Before she returned to Caiyue Palace, she had already been brought to Ye Ying with many invitations. Ye Caini was waiting aside, but the only one missing was Liu Jueming, who was always there.
"Ming'er has been unwell for the past two days and is still recuperating in the palace. Do you want to find him?"
Nighthawk saw her looking around and spoke before she asked.
Mo Lanyue shook her head, "I just didn't see the prince and felt strange."
"I called you here because I wanted to ask you how you went out of the palace this time."
Nighthawk no longer calls herself me, and Mo Lanyue suddenly realizes that she is the emperor now, and only she can call herself me like that, but just thinking about talking to people like that feels pretentious, if it is someone she has never met.
That's it. If someone you know suddenly changes his mind, it won't be very awkward.
She was too lazy to care about those details, and still went her own way and maintained her previous way of speaking.
"Well... the four countries have promised me to temporarily stop attacking Caiying. Their troops are now on standby nearby."
"Why didn't you evacuate immediately?"
Nighthawk asked almost immediately.
"My godmother doesn't think highly enough of me as my goddaughter. Even if I have some friendship with the princes from various countries, they may not sell me for my face. Now I am just persuading them to send letters back to discuss with their father.
If their father approves, this matter will be settled. If their father disapproves, I can’t help it. But you can rest assured on Zi Lei’s side. If there are no surprises, they will agree to work with Caiying.
of peaceful coexistence.”
Mo Lanyue had already thought about how to face Nighthawk's inquiry. Before entering the palace, she had thought over and over how to say it so that she could withstand Nighthawk's repeated scrutiny without any doubts.
She almost restored the truth. Except for the confidentiality of the conversation between her and the princes, she told Nighthawk the truth. No matter how perfect a lie is, it has its flaws, but half truths and half lies
But it makes it difficult to verify from the outside. In these ancient times, it was impossible for someone to eavesdrop on the recording with a monitoring device.
"If that's the case, do we still need to wait for news?"
"Yes, I have told them that as soon as there is news, I will send someone to deliver a letter to the palace, and I will go and discuss with them in person. To be honest, I have tried my best to temporarily stop them. To really make them
If you completely give up on capturing the Caiying, I'm afraid you'll have to meet the four emperors. Then I'll first explain to them that your previous actions were all out of necessity, and then find an opportunity to arrange for them to meet with you. Then we'll see how the final discussion goes.
How can you impress them with your sensational stories?"
After hearing what she said, Nighthawk finally felt a little more at ease. The four kingdoms were no longer approaching the imperial city, and the morale of the army might be restored. If the soldiers in the military camp no longer acted like deserters as easily as before, maybe she would still have something to offer.
Chance to get back 10%.
Seeing that Nighthawk was thoughtful and seemed to be thinking about something very important, Mo Lanyue didn't bother to say goodbye and left Nighthawk's bedroom directly.
Before she returned to Caiyue Palace, the minion team that had upset her had already appeared in front of her. She couldn't bear it and rolled her eyes, asking Lin Feng for help.
"The emperor has just returned to the palace and needs to take a bath. You go to the bath to prepare hot water, sprinkle rose petals, and light incense that has a calming effect in the bathroom. Also, go and ask the imperial kitchen to prepare lunch, and the emperor takes a bath.
It will be eaten later.”
After being given such a casual command by Lin Feng, a whole team of minions ran away in all directions.
Mo Lanyue looked at the scene in front of her. Why didn't she know that all she had to do to get rid of the tail team behind her was just talk?
"Boss, you don't usually stay in the palace. It's normal to find them annoying, but they are all sent to serve you. If you don't let them do their work, of course they can only follow you.
Standby."
"Please, you don't need so much to be on call at any time. It's not that I don't stay in the palace often. It turns out that during the years I lived in the Purple Thunder Palace, not to mention how carefree I was. I could go wherever I wanted.
There are so many tails following behind me. I feel dizzy just looking at them."
Mo Lanyue sighed and then continued walking in the direction of Caiyue Palace.
When she returned to the palace, everything in the bath was ready. She had only bathed in the tub in the room before. If Lin Feng hadn't given instructions this time, she wouldn't have known that there was a separate bathroom in the palace.
, but it’s not like the hot spring pool in Ziyang Palace that can be bathed at any time without boiling water. The bath here needs to be manually filled with water.
To fill such a large pool with hot water, she didn't know how big a pot they would have to use to boil water, but as Lin Feng said, she could get rid of that pile by sending them away to do tedious things.
Tail.
After taking a comfortable bath, she went directly to the side hall. The aroma of the food that could be smelled from a distance was completely tempting to her.
But before she started eating, Gu Mo'er came uninvited and was walking this way under the leadership of the palace maid.
She saw Gu Mo'er from a distance. She buried her head very low and only looked at her feet as she walked.
Looking at her from a distance, she already felt that something was wrong with Gu Mo'er. When she got closer, she realized why Gu Mo'er buried her head so low.
The originally pretty face was now bruised and purple, and one side of the face was swollen.
She knew without asking that she must have been beaten. She remembered that Liu Jueming married her as a concubine at the time, so strictly speaking she was considered a crown princess. She was the only one in the palace who dared to hit the crown princess.
You can count them with your hands, and you can guess the clues with just a casual guess.
"Liu Jueming, did he hit you?"
Mo Lanyue pretended to be surprised and disbelieving. She pulled Gu Mo'er to her side and carefully looked at the injuries on her face. At the same time, she pulled up the clothes on her arms. As she expected, Gu Mo'er not only
There were injuries on his face and various bruises on his arms.
It looked like he was beaten really badly.
"Lanyue, I've been waiting for you to come back. Can I stay at your place for a few nights? I..."
Gu Mo'er said in a low voice, looking at her with helpless eyes. She must have been having a very difficult time these past few days.
"Of course, you can stay in my Caiyue Palace as long as you want. We are good sisters."
She held Gu Mo'er in her arms and comforted her softly.
Gu Mo'er originally resisted crying, but after hearing what she said, she couldn't help it any longer and burst into tears in front of a room full of slaves.
"Lanyue, I don't understand at all... I don't understand... Why did His Highness the Prince treat me like this after he married me... Do you know that on the night of the wedding, he was drunk and ignored me?
Hey, just fall asleep, that's fine, but... when you leave the palace, he will take it out on me if he is in a bad mood. There are so many servants in the palace and he won't hit him, but he will beat me. I...
I obviously didn't do anything wrong, why did he treat me like this? If he really hated me so much, why did he marry me again? Since he married me, why did he abuse me like this? Lan Yue, I really don't understand.
, I'm going crazy, I'm going crazy..."
Mo Lanyue looked at Gu Mo'er in stunned silence, crying so hard that I felt pity for her. Maybe Gu Mo'er did not understand a lot, but Mo Lanyue didn't want to explain it to her, at least not
Now.
She helped Gu Mo'er sit aside and handed her a handkerchief, "You said it so fast, I didn't understand it at all. If you speak slower, I want to see why Liu Jueming did this to you."
So, she went hungry and listened to Gu Mo'er's tearful accusations against her. Talking about all the bad things Liu Jueming did to her, Gu Mo'er cried harder and harder, and her tears fell like beads with broken strings.
It went on and on. When Gu Mo'er finally finished telling the story, Mo Lanyue found that her eyes, which were just a bruise at first, were also swollen.
"In this way, you can stay here with peace of mind. When I have time, I can help you talk to Liu Jueming. Maybe because I forced him to lose his martial arts, he was in a bad mood, so he took it out on you."
Mo Lanyue put on an expression of regret and sighed, "If I had known things would turn out like this, I wouldn't have forced him so much."
"It's none of your business at all. He takes it out on others when he's not in a good mood. Fortunately, he doesn't have much energy recently. If he was like before, would I still have the life to talk to you here?"
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. I'll have someone prepare a room for you. Ah, you haven't eaten yet. I've prepared a lot of dishes. Let's eat together?"
"No, I can't eat, so I won't delay your meal."
Gu Mo'er wiped her tears and followed the palace maid beside her into the room.
When Gu Moer's figure disappeared from the side hall, the extremely guilty expression on Mo Lanyue's face also disappeared in an instant. She even walked back to the dining table humming a ditty. Even though Gu Moer's long crying made those
The dishes that originally had various fragrances were left to cool down, but she still ate them with gusto.
As someone said, when it comes to eating, what matters is not what you are eating, but the mood in which you eat it.
When a person is happy, even if you give him the most ordinary steamed bun, he will find it sweet and soft. When he is sad, even if the delicacies of mountains and seas are placed in front of him, he will not be in the mood to taste it and will barely eat it in his mouth.
It also tastes like chewing wax.
Being able to see the person who betrayed her so sad and wronged made Mo Lanyue feel happy. It was a pity that no one could share her happiness.
Before going to bed at night, she went to Gu Mo'er's room and comforted her in every possible way before going back to her room to rest.
No matter how grateful Gu Mo'er is to her, she will never forget the fact that she once betrayed her. As the saying goes, poor people must have their hateful parts. Maybe Gu Mo'er's current situation is really pitiful, but that's all
She brought it on herself and had no fault with others.
Putting the jade seal and the edict of passing the throne in the secret compartment under the bed, Mo Lanyue, dressed in single clothes, walked to the window and looked up at the bright moon in the night sky. It was already nearly fifteen, and the moon had become very round. She remembered
Zuo Qiu thought of the Demon Moon Chronicle that belonged to him.
If one day Zuo Qiu could go back to his world, I wonder if she would be reluctant to do so.