Fu Xiaoguan and his family were happily eating hot pot in the Yangxin Palace.
On the Star-Picking Terrace of Jinghu Villa, the fat official Fu and the monk queen sat facing each other in front of a bonfire, with two women in red makeup and green clothes lying beside them.
Two chickens were roasting on the campfire, and steam was sizzling from them.
"You're treating me to this for the Lantern Festival?"
The fat man grinned, "Look, the little official's family is celebrating the festival. It would be awkward for them, as the younger generation, to be mixed up with us. The conditions are a bit simple, but the advantage is the freedom and atmosphere."
Mood?
You fat guy, do you know what romance is?
Queen Shang glanced at the fat man and said, "That year during the outing, you roasted a chicken, but what happened? You gave the two chicken legs to Xu Yunqing and the butt to me..." Queen Shang's eyes became sharp, and she asked through gritted teeth, "Fatty, don't try these hypocritical things. I won't fall for it!"
The fat man flipped the chicken on the rack and said quickly, "You are really wronging me!"
After a pause, the fat man explained, "You don't know, the chicken butt is also called Qianlixiang, and it's the most delicious part of the chicken! Look, there are two chicken legs, but only one butt. My heart for you... is like water, and the heavens can bear witness to it!"
"Shut up!"
Empress Shang let out a low sigh, and the fat man quickly retreated. Empress Shang asked, "Tell me the truth, is Xu Yunqing dead?"
"He must be dead. After so many years, his body must have turned to dust."
Queen Shang frowned slightly, "You didn't lie to me?"
"I, Master Fu, swear to heaven, if I lied to you..." As he said this, the fat man looked up at the sky. The sky was high, the sun was shining brightly, and there was not a single cloud. "If I lied to you, I would be struck by lightning!"
Empress Shang looked at the fat man suspiciously. The fat man quickly averted his gaze and said, "Think about it, my reputation is so great now. If she were still alive, would she not come to see me?"
This seemed to make sense. Empress Shang accepted the fat man's explanation and lowered her voice, "Ah... to be honest, it's such a pity. Yunqing and I are actually good friends. She's extremely talented, and I'm jealous of her. She also gave birth to a good son, so when Wenyun said she liked Fu Xiaoguan... I decided to marry Wenyun to him without hesitation."
As if recalling the past, Empress Shang's gaze fell on the distance, her expression somewhat solemn, "It's all fate. If she hadn't met Wu Changfeng in Jinling, she wouldn't have encountered such a thing."
"She will become the Empress of the Yu Dynasty, and Xiaoguan... Xiaoguan will definitely be the Crown Prince of the Yu Dynasty."
"Hey, hey, hey, you must be mistaken. How could Yu Baibai give birth to a child as smart as Xiaoguan? Forget it." The fat man was beaming as he flipped the roast chicken. Queen Shang glanced back and retorted, "You talk as if Xiaoguan was really your child!"
The fat man suddenly grinned. He pulled off a chicken leg and handed it to Queen Shang. Queen Shang didn't take it. "Didn't you say that chicken butt is the best?"
“Ah… yes!”
Queen Shang snatched the chicken leg and said, "You should keep it for yourself... Fatty."
"Um."
"Actually, I envy you sometimes. It's nice to live a heartless life like you."
The fat man was startled. "Are you insulting me or praising me?" He suddenly leaned forward, staring at Queen Shang with a sly look. "Ruoshui, actually, you don't know how depressed I am. I'm just putting on a forced smile, but every night when everyone is asleep, looking at the empty room, lying on the cold bed, my heart can only fall asleep when I think of you."
The fat man was so affectionate that Queen Shang's face was already red from the firelight. She had just taken a bite of chicken and was almost choked to death by the fat man's words.
She swallowed the chicken whole and glared at the fat man, "You can't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth!"
The fat man didn't hear the voice as a scolding. Instead, it made him feel relaxed. He chuckled and said, "My subordinate once told me that everyone has to pursue something in life. There will always be people and things that you can't let go of."
"So many years have passed, I've let go of those things long ago, but the only thing I can't let go of is you... Don't scold me, wait until I finish what I'm saying."
"Back then, I was ignorant. I was young and didn't understand how good you were to me. These past few years, I've often recalled the past, and I've come to understand more and more how good you were to me. It was a sincere feeling that was right in front of me back then, but I was so stupid that I didn't cherish it."
"Fatty! Stop talking nonsense!"
"I'm not talking nonsense..." The fat man sat up straight and sighed softly. The sunlight shining on his body actually gave off a faint smell of otherworldliness.
"Ruoshui... I think what Xiaoguan said is absolutely right. If you like someone, you should pursue them boldly. After so many years of reflection, I am sure that I like you..."
Queen Shang was embarrassed and her face turned even redder. She glared at the fat man and said in a low voice: "I told you all that I'm already a married woman..."
"That's not important. What's important is that in my heart you're still the beautiful young woman of seventeen or eighteen. As the saying goes, when dead trees bloom again, the flowers of this second spring are even more brilliant. Ruoshui... I know there's no love between you and Yu Baibai. Life is only a few decades long, can't we live boldly for ourselves?"
Queen Shang didn't say anything. She was eating a chicken leg with big mouthfuls, but the fat man's small eyes clearly saw that Queen Shang's hand holding the chicken leg was trembling slightly.
Hongzhuang woke up at this time, covering the back of her head and just raised her head when the fat man slapped her again.
"I'm in love with you, what are you doing awake?"
With a bang, Hongzhuang fell to the ground again.
The fat man decided to strike while the iron was hot. "Ruoshui, the official said that secular concepts are a cage that imprisons our ideals of pursuing a better life and makes it difficult for us to take this step. He also said that everyone is an individual, a unique existence, and has the right and freedom to pursue all that is good."
"I agree with you, so... I hope you can break free from your cage. I believe that if we were together, the sunset would be even more glorious!"
"By the way, I heard there's a vaster land on the other side of the sea. If you don't like it here, we can take that huge ship and build a house there."
After saying this, the fat man's originally sacred face became a little wretched. He squinted his eyes and said in a low voice: "I think I can have a few more children!"
"roll……!"
Empress Shang finished gnawing on the chicken leg, then raised her eyes to look at the fat face, "After saying so much, it seems that I am really going to take action against Yu Chao. I understand what you mean. You don't want me to be embarrassed, and you don't want me to be embarrassed either."
"I'm hungry. Let's eat and go. Today is the Lantern Festival. Let's go to Liuyuntai to watch the Wu Dynasty Lantern Festival."
Damn, talking to smart women is tiring!
The fat man was so weak, otherwise I would just snatch Shang Ruoshui away!
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