Chapter 372: The Little Scholar in Male Disguise and the Amazing Emperor 30
Cha Jiu lowered his head, but held the long sword high in both hands.
The sleeve slid down along the skin, revealing a small piece of slender arm, which was covered with dark red and purple kiss marks.
It can be seen that the beauty of last night was completely real, and it was not just Yelu Zongzheng's fantasy of having his brain eaten by insects.
Yelu Zongzhen was both surprised and distressed.
He no longer cared about the etiquette between the emperor and his subjects, and took his time, taking two steps at a time, and picked up the person kneeling on the ground.
Cha Jiu cried out in surprise, and in an instant he felt the scene in front of him turned upside down. His feet left the ground and fell into a broad embrace filled with a domineering aura.
Yelu Zongzheng threw away the long sword in disdain, lowered his head, and looked at her with pity: "You saved me, what crime have you committed?"
Cha Jiu was afraid of falling, so she had no choice but to put her hand on his shoulder, which made the latter's eyes soften.
She lowered her eyes and said in a stammering voice: "I...I am not He Yanyang, but his sister He Qingqing. My brother is in a coma and his enemies are eyeing him covetously, so I pretended to be his brother, took the palace examination on his behalf, and became an official in the court."
"I know that deceiving the emperor is a capital crime, but my brother and sister-in-law are innocent. Your Majesty, can you spare their lives? I am willing to repay your Majesty's kindness in my next life!"
She raised her eyes and looked at him pleadingly.
There was a stray strand of hair hanging from her frozen white lips.
Looks so pitiful.
Yelu Zongzheng was so distressed that he quickly carried her to the couch, wrapped her in a thick quilt, and poured her hot tea, feeding her mouthful after mouthful.
When he felt the girl in his arms warm up, he hugged her and sighed, "I already knew your identity. If I wanted to punish you, I wouldn't have waited until today. Although this identity is fake, your talent, courage, and kind nature are not fake, are they?"
"Or maybe the friendship you showed me when you killed tigers for me in the mountains, taught me to play the mouth harp on the grasslands, and saved me last night even though you knew your identity was exposed, was fake."
Cha Jiu raised his head from the tightly wrapped quilt and said firmly: "Of course it's true. I am willing to protect your majesty with my life!"
Yelu Zongzheng smiled and lowered his head to place a kiss on those clear and sincere eyes.
"Your feelings for me are the same as mine for you. You are willing to protect me with your life, and I am willing to use my power and status to protect you and the He family, so don't mention blaming me or giving me death anymore."
Cha Jiu hesitated, as if he was still unsure: "But Your Majesty, are you not angry?"
Since ancient times, emperors have been arrogant. Who wants to be deceived and fooled?
Yelu Zongzheng said frankly: "Of course I am angry."
Noticing the thin body in his arms tensing up again, he quickly patted her to comfort her, resting his chin on her head, and explained slowly: "I'm angry not because you deceived me, but because you don't trust me. Why do you think I won't seek justice for you from He Jinfu?"
"But later on I think it's the right thing to do. After all I haven't entered your heart yet."
His tone was a little lonely.
At this moment, a small voice in his heart refuted him.
"No."
Yelu Zongzheng was slightly startled.
Cha Jiu mustered up his courage and explained, "That's not the case. I concealed the matter of He Jinfu not because I didn't believe that Your Majesty would uphold justice for me, but because the affairs of the court are indeed a matter of great consequence, and I don't want Your Majesty to be put in a difficult position for me."
"Your Majesty... in my heart."
This last sentence couldn't be whispered any softer.
If it weren't for Yelu Zongzheng's extraordinary hearing, he would have almost missed it.
She has him in her heart.
Yelu Zongzheng was suddenly overjoyed. He could not wait but carefully lifted up the face of the person in his arms and looked at her intently, afraid to miss any expression on her face.
"Say it again"
Cha Jiu's face turned red, and his eyes wandered: "I, I..."
"My dear, my dear, please say to me again what you just said." Yelu Zongzheng suddenly changed his address and bit her earlobe.
This made Cha Jiu feel even more ashamed.
There seems to be a sense of taboo between the emperor and his subjects.
The broad palm was also moving around, and Cha Jiu was so moved that her mind was scattered. Finally, with red eyes, she bit Yelu Zongzheng's shoulder and sobbed, "Your Majesty is in my heart, and I always have."
The emperor's heart was now even more stirred, with deep affection bursting out of his eyes. He held the person in his arms tightly and kissed her madly.
Inside the tent, the blushing and ambiguous voices were heard again.
The imperial doctors standing guard outside looked at each other, both of them bewildered.
It's been a night!
I finally woke the person up, why did it start all over again?
The guards around continued to perform their duties conscientiously, not listening to what they shouldn't listen to, not looking at what they shouldn't look at, and looking around with sharp eagle eyes, alert to whether there were any unrelated people approaching the tent.
It was not until lunch time had passed that the imperial physician was finally summoned to examine the emperor's pulse.
…
Yelu Zongzhen looked satisfied and walked out from behind the curtain in a bold and unrestrained manner.
His upper body was only loosely covered with a robe, revealing his muscular chest covered with ambiguous kiss marks.
The imperial doctors dared not look directly at him, but just lowered their heads and took his pulse.
After a while, I finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Congratulations, Your Majesty. The infestation has been resolved. All you need to do now is take medicine every day to get rid of the infestation in your body."
Yelu Zongzheng showed no emotion, and calmly withdrew his arm: "Go and check Lord He's pulse."
The imperial physician agreed and stood up to walk towards the tent.
But the emperor stopped him again: "Wait."
The imperial physician stopped in confusion.
In a blink of an eye, they saw Yelu Zongzheng's cold and majestic figure walk into the tent, followed by soft and coaxing voices coming out from inside.
After a long while, a slender, snow-white wrist emerged from behind the curtain.
Yelu Zongzheng raised his chin and said to the imperial physician, "Let me diagnose my pulse this way."
Imperial Physician: “…”
It turns out that you don't cover up the kiss marks on your body.
He has been protected very strictly.
However, the imperial physician only dared to criticize in his heart. He silently checked Cha Jiu's pulse, prescribed medicine, and then left as usual.
After the doctor left, Yelu Zongzheng said softly to Cha Jiu again: "Are you hungry? I'll ask someone to bring you lunch, okay?"
Cha Jiu was tortured for a whole night and a morning, and was so tired that he could hardly move a finger.
She looked listless: "I don't want to eat, I want to sleep."
"You have to eat it. I asked someone to make your favorite pear blossom white jade cake, and some light and easy-to-digest ones. You can use some, okay?"
Under Yelu Zongzhen's constant coaxing, Cha Jiu reluctantly agreed.
But she still had a poor appetite at the table and couldn't eat after a few bites.
Yelu Zongzheng was extremely worried, his brows furrowed, and he took the spoon himself, feeding the baby while persuading him.
So when the Queen Mother arrived, she saw this scene:
The top scholar's face turned pale, his lips were tightly pursed, and he refused to accept the advances of the person in front of him.
Her son had a nasty face and tried to push the food in his hand into the poor child's mouth. His attitude was nasty!
The empress dowager automatically misinterpreted this caring scene as the relationship between the emperor and his minister being broken because of what happened last night. The number one scholar was disheartened, but Yelu Zongzheng was domineering and forcing him to accept this relationship.
She felt even more sympathy for Cha Jiu, and her tone when speaking to her son was somewhat reproachful.
"Since Lord He is unwilling, Your Majesty, why bother to make things difficult for him? If he is not willing to eat this bowl of soup, forcing him to eat it will only hurt his spleen and stomach."
The Queen Mother's words were full of hidden meanings, which made Yelu Zongzheng and Cha Jiu couldn't help but look at her sideways at the same time.
Cha Jiu understood, and a barely perceptible smile flashed in his eyes.
She didn't expect that the Queen Mother would choose to stand on her side when it comes to love.
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