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

Cheng Song was watching from the side and saw that Xie Ci'an would rather let the Queen help him put on the clothes awkwardly than step forward to help. Naturally, he didn't like the girl from the Ning family, so he simply stepped forward to help Gu Jianchu put on the clothes.

"You are wearing such thin clothes, I hope you don't get sick." Gu Jianchu's voice was indescribably gentle.

Ning Yu was a little surprised by the Queen's gentleness and bowed, "Your Majesty, I thank you."

Gu Jianchu, who wanted to eat melons, was in a rare good mood and spoke up for Ning Yu. "Since you didn't mean to offend him, I'm sure the emperor won't blame you."

[We need to find a way to get Ning Yu into the palace. I really want to see two good sisters fighting over a man. This will also distract me and let the women in the harem focus on Ning Yu.]

Xie Ci'an really wanted to ask, isn't he afraid that Ning Yu will enter the palace and join forces with Concubine Shu to deal with her?

Gu Jianchu still had this confidence. How could Concubine Shu allow others to compete with her for favor? With her strong personality, she would never allow her good sister to be more favored than her.

If the emperor had personally welcomed them into the palace, the sisters would probably have turned against each other even faster.

Just as Gu Jianchu was racking his brains, Xie Ci'an asked, "Which mansion are you from?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Jianchu and Ning Yu both showed surprised expressions, and some of them were even unable to react.

I thought the emperor would definitely punish me, but I didn’t expect such a big reversal.

Ning Yu instantly perked up and replied cautiously, "My father is the Earl of Lin'an, and I am his eldest daughter, Ning Yu."

[What's going on? The Emperor figured it out so quickly and decided to bring the person back.]

Sometimes he really wanted to pry open the queen's mind and see what she was thinking.

But I endured it.

"Is this the kind of upbringing that the Earl of Lin'an has? This is a royal temple, not the back garden of the Earl's mansion. I don't know when the Buddhist temple became a place for waterside performances." Xie Ci'an was filled with anger.

The atmosphere at the scene also dropped to freezing point.

Gu Jianchu never expected that the emperor would be angry. She thought the emperor would make her a concubine.

This was the first time Ning Yu had encountered such a large scene. She was immediately frightened and stammered. She had originally been shivering from the cold, but now she was shaking like a sieve out of fear. "Your Majesty, I didn't think too much about it. I just wanted to take this opportunity to pray for the people."

Ning Yu looked at Gu Jianchu, with pleading in her watery eyes.

After all, the queen had pleaded for her before.

When the emperor got angry, she didn't dare to plead for mercy. She was just a pitiful bystander.

"Since the Earl of Lin'an has failed to educate his daughter, I will make the decision on his behalf today and send her to Jing'an Temple to have her tonsured."

Ning Yu was so frightened that she almost fainted. She just wanted to find a future for herself, but she didn't want to send herself to a nunnery.

Seeing the emperor's gloomy face, Ning Yu naturally did not dare to step forward. She knelt in front of Gu Jianchu, grabbed the corner of her clothes and said softly, "Empress, I did this in a moment of confusion. Please help me plead for mercy. I will definitely reflect on it."

[One or two of them think I'm a pushover.]

Seeing Ning Yu crying like a pear blossom in the rain, Gu Jianchu felt a little soft-hearted.

Although it was Ning Yu who deliberately seduced the emperor first, the emperor did not intend to go this way at that time. It was she who wanted to be the melon and deliberately led the emperor here, which led to the current series of events.

"Your Majesty, it is indeed inappropriate for Miss Ning to be in the temple like this. Is it too severe a punishment for a young lady to have her head shaved?"

"What does the Queen want to do?" Xie Ci'an's tense coldness gradually relaxed, and there was even a flash of brilliance that no one noticed.

Gu Jianchu thought for a moment and said, "How about letting Miss Ning stay at home with her hair uncut and practice cultivation for a year to atone for her sins?"

Xie Ci'an immediately responded, "Do as the Queen says."

Gu Jianchu's cloak was given to Ning Yu. Xie Ci'an was afraid that Gu Jianchu would catch a cold, so he wrapped his own cloak around Gu Jianchu.

Cheng Song acted quickly and ordered the palace maids following in the dark to deal with Ning Yu so that she would not be an eyesore to the Emperor and Empress.

It was three days later when they finished the ancestor worship and returned from Ci'an Temple.

It happened to be the fifteenth day of the lunar month. After paying respects to the empress dowager, Gu Jianchu and the other concubines in the harem came out. She saw that the palace maids she met in the corridor could not help whispering to each other after seeing her.

Gu Jianchu felt a little strange at first and didn't take it seriously. However, as more and more strange looks came to her, it finally caught her attention.

She waved to Yun He, and when Yun He came over, she whispered, "What did they see me talking about?"

"I don't know. I'll send someone to ask later." Yun He knew that if he asked, those people would take advantage of the fact that he was a palace servant beside Gu Jianchu and not tell the truth.

Gu Jianchu nodded in response. Wen Zhaoyi, who had been following them, caught up with them at some point. "Your Majesty, I'm afraid there's still something you don't know."

Gu Jianchu frowned slightly and asked in a low voice, "Know what?"

Wen Zhaoyi looked around and saw that the other concubines hadn't caught up. She whispered, "Recently, there's been rumors in the palace that the Empress of Ci'an Temple, out of jealousy, punished the Earl's daughter who seduced the Emperor and forced her to cultivate in the Earl's mansion with her hair uncut."

Wen Zhaoyi was surprised when she first heard the rumor.

The Queen Mother never liked to interfere in these matters, and she would not force others to practice due to jealousy.

Hearing this, Gu Jianchu's face instantly turned cold.

There were only four of them present at the time. Ning Yu, the person being punished, of course knew that it was because of her plea that she was not forced to become a nun. She would not spread rumors about her, let alone cause an uproar in the palace.

The only ones who could do this were the three in Chuigong Hall.

Cheng Song and Wen Zhu are both people close to the emperor. Without the emperor's permission, they would never tell anyone about such things, unless they wanted to lose their heads.

Only one person can spread rumors.

This is a deliberate attempt to discredit her.

Or did the dog emperor deliberately want to put the blame on her, giving her a reputation for jealousy, so that those ministers who wanted to force women into his harem would think twice.

Seeing Gu Jianchu's cheeks puffed up like a pufferfish, Wen Zhaoyi realized that the Queen had not done this. "What's wrong with you, Her Majesty? You look so unhappy."

Angry.

"The weather is cold, maybe you are frozen. I will go back first and have tea with Sister Zhaoyi another day." Gu Jianchu left a word and strode back to Kunning Palace quickly.

As soon as I entered the inner hall, I saw Xie Ci'an sitting leisurely in front of the brazier. He was not wearing the oppressive dragon robe, but a dark robe and a jade crown to tie his hair. If you can ignore the pressure of a superior from him, he really looks like a handsome young man.

The young emperor is not only capable, but most importantly, he is handsome. No wonder so many young girls in love want to enter the harem.