"Bilian, are you alright yet? Your mother is starving! Come quick!" Guan Zhiyue shouted loudly towards the door from her bed.
Although it's not snowing anymore, the snow is melting. As the old saying goes, "Snowing isn't cold, but melting snow is!"
"Coming, coming, Your Highness, don't worry, it'll be ready soon." Bilian said hurriedly while carrying the stove.
Guan Zhiyue lay on the kang (heated brick bed) shouting loudly, growing impatient. This dilapidated palace had nothing interesting to do; it was utterly boring. Where was the palace intrigue? Where were the dolls? Sigh…
"Your Highness, please eat first." After putting the food down, Bilian went to serve Guan Zhiyue other dishes, while Guan Zhiyue could only sit aside and idly fiddling with the roasted meat.
Chaoyang Palace.
"Your Highness, what are you doing turning around like that? This servant's head is spinning!" The wealthy young eunuch was speechless as he watched his master pacing back and forth in front of him.
"Do you think my brother has found a place to refine glass yet? Will this glass factory even be successful?" Li Qishang paced back and forth, wanting to know whether the glass factory would be successful or not.
"Oh dear, my good prince, you should stop wandering around. Instead of wasting your time here, why don't you go to Chengqian Palace and ask the Emperor, or go to the Cold Palace and look for the Empress?" Fu Gui was completely exasperated. This prince had been thinking about this matter since he woke up this morning.
Li Qishang also agreed that Fugui was right and that they should ask his good brother, the emperor.
So he was about to take Shangyao out with him. When Shangyao came back from outside and saw her master about to leave the palace again, she quickly reached out and stopped her good master.
"Your Highness, you cannot leave the palace now."
Li Qishang looked at the guard who was trying to stop him and said with some displeasure, "I can go wherever I want."
"Your Highness, considering the murder that has occurred in the palace, everyone is in a state of panic. You shouldn't add to the chaos. The Emperor is currently furious. If you leave the palace again, and the Emperor finds out, then..."
Li Qishang knew how dangerous it was, so he simply decided not to go. Ugh, it's so annoying!
"Can I go find Yue'er?"
"Can't!"
Li Qishang started to go berserk again. He was extremely frustrated. Nothing was going to work. He felt like a million alpacas were about to erupt, and he really became an alpaca walking on the edge of an eruption!
"This won't work, that won't work. I should have known better than to come back to the capital. Nothing will work. What murder case has occurred? Why hasn't it been solved yet? You're all a bunch of good-for-nothings!" Li Qishang said, sweeping a set of blue and white porcelain teapots off the table.
"Crackling and popping..."
A piercing and sharp sound came from inside the hall. In an instant, all the palace servants of Chaoyang Palace knelt in the courtyard. Shang Yao also knelt on one knee in front of Li Qishang, looking aggrieved.
"Your Highness, please calm down!"
"You, you've really angered me to death." Li Qishang looked at the people kneeling all over the courtyard, and Shang Yao kneeling in front of him.
"I'm about to go stir-crazy in this palace, and you're still not coming here to find me some fun?" Li Qishang stood in the middle of the hall, looking at the people kneeling in the courtyard.
As the chief eunuch by Li Qishang's side, he was overjoyed and replied with a beaming smile, "Your Highness, this servant knows what you want. Please calm down, this servant will go and do it for you right away."
Li Qishang had no idea what Fugui was up to this time, so he waved his hand, telling him to go find some fun. "Alright, everyone, go down now!"
"Yes." The servants quickly kowtowed and left the place of trouble, not daring to offend the capricious prince.
Li Qishang was originally a carefree and unrestrained prince, so naturally this palace was a cage that bound him, and he naturally didn't like being kept in a cage anymore.
However, Guan Zhiyue is different. She is the kind of person who lives a carefree life, living for the moment and enjoying life to the fullest. She is already bored to death in the palace, but what can she do?
"Hey! Bilian, have you ever heard the saying?" Guan Zhiyue put the wine glass to her lips, tilted her head back, and drank another glass of wine.
Bilian sat on the other side of the kang (a heated brick bed), waiting for Guan Zhiyue's next sentence.
"I don't know, Your Highness, could you please tell me?"
Guan Zhiyue put down her wine glass and said with a sigh, "Alas! Once you enter the palace, it's like entering a deep sea; handsome men become mere passersby!"
Bilian was shocked by Guan Zhiyue's words, her eyes widening in fear. "Your Highness, be careful what you say!"
"This servant thinks there are still many beautiful people in this palace."
Guan Zhiyue shook her head in disbelief. "You're still too inexperienced. The handsome men you mentioned are just a tiny fraction of the total. But if we're talking about the most handsome man in this palace, it should still be our Emperor."
"Tsk tsk tsk, those muscles, those lines, those abs, tsk tsk tsk..."
"What a pity, what a pity!" Guan Zhiyue lay down on the kang, tilting her head back, her loose hair falling onto the footstool.
Bilian followed her mistress's example and lowered her head, turning to look at Guan Zhiyue to her right. She said, not quite understanding, "Your Majesty, this servant also thinks our Emperor is the most handsome, but what do you mean by 'it's a pity'?"
Without hesitation, Guan Zhiyue said, "What a pity he's such a stud!"
Bilian didn't know what Guan Zhiyue meant by "Da Zhong Ma," so she asked in return, "Your Majesty, what do you mean by 'Da Zhong Ma'?"
"Hmph! What do you mean? It's just about leaving your seed everywhere!"
Bilian was so frightened that she rolled off the kang (a heated brick bed) and nervously looked up towards the doorway.
"Your Majesty, you're drunk! Let's stop drinking!" Bilian quickly snatched the wine cup from Guan Zhiyue's hand and placed it on the kang table beside her. Her heart was pounding wildly, like a drum beating.
"Stallion, my goodness, Her Majesty is really good with words. If the Emperor heard this, he would definitely punish her again. Her Majesty is truly astonishing." Bilian shook her slightly dizzy head, indicating that she dared not think about it anymore.
Guan Zhiyue disagreed and shouted loudly, "Yeah, it's a stud! Look at how many women are in this harem, it's practically a stud farm!"
"Your Highness, let's go to sleep! Let's go to sleep! Don't keep talking nonsense here, or if someone with ulterior motives hears us, it could implicate the master and the others." Bilian whispered in Guan Zhiyue's ear.
Whether Guan Zhiyue was truly asleep or had already understood Bilian's words, she had stopped talking and was no longer saying anything.
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