After finishing his first round of government affairs, it was still light outside and Nangong Muyun was in a good mood, so he decided to take a walk in the Imperial Garden.
He didn't let the eunuch follow him because he didn't like the feeling of being surrounded by people and felt suffocated.
As soon as she entered the Imperial Garden, she ran into a person who was in a panic. If you didn't know her, you would think she was a thief.
She was knocked to the ground, and looked up at him with a resentful look: "How do you walk?"
Nangong Muyun recognized her. She was the daughter of the Minister of Personnel who fell from the wall and fell into his arms last time.
"What are you holding in your hand?" Nangong Muyun saw that she had fallen to the ground, but was still holding on to the thing in her hand tightly, thinking that it must be some invaluable treasure.
Sure enough, when she heard it, she immediately put her hands behind her back, hiding them from him, and had an expression as if she was facing a great enemy.
"nothing."
"Nothing? Then why are you so nervous?" Nangong Muyun looked at her with a bit of amusement, standing still and not helping her.
She knew she was in the wrong, so she didn't dare to argue anymore and quietly took her hand out. Then she held something wrapped in a handkerchief like a treasure, opened it, and found a few peeled lychees inside.
"I'll give you one, but you can't tell anyone else." He took a pill and handed it to him.
Southern lychees like heat, grow in the south, and are extremely easy to rot. They usually need to be frozen and transported at full speed, which is extremely expensive.
Therefore, starting from his father, lychees were removed from the tribute, and officials were strictly prohibited from sending them privately, which wasted people's time and money.
These lychees were brought back by Prince Xiang from whole lychee trees in the south as a birthday gift to the Holy Mother Empress Dowager.
"How dare you steal lychees from the Holy Mother Empress Dowager?" Nangong Muyun threatened her blindly.
She stood up and while he wasn't paying attention, she suddenly stuffed a lychee into his mouth: "Hey, you ate it too, you are also an accomplice. If you dare to tell anyone, you will be beheaded."
Nangong Muyun was so embarrassed that he didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "You want to bribe me with just one person?"
She frowned and looked down at the only three lychees left in her hand. She bit her lip and hesitated for a long time. Finally, she took out another one with a painful feeling and handed it to him: "Then I'll give you another one. Don't tell anyone after you eat it."
Nangong Muyun took it and put it in his mouth and ate it, and deliberately angered her: "It's delicious."
Of course it tastes good, she stole it at the risk of losing her head.
She was a little angry. She took one for herself and ate it angrily, muttering, "What bad luck! I stole four with great difficulty, but two were lost."
"What's your name?" Nangong Muyun asked her.
She turned around, her back to him, unwilling to pay attention to him.
Nangong Muyun was not angry either. He found a clean place and sat down: "Is your father the Minister of Personnel?"
She turned around and stared at him in confusion: "How do you know? Did you investigate me?"
Nangong Muyun glanced at her, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "You fell out of the Lin Mansion that day, it would be hard for me not to know about it. Is it necessary to investigate?"
Seeing that he didn't reply, she remembered to ask him: "Who are you and why are you in the palace?"
Judging from the way he is dressed, he doesn't look like a eunuch. Could he be a prince or something?
"I am the King of Xiang." Nangong Muyun lied to her.
In the end, she burst out laughing: "Who are you kidding? I have seen His Royal Highness Prince Xiang, he is much more handsome than you."
That's very hurtful.
“Am I ugly?”
She shook her head: "You are also pretty, but not as pretty as His Royal Highness Prince Xiang."
Nangong Muyun had no reason to argue about this. Before Prince Xiang went to the south to lead his troops to fight, he was known as the most handsome man in Kyoto.
"Then do you know Liu Sheng?" Nangong Muyun asked her.
She nodded: "Yes, what's wrong?"
"Who do you think is better looking, me or him?"
She looked him up and down and thought for a moment: "You are different from him in terms of appearance. He is gentle, calm and tolerant."
"What about me?"
"You..." She looked at him for a while: "You are young and frivolous, arrogant and unruly."
Isn't he young and frivolous, arrogant and unruly? He was so frivolous that he even lost his wife to Liu Sheng.
I get angry whenever I think about it.
"I'm leaving. Go back quickly after eating, and don't get caught by anyone." Nangong Muyun got up and left.
She called him from behind: "Hey, you haven't told me yet, who are you?"
"Guess it yourself." Nangong Muyun waved his hand without looking back.
She didn't want to guess. She didn't care who he was as long as he didn't complain.
After eating, she even burned the handkerchief to destroy all traces of the body.
Nangong Muyun left the Imperial Garden to pay his respects to the Holy Mother Empress Dowager. From afar, he heard the head aunt scolding the palace maids, asking who was so reckless as to eat the Empress Dowager's lychees.
The palace maids knelt on the ground, crying and trembling.
Nangong Muyun had no choice but to say that he had someone pick four of them and did not have time to inform the Queen Mother.
Only then did the aunt in charge let them go.
There are two empress dowagers in the palace, one is the Holy Mother Empress Dowager, and the other is the biological mother Empress Dowager. Neither of them is the kind of person who schemes against each other. When they were queens and concubines, they didn't fight or compete with each other, and now they get along quite well.
There is no queen or concubine in the harem, and no women are jealous of each other, so life is pretty decent.
He later ran into Miss Lin in the Imperial Garden several times, and each time he ran to the Imperial Garden to have sex with her.
After eating, he sneaked back to the Empress Dowager's palace and pretended that he had never left. It was so funny.
She asked him again later who it was, but he didn't tell her. Later, she simply stopped asking and brought him an extra portion every time she ate secretly.
The days passed by uneventfully until one morning when Xia Xuejian came back. He realized almost instantly that the one-month deadline was up.
When he went out, Liu Sheng had already appeared in front of him, holding Ye Qingwan's hand.
The old black man stuffed a dagger into Xia Xuejian's hand and asked her to kill Ye Qingwan.
Xia Xuejian looked at him, as if asking for his opinion, and as if begging him for help.
He looked at Ye Qingwan, who seemed to have cried, but still had a smile on her face. He even comforted Xia Xuejian, as if Xia Xuejian was the one who would be killed.
He wanted to take her away, he wanted to tell her that he was the emperor now and he had the ability to protect her.
But seeing Liu Sheng not moving, he swallowed back the words that were about to come out of his mouth. Liu Sheng was such a smart and capable person. If he really had a way, how could he just watch her leave.
How could he stop something that even Liu Sheng couldn't stop?
In the end, Xia Xuejian asked Lao Hei to change the dagger into poison and fed it to Ye Qingwan.
He saw Liu Sheng crying, but only shed one tear. He immediately smiled gently and took Ye Qingwan's hand, wanting to take her away.
As soon as they left, Xia Xuejian squatted on the ground and cried very sadly.
He did not cry. He turned around and went back to the Qinzheng Hall, drove out all the eunuchs and maids, closed the door, and suddenly felt a tightness in his chest and difficulty breathing.
Then he spit out something from his mouth. He touched the corner of his mouth and found it was sticky and it turned out to be blood.
It turns out that my heart aches so much that I really want to vomit blood.
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