Chapter 424: The Stunning Flower Demon in the Palace Fighting Novel (Extra)
★The second southern tour began in the fifth year of Xiao Yan’s accession to the throne.
This time it was not as grand as the previous ones. It was more of a secret visit, with only the queen, the imperial teacher, two attendants, a team of secret guards... and a rabbit accompanying him.
In the words of later generations, this was a family trip.
In a certain inn in Yangzhou City, Xiao Yan personally moved two pots of flowers to the window. One was the poppy Su Yu had given him before, and the other was the one that had just sprouted a little green...
Su Yu glanced guiltily at Xiao Yan, who was watering the seedlings with a gentle look on his face.
My thoughts go back to two months ago.
After the imperial physician checked Ping'an's pulse, Xiao Yan frowned slightly: "Still no result?"
The imperial physician organized his words and said, "Your Majesty has a cold body and it is not easy for you to conceive. I will prescribe some medicine for you to regulate your body. Maybe you will get pregnant in a while."
After the imperial physician left, Su Yu snorted unhappily and turned her back to Xiao Yan: "Do you despise me for not being able to have children?"
Xiao Yan quickly explained: "Of course not."
In fact, Xiao Yan didn't know whether humans and monsters could have children. He asked the imperial teacher but got no answer. What if they couldn't...
He adopted one from his clan.
Seeing Xiao Yan racking his brains to explain that he did not value offspring, Su Yu suddenly felt like teasing him and glanced at him from the corner of her eyes: "I am a demon, of course I can't give birth to children like you humans."
Xiao Yan suppressed the disappointment in his eyes and said, "It's okay. I will just adopt a son from my clan."
★The next day, Su Yu threw him a seed.
Xiao Yan held the seed in his hand and asked, "What is this?"
Su Yu said lazily: "Your son."
At that moment, many things flashed through Xiao Yan's mind, and he finally convinced himself with difficulty that Su Yu was a flower demon, so it was not surprising that his son was a seed.
After accepting this setting, Xiao Yan found a flowerpot with a sacred expression, and under the guidance of the gardener, planted the seeds with his own hands.
From then on, he loosened the soil and watered the seeds every day until the seeds sprouted and grew into seedlings. He moved the seeds outside the yard to bask in the sun every day and moved them back into the house at night. He did everything by himself and never asked anyone else to do it for him.
Normally, the mother would go through ten months of hard work to carry the baby, but when it came to Xiao Yan, his father had to work hard every day to raise the child, while his mother just sat back and thought about playing all day.
But Xiao Yan enjoyed it, and would even take half an hour at night to sit in front of the seedling and read to it.
The more he did this, the more Su Yu dared not tell him the truth.
I sneaked outside and happened to run into the rabbit demon who was looking for food outside.
Seeing Su Yu frowning, the rabbit demon came over and asked: "You haven't told him the truth yet?"
Su Yu's face wrinkled into a bun: "How should I tell him?"
Xiao Yan is now like a pregnant woman, with strong maternal... and paternal instincts. If she were to tell him that the seed was not his child, but just something she picked up to tease him, he would probably go crazy.
"Then you can't keep it to yourself forever. What will you do when the seed grows up?"
Su Yu was almost regretting her decision: "How could I know he was so stupid? He believed the lies I told him."
The rabbit demon was curious: "What kind of seed is that?"
Su Yu picked it up from the poppy bush in Changle Palace. It seemed to belong to one of her nephews or nieces.
"Same as me."
When Su Yu thought that Xiao Yan would be more convinced when the flowers grew, she felt depressed: "I should not have picked up poppy seeds earlier. It would be better to just pick up one at random in the Imperial Garden."
The rabbit demon pulled her and said, "Xiaohua, stop talking."
Su Yu insisted on speaking, and pulled the rabbit demon to complain: "Why is Xiao Yan so stupid? How can a human and a demon produce a seed? It's not a real flower or plant. He is still the emperor. How can he rule the world like this?"
Su Yu suddenly felt a chill behind her and turned back subconsciously.
“…”
Xiao Yan stared at her with a dark face and said sinisterly: "Tell me again, where did that seed come from?"
Su Yu froze and was about to give the rabbit monster a look for help, but when she turned her sight away, the rabbit monster had already slipped away, and its movements were so smooth and skillful that it made her teeth itch.
"I picked it up." Su Yu lowered her head guiltily.
Xiao Yan laughed angrily: "Picked it up?"
Thinking back on the stupid things he had done during this period, he treated a picked up seed as his own son, carefully cared for it every day, and even read to it... Xiao Yan felt dizzy and his mind went blank.
It’s no wonder that Su Yu said he was stupid, he also felt that he was quite stupid.
Su Yu grabbed his sleeve, her tone sincere and full of apology: "Don't be angry, I won't laugh at you, really."
Such words were not convincing at all, and even made Xiao Yan certain that she must have laughed at him behind his back.
"And I will definitely not tell anyone about this." Su Yu promised.
Although Xiao Yan was angry, he still had some sense and was not easily fooled by her: "How did the rabbit know that?"
Su Yu: “…”
"I will never tell anyone else except her." Su Yu swore to the sky.
Xiao Yan narrowed his eyes: "The third one?"
At this time, the Imperial Master passed by, observed the two of them with interest for a few seconds, stroked his beard and said cheerfully: "Hey, Your Majesty, you are not raising a son for others?"
Su Yu lowered her head even more and swore to the sky again: "I only told these two people, no one else."
Xiao Yan didn't know how to describe his current feelings.
"Su Yu, you are really great." Xiao Yan gritted his teeth, "Do you know what the crime of deceiving the emperor is?"
Su Yu soon found out.
The door slammed and locked from the inside.
The Imperial Master snorted coldly and cursed Xiao Yan in his heart, saying that he deserved it. He had advised him that Su Yu was a monster and could not be the Queen, but he did not listen. Now it was all his own fault.
In broad daylight, the bed curtains fluttered down.
"Since the seeds were obtained by deceiving me, in order to atone for the crime, Queen, please compensate me with a child."
How to compensate? The first step is of course to get pregnant.
Su Yu: “…”
Please be understanding, after all, he is a father who just lost his child.
…
After several days of tossing and turning, Xiao Yan finally accepted the fact that he had been deceived and took good care of his "fake son" for two months.
Su Yu kindly took him to the street to relax.
"Hey, there are clay figurines over there." Su Yu said, pointing to a clay figurine stall.
When they were in Yunzhou, the clay figurines they asked the stall owners to make were still kept in the palace.
“It’s not as good-looking as the one made by the stall owner in Yunzhou.”
The two stood in front of the stall for a while, just looking but not buying, and were finally driven away by the boss.
Yangzhou City was more lively than Yunzhou. Not long after they walked, they encountered a group of people gathered in front of them. Su Yu's instinct to join in the fun made her pull Xiao Yan and squeeze over.
In the very center, a woman was kneeling on the ground crying.
Next to it was a cart with a person lying on it, covered with a white cloth.
The familiar plot of selling oneself to bury one's father.
However, Su Yu noticed that the person on the cart moved his toes.
Looking more closely, he's alive, not dead?
Seeing Xiao Yan's extraordinary demeanor and the rich clothes he was wearing, the crying woman's eyes lit up slightly: "This young master."
The woman raised her head in a sad voice: "Please have mercy on me, sir, and let my father be buried as soon as possible. As long as you are willing to help me, I am willing to serve you as a slave."
If it were someone else, even if they didn't help, they would have at least shown some sympathy, but unfortunately the person she met was Xiao Yan.
"My family has no shortage of servants." Xiao Yan said coldly with an expressionless face.
The woman choked, as if it was the first time she had encountered such an answer.
Xiao Yan was too lazy to watch this kind of drama, so he took Su Yu's hand and walked out: "There's nothing to see, let's go."
The woman then realized that there was another woman beside Xiao Yan. She subconsciously looked at her and was dazzled by her beautiful face. Suddenly, she understood why the young man had refused her just now.
What a pity, he looks like a fat sheep.
No one noticed that a bee buzzed and flew to the side of the cart, as if looking for a place to land.
A few seconds later.
"Ah!!!!" The 'corpse' on the cart jumped down, covering its feet and screaming in pain.
The people nearby were so frightened that they ran around, shouting, "It's a corpse!"
Su Yu covered her mouth and laughed, then turned around to look at the lively scene over there.
Xiao Yan also had a smile in his eyes: "Don't use magic casually outside."
Su Yu curled her lips and refused to admit it: "Who used magic? It was just a bee that stung someone accidentally."
The two of them walked from the beginning to the end of the street.
"Yangzhou City is not as prosperous and bustling as Beijing, but it is more interesting and relaxed than Beijing." A voice said.
Su Yu agreed with this statement.
"I also think it's more fun here. The capital is too serious. There is a curfew every day, and guards patrol the streets. No one dares to sell themselves on the street to bury their father. There are rigid rules everywhere."
Xiao Yan's face was serious: "The capital is the capital of the country. If we allow everything to be free and unrestrained, how will foreigners view our dynasty?"
"Then you can just beat the Gentiles until they dare not speak."
Su Yu didn't want to pay attention to him and looked towards the source of the voice.
Coincidentally, the person over there heard what was said here and looked over here.
The moment their eyes met, Su Yu smiled. What a coincidence, isn't it? They are acquaintances.
Xue Chuyue's face changed slightly, and she subconsciously let go of the hand of the person beside her. Only after letting go did she realize that she was no longer Xiao Yan's concubine.
The man beside him was puzzled: "Yue Niang, what's wrong?"
Xiao Yan glanced at the two of them with a calm expression, just like he was looking at those insignificant passers-by he had met before. If Su Yu had not been interested, he would not have even looked at them twice.
"What a coincidence." Su Yu pulled Xiao Yan over, "You are also in Yangzhou."
Xue Chuyue was somewhat at a loss. Normally, she should have saluted them, but there were people coming and going on the street, and the two of them seemed to have concealed their identities...
The man beside him had a gentle expression: "Yue Niang, is this your friend?"
Xue Chuyue didn't know whether she should nod.
Su Yu answered for her: "Yes, we met in the capital. Are you her husband?"
Su Yu looked at the man next to Xue Chuyue curiously. The two of them were in an intimate posture. Even if they were not husband and wife, they should be a pair of lovers who understood each other's feelings.
Very good, the male protagonist broke down, and the female protagonist also found her second spring.
This world really is a beautiful place (forced smile).
After a second of silence for freedom, Su Yu smiled again. She would continue on the path she had chosen even if she had to kneel... although she had already kneeled for several lifetimes.
The man admitted generously: "My wedding date with Yue Niang is on the ninth day of next month. Today I'm going to the street to buy some things for the wedding. Since you are Yue Niang's friends, you must come to drink a glass of wedding wine when the time comes."
At the man's enthusiastic invitation, Su Yu promised to go if she had time.
Xue Chuyue was in a daze the whole time, not understanding why the scene was so harmonious.
Su Yu also felt that it turned out that the ex's current boyfriend and the current boyfriend's ex could communicate peacefully and amicably.
After chatting for a while, Su Yu found out that the heroine did not go home after leaving the palace, but took half of the family property, settled in Yangzhou, and opened a rouge shop to pass the time.
"That's great. I want to be like you too." Su Yu envied.
If you have money and free time, open a small shop and find a gigolo, life will be wonderful just by thinking about it.
If Xue Chuyue didn't know that Su Yu was simple and innocent, she would have thought she was being sarcastic. It was really funny that the Queen said she wanted to be like an ordinary woman like her.
But on second thought, Xue Chuyue recalled her past and felt that her life now was much more comfortable and relaxed than when she was the emperor's concubine.
Xue Chuyue lowered her eyebrows and said in a gentle voice: "Madam, please don't laugh. Your current status is something that many women would envy."
After chatting for a while, Su Yu said goodbye: "We have something else to do, so we won't bother you anymore."
"Ma'am, take care."
On the other side, Xue Chuyue's fiancé was still wondering why Xue Chuyue's attitude towards Su Yu and the others was not like that of a friend, but too distant and respectful.
Su Yu quickly forgot about the two people and pulled Xiao Yan to look somewhere else.
Xue Chuyue glanced back and saw Xiao Yan being pulled by the overly lively Su Yu to run a few steps. She smiled slightly, it was rare to see His Majesty looking so unstable.
It's good like this now.
Su Yu and his friends have been in Yangzhou for half a month. They have to set off before the ninth day of next month, so they can only regretfully miss the heroine's wedding.
Waterways and land routes are intertwined. Jiangnan is mountainous and has many rivers. Although it is rich, it is also home to many mountain bandits.
Today, these bandits unfortunately hit a wall.
Su Yu excitedly lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked out. A group of vicious criminals with ferocious faces, some holding knives and some holding axes, were shouting and rushing towards their carriage.
When someone saw Su Yu, their eyes widened: "There is another beautiful girl, brothers, go and take her back to be the wife of the eldest brother."
Xiao Yan's face darkened and he gestured to the secret guards disguised as ordinary guards beside the carriage, killing all of them.
Su Yu immediately stopped them: "No, tell them not to do it, let me play for a while first."
Then the bandits saw Su Yu's methods, and watched in horror as they flew into the sky, spun around, and spun faster and faster, almost vomiting, and then bang! They fell to the ground.
Not dead, but scared to death.
Is it a god or a monster?
Su Yu manipulated the bandits' bodies for enough fun before letting them go.
Xiao Yan gave a look to the secret guards, and after receiving the order, they acted like cold-blooded killing machines, killing those who were not dead and stabbing the dead again to prevent them from faking their death.
What happened today will never be spread out.
After the scene was cleaned up, Xiao Yan pulled Su Yu, who was watching the fun, back into his arms and said, "Don't use your magic power in front of others casually in the future."
Although he has said this many times, Xiao Yan probably will continue to say it in the future.
Su Yu said shamelessly: "Don't worry, I know my limits."
At the same time, a letter of accusation with the imperial seal was sent to the governor of Yangzhou, asking him how he governed Yangzhou and why he did not encircle and suppress the bandits, allowing them to persecute passers-by?
The governor was so frightened that his official hat almost fell off his head, and he immediately arranged for people to go up the mountain to suppress the bandits.
The carriage moved farther and farther away.
Su Yu threatened: "Now you know how powerful I am, if you dare to bully me, I will make you suffer like those bandits just now."
Xiao Yan chuckled: "Got it, I will never bully you no matter who I bully."
"You promise?"
"I promise."
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