Chapter 54
Yongxiang was the place where the palace's excrement was disposed of, and it was always a place where only the lowest-ranking servants and maids who had committed serious offenses would go.
She didn't know whether to say that the Imperial Noble Lady was petty or to scold Lu Chengfeng for deserving of his fate, given that Lu Chengfeng had risen from being the most favored servant of the Imperial Noble Lady to this Yongxiang Palace.
"Hmm." Ling Wu nodded, her brows furrowing as she read the long, rambling words on the folded document in her hand.
Seeing this, Jingchun tentatively asked, "Your Majesty, would you like me to secretly add another hand?"
Lingwu put the memorial in her hand on the table and smiled at Jingchun, scolding, "You're getting better and better at guessing the Emperor's intentions."
Jing Chun wiped away his cold sweat and pretended to be terrified. "Your Majesty, please spare me this time."
However, her face is so delicate and cute that it's hard to dislike her; in fact, it's quite endearing.
Ling Wu stood up, and as she passed Jing Chun, she chuckled and patted her shoulder, "I can't bear to punish you, prepare the carriage."
Jing Chun got up and followed, her tone quite smug, "Then this servant will be smug for a few days because of His Majesty's kind words!"
After flattering her, she reverted to her usual taciturn and aloof demeanor as she stepped out of Fengyi Palace, ordering the palace maids carrying her carriage: "Prepare the carriage for Weiyang Palace—"
The phoenix and luan horse took flight, majestic and imposing, their majesty unassailable.
As soon as Ling Wu stepped off the phoenix carriage, her waist was embraced by two hands. The eyes of the young man in red were as bright as the Milky Way, but he only saw her.
"Your Majesty, the thunder was so loud last night. Ah Qing regrets not leaving with you."
"You're becoming more and more temperamental." Ling Wu smiled, her tone tinged with affection.
The boy's bright eyes were filled with joy and love. "That's because Your Majesty dotes on me. That's why I dare to act this way. Besides, Your Majesty is so dashing. I wish I could stick by your side for the rest of my life. Even if you don't like me anymore in the future, I'll be happy just to watch you from afar."
Seeing Ling Wu's indifferent expression, Qian Qing snorted, "Don't you believe me? I'm serious!"
The boy had an exceptionally handsome face, and even his anger was perfectly timed to win people's favor.
Lingwu took his hand and returned to the palace. During the meal, Qianqing would put more food on her plate whenever she glanced at it a few more times.
He laughed smugly, raising his chin slightly, and said confidently, "Rules are rigid, but people are flexible! If Your Majesty had to abide by the rule of not eating more than three times a day, how tiring would that be? In the whole palace, only A-Qing would care about you so much."
Qianqing, who had subtly mocked Xi Ruoyu, felt a pang of bitterness.
Ling Wu glanced at him, sensing his unspoken meaning, and said, "You're quite the smooth talker."
"That's for sure." Qian Qing blinked, looking somewhat smug, as if she hadn't understood the meaning behind those words.
Lingwu rubbed her temples helplessly. When she saw him casually holding his bandaged hand in front of her, she asked, "How did you get hurt?"
"Your Majesty only just saw it now." Qian Qing held her fingers, her eyes filled with affection, a hint of resentment that made her seem even more pure.
"Hmph, it's all because of that clumsy little servant from last night. He broke a pair of white jade cups, and even cut my hand and made it bleed."
Jing Chun kept his eyes downcast and his mind focused, while the Imperial Nobleman could lie without batting an eye.
If we're talking about bleeding, I'm afraid if Lu Chengfeng were here, he would vomit blood on the spot!
Thinking of this, Jing Chun glanced at Ling Wu's face again. Seeing Ling Wu gently accompanying him in singing, pretending not to know what had happened, Jing Chun felt a rare pang of sympathy, and a trace of... envy.
Qian Qing, who had dismissed Lu Chengfeng with just two sentences, still feigned pitifulness and said, "Your Majesty, look..."
As she spoke, she tried to tear off the strip of cloth from her fingers.
The finger was perfectly intact when it was first peeled off. The only difference was that the healed areas were slightly lighter in color.
Seeing this, Qianqing bit her lip, a faint blush rising to her face. "It wasn't better yet, Your Majesty!"
Ling Wu chuckled, causing Qian Qing to lower her head and pout, "Your Majesty, please don't laugh at your servant!"
Where Lingwu couldn't see, Qianqing, with her eyes lowered, had a complex and bewildered look in them.
Since Xi Ruoyu snatched the prize from him last night, a sense of panic has welled up in his heart.
Moreover, ever since yesterday, every time he sees His Majesty smile, his heart races uncontrollably. And why does His Majesty, who is clearly a woman, still have the illusion that she is beautiful?
A thought arose in his mind, but he suppressed it firmly!
It wasn't until Ling Wu left that Qian Qing came to her senses.
He suddenly looked up, his eyes burning.
The phoenix sedan chair took a long detour, and from afar, it caught sight of that figure that would forever remain vivid and radiant in Sang Lingwu's memory.
Ling Wu's gentle eyes remained calm.
At this moment, Lu Chengfeng was covering his nose with one hand and carrying a chamber pot with the other. His face was pale and disheveled, and there was a hideous scar on his forehead.
He was completely different from the imposing figure I remembered.
Lingwu leaned against the phoenix carriage, slightly raising her eyes, and Jingchun said, "Let's go."
Upon hearing this, the servants in the distant Yongxiang Palace immediately bowed and knelt in worship.
At that moment, Lu Chengfeng's eyes were filled with shame and anger, as well as a hint of grievance that he himself did not realize.
After kneeling all night, coupled with the frailty of men in this era, his body went limp and he collapsed to the ground. The filth from the chamber pot spilled all over the floor and soaked half of his clothes.
As the stench assaulted him, Lu Chengfeng felt as if the sky had collapsed, and he couldn't tell whether he felt shame or hatred.
All he knew was that he had lost all face in front of the woman he had once loved and hated most!
It was only in that instant that he suddenly realized that this was no longer the era when he held great power and everyone fawned over him.
Lu Chengfeng lay on the ground, his body as thin as paper. Normally, people might feel pity for him, but when he was with that pool of filth, the image of him in the eyes of the crowd had changed.
Because Ling Wu's phoenix carriage was still far away, the group of people only dared to hold their breath and not make any rash moves. However, this did not prevent them from remembering Lu Chengfeng and waiting to hone him in the future.
As the phoenix carriage rose, Jing Chun understood immediately in the blink of an eye, and then bowed and retreated.
When Jing Chun saw Lu Chengfeng slumped on the ground, she instinctively held her breath.
Upon hearing the sound of the phoenix carriage departing, Lu Chengfeng was no longer as arrogant as before.
She might not actually be Sang Lingwu.
Because Sang Lingwu would never leave without looking back when she was down.
She would only tell him with her brightest eyes, filled only with his image, and in her eternally gentle yet firm voice:
It doesn't matter, she's there for you.
Thinking of this, Lu Chengfeng felt a little bitter, but he still cursed her ruthlessness.
But the next moment he heard Jing Chun, the head palace maid beside Ling Wu, coldly instruct those around her: "His Majesty has always governed with benevolence and kindness, and the palace has always upheld integrity and uprightness. The servants and maids should help each other out."
These words brought a glint to Lu Chengfeng's eyes. Jing Chun's actions must have been at her behest.
Does that mean her memory is slowly returning?
Once she remembers everything, he'll make that bastard pay with his life!
He also ordered that all those who had wronged him be executed by slow slicing!
As soon as Jingchun finished speaking, the head maid of Yongxiang stepped forward.
She first bowed and scraped to Jing Chun, then sternly rebuked the crowd: "Hurry up and help him up, take him back and give him a good wash. You will take over his duties today!"
The group of people held their breath, but hesitated and did not move for a long time. The head maid's face turned cold. "What? I think you think the work in Yongxiang is too easy and need someone to loosen your skin?"
Everyone panicked upon hearing this, crying out, "Auntie, spare us! Please, Auntie, spare us!"
But she harbored resentment towards Lu Chengfeng.
The head maid glanced at them coldly, and seeing that they didn't care about being dirty and filthy at the moment, she went forward to help Lu Chengfeng, her murky eyes filled with intense disgust.
But when she turned her head and saw Jingchun again, she hurriedly fawned, "Sister Jingchun, do you think His Majesty... has anything else to say?" The head maid smiled with wrinkles all over her face.
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