Chapter 543: On the cusp

Although he was in the Peach Blossom Temple, An Xiabai was always worried about one thing in his heart. She still clearly remembers that before she and Lu Li left the palace, the matter of the women's college had not been properly handled, and now that she has returned, she has to go back and deal with this matter clearly, and she can't delay it again and again.

"Yang Xiao, I have to go back, there are some things I have to go back and face in person."

Yang Xiao thought that An Xiabai was talking about his relationship with Lu Li, so he didn't keep her much, so he sent her out.

To An Xiabai's surprise, although he had been out of the palace for so long, the affairs of the women's college in the court had not stopped, but became more popular.

"I have already said that this matter has nothing to do with the queen, how many times do you want me to talk about it?" Above the court, some ministers repeatedly pushed this matter onto An Xiabai, and Lu Li was really helpless.

"But even the queen didn't know that this happened, but because the queen didn't strictly guard those students, she encouraged and encouraged them to do that!" One minister after another embarrassed Lu Li in the court.

"Have you heard, the emperor is embarrassed by several adults today."

"It's because of the women's college again?"

The two maidservants were secretly discussing in the corner, and they happened to be heard by An Xiabai, who had just returned to the harem.

"Yes, it is said that it is the equality of men and women recommended by the queen mother that will cause so many incidents."

An Xiabai just scribbled a few words, and then began to worry again.

"Sure enough, what I've been worrying about continues." An Xiabai felt a splitting headache at the moment, and she really didn't know how to solve it.

Lu Li was even more distressed, as long as he went to the morning court every day, the adults would hold on to this matter, and they would hand over the fold afterwards, and they would talk about it over and over again.

He wanted to read a book quietly in the upper study, and after a while, this adult would meet him, and the other adult would ask to see him, which made him a little afraid to see this group of adults.

"Why don't we put down the implementation of this reform system for equality between men and women for a while?" Lu Li was in the study at the moment, just him, talking to himself.

"But I'm afraid the queen won't agree." The opinions he put forward were denied by himself, Lu Li scratched his head, thinking that just saying not to do it is equivalent to standing still, it is better to give it a try, in case it succeeds!

"Queen, I have something to discuss with you." Lu Li was naturally happy to see An Xiabai come back, but he knew that as long as this matter was raised, the queen would probably be unhappy again.

"You say." An Xiabai actually knew a little bit about what the emperor meant, but he wasn't sure.

"Now that the situation is turbulent, the ministers are a little unstable because of the reform of the gender equality policy, so can this matter be relieved?"

Lu Li had the courage to say this, and he was ready for the queen to be angry with him.

"How can the emperor slow down? How long? An Xiabai did not immediately refuse, but asked rhetorically.

"For the time being, withdraw this system of equality between men and women, and wait until the ministers gradually forget about this matter, and then I will mention this matter to them, and then they may be able to accept it." Lu Li thought that An Xiabai understood that he was not angry, so he boldly said what he thought.

"Then if they still can't accept it by then, what is the emperor going to do?" An Xiabai was almost expressionless, and her voice was as light as water.

"No, how can I ......"

"How not? Didn't the emperor expect that the ministers would oppose it this time? If the ministers still oppose it at that time, will the emperor still come to persuade me to give up this idea? An Xia Bai glared at Lu Li, and when he answered, it seemed that he was competing with himself again.

"No, I ......"

However, she didn't want to hear a word of Lu Li's explanation.

"Your Majesty, you are the Son of Heaven, no matter what you want to do, you can't stop the concubines. Now that you've made your decision and made your choice, you don't have to ask your concubines. An Xiabai stood up, turned his back to Lu Li, and told him that he would still go to the women's college to teach in the near future and would live there, and left after speaking.

An Xiabai was very sad, she thought that Lu Li would delay her plan because of this, but she didn't think that it would be delayed again and again, since this is the case, let him decide what to do for himself.

Anxiabai came to the women's college, and the children were very happy to see her back. And An Xiabai, who is here, lives a very fulfilling life every day. She told the students here to study hard and learn more about their future development. He also said that girls should not always think about marrying someone and marrying a good family, but should control their own destiny.

The children have always liked Anxiabai very much, so the children also deeply trust what she says and listen to it very much. So that sometimes their parents and elders will say that "a woman is virtuous if she is not talented", and they will refute it.

Some people say, don't always think about marrying a good family, you have to control your own destiny. It has been said that the more you know, the more you get. But these statements are simply ignorant in the eyes of their parents, and they do not allow their children to think like this.

"Your Majesty, the queen's move has deeply affected the children of the ministers, how is this good?" A minister told Lu Li what happened in his home, and someone soon seconded it.

"Yes, Your Majesty, some time ago there were rumors that the students of the women's college had adultery with men from other colleges, and the minister still didn't believe it, but now that such a thing has happened, the minister has to worry!"

For a while, there was a lot of discussion in the court, and the students who were rumored to be fornicating before were also pushed to the forefront.

These things soon reached An Xiabai's ears, and she really couldn't understand the thoughts of this group of ministers, so she decided to personally investigate the identities of the two fornicators.

However, the results of An Xiabai's investigation did not match the rumors at all, they were just children of ordinary people, not after the dignitaries and nobles, nor were they the children of any adult in the court.

An Xiabai wrote a letter and sent someone to the palace, knowing that someone had fabricated the identity of the student, the princes and ministers in the palace were even more angry, and they wanted to know who was so bold to dare to fabricate the identity of the student and wronged the identity of the dignitaries.

Since she started to deal with this matter, An Xiabai can be said to be inevitable day and night, and she can't figure out why she is being wronged and misunderstood by others when she is doing good deeds. What made her even more incomprehensible was what to do next.

Continue to do it in the opposite direction? Then this will certainly provoke the ministers to continue to oppose it. But if he does what Lu Li said, the ministers will definitely feel that this regulation on equality between men and women is problematic in itself, and they will also suspect that they are irresponsible to the country.

An Xiabai doesn't know the taste of food, can't sleep at night, and the whole person has a sad face every day, looking painful.

"Queen, seeing you working day and night, I really can't bear it, otherwise I'll help you investigate secretly, right?" Lu Liuer took the initiative to ask Ying to investigate this matter for An Xiabai. An Xiabai is very happy and trusts her, and hopes that Lu Liuer can bring good results to herself.

Lu Liuer is already very reliable and does things reasonably, so with her help, An Xiabai was suddenly relieved.

Lu Liuer first found the letters exchanged between the pair of fornicating students, and then found the paper they usually wrote in the academy and compared them. She found that there was a big difference between the handwriting of the two students and the handwriting in the letters they exchanged, which deeply aroused Lu Liuer's suspicions.

Then, she personally came to the place where the so-called students were fornicated, and found that there was a peculiar smell in the room, and that kind of smell Lu Liu'er seemed to have seen somewhere, but she couldn't remember it for a while.

One night, when Lu Liu'er was admiring the moon in the courtyard, she suddenly remembered what kind of fragrance it was.

"Queen Mother, let me tell you about the investigation in the past few days." Lu Liuer knew that An Xiabai couldn't sleep, so she came to An Xiabai's room to look for her.

"You say."

"I first found the usual handwriting of the students, and then I got the letters they exchanged with each other, and found that the two handwriting were not the same. So I suspect ......"

"Do you suspect that someone deliberately framed them, wrote letters in their name, and pretended to correspond?" An Xia Bai said in advance.

"It was just my guess at first, but the rest of the story is enough to prove my guess."

"Please." An Xiabai looked at Lu Liu'er seriously and listened to her.

"That day I went to the place where the students were fornicating, where I didn't find anything, but I smelled a smell."

"What does it smell like?" An Xia Bai was curious.

"I didn't think about it at first, because I had only smelled it once, so I wasn't very impressed. But just now, I suddenly remembered where the smell came from. ”

"What does it smell like?" An Xiabai felt that he was about to get close to the truth.

"That's the smell of love medicine."

"What?" An Xiabai could hardly believe his ears.

"Yes, the queen mother heard it right, that is the taste of love medicine. And it is a kind of super powerful erotic medicine, and ordinary people can't tell the difference between it and ordinary sandalwood. ”

"So, you're saying that somebody first forged their handwriting to prove that they had a relationship, and then they had both students come to that room and hypnotize them with love pills, and that kind of thing happened?"

The more An Xiabai spoke, the more frightened he became, and his voice became smaller and quieter, and there was almost no sound behind him.

Lu Liuer nodded and said yes.

An Xiabai felt that her mind was particularly confused at the moment, she couldn't figure out why such a thing happened, how could such a thing happen.

"Are you sure it's a love drug?" An Xiabai didn't give up, but Lu Liu'er's reply almost made him collapse.

How could it be, how could it be?

Every student in the academy is so cute and so likeable, how could anyone do such a conscience-destroying thing?

"Liu'er, does anyone else know about this besides you?"

Lu Liuer shook her head, comforted her for a while and went out.