Chapter Twenty-Three: The First Entry into the Palace
Following behind Feng Yumo in fear, looking at the palace maids, eunuchs and guards coming and going around her, Situ Youning's heart began to surge, and her head, which had been kept down, slowly raised because of worry, and her curiosity drove her to look around.
Is this where the eldest brother and the third brother usually come from? It's really magnificent! It would be nice if I could come and go to this kind of place at any time!
All kinds of sighs, envy and regrets made Situ Youning immersed in the battle in her mind, she didn't notice that Feng Yumo in front of her had already stopped, and as a result, she hit him on the back hard.
"In this palace, it's best not to be too curious about what you see around you, otherwise you'll get into trouble." Feng Yumo reminded Situ Youning with a kind face.
Situ Youning nodded casually, but Feng Yumo took a step closer to her, lowered his head and put his mouth to her ear, "Do you know how miserable the people who were secretly executed in this palace?" Especially women. ”
Listening to Feng Yumo's words, Situ Youning hurriedly took two steps back, and looked at Feng Yumo who was still smiling with wide eyes. Through the past few days of getting along, Situ Youning's evaluation of Feng Yumo has two sentences: good on the outside, vicious on the inside, beautiful in appearance, and cowardly in personality.
So looking at Feng Yumo at this time, Situ Youning couldn't help but restrain his emotions a lot, who knows what kind of vicious thoughts will sprout in the next second under this mask of kindness, thinking of this, Situ Youning covered his mouth, secretly angry in his heart, his ten fingers clasped each other, and he wanted to break the person in front of him into pieces.
Suddenly, Feng Yumo's expression became serious, and he grabbed Situ Youning's right hand, "What's wrong with your hand?" ”
Regarding the speed at which Feng Yumo changed her face, Situ Youning seemed to have adapted to it now, and she was not too surprised by this, she broke free of Feng Yumo's hand with a look of disgust, "This is Sister Yan just now..." Speaking of this, Situ Youning seemed to realize that something was wrong, because Feng Yumo's brows furrowed, so she didn't continue to talk and consciously changed the topic.
"Just now when I was walking in the backyard with Sister Yan, I accidentally bumped into the stone table."
"Sister Yan?" Feng Yumo's expression was much softened compared to just now.
"Please forgive me, the princess hit me off at first sight, saying that I was very much like her good sister when she was a child, so let me call her that."
Feng Yumo once again looked at the four lines of paw prints on Situ Youning's right hand, his head began to hurt, Situ Youning put his hand behind his back a little uncomfortably, Feng Yumo closed his eyes, didn't ask any more, turned around and continued to walk forward.
Looking at Feng Yumo's distant back, Situ Youning couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, although you are used to the cold-bloodedness of this wayward prince, but his breath just now really made Situ Youning scared from the bottom of his heart.
What does this scar represent? Situ Youning followed behind Feng Yumo, while looking at the scratches on his hand that were a little swollen, this scratch was when he was immersed in the fragrance from the locked ruined garden, Ni Yan suddenly raised her right hand and left there, because she was too hard, so these scars were left on the back of Situ Youning's hand, and then as compensation, Ni Yan personally prepared this outfit for Situ Youning to enter the palace.
Suddenly, Situ Youning stopped and glanced at the tall figure in front of him incredulously, "Is he caring about me?" After saying this softly, Situ Youning immediately shook his head vigorously, "No, no, it's impossible!" ”
In the inner struggle, Situ Youning was finally able to stop, although he still couldn't resist the temptation along the way, and glanced at him from time to time, but compared to the appearance of just entering the palace, it was obviously much more restrained.
"Youning, are you alright?"
Before Situ Youning had time to see the furnishings and layout of the room clearly, a familiar voice came from the side, and Situ Youning immediately turned to the direction where the sound came from, and before he had time to look at the owner of the voice, he knelt on the ground.
"Your Majesty!"
"Hurry up." Liu Che walked up to Le Situ Youning in a few arrow steps and helped her up.
"Your Majesty..." Situ Youning's whole body trembled slightly.
After perceiving Situ Youning's fear of himself, the smile on the corner of Liu Che's mouth began to stiffen, and he let go of her hand.
Looking at the king in front of him who suddenly frowned and looked serious, Situ Youning began to rejoice that he had not forgotten what his eldest brother had said.
"Youning, you come with me." As he spoke, he walked towards the back room alone.
Situ Youning glanced at Feng Yumo and ran behind him, wanting Feng Yumo to walk in front of her.
"Hehe... What are you doing here? The emperor didn't let the king go. After looking at Situ Youning with puzzled eyes for a few seconds, Feng Yumo understood what she meant at this time.
But Situ Youning didn't give up, staring at Feng Yumo with a pleading and pitiful face, for the matter of treating Feng Yumo as his lifesaver at this time, when he thought about it later, Situ Youning himself felt too incredible.
Seeing that Situ Youning was so anxious that he was about to cry, Feng Yumo walked forward with a smile.
"How's she doing?" Liu Che stood outside the door with his hands behind his back, seeking answers from Feng Yumo.
"Situ Youning is indeed poisoned, I have already done some simple treatment for her, the toxicity should not have penetrated into the internal organs, the emperor should not be too worried."
"I didn't expect to use such vicious poison on me." Speaking of which, the scene of Situ Youning sucking out the poison on his shoulder for himself that night came to his mind.
"I will do my best to find the real culprit for the emperor."
"Hmm." Liu Che nodded lightly, "By the way, the imperial grandmother asked me to bring a message, if you enter the palace, go to her old man's house." ”
"Hehe... There are too many things on hand at this time, but I haven't seen the Queen Mother for a long time. ”
"Grandmother has been talking about you all day long, so go over and see her now."
"That's fine, it's just Situ Youning's side..."
"Don't worry, I've already sent someone to inform Situ Shaoqi, and after she confirms that she's okay, I'll have someone escort her home."
"Then I'll quit first."
Looking at Feng Yumo in the distance, Liu Che's eyes slowly became deeper, the hands behind his back, the green tendons on the back of his hands were clearly visible, Feng Yumo was not a royal family surnamed Liu, the reason why he was able to become the king of Ji today was because the ancestors of the Feng family were kind to the Liu family, and three generations were officials in the court, on the other hand, it was because the Empress Dowager Dou favored him, not only let him enjoy the treatment that the prince surnamed Liu should have, but also let him stay in Chang'an at any time, as long as it was his request, the Empress Dowager Dou would definitely agree.
Although Emperor Wu was quite dissatisfied with this, over the years, Feng Yumo had never had any pampered and arrogant heart, and he was in awe of him, the emperor.
The sound that the palace maids were accustomed to was heard again in Empress Chen's bedroom, and everyone was hurriedly packing up the things scattered on the ground with their heads down.
"Queen Mother, you dissipate your anger." As she spoke, the confidant palace maid delivered a cup of tea to the beautiful woman sitting on the phoenix chair in gorgeous costumes.
But in exchange for the sound of the cup falling to the ground, the palace maid's face instantly turned pale, and she hurriedly knelt on the ground.
"You go to the palace and investigate the identity of the woman who followed King Ji." As Empress Chen spoke, her eyes were full of anger.
"The slave obeys."