Chu Yanyu sought an audience outside the Qianqing Palace. The emperor had a good impression of Chu Guiren, so he summoned Chu Guiren.
After Chu Yanyu entered the palace, he found that the prince's children were also there. He thought that the fish monster must be a monster, no wonder it could confuse the emperor. Chu Yanyu was a little disdainful of these monsters.
Dabao and his children were originally studying in the study room. When the emperor learned that the prince and his wife were coming, he ordered Luo Ruisheng to go to the study room to take the children over and reunite with the prince.
The children were often brought around by the emperor, and the emperor's concubines were also common. In the past, when Chu Guiren tried to please the emperor, he had also set his sights on several children. He often gave them some small jade carvings and toys. However, the children were warned by Yu's father not to get close to people they were not familiar with, and they would not accept gifts. Chu Guiren's coaxing failed once.
This time when he saw the children, Chu Yanyu's attitude obviously cooled down, not as enthusiastic as usual. Although the children were young, it did not mean that they could not realize it. Soon they found that Chu Guiren, who used to smile at them, seemed to not smile at them again.
"He is so fickle." The children whispered. "
Fickle" is a new word they learned recently, and they often use it.
The emperor laughed out loud after hearing the childish talk. Chu Yanyu was so embarrassed that he had to pretend that he didn't hear it.
"Your Majesty, I have something very important to report."
Chu Yanyu took a step forward and knelt down.
Because it was related to the fish monster, the children would be very troublesome. Chu Yanyu hoped that the emperor could send them all away.
"Just say it."
Compared with Chu Yanyu's caution, the emperor didn't care. In the eyes of the emperor, Dabao and the others were his grandchildren, not outsiders, so there was no need to let the children go.
Chu Yanyu gritted his teeth. It seemed that he could only say it in front of these monsters...
He had prepared a speech on the way to the Qianqing Palace. He only roughly told what the maid saw in the hunting grounds and that there was only a fish sitting in the Crown Princess's sedan chair.
Although it was not explicitly stated that the Crown Princess was a fish monster, the implication was very obvious.
Emperor: “…………”
The emperor’s first reaction was disbelief. It was too absurd to believe that a living person was a demon just based on one side of the story.
The emperor shouted, “What do you mean? Are you trying to slander the Crown Princess?”
Although the emperor had a good impression of Noble Chu, the Crown Princess was a junior whom the emperor treated as his own daughter. This impression was not enough to shake the Crown Princess’s position, but made the emperor dissatisfied with Noble Chu.
Dabao was right next to the emperor, listening openly, wondering if Yu Dad had been discovered?
Dabao hurriedly pulled at the sleeve of his dragon robe.
Seeing this, the emperor held him on his lap to prevent Noble Chu from talking nonsense and scaring Dabao.
Although Chu Yanyu had helped the emperor before, the emperor would not allow a concubine to slander the Crown Princess.
"Come here, Noble Chu is talking nonsense, take him away and hand him over to the Ministry of Punishment for punishment!"
The emperor gave an order and Chief Steward Luo came up to arrest him. He looked at Chu Yanyu as if he were a dead person. The emperor had a very good impression of the crown princess. Noble Chu was really evil. If the crown prince heard about it, he would have offended both the emperor and the crown prince!
"Your Majesty, I beg you, please listen to me - you have also seen the fish, don't you think it is too human-like? And have you never seen the Crown Princess appear with the fish? The reason is very simple, the Crown Princess is the fish, there is no way they can appear together! I dare to guarantee that everything you say is true. If you tell even a lie, God will strike you with thunder!"
Chu Yanyu struggled hard, and stated to the emperor at the top of his voice, and was willing to swear an oath to make the emperor believe him.
"Your Majesty, please think about it. The Crown Princess is called Li Yu, which is clearly a fish demon!"
The emperor was irritated by Chu Yanyu's shouting. After hearing these nonsense words, Dabao's head drooped and he was trembling slightly. The emperor was anxious and angry: "Shut up, I don't believe it. Li Yu, could it be a fish demon?"
There was a general with great military achievements in this dynasty, whose name contained the word "rabbit", and a musician with outstanding piano skills, whose name contained the word "turtle". So is that a rabbit demon or a turtle spirit?
Does Chu Yanyu have a brain? Indeed, the emperor has never seen the Crown Princess appear with a fish, but there are many times when she did not appear with a fish. How can this be linked together?
It's really ridiculous.
Chu Yanyu was about to be pushed out by Luo Zongguan, but he still insisted, "Your Majesty, I am telling the truth. The Crown Princess has been beaten back to her original form and is hiding in the sedan chair that is about to leave the palace. Your Majesty, send someone to take a look and you will know."
The emperor didn't want to pay attention to him, and at this time the eunuch came to report that the Crown Prince wanted to see him.
Just in time! The emperor hurriedly asked the Crown Prince to come in.
"Tianchi, Noble Chu intends to slander the Crown Princess. What do you think we should do?"
The emperor was so annoyed by the noise that he was anxious to comfort his precious grandson Dabao, so he directly put the blame on the Crown Prince.
Mu Tianchi said coldly: "Father, everyone knows that my fish can understand human nature. I didn't expect that some people would gossip about it and throw dirty water on the Crown Princess. I want to hear how they are going to slander the Crown Princess."
The emperor looked at the prince in confusion. Did the prince want Chu Yanyu to continue?
It was Chu Yanyu's one-sided statement that the Crown Princess could turn into a fish. The emperor knew how much love the prince and the Crown Princess had. According to the prince's personality, how could he tolerate Chu Yanyu's nonsense? But the prince was not in a hurry...
Well, the emperor had passed the buck and said that he would let the prince deal with it.
Chu Yanyu was very excited. He didn't have time to think about why the prince, who originally didn't want to see him, changed his mind. No matter what the prince said, he was finally willing to listen to him!
Chu Yanyu hurriedly said, "Your Highness, I am also doing this for your own good... Please send someone to check the Crown Princess's sedan chair."
Mu Tianchi slightly raised his eyebrows: "What's wrong with the sedan chair?"
The Crown Prince unexpectedly cooperated with Chu Yanyu and sent someone to carry back the sedan chair that the Crown Princess was riding in.
Not long after, a eunuch hurried back with a crystal bottle: "Your Highness, there is no one in the sedan chair, only this crystal bottle with a fish in it!"
Finally caught, Chu Yanyu was secretly happy.
The eunuch carried the crystal bottle in, and a brocade carp with silver and gold appeared in front of the emperor and the crown prince.
Mu Tianchi sneered: "Even if the fish is in the sedan chair, so what?"
Chu Yanyu said: "This fish is a fish monster. It changed into the appearance of the Crown Princess, so it appeared in the Crown Princess's sedan chair. If Your Highness does not believe it, you can ask the Crown Princess to come out for a confrontation..."
Chu Yanyu was certain that the Crown Princess would not "show up", but before he could finish his words, a young woman wearing a goose yellow pleated skirt, with her hair tied up and a bulging belly walked in from outside the palace.
The woman's face was covered with a layer of gauze, covering everything below her nose, revealing only a pair of clear eyes. When she saw the emperor, she made an awkward bow. When seeing the crown prince again,
the woman had to salute again. Mu Tianchi was itchy, and before he could do anything, he took the lead in personally pulling over a chair and stuffing the woman in.
Because the eunuch did not report it, the emperor and the chief steward Luo did not know who this was, and they all looked at the woman for a while.
The woman sat in the chair and found that the emperor and the chief steward Luo were looking at her, so she smiled at the two of them embarrassedly.
When he smiled, his eyes curved like crescent moons, and the emperor unexpectedly felt that he looked familiar.
The emperor couldn't remember it for a moment. Luo, the chief steward, noticed that the belly of this young woman seemed to be a circle larger than that of an average obese person, but her waist was not thick.
Could this be——!
Luo, the chief steward, had an idea in a flash, but looking at the posture of the prince and the young woman, it was obvious that they didn't want to be discovered.
Luo, the chief steward, had to pretend that he was blind and didn't see it at all.
"Tianchi, who is this?" The emperor, who was in the mist, couldn't help asking.
"It's Dabao's new wet nurse." The prince said.
The emperor: "..."
Just a wet nurse, what a big deal.
It might be the prince's intention, and the emperor
couldn't figure it out. Dabao listened to what the prince father said and scratched his head curiously. This person was his wet nurse, but he had never seen her!
Dabao slipped off the emperor's lap, ran to the new wet nurse to take a look, and was then pulled by the wet nurse.
The new wet nurse blew a breath into her palm and gestured to Dabao's armpits twice. Dabao: "..."
Isn't this the sound of Fish Dad tickling him?
It's Fish Dad for sure!
Dabao rushed over and hugged the wet nurse's legs and refused to let go.
Just now, Mr. Chu insisted that Fish Dad was a fish, and Dabao was really scared.
Fish Dad said that their identities must not be discovered, and if they were discovered, they would be locked up. Fish Dad's identity must not be discovered either.
When the crystal bottle was brought in, several children couldn't help but look at the fish in the crystal bottle for a while.
But after seeing it, they were relieved. This fish is an old friend, Fish Dad is fine, and Dabao is relieved too.
Erbao, Sanbao, and Sibao also followed Dabao's example and ran over. They found that it was Fish Daddy. Erbao was about to shout, but the little woman gave him a ferocious look and snorted softly.
Erbao was too scared to shout, but he still wanted to hug her.
Emperor:... Well, it looks like she is really the wet nurse.
Chu Yanyu had never seen the Crown Princess before, so he couldn't recognize her. Besides, no one paid attention to him when this woman appeared. He had to remind the Emperor and the Crown Prince that the Crown Princess was a fish monster!
Chu Yanyu said loudly: "Your Highness, this fish is the Crown Princess."
Mu Tianchi retracted his gaze from the little woman. Chu Yanyu felt a little strange. The Crown Prince looked at the wet nurse with deep affection, but he looked at him and the fish carelessly! However, Chu Yanyu had no time to think about it.
The prince glanced at the fish in the crystal bottle: "You said it was the crown princess, so, can it respond when you call it?"
Puff! The little woman couldn't help but laugh silently. After being glared at by the prince, she immediately hugged the child obediently.
Chu Yanyu expected the prince to question like this, and he had already thought of a countermeasure to expose the fish monster in front of the emperor and the prince.
Chu Yanyu stepped forward and said: "There is a Taoist priest who is good at catching monsters waiting. Please allow him to exorcise the monster."
Mu Tianchi nodded expressionlessly. Xiaoyu said that he was not an ordinary carp spirit. Whether it was a Taoist priest or a monk, black dog blood or anything else, it would be useless to him, and it was not to be used on him. Only then did Mu Tianchi agree to let Xiaoyu change his clothes and "take the risk".
Soon a Taoist priest in his thirties with a yellow beard came.
Chu Yanyu had long been eyeing this Taoist priest, and the black dog blood was also given to Chu Yanyu by this person. He immediately began to perform a ritual on the crystal bottle.
The Taoist priest kept shaking the golden bell, muttering something, and immersed the peach wood sword and a talisman into the clear water of the crystal bottle.
After doing it once, the fish swam slowly.
So he did it again, and the fish was still swimming.
The Taoist priest and Chu Yanyu were dumbfounded.
The Taoist priest really had no choice, and bravely asked for instructions: "The fish monster is afraid of the black dog's blood. I won't hide it from the emperor and the prince. The reason why it turned back into a fish is because it came into contact with the black dog's blood. As long as the black dog's blood is used again, it will definitely reveal its flaws."
Chu Yanyu agreed, and by the way, he boldly looked at the prince's four sons, implying that these people might also be afraid of dog blood.
Mu Tianchi curled his lips: "How can we make it reveal the broken silk?"
Chu Yanyu took out a porcelain bottle from his sleeve, opened the bottle, and a fishy smell came out.
Chu Yanyu handed the porcelain bottle to the Taoist priest, who apologized and put the porcelain bottle in front of the fish.
He thought the fish would be terrified, but the fish still shook its tail calmly.
Several children were held by the wet nurse and were also watching the situation here. They smelled the pungent smell, and the wet nurse covered their noses for them. The children said one after another: "It stinks."
The emperor also felt it was stinky, so he asked Luo, the chief steward, to cover his mouth and nose with a handkerchief.
"Is this the broken silk you are talking about?" The prince sneered.
The Taoist priest broke out in a cold sweat, and the emperor also saw something.
Chu Yanyu was a little anxious when he saw that the fish did not behave normally after torturing it several times. He thought that he should pour all the dog blood into the crystal bottle.
He did not believe that the fish monster could bear it if he forced it like this!
Chu Yanyu snatched the porcelain bottle from the Taoist priest and was about to pour the dog blood into it. The wet nurse who had been silent all this time suddenly spoke up, "If you do this, ordinary fish will definitely not be able to bear it."
Chu Yanyu said unhappily, "What do you know? The fish monster is a monster, and it is different from ordinary
fish. Monsters are not easy to kill. As long as it uses some magic, it can prove what I said." Wet nurse: "So that's the case... But, what if it is really just an ordinary fish?"
"Then I will apologize to the Crown Princess and let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince deal with it!" Chu Yanyu threw the bottle to the ground with a loud noise.
The wet nurse took a deep breath: "Okay..."
There are no evil spirits in this ancient time, there are only - fish with a cheating system.
He originally wanted to watch the monkey show for a while, but if he didn't take action, the fish substitute would probably be splashed with dog blood and stink.
"Mr. Chu, before you splash dog blood, you should first look at who I am."