Chapter 40: The world is still unsettled, the emperor and his officials are all cattle and horses
"Like you just said, my royal brother, I can go to the storehouse and take whatever I like."
He paused and said, "Then what kind of relationship could allow the Third Concubine of the Prime Minister's Mansion to tell her distant relatives that they can go to Jin Man Lou to take things at will?"
The emperor's eyes darkened as he listened to her words.
"But these are just my guesses. As for whether this is what the princess thinks, let Lu Shaoqing check it out."
After Su Yunyao finished speaking, she yawned lazily, "Royal brother, I'm hungry."
Upon hearing this, the emperor waved his hand towards Wu Jixiang and said, "Serve the meal."
"By the way, bring this princess some of the wine you drank last night."
emperor:……
"Imperial sister, you want to drink so early in the morning?" The expression on the emperor's face was hard to describe.
"I just want to try it out to see if this wine is really that strong. It tastes sweet and refreshing, but it has such a strong aftertaste." Su Yunyao seemed to be thinking about it. "Don't you think the emperor thinks this wine is a bit like the reserved and sultry Huo Xiao?"
Repressed and reserved?
Huo Xiao?
The emperor was speechless: "My sister's evaluation of Huo Xiao is really strange."
When Wu Jixiang returned with the meal, he also brought news of victory from the border.
"Your Majesty, the border is 800 miles away, please hurry. General Huo has already captured the first city in Xijing. The soldiers are very motivated and will continue to advance."
The emperor was overjoyed when he heard this, and seemed not to care at all why Huo Xiao was described as a reserved person by Su Yunyao.
He carefully read the memorial in his hand again.
After a while, she said, "If you are just playing with Huo Xiao, you should find another man to play with."
Su Yunyao: ???
"Why?"
She was met with silence in response.
Su Yunyao: ...
"Royal brother, you are being unreasonable. You were the one who asked me to use the beauty trap. Now that he has won a victory, you change your mind, as if I would have wronged him. You are so quick to turn your elbow outward!"
emperor:……
"When did this princess play with him?"
The emperor was speechless and choked, "As long as my sister is serious."
Su Yunyao had other ideas at this time.
The emperor has always been wary of the military power in Huo Xiao's hands, and has always wanted to make Huo Xiao a member of the royal family and use him for his own purposes.
And now the war is about to begin.
He suddenly changed his words, could it be that...
The emperor didn't care what Su Yunyao was thinking.
He took the report of victory at the border and summoned all the ministers in the court to the Xuanzheng Hall to discuss the matter.
Su Yunyao looked at his departing back and couldn't help but sigh again.
My royal brother, my royal brother.
The world is still unsettled, and the emperor and his courtiers are all beasts of burden.
And she is the flower stuck in the heads of all the (handsome and talented) nobles.
Su Yunyao had breakfast at Linglong Pavilion and then took a carriage back to the princess's mansion.
As soon as she got off the carriage, someone from the mansion came to report that Xu Mubai had been waiting for her there for a long time.
"Why is he here?"
Su Yunyao muttered to herself and quickened her pace.
Could it be that he got a concussion from hitting his head and is asking her for compensation?
Work-related injuries are always an insurmountable gap between employees and bosses.
When Su Yunyao entered, Xu Mubai was sitting in the front hall drinking tea. When he saw her come in, he put down the tea bowl in his hand and stood up to salute.
"Greetings to the Princess, may the Princess be safe and sound."
Su Yunyao looked him up and down. Apart from the bandage on his head, his complexion, legs and feet were normal, and his spirit was also normal.
Then he breathed a sigh of relief, "Why are you here?"
"Princess, today is the fifteenth day of the lunar month. I am here to give you the account book."
After saying that, he put the account book he brought into Zhenzhu's hand.
In the past, when he came to deliver the account books, he didn't have to see the eldest princess.
If the eldest princess was not at home, he would give the account book to her three personal maids.
But when he came to the princess's mansion today, not only was the eldest princess not there, but even her three personal maids were not there.
Everyone in the mansion knew him as the owner of Jinjinglou. He had been coming in and out of the princess's mansion for so many years, so they let him in and wait.
The eldest princess has rarely stayed in the palace since she established her residence. I guess something important happened last night.
Just now when Su Yunyao passed by her, he smelled a faint smell of alcohol.
The maidservants serve the princess every day and don't drink alcohol, so could this smell of alcohol be...
The eldest princess drank alcohol?
Since he took over the management of Jinjinglou, it seemed that this was the first time he heard the eldest princess drinking.
Following his doubts, Xu Mubai raised his eyes and looked towards Su Yunyao, his eyes inadvertently falling on her earlobe.
She was actually wearing the pearl earrings wrapped with gold thread that he had specially left for her last time.
There was a flicker of excitement in his eyes.
At this time, Su Yunyao asked, "How is your head? Does it still hurt? Did you change the medicine on time?"
Xu Mubai suddenly realized, "To reply to the Princess, the pain is gone. When I return to Jinjing Tower, I will stop by Huichun Hall to change the medicine."
"Don't bother with that, Zhenzhu. Go get the medicine box and the golden medicine my brother gave me as a reward."
Xu Mubai was stunned. He was just about to say no.
Su Yunyao walked to his side.
"Princess……"
"sit down."
Su Yunyao pressed his shoulder with one hand, pushed him back down, and raised her hand to remove the gauze on his head.
"Princess, you can't."
As Xu Mubai spoke, he wanted to reach out to stop her, but accidentally touched Su Yunyao's fingertips.
The cold touch felt like an electric current, and a tingling sensation quickly spread throughout the body along the fingertips.
His body stiffened noticeably, and a blush quietly crept up his cheeks.
"Princess, you are a daughter of gold, how can you do this for me?"
"Why not? You're my employee, and I'm your boss. My employee was injured while working to protect the company's interests, but he didn't blackmail me, didn't call in sick, and insisted on going to work despite being sick. I'm so lucky to have such a good employee."
Although Xu Mubai didn't understand what Su Yunyao was saying.
What employee?
What company?
But Su Yunyao's cold fingertips accidentally touched his forehead from time to time.
In an instant, all his senses were gradually shrinking, only the bit of coldness on his forehead was expanding.
Su Yunyao was very close to him, so close that her dress rose and fell with her arms, accidentally brushing his cheek.
He could smell the delicate fragrance of the eldest princess mixed with a hint of alcohol on her body.
The blush on his face gradually spread to the back of his ears, and his ears were so red that blood seemed to be dripping out.
Even when Su Yunyao applied the medicine and touched his wound, he didn't feel any pain at all.
Compared to his messy thoughts.
In order to get the gauze back to him, Su Yunyao almost used up all her strength.
She couldn't help but sigh in her heart, what a great invention tape is!
In ancient times when there was no tape, tying things with just cloth strips was a real challenge.
A thin layer of sweat broke out on Su Yunyao's forehead. She had boasted so much about herself that she felt embarrassed to let others do it.
I finally tied it up, but it still looks weird.
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