Chapter 424: The King No Longer Appears in the Morning
Chapter 424: The King No Longer Appears in the Morning
On the other side, Pei Yi took the two little kids and quickly left the Forget-Your-Sorrow Palace and came to a remote path.
He looked up at the moonlight and pursed his lips. He couldn't tell the time yet, but he knew it was getting late, and he was tired after taking care of the two kids for so long.
Pei Yi exhaled a breath, slowly squatted down, untied the cloth strips tied around his body, and put the two little kids on the ground.
Just then, he realized that the little girl was still holding his clothes tightly as before, and her face was pale.
Pei Yi picked up the little girl again and asked softly, "Sister Qing, what happened?"
Little Yining raised her big eyes filled with mist and looked at him in an indescribable way, as if she had a thousand words to say to him, but she couldn't say them. Finally, she could only ask, "Uncle, what do you think about what happened just now?"
The young man looked at the little girl carefully, thinking that she was worried about being exposed, so he comforted her: "Don't be afraid, sister Qing, you didn't appear in front of His Majesty just now. As long as you deny it, he won't punish you even if he knows it was you."
The little kid, unable to get on the same wavelength as his fellow villagers, could only sigh in frustration.
Who could understand that her great uncle had transformed from a charming old baby into a scary old baby with unspeakable habits overnight.
From today on, she would never be able to look him in the eye again!
Only then did I realize how it felt to see the idol I had always been supporting collapse. What was the difference between this and the sky falling?
Xiao Yining's mind was filled with thousands of thoughts, and then he met his fellow villager's gaze with a gloomy look, a tear of sentimentality slipped from the corner of his eye, and he said sadly, "Uncle, you... don't understand."
Pei Yi: He really doesn’t want to understand...
Looking at the little girl's appearance, the boy even thought that she had contracted Lin Yinhu's bad habits.
Just as he was about to speak, he heard laughter behind him.
Wang Gungun saw Xiao Yining's shocked look and immediately gloated, "Qing Jie'er, you were actually scared and cried. I am really laughing to death. Hahaha..."
Xiao Yining: ...
Pei Yi:......
The little boy's laughter seemed particularly abrupt in the silent night, and immediately attracted people from far away.
Xiao Yining was inexplicably mocked by this person, and she was so angry that she broke free from the embrace of her fellow villager, put her hands on her waist and started to curse. At this moment, a call that made her regain her sanity came from a distance, "Gonggong, Qingjie, why are you running here?"
The two children looked in the direction of the voice and saw Wan Niang holding a palace lantern and looking at them anxiously. She continued, "I asked the eunuchs in the imperial palace, and you left a long time ago."
Zhao Ya, who had followed them, saw the three of them and quickly agreed, "Where have the three masters been going? Do you know how long Madam has been looking for you outside? She almost turned the palace upside down."
Before she finished speaking, Wan Niang had already walked towards the three little ones quickly, with concern in her eyes. She first glanced at the two little kids, and then her eyes fell on Pei Yi's face. Seeing that his face was exhausted, his clothes were full of wrinkles, and he looked extremely embarrassed, she hurriedly asked, "Ayi was bullied, how could he be in such a mess?"
Hearing this, Pei Yi's face was filled with anger. He looked at Wang Gungun with a bad look and began to complain, "Gungun got angry for no reason just now and ran away without saying a word. Qing Jie'er and I just found him back."
Little Yining immediately took over the role, hugged her mother's legs, and cried loudly, "Mom, Gungun is so bad, he even broke my cousin's master's stove."
Wang GunGun:......
"Why don't you have any martial ethics? I've brought you to watch a show after all." The little boy's defense was instantly broken.
"Aunt, please listen to my explanation." He said with a trembling voice, hugging Wan Niang's legs like Xiao Yining.
At this moment, Wan Niang's eyebrows were already raised, and she pulled out a weapon for beating the baby - a thin bamboo stick from her sleeve. She looked like a demon descending from the sky. She shouted angrily, "Get out, you are not obedient again."
The next moment, the entire palace was filled with the baby's shrill cries, adding a bit of liveliness to the quiet palace.
The night passed peacefully.
The next day, the news spread to every corner of the palace and caused an uproar.
The emperor, who was not interested in women, took a woman as his concubine for the first time in history and gave her the title of concubine, with the name "Nuan".
On the first day after this woman was taken in, she accomplished the remarkable feat of "the king not attending court early in the morning", and made Pei Dafu, the emperor's inseparable shadow, no longer have to serve in front of the emperor, and became an idle person.
On the first day, everyone was still waiting and watching. After all, to be accepted by the emperor, this woman must have something extraordinary.
On the second day, the emperor still ignored state affairs. Everyone could understand that. After all, it was not easy to get this old man to eat meat. Once he had done it, he would have done it again.
On the third day: The emperor had disappeared, memorials had piled up like a mountain, and some officials could no longer hold back and knelt in front of the palace to ask the emperor to come out.
Day 4: The imperial palace was still closed, and more and more people came to invite the emperor.
Day 5: The door of the imperial palace was still not opened, and half of the officials had arrived.
Day 6: People were kneeling at the gate of the imperial palace. Almost all the accompanying officials were crying and shouting, waiting for the emperor to appear.
The atmosphere in the palace became extremely weird, and even the children who were taking classes in the palace had sad faces.
The same was true for Xiao Yining. Others might not know, but she knew very well that Concubine Nuan was a dead person, and her great-uncle was not in the Imperial Palace at all, but in the Wangyou Palace. Everyone was kneeling in the wrong place.
Not only that, she also heard from fellow villagers that "Wangxi" was called away by his uncle on the night they returned and has not returned since, even delaying the preparation of the antidote for Prince Wu.
As for what "Wangxi" went to his uncle's house for, Xiao Yining had a guess in his mind, which was to preserve the corpse.
Thinking of this, the kid's fear of the emperor increased several degrees.
"I heard that Prince Yu also knelt down to ask the emperor to come out last night, but the emperor remained indifferent." Yan Ke said with a sigh.
"Duke Chen is so helpless that he has been scolding the emperor for being a tyrant for several days." Liu Zhenying also sighed.
Ever since Duke Chen started to take care of his health in order to live a few more years, he has become extremely elegant.
Hearing this, Chen Jiaoyi immediately retorted unconvincedly, "Yingzi, your father knelt for several days and still failed to scold the emperor."
Liu Zhenying pursed her lips, looking helpless, "I didn't just say that casually, Jiaojiao, don't be angry."
Chen Jiaoyi snorted in disapproval, then looked at the worried little Yining and consoled her, "Don't be sad, sister Yining. Maybe you can see the emperor today. It's already the sixth day. My father and mother will quarrel over trivial matters after being together for half a day. The emperor and Concubine Nuan will definitely quarrel, and you will be able to see them then."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yining glanced at her and continued to look worried. She was not very willing to go to her uncle's place in the first place. Ever since she came back from the Forget-Sorrow Spring that day, her three views collapsed and she felt even more uncomfortable in her heart, so she would not take the initiative to look for him.
As a result, just one day later, Pei Dafu came to find her and hinted that she should report to the imperial palace every day.
So she would perform every day the scene of being sad and crying because the emperor ignored her. Her acting skills improved a lot, and she even made the officials kneeling on the ground resonate with her and start to wipe their tears.
Then Chen Jiaoyi said depressedly, "But my parents quarreled during the day, and they will definitely make up at night, and they don't want me to disturb them."
Xiao Yining: Little boy, you are driving an invisible car.
The little kid said truthfully, "Sister Chen, Concubine Nuan can't quarrel with Uncle Grandpa at all."
As soon as these words fell, the members of the melon-eating team refuted in unison, "Yes, the demon concubine will be spoiled by her favor."
Xiao Yining: But that’s a dead person!
For the first time, the kid wanted to talk, but he had to keep his mouth shut and could only look as if he was eating shit.
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