Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 2533 Reconciliation 75.0
Song Jue was very satisfied with the news coming one after another from Jiaping Pass. He didn't know how many times he had sighed to Meizhu that life at the border was so colorful. If he didn't sit on this dragon throne, he would also be willing to stay at the border.

Every time Meizhu heard Song Jue sigh like this, she just smiled at him, neither refuting nor agreeing with him. After all, only those of them who had experienced it personally knew how hard life was at the border. Song Jue should have heard about it from the Duke, the Marquis, and the Boss, but without personal experience, it was hard to say how much he could empathize with them.

Song Jue didn't care whether Meizhu responded to him or not. He not only praised them to Meizhu, but also to Eagle King Wu Qingruo, Prince Dai, and His Royal Highness Prince Ning who occasionally came back from Wangxin Town, and to the Queen Mother. In short, he praised them to anyone who knew what they were investigating.

Until this time he received the news about Concubine Hui and the thick stack of account books, he sat in the imperial study for a long time without saying a word.

Meizhu, who was standing at the door of the imperial study, looked at the eunuch Cui who was also surprised. Both of them felt that the emperor's reaction was too abnormal.

"Why don't you go and ask?" Meizhu winked at Eunuch Cui and lowered her voice to the lowest level. "This is different from the past."

"Please be patient." Eunuch Cui shook his head gently and said in the same voice, "Wait and see."

Meizhu thought about it and nodded to Eunuch Cui.

Just as the two reached an agreement, the door of the imperial study was opened, and Song Jue walked out with a gloomy face.

"Your Majesty?" Eunuch Cui came forward and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Let's go see the Queen Mother." Song Jue looked at Mei Zhu, then at Eunuch Cui, "Xiao Zhuzi and Cui Banban can follow."

Eunuch Cui and Meizhu agreed at the same time. When Song Jue walked in front of them, the two followed behind and exchanged glances again.

There is indeed a problem!
Their inner doubts were finally answered in the Queen Mother's Deoksugung Palace.

Song Jue placed the news that Shen Haolin and Shen Cha had sent over an urgent distance of eight hundred miles in front of the empress dowager and explained the general content.

It was at this time that Meizhu realized that things had progressed to this point. She widened her eyes and looked at the pile of things on the table. It was no wonder that Song Jue was abnormal. Anyone who saw these would be really abnormal if they were not abnormal.

"Mother!" Song Jue looked at the Queen Mother, "Is what Haolin and Xiaocha said about Concubine Hui true?" "Yes!" The Queen Mother nodded, sighed softly, and said, "I didn't hide it from you on purpose, but it's too troublesome to explain this kind of thing, and there are too many people involved. Concubine Hui begged me to admit any crime as long as her brother's life can be saved."

"At that time, the matter between Concubine Hui and the musician was handled by mother herself. I also found it strange. Logically, if such a thing happened, both of them would be executed, but Concubine Hui was only imprisoned, and everything in her daily life was treated as that of a concubine. And the musician was only sentenced to castration to save his life and leave the palace. It was just that mother said that I didn't need to intervene, so I didn't ask." Song Jue sighed, "But I don't understand why Concubine Hui would have such a request. If their relationship was made public, neither of them would have to bear such a stigma."

The Queen Mother said nothing, but just looked at Eunuch Cui and waved at him.

"Explain it to your majesty."

"Yes!" Eunuch Cui sighed and told Song Jue the inside story of selecting female officials. "Not all families want to send their daughters to the palace, so they want to use someone else as a substitute. There are too many people involved. If Concubine Hui made their relationship public, it would implicate more than half of the officials in Jiangnan. She would not do such a thing that would harm others and not benefit herself. Besides."

"what?"

Eunuch Cui looked at the thick stack of account books on the table and sighed again.

"If it weren't for the help of the people in the harem, Concubine Hui would have been discovered long ago if she was secretly investigating the Grand Empress Dowager. Many people in the harem came in under false names. If Concubine Hui broke the paper, it would be a bit ungrateful. So, no matter from which perspective, she would choose to keep silent."

"So that's how it is." Song Jue looked at the Eunuch Cui who had already left, and then at the Queen Mother who was leaning on a large pillow. "It's just that it's hard for the brother of Concubine Hui to make a living under the nephew of the Grand Empress Dowager. Xiaocha said that Mr. Ke is not someone to be trifled with, and he has a lot of shady tricks. If the musician hadn't taken advantage of his drunkenness to beat him up to vent his anger, he would have been angry to death long ago."

"Xiao Cha is right. She is good at judging people. Just look at Mr. Ke's confession and you will know that he is not a good person." The Queen Mother sneered, "In fact, when I asked him for help, he agreed immediately. I felt that there was something wrong." She looked at Eunuch Cui, "Isn't it?"

"To answer the Empress Dowager, yes, he did not hesitate at all and did not care about his reputation at all. At that time, everyone was very surprised. Later, they found out that he was the nephew of the Grand Empress Dowager. Then they suddenly realized that if there was such a relationship, if those wealthy families knew about it, they would definitely not spread the word that the Ke family had a bad reputation, nor would they let such words spread in the market. Sure enough, after that incident, the reputation of the Ke family was not as bad as imagined, but even better. And more importantly, he also gave away the things that the various palaces, including the things that the late emperor gave him. "All of them..." Eunuch Cui looked at the Queen Mother, then at Song Jue. It was really hard to say. He stuttered for a long time before saying, "They were all sold at high prices. If it weren't for Commander Bai, I mean Commander-in-Chief's father, who found them while inspecting the shops, no one would have known about it. Later, the news was carefully spread to the palace. The Queen Mother didn't take it seriously. She said that these rewards had already been given out, and they were their things. It was their business to deal with them as they wished. If we intervened, it would seem not so..." He paused and said, "generous."

"He is a person who forgets his principles when he sees profit." Song Jue sighed softly, "I didn't expect that Mr. Ke would be such a person."

"None of this is important. Whether it's the Grand Empress Dowager or this famous Ke family, they are all gone. The dead are the greatest. What they were like in their lifetime has become a thing of the past. There is no need to delve into it." The Queen Mother looked at Song Jue, shook off what she was reading, and said, "Your Majesty, this is what is really important, right?"