Chapter 21 Nothing He Expected
The fact that the emperor summoned Qu Fufeng made the Qu family very confused.
But the emperor's order could not be disobeyed, so they still let Qu Fufeng enter the palace.
The fake Qu Fufeng was a little nervous. It was his first time meeting the emperor and he hoped nothing would go wrong.
After entering the palace, he followed the rules taught by his family and bowed carefully: "Your Highness."
"Catch him." Lu Yanshi gave the order with a cold face.
Qu Fufeng: ???
What's wrong with the emperor of Daxia? He just ties people up when they disagree with something?
With a knife flashing with cold light at his neck, he dared not move at all, allowing the guards to tie him up like a dumpling.
"Your Majesty, what crime have I committed?" Qu Fufeng had imagined many scenes of meeting the emperor, but he had never thought that he would be arrested like a criminal as soon as he arrived.
After all, the grandfather of this body is a great scholar in the world, and his sister is one of the four concubines in the harem. The emperor should not make things difficult for him.
"Are you from the 21st century?" Lu Yanshi asked tentatively.
Qu Fufeng's eyes lit up. The emperor actually knew about the 21st century. Could he be a fellow villager who traveled through time?
He excitedly shouted out the secret code: "The moon shines brightly before my bed."
But Lu Yanshi in front of him had a blank expression on his face.
Qu Fufeng murmured in his heart: This shouldn’t be the case. Even a three-year-old child can recite this poem.
So he tried to say a phrase in English that everyone knows: "How are you?"
Lu Yanshi remained unmoved.
But he already had the answer in his heart. This person was indeed an outsider, just as Lu Li said.
Could this strange language be the dialect of humans in the 21st century?
Many thoughts flashed through Lu Yanshi's mind.
"I already know that you are not Qu Fufeng. You are just a lonely ghost who has occupied Qu Fufeng's body." He spoke with a cold face.
Qu Fufeng's face turned pale.
How did the emperor know such a secret matter?
It’s over. I hope he won’t be burned to death as a monster.
"Your Majesty, I am not a monster, I just traveled through time. I did not kill Qu Fufeng. Traveling through time is very common." He suddenly became more anxious.
"I'll give you a stick of incense to think about what to say. If you're not lying, I'll spare your life." After Lu Yanshi said this, he ordered someone to light a stick of incense and left.
Qu Fufeng was completely dumbfounded.
What does the emperor want him to say?
What should he say?
He was in a state of complete confusion.
This time when he entered the palace, nothing happened as he had expected.
What should he do?
…
Lu Yanshi left, firstly to create pressure on Qu Fufeng on purpose, and secondly because he wanted to go to Weiyang Palace to take Lu Li with him.
With Lu Li around, even if Qu Fufeng was talking nonsense, he would be able to figure it out.
"Our Xiaojiu must want to go out and play, right? Come on, let father take you there." Lu Yanshi smiled and held Lu Li in his arms.
【Think about it. Of course I do.】
[Father is the best. Father understands me the best! ]
When Lu Li learned that she could go out and play, she was so happy that she kept smiling at Lu Yanshi, with a very flattering attitude.
Lu Yanshi smiled and took the person away.
The time of one stick of incense passed quickly.
Lu Yanshi brought Lu Li back to Yu's study.
"Qu Fufeng, have you figured out what you should confess to me?" He treats his daughter as warmly as spring breeze, but he is serious when dealing with others.
[Qu Fufeng? The beautiful aunt's brother? The guy who was possessed by a ghost? ]
Lu Li suddenly became interested.
"Your Majesty, I am not a wandering ghost. My name is also Qu Fufeng, but I come from the future." During the time it took to burn an incense stick, Qu Fufeng was sweating profusely.
He felt that he was so naive before.
He feels that he comes from the 21st century and knows more than these ancient people. He can make bombs, understand science and technology, and can overthrow the feudal dynasty.
And just now, reality slapped him in the face.
In ancient times, the imperial power was the most terrifying. It was as easy to kill him as to kill an ant.
His attempt to overthrow Daxia was like an ant trying to shake a tree.
"Please continue." Lu Yanshi motioned for him to continue.
He was going to die anyway, so Qu Fufeng just gave up and told everything.
He told Lu Yanshi about the development situation in the 21st century.
He heard that they had cars that could run dozens of miles in the time it takes to stick an incense stick, chickens that could fly in the sky carrying hundreds of people, phones that could transmit voices thousands of miles away, and many other things he had never heard of before.
Lu Yanshi was greatly shocked.
Is the 21st century really so terrifying?
[Wow, I didn’t expect there is such an interesting place in the world. ]
[If I have the chance, I really want to go and see it. ]
Lu Li felt longing after hearing this.
That thing called the Internet is really great. It allows you to see everything in the world without leaving your home. It's perfect for her!
"Have my achievements ever been recorded in history books?" Lu Yanshi was a little curious.
Qu Fufeng shook his head.
This was a dynasty that had never been recorded in history. He had inquired about it and found out that it should be similar to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when the various countries had not yet been unified.
"Perhaps it is a parallel world, Daxia did not exist in history."
Seeing Lu Yanshi's dissatisfied expression, Qu Fufeng quickly added: "Not only Daxia, but other surrounding countries, such as Dongluo and Xichang, have not appeared either."
Only then was Lu Yanshi satisfied.
Seeing that his daughter had fallen asleep in his arms, Lu Yanshi asked someone to send her back.
He glanced at Qu Fufeng, who was kneeling on the ground and trembling with fear, and said, "From today on, you will stay in the palace and tell me everything you know. Let's start from the so-called five thousand years of Chinese history."
Qu Fufeng wanted to cry but had no tears. It would take a long time to figure out when this would happen.
Besides, he is a science and engineering guy and his history knowledge is not very good.
"I'll leave when you've finished talking." Lu Yanshi left with these words and turned away.
Qu Fufeng was placed under house arrest in a side hall of Lu Yanshi's bedroom, and Lu Yanshi had someone send a puppet back to the Qu family.
And asked the Qu family to keep their mouths shut and not tell anyone that Qu Fufeng did not return home.
The Qu family was terrified and didn't know what Qu Fufeng had done, but the emperor wouldn't tell them, so they could only ask for help from their daughter in the palace.
When Qu Zhiwei learned about this, his eyebrows twitched violently.
She always felt that the emperor must have known something, so he deliberately targeted the Qu family.
She quickly wrote to her family and asked them to clear out all the things that shouldn't be in the house.
The emperor did not take action now, which means he was giving the Qu family an opportunity.
However, Concubine De did not know what was happening behind the scenes. Her focus was on the fact that the Emperor summoned Concubine Xian's brother and met him for four full hours. Before leaving, he even had someone personally send him back to the Qu family.
This is a great honor!
"There were rumors earlier that the Emperor was going to appoint a new Empress. I guess he wouldn't like Qu Zhiwei?" Concubine De crumpled the handkerchief in her hand into a ball, feeling confused.
So should she deal with Xia Zhaoyi or Concubine Xian first?