Chapter 79(1/2)
The emperor's fingers twitched slightly.
The moment the celadon bowl fell on the table with a click, the emperor felt inexplicably frustrated.
"This..." He turned around and looked at Concubine Li, but saw Concubine Li smiled at him and said, "This is Aning's filial piety to Uncle Wang, unique." Obviously, since they are all unique, the emperor naturally could not ask Yan Ning to remember to give him a bowl.
However, the four words "unique" made Yan Ning's eyes lit up slightly. Although it was not easy to show that Concubine Li was right in front of the emperor, so as not to say that the emperor had no face, there was a hint of happiness in those beautiful eyes. The color was bright and dazzling, and the emperor was stabbed, and then he turned around and sighed.
Well, it is indeed his Uncle Wang’s uniqueness.
"I've only prepared it for you Uncle Wang."
"Natural." How could a crybag be cooked for others?
The King of Chu nodded slightly, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly.
His body was filled with alcohol, making his always solemn face softer.
The emperor knew the character of the King of Chu. Although he felt that Yan Ning was very filial to the King of Chu, he was inexplicably sour.
He couldn't help but go to see Concubine Li again.
Concubine Li was already touching Yan Ning's hair and praised her as a virtuous and lovely girl.
The emperor's mouth twitched.
But seeing Concubine Li look at Yan Ning with such a beloved look, and the soft and loving smile on the corner of Concubine Li's mouth, the emperor's eyes couldn't help but feel a little gentle, and he whispered to the King of Chu, "Yan Ning, this little girl, is in love with Concubine. Concubine is lonely in the palace, and she is really happy when she is there."
He didn't know what he thought of, lowered his eyes, reached out to grab the wine glass and clinked the King of Chu. At this moment, the servant beside him had already silently put a bowl of sobering soup beside him and whispered, "Your Majesty, Your Highness, the Crown Prince said it was uncomfortable to hangover. You have to go to court tomorrow, so drink less." When he said this, the emperor smiled, and saw the prince's worried gaze down, he smiled and said to the King of Chu, "Uncle Wang, you have someone who is filial, and I have it."
The King of Chu responded coldly.
This sobering soup doesn't look as good as yours.
"The prince is generous, I am very happy that he is such a child." The prince is not young anymore, but he is still a child in the eyes of the emperor. At this moment, seeing the prince below whispering to prepare sobering soup for everyone present, the emperor couldn't help but sigh with satisfaction, "The queen is a virtuous and kind-hearted person, and the prince looks very much like his mother." He was so moved that he felt a little nostalgic for the queen. However, Concubine Li, who was standing beside him, heard this sentence silently, and a faint ridicule flashed in her eyes. She thought of her once bright and happy cousin, and suddenly wanted to ridicule something.
A cheerful and vivid woman was grinded into a virtuous and virtuous person in the palace.
His Majesty fell in love with the passionate fire back then, so he married her into the door.
However, when the woman passed away in her prime, she became a model of following the rules and a beautiful story of virtuous and virtuous virtue.
How could the emperor know the sadness and tears in this?
"Empress, I'm sleepy." Yan Ning felt that Concubine Li's eyes were very sad for a moment. She didn't know what Concubine Li thought, but she knew that Concubine Li must not want people to see her expression.
Such a real Concubine Li is different from the Concubine who has always been sitting in the palace with a warm and gentle smile. She didn't know how she could comfort the somewhat sad Concubine Li. After thinking about it, she randomly found an excuse and snuggled herself into Concubine Li's arms and said in a low voice, "I want the Concubine Li to hug me."
"It's fifteen next year, do you still love to act coquettishly?" Concubine Li held her soft and warm little body and couldn't help but suddenly ask with a smile.
"Even if she is fifty, she still wants the Empress to hug me." Yan Ning is the best at acting coquettish. She acts coquettishly by the Duke of Li Guo on weekdays. What's that? She rests her head softly on Concubine Li's shoulders. She is already a slender and thin girl. At this moment, she is holding Concubine Li's clothes and acting coquettish, and she is so spoiled by Concubine Li.
Arong was watching below. Seeing Yan Ning being so good at acting coquettish, she couldn't help but burst into laughter and whispered to the tenth prince who was concentrating on picking fish bones for her, "Mother's wife really loves Aning." Yan Ning is weak and has always been difficult to express closeness to anyone. But if she really express closeness to anyone, it also means that the other party is really good to her.
"That girl also fell in love with her mother's mother, and it's hard to explain this." The tenth prince saw that Yan Ning was leaning against Concubine Li and did not serve Concubine Li in fear at all, so he snorted, just glanced at him and frowned slightly and said, "Why is Shen Yanqing still looking at Aning? Is he..."
Thinking that Jiang Huan and Shen Yanqing always met during this period, they all called the Tenth Prince meeting. The Tenth Prince reminded Arong, "That Jiang Huan is not ordinary. It took so long to get to know Jiu Ge very well. Jiu Ge also said that she is a pitiful woman... Shen Yanqing doesn't want to do anything to Aning for Jiang Huan."
"What do you mean?" Arong was stunned, not caring about Yan Ning, and turned his head to look at the tenth prince.
The tenth prince lowered his head and squinted his eyes to pick the fish seriously, while humming, "He acted like he loved Aning very much and wanted to be close to Aning. After a long time, what did he say? Anything that circulated in Kyoto is all Aning's reputation? Jiang Huan is not famous himself. He didn't want to ask Shen Yanqing to stand up and ruin Aning's reputation, right?" He immediately asked Arong to pay attention to this. However, seeing her nervous, the tenth prince hurriedly put the fish that had been picked on her plate and smiled, "But don't worry, Uncle returned to Kyoto. Uncle was just a demon mirror, and no monster was his right..."
"Let's go." The King of Chu, who was in charge, suddenly said to the emperor.
The emperor was drinking the sobering soup full of filial piety. He was stunned when he heard this and looked at the King of Chu in surprise.
The King of Chu's face was faint.
"But this family banquet..." The emperor saw that the King of Chu was about to end the banquet, so he hurriedly said, "It's all for celebrating your return to Beijing."
"Isn't it considered a celebration after drinking and eating? It's already dark." The King of Chu raised his jaw slightly and pointed the sky outside. It was obvious that the banquet had been tossed very late. Seeing that the emperor was still hesitant, he was obviously reluctant to part with the banquet. The King of Chu said slowly, "I also want to go back to the mansion to repair it, and I will go to court tomorrow."
This is what the emperor has a lot to say, and hesitated for a moment before saying to the King of Chu, "What are you going to do when you go back to the palace? Let's stay in the palace for a night." The King of Chu's palace was cold and empty for a whole year. Even if the palace was not an ice cellar, it would be almost done. Even if it was not a tiny, there would be no heat at all. What's the point of going back?
"It's not reasonable." The King of Chu was an adult man, so how could he stay in the palace? What kind of words?
The King of Chu shook his head.
"I'll sleep with you." The emperor knew that the King of Chu was taboo, so he hurriedly said.
The King of Chu swept over the emperor in disgust.
It’s okay to sleep with men in the military camp, but when you return to the palace, you have to sleep with men. Even the King of Chu cannot agree.
The emperor was depressed for a moment when he looked at the King of Chu, and sighed and said to the King of Chu, "Since you must leave the palace, then go back. But you don't have to go to court tomorrow. You can rest for two days."
The Emperor was very moved when the King of Chu went to court this time, but he was still very concerned about the King of Chu. Even if he was so strong that he could not stand it even after traveling all the way. However, the King of Chu thought about it and nodded and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty." His words seemed to be the end. The Emperor smiled helplessly. However, when he looked at the royal people below, he was indeed a little dizzy when he saw the princes pushing each other and drinking. The banquet was indeed over.
What's more, since the King of Chu said that he would part with him, let's part with him.
The emperor asked the banquet to part.
Yan Ning asked the palace maid to help him up from Concubine Li's arms.
She felt that the banquet had not happened yet, and the banquet ended.
"Uncle Wang." Seeing that the King of Chu also stood up, the princess and the princesses bowed to the Emperor and the King of Chu and then stepped out. Princess Changping couldn't help but stand up, walked quickly to the King of Chu, raised a beautiful and aggressive face and asked, "Why did Uncle Wang refute my face in front of everyone!"
The princes and princesses present were her juniors, but the King of Chu did not give her face. Can she be an aunt who straightened her waist in the eyes of the juniors? She grabbed the hem of the King of Chu's clothes, and the King of Chu suddenly looked down. He looked at her and said coldly, "Let go." He disliked the most about having women pulling him, even his niece.
In his cold eyes, Princess Changping let go of her hand unwillingly.
"Uncle Wang, you haven't answered my question yet!"
"Is it necessary to explain to you what I want to do?" The King of Chu drank a lot today, so naturally he lost a little bit of his usual seriousness, but his words made people feel more and more uneasy.
Princess Changping was stunned.
She was only glad that no younger generation saw the King of Chu respond like this to her at this moment.
When she was stunned, the King of Chu was impatiently brushing her away and was about to go out of the palace gate.
"Yan Ning, I'll send you back to the Duke's Mansion." Shen Yanqing stood beside Yan Ning with annoyed expression and whispered in a low voice.
Seeing Shen Yanqing's beautiful and gentle face at this moment, Arong felt boundless anger in her heart when she was so considerate to Yan Ning.
This bastard hurt Aning in his previous life, and he wanted to deceive her in this life.
She and the Tenth Prince stood at the door of the palace without leaving the palace directly, just waiting for Aning to go out together. At this moment, she saw Shen Yanqing being polite to Yanning everywhere, and couldn't help but show anger. The Tenth Prince was already in a look of unhappiness and wanted to go in and pull Shen Yanqing out, but saw the King of Chu looking back at Yanning and saying, "Will you leave?"
His face was impatient and his voice was not gentle. However, Yan Ning, who was about to ignore the imperial court's shameless scolding Shen Yanqing, his eyes lit up. He felt happy in his heart. He pushed away the slightly surprised beautiful boy, ran to the King of Chu, bent his eyes and looked up at him.
So stupid that I can't look directly.
The King of Chu frowned slightly and raised his hand to rub her hair.
"Yan Ning!" Chen Yanqing suddenly felt inexplicably panic as Yan Ning looked at the King of Chu who was leaving with his foot.
He only felt that at this moment, he seemed to be taking something away, which made him breathless for a moment.
This made his face turn pale.
However, the King of Chu had already looked back at him and said, "What is the difference between your virtue now and Chen Tai from the Chen family?"
Who is Chen Tai?
Yan Ning blinked, and was confused. Seeing that Chen Yanqing's face turned pale, and even seemed to be hit hard, he staggered back and looked at the King of Chu in a terrifying look.
"A Qing!" Princess Changping didn't care about anything else, and went over to support her son, looked back at the King of Chu and said with tears in his eyes, "Does Uncle Wang want to force me to death?! I only have A Qing, one son. If Uncle Wang wants to be unfavorable to A Qing, just kill me!"
She didn't understand that her Aqing was born beautiful, talented and outstanding, and was a noble young man with famous kyodo, but why was he unable to catch the eyes of the King of Chu? Even the King of Chu was always so harsh to her son for others. This was called Princess Changping very sad, but the King of Chu never cared about the tears of women, but instead felt bored.
He glanced at Yan Ning coldly.
Yan Ningfu was in his heart and hurriedly grabbed the corner of his clothes.
I am extremely skilled, as if I have never had a separation in the past six months.
The emperor was still sitting in the palace, watching Yan Ning being taken away by the King of Chu, listening to his sister's crying, he felt that it was really hard.
Concubine Li said to the eunuch beside him, "...Go and invite Meiren Yang to come and serve Your Majesty at rest." Meiren Yang is the emperor's favorite Jie Yuhua recently. She is only born with ordinary beauty, but she is both outstanding in poetry and painting, and is also understanding. She can really help the emperor who was in trouble in the previous dynasty.
Therefore, seeing that the emperor seemed to be worried, Concubine Li asked someone to invite Meiren Yang over, so that the emperor could have a more comfortable night and be able to be well relieved. After hearing this, the emperor was silent for a moment, and then said to Concubine Li gently, "You have also drunk a few glasses of wine today. Although it is not much, be careful and don't have a headache tomorrow."
"Don't worry, Your Majesty." Concubine Li smiled and thanked the emperor for his concern, and helped the palace maid leave.
The King of Chu left the palace directly, but saw the tenth prince and Arong waiting at the entrance of the palace. Seeing him bringing Yan Ning out, the tenth prince hurriedly bowed to the King of Chu and said, "Thank you for coming forward. That Chen Yanqing is really... I must put his sack when I turn around!"
He said this with a sense of bandit, but the King of Chu just said lightly, "I'm not for you." Although he was telling the truth, the tenth prince felt that his heart was pierced. Looking at the cruel and ruthless King of Chu, he forced out a respectful but filial smile and said, "Uncle is right. This... I'll send Aning back."
"You are going back to the prince's mansion." The King of Chu looked at Yan Ning and said coldly, "I have a few words to remind her."
Arong hesitated for a moment.
Yan Ning is no longer a child now. At the age of fourteen, she is already a big girl who can get married.
Isn’t it a bit inappropriate to be sent back by the King of Chu in the middle of the night?
But at this moment, he saw Yan Ning looking at the King of Chu with trust. The King of Chu has always been famous in Kyoto, not close to women, and everyone knows the world. Moreover, the King of Chu is an elder, so Arong hesitated for a moment, thinking that he would not be able to refuse the King of Chu rashly, as if he had let down the King of Chu's kindness. He just called Yan Ning so old and still lived alone with the man. Arong felt that he would be criticized, so he smiled, "Thank you, uncle. It just happened that I and Your Highness and I were going back to the Duke's mansion today, so we will walk together." She did not hide her desire to follow Yan Ning, but just told the King of Chu not to feel as if he was worried, and made the King of Chu feel that he had insulted his personality. Arong and the tenth prince did not car with Yan Ning, but followed the car in front of him in the latter car.
The King of Chu has always been riding a horse, but this time he sat in the car and rubbed the corners of his eyes.
"Prince, who is Chen Tai?" Yan Ning felt that the name sounded a little familiar, and felt that he seemed to have heard of it before.
"You forgot the nephew of Jiang San's wife." The King of Chu looked at her coldly.
To be continued...