The years were quiet and the room was filled with fragrance. When Xia Jie woke up from his sleep, what caught his eyes was the alluring woman, leaning on the head of the bed. Her hands were still on his back, keeping
A gesture that wanted to warm him.
His thin lips slightly spread, and he stood up gently, not wanting to wake up the sleeping beauty. When he was halfway to the side, his eyes suddenly moved, and he raised his hand and rolled up his sleeves little by little.
Suddenly, a bruise entered his field of vision. He was angry at first, and then thought of what happened last night. Looking at the cyan mark that clearly matched his handprint, guilt flashed in his eyes, and he gently rubbed his soft jade-like wrist.
Yifang was already sleeping soundly. When she was touched by Xia Jie, she slowly opened her eyes. When she saw Xia Jie lowering his head and rubbing the bruises for her, she was startled for a moment, then quickly retracted her hand and pulled her.
She covered it with her sleeves and said with a sweet smile: "I'm fine."
Xia Jie ignored her, took out her hand again, lifted up the sleeves, stared at the bruises, and said in a loud voice: "Here comes someone."
A little palace maid walked in. Xia Jie didn't even raise her head and said, "Bring in the nephrite ointment."
The little palace maid blushed and looked at Xia Jie's hand that was holding the room and rubbing it tenderly. She quickly lowered her head, exited, took in the plaster, and also told Li Fu, who had been waiting for a long time outside, that he was fine.
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Xia Jie scooped out a little of the green ointment and applied it lightly on Yi Fang's hand, rubbing it slowly with his fingertips. The bruises on Yi Fang's arm became lighter as the ointment seeped into it.
But Xia Jie looked at it, still dissatisfied. He frowned, held Yi Fang's hand, and blamed himself: "I didn't control my strength last night, and I hurt you."
Yifang smiled softly, rolled his eyes, threw himself into Xia Jie's arms, grabbed him by the collar and said, "Then the emperor will make it up to me, please."
After a night's rest, Xia Jie's original decadence and resentment had long since dissipated. He held Yi Fang on his lap, pinched her chin, kissed her hard, and then said: "Didn't I say that it's just you and me?"
Don’t call yourself your concubine during this time.”
Yifang lowered his head, pretending to know his mistake and said, "I understand."
Xia Jie was amused by her little daughter's coquettishness and laughed out loud. The remaining dullness disappeared, and her eyes as she looked at Yifang were filled with tenderness and sweetness.
"But my Xiaoyifang has been wronged, so tell me, how can I compensate you?"
After kissing Yi Fang's eyebrows lightly, Xia Jie stretched out his hand to the plump part of her chest, slid his rough palm slowly, and pointedly said: "How about you let me take care of you to bathe and change clothes."
Yifang gasped as he was being tortured by Xia Jie, and finally held down Xia Jie's hand. Yifang curled his pink lips and said, "You will bully me."
Xia Jie raised his eyebrows, kissed her jade neck, leaving a deep red mark, then stretched out his neck, pulled the skirt of his clothes with one hand, exposed his chest and said, "Then it's your turn
How about bullying me back?"
Being treated like this, Yifang lowered his head in shame. No matter how Xia Jie laughed and comforted him, he refused to raise his head again.
Xia Jie was in a happy mood and hugged Yi Fang tenderly for a long time. He wished he could be by her side all the time. But last night's affairs, government affairs, and the Xie family of the Li family were still waiting for him to deal with them. He had no choice but to stay with her.
After coaxing Yifang to eat half a bowl of jade stem rice porridge, he went to the front hall.
As soon as Xia Jie left, Yifang called Cui'er in and told her to find two old ladies from the palace. She didn't mean to hide anything from Xia Jie. In this deep palace, especially
In Longyang Palace, even if she wanted to hide something, she couldn't. She wanted to know only about Princess Fengwu. Since Princess Fengwu was so favored, all the elders in the palace should know about it.
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I don't know why, but in Yifang's mind, after hearing what the Bi family and the Queen Mother had done back then, he couldn't help but connect Princess Feng Wu with Bi Ruge and Grandma Wang.
This doubt was too big and involved too many things for her. She had to find out. Even if she couldn't know everything, she still had to know some of the eldest princess's past.
"Your Majesty, Grandma Cui and Grandma Zou have brought us here."
"Old slave, please see your empress."
Aunt Cui and Aunt Zou didn't know why Concubine Yi, who was the most beloved in the harem, was looking for them. They were once the emperor and ministers, and they were not the old people who followed the Empress Dowager. They couldn't be in the palace like Aunt Wang.
With their transcendent status, both of them were a little frightened when facing Yifang.
But this frightened look in Yi Fang's eyes just fulfilled her wish.
She is now in Longyang Palace, and these nuns are the old people in the palace and cannot use torture at will. Besides, she doesn't like to use those cruel methods to treat the servants in the palace. If these two nuns come here,
If you put on airs with her and pretend to be confused, she will be a little embarrassed because of her worries, but now it is clear that they were afraid of her first, so things are much easier to handle.
"Get up."
Seeing Aunt Cui and Aunt Zou getting up tremblingly, Yi Fang smiled at first, and then fiddled with a copper bell beside the bed. The copper bell made a crisp and sweet sound as it swayed, but it was heard in the hearts of the two
In the ears of those who are frightened, it is undoubtedly like a reminder.
Seeing the two nuns' faces getting paler and paler, Yifang knew that the heat was coming, so he smiled and said, "Have these two nuns been in the palace for more than thirty years?"
The two nuns looked at each other and didn't know what Yifang meant by what he said. Aunt Cui said honestly: "Returning to the empress, the two old slaves entered the palace at the age of eleven. In total, they have been in the palace for forty-eight years now.
years."
Forty-eight years!
Yifang calculated the time. Before Xia Jie ascended the throne, he served as the crown prince for more than ten years. Now he has been on the throne for eleven years, which is twenty-one years. The incident between the late emperor and Princess Feng Wu was about forty years old.
Years ago, Xia Jie had not yet been born, so these two nuns had stayed in the palace for forty-eight years, so they must have known about Princess Feng Wu!
He was overjoyed in his heart, and Yi Fang remained calm on his face, frowning and said slowly: "I recently checked the royal books in the Japanese Palace, hoping that there would be no omissions when the flesh and blood was born in the future to be sacrificed to the royal ancestors' tombs, but I didn't expect it to be so casual.
I checked and found some interesting things, so I specially called two nuns to ask about it."
Aunt Cui and Aunt Zou's hearts skipped a beat when they heard this, but they still said calmly: "I don't know what your Majesty wants to ask."
Yifang noticed the difference in their expressions. He hid the glare in his eyes, smiled like a flower on his face, and said in a pleasant voice: "When I was browsing the classics, I found that the emperor's aunt, Princess Fengwu, has never married. I don't know.
Do you two know why this is?"
Yifang's original intention was just to continue testing, but he didn't expect that as soon as she said the word "Feng Wu", the two of them were so frightened that they fell to their knees on the ground, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and begged for mercy in a panic: "My queen, please have mercy, my queen, have mercy.
Although the two slaves serve the eldest princess, the two old slaves are just rough servants in the princess's palace and don't know anything. Please spare their lives."