The queen is spoiling the king and madly criticizing him for spoiling her

"Empress, Tang and I are getting a divorce. Can you please not beat me with the stick?" General Zhang struggled out of Yunhe's hands.

"Hasn't the divorce document come down yet? But if the divorce document comes down, you can beat me at will, but it won't be just ten strokes of the cane. It will be fifty strokes of the cane." Gu Jianchu waved his hand in disgust and asked Yunhe to take the man away.

The voices of General Zhang and Yang soon filled the room. Tang, having just been helped up by Zhuxi, knelt down again with tears in her eyes, "Thank you, Empress, for your generosity."

"Get up." Gu Jianchu asked Zhuxi to help Tang get up again.

The news of what happened in the side hall quickly spread to the front, and the ministers were discussing it. Lord Tang and Madam Tang ran to the back hall worriedly and hugged Madam Tang in their arms, saying, "My poor daughter, you have been wronged by these things."

Tang patted her parents' hands in a soothing manner, "Dad and Mom, don't worry about your daughter. It's your daughter's affairs that have made you worry. Mom's hair has turned white."

"What are you talking about? If something happens to you, how can I, as your mother, not worry? Even if we get a divorce, I don't think that young General Zhang is a good person. He brought a pregnant woman back and said he wanted her as his concubine. Who knows how many women he will bring back tomorrow. We stopped him this time, but we can't stop him a second time. When we get home tonight, I'll have the servants in the mansion count your dowry. Even if we get a divorce, we can't let those bitches get away with it."

Just as Madam Tang finished scolding, her daughter reminded her, "Mother, please keep your voice down. We are still in the palace."

"They are shameless, so why should we keep our dignity?" Mrs. Tang was furious.

Gu Jianchu deliberately left space for the father and daughter to talk, and led everyone back to the banquet.

As for Yang and the beaten General Zhang, Gu Jianchu had them thrown out of the palace.

After all, General Zhang was still an important official in the court. She had dealt with him without a word, which made her feel a little guilty. She leaned in front of Xie Ci'an and whispered, "Your Majesty, if you blame me for General Zhang's matter, then I will punish you."

"General Zhang brought this upon himself. The Queen just helped me deal with him. Why should I blame you? I should thank the Queen for helping me deal with these trivial matters. Otherwise, Minister Tang would definitely submit a memorial tomorrow. I would have a headache like this. Now I finally understand why it is difficult for an honest official to judge family affairs." Xie Ci'an held Gu Jianchu's hand with a doting look on his face.

"I have prepared a birthday present for you. Do you want to take a look?" Xie Ci'an said in a seductive tone.

"What gift has the emperor prepared for me?" Gu Jianchu asked curiously.

"You'll know when you get there." Xie Ci'an said as he ordered Cheng Song to come over and cover Gu Jianchu's eyes with a cloth. Then he took Gu Jianchu's hand and moved towards the moat not far from the Qingliang Terrace.

All the ministers and ladies followed.

Soon they arrived at the moat. The road was close to the river and there were weeping willows on both sides. The breeze blew by, and a cool feeling instantly came over them.

Gu Jianchu was blindfolded and could not see what was happening outside, but he could hear bursts of exclamations.

Xie Ci'an untied the cloth covering Gu Jianchu's eyes, and what came into view was the lotus flowers and lotus lanterns all over the river, shining brightly, illuminating the entire moat and sparkling in the dark night. There was also a small boat slowly passing by in the distance, with a shadow puppet show being performed on the boat.

The little man keeps moving on the screen as controlled by people.

The shadow play tells the story of an ancient town and a wounded young general and a delicate young lady. The young general was being hunted and fled all the way to the ancient town. He hid from the pursuers and almost fainted from hunger in a pigsty. Later, he met a delicate young lady with a delicate figure.

Miss Jiao was kind and bought a bag of cakes from the shop for him.

Gu Jianchu stood beside Xie Ci'an, watching the story performed by the shadow puppets. The more she watched, the more familiar it seemed to her. When she was nine years old, she followed her parents back to the Gu family's old house. The Gu family's old house was far away in an ancient town in Weizhou. The ancient town was surrounded by mountains and rivers and had beautiful scenery. Because her father was given a vacation of nearly a month by the emperor, they stayed in the ancient town for a while longer.

Once, she went out to play with her cousin from her hometown and saw a dirty boy in a pigpen. The boy looked at everyone who approached him with his eyes as cautiously as a wolf cub. It was obvious that the boy had been hungry for many days and even hesitated whether to snatch food from the pigs. She couldn't bear it, so she bought a bag of cakes for the boy.

Her cousin thought she was meddling and was afraid that she would be cheated by some bad people. In order not to make her cousin worry, she dropped the cakes and left.

Later she heard from her cousin that a little beggar came to look for her father. She was too young to remember what happened afterwards.

Seeing the familiar scenes in the shadow puppets, Gu Jianchu instantly realized that the beggar-like young man she met in Weizhou was actually the current emperor.

[Back then, the Emperor had achieved military success in his first battle in the northwest. This news inevitably spread to the capital, and some people became restless.]

【But at that time, the emperor was still a child.】

She was still young at that time, and was protected by her parents and brother. She didn't know about these things. She didn't expect that Xie Ci'an had experienced so many things at such a young age.

The mechanical sound of the system came into my mind immediately.

[When it comes to the throne, who cares if you're just a child?]

Seeing the Emperor's success in the northwest, those in the capital who coveted the throne grew restless and dispatched assassins to pursue him all the way to Weizhou. It was through you that the Emperor learned that the Marquis of Nanping was also in Weizhou. To save his life, the Emperor sought out the Marquis, and with his intimidation, the assassins refrained from further attempts on the Emperor, allowing him to return to the northwest and catch his breath.

[That is, my father saved his life, and he turned around to take revenge on my father by marrying me into the palace.]

The system remained silent.

After hearing Gu Jianchu's inner voice, Xie Ci'an couldn't help but tighten his grip on Gu Jianchu's hand under his sleeve. At that time, he just needed someone to restrain Nanping Hou and marry her into the palace. He didn't torture her in the palace, so how could it be called revenge?

At the end of the shadow play, the young general ascended the throne and became emperor, and the young lady who saved the young general was married into the palace by the emperor. After the show ended, everyone recovered from the shock.

No wonder the emperor and empress have such a good relationship. It turns out that there is such a connection between them.

Although Gu Jianchu cursed a few words in her heart, she was still moved by what Xie Ci'an did, especially when she saw the lotus flowers all over the river. "I remember that lotus flowers never grew in the moat."

Xie Ci'an squeezed her hand, his eyes full of tenderness, "The lotus flowers were recently transplanted from the Imperial Garden by my order from the Ministry of Internal Affairs."