The officials: “……” Is this the time to discuss what to eat?! Is this the time to discuss whether it’s sweet or not?! Ah! This couple is driving people crazy!
Instead, Ji Yujin laughed twice, making Chu Fengqing look at him as if he were a madman. This time, Ji Yujin lowered his voice and whispered in his ear so that only the two of them could hear, “Hahaha, you little sickly seedling, you are quite to my liking. If you were a man, I would definitely become brothers with you.”
Chu Fengqing: “……”
Fortunately, Li Yu didn’t hear this; otherwise, he would definitely want to shake Ji Yujin’s brain to find out what it is made of.
The Crown Prince, who was sitting in the first seat, glanced at the officials who stood up, then looked at Ji Yujin. He curled his lips and finally said, “It was indeed Seventh Brother who started this matter. Seventh Brother, apologize.”
Zhao Lin: “……”
His face was as black as charcoal, and the veins on the back of his hand, which was holding the wine glass, were bulging. Although he was reluctant, he dared not disobey the Crown Prince after all. He could only grit his teeth and coldly say, “Lord Governor, forgive me.”
Ji Yujin shook the cup in his hand and said, “The servant dares not accept it, but my family’s wife…”
Zhao Lin: “Ji Yujin, don’t go too far!”
Ji Yujin also didn’t say anything, he just looked at him with a faint smile.
Zhao Lin knew there was no way out. He looked at the officials’ threats and then at the Crown Prince standing next to Ji Yujin. He closed his eyes and said in a hoarse voice, “Madam Governor, forgive me.”
Chu Fengqing nodded slightly, and Ji Yujin raised his hand and drank the glass of wine in his hand. Then all the officials took their seats.
Zhao Lin went out with a gloomy face to change his clothes. Zhao Yiyu pursed his lips and looked at Ji Yujin’s position with a hint of hostility in his eyes, but he quickly returned to his gentle smile.
After the hall started to get noisy, Chu Fengqing said, “You don’t have to protect me like this.”
Ji Yujin took a sip of wine and said lazily, “After all, you are now the Madam Governor. If I don’t protect you, who will?”
He frowned again and angrily said, “You really have no conscience, is it wrong to protect you?”
Chu Fengqing raised his eyes to look at him, and seeing him like that, he couldn’t help but purse his lips and smile, “You look like a nagging woman like this.”
Ji Yujin: “……”
He put down the wine in his hand, raised the corner of his mouth, and tapped his forehead with his finger. “Hey, you little sickly seedling, I find that you are getting bolder and bolder now, and you even dare to tease me. I don’t know who was so scared that they dared not say a word before.”
“Oh, I forgot, you said it wasn’t fear but shyness, right?”
Chu Fengqing, whose past was brought up: “……” No, he heard nothing.
In fact, all the officials below were extremely curious about Chu Fengqing. Everyone said that Ji Yujin married the first beauty in the capital, but no one had ever seen him. He finally came out, and he was even wrapped tightly in a veil. One could only see that his aura was indeed not that of an ordinary person.
Although everyone was extremely curious, but no one dared to go forward and inquire. That was Ji Yujin ah. How could they dare to offend someone who even dared to beat the princes? At this time, Li Yu, who had seen Chu Fengqing’s true face, became a hot commodity. Everyone went to him to inquire about the news under the pretext of toasting.
They dared not provoke Ji Yujin, but Li Yu was fine, so Li Yu enjoyed treatment he had never enjoyed before. His baby face was coaxed into blushing, and he became inflated. Facing people who came to ask him questions, he pretended to be profound and said, “The appearance of the Madam Governor cannot be described clearly in a few words. No! It should be said that there are no words to describe that kind of beauty. In short, she is so beautiful that she can topple a country. This beauty is only found in heaven. It can make fish sink to the bottom of the water and geese fall to the ground. It can shame the moon and flowers…”
He used up all his ink by saying a string of words. When he could no longer speak, he coughed twice and said, “Anyway, it’s a great regret in life that you all didn’t get to see, tut, tut, tut.”
An official couldn’t stand his smug look and said, “Li Yu, what are you so proud of? She’s not even your wife. You grew up with the Governor. Even the Governor has a wife, while you don’t even have a maid. The Governor is even an eunuch, but he can embrace a beauty who is famous in the capital. What’s the use of your brute force?”
Li Yu: “……” “Puchi” “Puchi” For some reason, he always felt that countless invisible arrows were piercing his heart. He touched his chest, it was too rough!
Zhao Yiyu always glanced at Ji Yujin’s table from the corner of his eyes. When he saw the interaction between the two, a strange emotion surged up. When he noticed the strange emotion in himself, he was stunned for a moment, lowered his eyes, and took a few gulps of wine.
At this time, the emperor came slowly, and all the officials shouted, “Long live the emperor”. After the ceremony, the emperor sat down and saw the masked Chu Fengqing at first sight.
He looked at Ji Yujin: “Ji Qing, this is?”
Ji Yujin stood up and replied, “Answer Your Majesty, the servant’s wife grew up in Jiangnan and doesn’t know the rules of the imperial city. The servant was afraid that she would offend noble people, so the servant dared to bring her by my side. The servant hopes that Your Majesty will understand.”
His words made the emperor laugh loudly: “I understand, I understand. It’s rare to see Ji Qing show this side of him. It seems that Zhen was right in granting you this marriage.”
After asking Ji Yujin, he noticed another empty spot, then looked at his sons and asked, “Where’s Xiao Qi?”
Zhao Yiyu stood up and replied, “Answer Your Majesty, Lin’er’s clothes were soaked by the wine. He went to change his clothes and will be here soon.”
The emperor frowned slightly, “Xiao Qi is becoming more and more unruly now.”
On the other side, Zhao Lin kicked a young eunuch away as soon as he went out. He was so angry that he didn’t know where to vent. When he returned to his palace, he thought of the embarrassment just now and almost broke his teeth. The floor of the room was covered with fragments of the things he had smashed.
Seeing him like this, the palace maids who served him took off his clothes tremblingly for fear of offending him, but the more afraid they were, the easier it was to make mistakes.
“Hiss.” Zhao Lin took a breath.
It turned out that the maid accidentally pulled his hair when she was undressing him. The maid’s pupils shrank, and she kneeled down hurriedly, “Your-Your Highness, please spare my life, the servant didn’t mean it.”
Zhao Lin pulled out his own hair expressionlessly, with broken hair on his palm. “Spare your life? Sure, kowtow to me 500 times, and I’ll spare you.”
The little palace maid was trembling and banging her head against the ground. Zhao Lin squatted down and looked at her bloody face. The anger he had just felt was slightly relieved, and he found some sense of balance with the palace maid.
He watched for a while, felt bored, and waved outside. “Come, drag her out for me.”
“Beat her to death.”
“Ah! Your Highness, please spare my life! Your Highness, please spare my life! Please, Your Highness, please forgive me. My old mother is still waiting for me to bring money back for her medical treatment. Please, Your Highness, please have mercy on me! Please, Your Highness!”
She banged her head hard on the ground, making a muffled sound. However, in the entire huge palace, the life of a little palace maid was really insignificant. No one spoke for her, and no one showed mercy because of her words. Soon, she was dragged away by four eunuchs.
Screams filled the whole room, but Zhao Lin seemed to be deaf to them. After another palace maid helped him put on his clothes, he dusted off his clothes and slowly said, “Poor little life, even if you are in this world, it is only suffering. Today I will be kind and send your parents to you as well. Remember to be born into a good family in your next life.”
The palace maids and eunuchs who served him knelt on the ground. At this moment, his handsome face looked even more terrifying than the Yaksha in the Asura Hell.
After finishing the work, he didn’t want to go back to the palace banquet. His father should have been there by now, and he might get criticized if he went there, so it would be better not to go.
He took a deep breath. As soon as he thought about what happened at the palace banquet, the anger that had just been suppressed came out again. “One day I will make Ji Yujin pay. I don’t believe that I can’t do anything to a mere eunuch!”
Just then, a eunuch came to report: “Your Highness, Lin Ying is back from visiting relatives.”
“En.”
Lin Ying was the eunuch who served him since he was a child, and the two could be said to have grown up together.
When Lin Ying saw Zhao Lin like that, he knew someone must have offended him. He was not in a hurry and asked the eunuch about the whole story. When he heard about the palace maid, Lin Ying frowned and sighed, “Bury her, and then let someone who can keep their mouth shut send some money out of the palace to her mother.”
“Yes.”
After Lin Ying unpacked up his things, he walked over to Zhao Lin and said, “The servant Lin Ying greets the master. May the master be blessed with good health.”
Zhao Lin glanced at him and said, “Get up.”
Lin Ying: “Master, I have heard about the matter.”
“Heh.” Zhao Lin’s expression changed instantly. “What? You, a dog slave, also dare to come make fun of this highness?”
“Master, spare my life. The servant dares not.” Lin Ying said this without any sign of begging for mercy. He walked to Zhao Lin and saw that Zhao Lin’s belt was not fastened properly, so he put his arms around his waist from behind and fastened the belt for him. His nose rubbed against his hair. Lin Ying’s eyes dimmed, and he quickly restrained himself and let go of him.
Zhao Lin was also not feeling uncomfortable at all, as if this was a very normal thing.
Lin Ying took two steps back. He was taller than the average eunuch, with a fair face and no beard. His voice was much sharper than that of an ordinary man. He had an average appearance and looked even more ordinary when standing next to Zhao Lin’s delicate face.
He bowed to Zhao Lin and said, “The conflict between the master and Ji Yujin is mainly because of Chu Yinyin. All the people you sent out before were killed. We can’t enter the Ji Mansion, but we can still start from outside the Ji Mansion.”
Zhao Lin blinked, a hint of interest flashing in his eyes. “Go on.”
“Yes.” Lin Ying continued, “Today is a good opportunity. We have our own people in the palace. We can capture Chu Yinyin with a little trickery. You can send her back after using her. After taking the medicine, I’m afraid even Chu Yinyin herself won’t know what happened. It will also be too late for Ji Yujin to find out. But if the master is more careful, he may not even find out.”
“That’s right!” Zhao Lin clapped his hands. “I actually forgot there was such a medicine.”
“Lin Ying, I really can’t let you go!” Zhao Lin laughed twice and patted Lin Ying’s shoulder hard.
Lin Ying’s pupils shrank slightly, and he smiled. “As long as the Master is good, the servant is also good. As long as the Master is happy, the servant can do anything.”
Zhao Lin: “Go and get everything ready. It’s best to act immediately.”
Lin Ying: “Yes, Master.”
Halfway through the palace banquet, the emperor seemed to have just remembered why he was holding this banquet. He summoned the generals who had returned from this victorious battle to the center of the hall and rewarded them with many things.
Chu Fengqing clenched his fist and looked up at the general. He had never seen the cruelty of war, but in his heart, his elder brother was the most resolute person. Even he couldn’t help crying when talking about the war. His elder brother once told him that he was very familiar with every tree and grass in Liangchen. As long as he was there, the city of Liangchen would never be broken. He would always be the most solid wall of the Ming Dynasty to block the most ferocious Tartar cavalry.
He and his eldest brother have not seen each other for two years already. Two years ago, his eldest brother said that he would bring him Liangchen’s specialties when he came back this time, but he broke his promise. He kept the promise with the people but did not keep the promise with him.
The Chu army resisted the Tartar cavalry, but they could not resist the struggle for power, the decline of human nature, or the pursuit of wealth and fame.
Ji Yujin glanced at him, pursed his lips, and said nothing.
After the rewards were given, a group of singing and dancing girls came up.
Chu Fengqing lowered his eyes, thinking about what the deputy general said last time. It was all Ji Yujin’s doing.
Ji Yujin…
