Chapter 14 Chapter 14 The emperor is amazing.
The scandal of "poisoning the royal heir" in the harem was so big that the emperor was unable to sleep well the whole night.
After the morning court session, I felt extremely tired and wanted to take a short nap, but the Empress Dowager sent someone to invite me to the Cining Palace.
When he finally returned from the Cining Palace exhausted, he felt that everything he saw was not to his liking and he did not want to discuss state affairs with the ministers. He simply returned to the imperial study, dismissed everyone, and planned to review the memorials for a while to relax.
I opened a book at random and found nearly a thousand words written there, but after summarizing it, there was only one sentence: Your Majesty, how are you? [1]
...not particularly good.
The emperor put the memorial down with a cold face and didn't even bother to reply with his comments.
He picked up another book, which was filled with nearly a thousand words. The emperor read on, unable to resist the temptation. The first third of the book was about greetings, and in the middle it suddenly mentioned a heavy rainstorm in a certain place. Then the topic changed to say that an old monk had passed away on a certain mountain, and another person had died in a certain place. [2]
emperor:"……"
He looked at the cover of the memorial, then took out the previous one and compared the handwriting. He was very unhappy to find that the two memorials were not written by the same person.
In other words, he has two ministers with the talents of "Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chick".
For a moment, the inner irritability quickly reached its peak.
With a cold face, he waved his hand and swept all the messy memorials on the table to the ground.
Liang Jiugong heard the noise in the imperial study and hurriedly pushed the door open with a whisk in his arms. While bending down to pick up the memorials on the ground, he carefully looked at the expression on the emperor's face.
After a while, he had almost finished collecting the memorials. He carefully stacked them into several small piles and placed them out of reach of His Majesty. Then he spoke cautiously, "Your Majesty, I heard that the flowers in the Imperial Garden have recently bloomed. Would you like to go and see them?"
The emperor raised his eyelids and looked at him coldly.
Liang Jiugong's back immediately bent down, and he raised his hand and slapped himself twice, "Your Majesty, please forgive me, I said the wrong thing..."
"Okay, I don't blame you." When saying this, the emperor's handsome face was still full of irritability.
But he himself didn't know what he was upset about.
He sat on the dragon throne and pondered for a while, then asked Liang Jiugong: "Where is Guo Luoluo?"
Liang Jiugong said uncertainly, "The Emperor didn't summon us today, so I guess he's resting in his room, right?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the emperor stood up and said, "Let's go and take a look."
Liang Jiugong hurried to follow.
In the blink of an eye, they arrived at the back room. The guards and maids at the door saw the emperor coming and were startled. After coming to their senses, they were about to bow and greet him, but the emperor stopped them in a stern voice, "Be quiet."
The guards and the nanny didn't dare to say anything at the same time.
The emperor waved to Liang Jiugong, who understood instantly and stood there motionless, holding the whisk.
The emperor walked quietly to Guo Luoluo's door alone, and listened carefully to the movements inside.
——During this journey, he gradually understood what was bothering him. Ultimately, he was shocked by what happened yesterday. He couldn't understand why the women in the harem all had two completely different faces:
On the surface, he appears weak and can be bullied, but in private he is cruel and ruthless.
He seems to love his children dearly, but in fact, he can even use his own children as bargaining chips to defeat his opponents.
There are also some people who usually call each other sisters in a friendly and affectionate manner, but when something big happens, they behave worse than a stranger.
At least passers-by won't have any sinister ideas like kicking someone when they're down or taking advantage of their misfortune.
In the past, when he was in a bad mood, he liked to invite Guo Luoluo to talk and cheer him up.
But today, for some reason, I suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in my heart, so I thought of coming over to observe secretly.
Then he heard two clear and lively female voices reciting aloud in the room:
“You clap once, I clap once, a child is wearing a flowery dress.” [3]
The emperor fell silent for a moment: "..."
He listened like this for a long time, listening to the people inside counting from one clap, two clap, to ten clap, and then counting backwards from ten clap back to one clap. Then there was silence for a moment, and suddenly they changed to something like "Malan Flower" and "Two Eight Two Five Six"... [4]
What kind of mess is this?!
…
Well, there is no need to try anymore.
The emperor sighed helplessly, and then he didn't know what he was thinking about, and his heart suddenly relaxed. The irritability that had lingered for more than ten hours disappeared like a tide at this moment.
He suddenly smiled silently, then lowered his eyes, looked deeply at Guo Luoluo's window sill, and quickly left with his hands behind his back.
He first went to the Yanx Palace to see his eldest son who was almost poisoned yesterday. After casually dealing with Nara clan, he went to the Cining Palace.
It was half an hour later when he returned to the imperial study.
Liang Jiugong still didn't know what the Emperor had heard in the back room. He only dared to cautiously peek at the Emperor's face with the corner of his eye. Seeing that there was no longer any obvious anxiety between his brows, he guessed that he had probably been coaxed into submission.
But, I clearly didn’t see Miss Guo Luoluo open the door.
She can even appease the furious emperor through the door... It seems that this young lady holds a very important position in the emperor's heart.
He also secretly raised Guo Luoluo Qingyao's status in his heart, and made up his mind that he must never neglect this "noble master" in the future.
"Your Majesty, you didn't sleep well last night. Would you like to take a nap now?" Liang Jiugong quickly forced a smile and stepped forward to ask.
The emperor pondered for a moment and shook his head, "No need."
After saying this, she seemed to remember something and said, "I remember that little sister of the Guo Luoluo family is now serving tea in the tea room as a palace maid?"
Liang Jiugong didn't expect that he would suddenly mention Li Shuyao, and his face was filled with uncontrollable shock.
He quickly lowered his head and replied carefully, "Your Majesty, yes."
The emperor raised his hand and picked up a memorial from the table. He knocked on the edge of the imperial desk and casually ordered, "Tell her to make a cup of tea."
Liang Jiugong accepted the order and was about to leave.
The emperor, however, changed his mind for some reason and said, "Wait, I want to go and see it myself."
When he looked up, he happened to see Song Fuwen delivering snacks to Li Shuyao.
The pretty palace maid was dressed extremely delicately from head to toe. Even when she handed the box, she carefully and deliberately raised her little finger. The arc of her bend was just right, showing the most beautiful and gentle side of her profile in the direction of the main entrance of the tea room.
And the one sitting on the small stool in the corner looks very small.
She was wearing a fresh green palace maid's uniform, with her hair combed into two small bunches, and several velvet flowers were pinned on her hair in a messy manner, green, pink, purple, blue... It seemed as if a whole box of velvet flowers were randomly inserted into her hair.
The little face was only the size of a palm, and the facial features were delicate and beautiful, but the cheeks were a little puffed up due to anger, and the whole person looked like a bun just out of the oven.
It is amazing at first sight, but also makes you laugh.
This person is probably Li Shuyao who played the one-two game with Guo Luoluo.
The emperor thought so in his heart.
When his gaze shifted to another palace maid, he subconsciously frowned again.
But he continued to watch patiently. When he saw the palace maid with a coquettish aura taking out a small box of cakes in a rather hypocritical manner, even a calm and composed man like him couldn't help but feel his breath disturbed for a moment.
The portion is so small that the snack will be gone before you can even taste it. How can you fill your stomach?
Is this an attempt to win over someone without having to pay too much?
While he was still thinking, he heard Li Shuyao ask what was in his heart seriously.
Good! Still a smart one!
He praised himself in his heart.
Taking advantage of the silence between the two inside, he turned his head and whispered to Liang Jiugong, "Have they ever had any conflict?"
Liang Jiugong nodded gently. Although Song Fuwen had never shown the slightest clue in front of him, on the few times he came, Li Shuyao always sat alone in the corner quietly. So even if Song Fuwen tried his best to cover it up, he still smelled something.
Afterwards, he secretly sent people to investigate, but Li Shuyao never came to him to complain, so he didn't want to force himself to speak up for her.
Another reason is, if you want to survive in this palace, how can you do it without relying on yourself?
Anyway, now I am just suffering from some neglect and grievance, which is still far away from the real palace infighting.
Therefore, Liang Jiugong remained silent.
Now that the emperor suddenly asked him this, he felt strangely uneasy.
Unexpectedly, the emperor asked casually, and after he nodded, he turned back with a cold expression.
Then the master and servant saw Li Shuyao, who was squatting in the corner of the tea room like a small mushroom, suddenly stand up.
I thought she was going to lose her temper, but it turned out to be just like this, just like this?
"Because I've already eaten my fill at Qingyao's!"
What's the difference between saying this and giving a dry explanation?
Liang Jiugong's face became a little distorted in an instant.
After a moment of stunned silence, the emperor chuckled happily.
…
After Li Shuyao finished swearing, she glared at Song Fuwen in front of her with a fierce expression.
After a while, seeing that she didn't make any extra movements and just stood there stupidly, she unhappily adjusted the wooden box in Song Fuwen's arms and said, "Go away, I never eat food given out of pity."
It sounds as if Guo Luoluo Qingyao's things were not given out of pity.
She sat back on the small stool in an instant.
Just as I was about to pick up the travel notes on the small table, I heard a calm and magnetic low laugh coming from the door of the tea room.
She looked up curiously and saw two people standing at the door, one wearing a dazzling bright yellow dress, and the other wearing a navy blue eunuch uniform, holding a familiar whisk in his hand.
Oh no, when will the emperor come?
Li Shuyao was so frightened that she quickly threw her travel notes under the table and knelt down from her seat. Her forehead hit the stone floor with a dull thud. She hissed softly and greeted in a muffled voice, "Your Majesty."
"Your servant greets His Majesty." At this time, Song Fuwen next to him also came back to his senses, suppressed his panic, turned around, and saluted gracefully.
Li Shuyao didn't hear the sound of her kneeling, and couldn't help but look up curiously.
I realized, oh, it turns out that just curtsying is enough.
Tsk, why is she being stupid again...
She was still here despising herself, while thinking about whether she should stand up and change her posture.
I was caught off guard when I heard the low laughter at the door suddenly turn into a clear and hearty loud laugh.
Li Shuyao: "..."
The emperor is amazing.
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