The fifteenth of each month is the day when Li Chong regularly goes to the Empress Dowager's Palace to have dinner with the Empress Dowager.
On this day, Lu Shi went to Ci'an Palace early this morning to pay his respects to the Empress Dowager. After eating some snacks in the Empress Dowager's Palace, he saw that the sun outside had already set to the west. After calculating the time, it should be the time when the emperor went to his study, so he and The queen mother resigned and said that she would go to the imperial study to find the emperor's brother, and then come with him.
The queen mother was naturally happy to see that the two brothers had a good relationship, but she heard that Lu Shi slept in the emperor's palace tonight during the recent period, and she was still a little worried that Li Chong spoiled his younger brother too much and delayed the important event of Mian Dian's heir.
"Today," the queen mother asked Lu Shijin kindly, "why do you always sleep with the emperor at night?"
Lu Shijin said: "The emperor's brother's bed is much more comfortable than mine. The emperor's brother can also tell me stories. I like to sleep with the emperor's brother."
The queen mother scolded: "But you have grown up, adults sleep by themselves, how can you still pester your elder brother to tell stories? Be good, your emperor elder brother still has business to do at night, so don't bother him at night from now on. do you know?"
Lu Shijin thought to himself that the emperor still has something to do at night. Isn't he just flopping his cards and sleeping with women? Hmph, it's impossible to open the harem behind his back!
"But today is very good. I never bothered the emperor's elder brother when he was approving memorials." Lu Shijin lowered his head and pulled the jade pendant on his waist in aggrieved way, "I just don't want to sleep outside the palace alone. We used to be together Yes, why are you breaking up now?"
The queen mother couldn't bear to think about it, this child grew up by her side since childhood, now that the emperor ascended the throne, Lu Shijin couldn't keep her by her side because he was too old, so he had to leave the palace and live in another place.
But in the final analysis, Lu Shijin's thinking ability is only eight years old, and he is suddenly separated from his most trusted mother and brother, and let him live alone in an unfamiliar place, he will definitely feel uncomfortable.
Forget it, anyway, the emperor is still young, and the issue of heirs depends on the fate, there is no rush, let's let the child adapt to life outside the palace first.
"You are arguing to sleep with the emperor now. The Ai family is waiting to see if you will still pester your elder brother after you marry the princess." The queen mother took Lu Shijin's hand, patted it in the palm of her hand, and said in relief, " You will be seventeen on the 22nd of next month, and the Ai family has already arranged for you to choose a concubine for you on your birthday, and hold a happy event in the next spring, okay?"
"Ah?" Lu Shijin's eyebrows trembled, "Choose a concubine? So soon?" Damn, I'm not mentally prepared yet!
The Queen Mother felt strange: "What's the matter? You were arguing about marrying a new wife before, why are you unhappy?"
"No, no," Lu Shijin turned his face away with a headache, and said unnaturally, "My son is so happy, but also a little scared."
"What are you afraid of? The Ai family will decide for you!" The Queen Mother said with a smile, "You just need to choose what you like."
"I have thanked my mother," Lu Shijin thanked me, and found an excuse to slip away, "I will go to the emperor's brother first, and come back later!"
Coming out of Ci'an Palace, Lu Shijin took Wang Xi to the direction of the imperial study.
From the Imperial Study Room to the Ci'an Palace, there is only one path that must be passed, so if Li Chong comes over, he will definitely meet him.
Lu Shijin is a little melancholy, although it sounds nice to sit and enjoy the blessings of all people, but he doesn't like women.
The queen mother is eager to choose a concubine for him, what should I do
You can't just say that you are a broken sleeve, can you
An eight-year-old child with an IQ said that he is a broken sleeve, will anyone believe him
Lu Shijin tapped his forehead with a fan, it seemed that he had to find a way to mess up the matter of concubine selection.
Lu Shijin was worriedly thinking about how to refuse to choose a concubine, while Li Chong was already driving Ci'an Palace in the emperor's sedan chair.
This season has already entered winter. From the Imperial Study Room to Ci'an Palace, you have to pass through a plum garden, where the plum blossoms have already bloomed one after another.
Most of them are red plums, with intertwined branches and full of buds. Looking at it from a distance, it is surrounded by red clouds. Before you get close, you can smell the refreshing fragrance floating in the air.
"Your majesty, look how beautiful the plum blossoms are blooming over there." The eunuch next to Li Chong suggested, "The queen mother likes plum blossoms. If you fold two branches and send them to the queen mother, the queen mother will be happy."
Li Chong sat on the sedan chair and waved his hands, "Then you go and pick two branches," before finishing speaking, "Wait, get off the sedan chair, your eyesight is worrying, I'd better choose it myself."
"Your Majesty is benevolent and filial. If the Empress Dowager finds out that you folded the plum blossoms yourself, she will be happy." The eunuch stalked the horse while supporting the emperor to walk towards the plum garden. "Your Majesty, be careful, don't let the branches scratch your clothes."
Li Chong strolled in the plum garden, and there were plum blossoms in full bloom everywhere. The fragrance was overwhelming, and he felt refreshed and relaxed.
Suddenly, the eunuch noticed that there seemed to be a figure flashing past in the depths of the garden, and he immediately shouted alertly: "Who is sneaking around there! Come and escort me!"
The guards immediately rushed over and surrounded the emperor, waiting in full force.
Li Chong didn't think that someone was so courageous to assassinate in the palace, so he raised his hand to let the guards stand by.
"Who's there?" Li Chong looked over, the figure was slender and slender, like a court lady.
A delicate voice came through, "Yes... it's a servant girl, the emperor forgives the sin, the servant girl didn't know that the emperor would come to appreciate the plum blossoms, and disturbed the holy car, the servant girl deserves to die!"
Li Chong said to the eunuch next to him: "Why do I feel that this voice sounds so familiar?"
The eunuch: "This slave also thinks, oh, it seems to be Liu Meiren—" Just after finishing speaking, he realized that he had said something wrong, and quickly slapped himself, "This slave made a mistake, it is Liu Shi, the maid who has been given to King Ningjun." .”
Li Chong raised his eyebrows, and he said, in such a remote place, the sun is about to set, how could there be a court lady here.
It turned out to be Liu Zhenhuan.
I thought that giving Liu Zhenhuan to Lu Shijin would get rid of this trouble, but it seems that Liu Zhenhuan didn't intend to give up easily.
After all, she is the heroine of the main heroine play, if she accepts her fate so easily, the next play will be worthless.
Li Chong quickly figured out the reason. Liu Zhenhuan must have figured out that today he would definitely go to the Empress Dowager's Palace to have dinner with the Empress Dowager, so he deliberately picked such a time to appear in Meiyuan to attract his attention. .
And Li Chong's personality is that he fell in love with Liu Zhenhuan at first sight. Even if he had given Liu Zhenhuan to his younger brother, he shouldn't forget Liu Zhenhuan so quickly.
"Why are you here?" Li Chong pretended to be interested, and asked Liu Zhenhuan from afar.
Liu Zhenhuan knelt down: "This servant girl sees that the plum blossoms are blooming well here, so I want to break two branches and put them under the Guanyin statue to worship, and pray for the emperor and queen mother sooner or later."
Li Chong smiled and said, "Oh, why do you often pray for me and the Queen Mother?"
"Back to the emperor, the status of the servant is low, and I have received the grace to bestow the servant to King Ning," Liu Zhenhuan said, "and also gave the title of wife, the servant is grateful for the kindness of the emperor and the queen mother day and night, so sooner or later I will I pray for the emperor and the queen mother in front of the Buddha, I wish the emperor and the queen mother good health and everything goes well."
"You have a heart, and the queen mother and I will remember your heart." Li Chong waved, "Why are you kneeling there, come closer, I haven't seen you for quite a while."
"The servant accidentally stepped on a stone and sprained her ankle," Liu Zhenhuan said sadly.
"A sprained ankle? Is it serious? I'll take a look." Li Chong strode over as soon as he heard that, and Liu Zhenhuan said pitifully, "Don't come here, Your Majesty, the slaves have soiled their clothes, their hair is messed up, and their appearance is out of order." , it is really inappropriate to face the Holy Spirit."
"I hurt my feet, so I don't care about my appearance. Don't kneel down, get up quickly." Li Chong looked at Liu Zhenhuan and pretended to feel distressed, "It's cold at night, why are you wearing such thin clothes? Somebody, go get my cloak !"
The little eunuch came over with the emperor's cloak, Li Chong shook it off, and put it on Liu Zhenhuan himself. With tears in his eyes, Liu Zhenhuan looked at Li Chong gratefully: "Thank you, my servant, for your concern."
"Can you still go by yourself? Do you want me to send someone to take you back?" Li Chong asked with concern.
"No, no, this servant can walk by herself." Liu Zhenhuan stood on tiptoe and tried to take two steps, but suddenly her body tilted, as if she was about to fall, Li Chong quickly supported her, and Liu Zhenhuan fell on Li Chong .
Then, Li Chong smelled a sweet fragrance from Liu Zhenhuan's body that was different from the plum fragrance around him.
Li Chong sensed that something was wrong with his body, and immediately understood that there might be something strange about the fragrance on Liu Zhenhuan's body. It might be an aphrodisiac drug, and it was difficult to detect it mixed with the fragrance of plum blossoms all over the garden.
"Your Majesty," Liu Zhenhuan was determined to make the Emperor fall in love with her again this time, her voice was deliberately charming and charming, and her eyes were also very charming, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for saving this servant, I am so grateful, God The ground is freezing cold, and with the emperor's cloak, the servants will no longer feel cold."
Damn, I didn't expect this woman to use drugs to seduce her.
Li Chong, who was framed by someone, couldn't push people away directly, and was gnashing his teeth secretly thinking about what to do, when his good brother Lu Shijin finally appeared!
Lu Shijin came along the road and saw the emperor's scorpion parked outside the plum garden, but he couldn't see the emperor himself, so he also came to the plum garden.
Lu Shijin saw Liu Zhenhuan and Li Chong standing under the plum tree "Qingqing, me" from a long distance away, and a group of eunuchs and guards were waiting far away, their heads were lowered, their noses and hearts were lowered, and they pretended not to see them.
"What are you doing?!" Lu Shijin was furious. Damn it, it's only been a long time since he didn't keep an eye on him, and the bastard emperor dared to steal something behind his back, and it was his "sister-in-law" who stole it!
Seeing that the savior was coming, Li Chong quickly pushed Liu Zhenhuan away to avoid suspicion, and coughed: "No, it's nothing. Why are you here?"
Why did I come here? If I don’t come again, a green grassland will grow on my head!
"I'm here to see you, Brother Emperor, ah, Sister Liu is here too, what are you two doing here?" Lu Shijin pretended to be confused and asked knowingly.
Li Chong had already taken the aphrodisiac, and his face began to flush, he tilted his head to cover up and said, "It's nothing, I came to pick plum blossoms for my mother, and happened to bump into Liu Shi, and chatted for a while."
Lu Shijin looked at Liu Zhenhuan, "Where is Sister Liu? What are you doing here? It's so late, it's not good to run around alone."
Liu Zhenhuan lowered her head and said, "This servant also came to pick plum blossoms."
Lu Shijin clapped his hands and said, "They all come here to fold plum blossoms? What a coincidence? It seems that folding plum blossoms must be fun! I want to play too!"
"Okay, stop playing. The plum blossoms have already been folded. You help me take them back to my mother. It's getting late. You can go back to Ci'an Palace to accompany your mother to have dinner." Li Chong signaled the eunuch to take the folded plum blossoms. Pass it to Lu Shijin.
Lu Shijin asked strangely: "Brother Emperor, don't you go with your younger brother?"
"No," Li Chong could only feel a surge of heat coming from top to bottom, but he didn't show any signs of being affected on his face, and said calmly, "I suddenly remembered that there was an important paper that hadn't been approved yet. I won't go to pay my mother's peace today, you help me to make amends to my mother."
Lu Shijin pouted his mouth, "Okay then, let's go to the emperor's brother after the younger brother has finished his dinner after accompanying his mother."
"No," Li Chong said with a wave of his hand, "tonight you go out of the palace and go back to sleep in your own mansion. I have something to do tonight and I don't want to be disturbed."
After Li Chong finished speaking, he got up and drove back to the palace, but his reason for refusing was too far-fetched, it was okay to deceive a fool, but Lu Shijin, who was smarter than a monkey, could not be deceived.
Lu Shijin looked at Li Chong's back, who seemed to be running away, and reasonably suspected that he might be dismissing him, and wanted to have a tryst with Liu Zhenhuan, right? !
"Sister Liu, are you going back? Do you want me to send you off?" Lu Shijin turned his head and asked Liu Zhenhuan who was still standing there.
Liu Zhenhuan stared at the direction where the emperor was going away, and gritted his teeth. He had calculated thousands of times, but he didn't expect that this foolish prince would suddenly appear. Now it's all right, all the plans are in vain!
"The King of Bulao Ning County, slaves can go back by themselves!" Liu Zhenhuan blessed Fu and resigned, flung his sleeves angrily and walked away, his steps were neat, but he didn't look like he was sprained at all.
The more Li Chong refused to let him go there at night, the more Lu Shijin felt that Li Chong must have something to hide from him.
After finishing dinner with the Queen Mother absent-mindedly, Lu Shijin didn't go out of the palace to go back to the mansion. He planned to take a look at the emperor's place to make sure what he was doing, so he was relieved.
When they arrived at Yong'an Palace, they didn't see the emperor. The eunuch beside him saw Lu Shijin coming, and invited Lu Shijin into the palace with bright eyes.
The chief eunuch shook his whisk happily, "Your Majesty, you are here!"
Lu Shijin asked, "Where's my elder brother?"
"As soon as the emperor returned to the palace, he went to clean the room," the eunuch said with a bitter face, "the emperor locked himself in it and ordered no one to go in and disturb him, but it's been almost an hour and he hasn't come out yet. What's going on, the servant is dying of anxiety!"
Lu Shijin heard what was going on clearly, and his heart was as expected, Li Chong didn't let him come tonight because of something!
But what is he doing alone in the clean room
Lu Shijin walked towards the clean room, "My lord, go and have a look."
Although the people who served the emperor were worried, they did not dare to go against the holy will and rush into the clean room. Now that a fearless fool came, of course they were happy that someone stood in front of them.
"Okay, my lord, please come with the servants!"
The eunuch led Lu Shijin to the outside of the clean room, pointed to the closed door, "Please go and open the door yourself, my lord, the servants dare not disobey the order."
Lu Shijin snorted: "A bunch of cowards, let me go if I go."
Lu Shijin tentatively pushed the door outside the clean room, and found that it could be moved, so he pushed it open and walked in carelessly.
Looking back, he saw the eunuchs all behind him looking inside, Lu Shijin made a face at them, and closed the door again to prevent them from seeing.
"Brother Emperor? Are you there?"
There was a lot of moisture in the clean room, and there were many curtains covering it. Lu Shijin couldn't see clearly what was going on in the bath, so he asked in a low voice outside.
I only heard the sound of rushing water, but I didn't hear Li Chong's response.
Lu Shijin didn't care about anything else, he directly lifted the curtain, and saw that Li Chong was soaked in the water except for his shoulders, his eyes were closed tightly, and he seemed unconscious.
"Brother Emperor?" Lu Shijin asked again tentatively, but Li Chong still didn't respond, which is strange.
The pool was filled with water, but an hour had passed. Lu Shijin bent down and stretched out his hand to test the temperature of the water. The water was already cold.
Lu Shijin thought that Li Chong was asleep, so he walked around to Li Chong, patted his shoulder, and as soon as he touched Li Chong's skin, he felt that Li Chong's body temperature was different from ordinary people.
Oh my god, it's hot like a stove. Is this a fever? No wonder he didn't answer no matter how you called him. Could it be that he passed out
Lu Shijin quickly rolled up his sleeves, stretched his hands from Li Chong's armpits to wrap around Li Chong's body, and took a lot of effort to fish him out of the bath. During this time, Li Chong kept his eyes closed, Understand and do not resist.
After dragging the man ashore, Lu Shijin looked at the place where the emperor stood proudly, and finally discovered the key point of the matter.
After soaking in cold water for so long, it's impossible for the little brother to be so energetic, and then look at Li Chong's abnormal red tide.
Lu Shijin boldly guessed, probably, someone drugged the emperor, right
Who is so bold? !
Lu Shijin sorted out the context of the matter. The emperor was already on his way to Ci'an Palace, but after seeing Liu Zhenhuan in Meiyuan, he suddenly changed his mind and went back to the palace, and asked Lu Shijin to return to his residence tonight, and once The palace abnormally locked itself in the clean room and did not let anyone get close.
In summary, there is only one truth!
It must be Liu Zhenhuan who gave Li Chong the medicine!
Lu Shijin patted the back of his head. Damn, he should have known that Liu Zhenhuan would not be so easy to deal with, he could even do the trick of drugging the emperor. If he hadn't arrived in time, Liu Zhenhuan might have climbed up tonight. Dragon bed!
I don't know what kind of medicine Liu Zhenhuan gave Li Chong. The medicine was so strong that after soaking in cold water for an hour, the signs of raising his head didn't disappear at all.
This is how to do? Do you want to pass on the imperial physician
Lu Shijin rejected this idea almost immediately.
If it is passed on to the imperial physician, it will surely alarm other people. If this aphrodisiac can only be undone by having sex with someone, wouldn't it be a chance for the concubines in the harem
So... Lu Shijin frowned and looked at the emperor's Long Mugen again. He couldn't take advantage of others, so he had to come in person!
"Hey, wake up, can you wake up?" Lu Shijin patted the emperor's face, trying to wake up Li Chong's consciousness, but it might be because Li Chong had soaked in the pool for too long and resisted the medicine's effects. Dazed by the overbearing medicinal properties, no matter what Lu Shijin called him, Li Chong didn't respond like a vegetable.
"Damn, no response, how is that any different from me finding a fake one to stab myself?"
While complaining, Lu Shijin unbuttoned his clothes repeatedly, first prepared with warm water, and then slowly sat on Li Chong's body...
...
After another hour, when the moon was in the sky, Lu Shijin finally walked out of the clean room.
Before leaving, he had already changed Li Chong into a clean inner garment, and ordered the eunuchs guarding outside to carry Li Chong back to the palace directly.
"My lord, is the emperor alright?" the eunuch asked worriedly.
Lu Shijin said lightly: "It's okay, the emperor's brother just fell asleep while taking a bath. He must be too tired from dealing with state affairs, so I didn't wake him up."
Lu Shijin rolled his eyes in his heart, what could be wrong with Li Chong, what happened was him!
He helped his lower back, if it wasn't for this young body that can withstand tossing, his waist would be useless!
"By the way, don't tell the emperor's brother that the king has come." Lu Shijin did not forget to explain before leaving the palace.
The eunuch didn't understand, "Why?"
Lu Shijin: "Did you forget that when we were in the plum garden, the emperor's elder brother wouldn't let me come to see him tonight? This king is here, isn't that an act of rebellion?"
The eunuch thought to himself, are you still resisting the decree, but he still smiled and said, "Okay, don't worry, my lord, this servant will never mention your visit to the emperor."
"Okay, this king is leaving the palace." Lu Shijin waved his sleeves without taking away a single cloud.
With the mentality of doing good deeds without leaving a name, he supported his waist and walked with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
When the emperor woke up the next day, he lifted the quilt to take a look, and he was relieved when he found that the fire that he couldn't get rid of last night had subsided.
The eunuch who was watching at night found that the emperor was awake, so he hurried over to wait on him, "Your Majesty, you are awake, it is almost time for the morning court, and this servant will wait for you to get up and change clothes."
"Didn't I clean the room last night? Why did I go back to the bedroom?" Li Chong asked.
The eunuch replied: "Your majesty, you fell asleep in the clean room last night. Eunuch Jiang ordered the servants to move you to the dragon bed."
"Oh, it's all right, help me up." Li Chong thought that the cold bath he took had an effect, so he didn't ask any more questions.
The little eunuch helped Li Chong up, but just as he stood up, his head suddenly became dizzy. Li Chong hurriedly supported his head and sat down, and a few strange memory fragments suddenly flooded into his mind.
The angle of the picture seems to be looking up. The first thing that comes into view is a white and flat chest. It can be determined that it is a man and not a woman.
Then came the unbearable slender waist, and the slender thighs that straddled him.
Looking up at last, Li Chong saw a familiar face, no longer the innocence and innocence he saw before, the handsome face was full of confusion when he was emotional.
Who do these memories belong to? Could it have happened for real
"I'm asking you, last night," Li Chong's voice trembled, "Did King Ning come here?"
The little eunuch remembered Eunuch Jiang's instructions and could not tell the emperor the truth, "No, no one came to Yong'an Palace last night."
Li Chong didn't believe it, and asked again in a deep voice: "Really?"
The little eunuch hurriedly knelt down and said, "It's true, I dare not lie to the emperor."
Li Chong was silent, Lu Shijin has never been here, so, are those memories in his mind all dreams
After taking the aphrodisiac, he imagined Lu Shijin as an object to relieve his desire
Li Chong buried his face deeply in his palm, feeling ashamed and blaming himself.
Today he is only an eight-year-old child! You have evil thoughts about a child!
Li Chong, you are such a beast!
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