Selling wife for fame? Kick out the scumbag and marry the new emperor to enjoy the harem of favors

Chapter 31: They are all using each other

Chengming Hall.

When Xie Jiu arrived, Zhao Xingjin was reviewing memorials.

After Yang Zhian passed the message, he led the people in.

"I pay my respects to the Emperor." Xie Jiu bowed.

"Well, get up." Zhao Xingjin stopped writing and looked up at her. "You've come just in time. Give me a shoulder massage."

After serving him once before, he remembered that Xie Jiu's cooking skills were good.

Zhao Xingjin never treats himself badly when it comes to this kind of enjoyment.

Xie Jiu responded, walked up to him and walked behind him, gently placing her hands on his shoulders, "I went to the Ministry of Justice today, and I have sorted out everything the emperor wants. Would you like to see it now?"

"No rush. I've been sitting for most of the day and my body is stiff." Zhao Xingjin said in a deep voice.

Hearing this, Xie Jiu said no more and concentrated on giving the massage.

After a while, Zhao Xingjin patted her hands and signaled her to stop.

"Stay in the palace today. You won't be able to rest peacefully with all the noise outside."

It will take two or three days to clean up the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion from top to bottom. There are a lot of things that need to be registered and checked and put into storage. There must be a lot of government officials coming in and out in these few days.

"Your Majesty, do you think you care about me?" Xie Jiu joked.

Zhao Xingjin took her hand and asked her to stand in front of him. "Of course I care about you, but if you feel constrained and don't want to live in the palace, you can live in the house outside the palace."

These words sounded completely doting, but Xie Jiu would not be carried away by it.

It was true that Zhao Xingjin had prepared a house for her outside the palace, but living there would mean being watched from all sides by Zhao Xingjin's men, which was no different from living in the palace.

Since this is the case, it would be better to stay in the palace and make your presence felt in front of Zhao Xingjin.

So at this moment, Xie Jiumei said with her eyes curved, "The emperor wants to keep me in the palace, so naturally I won't go out."

"That's perfect. You haven't played chess with me for some time." Zhao Xingjin raised his eyebrows and squeezed her hand.

After the two chatted for a while, Xie Jiu ordered Chunrong to bring the account book over.

"Your Majesty, please take a look. These should be all the private assets of the Wu family."

Zhao Xingjin took it, looked at it carefully, and his face turned cold. "Three years as a clean magistrate, one hundred thousand silver coins. The Wu family has been officials for generations, and the money they have embezzled is enough to rival the national treasury."

Emperor Hui of the previous dynasty was incompetent and the court was completely controlled by his ministers. The fathers of Xie Mingshen and Wu Que were the heads of civil and military officials respectively, so they naturally made a lot of money.

Xie Mingshen is a scholar who cares about his reputation. He always does things without leaving any traces and has a good reputation. The Wu family is a family of military generals, so they are not so meticulous and do things in an unclean way.

Of course, it's also too crazy.

But now, isn’t this all gone?
So, it is better to be safe than sorry. Take Xie Mingshen for example. Zhao Xingjin knew that he had something fishy going on, but without evidence, he couldn't do anything for the time being.

"They are taking advantage of the people's hard-earned money, and now the emperor is getting rid of this harm to the people." Xie Jiu whispered.

When he thought of that scumbag, the coldness in his eyes remained unchanged.

Zhao Xingjin closed the account book and said, "This time, a group of corrupt officials were strictly investigated. I think it will have a deterrent effect on others. In the next few years, the court should be much more peaceful."

Killing a chicken to scare the monkey is certainly effective.

Moreover, some people in the court were cleared out, so naturally many positions became vacant, and Zhao Xingjin just happened to arrange his own people in them.

Kill two birds with one stone.

"This matter has been resolved. I think there is another important matter that needs to be dealt with as soon as possible."

Putting down what he was holding, Zhao Xingjin looked at Xie Jiu with a smile in his eyes.

Xie Jiu was puzzled. "What's the matter? Your Majesty, please stop keeping me in suspense."

"Good news." Zhao Xingjin pulled Xie Jiu over and sat him on his lap, encircling him. "I thought it was time to properly welcome you into the palace before the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet."

This means to give her a name.

It’s a good thing indeed.

From the moment she guessed that Zhao Xingjin was going to use her to attack the Xie family, Xie Jiu knew that she could not escape the fate of becoming a concubine in Zhao Xingjin's harem.

So it is indeed a good thing to have a legitimate identity as soon as possible.

It would be convenient for everyone to do things in the future. She and Zhao Xingjin were two people who used each other.

One wants revenge, the other wants to secure his kingdom.

Love and affection are not solid. Only interests can bind people's hearts.

"Your Majesty, are you serious?" Xie Jiu put her arms around Zhao Xingjin's neck, feigning happiness before revealing a hint of worry. "But given my status, I'm afraid there will be a lot of opposition to your actions, and that will worry Your Majesty."

Of course she knew that since Zhao Xingjin had proposed to take her into the palace, he must have thought of a response plan, but he also had to do the necessary work.

Men are creatures who like others to be happy for them and worry about them. No matter whether your feelings are sincere or not, as long as they feel it is useful, they will be happy.

Sure enough, Zhao Xingjin had already made arrangements for Xie Jiu to enter the palace, and now he only said.

"You don't have to worry about this. The Queen Mother will return to the palace in a while. I will take you to pay your respects to her then."

"Yes." Xie Jiu tactfully stopped asking questions.

Zhao Xingjin put his arm around her waist and said, "Tsk, you seem to have lost some weight."

He doesn't like those who are too slim, like Xie Jiu, who is just right.

He particularly liked Xie Jiu's pair of jade arms, which were white, tender, round, and soft to the touch, exactly fitting the phrase "delicate and weak".

If you lose weight and feel only hard bones, that would be really boring.

"Maybe it's the summer heat. My appetite is not very good and I can't eat anything." Xie Jiu said.

This is true, but it may not be entirely due to the heat.

"Ask the imperial kitchen to prepare some refreshing and appetizing dishes for dinner. You can't not eat well. I will accompany you tonight." Zhao Xingjin's expression was gentle.

With his thoughtfulness, Xie Jiu naturally showed the shyness and touchedness of a little girl and nodded in agreement.

Soon, the news that Xie Jiu stayed in the palace spread again.

There were chaos in several places in the harem.

After all, everyone was thinking about the fact that the Weiyuan Marquis's mansion had been ransacked and Wu Que was still in jail, so Xie Jiu could be considered a family member of a criminal. Even if Zhao Xingjin liked Xie Jiu, he should have avoided suspicion at this time.

But he didn’t, not only did he not do that, he also left the person behind.

For a while, there were people in the harem who called Xie Jiu a foxy woman, who thought Zhao Xingjin had lost his mind, and who were worried that Xie Jiu would enter the palace in the future and wreak havoc on everyone.

Xie Jiu didn't care about these things. Zhao Xingjin found another thing for her to do.

Since she wanted to enter the palace openly, she certainly couldn't come in as the wife of a criminal, so she had to deal with her ex-husband Wu Que first.

After all, people are alive, and the necessary procedures must be followed.

You always have to do some work to save your face.

This made Xie Jiu a little annoyed. In fact, she would rather Zhao Xingjin summoned her into the palace directly. As for Wu Que, no one would dare to say anything. That way, she could save a lot of trouble.

But Zhao Xingjin became particular at this moment and wanted her to divorce Wu Que before entering the palace.

Tsk. If you say he follows the rules, he was the one who cuckolded Wu Que. If you say he doesn't follow the rules, he also asked Xie Jiu to divorce before entering the palace.

It seemed as if he suddenly wanted a legitimate status.

It's very difficult.

Xie Jiu suddenly understood why those men who kept mistresses were unwilling to bring them home.

It's troublesome.

Of course, Zhao Xingjin must not know this.

The emperor would probably be furious to death if she compared him to a concubine.

So half a month later, when Wu Que was released from prison, Xie Jiu still went out of the palace.

Wu Que, who had just been released from prison, was brought to a private room in a teahouse closest to the Ministry of Justice prison.

Wu Que originally thought that it was some powerful person whom he had offended in the past who came to settle an old score with him. He was so scared that his legs and feet went weak. But when he found out that the person waiting for him was Xie Jiu, he immediately became angry.

"It's you?! You've already hurt me like this, what else do you want to do now?!"

(End of this chapter)