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Yu Tingwan was mentally disturbed today and couldn't sleep at night. Ruyi remembered that there was calming incense in the warehouse and went to get it herself.

"Feng Changyu."

Ruyi looked over and saw that it was the chamberlain of Xuanshi Palace and asked, "It's so late, but His Majesty won't be coming tonight."

"Your Majesty only ordered me to deliver this thing." The chamberlain presented a box of incense, "It is used to calm the nerves. Your Majesty specifically told me to use it tonight."

After Ruyi thanked him for his kindness, he returned to the inner hall and recounted everything he had just heard.

Yu Tingwan let Ruyi put on the soothing incense and lay on the couch. She felt that her eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and it was already midnight when she woke up.

Pei Zhi probably didn't come back last night. He was so angry when he left. He probably won't come back during this period of time.

Ruyi went to Tianlu Pavilion to pick up books, and the palace servants found her a light cyan dark coat. The spring coat was light and thin, so she had to change out of the dark-colored middle coat.

Yu Tingwan was not used to being served by others. After she took off her middle coat alone, she looked at the lotus flowers on her body in disbelief, her face turned pale.

She turned her back to the bronze mirror, slowly turned her head, breathed quickly, put on her middle coat at random and walked to the soup pool.

The palace attendants in Jiaofang Palace looked at each other, wondering why the queen suddenly wanted to take a bath when she got up early in the morning.

"No one is allowed in."

Half an hour passed, and the queen was alone inside and still didn't come out.

Until a palace official suddenly said: "Your Majesty said yesterday that the Queen is not allowed to go near the water alone. Does the soup pool... count as water?"

When Pei Zhi walked into Jiaofang Palace, he saw a group of palace people standing there in silence, frowning and saying, "What's wrong?"

"Your Majesty, the empress is bathing alone in the soup pool. No slaves are allowed in." The palace servant who led the way said bravely: "It has been more than half an hour, and there seems to be crying."

The palace man trembled all over and changed his words: "Maybe it's the sound of water."

Now that there was no movement, Pei Zhi's expression changed suddenly. When he rushed to the soup pool, he caught a glimpse of Yu Tingwan who was fine, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

He stood by the water, looking down at the naked woman. Her skin was as delicate as porcelain and as white as a pile of snow. A red lotus flower was outlined with a pen on it, which was beautiful, elegant, graceful and refined.

The soup pool is inlaid with blue field pink jade, with rippling water and steaming white mist, making the people in the water look like immortals transformed from lotus flowers in a jade pond.

Pei Zhi lowered his eyelashes, leaned over and stretched out his hand, trying to pull her up.

The pond was wide, and Yu Tingwan finally raised her eyes to look at him. She hurriedly backed away and looked at him with a wary face.

Pei Zhi finally retracted his hand, took off his hair crown, slowly took off his clothes one by one, and walked into the water.

When he was about to meet her, Yu Tingwan said quietly: "That can of Western Region paint you were reluctant to throw away has finally come in handy."

She washed it for so long and even scratched it hard with the ridges on Yu Ruyi, but it was of no use. The red color seemed to soak into her skin.

"Only objects and prisoners leave marks." She remembered what she said at the beginning, "Do you think of me as one of the two, or both?"

"Do you think your things are dirty, or do you think I have committed the crime of deceiving the emperor and being unchaste?"

Pei Zhi closed his eyes and said softly: "I treat you as my wife. Wanwan is not guilty. It was someone else who deceived you."

At about noon, he returned to the inner hall with Yu Tingwan in his arms. As usual, he played with a lock of her hair and whispered, "I ordered someone to make new incense. Do you like it?"

Pei Zhi's face became colder and colder, and the person in his arms was like a puppet, not moving, let alone opening his mouth.

He suppressed his temper, put her in dark clothes, and planned to take her to the outer hall for dinner.

Yu Tingwan finally came to life, left him and stumbled out, sat at the table, drank a bowl of soup and was about to leave.

Da Changqiu saw that His Majesty looked strange and quickly called out to the Queen, "Your Majesty, you didn't eat anything for breakfast."

"I feel sick and can't eat."

As soon as he finished speaking, Pei Zhi slammed the cup in his hand on the table. It took him a while to form a thin smile, "Do you want Dr. Xuan to come and take a look."

Yu Tingwan looked back at him, shook his head, and said to Dachangqiu: "I go out for a walk by myself, no one needs to follow me."

Da Changqiu's forehead was sweating. Why did the Queen ignore His Majesty and talk to him instead?

Pei Zhi stared at the fish he picked for her, but she didn't taste any of it.

"Let her go." He lowered his eyelashes and said softly, "Just do what the Queen says."

She has nothing to worry about when Chen Xing is in the dark. She is probably even more unhappy when people follow her all the time.

Yu Tingwan didn't want to see him. He just went to Xuanshi Hall after lunch, so there was no need to make himself miserable.

The man at the table looked calm and ate the fish. The more he chewed, the more bitter it became in his mouth and he felt depressed.

On the way to Xuanshi Hall, Pei Zhi suddenly turned back and walked towards Cangchi. He saw a woman in gorgeous clothes sitting on the edge of the stage, looking down at the blue waves below.

He raised his hand to signal the palace ladies at the stage not to make any noise, hugged Yu Tingwan from behind, and asked in a low voice, "What are you looking at?"

No one answered.

Pei Zhi looked calm and pulled her over. Seeing that she lowered her head without even looking at him, he raised her chin and said in a gentle tone, "Were you looking at those koi fish just now?"

Yu Tingwan turned her face and glanced at the Cangchi water under the stage. Where was the koi?

Her waist was pressed against the vermilion fence, and the gold inlaid on it happened to touch the mark left by the man, which made her uncomfortable and she couldn't help but frown.

Pei Zhi's face turned cold. After remembering something, he put his arm on her lower back and his eyes were a little gentle.

"The Snow White Tower you mentioned to me before is open. I'll accompany you to the Taiye Pond to have a look."

He took Yu Tingwan's acquiescence, held her hand tightly, and rode the sedan chariot to Taiye Pond together. They strolled by the pond and looked at the three mountains in the water.

There are pavilions and pavilions on it, planted with exotic flowers and plants, to imitate the legendary fairy mountain. The precious peony white snow pagoda is on "Penglai".

Yu Tingwan finally spoke, "I often get dizzy when riding in a boat."

"I know." Pei Zhi saw her talking and a smile appeared on his lips, "There is a wooden bridge to the east of Taiye Pond leading to the Three Mountains."

Pei Zhi's maternal grandfather once ordered a wooden bridge to be built in the Taiye Pond, and made the lithe beauties dance in wooden clogs. He praised Xi Shi in the Wu Palace and sang songs just like this. He completely forgot about the fall of the King of Wu. How could a foolish king do this? , also considered unprecedented.

After that, the three Zhou emperors allowed the wooden bridge to fall into disuse, wishing that no one would mention such ridiculous things.

"I ordered people to repair it." Pei Zhiyun said calmly.

He didn't have any Xi Shi dances around him, he just built a wooden bridge. The courtiers also speculated whether he used this bridge to warn future generations.

They really thought too much. Pei Zhi just wanted to take Yu Tingwan to the Three Mountains to enjoy the scenery.

Sitting in the pavilion on the "Penglai", he screened away the palace people, picked off a white snow pagoda, and placed it in the palm of the person's arms.

Yu Tingwan looked down at the peony in her hand, and noticed that her cheeks and temples were itching when someone carefully touched them with her fingers.

Seeing that she seemed to like the flowers in her hands, Pei Zhi took her here for a long time, his eyes glued to her face, and occasionally said a few words to her, but no one responded.

It wasn't until he returned to Jiaofang Hall that he finally couldn't hold it back and said, "You only said four sentences to me today."

He closed his eyes and suppressed his anger, "I told you not to kill Que Wen, why do you do this."

The people in the inner palace had already left with a look, and were waiting outside with their heads lowered. However, after a moment, they saw the black dragon-patterned clothes rushing past, and the jade pendants clattering, which was obviously extremely unpleasant.

Just when the palace officials in Jiaofang Palace thought that there was a dispute between the emperor and the empress, His Majesty came back as usual and took the empress to take a bath late at night, exactly as before.

This was the case for the next few days. No one in the outer palace noticed anything strange. However, Ruyi felt that something was wrong. When he asked the queen, Yu Tingwan only said: "Ruyi, don't pry into this matter."

Only if you don't know this can you live a good life.

Ruyi suddenly remembered that in the past few days, she was worried about the empress, and actually forgot what Yu Tingwan had told her last time. While the empress was taking a nap during the day, she stood in front of the bronze mirror and looked for the peach wood hairpin.

Pei Zhi gave too many jewelry. Ruyi opened the dowry one by one, but couldn't find the peach wood hairpin. He was a little anxious for a while, and he was afraid of disturbing the sleeping people on the couch, so he moved carefully and looked inexplicably sneaky.

A very oppressive voice came from behind.

"What are you looking for?"

Ruyi quickly turned around, bowed and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty is still asleep, could you please ask your servant to come to the outer hall to report?"

When they arrived at the outer hall, Ruyi said: "Your Majesty asked your servant to throw away the peach wood hairpin a few days ago. I just couldn't find it. Maybe it was taken away by some palace servant."

Pei Zhi looked down at her, his eyes full of scrutiny. Those ministers were frightened when they were glanced at like this in the palace, not to mention that Ruyi was only a teenager.

The girl was shaking like chaff, silently saying "Don't be afraid" in her heart. After the fourth time, she heard a slightly hoarse voice coming from above her head.

"Tell me the queen's original words that day, word for word."