Chapter 68 Chapter 68 "Let her crawl!"
Perhaps because she was too carried away by her pride and forgot to conceal the volume of her voice, the emperor looked over as soon as Li Shuyao finished speaking.
A faint smile flashed across his dark eyes, then disappeared in an instant. He looked at her for a while with a slightly solemn expression.
Li Shuyao didn't know why, but she read the implication of "I'll settle the score with her after the incident".
…
So what happened again?
Why do you want to settle the score with her?
Isn't she being nice?
She should be considered the most obedient and well-behaved concubine in the entire harem, right?
Thinking of this, Li Shuyao suddenly felt more confident. She puffed up her cheeks and glared fiercely at the emperor.
Her apricot blossom eyes were watery, without any intimidation at all.
Then she raised her chin towards Nanny Lin, as if to signal him to listen to what Nanny Lin was saying.
Nanny Lin has finished explaining the background of the thorough investigation of the Imperial Household Department.
He began to present evidence, and every time he brought out a piece, Liang Jiugong cooperated very well and signaled the guards outside to bring people inside.
They were all tied up and gagged with cotton cloth, and it was obvious that there was no intention for them to answer.
Li Shuyao took a closer look and saw that they were all eunuchs in charge of the Imperial Household Department.
This one had once troubled the original owner, and that one had once helped another palace maid bully the original owner...
There was also the one with the drooping eyes and goatee. When the original owner went to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to collect something, he touched the back of the original owner's hand with a lustful look. The original owner was so scared that she washed her hands all night after returning home.
In short, they are all notorious villains.
Aunt Lin is so amazing.
What a good catch.
...Bullying, humiliation, stealing people's money, forcing people to have sex, every single thing, Nanny Lin described them all very clearly and logically.
Everyone present listened attentively.
Only Uya, who was kneeling on the ground, was trembling and almost softening into a puddle of water.
After Nanny Lin finished speaking, she paused slightly. After calming herself down, she took out a thin booklet from her sleeve and respectfully presented it to the emperor with both hands.
The booklet should contain the protective umbrellas over the heads of these eunuchs who committed crimes.
Perhaps it involved the previous dynasty or the royal family, so Nanny Lin didn't want to say it in front of so many people, so she simply wrote it in a booklet and left it for the emperor to judge.
The emperor raised his hand to take it, opened it and took a look, then closed the book with a "snap".
Then he glanced at Wu Ya lying on the ground, pondered for a moment, and said to Nanny Lin, "Go on."
This meant that Nanny Lin had to list in detail the crimes committed by the Uya clan.
Nanny Lin straightened up, glanced at Wu Ya lying on the ground indifferently, and began to tell the story.
——Since the fourth year of Kangxi's reign, when Uya's father entered the Imperial Household Department, he has been painstakingly planning and studying this matter.
First, he secretly gave hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to several ministers in charge of the Imperial Household Department.
He gave away beautiful women and rare treasures.
After finally getting in touch with them, he felt that his position was secure, so he began to form cliques in the Imperial Household Department, exclude the weak, embezzle money internally, and act domineeringly abroad.
"...After investigation, it was found that Wuya Ronglu alone was responsible for seventeen murders, and his son Wuya Manji also murdered seven or eight people...They occupied hundreds of acres of fertile land in the suburbs, and robbed dozens of houses and twenty-three good shops..."
The more Li Shuyao listened to those numbers, the angrier she became.
Looking next to her, Qingyao was also gripping the handle of the chair with a grim expression, and the veins on the back of her hand were throbbing, as if she was trying hard to endure something.
Looking at Concubine Hui, who was being supported by palace servants not far away, she also had an expression of disbelief and disbelief on her face.
The palace maids serving in the warm room began to whisper to each other.
While whispering, he couldn't help but look up at Wu Ya who was kneeling in the middle of the warm room.
"No wonder she was able to serve in the back of the Palace of Heavenly Purity as soon as she entered the palace..."
"...Don't tell me, my father once went to a restaurant and saw people from the Uya clan beating and scolding several vendors. At that time, my father thought that those vendors were blind and had deceived people and tricked the Uya clan."
"Is this true? Are the Uya clan really so arrogant outside the palace?"
"Can I still lie to you?"
"...By the way, I spoke to her the last time she came to the Palace of Heavenly Purity. I wonder if Nanny Lin also thinks I'm one of her accomplices..."
"That depends on whether you have ever accepted anything from her."
"I almost accepted it, but when I saw the bracelet she handed me, it was so good, I was afraid it was a gift from the Empress, so I didn't accept it..."
"Then you're quite lucky."
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Li Shuyao couldn't help but lean towards Qingyao.
"Qingyao, she gave me some food before, maybe..."
"No, it's just some food. Madam Lin can't trace it back to you." Qingyao didn't know what she was thinking, and shook her head absentmindedly.
Li Shuyao simply grabbed her wrist and said, "No, I mean, is the money she used to buy snacks all the hard-earned money of the ordinary people out there?"
"It's... hard to say." Qingyao finally reached out and held Li Shuyao's hand. She found her palm was cold and quickly held Li Shuyao's hand tightly in her palm with both hands. "Are you cold?"
Li Shuyao nodded honestly.
She wasn't cold at first. After all, there was a floor heating in the warm room and plenty of charcoal fire. It was hot when she first came in.
She didn't feel cold until Nanny Lin appeared.
It was only after the guards outside used their knives that her hands and feet began to feel cold. And when Nanny Lin finished describing the crimes committed by the Uya clan...
Li Shuyao was so shocked that she didn't even notice that her hands and feet hadn't warmed up yet.
Qingyao suddenly became anxious.
He stood up from the chair, walked to the shelf on the other side, took out the cloak he was wearing, and covered Li Shuyao with it without saying a word.
Her action directly attracted the attention of the emperor and others.
The emperor unconsciously leaned towards Li Shuyao and asked in a low voice, "What happened to Concubine Ling?"
Li Shuyao's little face was buried in the thick fur of the cloak, and her hands, feet and whole body were tightly wrapped. Qingyao probably felt that it was not enough, so after taking her own cloak, she took Li Shuyao's own cloak from the shelf and covered Li Shuyao directly with it.
Then he tightly grasped the edge of the cloak with both hands, and stood very close to Li Shuyao, as if he was trying to throw himself into her arms, so that Li Shuyao could not utter a complete sentence.
Hearing the emperor's question, Qingyao raised her head from the fur of her cloak with great effort and said, "Your Majesty, Lingpin said she was cold."
No, I'm not cold anymore, I'm so hot now!
It must be said that the quality of the cloaks in the Qing Dynasty was really good.
After only two layers and just two sentences, Li Shuyao's hands and feet quickly warmed up, and the heat continued to rise, making her cheeks red and even her ears hot!
Li Shuyao whimpered twice before she could say anything.
All of a sudden I felt a sense of relief, as if one of my cloaks had been taken away.
Then my body felt lighter again...
Li Shuyao looked down and found that it was the emperor who had walked over to her at some point. Without saying anything, he directly picked her up horizontally through a cloak.
Li Shuyao:?
What are you holding her for?
Are you going somewhere?
No, she hasn't heard the whole story of Uya's fate yet.
She doesn't want to leave.
Thinking of this, Li Shuyao shook her feet unhappily and struggled to say something.
Suddenly, someone patted my thigh, neither lightly nor heavily, and then a scent of ambergris hit me in the face. "Don't move."
……oh.
Don't move.
Li Shuyao was carried obediently by the emperor to the other side, to a room somewhere.
She had just struggled to push the fur of her cloak under her neck, revealing her clean, fair face, when she was caught off guard by something hard on her lower back.
Li Shuyao looked down and found that it was the emperor who put her on the bed.
After the emperor put her down, he quickly took off the cloak covering her and threw it to the ground.
Li Shuyao: "Your Majesty, don't lose it. This is Qingyao's cloak..."
The cloak was thrown on the ground. How is Qingyao going to get back to Yikun Palace later?
The emperor paused his movements, looked at Li Shuyao on the bed without any expression, then loosened his fingertips, and the cloak made of fine fox fur drooped to the ground, forming a white heap.
Li Shuyao felt very sad when she saw this.
But the next second, she had no time to care about anything else.
Probably because the tall man standing beside the bed quickly leaned over and lay down. With a hook of his big hand, he pulled Li Shuyao into his arms like a rolling top. With the other hand, he quickly pulled the bright yellow quilt on the bed and wrapped the two of them tightly together.
Li Shuyao's cheeks were slightly red.
The other person's hand was obviously not very honest.
Hiding inside the quilt, he didn't know how he groped his way to the buttons of Li Shuyao's Manchu dress, and in just a few moves he completely unbuttoned her dress.
Then he put one arm around her body and used the other hand to quickly strip off her clothes.
After peeling and peeling, Li Shuyao was left with only a thin layer of inner clothes.
So fast!
He has practiced it, right?
Thinking about it again, I realized that I had indeed practiced it.
This happened several times when she was serving the emperor in the past. She was kissed until she was in a daze and didn't even know when she was carried to the bed or when her clothes were taken off.
The more Li Shuyao thought about it, the redder she became.
After the emperor took off her clothes, he did not take any other action.
He just raised his hand and touched her slightly hot cheeks and forehead, pinched her earlobes, and then gathered her cool fingers in his big palm.
It was as if he was using his body to transmit warmth to her...
Li Shuyao was lost in thought.
The emperor held her in his arms and whispered, "Aren't you pregnant?"
"...Yes." Li Shuyao took several breaths before replying.
"A pregnant woman's body temperature is usually a few degrees higher than that of an ordinary person. Why are your hands and feet cold?" the emperor asked her.
Li Shuyao recalled the muffled sounds she had heard earlier and couldn't help but shrink her neck deeper into the quilt. "I, I don't know either. Maybe, I was scared."
"What frightened you?" the emperor asked again, "Were you frightened by the things the Uya clan did outside the palace?"
But more than that.
Li Shuyao told the truth, she was frightened by the sound of the guard's knife.
From childhood to adulthood, from before she crossed over to after, she had never seen a dead person, let alone... and she heard a murder scene from such a close distance.
Li Shuyao finished speaking in a dull voice, but the emperor raised his hand and tapped her on the forehead, "Do you think those people shouldn't be killed?"
Li Shuyao shook her head. "They bullied so many people. They deserve to be killed."
There is a real difference between hearing others say it and seeing it with your own eyes.
The emperor's mind turned and he quickly understood what she meant. He pinched a few of her fingers and put them to his lips and kissed them a few times. Then he quickly squeezed her hand and put it back under the quilt. "Don't worry, I didn't kill them."
"Not killed?" Li Shuyao was stunned.
The emperor hummed, and suddenly said to Li Shuyao, "I plan to build a garden in the western suburbs, so now is the time to use people. Instead of killing them, it would be better to let them go to the suburbs to help open up the wasteland."
Garden?
The Old Summer Palace?!
Li Shuyao's apricot blossom eyes lit up in an instant.
However, as soon as this thought came to her mind, she quickly suppressed it.
No, it shouldn’t be the Old Summer Palace. Although the Old Summer Palace was also built during the reign of Emperor Kangxi, it was not this early.
It is probably Changchun Garden.
It seems that the historical Kangxi died in Changchun Garden, but the emperor in the novel was poisoned by the heroine Uya and died in the Qianqing Palace.
Thinking of this, Li Shuyao looked a little hesitant.
After a long while, he asked hesitantly, "Your Majesty, how do you plan to deal with the Uya clan?"
The emperor saw every little expression on her face and said without hesitation, "Those whose hands have taken lives will be beheaded in public, and all the money collected will be put into the national treasury. As for the others, they will be exiled to Ningguta."
"Then, what about Wu Yalianchu?" Li Shuyao asked in a low voice.
As soon as she finished asking, her chin was pinched and lifted up with an unyielding force.
The Emperor looked directly into her eyes and asked, "How do you want me to deal with her?"
Li Shuyao didn't know.
Wu Yalianchu is the heroine in the original novel, and the aura of the heroine is so powerful.
He was able to escape danger several times.
Although the plot has been distorted now, the emperor doesn't seem to like her very much.
But... what if, what if, by accident, she triggers the heroine's halo?
While Li Shuyao was thinking hard, the emperor was secretly observing the micro-expressions and reactions on her face.
When Nanny Gong was investigating rumors in the palace, she once asked Nanny Jia about something - after he promoted Guo Luoluo to be an official girl, Li Shuyao had a big fight with Guo Luoluo.
This shows that Li Shuyao once had the idea of climbing up the social ladder.
But why did these thoughts of hers suddenly disappear?
The emperor is unpredictable.
He prided himself on not misjudging people, but from the first time he saw Li Shuyao, he realized that this little palace maid in front of him was really lazy.
Not to mention trying to curry favor with a rich and powerful person, she couldn't even live a good life.
Living was easy for her, and dying seemed like nothing to be afraid of.
On the surface, they seem to be very afraid of the imperial power, but it is hard to say what their attitude is inside.
Therefore, the emperor was somewhat reluctant to believe that Li Shuyao would be the kind of person that Nanny Gong described.
So why was she so angry at that time?
It can't be...
The emperor didn't know what he was thinking about, but his heart suddenly moved.
Then his eyes began to wander around unnaturally.
It can't be that you admire me, right?
…
Li Shuyao had no idea that the person in front of her was pinching her chin while thinking of some strange ideas in his mind.
She carefully recalled the plot of the original novel and found that it didn't match up, some of the events hadn't happened, and several other very important characters hadn't appeared until now.
Therefore, if Uya is expelled from the palace now, there is a high probability that she will never come back.
Thinking of this, Li Shuyao suddenly became a little excited.
Her bright almond-shaped eyes looked at the tall man in front of her.
Seeing that he wasn't looking at her, she proactively moved her chin towards his fingers, rubbing them a few times. After regaining his attention, she asked cheerfully, "Your Majesty, do you mean that no matter how I want to deal with Wu Yalianchu, Your Majesty will let me do it?"
"Hmm?" The emperor was a little surprised when he heard this. Did Nizi really come up with a solution?
He suddenly became interested and wanted to hear Li Shuyao's thoughts, so he smiled and said, "Tell me, how do you plan to deal with her?"
"I want her to crawl!" Li Shuyao said in a loud voice.
emperor:"……"
He didn't understand, so he had to ask, "What do you mean by 'let her crawl'?"
Is there any form of punishment in this world that he has not heard of?
Li Shuyao reached out and tugged at his collar, motioning him to lower his head and listen carefully to what she said.
The emperor was very cooperative, lowered his head patiently, and put his ear close to Li Shuyao's mouth.
Li Shuyao whispered, "Your Majesty, doesn't she like to instigate others to climb into bed? Then let her experience the pleasure of 'climbing' herself."
"Your Majesty, have you heard of Mount Tai? I want her to climb it, and she must do it on foot without any help from outside."
"Just climb back and forth every day, climb up, then come down, then climb up again the next day, then come down again, day after day, endlessly..."
After the emperor heard this, there was a long silence.
Li Shuyao noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with his expression.
He quickly pondered over what he had just said in his mind, and felt that the problem was most likely with the word "Mount Tai".
It seems that the ancients valued Mount Tai very much...
So, at this time, is it true that people are not allowed to climb Mount Tai casually?
Thinking of this, Li Shuyao suddenly became a little anxious. She tugged at the emperor's collar with her fingers and exerted a little more force. "If Mount Tai doesn't work, then Mount Hua. What do you think, Your Majesty?"
Mount Tai is high and Mount Hua is steep.
Moreover, Mount Hua at that time was not as developed as it is today.
Therefore, just climbing up like that would scare Uya half to death.
The palace guards would have to trouble themselves to escort her to Mount Huashan, and they would have to supervise her climbing the mountain every day...
In order to prevent her from escaping, someone will probably be sent to climb with her.
So should we send some careful and brave guards?
Li Shuyao frowned and thought with a slightly distressed look.
After a while, the emperor beside her finally found his voice with difficulty, "Is this the solution you came up with?"
Li Shuyao came back to his senses in an instant and nodded repeatedly like a puppy.
The emperor said nothing. He silently grabbed her fingers and pinched them a few times. Just as he was about to put them back into the quilt, he suddenly realized that her fingertips were no longer as cold as before.
So he paused and simply placed Li Shuyao's fingers in his palm and played with them at will.
Li Shuyao had not yet realized that her fingers had become toys, and was still waiting for the emperor's reaction with shining eyes.
After a long while, the man finally spoke in a low voice, "I agree."
"However, the wars in the south are frequent and the situation is not peaceful, so she can only crawl for a month at most..."
"One month?" Li Shuyao blinked. "One month is fine."
I guess just three or five times would be enough to scare her to death.
"What will you do after one month?" the emperor asked again.
Li Shuyao thought for a moment, then retracted her finger and pointed north, her expression innocent. "It takes a month to climb the mountain, but it will take at least a month to go there and back. She'll probably miss her family by then. How about Your Majesty show mercy and send her to reunite with her family?"
This meant that Uya would be exiled to Ningguta.
After hearing this, the emperor chuckled deeply and said, "Okay."
After saying that, he took Li Shuyao's fingers in his palm and kneaded them.
Li Shuyao lowered her eyes and looked at her fingers which had been rubbed until they were slightly rosy.
He thought in his heart that it was a very rebellious thing to do, just because he was not deceived by Uya.
...Reward him this time!
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On that day, Li Shuyao rested in the Qianqing Palace.
After the farce in the East Warm Pavilion ended, the emperor immediately moved her back to the dragon bed in the East Warm Pavilion and ordered someone to invite an imperial physician for Li Shuyaoyan.
After examining her, the imperial physician said that she was a little frightened, but the fetus was fine.
Just take a few days of rest.
So the emperor waved his hand, directly "misinterpreted" the words of the imperial physician, and forced her to stay in the eastern warm room of the Qianqing Palace for several days.
During this period, the Empress Dowager also sent someone to inquire about it. After learning that it was true that Li Shuyao was frightened, she soon stopped saying anything more.
In the harem, the concubines saw that the people from the Cining Palace had also returned empty-handed. Although they were resentful, they did not dare to show any emotion on their faces.
So Li Shuyao was miserably used as a hot water bottle by the emperor for several days to warm his hands.
She was held so tightly every night before falling asleep that she dreamed of giant snakes for several days in a row.
When she returned to Changchun Palace again, she felt as if her whole body was marinated in the smell of ambergris!
She immediately asked someone to find hot water, and while bathing, she asked Nanny Yan: "Has anyone in the harem been scolding me these days?"
Otherwise, why would Wen Mei and the others have such strange expressions when they saw her come back?
Nanny Yan paused while washing her hair, glanced at her cautiously, and then said carefully, "No, it's just that... the Empress sent someone to tell her earlier that she would like to invite you to Kunning Palace when you return."
Li Shuyao:?
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