Zhou Xuan lay on the bed, placed shelves on both sides, and put a thick quilt on it, so that he could keep warm and not touch the wound.
Princess Jin Yao stretched out her hand to lift the quilt. Zhou Xuan endured the pain and turned back: "What are you doing?"
"Let me take a look. I hid aside during the beating and didn't see clearly." Princess Jin Yao said, lifting the quilt halfway and saw Zhou Xuan's back where he had applied the wound medicine. The black and white medicine powder was sprinkled on the vertical and horizontal blood marks.
Make it even more ferocious——
This is the first time Princess Jin Yao has seen such an injury, and she can't hide the horror in her eyes.
"It's terrible," she murmured.
Zhou Xuan turned around and stared at her. Seeing that she was still pulling down the quilt, he said, "Don't look at anything inappropriate. That's almost enough."
Princess Jin Yao said: "What's the matter? It's not like I haven't seen it before. When you were a child, you took a bath in my mother's harem, and I was right next to you."
Zhou Xuan was angry: "You were only three years old at that time, and you didn't even open your eyes."
Princess Jin Yao covered her mouth and smiled: "Nonsense, the three-year-old child's eyes have already opened." Although she said this, she still didn't look down and put up the quilt.
Zhou Xuan lay on his arm again and said, "You're welcome." This was in reply to what she said earlier, "Even if you don't agree, you won't get slapped. I will be the one who gets slapped in the end."
Princess Jin Yao was silent. If the queen told her about the marriage first, she would object and protest, but she really couldn't do it like Zhou Xuan did to the queen, especially when her father also spoke. She could only be silent and beg and cry. This was simply not possible.
It's not enough to change her father's decision. She can't fight against him, and he is absolutely reluctant to hit her. Alas, his father is so good to her, how can she ignore it just to hurt his heart?
So in the end it was up to Zhou Xuan to refuse.
Princess Jin Yao raised her hand and hit him. Although she was separated by the quilt, it still hurt. Zhou Xuan yelled: "What are you doing again?"
Princess Jin Yao said angrily: "You should be beaten!"
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Although Princess Jin Yao said not to let him listen, the second prince felt that as his elder brother, he still had the responsibility to stay here. After Princess Jin Yao entered, she could not hear her whispering, until Zhou Xuan suddenly shouted, and he also
I was startled, and then Princess Jin Yao's voice said, "You should be beaten."
So, let's take action. The second prince hesitated and took a step back. The girl has suffered such a great humiliation, so just give her a beating.
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"This is for my father." Princess Jin Yao gritted her teeth and whispered, "Even if you want to refuse, you should tell your father carefully. You won't leave any room for it. You treat your father as the emperor and you will immediately demand it."
You act like you will die if you want your subjects to die, it hurts my father’s heart so much.”
If the emperor is truly regarded as a relative and a father, then if there is anything that cannot be discussed between the father and the son, it is okay to talk, beg, kneel, and cry.
"I believe that my father will cherish you." Princess Jin Yao said quietly, "But by doing this now, you are clearly telling your father that you don't believe him."
Zhou Xuan lay on his arm and said in a muffled voice: "Your Majesty, you are indeed the emperor."
Princess Jin Yao gritted her teeth: "Which emperor would treat a minister like this? Do you have any conscience?"
Zhou Xuan turned his head inward and said, "Just pretend that I don't have anything. It's better to resolve this matter neatly."
She and Zhou Xuan grew up together and knew his temper very well. She also knew how smart Zhou Xuan was. What she knew, Zhou Xuan naturally knew too.
He refused the matter even if it hurt the emperor's heart, without leaving any room for it.
Princess Jin Yao suddenly raised her hand and hit her again. Zhou Xuan shouted again: "Why hit me again?"
"This is for me." Princess Jin Yao gritted her teeth and said, "Although I don't want to marry you, I'm still very angry that you don't want to marry me!"
Zhou Xuan glanced at her and rolled his eyes: "Okay, then you can fight."
As expected, Princess Jin Yao raised her hand and hit her a few more times: "It has caused me to lose face. I will bear this grudge! Wait, Zhou Xuan. When you get married in the future, I will definitely make you look good!"
The second prince outside the door might have been yelled twice in succession, making him worried. He knocked on the door and called Jin Yao: "Let's go back soon. If you are really angry, wait until he gets better before you fight."
After he finished speaking, Princess Jin Yao came over and opened the door.
"Second brother," she said angrily, "when he recovers, can I still hit him?"
Zhou Xuan was never afraid of the princes and princesses, and he was not honest and humble enough to let them bully him. The fifth prince wanted to beat Zhou Xuan when he was a child, but he was beaten by Zhou Xuan every time, and then by the emperor again.
The second prince thought, and felt a little sad. Now that his father had finally beaten Zhou Xuan, it showed how sad he was.
Princess Jin Yao didn't stop anymore, threw up her sleeves and left angrily.
The second prince shook his head, looked inside the room again, and asked with concern: "Axuan, are you okay?"
Zhou Xuan's voice came muffled from inside: "I can't die."
The second prince shook his head and motioned to the eunuchs and doctors to go in and guard him, but he closed the door and couldn't go in: "Axuan, you can take a nap."
Princess Jin Yao returned to the palace and went to see the emperor first.
The emperor invited her in. Princess Jin Yao came in and saw the emperor lying on the dragon bed with his sleeves covering his face.
"Father, what are you doing?" Princess Jin Yao asked in a funny tone as all the emotions she had prepared had dissipated.
The emperor's muffled voice came from behind his sleeves: "Father, I have no shame in seeing you, causing my son to suffer such humiliation."
Princess Jin Yao smiled and walked over, half-knelt down beside the bed, and called her father: "Father, actually, I really don't want to marry Zhou Xuan. This is not to comfort my father."
The emperor covered his face and sighed: "Why don't you like Ah Xuan? You have always been friends with each other. My father has seen it with his own eyes."
Princess Jin Yao smiled: "I don't necessarily want to marry him if I like him. I like many people, brothers, sisters, and Miss Danzhu - I also like Miss Danzhu very much. Do I want to marry him too?"
Her?"
Upon hearing the name Miss Danzhu, the emperor pulled down his sleeves and laughed angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about!"
Seeing him put down his sleeves, Princess Jin Yao reached out to hold his sleeves and softly called out to her father: "Daughter, you are not talking nonsense. When you grow up, you know what love is and what marriage is. I like Zhou Xuan for the time being."
My brother likes her, but he is not the person I want to marry."
The emperor looked at his daughter and seemed to see her mother again, that delicate and beautiful woman. She looked at him with a pair of watery eyes: "Your Majesty, your Majesty is the person I want to marry and stay with for the rest of my life."
——Oh, it's a pity that he couldn't protect her and stay with him for the rest of his life.
He didn't know who he wanted to spend his whole life with. As an emperor, there were too many things for him to think about, but who he wanted to spend his whole life with was not one of them.
"Jin Yao." He couldn't help but ask, "Who do you want to marry?"
Princess Jin Yao smiled and thought for a while: "I don't know yet. I will know when I meet this person."
Young man, the emperor smiled.
"Father." Princess Jin Yao shook his sleeves, "Promise me that when I meet you, you will follow my wish and let me marry the person I want to marry."
The emperor pretended to be displeased: "My princess, how can a marriage be a trivial matter?"
Princess Jin Yao pretended to be sad: "Father, your princess, will you take the important matter of marriage as a trivial matter? Will the husband your princess chooses make you dissatisfied?"
The emperor laughed.
Eunuch Jinzhong and the others who were waiting outside breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at each other.
"Okay, okay." He whispered, "Your Majesty, this is half done."
The eunuch next to him hurriedly brought the food box over: "My father-in-law, please quickly ask your majesty to eat something. You haven't eaten all day and night."
Eunuch Jinzhong smiled and carried it in: "Princess is also tired. Come and have something to eat with your Majesty."
Princess Jin Yao understood the answer and pretended to be hungry: "Hurry up and get more. I'm really hungry."
The emperor smiled and saw that he had no intention of rejecting his daughter, but when he thought of Zhou Xuan, he was still a little sad. He was such a good daughter, he had such good intentions, and he wanted to make up for it so much, but Zhou Xuan didn't want to--
"Your Majesty." A eunuch came in and reported, "The Third Highness has gone to the Marquis Mansion."
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"I have said before that the third child is a rotten guy." The fifth prince sneered as he walked out in a hurry, "He said that everyone should not go to the Marquis Mansion and not bother the father, but he turned around and said
Go to the Marquis Mansion to teach Zhou Xuan a lesson for being unfair to Jin Yao and his father."
The fourth prince was also angry: "That's right, if we all go together, we are all Jin Yao's brothers. Why should he eat alone?"
The two princes did not even sit in the carriage, but directly took the horses and galloped out of the palace.
The third prince had already arrived in front of Zhou Xuan's house.
The second prince did not stop him, but earnestly warned him: "Just reprimand him a few words, and don't do it again. Jin Yao has already beaten him. If he really beats him, my father will still feel sorry for him."
The third prince responded: "Thank you, second brother."
The second prince smiled and nodded: "Go ahead, go ahead. I'm a few years older than you, and my father asked me to take care of him. It's not convenient for me to scold him, so I have to do it for you."
The third prince smiled and said no more and went in. The eunuchs and eunuchs exited again. The second prince even thoughtfully asked someone to close the door and stand a few steps away. Anyway, the brothers would remember his good deeds and his father would not be able to do so.
Blame him.
Zhou Xuan was still lying on the bed, looking at the approaching third prince: "I said, can you let me sleep first?"
The third prince sat down by the bed, ignored his impatience, and looked at him: "Why do you do this? Even if you agree to the marriage and become the consort, your military power will not be taken away immediately."
