Chapter 277: Who knows what that bastard is plotting against me behind my back

The emperor really didn't know what was going on in Chu Yian's head.

He just looked like he didn't want to scold them, but then he turned around and asked if he could fight.

I always feel that if I tell her that I can fight, something bad will happen. Maybe she will hit someone and then blame him.

The emperor changed the subject.

"Several ministers today said that if you continue like this, many young men in Shengjing will be unable to find wives."

"So what? Isn't my elder brother still single? And he is much better than them..." Chu Yian almost blurted out, and quickly covered his mouth after realizing what he said.

She looked at Qin Huaishu quietly, and Qin Huaishu gave her a forced smile.

The emperor's eyes swept towards Qin Huaishu, and Chu Yian quickly shifted his focus: "No, I mean, isn't the Fourth Prince also unmarried?"

Qi Ze: ...

If looks could kill, Chu Yian would have been stabbed to pieces.

She shrank her neck and didn't dare to look up.

The emperor looked at Qi Ze again. Qi Ze pulled the corner of his mouth and looked at Chu Yian with a sinister look in his eyes: "You divorce Qin Sheng and I will marry you."

Chu Yian: ...

Chu Yian shrank his neck and dared not speak anymore. He always felt that every word he said now was wrong and very dangerous.

She said that she was not suitable for such a place and that she was more suited to staying in her own little piece of land. Could you please not ask her to come to the palace next time?

The emperor's face darkened. He glared at Qi Ze and then looked at Chu Yian: "Don't listen to his nonsense."

Chu Yian nodded like a chick pecking at rice, and the two gazes behind him felt like thorns in his back.

How can one person offend everyone with just two sentences?

She now has a lot of experience and can even publish a paper.

The emperor was in a very good mood seeing her cowardly look, so he waved his hand and said, "Alright, be careful. Next time, remember to keep your distance from those ladies, lest anyone come to me to complain about you."

Are you going to let her go?

Chu Yian hurriedly nodded and saluted the emperor.

The Emperor: "Come, play chess with me."

Chu Yian's expression fell. Wasn't he leaving?

She raised her head, her brows furrowed into a chuan character: "Your Majesty, I don't know how to play chess."

"So what can you do?"

She would eat, drink, have fun, flirt with girls, and curse people.

Anyway, she knows a little bit about things that have nothing to do with people.

But she definitely couldn't say that. After hesitating for a moment, she whispered, "How about we play Go?"

The emperor frowned: "What is Gobang?"

Chu Yian's eyes moved around and saw the chess game placed aside. He walked over, dug out a piece of space, picked up the chess pieces and placed them at the two intersections.

After briefly explaining the rules, she looked at the emperor with an innocent expression: "Want to play?"

emperor:……

The emperor didn't really want to play, he always felt it was stupid.

But the novelty and the desire to say a few more words to Chu Yian prevailed, and he walked over and picked up the white piece.

Chu Yian took the black pieces, and in the first game, she lost and the emperor won.

Chu Yian: ...

Chu Yian widened his eyes in disbelief. How could it be possible?

She had never lost when playing Gobang when she was in school, so how could she lose to someone who was playing Gobang for the first time?

impossible!

She looked at the emperor and said, "Let's play another round."

The emperor looked at her with a more amiable expression: "Okay."

In the second round, Chu Yian won and the emperor lost.

She was so happy that she almost jumped up, and she said there was no way she could lose!

Qin Huaishu was simply unable to bear watching. The emperor was obviously giving in to her, yet she was so happy.

Chu Yian won every round that followed, his smile never fell, and his eyes became brighter and brighter.

When she was almost victorious, she waved her hand and threw down the chess piece: "I don't want to play anymore. You can't beat me."

Qin Huaishu: ...

Qi Ze: ...Pfft.

The emperor also put down his chess piece and looked at her with more loving eyes than he did at his own children: "Yes, Yi An is very good. She can beat me in every game."

"As a reward, I can give you something. Is there anything you would like?"

Can this be rewarded?

Chu Yian was surprised. He turned his back and rolled his eyes. What he wanted was much older.

But now is not the time to ask for those things. She suddenly thought of something, her eyes lit up, and she turned around and looked at the emperor: "Then, Your Majesty, please reward me with two calligraphy works."

The emperor was surprised. Knowing that the girl liked money, he had wanted to give her some treasures, but she ended up asking for his calligraphy.

Is his handwriting so beautiful?

The emperor looked at Chu Yian with a softer look: "Okay, what calligraphy do you want?"

He stood up and walked to the desk, picked up the pen, and looked at Chu Yian.

Qin Huaishu and Qi Ze also looked at her. Chu Yian opened her mouth and a clear voice came out of it.

The room was filled with silence.

The moment he heard it, the emperor's expression froze and the pen in his hand fell to the paper with a snap.

His face darkened.

Qin Huaishu and Qi Ze looked up at the sky and the ground respectively, pretending that they did not exist, for fear of being implicated.

But the two of them tried to press their mouth corners down again and again, but they just couldn't move their lips any further.

It took all my strength to keep from laughing out loud.

It's really outrageous. I guess the emperor has never written such outrageous calligraphy in his life.

I asked you to give Chu Yian a handicap, letting her be led by you and win according to your plan. You are now shooting yourself in the foot.

Seeing that the emperor refused to write, the stars in Chu Yian's eyes seemed to disappear: "No, is it not possible?"

The emperor's face was darker than the bottom of a pot, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, why not? I'll write it for you!"

Chu Yian's eyes lit up again: "Your Majesty, you are so kind. You are the best emperor I have ever seen."

emperor:……

Otherwise, wouldn’t it be the worst thing to do if I didn’t write this calligraphy for her?

The emperor wrote two pieces with a dark face, snorted coldly, threw down his pen and left.

Chu Yian was overjoyed. He walked over and carefully dried the two calligraphy works, then put them away as if they were treasures.

Qi Ze breathed a sigh of relief, but now he was a little worried: "You are too brave, aren't you afraid that the emperor will have you dragged away?"

Chu Yian rolled his eyes at him: "Do you think everyone is like you? The emperor is so kind, how could he punish me for something like this?"

She spun around happily, then moved closer to Qin Huaishu and looked up at him, her eyes shining. "Brother, do you have anything else to do? Do you want to go back?"

Qin Huaishu raised the corner of his lips and hummed, "Let's go."

He looked at Qi Ze, and the smile on his face faded significantly: "I'll take my leave."

After saying that, Qi Ze took Chu Yian out of the imperial study with a frown on his face.

Looking at Qin Huaishu's back, I felt a little powerless.

After leaving the imperial study, Qin Huaishu lowered his voice and said, "You were indeed a bit too bold just now."

Chu Yian's happy steps stopped and he turned his head to look at Qin Huaishu: "But the emperor is not angry, and he doesn't show any signs of being angry."

She could still feel it.

Qin Huaishu sighed. Serving the emperor is like serving a tiger. Since ancient times, which emperor was not moody?

They appear to be friendly on the surface, but who knows what they are thinking in their hearts?

However, Qin Huaishu also truly saw how much the emperor liked Chu Yian, and he even wrote these two pieces of calligraphy for her.

Except for Chu Yian, he had never seen the emperor write such calligraphy for anyone until now.

Of course, no one was brave enough to go to him and beg for help.

It was obvious that Chu Yian was called into the palace to be reprimanded, but she was rewarded openly under the pretext of playing chess, and in the end she got those two calligraphy works in return.

Chu Yian skipped away, and Qin Huaishu followed behind her and observed her.

He found it amazing that both the emperor and Qi Ze protected her.

Not to mention the emperor, he felt that he owed Chu Yian about the matter between Qin Sheng and Qi Ze, so it was understandable that he wanted to make some compensation.

But what about Qi Ze?

Why does Qi Ze protect her so much?

These royal people don't talk about those inexplicable feelings and goodwill.

It is inappropriate no matter how you look at it to ignore the minister's favoritism for such a small amount of favor.

But he just happened to protect her and favor her.

Could it be that he wanted to push the Qin family into the spotlight? To get those ministers to target the Qin family?

Just as this thought flashed through my mind, Eunuch Fu caught up with me from behind and said, "Madam San Shao, please stay."

Chu Yian paused, turned to look at Lai Fu, and saluted him: "Eunuch Lai Fu, what's wrong?"

Lai Fu smiled so hard that his eyebrows were not visible. "It's like this. The emperor asked us to pass a message to the Third Young Master's wife."

Chu Yian: "Please speak."

"I originally wanted to reward you with 10,000 taels of gold, but I don't like you, so I won't give it to you."

Chu Yian: ...

Chu Yian's smile froze on his face, his eyes widened: "W-what?"

gold?

How many?

Ten thousand taels!

No more rewards?!

Eunuch Lai Fu bowed with a smile and turned away.

Looking at his back as he walked away, Chu Yian felt as if the sky had fallen, as if a bolt of lightning had struck her head.

She trembled all over, turned her head in disbelief and looked at Qin Huaishu, forcing a smile: "He, what does he mean?"

Qin Huaishu had a complicated expression.

Chu Yian pulled the corners of his mouth, and when he realized that he had heard it right, he burst into tears, his heart broken.

"No, what does he mean? If he doesn't want to give it to me, then he doesn't have to. Why did he come to tell me specifically?"

"What did I do wrong? Why are you deducting 10,000 taels of gold from me?!"

"Ten thousand taels! He just deducts it? I'm going to die! I've never seen so much money in my life. It could kill me."

Qin Huaishu: ...

The corners of Qin Huaishu's mouth twitched, and his eyes looked extremely helpless.

Chu Yian sat down, hugged his legs and wailed, "I'm not going to live anymore, seriously. Ten thousand taels!! Just gone like that. What did I do to make him dislike me?"

"He said, 'Isn't it okay for me to change it? Why are you deducting so much money from me?'"

"If all else fails, he can just take a little bit out of it and give me the rest."

Looking down at the little girl hugging his legs and wailing, Qin Huaishu's face darkened, and veins on his forehead throbbed: "Get up."

Chu Yian didn't, she hugged his legs and cried even louder.

The emperor watched this scene from afar, the corners of his mouth twitched, and then he couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Qin Huaishu's expression was so wonderful. He had never seen such a wonderful expression on his face in his life.

It is so worth it for Lai Fu to spread this message.

The emperor looked over there, unwilling to look away.

Qi Ze stood behind him, speechless: "Father, are you doting on her a little too much? Is this appropriate?"

The emperor waved his hand and said, "Go away, go away. She is different from you. She doesn't have so many twists and turns, and she doesn't know how to protect herself. How stupid."

Qi Ze rolled his eyes: "Don't we have Qin Huaishu? Qin Huaishu will protect her."

The emperor snorted coldly, "Who knows what that bastard is planning behind my back to harm him."

Qi Ze: ...

You know what, it's really possible.