Chapter 12

Lin Nanjie knelt on the cold ground of the imperial prison. There were deep red marks on his neck, and many places were worn out. His jade-like skin was oozing scarlet blood, and his pale face was bloodless. His hair was wet with sweat and fell on both sides of his cheeks. There were tears in his eyes, and a red mark was pressed out at the corner of his handsome eyes.

Wang Dehai felt it was a sin when he saw it. How could such a good person become like this?

It's really hard to bear watching it.

Lin Nanjie knelt on the ground trembling with fear. He hadn't heard Li Chenghuan speak for a long time, so he raised his head cautiously to gauge his expression.

This raise of his head met Li Chenghuan's deep eyes.

Lin Nanqi quickly retracted his gaze.

[What is the Dog Emperor thinking about doing with me? ]

[I almost died, what else do you want? ]

Hearing this extremely aggrieved voice, Li Chengqian felt guilty for the first time in a long time.

He was too reckless this time.

Seeing that Lin Nanjie was still alive, he clearly heard himself breathe a sigh of relief.

Li Chenghuan didn't know what he was afraid of all the way here, but he found a perfect explanation.

He is different from the previous emperor. He is not a person who kills innocent people.

What's more, although Lin Nanjie exposed his shortcomings and always made him angry, he also helped him a lot invisibly.

As an emperor, everything he did was whitewashed in history books. But as a person, he did not like to be rid of after his work was done.

So Li Chengqian said to Wang Dehai, "You make the arrangements."

Wang Dehai quickly responded.

After saying this, Li Chenghuan turned away, as if he was afraid that something was chasing him from behind.

Only Lin Nanjie, Wang Dehai and Si Nanhao were left in the execution cell.

Wang Dehai looked at the mess on Lin Nanjie's neck and could not help but say, "Pack up and come back to the palace with me."

Lin Nanqi didn't have much to clean up, but Si Nanhao lowered his voice and said in a very intriguing and secretly exciting tone: "You kid, you are really not an ordinary person."

The fact that a small attendant of the emperor's front could be thrown into prison by the emperor's personal order is not the most important thing.

The most important thing is that the emperor came to rescue in person.

Sinanhao's eyes were full of awesomeness.

Lin Nanjie: ???

His face fell and his mouth was full of bitterness. "Brother, which eye of yours saw that?"

Si Nanhao patted his shoulder and said, "Come out for a drink when you have time."

Lin Nanjie was confused. He hadn't figured out what the Dog Emperor meant. With an uncertain future ahead, he was left with only anxiety. He nodded hastily and didn't take it to heart.

Lin Nanqi followed Wang Dehai back to the palace.

The Dog Emperor is a psychopath and his thoughts are impossible to guess, so Lin Nanjie can only start from other places.

He approached Wang Dehai and asked in a low voice: "Eunuch Wang, what does the emperor want to do with me?"

Wang Dehai glanced at Lin Nanjie and remained silent for a while.

In fact, Wang Dehai was also worried.

He had risen to the position of Grand Eunuch and was able to guess the emperor's intentions with ease, but he recently discovered with panic that he no longer really understood the emperor's intentions.

Is it really because I am old?

Wang Dehai thought that it was definitely inappropriate to put Lin Nanjie in front of Yu, but looking at the emperor's reaction, he couldn't send him to the frontier.

A cold wind blew, Wang Dehai shivered, and a leaf fell in front of his eyes.

His eyes suddenly lit up, got it!

***

When Wang Dehai stuffed a broom into his arms, Lin Nanjie was completely stunned.

Lin Nanqi looked at the broom and asked tentatively, "Eunuch Wang, will I be responsible for cleaning from now on?"

Being punished by being sent to hard labor was not unexpected.

Cleaning in the palace is not a particularly hard job. It is better than washing clothes in the cold weather.

Wang Dehai coughed lightly and said, "From today on, you will be responsible for sweeping up the fallen leaves in the harem until it is completely clean."

Lin Nanqi's eyes widened.

What?

Sweeping fallen leaves?

Lin Nan looked up at the treetops, which were covered with withered yellow leaves, a beautiful late autumn scene. When the wind blew, the leaves fell down and fluttered everywhere.

Lin Nanjie suddenly showed a look of despair.

Wang Dehai didn't look at Lin Nanjie's expression. He racked his brains to come up with this idea, which could transfer the person away from the front and allow the emperor to see him from time to time.

Kill two birds with one stone.

Even he thinks it's immoral!

Although the emperor had a thought-provoking expression after hearing this, he agreed almost immediately.

Lin Nanjie held the broom, looked at Wang Dehai in disbelief, and asked incredulously: "What is this..."

Wang Dehai dodged his gaze and said, "This is what the emperor meant."

Lin Nanjie: [Huh?]

[Which genius came up with the idea of ​​sweeping fallen leaves in this season? ]

[You and I, the dog emperor, will never live together! ! ! ]

Li Chenghuan listened to the noise outside, the corners of his lips curled up, and he finally saw the mad look of the little eunuch.

Let's wait two days before transferring the people back to Yuqian.

After Lin Nanjie took the order and left, Li Chenghuan called Wang Dehai in and said, "I need to go to the harem more often recently."

Wang Dehai glanced at him in astonishment: "The ladies will be delighted to know this."

***

In Ronghua Palace, Lin Nanjie held a broom, circled a pool of yellow leaves on the ground, and reached out to grab a leaf that fell from above his head.

[I have been sweeping for a whole day, but I can’t finish it. I can’t finish it at all. 】

【Is this something a human would do? 】

Lin Nanqi waved the broom weakly.

Lin Nanjie heard a series of "Greetings to the Emperor, Long live the Emperor" and he knelt down mechanically, then stood up mechanically, not even wanting to raise his eyes.

When the emperor arrived, Concubine Rong was overjoyed. She wore a purple dress and walked out to greet him with lotus steps: "I pay my respects to the emperor."

Li Chenghuan reached out and supported Concubine Rong: "I haven't been here for a long time. I came to see you."

Concubine Rong smiled coyly: "Your Majesty, please come quickly. I made plum blossom porridge myself. Please enjoy it with me."

Li Chenghuan nodded, and out of the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of a slender man standing under the ginkgo tree in the yard, and he couldn't help but take a few more glances.

The man was wearing a green eunuch's uniform. The clothes were ordinary, but they looked different on him.

A breeze blew, and ginkgo leaves fell on the man's shoulders. He picked them up casually, revealing his slender white fingers and the golden ginkgo leaves.

The contrast between the person and the scene was so interesting that Li Chengqian couldn't take his eyes away for a while.

Then the man reached out and tore the ginkgo leaves into pieces bit by bit.

The ruthless destruction of the flowers instantly ruined the beautiful scenery in the picture.

Li Chengqian: …

[You bastards, don’t mess with me, I’ll tear you all into pieces! Rotten! Stinking!]

Li Chengqian's mouth twitched slightly, and he knew it.

Lin Nanjie was doing his work lazily while replaying the melodramatic drama in his mind and did not notice Li Chenghuan's gaze.

Concubine Rong was puzzled: "Your Majesty?"

Li Chenghuan waved his hand and walked straight into Concubine Rong's palace.

The charcoal fire was burning brightly in Concubine Rong's palace. With slender hands, she untied the shawl from Li Chenghuan's body, and the two of them sat together on the tea table beside the bed.

Li Chengqian then realized that this was a great location. Not only could he sip tea and appreciate the beautiful ginkgo trees so close to him, he could also see a sad-looking little eunuch outside the window through the ginkgo leaves.

I feel great!

Concubine Rong also noticed that the emperor was in a good mood, so she specifically ordered the palace maid to bring the plum blossom porridge.

The plum blossom porridge is light pink in color and is decorated with fresh plum blossoms.

Li Chengqian was also a refined person. His eyes lit up and he couldn't help but praise: "My beloved concubine is indeed very clever. Appreciating plum blossoms and drinking plum blossom porridge in this season is a refined thing to do."

"As expected of a grandmaster's daughter."

Concubine Rong blushed at the compliment: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for not giving up."

Lin Nanjie was holding a broom, and the sounds in the house came into his ears intermittently.

It wasn't that he wanted to listen, but he had to.

【Plum blossom porridge? 】

Lin Nanqi's stomach growled.

[Plum blossom porridge is made by cooking fresh plum blossoms with glutinous rice. People in the Song Dynasty said that the first month of the lunar calendar is the first month of spring, and plum blossoms are fresh before all other flowers bloom. When it comes to elegance, the ancients were the ones who knew how to have fun.]

[Plum blossoms can stimulate the appetite, soothe the liver and stomach, relieve cough and resolve phlegm, and promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. It is indeed a good thing. ]

Li Chenghuan drank half a bowl of plum blossom porridge, his eyebrows raised slightly. He didn't expect that this little eunuch also understood the poems of the Song Dynasty.

I underestimated him.

Lin Nanjie was sweeping his hands quickly and suddenly stopped.

[But plum blossoms are cold in nature. If you don't use a lot of them, you won't get the color and aroma. What did Concubine Rong say just now? ]

[It seems that the palace maids picked a whole basket of them and put them all in to cook.]

【It wasn’t enough, so I added a little more. 】

Lin Nanqi laughed.

[It's a lethal dose. Let's see when the dog emperor gets diarrhea.]

As soon as Lin Nanjie's heartbeat fell, Li Chengqian felt a burning sensation in his abdomen.

The pain was like a small hammer hammering at his nerves, extending all the way down from the stomach. Li Chengqian couldn't help but let go of the spoon and hold his stomach tightly.

Concubine Rong noticed his movements and asked with concern, "What's wrong with the emperor?"

Li Chengqian gritted his teeth and said, "I'll be back soon."

After half an hour, Lin Nanjie felt a shadow falling in front of his eyes.

The broom in his hand paused slightly, the wind blew, and the fallen leaves fluttered on the ground. Lin Nanjie raised his head and saw a bright yellow dragon costume.

Li Chenghuan had a gloomy face, with his right hand behind his back, looking down at Lin Nanjie.

If you look closely, you can see some hidden anger in his eyes.

Lin Nanjie didn't know why Li Chenghuan came again, but he still greeted him respectfully: "I have seen the emperor."

Li Chenghuan slowly clenched his right hand behind his back and asked in a cold voice, "Why haven't you finished sweeping yet?"

Lin Nanjie was still very respectful: "It will be finished soon, Your Majesty, please be patient."

[You, the emperor, are concerned about whether a little eunuch has finished sweeping the land. Don’t you think you have too much free time? ]

[Sure enough, it’s coming for me again. 】

Lin Nanjie was mumbling in his heart while giving Li Chenghuan a flattering smile on his face.

This smile was like a drop of rain falling on a bamboo leaf, inexplicably touching and instantly dispelling the haze in the mountains. In the breeze, a golden ginkgo leaf fell right on the corner of Lin Nanjie's eyebrow, illuminating his bright and clear eyes like a pearl.

Li Chengqian's heart skipped a beat, and the fingers of his right hand curled up unnaturally, swallowing back the word "brave" that had just reached his throat.

He stared at the leaves on the brim of Lin Nanjie's black hat and was lost in thought for two seconds.

This little eunuch really knows how to find a place. There are so many places to go, but he chose to go to the century-old ginkgo tree in Concubine Rong's Palace, taking up all the good views.

Lin Nanqi felt uneasy when Li Chengqian stared at him, so he cautiously reminded him, "Your Majesty?"

Li Chengxuan quickly withdrew his gaze and said coldly, "Go clean somewhere else."

Lin Nanjie: …

Lin Nanjie left Ronghua Palace with a broom in his hand, complaining madly:

[Dog Emperor, do you think I am a nuisance? ]

[If you can't fall in love, blame me! ]

[He has been squatting in the toilet for more than half an hour. Is he okay? ]

Li Chenghuan stumbled, stumbled all over, and then his whole body began to emit sizzling black air.

Wang Dehai tried to help him, but was chased away by Li Chenghuan.

Li Chengqian raised his head and pretended to be admiring the scenery.

Damn it, my legs are numb.