The one who is resting is you

  I didn't return to the mansion after leaving Ya Xian's residence, because I knew that once I returned, I would have to face Xia Qian's "bitter and kind" advice again. Wearing men's clothing brought from the mansion, I wandered aimlessly on the streets, looking left and right, but couldn't find anything interesting to do.

  Just as I was eating the iced sugar gourd that I had just spent half an hour haggling over with a peddler to get at a 10% discount, I suddenly heard a conversation between two passersby, A and B, from a teahouse by the road.

  "It's said that people from the Xuan Yue Kingdom have already arrived in our kingdom and will be received in the capital city the day after tomorrow."

  "Yes, yes, I've also heard that. I have a relative who works in the palace and he said that on the 15th of this month, the Emperor's wedding with Princess Heqin will take place."

  The crown prince will first stay in the mansion of Left Chancellor Ying, because there are other countries that want to sabotage this marriage, so it's best for the princess to move into the chancellor's mansion. The chancellor's mansion is heavily guarded and Chancellor Ying used to be a palace guard, so it's really the most suitable place!

  I nodded as I listened, so that's how it was. At this point, the topic diverged again -

  "You say, His Majesty is going to take in a new concubine again."

  "Alas, poor empress, the emperor's concubines are being taken in one after another, and even the empress's life or death in the Cold Palace is not being attended to."

  I furrowed my brow upon hearing this, swallowed the last sugar gourd, threw away the stick, licked my lips and walked into the tea house. I clasped my fists in respect to passersby A and B, saying: "Two gentlemen, I am a young man from afar who just heard you two discussing the Empress's affairs; would you kindly inform me of the details?"

  Xiaoyi, seeing that his eloquence had been brought into play, immediately enthusiastically pulled me down to sit: "Come on, come on, let me tell you about our queen's behavior..."

  I'm speechless, it seems that the people of this imperial dynasty love the empress more than they love the emperor.

  "The queen was the youngest daughter of King Han, and from a young age received a good education and was doted on by King Han. It is said that she could write at three years old, recite Tang poetry at five years old, compose music at six years old, and..."

  "Skip, skip." I couldn't help but interrupt. I was afraid he would go from the Queen's three years old to twenty years old and then imagine a bright future all the way to eighty years old. Who knows, maybe the old lady would live long enough to reach one hundred years...

  "Alright, the Queen and the Emperor met at a birthday banquet of the previous emperor, they can be said to have fallen in love at first sight, and became husband and wife after just one year. Not long after their marriage, the previous emperor passed away, the Crown Prince mysteriously disappeared, so the Second Prince, who is now the Holy Emperor, succeeded to the throne."

  After the emperor ascended to the throne, he treated the empress with utmost care and respect. The couple respected each other like guests, and soon after, the empress became pregnant. Ten months later, she gave birth to twins... At this point, passerby A showed a look of envy (perhaps thinking of his own wife, the tigress at home!)

  "It was three years after the empress gave birth to a dragon and phoenix twin, also three years ago (in general, it started six years ago), that the emperor took his first concubine. After that, the empress's attitude towards the emperor gradually cooled down. Later on, the emperor took more and more concubines, sometimes he couldn't even take care of them all. Finally, one day, news came out from the imperial palace that the empress had gone mad!"

  Looking at their expressions, they probably couldn't understand why the queen went crazy.

  I sighed inwardly: Queen, oh queen, you are also a pitiful person.

  What was said in the past "Among the three thousand weak waters, only take one scoop" is also a luxury in this era.

  I wish we could meet soon, so you wouldn't have to suffer like this. At that moment, I seemed to remember something - a queen like this would only evoke sympathy, how could she be loved by the people?

  "What else did the queen invent besides movable metal type printing?"

  "That's more than enough!" Passerby B suddenly became interested: "The queen had proposed to the emperor to adopt the 'imperial examination system' to select talents, and after the emperor adopted it, he achieved remarkable results. There is also the compass... The queen's inventions are countless, and each one has brought benefits to the people."

  I'm sweating, this is indeed a great invention of our ancient Chinese ancestors, how can it not bring benefits to the people?

  It seems that this queen is also a clever character.

  It's finally over, just a few hours ago, I still remembered that I said I would quit the online literature world if I didn't finish it. The ending is like this, and I'll come back to modify some sentences later, but the framework is already set, I guess I've fulfilled my promise~ I'm so happy that I finally kept my word! Don't say it's a bad ending QAQ, I'll come back and revise it to make it more elegant, and some descriptions were too abrupt... It was also very rushed, and the reason for the hiatus is because school has been in session all along, otherwise I wouldn't have ended it so abruptly.