've rested." Gu Chenshuo said with a smile, his eyebrows handsome.

Xue agreed verbally, and on the second day after returning to Beijing, she began to busy herself with the arrangements for proposing a marriage for her son.

However, what Xue did not expect was that before her son's marriage was finalized, she received the imperial decree granting marriage for her daughter.

"County Lady Linglong accepts the order..." Xiao Banzi's sharp and long voice sounded.

Gu Yin and everyone in the Gu family knelt down one after another.

"The Emperor, in compliance with the Will of Heaven, proclaims: Today, there is Princess Linglong, who is both virtuous and talented, and cares about the people... I am very pleased, and I order her to be canonized as Princess Yongning, and to be granted a Princess's Mansion, a pair of jade ruyi, a pair of East China Sea pearls, and a box of gold, silver, and jewelry..."

Just when Xiaobanzi finished reading out the rewards and everyone thought the matter was over, he changed the subject and continued, "In addition, Princess Yongning is dignified and beautiful, intelligent and virtuous, and gentle in nature. She is now specially granted marriage to my younger brother, the Crown Prince Junlan of the Cheng'en Palace, as the Crown Prince's Consort. The Ministry of Rites is ordered to prepare for the wedding and choose an auspicious date to hold the wedding. I decree this!"

Everyone in the Gu family was stunned by the content of the imperial edict. It turned out that the imperial edict of conferring a title and the imperial edict of granting marriage were given together!

"Princess? Please accept the order." Xiao Banzi reminded with a smile.

Gu Yin came back to her senses instantly, raised her hands and said respectfully, "Your Highness accepts the order, and thanks the Lord for the grace!"

Gu Yin took the imperial edict and stood up, and the others also stood up.

"Congratulations, Princess!" Xiao Banzi bowed and congratulated.

"Thank you, eunuch!" Gu Yin returned the greeting.

Gu Huaiyi took the silver that had been prepared in advance and stuffed it into Xiao Banzi's pocket. The other eunuchs who came with him also had their servants hand over reward silver.

As rewards were brought into the hall one after another, the main hall of the Gu family was filled with exclamations, laughter, and congratulations.

After the eunuch who announced the decree left, everyone in the Gu family immediately surrounded Gu Yin and kept chattering and asking questions, their faces flushed with excitement. Their Gu family actually had a princess!

And she is about to marry the Crown Prince and become his consort!

Who wouldn’t be envious if this were made known to others?

Yang and Li looked at each other, both with joy in their eyes.

With such a daughter in the Gu family, their daughter can also benefit from it and can pick a good son...

The two men gathered around Xue and said with a smile, "You will be busy from now on. If you need anything, just let us know."

"Oh! That's great. I was worried that I would be too busy." Xue happily grabbed the hands of her two sisters-in-law and expressed her gratitude.

Old Madam Gu sat at the top, looking at the happy family, and felt very happy.

Compared to the Gu family's joyous mood, the court was in an uproar the next morning.

"Your Majesty, I beg you to revoke the imperial edict!" A minister stepped forward.

"Oh? What imperial edict do you want to revoke?" Jun Xiao asked in a long tone while sitting on the dragon throne.

The minister did not flinch at all, "Of course it is the imperial decree for Princess Yongning."

"So that's what you're talking about. What do you think, Lord Guan?"

"Your Majesty, first Lord Gu of the Gu family was promoted directly from county magistrate to Jingzhao Shaoyin, which was already a great favor from the emperor. Now the county lady is granted the title of princess, which is a bit too much..." Censor Guan said.

With Censor Guan taking the lead, other officials in the court also nodded in agreement.

Jun Xiao looked down at the officials and said in an unremarkable voice, "Since you all know that Lord Gu has been promoted, do you know why I made an exception?"

"This……"

"Is it because Ning County Academy produced ten juren at once?" an official speculated.

"How can a small county produce ten juren?" Some officials who were not so well-informed were unconvinced at first. "Impossible!"

"How is it impossible? I heard that there were only 20 people from Ning County College who took the provincial exam, and 11 of them passed! But one of them went back to Beijing to take the exam, so he didn't count as Ning County's quota."

"Absolutely impossible!" If the provincial examination was so easy to pass with a pass rate of more than half, there wouldn't be people who would never take the exam in their entire life.

The ministers were arguing and the topic went off track. Finally, the Minister of Industry came out and said, "Have you forgotten the production tools that Ning County provided?"

"Even if we forgot those farm tools, did we forget papermaking and printing so quickly?"

Everyone was immediately speechless.

Papermaking or printing alone would have created history. It seemed a bit stingy to promote Gu Huaiyi five levels from a seventh-rank county magistrate to the position of Jingzhao Shaoyin.

However, we can’t criticize Lord Gu’s promotion, but we can at least bring up the fact that the county princess became a princess, right?

So they began to attack Gu Yin's title.

Jun Xiaodao was not annoyed. He stood up from the dragon chair and said with a disdainful look at the whole audience, "Since you all are dissatisfied, why not come with me to see if the title of Princess Yongning is overrated!"