Chapter 510 Will the Emperor Believe It?

"Hmm." Xiao Jiuyue placed her hands on the window, resting her chin on it, and blinked at him: "Then I have another life-saving favor to owe you!"

"Yes, you've saved my life more than once." Jun Lie looked at her with a smile and said, "If I bully you one day, everyone in the world will spit at me and drown me."

"Hmm, that's a good idea." Xiao Jiuyue nodded in agreement, looking at him intently and asking, "Jun Lie, is it because you can't touch other people because of your rash that you want to marry me?"

"No." Jun Lie didn't even hesitate. After a moment's hesitation, he said, "The imperial physician said that my rash is a psychological problem. Apart from the women in the palace, other women won't cause me to have a rash."

During the fire that year, his mother risked her life to protect him. He saw with his own eyes that the Imperial Concubine viciously steamed a palace maid to death. That palace maid was his mother's maid.

The fire was set by someone sent by the Imperial Noble Consort, but unfortunately, he was young and the Emperor would not listen at all.

However, I will get back this debt sooner or later and avenge my mother.

"Ah..." Xiao Jiuyue was shocked upon hearing this news. She looked at Jun Lie with an indescribable expression and said, "You hate the women in the palace, so you get a rash when you touch them?"

If this is the case, then it makes sense. Jun Lie's mother died in the fire, and the secret behind it must be cruel. After witnessing this scene, it is normal for Jun Lie to be left with a psychological trauma.

"Yes." Jun Lie took a step forward, his slender fingers resting on her green fingers. "Jiuyue, I didn't want to get married back then, so I just went with the flow and told my father that I had a hidden illness and couldn't touch a woman."

"Will the Emperor believe it?" Xiao Jiuyue had always thought that such a disease only existed in novels and never thought that it could be encountered in reality. Not to mention Xiao Jiuyue who had accepted so much new knowledge, even the ancient Emperor of Nanyue would not believe it.

"He believed it." Jun Lie said lightly. What he didn't say was that the emperor naturally didn't believe it. Later, he asked all the women in the palace to try it. He tried it for half a month. In the end, Jun Lie's rash was very serious and he almost lost his life. Only then did the emperor believe it.

Especially when the emperor wanted to arrange a marriage for him with Feng Yan, it was because he touched the corner of Feng Yan's clothes when he was picking herbs for the Empress Dowager that the emperor came up with the idea of ​​arranging the marriage. After Jun Lie learned about it, he found the Empress Dowager and staged another drama. Naturally, the arranged marriage was shelved.

The emperor thought Jun Lie had recovered, so he compensated Feng Yan after the misunderstanding. Later, Feng Yan saved the second prince, and the emperor appointed her as a concubine.

"Since ancient times, emperors have been suspicious." Xiao Jiuyue muttered to himself. He always felt that there was something wrong with the emperor who was so trusting.

"Jiuyue, shall I take you to a place? The plum blossoms there have just bloomed. It's the first plum blossom in full bloom in the entire palace. Do you want to go and see it?" Jun Lie changed the subject.

"This is the palace. What if someone finds out..." Xiao Jiuyue hesitated for a moment. Jun Lie grabbed her hand and looked at him confidently, "No one will find out."

Xiao Jiuyue, who had been hesitant just now, immediately agreed. She looked at Jun Lie's hand and said, "How can I get out if you don't let go?"

"Jump out." Jun Lie looked at the half-man-high window and said, "I'll catch you."

Xiao Jiuyue glanced at the distance to the door and looked at Jun Lie doubtfully: "Can you do it?"

Jun Lie raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "Hold on tight."

Jun Lie exerted force on his wrist, and Xiao Jiuyue felt as if her body was pulled up by an adult when she was a child. She screamed and felt dizzy. The next moment, she fell steadily into Jun Lie's arms.

"Huh." Xiao Jiuyue looked around, glanced at him and said, "You're quite strong."

"You're so light, I don't need to use any strength at all." Jun Lie chuckled. He could easily carry two of her, not to mention one. He lowered his head and whispered in her ear, "How about I carry you to see the plum blossoms?"

"Eat yours." Xiao Jiuyue found the date paste cake in her purse and stuffed it directly into his mouth. She swung her legs and jumped out of his arms, saying, "Third Prince, please restrain yourself, otherwise, you will damage my reputation, hmph."

Xiao Jiuyue snorted lightly. She didn't care what others said, but as a daughter of the Xiao family, she couldn't let anyone tarnish the reputation of the Xiao family!

“…”

Xiao Jiuyue straightened her dress and didn't hear Jun Lie's voice. She turned around and saw Jun Lie enjoying the date paste cake. He looked as if he had eaten something delicious.

"Is it really that delicious?" Xiao Jiuyue admitted that the date paste cake was delicious, but it wasn't to such an exaggerated degree, right?

"Do you remember the first time we met? In the corridor of the cold palace, you gave me a jujube paste cake." Jun Lie tasted the same jujube paste cake and gestured to her, "You were this tall then, with a round face, a bun, and a red jacket with white rabbit fur."

Jun Lie reminded her very clearly. Xiao Jiuyue seemed to have such a scene in her memory. At that time, Jun Lie was kneeling on the ground, his thin body was very frail, and she handed him the date paste cake in her purse.

"Is there still a big locust tree?" Xiao Jiuyue vaguely saw the towering locust tree in the cold palace and said, "It's snowing heavily."

"Yes, you remember?" Jun Lie excitedly stepped forward and grabbed Xiao Jiuyue's hand: "Do you remember what happened in the past?"

"I don't remember." Xiao Jiuyue shook her head: "It's just that when you mentioned it just now, this scene appeared in my mind."

Jun Lie's eyes dimmed for a moment, then he shook his head: "It's okay if you can't remember. We will have many, many good memories in the future."

"Well, I have to record it when the time comes." Xiao Jiuyue murmured. It was a pity that there was no camera. Otherwise, how meaningful would it be if all those photos were kept?

camera?

Jun Lie didn't listen carefully, and made up his mind to paint when he got home to record all these beautiful memories.

"Let's go see the plum blossoms." Jun Lie led Xiao Jiuyue to see the plum blossoms and said, "The plum blossoms are located through the passage behind the rockery. No one knows about this place."

Jun Lie and Xiao Jiuyue had not yet come out of the rockery when they heard voices outside.

Xiao Jiuyue lowered her voice and looked at him with a half-smile: "Didn't you say there was no one?" This slap in the face was too quick.

"Where are they? I told you to go find out. Have you found out?" a gruff male voice rang out, followed by a female voice: "Your Highness, I have already found out. There were three women in pink today."

Pink clothes?

Xiao Jiuyue lowered her head silently. Wasn’t she wearing pink woven cloud brocade?