Chapter 405 Cannon Fodder Substitute & Cold Tyrant 57
Not long after, Aunt Li returned to Jiangnan with several carts of things.

Xiao Yuan also sent people to inquire about him, and found out that he was just an ordinary person. His family sold cloth. He was a widower and had a fifteen-year-old son. His shop was next to Aunt Li's father's shop. After Aunt Li returned home, she occasionally went to the shop. When he saw her, he felt a liking for her.

Later, he would ask Aunt Li's brother from time to time, and when Aunt Li went there, he would try to get close to her and give her gifts.

As time went by, Aunt Li's parents also realized that he was interested in their daughter, and they saw that their daughter was in her thirties and came back from the capital alone.

They only said that she was a concubine in someone else's family and had a daughter, but they didn't mention anything else. They didn't know what family that was or where the child was. Although she had someone to serve her and was not short of money, they felt that the daughter must have suffered.

I feel so sorry for her and hope she will have someone to love her for the rest of her life.

He asked his daughter for her opinion, saying that Ding Hong was a good man who had grown up under their care. His wife had died of illness, and the child Ding Quan was an honest man. She would not suffer if she married him. Moreover, they lived close to him, and her brother was watching over her, so they would not dare to bully her.

Aunt Li blushed but refused. She had a daughter and had experienced the life of the Lin family, so she really didn't dare to do so.

But Ding Hong didn't give up. He kept showing his courtesy and treating her well. Gradually, Aunt Li softened her attitude...

Lin Zhi withdrew her gaze from the letter and teased her daughter. That was good. Aunt Li could rest assured that someone was taking care of her.

As for Ding Hong and his son daring to bully Aunt Li, she is not dead. If they dare to bully others, they are like an old man hanging himself, seeking death.

A month later, news came from Jiangnan that Aunt Li married into the Ding family.

Life went very smoothly.

Linzhi sent a gift and then began to recover and fulfill the duties of a queen. In addition to maintaining a relationship with the ladies, she also took them to open many schools among the people for girls to learn embroidery, cooking, weaving, and pharmacology.

After graduation, you can be an embroiderer, a cook in a wealthy family, or weave cloth for others.

Nowadays, doctors are mostly men, but there are always some diseases that women are too embarrassed to talk about, and they become more serious if they are not treated for a long time. Now that we have female doctors, the situation is much better.

Although being a female doctor is a low-class profession, the lower-class people who can't even get enough food to eat don't care about such things.

These Linzhi also dragged Concubine Zhuang and Concubine Chen, who had already left the palace, as well as some other women who had left the palace to do the same.

No, these two people should now be called Gao Xianglian and Hua Hanyan.

The two of them now really moved to adjacent courtyards, where they admired flowers and took boat rides every day and had a lot of fun. Sometimes they even invited other concubines who had left the palace and were in Beijing to join them.

Because of their special identities, they are able to stick together and are closer than in the palace.

The ministers were very dissatisfied with Lin Zhi for doing these things with their wives. They always felt that the Queen did these things just to gain a good reputation and cover up the fact that she had previously instigated His Majesty to drive other concubines out of the palace. She was really scheming.

However, since their wives also benefited from these things, they did not object but just ignored them.

Of course, it’s also because they are too busy to spare the time.

His Majesty seemed to have suddenly opened up his Ren and Du meridians, and actually started to act like a good emperor. He dug ditches, built schools, punished corrupt officials, sent ministers to tour the country, and even added several items to the assessment of local officials, making the review more stringent.

As soon as His Majesty opens his mouth, the people below run around in a hurry. They are so busy that they don't even have time to sleep.

I went home and fell asleep immediately.

There is not even time to consider whether Your Majesty's decisions are useful.

Not everyone supported Xiao Yuan's decision, but there was nothing they could do. Xiao Yuan had seized power in the first place. Once he got tired of them and got angry, he would just tell them to go home and not pay any attention to them. The next spring exam came, and sure enough, most of the candidates on the list were officials and children of aristocratic families, and there were few from poor families.

The ministers wanted to laugh out loud, look, it still has to be them.

Xiao Yuan ignored him. The little princess was already more than half a year old at this time. She could already crawl around on the bed and sit and watch the adults. Apart from attending court every day, he would take care of his daughter and teach her to call daddy tirelessly. Of course, his daughter could only scream "ahhhh".

Lin Zhi shook her head and didn't know who had wanted her to take contraceptive pills in the first place.

The child was young and got tired after playing for a while. The wet nurse carried her back to the room to coax her to sleep. Xiao Yuan personally watched his daughter fall asleep before closing the door and looking for Lin Zhi. He sat aside and propped up his chin to look at her: "Empress, are you done with your work?"

Lin Zhi: “…”

She closed the account book and handed it to the palace maid, then looked at him: "Your Majesty always knows how to make fun of me." However, after looking at the account book for a while, she provoked him to make fun of her.

"How dare I." Xiao Yuan stretched out his arms and held her in his arms. Seeing this, all the palace maids left the room. He rested his chin on her shoulder. "The queen is not only running a school, but also doing business with those ladies. She is looking at the account books all day long. Jin He and I have been put at the back of the queue."

His tone was full of resentment, and he pinched her, "Queen, how are you going to compensate me?"

Lin Zhi felt the hand on her waist slowly climbing up, her waist suddenly softened, and she raised her head: "Then what does your majesty want."

"I want you to—"

The belt around her waist suddenly loosened, her breathing was slightly choked, her face was already red, and she was about to stop him. In broad daylight, he dared to do it but she didn't, and then she heard him add the second half of the sentence: "Accompany me out of the palace."

The young man's slender and clean hands slowly tied the belt again. Xiao Yuan lowered his head and looked at her flushed face in surprise: "Zhizhi, what's wrong? Is it hot? Your face is red."

Lin Zhi… “Asshole.”

Xiao Yuan's chest shook and he laughed out loud.

Today is the Shangsi Festival, commonly known as the third day of the third month. The Book of the Later Han, Records of Rites and Etiquette, Volume 1 records: On the Shangsi day of this month, officials and civilians all perform purification rituals on the eastward flowing water, which is called the Great Purification, to wash away old dirt and impurities.

On this day, officials and common people would go to the riverside to pray to the water god for a good harvest and peace, or go for an outing, drink wine by the stream, etc.

Moreover, today young men and women, and couples will go out together, which is considered the ancient Valentine's Day.

In the past two years, one reason was that she was pregnant, and the other was that they were too busy, so they spent all the holidays in the palace. This time, their daughter had palace servants to take care of her, so they were able to go out.

It was not dark yet, so Gao Pengsong and his wife were told to take good care of the little princess.

The two of them changed into casual clothes and took a carriage out of the palace. They got off the carriage on the street and walked into the crowd hand in hand. There were houses lined up on both sides, including teahouses, wine shops, butcher shops, etc. There were also small stalls selling various things at the door.

Linzhi had long been envious of masks, so she immediately bought a fox and a King of Hell mask and put them on him.

Xiao Yuan nodded: "Yes, I am so terrible." He raised his chin and motioned Lin Zhi to put it on him.

Lin Zhi stepped forward, and he lowered his head obediently, letting her put it on his face.

He was tall, dressed in black, and had a cold aura. Not to mention the mask he was wearing, he was indeed intimidating. The stall owner was so scared that his voice was shaking when he asked for money, for fear that the customer would not pay.

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