Chapter 2
(3) As the saying goes (1)
A few days later, rumors spread throughout the city that the emperor had been in a very bad mood recently and would get angry at the slightest provocation.
He often dragged ministers who displeased him to the door and spanked them.
All the officials were beaten so hard that their buttocks were bruised.
For a moment, all the civil and military officials in the court covered their buttocks, feeling threatened.
Everyone lived cautiously around the emperor, fearing that if they made him unhappy, they would be dragged out, have their pants taken off, and be spanked in public.
It was said that the reason why the emperor was so angry was because people in the city were saying that he and the young marquis had secretly taken a bath in the wild and kissed each other a few days ago.
In addition to the well-known incident of the young marquis having oral sex with the emperor, everyone was talking about it behind his back, saying that the emperor had a preference for both men and women.
Obviously, this rumor made the emperor very troubled.
According to rumors, he publicly denounced the young marquis for his immoral private life and ordered Prince Pingnan Wei Zhen to thoroughly investigate the case to serve as a warning to others.
Then, people said that King Pingnan Wei Zhen appeared in Hebi City after receiving the emperor's order.
This time, Yunniang panicked again.
She ran to me in panic, holding her skirt and started crying to me.
"I just wanted to help you and the young marquis. I pretended to be careless and told others that I saw the young marquis bathing in the lake with a man who looked like a girl. Who knew that the rumor would get weirder and weirder, turning into the young marquis bathing in the lake with a man, then further into the young marquis bathing in the lake with the emperor, and finally the young marquis and the emperor bathed together and kissed."
After hearing this shocking news, I sat up in shock from my dying illness on the hospital bed, and my whole mental state was greatly lifted.
"As the saying goes, there's no smoke without fire. So, did the young marquis take a bath with the emperor and kiss him?" I asked.
Yunniang looked like she couldn't stand me.
"Didn't I tell you that this was a rumor I made up specifically to help you marry the young marquis? I hinted to others that you two were bathing together, but for some reason everyone thought it was the emperor and the young marquis bathing together."
"Isn't this the problem? As the saying goes, a three-foot-thick ice doesn't form overnight. This incident shows that everyone thinks the relationship between the emperor and the young marquis is not simple, so has the emperor ever taken a bath with the young marquis?" I asked Yunniang while coughing persistently.
I thought about it seriously and said to Yunniang, "Don't be too afraid. As the saying goes, a little luck can lead to something big. Maybe I can actually help the Emperor and the young Marquis have a happy marriage."
I thought about it for a moment and said to Yunniang, "But, as the saying goes, even jokes are mixed with sincerity. I think the emperor is right to be angry. You said you saw a man who looked like a girl soaking in the lake with the young marquis, but everyone thought it was the emperor. The emperor is the true dragon emperor, and everyone thinks he looks like a girl. The emperor must be hurt."
"We are both about to die, and you still have the mind to joke." Yunniang complained to me while sobbing.
I smiled at this.
"As the saying goes, a friend dies, but I won't. It's you who's going to die, I won't die, cough cough cough."
Yunniang rolled her eyes at me and said, "You look like you're about to die. How come you have so many vulgar things to say when you gossip?"
(four) As the saying goes (one)
"As the saying goes, the truth and the rumor aren't separated by mountains and rivers, but perhaps just a bridge. The truth on this side of the bridge and the rumor on the other side can collide at any time. What we need to do is to find the truth and let the truth and the rumor meet passionately!"
At that time, Yunniang was sitting at the dressing table combing her long, smooth, beautiful hair. She turned around and said to me, "Your clichés today are so long. Who said this?"
"Shang Shisan said so." I said with a firm tone and a resolute and courageous look in my eyes.
Yunniang was stunned for a moment, "Shang Shisan isn't you?"
"Yeah." I still spoke in a firm tone, my eyes resolute and courageous.
Yunniang looked back at me for a long time before slowly turning her head away.
"What the hell is this?"
Out of concern for our own safety, Yunniang and I decided last night to help the emperor dispel the rumors.
Clear the name of the young marquis and the emperor.
"But what should we do if they really aren't innocent?" I asked Yunniang while cracking some melon seeds. "This love story makes me sad for the ups and downs of their relationship."
At this point, I put down the melon seeds in my hand and couldn't help but recite a poem filled with deep emotion and passion: "You were born before he was born, and he was born when you were old. I miss you every day but I can't see you. We drink the water of the Yangtze River together."
When Yunniang heard this, she naturally showed a look of disgust.
"I don't want to bother with you as a patient." Yunniang said and hurried out of my room.
I don’t know why Yunniang and Sansong always dislike my sayings.
They must be jealous of my extraordinary talent and amazing literary talent.
I thought this as I silently climbed out of bed coughing.
After a while, the young marquis arrived.
As soon as he arrived, he kept asking to see me.
"Shang Shisan, are you okay?" The young marquis didn't seem to be affected too much by the turmoil. He still rushed into my room in a silly and hurried manner.
At that time, I was squatting on a chair eating a roasted chicken leg. When I heard the young marquis coming, I immediately climbed back onto the bed and kept coughing like a weakling.
"Ahem, young marquis, don't worry, I... ahem, I'm fine, ahem. As the saying goes, a thousand days of recuperation pays off in a single moment of illness. I'm fine, ahem."
After I finished speaking, I fell weakly into the arms of the young marquis who was sitting on the edge of the bed and pretended to cough.
The young marquis didn't react at all when I lay in his arms without his permission. He just scratched his head blankly and confusedly.
"I don't understand the meaning of the proverb that follows."
The young marquis and I got out of the car for a while, and he suddenly said, "The emperor said..."
I suddenly stood up from the young marquis's arms and asked, "What did the emperor say?"
"Why are you so energetic all of a sudden?" The young marquis, the fool, began to wonder again.
Are you kidding? Who wouldn’t care about this shocking gossip at the center of public opinion?
"As the saying goes, who doesn't like to eat melons? Everyone is a melon in the field. I'm just a little curious." I said, smiling a little shyly.
"The emperor said that he would catch the culprit who spread rumors about him and drag him to the Meridian Gate." The young marquis paused here, not knowing whether it was intentional or not.
At that moment, I saw Yunniang's face turned pale.
The young marquis continued, "Drag him to the Meridian Gate and spank him 30 times."
Yunniang breathed a sigh of relief.
The young marquis continued, "But I don't think we can let those rumormongers off so easily. I suggest the emperor spank them 100 times."
Yunniang trembled and muttered, "He'd be beaten to death if he was spanked 100 times."
The young marquis glanced at Yunniang and nodded.
"Indeed, the Emperor also said that if he beat someone to death, he mainly wanted to teach him a lesson, that's all..."
I saw Yunniang and breathed a sigh of relief.
"So the emperor finally decided to catch the culprit and drag him to the Meridian Gate to spank him 100 times." The young marquis took a long breath and then said.
Yunniang's face suddenly lost its color.
"Oh my god, the young marquis takes a really long time to breathe when he speaks." I couldn't help but sigh.
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