"One!" Chu Ye impatiently counted the last moments.
As soon as the word "one" came out, it was like a thunderbolt blasting on the heads of the girls, and each of them, like Bu Moli, would be treated as a human pile and stuck upside down into the river mud like Bu Moli.
"Plop! Plop! Plop..." All of a sudden, they rushed to jump into the river.
And at this moment, a loud announcement resounded throughout the Imperial Garden: "The Emperor is here! Lord Caroline is here! The Empress is here! His Royal Highness is here! Princess Wanwan is here!"
As soon as the sound fell, Emperor Cheng, who was wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, walked upright in the front. Caroline, who was wearing a red and gold skirt that dragged the floor, walked side by side with Emperor Cheng.
Then came the queen empress, Murong Wu, who was dressed in a royal phoenix robe.
The row behind is the prince and Princess Wanwan.
Behind them are the ministers and the heads or young heads of the major families.
And the crowd came stepping forward, and the first thing they saw was the scene of the girls jumping into the river collectively.
Suddenly, that shock, that shock, that shock...!
"See Your Majesty! See Your Lady Caroline! See Your Empress! See Your Highness the Crown Prince! See Your Highness Princess Wanwan!" All the girls immediately knelt down and bowed in unison.
"Pingshen!" Although Emperor Cheng was over forty years old, he was still very handsome and possessed a majestic and domineering air. He lightly raised his hand, motioning everyone to stand up.
Empress Murong Wu, just like her name, has a charming face and a gorgeous appearance. She wears a dignified and noble gorgeous phoenix robe. She raises her hands and feet, and she is very graceful. Even though her age is almost the same as that of Emperor Cheng, she is still young. It seems that he is only twenty-seven or eight years old.
The female family members in the imperial palace are naturally under the control of the queen. Murong Wu lightly moved her lotus steps, walked a few steps forward dignifiedly and gracefully, and asked the other girls in the imperial garden, "Why did they jump into the river together?"
"They...they are..." The girls panicked for a while.
Naturally, the queen wanted to answer the question truthfully, but they were afraid that they would offend Chu Ye again if they told the truth.
Chu Ye, this woman is really terrifying, they are afraid.
For a moment, no one dared to answer the queen's question quickly.
"Auntie!" Murong Chang walked up to Empress Murong Wu with a sense of superiority, took Murong Wu's arm affectionately, then raised the corner of his eyes and shot at Chu Ye, "Auntie, what do you ask?" She, she knows best."
As he said that, he looked at Chu Ye with a provocative look, as well as a taste of watching a good show.
Hmph, fight with me, hehe, now, let's see how you explain to my aunt.
There are many crimes for disrupting the royal banquet!
Murong Wu glanced suspiciously at Murong Chang who had something to say, but no matter what, she was also the queen who had been fighting among the concubines in the harem for more than 20 years. With that look and demeanor, he already guessed the matter very closely.
But on the surface, the question still needs to be asked, so he immediately looked up at Chu Ye, his face darkened, and said, "Tell me, what's going on with them?"
Maybe there are too many people in the group of Yingying, Yanyan, and the surrounding crabapple flowers and trees are dense and prosperous, Emperor Cheng may not notice whether everyone bows to him for a while, but she, who is as careful as a queen, has noticed , Chu Ye was the only one in the audience who didn't kneel down to salute.
Although it was the first time for her to see Chu Ye herself, she had already seen her portrait in the prince's palace and knew that she was Caroline's only disciple, so she didn't expose it on the spot.
With Emperor Cheng's attitude of obeying Caroline in everything, even if she said it, Emperor Cheng would blame her for not knowing how to advance or retreat.
From the moment the crowd arrived, from the beginning to the end, Chu Ye's gaze had always been on the prince who was dressed in a noble silver-white dragon robe with four claws.
Silky eyebrows, charming thin lips, and devilish red eyes.
A whole body of evil spirits.
Unruly all over.
Who is that dead evildoer? !
Although because of Princess Shan Wanwan's identity, Chu Ye also vaguely guessed the identity of this dead monster, but he was still a little surprised when he saw it.
No wonder, back then in the Nine Heavens Pagoda, he had to cover his face with his sleeves when facing Murong Chang. It turned out that he was the prince of the Eastern Kingdom—Shan Xiuxie. After counting this relationship, Murong Chang was his cousin.
Therefore, while he would not save or help, he naturally did not want Murong Chang to know that he was there at that time.
Facing Chu Ye's unblinking gaze, Shan Xiuxie raised his thin lips slightly, drawing a touch of evil charm, and his expression was very leisurely.
Chu Ye thought he was trying to pretend to be unpredictable.
Unexpectedly, he suddenly raised his hands, pinching, pinching, rubbing, and rubbing his slender fingers on his face. In an instant, he had expressed joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear, and shock to Chu Ye. In ten spoof grimaces.
Immediately, with his hands behind his back, he followed Chengdi as if nothing happened.
And his movements were so fast and fast that no one around him noticed that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who usually had a cold face and a serious smile, had just done something behind their backs that was enough to make their jaws drop. matter.
"Puchi..." Chu Ye couldn't help laughing for a while, and laughed out loud.
He glanced over and said: Damn evildoer, you dare to be a rascal at this time, you have the guts to make faces in front of everyone.
Receiving the meaning from Chu Ye's eyes, Shan Xiuxie squeezed his eyebrows hurtfully, pouted his thin mouth again, and sneered at Chengdi who was beside him, implying: Chengdi is here, but he doesn't have the guts.
Seeing his winking and helpless expression, Chu Ye shook his head and smiled again.
The look of the two of them eyeing each other was so obvious that it immediately drew the attention of everyone beside them, especially those rich young ladies, whose eyes were red with jealousy, but they could only helplessly stomp their feet.
"Chu Ye, how dare you ignore the Queen's question, how dare you ignore it!" Murong Chang was the first to interrupt with an angry voice, and then shook the arm holding Queen Murong Wu coquettishly, Sweetly said: "Auntie, look at her, she doesn't even care about you, you must..."
"Okay." Empress Murong Wu gave Murong Chang a cold look.
What does she want to do as a queen, how should she do it, does she need others to teach her
As a niece of hers, it must have been too early for her to take over as her niece.
Besides, Chu Ye was originally the prince's sweetheart, and she knew this when she saw the portraits of Chu Ye hanging in the prince's palace.
What's more, with Caroline here, not to mention that she can't move Chuye, even Emperor Cheng has to think twice before acting.
With a slight smile, Murong Wu could not hear a trace of anger in her voice, and said: "It's okay, let's talk now."
Chu Ye couldn't help but take another look at the empress in front of her. She is also the daughter of the Murong family. Compared with Murong Chang, Murong Wu is much more stable and deep. She really deserves to be a woman in the harem, and she has been sitting on the empress position for more than 20 years. , whose mind is extraordinary, should not be underestimated.
But out of the corner of his eyes, he glanced at a very thick crabapple tree behind him on the right side. Behind the tree was An Fen'er who had passed out. Due to the pain in her face, An Fen'er rolled around on the ground, and passed out just after rolling on the tree. From the perspective of everyone, she couldn't be seen at all.
That's good, a faint smile rose from the corner of Chu Ye's mouth.
"As for the empress, they... are hot." Chu Ye gave an answer seriously, pretending.
"Gah!" Everyone was stunned.
hot
Looking up at the sky, the sun has just come out, shining brightly, refracted down through the crabapple trees, dotted with stars, without any temperature, and the morning breeze is blowing on the face, it is slightly cool and refreshing, where is there a little heat
Furthermore, from Murong Chang's tone just now, it was obvious that Chu Ye was responsible for this matter, yet she gave such a reason.
This is true, who believes it
No one believes it!
The empress made a soft sound and said, "You mean, they are very hot, so... just jump into the river to cool off?"
"Yes!" Chu Ye immediately gave a look of empress, you are so smart.
"You're lying, it's clearly..." Murong Chang never imagined that there were so many people here, and Chu Ye dared to open his eyes and tell nonsense, and immediately wanted to expose Chu Ye.
"Clearly what is it?" But before she finished speaking, Chu Ye shot a sharp look at her and interrupted with a sneer, "Miss Murong should know why they jumped into the river better than me, right?"
The implication is that they were all instigated by you, Murong Chang, to end up like this. If you want to reveal the whole story, you will only shoot yourself in the foot.
Murong Chang wasn't too stupid to hear Chu Ye's words. In addition, this incident was indeed caused by her instigation in the first place. As soon as Chu Ye reminded her, she immediately felt guilty, and immediately shut up. I dare not say any more.
Those present were all the top figures in the entire Eastern Kingdom, and all of them were human beings. When they saw Murong Chang's expression, they immediately understood that there might be something wrong with the matter.
In addition, among them were the fathers or elder brothers of the young ladies who jumped into the river. Immediately, two of them walked up to Emperor Cheng and said, "Emperor Cheng, my younger sister has always been afraid of water, and it is absolutely impossible for her to jump into the water by herself. Please also ask Emperor Cheng to give us justice."
They are all leaders in the Eastern Kingdom, how could they be bullied like this.
The most important thing is that jumping into the river and getting wet will greatly reduce the image in front of the empress. I am afraid that the crown prince and side concubine will have no fate with their family. They are angry and even more unwilling.
Emperor Cheng raised his eyebrows lightly, glanced at Caroline who was beside the old god, and then turned his head to look at the other women standing tremblingly beside him, and said in a solemn and dignified voice: "Is what Chu Ye said true?"
The object of this questioning can be said to be quite level. He avoided offending Caroline by not questioning Chuye. He questioned the girls. If the girls exposed Chuye, Chuye can only blame him betrayed her daughters.
All the girls were terrified and knelt down one after another. While squeaking for a while, they secretly looked at their respective fathers or elder brothers standing behind the emperor, and all they got were secretly shaking their heads, signaling that they should not be troublesome and irritate their upper body. .
All the girls got orders, and for a while, none of them said any substantive truth.