Chapter 241: A Generation of Evil Concubines (15)
Emperor Ping’s premonition was correct.
Since the day Qin Shuangshuang came to the palace to look for Prince Zhaoyang to return to the palace, his beloved concubine would come to his Dayang Palace to wait on him all the time.
When he ran out of ink, his beloved concubine would immediately transform into a bookish boy and grind ink for him. While grinding, she would not forget to chat with him about family matters. Of course, she was the only concubine in the harem, and the trivial matters she talked about were just what happened in Weirui Palace.
When he ran out of tea, his beloved concubine would immediately transform into a personal maid and brew tea for him. She couldn’t let the brewed tea sit there and cool, she had to watch him drink it with her own eyes.
After he finished reviewing his memorials, his beloved concubine would immediately transform into an intellectual beauty and serve him plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum to taste one by one. But God knows how much he disliked these elegant things.
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Although life was not tiring, his beloved concubine’s constant operations made him tired, both physically and mentally exhausted.
This emperor, who was praised by later generations as being more wise and powerful than the founding emperor Wu, surrendered voluntarily.
"I was wrong. You should go back to Weirui Palace." Emperor Ping put down his cinnabar pen and looked around his Dayang Palace. All the places where items could be placed were filled with various odds and ends. The originally empty white porcelain vase was also filled with green plants. The palace was so full that he could hardly remember its original simplicity.
"How can this be possible? I just asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to prepare some sachets today. They are all for peace of mind. I was thinking of arranging them for your majesty personally." Shi Yi supported her chin with one hand, revealing her white wrist. She leaned on the desk in an extremely lazy posture, with red lips and white teeth, and her eyes were moving. She was very charming.
"I really underestimated you." Emperor Ping glanced at her and picked up his cinnabar pen again.
"The emperor dismissed three thousand beauties from the harem for me, and only favored me. Of course, I can't be ignorant." The autumn sun made people tired. Shi Yi's eyes were hazy, and her other free hand waved the feather fan made of peacock feathers.
"My beloved concubine, are you going to sleep? I haven't finished reviewing my memorials yet?" Emperor Ping put the cinnabar pen back to its original place and took another brush.
"I'm not sleepy, but the autumn sun makes me lazy." Shi Yi spoke lazily. She wanted to open her eyes to prove to Emperor Ping that she would not fall asleep, but the warm yellow sunlight made her feel even more sleepy. The hand that was supporting the table slowly tilted down, and finally rested on the table, and the whole person closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Emperor Ping only had eyes for her now.
The warm yellow light was evenly spread on the sleeping beauty in palace dress. At first glance, the beauty's facial features were bright and magnificent, and her temperament was elegant and noble, but she was lazy and charming because of her sleeping posture. Looking closely, the beauty's eyelashes were like butterflies, her nose was straight, her lips were like fat, and her face was like a willow. Her appearance must be the best in the world
. He couldn't wait to pull out the drawing paper and quickly sketched the picture of the beauty sleeping in autumn like splashing ink.
Because the shrewd and powerful Emperor Wu Ping rarely painted in his life, this carefully preserved painting has become a rare treasure in the world.
After waking up from a beautiful sleep, Shi Yi felt that all the muscles and bones in her body seemed to be unblocked. She stood up with the help of the imperial table, but found that there was no one in the palace. Just as she was muttering to herself, Emperor Ping came in with Eunuch Cai.
"Your Majesty, where have you been? You didn't even take me with you." Shi Yi deliberately acted coquettishly and greeted him.
Emperor Ping understood that she was just trying to disgust him, so he let her hold him. He touched her wrist for fear that she would catch a cold during her nap. He couldn't tell whether he was concerned or just pretending, so he asked casually, "My beloved concubine, what do you want to eat when you wake up from your nap?"
When she saw his big hand on her wrist, her eyes rolled around, and she pulled her hand back, saying delicately, "I don't want to bother the emperor, let's go back to Weirui Palace and eat ice porridge."
"It's not good to be greedy for cold." Emperor Ping held her hand and gently rubbed her fingers that were red from her nap.
There was no ice porridge in the palace. It was a side dish that the beauty in front of him found by flipping through some ancient books. Use crushed ice as the base, put raisins, preserved fruits, nuts, sesame seeds on it, and finally pour jam according to personal taste, and then it can be eaten. Because he didn't like sweets, he only tasted one or two spoonfuls. But since this unconventional food was invented by her and named "Ice Porridge" by him, it has spread throughout the harem, and later spread to the people, attracting everyone's praise, which can be regarded as a benefit to the people.
Shi Yi lowered his head and looked at his profile, and found that his eyelashes were very long, and his jawline was so sharp, with a charming forbidden beauty. For a moment, he was actually confused and forgot to refute.
"Why is my beloved concubine so abnormal?" Emperor Ping let go of her hand, but wrapped her palm in his palm, strode out of the palace.
He has worked hard for a long time, and today the autumn weather is still good, and he should relax.
"I think the emperor is really the best emperor." Shi Yi followed him obediently.
"Oh, tell me carefully, how am I?" Emperor Ping deliberately slowed down his pace.
"Knowing that I replaced Gao Shuangshuang to enter the palace, not only did you not hold me responsible, but you also treated me very well. This is benevolence;
boldly appointing the respected King Zhaoyang as the general to quell the rebellion at the border, this is trust;
dismissing the concubines in the harem and the accompanying palace maids and palace maids of appropriate age, this is righteousness." Shi Yi said without thinking.
"Why are you talking so sweetly today?" Although Emperor Ping was happy, he did not stop, so Shi Yi behind him could not see the childish smile on his face.
"I always talk sweetly." Shi Yi felt that he was a little weak now, and immediately became "tough" again.
"You... suffered a lot when you were outside the palace?" Emperor Ping asked tentatively.
In his previous life, his beloved concubine complained to him a lot, because of her childhood sufferings and her stunning beauty, he couldn't help but pity her weak, but he didn't expect that he would fall into it in the end, and lost himself in love, so that he lost his country and even his life.
"What is the emperor talking about?" Shi Yi pulled his sleeve and made him stop.
She looked into his eyes and said seriously, "The people in Chaoyang Palace are not particularly kind to me, but they have done their best."
Hearing her answer, Emperor Ping was relieved.
The woman in front of him was really different from the one he met in his previous life.
It was true that he was no longer the person he was in his previous life, and the person he met again would naturally not be an old friend.
He also doesn't want to be an old friend.
(End of this chapter)
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