Chapter 501 The Ethical Emperor
Xiao Jingfan, frightened by the inner voice, dropped the memorial and quickly walked to the side hall, where he saw Chu Liuzheng clinging to the wall in a state of panic, as if he could break through the wall at any time.
"What's wrong?" he asked as he pulled the person over and held him in his arms. He pulled Chu Liuzheng's hands and found that they were cold.
"A head." Chu Liuzheng grabbed his clothes and pointed towards the table. "This is Pingxuan's head, sent by City Lord Jiang."
Hearing this, Xiao Jingfan was a little surprised.
Although he hadn't read the letter Chu Liuzheng wrote to Jiang Yao, Chu Liuzheng's inner thoughts had already revealed most of the contents of the letter, so he knew that Jiang Yao had gone to Xixia to look for Ping Xuan. He was surprised that Jiang Yao would actually kill someone directly and send the head to him.
He placed the person in his arms on the couch, ordered someone to bring a cup of sugar water, and then went to the table to look at the contents of the square box.
Zhou Yuande opened the lid, and a beautiful head with eyes open suddenly appeared in front of the two of them. It was indeed Ping Xuan.
Raising his eyebrows, Xiao Jingfan called Chen Xing over and asked her to check the human head in the box.
Seeing the three people in the hall so calm, Chu Liuzheng almost thought that putting a human head in a box and giving it away was a perfectly normal thing. She drank two sips of water to calm her nerves. The image of the human head kept flashing before her eyes, especially the open eyes, which made her shudder.
She quickly took out the letter from her sleeve and read it, trying to divert her attention.
[Damn it! The letter actually warned me that the box contained a human head. Why didn't I read the letter first?]
[Oh~ The long box contains the will forged by Yin Lanci, and it was found by Young Master Cang.]
Hearing this, Xiao Jingfan glanced at the long box, bent down, picked it up and opened it.
A golden scroll lay quietly in the box. The silk shone with a lustrous luster, and it was obviously well preserved.
Seeing this, Chu Liuzheng bravely came over and asked, "Can I see it?"
She tried hard to control her peripheral vision so as not to look around, so as to avoid meeting the eyes of the beauty head held by Chen Xing.
Xiao Jingfan moved sideways to block her view, holding the box in one hand and pulling her back with the other, and sat on the couch. He took out the imperial edict from the box and unfolded it.
Chu Liuzheng immediately moved closer and leaned on his arm to look.
[It's exactly the same as what's written in the system. It really is a will.]
"It looks very much like my father's handwriting." Staring at the words on the will, Xiao Jingfan's eyes changed, and his voice was filled with nostalgia, "The first word I wrote was taught by my father."
[The tyrant is missing his father. Speaking of which, after all these years in the palace, I still don't know what Emperor Ren De looks like.]
Hearing her inner voice, Xiao Jingfan glanced at her sideways and said, "I'll take you somewhere."
Chu Liuzheng was puzzled: "Where are you going?"
*
The door opened, sunlight slanted in, and the dust danced in the light.
Chu Liuzheng followed the emperor into the house, looked around, and sighed in his heart.
[So this small study in the Hall of Mental Cultivation is filled with things left behind by the late emperor. They don't seem as valuable as the tyrant's private vault.]
Chu Liuzheng walked around the small study with his hands behind his back.
"Come here." Xiao Jingfan stood in front of a large mahogany box and waved at her.
A thin layer of dust had accumulated on the lid of the box, and as it was opened, the dust flew and choked him. Chu Liuzheng covered his mouth and nose, raised his hand and waved it in front of his eyes, watching the emperor bend down and take out a scroll of painting from the box.
Xiao Jingfan pulled her to the desk and unfolded the scroll. The two figures, one large and one small, slowly came into their eyes.
"This was painted by an artist specially commissioned by my father when I was six years old, playing chess with him in the imperial garden." His slender fingers gently stroked the face of the person in the painting. Xiao Jingfan had a faint smile in his eyes, as if the scene was right in front of him.
[As expected, no natural beauty was ugly when they were young. Tyrant was so cute when he was young, even with baby fat on his face. He was much more likable than he is now.]
[So this is what the late emperor looked like? He looks like the tyrant, and he's quite handsome... Wait, why does this face of the late emperor look familiar to me?]
Staring at the face of the person in the painting, Chu Liuzheng frowned and thought, and suddenly, a big face popped into his mind.
[Holy crap! Isn't this the ghost from my dream? It suddenly appeared from the colorful light, blood oozing from the corner of its mouth. I was so scared that I didn't dare to dream for a few days.]
Xiao Jingfan: ???
Didn't this woman never see his father? How could she dream about him?
To confirm, Chu Liuzheng took the initiative to ask to see other portraits.
The two took the scrolls out of the box and laid them out one by one.
Sometimes the painting showed one person, sometimes two, and sometimes more. Chu Liuzheng saw the young Prince Rui, Prince Xiao, Prince Cheng, and Prince Li.
The late emperor treated all his sons equally, and painted them all.
She tilted her head and looked at each picture, becoming more and more certain that the person in the painting was the one she saw in her dream.
[Strange, I've never even met the late emperor, so why would I dream about him?]
*
Perhaps what you think about during the day you dream about at night. That night Chu Liuzheng slept exceptionally soundly, his consciousness slowly falling down, and finally merging into a patch of light.
The familiar hall, the familiar lights, the familiar... no, a familiar face.
Chu Liuzheng stared blankly at the big face trying with all its might to get out of the vortex formed by the flowing light. It was groaning with exhaustion, but there was no progress at all.
She couldn't help but ask, "Um... do you need help?"
"No need." Big Face replied stubbornly and continued to work hard. With a "pop" sound, Big Face successfully pulled himself out.
[Holy crap! A sphinx?!]
Chu Liuzheng's eyes widened in shock, and he took a few steps back, his eyes swaying back and forth following the tail.
Big Face seemed a little embarrassed, hiding his tail behind him and coughing twice. "Points are limited, this skin is on sale, you'll have to take a look."
Chu Liuzheng: “…”
[Points? Skins? Are you playing a dress-up game here? Is this guy really the Emperor Ren De?]
"I've waited so long, and finally you come in. Why did you run away the moment you saw me last time?" Big Face complained, pointing at himself with his paw. "Let me introduce myself. I'm Xiao Qi's father, and also your father-in-law."
Chu Liuzheng: “…”
[Frog Fun! This guy is truly a wicked person!]
[How did the evil emperor turn into a sphinx? And even appeared in my dream?!]
[Dream? Yes, this is my dream, so this is my imagination?]
[Oh my, I actually thought of the Evil Emperor as a sphinx. If the Tyrant knew about this, wouldn't he bite me?]
"Ahem." Emperor Ren De cleared his throat. "I can hear what you're thinking. I'm not your creation. What you see now is my soul, or you can think of it as a spiritual form."
Chu Liuzheng:?
Chu Liuzheng:!!!
【Can you hear my heart? 】
"Yes, I heard it clearly." Emperor Ren De nodded. The way he squatted down looked like a worker in a lion suit. "I don't have much time. Please listen to me first."
"Okay." Chu Liuzheng, who was slightly shocked, felt that he needed to slow down.
She sat down cross-legged, trying to accept that Emperor Ren De had turned into a sphinx and could hear her own thoughts, while listening to the sphinx opposite her speak.
Emperor Ren De said: "The system you are bound to comes from me."
"What?" Chu Liuzheng glared. "You're the bastard who struck me with lightning?"
(End of this chapter)
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