070. Toffee

The news that the Dianzhou troops had provoked the Jinbei cavalry spread widely in the Jinbei cavalry camp. If it weren't for the suppression of the witch, they would have wanted to beat them up with their fists.

Liang Shenyu returned to the military tent after inspecting the army. He heard Wu Jie reporting military affairs. When he mentioned this matter, he said nonchalantly, "Liu Xu sent a letter yesterday to invite me to a banquet. How dare he provoke Dingbei Marquis's Mansion? I'm afraid it was Cao Lun and Xi Yan's idea. Don't worry about it."

Wu Jie nodded expressionlessly: "Yes, but the Jinbei Cavalry is not afraid of his Dianzhou soldiers."

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the Dianzhou soldiers came to the capital just to shock the Dingbei Marquis's Mansion.

After all, Rong Jing was the legitimate emperor. Even if the Regent had great power in Jinjing, most of the officials in Jin were still not under his control.

Song Yan nodded vigorously, "The soldiers in Dianzhou are in disarray. Also, Liu Chi, Liu Xu's son, has been hanging out with Xi Chaoyi, Cao Haoyun and other young masters these days in red-light districts day and night. I'm afraid they have visited all the brothels in Jinjing. And—"

Wu Jie pushed Song Yan with his crutch, and the latter stopped in confusion.

Liang Shenyu was not very interested when he heard this, but when he saw Wu Jie stopping him, he narrowed his eyes and asked, "Anything else?"

Song Yan hesitated and stammered, "I heard... I heard that Liu Chi also asked about the appearance of the Regent King and his biological mother. In short, he didn't say anything good."

Liang Shenyu did not get angry, but smiled calmly, "Then he is very brave."

Although his voice was calm, his eyes were covered with a layer of coldness and gloom, so cold that there was not a trace of emotion in them.

Whether out of possessiveness or protectiveness, Liang Shenyu would not tolerate anyone coveting Rong Se with such despicable and malicious desires.

Only after Dingbei Hou left with a murderous look on his face did Song Yan let out a sigh of relief and said cautiously, "Master, are you going to kill Liu Chi directly?"

"Not really." Wu Jie glanced at the instigator, "But I will never swallow this."

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Song Yan stiffened his neck, "How dare Liu Chi do that? Is he afraid that our master will know?"

Wu Jie was silent for a moment, then asked, "Which regent are you working for?"

Song Yan took out a bag of preserved fruits from his sleeve, which was unique to the Regent Prince's Mansion, and threw one into his mouth and said vaguely, "No matter what, the master has taken a fancy to that prince."

When he ate the third one, Wu Jie snatched the oil paper bag away and said calmly, "Didn't you object before?"

"...I think that the Regent King and our master are not a good match." Song Yan's eyes were full of reluctance. He followed Honey Juice all the time until it was put into Wu Jie's clothes. He then retracted his gaze and sighed: "But this is Master's business. Who am I to interfere? Besides, Master has been alone for many years. It's not easy to find someone who is famous... Forget it, it's enough for him to like this person."

Song Yan said in a relaxed tone: "Besides, I think the Regent Prince is a good host."

After all, the regent, who was very powerful in the court, cooked for her personally every day in the palace, so he was very considerate.

Wu Jie remained calm, "You don't mind that he's a man?"

"Think about it, it's nothing." Song Yan spread his hands, "The Regent King is good in every way. Besides, it was you who chose him, not me, so why should I bother?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Jie handed over a candied fruit.

Song Yan was not polite and took it away from his hand, "Why are you giving it back to me so suddenly?"

Wu Jie's eyelashes drooped, "Why are you talking so much?"

Song Yan: “…”

Okay, then don’t talk.

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Rong Se's biological mother was born in a brothel in Jinjing City. Naturally, Liu Chi's words were delivered to Rong Se's ears by someone with ulterior motives. Whether he did it intentionally or unintentionally, Rong Se felt truly disgusted for a while.

Rong Se looked at herself in the mirror for a while, then gently touched the small bright red mole at the corner of her eye. She narrowed her eyes slightly, and the gentleness and casualness disappeared in an instant, replaced by coldness and sharpness. This face was too bright and feminine, but as long as Rong Se put on a cold expression, she would not make people feel effeminate or even easy to bully, but rather stern like a thorn.

But because of this face, Rong Se has been criticized a lot.

Rong Jing looked at himself in the mirror. His appearance was not ugly, but it was precisely because he was too beautiful that he became the reason for being attacked.

When did the appearance we were born with become wrong?

“Squeak.”

The door was pushed open.

Liang Shenyu's face was reflected in the mirror.

"What are you looking at?"

Liang Shenyu leaned over from behind Rongse, with his hands on the edge of the table, as if he was holding Rongse in his arms.

"Look at this face," Rong Se said softly, "it looks a lot like my mother."

Rong Se does look like his mother, and his mother looks almost the same as the original owner's biological mother, Yan Shuang.

The fate is equally tragic.

Liang Shenyu knew something, stroked Rong Se's cheek with one hand, lowered his head and kissed the corner of his forehead: "It looks good."

"It's quite troublesome." Rong Se's eyes were calm. "She's in the business of selling jokes, but who doesn't want to be a rich lady? It's all for survival. If possible, she also wants to be a husband and raise children and live a stable life. After entering the palace and becoming a concubine, she still can't escape the criticism. She has no choice. Even after her death, she will be labeled as a slut. She has to be the subject of their idle gossip after dinner. Why can people's hearts be so vicious?"

This is something Rong Se has never been able to figure out.

This was the case with Yan Shuang and his mother as well. They were put in the wrong hands and subjected to violence. Not only was they unable to seek help, they also had to endure gossip.

"She must be a fool, otherwise how could she live such a good life?"

"That's right, other couples don't act like this."

"If she didn't feel guilty, why did she jump off the building?"

There is no peace even after death.

Just because she is a weak person, and those who don't know the inside story recklessly speak what they think is the truth.

Rong Se stared at himself in the mirror, his eyes gradually getting colder, "Is the Liu family very powerful?"

Liang Shenyu sneered: "Not worth mentioning."

"Okay." Rong Se paused for a moment, "I want the tablet of Concubine Yan Shuang to be enshrined in the ancestral temple, and I want to be promoted to the position of Concubine Jingui as the concubine of Emperor Yuanguang."

He originally did not want to act hastily, but Liu Chi had the audacity to use the reputation of the deceased imperial concubine to openly talk about and humiliate her in the red-light district.

Yan Shuang had a miserable life and died unjustly. Rong Se's empathy prevented him from sitting idly by, whether for the original owner, for his own mother, or for his unwavering belief.

Rong Sedu is in a situation where he has to face the public head-on.

Liang Shenyu put his face close to his and looked at Rong Se's cold eyes in the mirror. He felt a little surprised because he had never seen Rong Se so angry before.

"I'll help you."

Liang Shenyu spoke softly, his expression was almost identical to Rong Se's indifference.

"The Xi family sent me an invitation to attend a garden banquet after the court session tomorrow."

Garden banquets are usually held in gardens and are enjoyed by the young men and young ladies of noble families.

Xi Yan dotes on his concubine, and the lady in the mansion is just a decoration. But the concubine named Liu Ran is the head of the family. Liu Xu is Liu Ran's biological brother. After Rong Se understood this relationship, he said coldly, "Really? It's so lively, I want to go and take a look too."

"If you want to go, you can go anywhere."

Liang Shenyu agreed and kissed his hair again, "Your Highness, just watch. I will take care of those stupid people."

Rong Se's expression finally eased a little.

When Qiu Zihan behaved rudely that day, Rong Se only ordered him to be beaten up and that was the end of it. That was because he had already decided on the fate of the Qiu family, and Qiu Zihan had only said a few words.

Liu Chi was quite arrogant. He had been chatting and laughing in the brothel these days, and he mentioned Concubine Yan Shuang and the Regent Prince frequently. His words were nothing but insults, and they sounded as unpleasant as a local gangster.

If Rong Se could tolerate him, the word "Rong" would be written backwards.

"The Liu family, the Xi family, Rong Jing." Rong Se said slowly, sneered, "If true, we can be divided into groups. We are all birds of a feather."

"So we are the same kind of people." Liang Shenyu kept kissing his forehead, ears, and hair, and whispered softly: "We are a perfect match."

Rongse answered silently, yes.

He came from another world, and even his despair-like collapse was so similar to Liang Shenyu, like a pair of jade beads carved from the same stone, so similar and yet just complementing each other.

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The next morning, the Regent Prince and Dingbei Marquis entered the Xuanzheng Hall on time. The Regent Prince sat in the upper seat and waited for the ministers to discuss matters. Then he changed his tone and said, "If you have nothing to do, I have something to say. It will be Mid-Autumn Festival in a while, and the women in the harem can also take this opportunity to be rewarded."

The ministers looked at each other in bewilderment, and the Minister of Rites could not help but say, "But there are no concubines in the palace yet."

The only living empress dowager is still in the imperial mausoleum.

"The emperor has no concubines, but the previous emperor did." Rong Se said indifferently, "It has been many years since the death of Concubine Tai Yan Shuang. She should also be rewarded and promoted to Noble Concubine Tai and enshrined in the imperial mausoleum and ancestral temple."

Cao Lun immediately stepped out and said, "Absolutely not! Concubine Yan Gui has a bad character, and the emperor has shown great favor by not demoting her to a commoner! How can we enshrine her in the imperial temple?!"

The ministers discussed the matter and most of them agreed.

Rong Se just looked quietly at the court officials kneeling in a row, and for a moment he even wanted to drag them all out and chop them into pieces.

But he held back, waiting for them to speak one by one, like watching a monkey show.

The last one is Rong Jing.

The emperor said in great sorrow: "Uncle, this is really absurd!"

"What's so absurd about that?"

Rong Se finally spoke slowly and asked, "My Lords, you said that Concubine Yan's moral character is flawed. May I ask, where exactly is her moral character flawed? Please explain it clearly."

The ministers were choked for a moment.

Where else could it be? Of course, she was a concubine of Emperor Yuanguang, but she slept with the late emperor in the palace!

But saying this would damage the reputation of the royal family, and no one dared to mention it for a while.

Cao Lun said coldly: "How can Concubine Yan, who caused chaos in the harem, be qualified to be buried in the imperial mausoleum?"

"Oh." Rong Se asked calmly, "Who is the adulterer who caused the chaos in the harem?"

He directly used the word "adulterer", which completely left Cao Lun speechless. If he said it out loud, wouldn't the late emperor be an adulterer?

Besides, the turmoil in the Imperial Temple has not yet passed.

Seeing Cao Lun choking, Rong Se asked again: "My Lords, let's be clear today. Since you keep saying that Concubine Yan is causing chaos in the harem, then bring out the evidence. I dare to ask if there are any witnesses or physical evidence? Who is the adulterer? Have you ever caught him in bed?"

After a series of questions, Rong Se had made it clear that he was determined to die together.

There are clearly two people involved in this matter, but why is Yan Shuang the only one being criticized?

Today, either we all prosper together, or we all suffer together.

Cao Lun's heart trembled.

He knew that Rong Se was risking his life.