Two months had passed, and Xu Jiansheng kept recruiting more and more volunteers as the effect of Yunyu's death finally started showing up in the Imperial Palace.
Although Huang Shu already ordered the people to hide the fact that Empress Xiuying had passed away, there would always be few people who were bound to spread the rumour to the masses. And when the citizen knew that Empress Xiuying had died, most people were not even saddened.
Because they always thought that Empress Xiuying was a leech that had no use to Emperor Xianliang other than bothering him. He was also a ger man, and ger had an even lower social status than a woman in this traditional society.
Even worse, the late Empress Xiuying was an infertile ger man. He truly had no use to Emperor Xianliang, and his worth had been diminished.
Emperor Xianliang heard this during the morning court. He attended the morning court less and less, and his appearance was haggard.
