The Scheming Young Master - C50 Did the male lead lose his skin today?
The room that imprisoned Wen Yan was not considered dark, it could even be considered bright. The sunlight that shone through the window could even drag a long shadow across the ground. However, it was probably because the past that was being discussed was too dark, Luo Yi still felt a suffocating feeling, until she stood back under the sunlight, the blood in her entire body started to flow again.
Qing Luo raised his hands to support her, to prevent her from falling down from the stairs, “Empress?”
“I’m fine …” She steadied her mind and threw Qing Luo’s hand away. “Did you hear what I just said clearly?”
That’s good. Luo Yi raised her eyebrows and let out an unknown “Oh”. Then, she shook his head to throw away the strange and bizarre imagination in his head, and walked forward resolutely.
Hong Xiang turned around and kept the things one by one, then respectfully took half a step back: “The Empress has been busy these past few days, and did not neglect the crown prince. After this period of time, she will come to see you.”
“…” “Oh.” Chen Liyi buried his head into his textbook and humbly replied.
He also knew that Luo Yi was truly angry this time, so she hid in the room and didn’t even dare to take the initiative to look for her. She was just like a pet abandoned by its master, pitifully staying where she was, waiting for to turn around and find him.
Luo Yi laughed and stuffed a piece of tangerine into Chen Liyi’s mouth, “I have been really busy these past few days, I didn’t have time for you … Have you memorized all the books I’ve asked you to memorize? ”
She threw a petal back into her mouth, and her words were filled with the fragrance of fruit.
Chen Liyi quickly nodded, and fawningly pushed his book in front of Luo Yi: “If you don’t believe me, you can check it.”
“There’s no need to check …” Luo Yi carefully wiped the fruit stains on her fingertips off the water basin that Hong Xiang brought over, and said without lifting her eyes: “I trust you.”
Chen Liyi’s body trembled, his half-drooped head raised to look straight at Luo Yi, just in time to see her grumbling actions: “Why are you so dishonest after eating a meal …”
She muttered as she reached out her hands to pluck the rice grains on Chen Liyi’s temples that had unknowingly come into contact with his hair. She then wrinkled her nose and laughed at him.
Chen Jinyan came back at noon.
Luo Yi didn’t know what they were plotting, but she knew that she had already been a fool for a long time, so she didn’t care for this moment. As usual, he sat him down on a chair and smiled, “Your majesty might not have smelled the scent of Chenqie’s kitchen.”
Chen Jinyan glanced at her, then looked at Chen Liyi who was standing obediently behind her. He was slightly surprised.
Seeing that he was always so fierce, even when he was shouting “Long live”, his eyes revealed a hint of viciousness, so when he saw being so obedient, Chen Jinyan actually felt that he was a little not used to it.
While he was talking about Luo Yi, his eyes kept looking at Chen Liyi, as if he was extremely curious about him.
Luo Yi pursed her lips and pretended not to see, while Chen Liyi peeked at her expression, just like how she pretended to be deaf and blind.
Chen Jinyan drank a mouthful of tea before finally withdrawing his gaze from Chen Liyi. After that, he laughed and switched to the main topic of discussion: “Imperial Consort Yi wishes to borrow the Imperial Guard from my place?”
“Yes.” Luo Yi lowered her head and replied obediently.
“The Imperial Guard is an important barrier in charge of the palace guards. Imperial Consort Yi casually wants to obtain the right to deploy the Imperial Guards from me. It’s really hard for me to not think too much about it …”
He sighed, “Speaking of which, the two Imperial Guards that Imperial Consort Yi borrowed from me a few days ago have yet to return.”
Luo Yi raised her hand to pour some tea for Chen Liyi. “The emperor probably heard from the Lord Mu that Chenqie caught a servant in the Hall of Announcements a few days ago.”
Chen Jinyan did not even look at Mu Yizhou, and only nodded.
She also knew that no matter how difficult the process was, they would still lend it to her in the end. They also knew that it was as if they were acting out a lousy play that had been seen through long ago. There was already no one watching from the audience, but they had no choice but to brace themselves and continue acting.
“When chenqie heard that the Lin Yi Hall’s weeds were growing very well, she thought that since it would be empty anyway, and it would be good to plant some fruits and vegetables, so she wanted to borrow the Imperial Guards to help chenqie weed removal.”
“Imperial Consort Yi sure has great guts …” Chen Jinyan faintly smiled, his fingers hitting the rim of his cup lightly. The words that he did not hear the tone of voice made the servant beside him shiver.
Luo Yi only thought of herself as a mute.
After a long while, Chen Jinyan suddenly laughed, and the temperature in the room quickly rose along with his laugh. The people beside him had yet to recover from the Son of Heaven’s moody mood, and could already hear Chen Jinyan laughing loudly, “Isn’t it the Imperial Guards!? If your beloved concubine wants it, just take it and use it. ”
The little eunuch beside Chen Jinyan gasped once again.
One had to know that the Imperial Guards were the most important defensive line in the palace, yet the emperor had so casually bestowed the right to call on the Imperial Guards to this imperial concubine …
The young eunuch quietly raised his head and looked at Imperial Consort Yi, who had such a great honor but had not changed her expression at all. She thought to herself that she had to curry favor with her in the future.
The news of Imperial Consort Yi obtaining the right to call for the Imperial Guards quickly spread inside the palace walls. With more and more rumors of the ‘Imperial Consort Yi’s Pet Crown and harem’, the news of this matter finally reached outside the walls.
The old officials bitterly lamented the fact that the demoness had poured the bewitching soup on the new emperor. They were planning on beheading the Demon Consort to return the peace of the land. On the other hand, the rumors outside the palace regarding the Imperial Consort Yi became more and more intense. The most exaggerated one actually said that Luo Yi was a character who looked like one of the most important people, and said that the purpose of her birth was to destroy this country.
Yi Qiannan heard a new explanation today and burrowed into his room with great interest. He didn’t even bother to take a sip of water before diligently sending the message to the two of them, “Do you two know about the flames that shot into the sky from the east side two days ago? Aiyo, us Luo Yi are useless, some people say that this is because the ruler of a country was bewitched by the witch, and the heavens were furious, so they sent down heavenly fire as a warning! “Tsk tsk!”
He was speechless, and thought to himself that he had been blind in the past, but he did not know that Luo Yi was still her reincarnation.
Tang Yuan looked at Lin Ting’s darkening face beside him, grabbed a handful of dessert and stuffed it into the mouth of the person who was about to say something, “Shut up!”
Recently, he had become more and more ferocious. He no longer looked like a noble and exalted immortal he had when he first met her. The Yi Qiannan committee member looked at him out of the corner of his eye, feeling wronged, but he didn’t say anything. He just chewed and swallowed the dessert in his mouth.
He thought that his face was filled with the expression of being wronged and disdainful, completely unaware of the fact that to outsiders, he seemed to be satisfied with what he had done.
Because of Luo Yi, his noble house’s reputation rose immediately, as she was busy with making friends with her beloved concubine brother, with power and influence. The commoners of the poor families, on the other hand, were curious about his family’s foxes, and all of them squeezed their heads out to see what exactly they looked like.
Yi Qiannan took out a small mirror and looked at his face, sighing to himself that he, Big Brother Fox Goblin, was also born with such exquisite features, but he forgot that he and Luo Yi were fake siblings.
Lin Ting laughed with difficulty: “I’m fine, I’m just a bit worried about her.”
He said she was too ostentatious.
Tang Yuan also frowned as he vaguely felt that this matter was a bit strange.
Logically speaking, Luo Yi hadn’t been in the palace for long, and it had only been a little more than three months. But in these three months, the stories related to Luo Yi had never stopped for the citizens, and from entering the palace to becoming an imperial concubine, it was as if a hand had deliberately pushed Luo Yi into the sight of ordinary people. As for the two words “Imperial Consort Yi,” no one in the city had not heard of it before.
But who was it that was going to push her out? What was the purpose of exposing her to the public?
“Perhaps …” is to use her mouth to announce something. ”
Yi Qiannan carelessly said: “Regardless of whether this reputation is good or bad, the name of Imperial Consort Yi is still known among the people. If she says anything in the future, it will naturally represent the Imperial Family’s position.”
“The Emperor and Empress have esteemed positions, and even when they speak, they carry a sense of distance, but the Imperial Consort Yi is different. She came from a commoner’s background, so it was easier for ordinary people to get close to her psychologically. Furthermore, she was a mysterious person like Da Ji’s reincarnation … The current Imperial Consort Yi is more representative of the Imperial Family than those under the age of ninety five. ”
After he said this in a flat tone, he did not seem to have felt that his words had shocked him at all. Following that, he changed his face, moved his chair to Tang Yuan’s side stealthily, and nudged him on the elbow as he spoke coquettishly, saying that he wanted to eat the prawn dumplings.
Tang Yuan and Lin Ting looked at each other, but did not speak.
Of course, all of this would come later, and for the current Luo Yi to obtain the title of Demon Consort from Chen Jinyan before long, she only expressed her gratitude calmly, and did not mention anymore.
Luo Yi lowered his head and pleasing to the eye as she led the servants of the Hall of Announcements in sending them off. In the end, she was still unable to hold his head up, and used her gaze to follow that upright back from afar.
The person was following beside the emperor, and behind him were many palace maids. As a result, Luo Yi couldn’t even see his back clearly.
She lowered her eyes and turned around, uncontrollably recalling the conversation she had with Mu Yizhou many days ago.
“This subject has never mentioned the cause of death of Tutor Liang.”
Luo Yi’s stomach was filled with words but they were all blocked up by his words, as though there was a fish bone stuck in her throat, making it hard for him to swallow.
“Even the Empress could guess the culprit. Why do you have to ask this subject for evidence?”
This sentence seemed to be a sigh, but it was as if it weighed a thousand kilograms, causing Luo Yi to be unable to catch her breath. After a long while, she struggled to reply, “I am only guessing that Tutor Liang died a violent death …”
“The Empress is intelligent.” Mu Yizhou was too lazy to expose her, so he could only lower his head and reply with two words that were neither hot nor cold.
The two of them were silent for a long time.
As Luo Yi sat on the stone chair, she only felt a strong stench of blood in her throat, but she forcefully suppressed it. After that, she wiped her lips with the back of her hand without caring at all, got up, and said: “Lord Mu has already heard what I have to say, please go back.”
Her voice was cold and detached, and she gave off an unreachable feeling of alienation under the moonlight.
Mu Yizhou did not expect them to speak in such a manner yet Luo Yi still insisted on pretending to be deaf and mute, causing him to become angry, and without caring about the status of the two of them, she grabbed her arm: “Since it has already come to this, does the Empress still want to continue doing evil? What is your conscience? ”
“What about you? How are you better than me? You knew what kind of person he was, yet you still watched Tutor Liang die under his hands! ”
Her body was shaking, her voice was also shaking, but she did not dare speak loudly because she could not control her voice, so she kept her voice low, causing every word to be hoarse and reeking of blood: “You used Tutor Liang’s life as a bargaining chip to make me admit your wrongs, how could you be more noble than me! And on what basis are you criticizing me! ”
“You are not worthy!”
She paused the last three words with a deep hatred in her voice.
Mu Yizhou’s finger unconsciously relaxed, and he understood in his heart that the hatred in her words was definitely not because of this matter. As a result, he sighed, and his voice softened as well. To whom are you speaking? ”
“There is a secret guard sent by the Emperor to protect him outside the Tutor Liang Palace. For him to be unable to detect that someone had gotten his hands on him, it is a dereliction of duty.”
Mu Yizhou looked straight at Luo Yi, his tone clearly calm, but he had actually said something to force her to jump down the cliff. As Luo Yi was guided by his words, she couldn’t help but recall the “I won’t need to go after today” that Chen Liyi had once casually mentioned to her a long time ago. She was just saved by the secret guards that Chen Jinyan arranged for in the dark.
Luo Yi was almost unable to bear his gaze and lowered his head, as if trying to avoid it.
“I’m tired. I want to go back and rest …” Lord Mu will also go back. ”
“Mother …”
Because of these three words, “Mu Yizhou was slightly stunned,” I’m really very tired, ever since the first day I met you, I’ve been very tired. ”
Mu Yizhou, “…”
Now that both of their roles had changed, Luo Yi watched Mu Yizhou’s back as she walked further and further away, but in her heart, she did not feel anything, but she suddenly thought of the question Mu Yizhou asked her before she answered.
“Empress, right now … Who are you talking to? ”
“With Mu Yizhou.”
Luo Yi had stepped across the threshold of the Hall of Announcements, as if she had entered a distinct river world of Chuhan.
Beside her stood a remnant soul, and the enemy across the river was the master of that remnant soul.