Chapter 214: Drunk Talk
The carved lacquered mahogany step-out bed is luxurious and exquisite. With every move, the exquisite gold-carved incense ball hanging under the curtain swings back and forth.
The room was filled with the scent of roses.
Chen Fu was sitting at the innermost part of the bed. She was wearing a nightgown made of smoky white sand, and a circle of green-calyx plum blossoms was embroidered on the snow-white and delicate collar.
The pajamas seemed to be a little too big, revealing her slender waist. But she seemed unaware of it, and huddled at the head of the bed in her petite form.
Her head was slightly lowered, with three thousand strands of hair falling behind her head, revealing a slender, snow-white neck under her long black hair.
Chen Fu knew best what posture could most arouse a man's pity.
She curled up like a little animal, with her sleeves embroidered with green plum blossoms wrapped around her knees. After hearing the sound, he raised his head and quietly looked towards His Majesty.
"Your Majesty, you came here drunk in the middle of the night, are you here to punish me?"
In the late autumn night, only the whistling sound of the cold wind outside the window could be heard. Although Shen Fu's words were short, her ending tone trembled slightly when she spoke them, and her tone sounded terrified.
Xiao Yu stared at Chen Fu for a long time, and then his eyes fell on the delicate and white neck.
He looked calm on the surface, but a huge wave of anger was surging in his heart.
That piece of neck was right in front of him, and Xiao Yu's heart couldn't help but beat up and down.
Fair and delicate, slender and weak. It is like a piece of white snow, and also like white jade that is warm to the touch.
"I..." His Majesty's voice was hoarse due to being drunk, and he stopped immediately.
After he heaved his throat until his voice was no longer so dry, His Majesty slowed down his voice and spoke.
"I just want to see you, don't be afraid."
Xiao Yu stood under the bed, his whole body tense under his dark robe. But in his mind, Chen Fu's delicate and fair neck flashed through one by one, and his fingertips gently rubbed it, wishing he could reach out and touch that piece of whiteness immediately.
"It's cold, I... I wanted to come and see you..." The fear in Chen Fu's eyes just now still flashed before his eyes, and Xiao Yu was afraid that he had scared her.
Try to lower your voice and coax her gently: "You don't have to be afraid."
His Majesty told her not to be afraid?
joke?
He came drunk late at night and broke in deliberately. Isn't it known to everyone what His Majesty is thinking?
Chen Fu sat on the bed, smelling the smell of alcohol that couldn't be concealed across from her, her mind churning back and forth.
His Majesty is obviously drunk.
Shen Fu had long known that His Majesty would not be able to endure for much longer. After all, the emperor is used to being the only one in charge, and no one dares not to take His Majesty seriously.
Chen Fu deliberately left His Majesty alone for a few days, just to see how long His Majesty could endure.
Now it seems that it is just that. It has only been seven or eight days and His Majesty can no longer bear it.
Shen Fu sat at the head of the bed with her legs crossed, her whole body in a tense posture.
"It's too late, I've already fallen asleep." Shen Fu's voice was tense, and no joy could be heard from it.
"I am fine. Your Majesty has already seen it, so please go back early."
Chen Fu just ignored him, and Xiao Yu felt extremely uncomfortable. But now that Shen Fu had spoken, he naturally didn't want to leave so willingly.
I thought about staying a little longer and talking to Chen Fu more.
"I haven't seen you for a long time." Xiao Yu took a few deep breaths with the smell of alcohol swirling in his throat.
"Come closer so I can take a look at you."
After Shen Fu heard what His Majesty said, her whole body froze visibly.
His Majesty will really push his limits.
It's the middle of the night, and he's taking advantage of his drunkenness. Are you just trying to get this matter over with?
Your Majesty really thinks it is too simple.
Chen Fu sneered in her heart and couldn't help but look up. She raised her eyes and deliberately looked at His Majesty.
"Is this an order from His Majesty?"
The voice was gentle, yet a little timid. Late at night, when Shen Fu raised her head, her eyes were as bright as pearls.
Xiao Yu looked into Shen Fu's eyes, and after a long silence, he nodded: "Yes."
When Shen Fu raised her head, the fireworks of that moment disappeared completely.
She lowered her head and then moved closer to His Majesty.
The bed was too big, and Shen Fu had to walk to the edge of the bed before she could stop. The Emperor was standing right in front of her, but she didn't know what to do when she stopped.
I can only stop stiffly in the distance.
"Come closer." Chen Fu was so close that Xiao Yu clenched his palms together in his sleeves, rubbing his fingertips back and forth.
He looked down at Chen Fu's neck, his hoarse voice unable to conceal his desire: "Chen Fu, come closer to me."
The dark robe fell on the quilt embroidered with gold peony, and the hollow gold scent ball soaked in rose scent was also shaking slightly.
Chen Fu looked at the palm raised by the Emperor in front of her, she laughed at herself in her heart and lowered her head.
She took the initiative to put her neck under His Majesty's palm: "Is this what Your Majesty wants?"
The thought in his mind was confirmed, and Xiao Yu looked at the neck falling into his palm. The snow-white and delicate part is as warm and delicate as mutton-fat white jade.
He couldn't help but stretch out his fingertips, with thin calluses, and groped back and forth on Shen Fu's neck, sighing in his heart.
"You know that I pity you in my heart." Since ancient times, emperors have been high and mighty and it is difficult for them to bow their heads.
The same is true for Xiao Yu.
Ever since he ascended the throne, he has always been self-centered and no one in the court or the harem has ever said no to him.
After all, he is the emperor, what is right is right, and what is wrong is also right.
Even though, what happened last time was his fault, even though he wrongly blamed Shen Fu.
But His Majesty couldn't say that one word was wrong.
Chen Fu placed her palm into His Majesty's palm in a sacrificial gesture: "I am His Majesty's concubine, and everything belongs to His Majesty."
"If His Majesty wants it, just come and get it."
Xiao Yu's outstretched hand subconsciously stopped.
Does Shen Fu mean to blame him?
His Majesty's palm was exceptionally gentle, and he stretched out his hand tentatively, wanting to place it on Shen Fu's head.
But before she could reach out her hand, Shen Fu turned her head away.
"Are you still blaming me?"
"How dare I?" If it was something else today, Shen Fu would definitely not dare to make such a fuss.
There's no need to make such a fuss.
But this matter concerns offspring and the child in the womb.
There are few heirs in the harem nowadays. On the one hand, His Majesty cares about heirs. On the other hand, He is ultimately in the wrong when it comes to matters concerning the baby in her belly.
It's not good to dwell on what happened that day, but if Chen Fu lets it go so easily, it would be too casual.
Only by letting His Majesty know that she is not someone so easy to appease, if such a thing happens again in the future, His Majesty will not treat her as casually as he treats other concubines.
"It's not that I don't dare, but that I can't." The fingertips with thin calluses rested on Shen Fu's neck for a while.
It was a late autumn night and the smell of alcohol was strong. Xiao Yu was afraid of suffocating her, so he raised his sleeves and took two steps back.
He took a few deep breaths, then lowered his palms back down.
She pinched her brows with her fingertips: "Chen Fu, you have a bad temper."
"I have a bad temper." His palm fell, and a cool feeling came over the back of his neck. "But these are the words that Your Majesty would never say to me before."
"You know, even though I am the emperor, there are some things I don't do right."
His Majesty's palm fell on Shen Fu's neck, stroking it gently, with a gentle coaxing tone in his voice.
Although he never said it directly, he indirectly admitted that what happened that day was his fault: "I sometimes have my own difficulties."
"I know."
Shen Fu already knew that His Majesty would not admit it so easily.
In other words, making an emperor bow his head is harder than climbing to the sky.
So is His Majesty, and so is any emperor.
But today, Chen Fu just refused to lower her head.
"I know that Your Majesty doubts me because You are the Emperor and you have to doubt me. Your Majesty doubts that the baby in my belly is fake because You are the Lord of the World and you have to doubt me."
“But Your Majesty…” Chen Fu raised her head and bit her thin lips lightly. Her bright red lips seemed to have lost all color in an instant.
"But is the relationship between me and Your Majesty just that between an emperor and his concubine?"
Shen Fu sat on the edge of the bed and looked up at the emperor in front of her. The bright eyes were like glass beads, trembling slightly and rippling with water color.
"Could it be that His Majesty has no sincerity towards me at all?"
Shen Fu had kept these words in her heart for too long, and now she felt completely refreshed when she said them out loud.
Your Majesty is both an emperor and a man.
If Chen Fu had always treated His Majesty as the emperor like those concubines, then she and His Majesty would be the emperor and the concubine.
No matter how beautiful she is, or how favored she becomes in the future, as time goes by and the novelty wears off, she and His Majesty will just be an ordinary king and concubine, with no difference at all.
Just like the current Shu Guipin, she was at the peak of her career when she was in favor, but what about now? How long has it been since His Majesty went to see Concubine Shu alone?
Chen Fu took the favor from Shu Guipin, but she didn't want to follow the old path of the Emperor.
It was quiet all around except for the moonlight shining through the window.
After a long time, the fierce gaze above his head finally disappeared.
Then there was a helpless sigh.
Chen Fu listened to the helpless voice of His Majesty and knew that if she waited any longer, it would probably last until late at night.
She turned her head deliberately, her palm falling on her lower abdomen: "It's cold, I want to sleep."
"Your Majesty, please go back early."
Xiao Yu had a lot of thoughts in his mind. He wanted to talk to Shen Fu but didn't know how to start.
His chest rose and fell many times, but looking at Shen Fu like this, he didn't know what to do.
"I..." His Majesty felt a headache and rubbed his temples lightly with his fingertips, but in the end he just said.
"You rest first, I'll go back first." After he said that, he turned around and deliberately looked behind him.
Just as she turned around, Shen Fu noticed the movement of His Majesty.
The pair of misty eyes deliberately looked at His Majesty's back affectionately for a long time, and after noticing His Majesty's movement.
Shen Fu lowered her head quickly.
A misty look flashed across his eyes, and then he deliberately covered his lips and coughed.
The vermilion door creaked open, cold wind rushed into the room with chilly air, and then was quickly closed again.
Lin An was leaning on the door sill, dozing off with his arms folded across his chest. When he heard the sound, he quickly raised his head and took a look. When he saw the figure of His Majesty, he almost collapsed.
"Wan... Wan Wan Wan Sui Your Majesty, why did you come out?" Lin An looked around, his eyes fell on Your Majesty, and then looked into the house.
He thought that His Majesty would stay here tonight. How come His Majesty came out in the middle of the night when it was still raining?
"Did Miss Chen Fu make you angry?" Lin An followed behind her and asked cautiously.
After he finished speaking, Xiao Yu turned his head and glanced at Lin An.
Lin An was frightened by the look in His Majesty's eyes. Before he could kneel down, he saw His Majesty shaking his head.
He sighed deeply: "It was I who made your Lady Shen Fu angry."
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The fact that His Majesty came late at night was kept a secret and no news leaked out.
Shen Fu was very nervous for several days.
However, His Majesty did not express anything to her, nor did he wait at the door of Hehuan Palace again.
Although His Majesty did not come, Concubine Zhou often came to the Hehuan Palace in the past few days.
"Sister Shen, look what I brought you today..."
It was really like I didn't even think about it. I had just thought of Lady Zhou and the next thing I knew, this person actually came.
Shen Fu heard the sound, rubbed her brows and walked down helplessly to greet him: "Sister Zhou."
Shen Fu is younger than Zhou Shuyun, and they are considered good friends in the harem. Even though Shen Fu has a higher position than Zhou Shuyun, she has to call her Sister Zhou.
But in the past few days, Zhou Shuyun came over every few days, which made Chen Fu a little confused about what this beautiful Zhou wanted to do.
"What good things did Sister Zhou bring?" Chen Fu stepped forward and waved to let Xiao Songzi, who was leading the way, go down.
Then he asked Zhou Shuyun with a smile.
"You stayed in the house all day to take care of the baby. You haven't gone out for a walk for a long time."
"When I came to see you today, I saw the green plum blossoms were in bloom. I thought you might not have seen one yet, so I picked one for you to see."
Zhou Shuyun said, waving her hand and letting the maid behind her bring the plum blossoms up to her: "Look, are they blooming beautifully?"
"There are plum blossoms at this time of year?" Chen Fu was also a little surprised when she saw the plum blossoms in the palace maid's hand.
Although there are only a few branches of green plum blossoms, they seem to have bloomed, with buds about to bloom and emitting a scent of plum blossoms.
"Are the flowers in the plum forest in the Imperial Garden blooming?" Chen Fu asked.
"Not really." Lady Zhou took off her cloak and took the flowers from the maid herself. "Your Majesty has been in a bad mood these days, and there are too many people in the Imperial Garden. I don't like to go there to avoid gossip."
"I passed by the bamboo forest on my way to find you. Now He Cairen has been sent to the cold palace. I saw her in the bamboo forest."
Lady Zhou said this, and she thought of something and glanced at Chen Fu secretly.
Ever since He Cairen framed Chen Fu for a fake pregnancy and was banished to the cold palace, it was said that He Cairen insulted Chen Fu all day long in the cold palace.
The dirty words he uttered became more and more unpleasant day by day, and the news spread throughout the palace like wildfire.
Even the servants told others about it, so Zhou Shuyun naturally knew about it too.
"It's my fault. I shouldn't have mentioned He Cairen..." Zhou Shuyun felt a little helpless while holding the plum blossom.
"Nothing." Chen Fu didn't seem to care at all.
He raised the teacup in his hand and took a sip, then said calmly, "Since it was unintentional, there is no need to apologize."
"Besides, since Concubine He has been sent to the cold palace, this is the punishment given to her by His Majesty. You and I don't need to pay too much attention to it."
"Yes." Zhou Shuyun's embarrassed expression flashed across her face, and then she smiled again facing Chen Fu and said, "I heard that she hasn't cried or screamed in recent days. I guess she seems to have figured it out."
Chen Fu didn't want to talk about He Cairen anymore. She smiled softly, raised her teacup and took a sip.
Zhou Shuyun never stayed long. She would sit for a cup of tea and then leave on the pretext of having something to do.
Shen Fu watched the person leave, then rubbed her brows and said, "Finally, he left."
Talking to people always makes me feel tired. What's more, Shen Fujue, when talking with Zhou Shuyun recently, always felt that something was different from before.
But she couldn't tell exactly what was different.
After thinking about it, I'm afraid I'm just being too suspicious. But now that Shen Fu is pregnant, she has to be much more cautious in all aspects.
"My lady, what does Miss Zhou do every day?" Upon seeing my lady's words, Zi Su hurriedly put down the cherry curd brought from the imperial kitchen.
After the young lady became pregnant, she ate less and her taste became very picky. Today she liked sour food, and tomorrow she liked sweet food.
Now I want to eat cherries again these days.
Where do the cherries come from in such a cold day? Fortunately, there are some frozen in the cold storage. Although they are not fresh when in season, they are perfect for making cherry yogurt.
"She comes here almost every day, and I don't know what she wants to do." After a long time, Zi Su became a little confused.
"I'm curious, too."
Chen Fu put down her hand that was rubbing her brows and thought about Lady Zhou's every move during this period of time.
After tasting the cherry yogurt that had just been served, he said calmly, "Let Xiao Guizi follow behind."
You will know what Zhou Shuyun is thinking once you check.
"Okay, I'll be right there." Xiao Guizi put down the tray, bent down, and immediately went out the door.
He personally followed behind Concubine Zhou and watched Zhou Shuyun leave the Hehuan Palace.
Then he entered the Palace of Heavenly Purity.
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