Chapter 899: Chapter 716: She’s Just a Wooden Club
This is truly an explosive move, catching handsome young men in the streets. It undoubtedly added a brushstroke of significant emphasis to the grand wedding of Crown Prince Mu and the Southern Emperor, a stroke that is quite shockingly outlandish and challenges human nerves!
In fact, the impact was indeed very significant!
Rumors avoid the subjects, especially when the subjects are two royal families. Therefore, Gu Changsheng’s traveling palace is not to be mentioned for now; the command to capture strong men came from Gu Changsheng’s mouth, and ultimately, the Great Zhou Imperial Palace, being the other party involved, was alarmed!
And the speed of this alarm was quite fast indeed!
Just as Gu Changsheng returned to the traveling palace, Emperor Zhoulin heard about the Southern Emperor catching strong men in the streets.
You might ask why someone would speak rumors in front of Emperor Zhoulin?
I can only tell you, you’re overthinking it. It’s not those long-tongued gossips spreading rumors in front of Emperor Zhoulin. Rather, ahem, Hongyan Jiaojiao, after capturing several streets without finding satisfactory handsome men, got anxious and with a slap on the horse’s back, went into the noble residences of the Imperial relatives in Great Zhou!
Civil and military officials, the Princes and Commandery Princes, Marquis’s Mansions and Royal Mansions, none were spared, and in the blink of an eye, they were swept clean by the Southern Emperor’s Honor Guard led by Hongyan Jiaojiao.
That was truly unsettling for everyone in the court, a sense of anxiousness!
"Tch! A bunch of useless ones, capturing these men feels utterly unsatisfying!" Hongyan Jiaojiao, sitting atop a tall horse, looked disdainfully at the trusted aides of a certain Royal Mansion.
All of them trembled like a sieve; would resisting lead to death?
The commoners truly behave like commoners, with so little backbone, lacking even the courage to resist. No wonder they look down on them!
"My Lord, don’t set the standards too high!" The female official beside Hongyan Jiaojiao spoke with a cold sweat.
She felt uneasy, capturing people from the Imperial relatives of the Zhou Dynasty, is this really okay?
Wouldn’t Your Royal Highness be angry? Wouldn’t the future Imperial Husband blow up?
The female official felt apprehensive and uneasy, so she discreetly sent someone back to the traveling palace to inform their Sovereign of her Lord’s outrageous actions, just as a precaution, seeking a strategy, lest they face repercussions later!
When Gu Changsheng received the report from the female official, she was being scolded by her foster father, drenched like a dog in a rainstorm.
Generally, it was for her audacity and disregard for Southern Emperor’s protocol, even tearing down a corner of the traveling palace. Gu Changsheng felt wronged, but with her elder present, she couldn’t argue back, could she?
Moreover, Gu Changsheng felt that the main reason her foster father was so angry was that after she tore down a corner of the traveling palace, she nonchalantly waved her sleeve and escaped with her people to stroll the streets before her foster father could react on the spot!
This is jealousy! Jealousy that she could go out and happily stroll!
The Messenger Court Lady, seeing her sovereign being scolded by the foster father and shrinking her neck without speaking, reported the situation. After getting permission from Mr. Ban Shan, she tactfully ran to her sovereign’s side and, rather unbecomingly, leaned her head close to her sovereign’s ear to whisper.
"Your Royal Highness, Lord Hongyan and some other lords found the people on the streets unsatisfactory, so they went to capture strong men from the civil and military officials and the nobles of the Zhou Dynasty." Whispering was an art, and the Messenger Court Lady looked fearfully at her close-at-hand sovereign, realizing that after delivering this message, she would willingly go to the Punishment Hall to accept punishment. She had offended the royal face!
"Huh?" The Messenger Court Lady’s voice was very low, like a thief, afraid that the sharp-eyed foster father would hear. But Gu Changsheng couldn’t hold back; upon hearing the news, she was immediately shocked, her eyes widened.
"They actually went to their mansions?" Gu Changsheng blinked and asked without the slightest shame, raising her voice openly, very forthrightly.
"Yes..." The Messenger Court Lady was about to cry.
"Hmm, smart move. These noble officials and nobles of bloodlines really focus on lineage refinement. Optimizing for generations, the genes shouldn’t be bad." Gu Changsheng nodded, evaluating it objectively. Marrying a pretty wife and having a pretty child, passing down from generation to generation, surely, the child wouldn’t be too ugly.
She was judging based on scientific standards.
"Huh?" Now, it was the Messenger Court Lady’s turn to be surprised.
"Your Royal Highness, is it really okay?" The Messenger Court Lady felt a bit incredulous.
"It’s fine. Tell Hongyan, let her capture more from the last-named Zhou family; there must be a few useful ones." Gu Changsheng gave her a definite answer.
Messenger Court Lady: "..."
Thrown into chaos amidst the desolation...
Not only capture them? But also pick more from the royal family?