Chapter 743: Eat All the Money and Don’t Admit It
Xiao Xixi: "Don't cry, this matter has nothing to do with you, it's all the fault of those two female assassins."
Su Cairen wiped her eyes with a silk handkerchief and said, "It is my fault that I lost my temper. I hope Your Majesty will forgive me."
There was a greeting outside the door.
"The Emperor has arrived!"
Luo Qinghan strode in.
Su Cairen quickly stood up and saluted: "I pay my respects to the Emperor."
Xiao Xixi was about to stand up, but was interrupted by Luo Qinghan.
"Don't move, just lie still."
Xiao Xixi then lay back down peacefully.
Luo Qinghan's eyes swept over Su Cairen: "I heard that the Imperial Concubine was assassinated this time, and it was you who risked your life to save her?"
Su Cairen lowered her head and said, "I didn't save the Imperial Concubine, but it was the Imperial Concubine who saved me."
Luo Qinghan didn't say anything more, just waved his hand.
Su Cairen understood and immediately tactfully withdrew.
From beginning to end, she didn't even look at the emperor and behaved very well throughout.
Luo Qinghan sat down beside the bed and said casually.
"This Su Cairen seems to be a sensible person."
Xiao Xixi pouted immediately and said dissatisfiedly: "Am I not sensible?"
Luo Qinghan laughed: "Are you jealous now?"
Xiao Xixi turned around and faced him with the back of her head.
Seeing this, Luo Qinghan couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.
He hugged her from behind and bent down to kiss her on the face.
"I want to ask you, if you think this Su Cairen can be useful, let her follow you in the future and help you take care of the trivial matters in the palace."
Xiao Xixi groaned, "She's a good girl, why should she follow me? I'm not the emperor, and I can't favor her."
Luo Qinghan: "It tastes so sour."
Xiao Xixi: "Yes, yes, I'm so jealous."
Luo Qinghan was touched by her cute little expression and couldn't help but kiss her on the face again.
"If you don't want to, forget it."
Xiao Xixi: "My senior brother reminded me before that this Su Cairen is not simple. Actually, I don't quite understand her. She helped me again and again. I thought she wanted to gain a foothold in the palace by relying on my relationship, but I don't think it's that simple. I can't figure out what she really wants?"
If she wanted to be favored, the emperor had already come to her, but Su Cairen didn't even look at her more than once. She kept her brows lowered from beginning to end, and left decisively without any reluctance.
She didn't look like she was interested in the emperor.
Luo Qinghan had never paid attention to Su Cairen before, until the enthronement ceremony, when Su Cairen reminded the imperial concubine, which was considered a favor to the imperial concubine. After the emperor learned about this, he realized that there was such a person as Su Cairen.
The reason why he brought Concubine Su along on this autumn hunt was to repay the favor he had done for the imperial concubine.
After hearing Xixi's words, Luo Qinghan didn't think much and said.
"Since you think she is suspicious, I will have her sent out of the palace."
Xiao Xixi groaned: "Didn't you just praise her for being sensible? Why are you willing to send her away now? It turns out that all men are pigs!"
Luo Qinghan: “…”
Xiao Xixi squinted at him: "Why are you silent? Are you feeling guilty?"
Luo Qinghan really didn't know what to say, so he simply changed the subject.
"What would you like for dinner?"
Xiao Xixi: "You changed the subject too abruptly."
Luo Qinghan: "Want to eat wild boar meat?"
Xiao Xixi: "I want to eat!"
Luo Qinghan: "This time I not only hunted a wild boar, but also a deer."
Xiao Xixi: "Wow! Your Majesty is amazing!"
The topic was successfully diverted.
In the evening, Xiao Xixi ate wild boar meat and venison as she wished, but because she was still injured, she couldn't eat too much of these wild animals.
Luo Qinghan only allowed her to take a bite of each to taste it.
For Xiao Xixi, how could she be satisfied with just one bite?
In order to eat more bites of meat, she gave up her moral principles, hugged the emperor and acted like a spoiled child.
While enjoying her coquettishness, Luo Qinghan coldly rejected her request to eat a few more bites of meat.
A typical scumbag who takes everything and refuses to admit it!
Xiao Xixi, who had been cheated on, had no way to seek justice, and in the end she could only angrily leave the emperor and run away.
Unfortunately, she didn't run far before she was caught by the emperor again.
Luo Qinghan: "It's time to take the medicine."
Xiao Xixi was extremely angry and said, "Not only did you not let me eat meat, you also forced me to drink medicine. Are you a human being?!"
Luo Qinghan: "I'm not a human, I'm a devil."
Xiao Xixi: "I hate demons!"
Luo Qinghan: "If you keep on wasting time, the devil will feed you the medicine mouth to mouth."
Xiao Xixi: “…”
This devil is not only a scumbag, but also shameless. He is so scary!
She took the bowl from the devil, pinched her nose, and drank the medicine in one breath.
Luo Qinghan put two candied fruits in her hands.
She finished eating the candied fruit, rinsed her mouth, and went to bed with the Devil Scum Emperor.
The autumn hunt was scheduled to last for three days and two nights, but because of the assassin incident, no one was in the mood to hunt, so the emperor ended the autumn hunt early.
The crowd returned to Shengjing in a mighty manner.
The assassin's case is still under investigation.
However, no matter how hard they searched, they could not find out who was behind the two female assassins.
On the contrary, it was Shao Liangren who found some clues during the interrogation.
In the end, she couldn't resist the measures of the Ministry of Punishment and revealed the truth.
She admitted that she did knock over the large vase, but she insisted that it was unintentional.
The Ministry of Punishment submitted Shao Liangren's confession to the emperor for his review.
Luo Qinghan read the confession at a glance.
Shao Liangren said that she was so frightened at the time that she could not tell the direction at all. She could only run forward by feeling and accidentally knocked over the big vase. She did not expect that the vase would hit the imperial concubine.
Only she herself knows the truth.
Luo Qinghan put down his confession and said calmly: "Demote Shao Liangren to a concubine, beat him with 20 sticks, and banish him to the cold palace."
Twenty strokes of the cane would not kill Shao Liangren, but it would make her feel uncomfortable for a long time.
Immediately afterwards, he issued two more imperial decrees.
"Su Cairen has made great contributions in protecting the imperial concubine, so she was promoted to Consort, given the title of Min, and moved to Suiwan Pavilion."
"Princess Jing is under house arrest for a month."
As soon as these three pieces of news were announced, everyone in the harem was extremely shocked.
Shao Liangren had a low presence to begin with, and no one cared when he was beaten or demoted.
What everyone cares more about are the following two pieces of news.
How long has Concubine Su been in the palace? How come she was suddenly promoted to Concubine?
What’s even more amazing is that she was not rewarded for giving birth to a royal heir, nor for serving the emperor well, but for protecting the imperial concubine.
What is this?
Even if the imperial concubine was favored, she was still just a concubine. Even if Concubine Su protected her, at most she would be rewarded with something. How could she be promoted because of this? This was against the rules!
What is even more incomprehensible is why the emperor confined Concubine Jing to her home? What did Concubine Jing do wrong?
(End of this chapter)
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