Chapter 130 A Lifetime
"……I don't!"
You are secretly meeting with other women and want me to rub you? Don’t even think about it!
But seeing that the man remained silent, she softened her tone again, "Does it hurt?"
The man nodded aggrievedly.
"You deserve it! Who told you to be so lenient?"
Shen Yue replied to him fiercely, but in her heart she was thinking that she would give him a thorough checkup at night.
After hearing her words, the man felt even more aggrieved, but soon he realized something and suddenly grinned.
"Ayue, are you jealous?"
When their eyes met, he smiled like a child.
"Ayue is jealous of me? Hahaha!"
He was so happy that he bit her on the face, causing Shen Yue to beat him up.
The two of them were so close to each other that they didn't notice the hateful gaze behind the flowers in the distance.
“It’s really him!”
Cao Songyi gritted his teeth, and his hands turned white from clenching under his sleeves.
"Miss Cao, why did you come out? I thought you were still in the toilet."
Seeing Baozhu chasing after her, she quickly restrained her expression and said, "I don't know the way very well. Sorry."
"It's okay, I'll take you out!"
Under the pavilion, Xiao Yuheng held Shen Yue in his arms, hooking his long fingers into her hair and playing with it, sometimes twisting it into circles, sometimes straightening it, and sometimes twisting it into circles again.
He suddenly said, "Ayue, actually, according to the plan, I should send Cao Songyi to the palace."
"What are you sending it to the palace for?"
Xiao Yuheng pursed his lips. "Under the current circumstances, sending a woman to His Majesty would not only control him, but also steal Wan Mei's favor and strike a blow against the Crown Prince. It's a good strategy that kills two birds with one stone. But..."
"It's just that you don't want to use your own men, and you don't have the heart to use Cao Songyi, right?"
Shen Yue looked up at him for a moment, then lowered her long eyelashes. "You shed so much blood to save others when you were little, so it's normal that you don't want to leave them now."
"...What? Of course not!"
"Just kidding." Shen Yue laughed.
"Given His Majesty's perverted nature, no one who gets close to him will have a bad ending. You're a kind person, so it's normal that you don't want to push others into trouble."
However, people who are too kind don’t seem to be suitable to be emperors.
Xiao Yuheng seemed to know what she was thinking. He placed his chin on the crook of her neck and nuzzled it. "Do you think we can succeed?"
"I don't know."
Shen Yue chuckled and kissed him on the forehead.
"All I know is that, whether you succeed or fail, I will always be by your side."
Xiao Yuheng smiled, but the corners of his eyes were red.
"For a lifetime?"
He seemed particularly obsessed with the three words "a lifetime". Shen Yue thought that he must be very insecure.
"Yes, for a lifetime."
——
Facts have proved that there are plenty of people who are eager to do the things that Xiao Yuheng disdains to do or can't bear to do.
Within a few days, Cao Songyi transformed herself into the new favorite concubine of Emperor Qi Yuan.
After Xiao Yuheng learned about this, he didn't say anything, but Shen Yue knew that he was angry at her for not fighting back.
"Forget it, don't think about it. It's her own choice anyway. She won't take the money you offered her, and she won't agree to any job you assigned to her. Our family can't stand any hardship, so we have no choice but to take this path. Even if she doesn't enter the palace, she will have to marry another wealthy businessman, unless you marry her."
"...Ayue! You're talking nonsense again."
Xiao Yuheng didn't know why Shen Yue brought this up again, and his brows were tightly furrowed in dissatisfaction.
But Shen Yue had no time to pay attention to him, because she was concentrating on listening to Jiang Rou gossiping:
"I heard that right after Cao Songyi entered the palace, the old man doted on her for three days and immediately made her a concubine. That means Wan Mei has been left out for three whole days!"
Shen Yue was surprised. "Ah? But didn't His Majesty like Concubine Wan very much before? It is said that after Concubine Wan came into being, other concubines were rarely favored."
"That was in the past. After Concubine Yi came, she fell out of favor."
Jiang Rou said as she peeled melon seeds, "It is said that Concubine Yi is very open-minded. In order to win favor, she did not hesitate to harm her body and used lactation-inducing substances."
Shen Yue couldn't believe her ears. "What are you urging me to do?"
"Oh, even if I don't get pregnant..."
"mother!"
Before Jiang Rou could finish her words, Xiao Yuheng interrupted her and covered Shen Yue's ears tightly.
"Ayue doesn't understand these things, so please don't say anything nonsense or you will teach her bad things."
Jiang Rou was speechless, "She doesn't understand?"
Doesn’t she understand that she is writing such a crappy article?
Shen Yue hehe, although she was well-read and did understand something, she could not admit it.
After all, she is still a man at the moment, so it is inappropriate to discuss these things with Jiang Rou.
So, she had to change the subject, "Madam, the pimple on your forehead hasn't healed yet?"
“…Let’s not talk about it.”
Jiang Rou obviously didn't want to talk about this topic, so she pulled Xiao Yuheng over and started talking about business.
"Do you know who did this to Concubine Yi?"
Xiao Yuheng thought for a moment, "My son doesn't know, but as far as I know, the only prince who has had contact with Cao Songyi is Xiao Qi."
"Yes, it's him! Mother has checked. He also stayed in Qilong Palace on Concubine Yi's first night in the palace. He didn't come out until after 9:00 the next day. The old man didn't even attend the morning court."
Jiang Rou became more and more excited as she spoke, and the melon seeds she cracked made a crackling sound.
"It seems you have one more enemy, hey."
"It's okay. My son expected Xiao Qi to take action."
"Don't just anticipate, you have to fight back..."
Before Jiang Rou finished speaking, someone came outside Changchun Palace asking to see her.
It was Eunuch Cen Xi who served beside Emperor Qi Yuan.
"Your Highness, His Majesty has ordered that His Royal Highness Prince Cheng come to the Eastern Palace for an audience immediately."
"Eastern Palace?"
Jiang Rou frowned, "If His Majesty summoned him, he should have been in the Imperial Study or Qilong Palace. Why the Eastern Palace? What happened in the Eastern Palace?"
Cen Xi lowered his head even lower, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I didn't know."
"What a shame! You don't know. I bet you don't want to tell me!"
Jiang Rou slammed the table so hard that the melon seeds on the plate jumped up.
Just as she was about to continue her outburst, Xiao Yuheng whispered beside her, "Mom, as a patient, you're using too much strength."
As soon as she finished speaking, Jiang Rou's body immediately softened and she slumped back into the chair.
"Indeed. Ah Heng, since His Majesty has summoned you, go ahead. Ahem... remember to come back in two days... ahem... to see Mother."
"yes."
Xiao Yuheng bowed his head, and then left with Shen Yue.
On the way, Cen Xi hesitated to speak, then hesitated to speak again:
"Your Highness, I was afraid that Your Highness would know too much and become furious, which would affect her health, so I didn't say much. Your Highness, please be mentally prepared when you go to the Eastern Palace."
Xiao Yuheng frowned slightly, "What kind of mental preparation do you want?"
Cen Xi hesitated again.
Shen Yue sneered, "Eunuch Cen is quite interesting. He wants to take sides but is afraid of betting on the wrong horse. He has some information that can't be called news, but he wants to sell it at a high price. Your Highness, don't ask him. We will know when we get to the East Palace."
"No, that's not what I meant!"
Cen Xi knelt down in panic, "Your Highness, news came from the Eastern Palace this morning that the Crown Prince's breakfast was poisoned. Fortunately, he didn't eat much. After the imperial physician's treatment, the Crown Prince has woken up."
Xiao Yuheng's big hands in his wide sleeves suddenly clenched.
"So? Is it related to this king?"
Cen Xi nodded, "According to the imperial physician, the poison the prince was poisoned with was the most commonly used Jueming Powder in Northwest Sifang City."
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