Chapter 490: Extra 9: Bright Light, Ripples on Still Water
The Queen was deliberately avoiding him, and the two hadn't seen each other for half a month. Waiting like this was not a solution.
Xiu Ningchuan put down the chess piece in his hand and said loudly: "Bring Zhenzhen here."
The eunuch was about to leave, but in a blink of an eye, Xiu Ningchuan changed his mind again.
"No need, you can go down and rest too."
He is not so useless as to use the child as a shield to deal with the problems between them.
Xiu Ningchuan thought so, but he walked to the door and then stepped back. He looked down at the plain brocade clothes on his body and frowned.
He did not think of retreating, but went back to change his clothes.
As they have been married for many years, Xiu Ningchuan thought he knew what Empress Chen Zhao liked and what she couldn't take her eyes off.
The moon-white Guangling brocade robe with round sleeves and wide collar looked no different from what he usually wore at first glance, but a closer look revealed a big difference.
The edge of the collar is decorated with lapis lazuli-colored seal characters, and the ink is faintly visible through the gauze, which exudes the elegance of a famous scholar.
He thought for a moment, then took out a whisk with three peacock feathers wrapped in silver threads, which made the exiled immortal look even more radiant.
Xiu Ningchuan looked at himself in the bronze mirror again and again, making sure that there was nothing wrong, then he sighed and walked out of the Xingshu Hall.
If someone had told him five years ago that one day he would have to use his sex to please someone, he would have definitely spat at that person and cursed him for being unreasonable.
On the way here, Xiu Ningchuan thought about many things, from the day he entered the palace, to knowing that the Queen was pregnant, to the Queen giving birth to Zhenzhen, to the Queen's victory in unifying the world, and the dispute between the two...
As the past events came back to him, he could even remember every aspect of her clearly.
When Xiu Ningchuan reached the steps of the Queen's Zi Ji Palace, he heard the laughter of many people coming from inside the palace, which seemed extremely lively in the silent night.
Xiu Ningchuan paused slightly.
"I heard that the handsome men in Xijin's tribute are young and handsome. The most surprising thing is that they all look very similar to the proton who was in the proton house."
From the voice, it was Zhao Yunhuai, the legitimate son of Prince Yong.
He tightened his fingers around the whisk, took a few steps, and heard another person talking.
It was Princess Huachang’s only son, Yuchi Tingnan, whose voice was weak.
"After Xijin surrendered, Yuwen Tianqing became the King of Xijin. From what I can see, he still misses his sister."
Xiu Ningchuan had also heard about King Xijin. The smooth process of subduing Xijin was inseparable from the help provided by Yuwen Tianqing and the silver hairpin in the hands of the Queen Mother that could break the witchcraft of the Tianyue Clan.
Before the war, the empress had gone to the Zhiguan many times late at night without avoiding people. The affair between the empress and King Xijin was the most widely circulated of her romantic affairs because the love-hate entanglement therein was extremely complicated.
Xiu Ningchuan never believed this rumor.
Not only was Prince Xi Jin much older than her, he had also sent assassins to kill her father. The Queen was just using him.
But now, coming from the mouths of these princes, the words have become more credible.
Xiu Ningchuan stopped at the entrance of the palace.
The moon-white wide-sleeved robe he had just put on turned a dim yellow under the palace lanterns.
There were no palace servants outside the hall, so no one inside knew that he was outside the door.
The laughter and joy in the hall continued. They were discussing the friendship between King Xijin and the Queen, but they did not hear the voice of Queen Chenzhao.
She didn't refute.
A crack appeared on the jade handle of the whisk in Xiu Ningchuan's hand.
yes.
Amidst the intrigues and exploits, there is bound to be hidden sincerity.
Of course, it’s not just King Xijin.
Xiu Ningchuan frowned, wondering how many people the Queen had in her heart.
Whenever these people came to the palace, the empress would always send the palace maids away and not allow anyone to serve them, and some rumors also spread in the palace.
But after Xiu Ningchuan entered the palace, he was very strict with his subordinates. After publicly punishing more than a dozen talkative eunuchs, no one in the palace dared to talk about these groundless things anymore.
Moreover, after he punished the inner court, Empress Chen Zhao's behavior became much more restrained and she never summoned them at night again.
But this time, the Queen not only unilaterally went into a cold war with him, but also summoned Yuchi Tingnan and Zhao Yunhuai into the palace.
Xiu Ningchuan's heart sank.
In the Ziji Palace.
Zhao Yunhuai continued, "Tingnan's words make sense. Most likely, Prince Jin wants the emperor to always remember him and think of their old friendship."
Remembering...old love...
Now that Xiu Ningchuan has come, there is no reason to go back the same way. Even if there is a wall in front of him, he has to hit it before moving on.
He raised his hand and knocked on the door, and said in a cold voice: "I have something to see the emperor."
The hall fell into silence for a short while.
Zhao Yunhuai and Yuchi Tingnan put down their wine glasses in astonishment and looked at Empress Chen Zhao, but she seemed not to have heard them. She was scratching something on the table with chopsticks, looking focused and engaged.
Zhao Yunhuai reminded: "Royal sister, someone is coming."
Empress Chen Zhao didn't even raise her head, and said without interest: "Didn't I tell you that no one is allowed to disturb us?"
The man sitting on the right side of the Queen said, "Xiu Ningchuan is here."
Upon hearing the name, Empress Chen Zhao's back stiffened for a moment. She looked into the palace but could not find his figure.
"Where is the Emperor?"
Lu Songwen nodded and asked with a smile, "I'm at the door. Does the emperor want to see me?"
Xiu Ningchuan, who was just one door away, pushed open the palace door and said, "It is my fault for disturbing your majesty's pleasure!"
Several people looked at him with different eyes.
They had all met this imperial husband, and more than once. The first time was before the wedding. In order to test whether this imperial husband was worthy of the empress, he secretly climbed over the wall of Xiu's family.
The results of the inspection showed that we were unsatisfactory in every aspect.
It was far from the level that the three of them thought was worthy of the Queen.
The people of Xiuningchuan are as their name suggests, they are elegant people like lush bamboos and still water, and they are always gentle and polite to everyone they meet.
At this moment, the expression on Xiu Ningchuan's face was frighteningly cold, and anyone within sight would be frozen by his gaze.
Yuchi Tingnan was familiar with this expression.
Because he has a fairy mother at home, and this is what she looks like when she is irritated by her shameless old father. At this moment, if Yuchi listened to Nanduo, he would face the situation of being kicked out of the house.
Yuchi Tingnan shrank his shoulders and hid behind Zhao Yunhuai.
They are about the same age, but Zhao Yunhuai is obviously braver.
He sighed and said, "Since the emperor knows how to be reckless, he still wants to disturb my reunion with my sister. Is he deliberately offending me?"
Xiu Ningchuan raised his eyebrows and said, "I didn't see the prince here. It seems that I have to add another crime."
He said word by word: "You have no eyes."
Zhao Yunhuai heard the sarcasm in these words. He rolled up his sleeves and was about to rush forward.
Yuchi Tingnan wanted to stop him, but he didn't want to. Zhao Yunhuai was a few months older than him and was already an adult. He had drunk a lot of alcohol when the ban on alcohol was just lifted, and his whole body was full of the smell of alcohol. If he was stained with the smell, his mother would definitely dislike him when he returned home.
He said anxiously: "Song Wen, stop him quickly!"
Lu Songwen usually doesn't talk much and is unwilling to get involved in these matters. He sat quietly next to the Queen.
With a loud bang, the queen dropped her chopsticks on the table with her eyes lowered.
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