After rebirth, the Prime Minister's wife married the living devil

There are never two people in the world who are so alike.

From the first moment Li Shouhai saw the young man, he was almost subconsciously certain that the child was definitely related to Yan Shuyue.

The more I think about it, the more I feel that my guess is almost right.

Yan Shuyue was the only daughter of Prime Minister Yan. She was betrothed to the then Crown Prince Zhao Jin when she was fifteen, and the emperor and empress got married when she was seventeen.

Thinking about some rumors in the palace, the child looks to be about eighteen or nineteen years old, so the age is roughly right.

"Eunuch Shouhai?"

Li Shouhai came to his senses suddenly, stepped forward with his hands folded and head bowed respectfully, and took the celadon flower-wrapped teacup.

"Please forgive me, my lady. I was distracted for a moment."

Yan Shuyue pulled over the pillow that was casually thrown on the bed, leaned against it and let out a long breath, looking at the few strands of white hair on his temples, and said, "In the blink of an eye, Eunuch Shouhai has also grown old. How old are you this year? I only remember that you were born in the Year of the Ox."

Li Shouhai opened his eyes slightly and said in surprise: "Your Highness, I am forty years old this year, and you actually remember my zodiac sign."

Yan Shuyue smiled and shook her head, then turned to look him in the eye and said, "I didn't know that at first. Jingyun had embroidered a purse with a picture of a cow before, so I remembered it."

"Here." She looked mischievously at a brocade purse on Li Shouhai's waist, "It's the one on your waist."

The dark blue brocade purse was old and had lost its luster, but it was neat and clean, and it was obvious that its owner took good care of it.

Li Shouhai subconsciously covered his purse, stepped back a few steps, put the teacup in his hand on the table, and bowed his head and said, "Madame Cheng and I are from the same hometown. I just treat her as my own sister, so I asked her to embroider one for me."

"Speaking of this, I have never had the chance to thank you, Your Majesty. If you hadn't asked Concubine Chen for mercy, Jingyun would have been beaten to death. You also asked the imperial physician to treat Jingyun and to serve her before her death. This is like giving her a new life. I thank you for your great kindness."

As he spoke, Li Shouhai placed his hands in front of him, touched the ground with his forehead, and knelt down to kowtow to Yan Shuyue.

"Eunuch Shouhai, what are you doing?" Yan Shuyue gently raised her hand towards him and said softly, "Please stand up. Jingyun and I have been getting along well since..."

Having said this, she paused, a pain surged between her brows, and her eyes turned red.

"Since Yulan passed away, Jingyun has been taking care of me. Over the years, I have already considered her my sister."

"My queen, I'm sorry."

Li Shouhai knew that Yulan was Yan Shuyue's personal maid. When she left the palace to return home to visit her parents, she encountered a pack of wolves on the way, and Yulan and her entourage were all bitten to death.

Because of this, Yan Shuyue cried so much that her eyes were almost blinded. She fell seriously ill several times and almost died. She was sent to Xiangji Temple by Emperor Jingdi Zhao Jin, where she copied scriptures and chanted Buddhist scriptures every day. Gradually, she got better and was brought back to the palace a few years later.

Li Shouhai looked at the beautiful queen with a hidden gaze, as if thinking about something.

Yan Shuyue wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with her fingertips, pulled the corners of her mouth, and said with a smile: "Let's not talk about this. I obviously want to tell you about Jingyun."

"There are some things I have wanted to tell Eunuch Shouhai for a long time. Before you entered the palace, Jingyun was your betrothed, right?"

Li Shouhai's eyes were shocked and he subconsciously wanted to kneel down again.

"Jingyun told me already."

"W-what?" Li Shouhai paused with his half-bent knees, his eyes widened, "Jingyun said she was my, my fiancée?"

He was stunned for a few moments, and then he caught sight of the whisk in his arms. He immediately came to his senses and said in a hoarse voice, "After entering the palace, we are all rootless people, so how can we have so many things?"

"Eunuch Shouhai, why do you think Jingyun has remained unmarried for all these years? I have tried to arrange a marriage for her, including with the palace guards and even my father's disciples, but Jingyun never agreed."

"Before that, Zhao Huo, that beast, didn't go to his fiefdom, so you could meet each other anytime in the capital. Later, you followed Zhao Huo to his fiefdom, and I also promised Jingyun to leave the palace and go with you. After all, Jingyun was not young anymore by then. But Jingyun didn't agree, and I know it was because of me."

At that time, the imperial concubine was very powerful. She, the empress, had no children, but the imperial concubine had Zhao Qi. Zhao Qi's in-laws had other ideas, and the former dynasty and the harem all took sides. Her father, Yan Xiang, contracted tuberculosis and did not have much time left.

For a moment, everyone wanted to trample the Yan family into the dust. That was her most difficult time.

Zhao Jin wasn't that bad to her...but she just couldn't bring herself to ask Zhao Jin for help.

Thinking of these people, Yan Shuyue felt a sense of melancholy.

Today, she accidentally overheard a few maids chatting and learned that these people had been killed by Zhao Huo. She also found out the current situation.

She knew that he brought her from the capital to Qingzhou and locked her up, not just to take revenge on Zhao Jin and satisfy his lustful desires on her.

This beast just wanted to use her to humiliate Zhao Jin, Xiahou Yuan and the old ministers of Jing Dynasty.

At the same time, she also knew that no matter which one of them won the fight, it would be impossible for them to keep her.

Zhao Huoying, for the sake of reputation, she will only be an unknown slave concubine in Zhao Huo's bed. When she is old and ugly, he will kick her away, or even worse, this stain of hers will be wiped out directly.

Xiahou Ying, the immoral and unchaste queen, deserved only a piece of white silk and a cup of poisoned wine as her best fate.

But she doesn't care about all these. The only thing that worries her now is Jingyun, who has been with her for more than ten years.

"Eunuch Shouhai, Jingyun is interested in you, and you also have deep feelings for her. Now that we are finally reunited, I will make the decision to betroth Jingyun to you."

Li Shouhai clenched his fists tightly, lowered his head, and spoke with great difficulty: "My Queen! I..."

"How many more years do you want Jingyun to wait for you? I know you are afraid of delaying her, but if she really cared about this, she would have married long ago. Why would she wait until now? It's fine that you had a difficult time in your fiefdom in the past few years, but now you have the ability to protect her. How long do you want to wait? Or do you call me your majesty, but in fact you have no respect for me in your heart."

Yan Shuyue used both soft and hard tactics.

"I dare not!" Li Shouhai knelt down immediately, his eyes red, and said in a trembling voice: "My servant, my servant..."

He touched his forehead to the ground, "Thank you, Madam."

Yan Shuyue let out a breath slowly, a tired smile appeared on her face, and she waved her hand and said, "Be nice to Jingyun, you can go down."

……

Zhao Huo was lying in an ebony armchair with his arms open. He casually placed the letter he had just read on the desk and was reaching for the unopened letter.

He caught a glimpse of the person who entered the room. He did not look up, but stared at the letter in his hand. He asked lazily, "What did Doctor Zhang say?"

"Your Highness, Doctor Zhang said that the queen is fine, but she is just a little worried and depressed."

Zhao Huo frowned and slammed the letter on the table. "Excessive worry, liver depression?"

What does that mean? When I'm with him, I feel depressed and my liver is depressed?

This infuriating little woman, is it possible that when she is with Zhao Jin, she is not worried or depressed when she sees Zhao Jin favoring the imperial concubine and bullying her in the palace?