His Majesty brought the future imperial concubine back to the palace, and the news spread throughout the entire imperial city the next day.
But everyone still didn't know who the imperial concubine was.
After the imperial concubine returned to the palace, the monarch did not allocate a bedroom, but stayed with her in the Hall of Mental Cultivation. The servants of the Palace of Mental Cultivation were strict with each other, and kept secret about the identity and appearance of the imperial concubine, never revealing anything.
As for the imperial concubine's trip, she directly rides on the imperial dragon chariot, and retreats to the left and right, so that no one else has a chance to see the imperial concubine's appearance.
The imperial concubine stayed in the palace for several days, and everyone knew nothing except that the imperial concubine was a man.
But the news was enough to shock the government and the opposition.
Civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty naively thought that His Majesty had finally enlightened and decided to accept a concubine to spread branches and leaves for the royal family.
Who knew that the concubine turned out to be a man!
Although Changlu has a precedent for a man as a concubine, which emperor didn't first have wives, concubines and children, and then accept a male concubine.
Looking at His Majesty's various behaviors of doting on the imperial concubine, it is clear that his love is deeply rooted. If this continues, I'm afraid this harem will no longer be filled with other women.
The ruling and opposition parties couldn't sit still at all, letters of advice and advice were sent to Jinwang's table, almost piling up into a mountain.
Jin Wang threw the zhezi down on the head and face of the minister in front of him, and smiled angrily: "Why, now it's your turn to dictate the lonely marriage?"
In the imperial study room, everyone bowed down one after another: "Your Majesty, calm down."
Jin Wang sneered.
These people actually don't care whether his imperial concubine is a man or a woman, they only care about whether they can leave children.
It's not that there are no fertile men in this world, but they are all Kunjun, who are rarer than Qianjun in number.
Everyone preconceived, no one thought that this imperial concubine would happen to be a Kun Jun.
When Jin Wang thought of this, his heart suddenly moved slightly.
Not all Kun Jun can conceive, he doesn't care about these, so he hasn't asked the imperial doctor to check Ye Shu's physique.
Thinking about it now, it is indeed necessary to summon the imperial physician to investigate.
Even if it turns out that she can't conceive in the end, it doesn't matter. Jin Wang never worries about the issue of offspring. Even if she really has no descendants, it is not difficult to adopt a child from a collateral line.
The group of veterans in the hall were still chattering, not knowing what to say.
Jin Wang was irritated when he heard this, and said coldly: "Since you are willing to kneel, you can continue to kneel here."
Then he took the people out of the imperial study room.
He has not been with the little concubine for four or five days.
Previously, there was a backlog of affairs in the palace, and Jinwang has too many things to deal with in the past few days, so he has already stayed in the imperial study for many days. Even meeting Ye Shu was just a hasty moment, not even much time to talk.
The two of them were used to sticking together day and night in the palace, but when they separated suddenly, they couldn't help but feel a little... missing.
Of course, this concern is limited to Jinwang.
After not having to worry about being in front of the tyrant every day, Ye Shu was happy to be at leisure, eating and playing, having a good time.
In the Imperial Garden, there is a small boat floating on Qinyuan Lake.
Ye Shu leaned on the boat, drowsy from the sun, and yawned sleepily.
Changyuan was at the other end of the boat, gently shaking the oars: "If you are tired, my lord, will this subordinate send you back to the bedroom?"
"I'm not tired." Ye Shu rubbed her eyes and sighed, "I just think this palace is a bit too boring. It's boring to play around all day long."
Changyuan lowered his eyes and didn't answer.
Ye Shu glanced at the maid waiting by the lake, and said in a low voice, "We've been looking around the palace for the past few days, have you found any weak spots in the guards?"
Changyuan hesitated for a moment, then said truthfully: "No."
"The palace is heavily guarded, and there are even hidden guards ambushing it. It is very difficult to escape from it."
Ye Shu clicked his tongue, and instantly lost interest in swimming in the lake: "Go back."
Chang Yuan paddled the boat back to the shore, and Ye Shu got up to go ashore.
The dizziness came without warning, Ye Shu's figure swayed slightly, and Chang Yuan quickly helped him stabilize.
A faint scent of green plums was captured by the martial arts practitioner's keen sense of smell.
It's this taste again.
Nagaki's breathing became disordered.
Ye Shu was unaware of this, he pulled Chang Yuan's arm, his eyebrows frowned slightly: "I'm so dizzy..."
Only then did Changyuan come back to his senses.
"...Young master, are you alright?" He looked at Ye Shu's face and asked with concern, "Young master has been a little mentally ill for the past few days, but you want to ask the imperial doctor to come and see?"
"Hush!" Ye Shu glanced at the maid not far away, and lowered his voice, "Don't talk nonsense, what should I do if I pass it back to His Majesty?"
Changyuan was a little confused: "This...can't His Majesty know?"
"of course not-"
"You can't let Gu know what?" The man's clear and deep voice made Ye Shu tremble reflexively.
Jin Wang came from a distance with his entourage, his eyes fell on Ye Shu's waist, but it was dark.
Nagaki's hand was still there.
Jin Wang was annoyed right now, and wanted to find the little concubine to relax, but unexpectedly, when he saw such a scene, the repressed anger rose in his heart.
Jin Wang's voice turned cold instantly: "What are you doing?"
All the servants were so frightened that they fell to their knees, Ye Shu noticed Jin Wang's complexion, and quickly pushed the people beside him away.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."
Jin Wang walked in front of him, glanced at him, and said in a steady voice, "Didn't Gu find someone to teach you the rules in the palace? Why didn't you know how to salute when you saw Gu, and the more you learned, the more you went back?"
Ye Shu: "I..."
He usually saw that Jin Wang never knelt down and saluted, this dog emperor was simply looking for trouble.
Did this person take the wrong medicine today
Without waiting for him to explain, Jin Wang glanced back at the group of maids: "Who taught it?"
Among the crowd, a court lady said tremblingly: "Return, return to Your Majesty, it was taught by the servant girl..."
Jin Wang said in a low voice: "Drag it on, the staff will be responsible for thirty."
The servant quickly stepped forward to carry him away, but the maid cried and begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, forgive me!"
"Jin Wang!" Ye Shu stepped forward to block the servant's way, and said angrily, "You can just come to me if you are unhappy, why do you implicate a woman for nothing?"
Being called by his first and last name, Jin Wang didn't look annoyed in his eyes, instead he had a slight smile, his eyebrows were so handsome that it was almost monstrous: "You said that Gu's treatment is implicated?"
"Let her teach you etiquette, if you don't learn it, it's her dereliction of duty."
"It's an extrajudicial favor not to kill her with a cane, so what's the matter?"
The court lady was already so scared that she couldn't cry, Ye Shu couldn't see the woman crying the most, and his heart was overwhelmed: "I took it on her behalf, you can beat me!"
Jin Wang's eyes moved slightly.
Ye Shu was so angry that he was speechless: "You hit me, and you hit me with the previous 20 sticks. It's my fate to survive, and I have no complaints if I don't survive, and I won't hurt others!"
"You..." Jin Wang's lips moved, and after a while, he said lightly, "Put me down."
The servant let go of the maid.
Jin Wang wrapped his arms around and pulled Ye Shu into his arms: "You come with Gu."
The imperial chariot stopped not far away, and Jin Wang led Ye Shu onto the imperial chariot.
Ye Shu had just been a hero, but now he realized that he was afraid, and was so nervous that his vest started to sweat.
Jin Wang took his hand and held it into his palm: "Hands are so cold, are you feeling uncomfortable?"
Ye Shu almost bit his tongue when he opened his mouth: "No, no!"
Jin Wang: "Then why didn't you allow Changyuan to invite the imperial physician just now, and why didn't you let Gu know?"
"Did you hear it?" The two looked at each other for a while, Ye Shu's voice weakened, "I'm really not sick, I don't want to see the imperial doctor."
Jin Wang exposed him: "You are afraid of taking medicine."
Ye Shu lowered his head and did not answer.
The imperial chariot stopped quickly, Ye Shu glanced out, and asked, "Didn't you go to the Punishment Department?"
This is clearly the king's bedroom.
Jin Wang leads Ye Shu into the hall, and retreats to the left and right.
Ye Shu asked softly, "You won't hit me?"
His cowardly appearance was so obedient and cute, Jin Wang squeezed that face, and laughed: "You don't have to be in the Punishment Department to be punished."
"Go lie down on the couch and fight alone."
A moment later, Ye Shu was lying on the bed in only a thin tunic, curled up in a ball with the quilt in his arms, his back trembling slightly.
Jin Wang sat by the bed, held a slender bamboo whip in his hand, and gently slid one end over Ye Shu's back: "Cold?"
Ye Shu trembled even more: "No, it's not cold..."
The emperor's dragon couch is covered with several layers of blankets, which is soft and comfortable, and the earth dragon is burning in the room, so it is neither cold nor hot, and the temperature is moderate.
Naturally, Ye Shu wasn't cold, he was afraid.
The young man on the bed was thin and thin, curled up like this to make him look smaller, a slender wrist protruded from the cuff, and the knuckles of the hand grasping the quilt were so tense that the knuckles turned white.
Jin Wang stared at the white wrist for a moment, then looked away: "Do you know where I am wrong?"
"..."
To tell the truth, Ye Shu also wanted to know.
So where is he wrong? ?
Ye Shu thought for a moment, then tremblingly said: "I shouldn't... I shouldn't have seen His Majesty and not bowed down, talked back to His Majesty, and called His Majesty by his name."
Jin Wang just looked at him quietly without answering.
Ye Shu looked at him for a moment, then continued to whisper: "... You shouldn't speak ill of Your Majesty behind your back, call Your Majesty a dog, and say that Your Majesty is not as good as the Awang I raised before."
Jin Wang still didn't speak, Ye Shu worried: "It's really gone, I haven't done anything else these days!"
"..."
Ye Shu fell back on the pillow in frustration: "You hit me."
The hall was so quiet that a needle could be heard falling, and Ye Shu felt the people sitting beside him stand up. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the young emperor was holding a bamboo whip and tapping his palm lightly, wondering what he was thinking.
The light sound of the bamboo whip hitting the palm seemed to hit Ye Shu's heart.
Again and again.
Ye Shu looked away.
After a while, Jin Wang suddenly said: "You owed twenty rods before, and today's thirty rods are added, a total of fifty strokes."
"I will never be soft."
The bamboo whip suddenly pierced through the void and there was a sharp sound, Ye Shu trembled all over, hugged the quilt and rolled to the side: "I was wrong, you can do whatever you want me to do, don't hit me!!!"
He shouted a series of words regardless, only to open his eyes to find that the bamboo whip in Jin Wang's hand was already hanging by his side, and he didn't intend to hit him.
Jin Wang stared at him, and suddenly laughed: "You look so much cuter."
Ye Shu looked at him warily.
Jin Wang threw the bamboo whip aside, sat down on the side of the bed again, and said with a sigh: "Ye Shu, is it true that you won't face Gu with your real side except to scare you like this?"
Ye Shu was taken aback.
"Sometimes, Gu would rather you swear a few words than see you pretending to be like that in front of Gu." Jin Wang leaned slightly, raised his face, his eyes darkened.
"The real you will never use our past as a bargaining chip to test or take advantage of."
"The real you will never be so complacent and show weakness when you alone do something that breaks through your bottom line."
"Ye Shu, I have known you for many years, I already knew what kind of person you are."
"You shouldn't be like this."
The hall was silent for a long time, Ye Shu slowly sat up from the bed, and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty...what do you want to explain?"
Jin Wang stood by the window, staring at him, and slowly said word by word: "Gu just wants to know what happened to you, what happened in those three years, and why you became the person you are now. look like."
Even at this time, his tone is still condescending.
That's not the attitude that should be had between friends or lovers, it's a gesture of absolute command, the only thing people can do is obey in front of him.
Ye Shu lowered his eyes, as if he was thinking.
Jin Wang didn't urge them, the two stalemate for a moment, Ye Shu suddenly said: "I understand... what your Majesty said, could it be that there are spells to change appearance and control souls in this world?"
"Do you think that I have been manipulated by someone in the past three years, or... just changed someone?"
Jin Wang's fingertips hidden in his sleeves trembled slightly.
"There are no such things, Jin Wang, stop dreaming." Ye Shu raised his head and looked at Jin Wang, "I was the person ten years ago, and I was the person three years ago. I haven't changed, and I can't change."
Ye Shu knelt on the bed, and said in a calm tone, "Actually, you are deceiving yourself. You don't want to believe that I betrayed you. You inquire and probe in every possible way. The more suspicious points you detect, the more you can convince yourself."
"You tell yourself over and over again, 'There must be something wrong, it's not him who betrayed me'."
"So you hate me for bringing up the past, and you think I'm just using those to get rid of someone who doesn't know if he exists."
"Actually I just want to get away with it, but for myself."
Ye Shu smiled lightly, and asked back: "I conspired against you, and my crime is unforgivable. After the incident is revealed, I will find a way to exonerate myself, shouldn't I?"
Jin Wang's eyes were faintly bloodshot: "You are not afraid that I will kill you..."
"Don't tell me you wouldn't kill me if I didn't say that?" Ye Shu said, "For the past month, my life has been in your hands all the time, and if I'm not careful, I'll be caught by you. All sorts of teasing."
"What do you think of me, a plaything?"
"Jin Wang, you told me not to pretend in front of you, but if I don't pretend, can I live till now?"
"What about you, why have you ever told the half truth in front of me?"
What he said made Jin Wang's face turn pale, the latter closed his eyes and said coldly, "Get out."
Ye Shu didn't move.
Jin Wang: "Don't let Gu say it a second time, get out!"
Ye Shu got out of bed, put on his cloak, saluted him unhurriedly, and rolled away.
He didn't roll too far, and just stood still in the open space outside the hall.
The palace door closed slowly in front of Ye Shu, and he breathed a sigh of relief soundlessly.
Today's play is too risky.
Jin Wang has already noticed that he is different from the original owner, so instead of letting Jin Wang continue to speculate, doubt, and look for evidence, it is better for him to stop this idea.
In the final analysis, what Jin Wang did these days was his reluctance to believe the original owner's betrayal.
Ye Shu not only tore up all the previous disguises today, but also tore up the last tiny hope in Jin Wang's heart.
What's ridiculous is that even if he told all the truth, Jin Wang still couldn't bear to kill him.
Just punishing him to stand outside, this punishment can already be said to be insignificant.
If it was placed a month ago, Ye Shu might feel a little guilty.
Destroying a person's hope is the cruelest thing.
But who told the dog emperor to torment him like this.
He deserves it.
A gust of cold wind blew in front of the hall, Ye Shu wrapped her cloak tightly and said silently in her heart.
In a blink of an eye, the sky was getting dark, and there were no lights in the hall.
Jin Wang sat alone in the hall, his handsome facial features were hidden in the darkness, and his dark eyes were stained with gloom.
Someone knocked on the door, and a high-pitched voice came: "Your Majesty, do you want your servant to come in and light the lamp?"
Jinwang should not.
The voice outside the door paused, and then said: "Young Master has been standing outside for two hours, and the wind is strong at night, if you continue to stand like this, your body may not be able to bear it."
Jin Wang drank in a low voice: "Get out."
If he couldn't bear it and didn't come in to admit his mistake, if he didn't admit his mistake, just stand there, and he wouldn't care about him until he died alone.
Obviously he was the one who conspired to assassinate Gu, Gu tried to find out what was wrong with him, it was his ancestors who did not kill him.
Anyway, Gu will never admit his mistake first.
There was a moment of silence outside the door, and suddenly there was a loud noise.
Then, Gao Jin's voice sounded again: "Your Majesty, the young master has fainted!"
Jin Wang suddenly got up.
Jin Wang opened the door of the palace, but saw several servants supporting Ye Shu in a hurry.
The young man in plain clothes was pale, his head was tilted to one side, and he was already unconscious.
Gao Jin knelt down: "Your Majesty, even if you are angry with the young master, you can't really kill people, what should we do now—"
Before he finished speaking, he saw his majesty striding forward, snatching the man from the servant's hand, and hugging him horizontally.
Jin Wang hugged Ye Shu and walked back to the bedroom. When he entered the hall, he glanced at Gao Jin who was still kneeling in a daze, and said with a sullen face, "What are you still doing in a daze? Tell the imperial physician."
"yes!"