Chapter 183: Did a Pig Eat Your Brain?
"morning."
After waking up, Chu Liuzheng, feeling refreshed, greeted Moxiang and Yuzhu who were washing up in the room.
Yuzhui was washing her face and replied vaguely, "Morning."
Moxiang combed her hair and turned to look at her: "I heard you spent half the night baking pancakes, and I was thinking about today's breakfast. Why did you fall asleep before the pancakes were done?"
"Sister, you're always mischievous." Chu Liuzheng stretched lazily. "If Sister wanted to eat the cake, she shouldn't have tried so hard to persuade me yesterday. Now that she's persuaded me and made me think it through, how can I eat that hot cake today?"
"Just listen to what she's saying." Moxiang turned to look at Yuzhui. "She even said I was a teaser, but when she's teasing, she's much better than me."
"Don't involve me in your bickering." Yuzhui put the washcloth on the shelf and said as he walked out, "I'm in a hurry to eat some cakes!"
She ran out of the door and heard laughter coming from inside the house. She leaned her head out through the door frame and saw two people in the house laughing face to face.
She then curved her eyebrows and said with a smile, "I'll tease you two for once. You wait inside, I'll bring back breakfast."
"Okay." Moxiang agreed with a smile, "I just happened to be helping Liu Zheng wash up, so thank you for making this trip."
"Why are you being so polite to me?" Yuzhui waved his hand and went to get breakfast.
Chu Liuzheng yawned as he sat on the edge of the bed. He mindlessly cooperated with Moxiang while browsing the system gossip to wake himself up.
[Palace maid Chen Xing, serving tea, assisted the Imperial Guards in capturing several arsonists, all of whom were brought to justice. Tsk tsk, another night of bloodshed! With the rate of death in the palace, there's no need to paint the walls red; the blood would be enough.]
[Shock! Emperor Shunguang moved around three different places in the harem last night, and the reason was this!]
[It? What is that? Let me take a look... Hey, Tyrant was busy last night. He turned over Lady Zhu's sign and went to Qiu Shui Zhai to have dinner with her. He only took two bites and left... Wait! This doesn't make sense. Why did he leave? Didn't the food at Qiu Shui Zhai suit his taste?]
She rummaged down curiously.
[Oh, I don't like the jasmine powder Lady Zhu used. Lady Zhu dressed up so hard, hoping to give the tyrant a refreshing look, but the tyrant turned out to be so unromantic that he sulked all night and ran to Changchun Palace to pay his respects to the Empress before daybreak.]
[Luckily, I was smart enough not to use the imperially bestowed jasmine powder while on duty. Otherwise, if the tyrant had smelled it, I'd probably have ended up like Cai Baolin, having to wash myself clean in the Moon Pond. In this cold winter, wouldn't I have lost my life?]
[Hmm... After leaving Qiushuizhai, the tyrant went to Maohua Palace. He must be going to see Consort Chun, right?]
[You guessed it! As expected, Consort Chun is special to the tyrant. The relationship between a mentor's daughter and a talented disciple is a perfect example of a lot of romance novels.]
[If he's been to three different places, he probably didn't stay in Maohua Palace. Strange, he even left Lady Zhu behind and went there specifically, why would he leave?]
[Uh, because Consort Chun's earrings resemble jasmine buds... Frog fun! Jasmine again! Does the tyrant hate jasmine so much? I've never heard of it before, so why is he suddenly into it?]
[Isn't the jewelry I have left containing jasmine?]
Chu Liuzheng thought as she tilted her face up and let Moxiang apply facial cream on her. Suddenly, she smelled a light and elegant scent of jasmine at the tip of her nose.
She was suddenly startled and asked hurriedly, "Sister, is that facial cream made with jasmine oil?"
Moxiang nodded and spread the liquid evenly for her while she said, "You gave it to me when you were first transferred to serve tea in front of the emperor. It was hot then and I couldn't use it, so I kept it. When autumn came and I wanted to find it, I forgot where I put it. I thought I had lost it, but yesterday I found it in the sleeve pocket of a half-burned dress. Luckily the box wasn't damaged, so it's still usable."
Hearing this, Chu Liuzheng lowered his eyes to look at the box containing the facial cream. It was a square mahogany box, and it was indeed a meeting gift from her to Moxiang.
She was suddenly transferred to serve tea in front of the emperor, and she was very nervous. Although she had heard that Moxiang was easy to get along with, had a very good temper, and was willing to give advice, she still gave Moxiang the best thing she had, adhering to the principle that courtesy is always appreciated.
"Since I didn't see you using it, I thought you didn't like it." Chu Liuzheng smiled and sighed, "It's only been a few months since I was transferred to the Imperial Court, but it feels like several years have passed."
"You picked it with all your heart, how could I not like it?" Moxiang took a sandalwood comb and gently smoothed Chu Liuzheng's sleep-disheveled hair. She said softly, "It's no wonder you feel the days are long. Serving before the Emperor requires extra care and consideration of everything. This excessive worrying inevitably makes it harder to endure, and the days naturally become longer."
Chu Liuzheng nodded in agreement: "I just hope that the days will pass quickly, and it would be best if a year would pass in the blink of an eye." In this way, eight years would be just a matter of eight blinks of an eye.
Moxiang smiled faintly and shook her head, "It's really as you said. It's fast, but it's too boring. It's better to have a moderate pace."
"Sister, you make sense." Chu Liuzheng agreed and turned sideways to make it easier for Moxiang to braid her hair.
Her hair was thick and long, and Moxiang wanted to make it more delicate, so it would take more time to braid it.
Feeling bored waiting, Chu Liuzheng reopened the system and continued to browse the gossip.
[I just saw the second one. Is this third place... Changchun Palace? No, the tyrant only stopped the imperial sedan at the gate for a moment. He didn't even see the Empress. The third place should be the Yangxin Palace.]
[Tsk tsk, no wonder the tyrant came so quickly after hearing about the fire at Nongyun Garden. It turns out that Eunuch Zhou was almost punished and had no time to persuade the tyrant. If it were the usual Eunuch Zhou, he would have delayed until the fire was completely out.]
[Eh? The next one is still about a tyrant. Emperor Shunguang stayed up half the night drinking strong tea, the reason for which is currently unknown.]
[Tsk tsk, even the system doesn't know sometimes. The tyrant hasn't been sleeping well for a couple of days now, forcing himself to stay up half the night. I guess he's thinking about some national affairs again.]
Chu Liuzheng quickly scanned this piece of gossip and looked at the next one.
The Imperial Astronomical Observatory observed a strange phenomenon, a five-star alignment in the southwest, and reported to Emperor Shunguang that an auspicious beast had descended upon the world. Tsk tsk, the Imperial Astronomical Observatory was incredibly stubborn. How could the tyrant possibly believe in something as… ridiculous as the existence of an auspicious beast? And the tyrant actually believed it!
[No, wait! Did a pig chew on the tyrant's brain? Instead of believing in the existence of auspicious beasts in Baisha Valley, a place full of poisonous miasma, it's better to believe in the existence of gods in heaven! In a place where even plants eat people, an auspicious beast would become a poisonous beast if it entered. Maybe it would even raise a Gu King.]
The tyrant even specifically ordered the Imperial Guard to search for the auspicious beast in Baisha Valley. If they can't find it, Lord Xie will lose his position as commander. Uh... dismissing a trusted official over a fabricated auspicious beast is completely wrong, isn't it?
Chu Liuzheng suspected that she had seen a fake melon. She hurriedly searched for relevant information and confirmed that it was true from a few pieces of gossip.
[Will the tyrant become the kind of emperor who ignores state affairs and devotes himself to seeking immortality, ultimately ruining the legacy laid by his ancestors?]
Chu Liuzheng couldn't help but worry about the future of Dasheng.
If her elder brother passed the imperial examination and became an official in the future, and met an emperor who only wanted to seek immortality and enlightenment, there would be no future for him no matter how you think about it!
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