Chapter 436: Experience the Life of a Traveling Doctor in Advance
After the court session, the emperor enthusiastically summoned several trusted ministers to the imperial study to discuss matters.
This discussion lasted for two hours. During this period, the emperor had clear thoughts and quick reactions, and even postponed his lunch.
It was not until three quarters past noon that the emperor ended the meeting with a feeling of being unsatisfied.
He stretched and suddenly asked, "What is Madam Zhaohua doing today?"
The eunuch quickly replied: "Your Majesty, the Queen ordered people to prepare your favorite snacks in Yaoguang Palace early in the morning, saying that..."
He stole a glance at the emperor's face and said, "He said he was looking forward to your coming."
The emperor heard this and a hint of joy flashed in his eyes: "What are you waiting for? Let's go to Yaoguang Palace."
As the imperial carriage passed through the numerous palace gates, the emperor felt more and more relaxed.
Thinking of Madam Zhaohua's charming face, soft body, and the intoxicating fragrance in the palace, his heart beat faster involuntarily.
How many years has it been since I felt this way?
As soon as the imperial carriage arrived outside the Yaoguang Palace, Madam Zhaohua came out with a group of palace maids to greet it.
She was wearing a rouge-red gauze dress today, and her eyebrows and eyes were as beautiful as a painting. When she saw the emperor getting off the chariot, she bowed gracefully and said, "Your Majesty, I respectfully welcome you."
The emperor stepped forward quickly and helped her up personally: "My beloved concubine, there is no need to be so polite."
His eyes lingered on her beautiful face, and his voice softened unconsciously, "I rewarded your brother in the court today."
Madam Zhaohua smiled softly and covered her lips: "The emperor is partial. My brother has received a reward, but I have not. I am not happy."
As she spoke, her lips were slightly pursed, but her eyes were reluctant to leave the emperor.
The emperor laughed out loud: "How could I forget you?"
As he said this, he asked the people behind him to bring all the treasures over: "Take a look, do you like it?"
Madam Zhaohua said in a tender voice, "As long as it is given by the emperor, I like it."
The two of them were so affectionate with each other, it was as if they had returned to their youth.
He held Madam Zhaohua's hand tightly unconsciously: "Thank you for your hard work during this period."
Madam Zhaohua gently stroked the emperor's chest with her delicate hand, "Your Majesty is now full of energy. Seeing this, I am so happy."
When the emperor was touched by her, he felt that the warm current instantly turned into a raging fire.
He suddenly pulled Madam Zhaohua into his arms and said in a hoarse voice: "I will stay here tonight."
Madam Zhaohua lowered her head shyly: "I couldn't ask for more."
That night, the fragrance of the Ningpo incense in the hall was so strong that it was almost indissoluble, intertwining with the scent of lovemaking between men and women, lingering in the cool breeze.
From then on, the emperor went to Yaoguang Palace more frequently.
Sometimes I would even go there twice a day - to smell the fragrance during my lunch break and to stay there before going to bed at night.
It seems that Yaoguang Palace has gained the exclusive favor of the emperor.
In the harem, the palaces of other concubines became increasingly deserted.
The emperor's favor for Madam Zhaohua and the fifth prince also deepened day by day.
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The turbulent waves in the court crashed into the red gate of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery's mansion and shattered into a few insignificant wisps of wind.
Lu Jiangnian was idle at home, and he just kept pestering Yuan Wanru all day long.
The two of them often stayed in Lingshuiju all day to kill time.
That morning, Lu Jiangnian hugged her as usual and insisted on reading the "Military Book" with her.
Yuan Wanru refused.
He has almost torn this book apart recently.
He was not tired, but she felt exhausted.
Yuan Wanru pried his arms apart, stood up and looked down at him: "This kind of life is too boring."
There was a sly flash in her eyes, "How about we become traveling doctors in advance?"
Hearing this, Lu Jiangnian also stood up, and his warm fingertips fell on her tender cheek: "I don't think it's boring, but if you want to go, then go."
He looked at the sunlight outside and said, "Aren't you afraid of getting a tan?"
The autumn heat is not just a casual remark.
Yuan Wanru looked at him with a smile: "I'm not easy to deceive, but if we are not in the mansion, won't we be exposed?"
Lu Jiangnian smiled mysteriously: "Just leave this matter to your husband."
He asked people to find two people with similar body shapes to the couple. As long as they were locked up in Lingshuiju and did not go anywhere else, the emperor's secret guards would not dare to get too close and naturally would not notice that someone had been replaced.
He had quietly left the capital with his wife.
The two men ran all the way to a county town on the edge of the capital's jurisdiction, rented a yard in a not-so-prosperous place called Dafeng Town, and settled down there.
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In the small courtyard, where the stove was still warm, the morning mist, wrapped in the aroma of burnt sesame seeds, drifted over the threshold.
Yuan Wanru got up early in the morning, and Lu Jiangnian stuffed the hot oil paper package into her palm. The freshly baked pancake was so hot that her fingertips curled slightly, and the sugar filling overflowed from the browned pancake crust like golden threads.
"Old Liu at the corner of the street is cooking a pot on the stove," he wiped the sleep marks on her cheek with his fingertips, "a greedy cat mentioned it three times yesterday."
Yuan Wanru's eyes lit up, she broke the sesame cake open, and the sugar threads pulled out a golden arc of light.
She raised her feet and placed half a piece of shortbread against his lips, with sugar grains on his lower lip: "Husband, try it first--"
Before she could finish her words, he turned his head away and said, "I've eaten it, you should eat it quickly, the taste will change when it gets cold."
His dark coarse cloth cuffs brushed the edge of the table, and he pushed the celadon bowl of soy milk in front of her. Sweet osmanthus honey swirled on the milky white surface.
Yuan Wanru held her hands up without moving, so Lu Jiangnian had no choice but to open his mouth and take a bite.
“Is it sweet?”
She asked vaguely while chewing on a cake, the sugar stains glistening at the corners of her lips.
Lu Jiangnian suddenly leaned over and used the tip of his tongue to sweep away the sweetness: "The one just now wasn't sweet. The one in your mouth is sweet."
The morning light illuminated the curve of his Adam's apple, and Yuan Wanru's ears were covered with red clouds. "Can you please stop teasing me all the time?"
Lu Jiangnian smiled dotingly, "Who is teasing whom?"
As long as she sat there quietly, he would feel eager to make a move.
Taking a deep breath, Lu Jiangnian tapped the edge of the bowl with his fingertips: "Drink it quickly, it will smell fishy when it gets cold."
Yuan Wanru sat down, picked up the porcelain spoon and crushed the cloud shadow in the soy milk. She sipped it and glanced at him secretly.
Lu Jiangnian sat upright, peeling a boiled egg. His slender knuckles twisted the eggshell, and the white jade-like egg white fell into her bowl: "See again?"
He suddenly raised his eyelashes, and a dark tide surged in his dark eyes, "If you can't go out today, don't blame me."
Yuan Wanru suddenly buried her head in drinking soy milk.
The scene of the two people cuddling in the house yesterday was burned into my mind - I had originally agreed to go for a walk in the village below, but this man trapped me on the low couch by the window and spent most of the day there. When I came to my senses, the sun was almost setting.
When the porcelain bowl was empty, there was a piece of Supa on her lips, "It's soaked in bean paste."
Lu Jiangnian wiped it carefully, but his rough fingertips rubbed her lower lip for a long time.
Yuan Wanru stared at his sliding Adam's apple with bated breath, and suddenly saw him chuckle and stop, "So good."
The sound of a peddler hawking his wares was heard outside the yard, and Yuan Wanru jumped up to grab the medicine box.
When she passed by his side, her wrist was grabbed. Lu Jiangnian stuffed the peeled egg into her sleeve pocket and said, "Eat this, so you won't be hungry on the road."
The morning breeze blew through the hall, blowing up the fallen leaves in the yard.
The two of them went out together, her apricot-red skirt pressed against his black clothes, their intertwined shadows dragged long on the floor, like an unsolvable knot of love.
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