In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

Chapter 287 Do You Know - Xiao Qinshi 14

Before falling asleep, Qin Wanrong looked at the imperial edict written on the surveillance camera and finally confirmed that the demotion in her previous life had happened earlier. Judging from her own age, it had happened almost a whole year earlier. Now Gu Tingyu was only a little over one year old and less than two years old. She didn't know if such a young and sickly Gu Tingyu could survive without the care of his biological mother.

I really hope he can't survive. Anyway, this nephew and stepson in his previous life was never sincere to Xiao Qin, his aunt and stepmother. Now that Gu Tingyu is gone, I believe Gu Tingye, born to Bai, can finally get the fatherly love of Gu Yankai this time, right?

As for the fact that Gu Tingyu is still young and whether Gu Yankai would be reluctant to abandon Da Qin or not, Qin Wanrong said it was absolutely impossible. The so-called true love of men in this era is all selfishness, and Gu Yankai is the most representative one of them. If this man really loved Da Qin so much, there would not have been the later affairs of Bai and Xiao Qin, not to mention that there were many concubines with official titles and maids without official titles living in Gu Yankai's backyard!

Just as Qin Wanrong had guessed, with the emperor's decree, families with titles in various parts of Bianjing began to panic. Fortunately, as long as they were investigated, there was no problem, and families with upright family traditions got through it intact. However, families with unfilial descendants like the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion and the Dongchang Marquis Mansion were found to have committed many crimes, big and small.

In the end, the Dongchang Marquisate was fined a large sum of money before it was able to retain its title. This was only possible because there were few people in the Dongchang Marquisate and no one became an official in the court, so it was impossible for them to make big mistakes.

It would not be the same for the powerful Ningyuan Marquis Mansion. In order to keep the title, Ningyuan Marquis Mansion had to target the salt merchant Bai's property as in the previous life. The imperial decree came suddenly in this life, and Ningyuan Marquis Mansion did not know about it in advance, and there was no time to prepare in advance. Everything that could be investigated was investigated by Master Bai.

Mr. Bai knew very well that the Third and Fourth Masters Gu were useless and incompetent and were unwilling to agree to the marriage proposal from the Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion. The current Ningyuan Marquis and his wife proposed to Mr. Bai that Gu Yankai take Bai as his concubine, and verbally promised that the future title would be left to Bai's son. Mr. Bai was conflicted. He wanted the title of the Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion, but was reluctant to let his only daughter be a concubine. He also found out that Gu Yankai and his wife Daqin had a deep relationship, so he finally decided to give up the Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion.

After all, the title promised by the Marquisate was too far away, and her daughter was a concubine, and whether she was favored or not, and whether she could have children was not something she could decide. Daqin had a legitimate son, and Gu Yankai loved Daqin so much, how could he be willing to let a concubine give birth to a child to snatch the legitimate son's title.

This won’t work!

When Master Bai woke up, the people in Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion began to get anxious. They did not force Gu Yankai to divorce Daqin like they did in the previous life. After all, in the current situation, once Gu Yankai and Daqin divorced, the actions of Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion would have no cover.

So the people in Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion directly gave Da Qin drugs. In just two months, Da Qin became so sick that she couldn't get up. By the third month, Da Qin was completely dead.

If you want to know whether Gu Yankai has discovered the trick, just look at the painful and guilty expression on his face and you will know.

Everything happened so fast that when Qin Wanrong learned the news, she had already reached the age of 15. Before that, Qin Wanrong was busy getting along with her new acquaintance, Brother Zhao, at Hanshan Temple.

Since the emperor made up his mind, he first quickly resolved the issue of demotion, and then began to focus on maintenance, and started to go to Hanshan Temple many times in the name of health preservation.

As more officials came, it was natural for them to meet Qin Wanrong who lived in the back mountain. Qin Wanrong, who had grown half a year older, gradually lost her childishness and began to show the charm of a young girl from a green girl.

At the beginning, the emperor did not reveal his identity. He only said that he was a scholar who came to Beijing to take the imperial examination and stayed at Hanshan Temple. Qin Wanrong deliberately acted simple and naive, and was slowly attracted by the maturity and responsibility of the emperor's alias "Brother Zhao". However, Qin Wanrong had no experience and was always straightforward, passionate but ignorant, which made the emperor's heart feel like a roller coaster.

Sometimes he was delighted by Qin Wanrong's admiring gaze, sometimes he was excited by Qin Wanrong's straightforward words, sometimes he was ashamed by Qin Wanrong's innocent gaze, and sometimes he was moved by Qin Wanrong's hidden love for him.

In order to complete the task, Qin Wanrong really used all the tricks she remembered over the years. Fortunately, they were really effective. After just a few encounters in just three months, she caught the official and caught a black carp.

Qin Wanrong deliberately acted like a young girl who was in love but didn't know it. On the one hand, this was to prevent the emperor from suspecting that she was trying to seduce someone or behave inappropriately. On the other hand, the ambiguous feeling was more likely to make people get carried away.

It's not so easy to be nervous when it's open. For a man like Guan Jia who can't be rejected, guessing a girl's mind is also a novel experience.

During this period, Qin Wanrong did not ignore Liang Duzhi. She used the excuse that she had not received care from her father and brother since she was a child to intentionally or unintentionally close the distance between Liang Duzhi and herself. The clever thing is that after doing so, the emperor, who knew that Liang Duzhi was a eunuch, thought that this was just a manifestation of Qin Wanrong's desire for her brother's care. He felt that Qin Wanrong regarded Liang Duzhi as her brother.

As for Liang Duzhi himself, on the one hand, he felt more pity for Qin Wanrong, and on the other hand, he really liked Qin Wanrong's eyes that were not discriminatory and approachable. He knew that he could not win the favor of the fairy in his heart, but as long as the fairy did not dislike him and was close to him, he would be satisfied.

Now that the emperor has returned to the palace, he is only thinking about how to reveal his identity before Qin Wanrong comes of age. He wants to issue an imperial decree to summon Qin Wanrong into the palace after she comes of age.

The emperor's abnormality during this period was not noticed by everyone in the harem. After all, since Empress Cao's "admonition", the emperor has begun to summon concubines to sleep with him again. However, every time he slept with them, he just slept and didn't ask for water.

The concubines who served the emperor in the night would not tell the truth even if they failed to gain the emperor's favor. Everyone kept it a secret, but this matter could not be hidden from Empress Cao. She learned about Qin Wanrong's existence from the guards bribed by the Cao family. Now Empress Cao is thinking about what to do.

Preventing Qin Wanrong from entering the palace had both advantages and disadvantages for Empress Cao. The advantage was that there was one less favored concubine, which would not affect the structure of the harem. As for favor, she was not favored anyway, so having one more or one less favored concubine would not affect her.

The disadvantage is that this might offend the emperor, and Empress Cao does not want to offend the emperor. No matter how powerful the Cao family is, it is not as powerful as the emperor.

As for the protagonist Qin Wanrong, for Empress Cao, an unpopular teenage girl posed no threat at all.

"Come to think of it, it would be better to ask someone to enter the palace!" It was difficult to control Qin Wanrong outside the palace, but it was not certain if she entered the palace and became a concubine. Empress Cao finally decided to pretend she didn't know and wait for the emperor to issue an order to summon someone into the palace.