An Empire as a Betrothal Gift

As the King of Qin, Ji Yue has heard countless compliments.Or wish him a long life, or praise him forever.Ji Yue never cared about the false feelings and false compliments.

He never thought that one day, he would be touched by a simple sentence.

——People's hearts are evil, and you don't take them, why should I be afraid of them?

What King Qin wanted was never praise.

is fearless.

This is what he's always wanted but couldn't get.

Ji Yue looked at Wei Lian with an unpredictable expression.The young man in white clothes is light, let him look at him.

After a long while, Ji Yuefang said slowly: "The solitary grass disregards human life and draws people's tongues. This is extremely vicious. The empress dowager helped the solitary superior and wiped out his entire family. This is ungrateful. A solitary man who does not hesitate to create a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood in order to open up the territory is a greed for profit." It is despicable and nasty to use any means to achieve the goal alone."

He chuckled lightly: "What Wei Lang said is that the world is the most evil, and the solitary has everything. Everyone in the world fears the solitary, how dare you say that the solitary does not take possession of everything?"

Wei Lian answered the words without hesitation: "The following criminals in the palace speak evil words, they should be killed. The queen mother controls the government and has no law, so she should be punished. The wolves of the six kingdoms are waiting around, so it is time to fight. The king always only cares about the result of his actions. , it should be done."

"What your majesty does is the way of being a king. People in the world demand kings according to the standards of saints, but they don't know that in troubled times, peace is the most important thing, and they will be swallowed up by wolves. Whether you are a tyrant or a subjugated king, you If you have no choice, people in the world will not understand."

He answered this fluently, almost without thinking.Ji Yue was surprised for a moment, and said softly: "But you understand."

Ji Yue's bright eyes suddenly glowed, and he smiled slightly: "Wei Lian, I really hate seeing you alone."

"Your Majesty is wrong."

"It's really time for those ministers to see what a real beauty is. It's so lonely to convince them, how can those vulgar fans compare to you. Go to the court painter... no, how can the idle painter portray your character? "Ji Yue never concealed his love for the person he liked, he walked quickly to the desk, laid out a pen and paper, "make a picture for you alone."

"Your Majesty wants to make a portrait for your minister?"

"That's natural."

"But I heard that His Majesty never paints portraits." Wei Lian's eyes flickered slightly.

King Qin is known as a tyrant, but it doesn't mean he doesn't understand elegance.Piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are compulsory courses for every noble child.

The king of Qin was very intelligent since he was a child, and his hand-painted paintings are superb and profound. At the age of eight, the "Birthday Picture" he made for the late king became famous all over the world.It was also because of that painting that the late king noticed this unknown child and paid attention to him.

King Qin's painting skills are superb, with freehand brushwork of landscapes, flowers, birds, insects and fish, all of which are proficient.

But as we all know, King Qin never painted portraits.

It is rumored that he is not good at this way to make use of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, but it is only a rumor after all.

"That's unworthy of anyone." Ji Yue wrote, his movements flowing, "it's never easy to paint the skin, beauty lies in the bones but not the skin. Gu is not interested in drawing human skin, only a beauty like Wei Lang who has both skin and bones is worthy of Gu Write down."

This is already a very high praise.

Wei Lian stood in front of the window, and didn't ask until Ji Yue stopped writing, "Did you finish the painting?"

"Okay." Ji Yue put down his brush, "Come and have a look."

Wei Lian came over, glanced at it, and said in his heart, what a skill.

He is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and Danqing is not bad at all. One can tell at a glance that King Qin is not good at portraits, but he is clearly the best at it.

Wei Lian was standing in front of the window, but the King of Qin painted him in the snow, behind him were many palaces covered with white snow on black tiles.He stood under a red plum tree, hugged the snow-white fox fur, raised his eyes and smiled lightly, his brows expressive.

"It's really lifelike." Wei Lian looked at it for a while, his eyebrows and eyes frowned.

"Wei Lang might as well write another word." Ji Yue said.

Wei Lian thought for a while, picked up the wolf hair, and inscribed the word "Guo" on the rice paper.

The style of writing is introverted, implying madness, wandering clouds and startling dragons.

The handwriting is beautiful, just like the person, and there is a frivolous and arrogant hidden under the gentleness of jade.

Ji Yue first sighed in admiration, but was a little bored, expecting that Wei Lian's question would be auspicious words such as "the country is safe and the people are safe".

Unexpectedly, it was unexpected again.

Wei Lian wrote eight characters.

Peerless elegance, unparalleled national scholars.

Ji Yue's eyes twitched.

After thinking about it, he felt that there was nothing wrong with these eight characters, and they were very flattering.But thinking that these eight characters were written by Wei Lian himself...

Ji Yue wanted to laugh a little.

Young Master Lian seemed a little narcissistic.

But Ji Yue likes such an attitude.There are too many people pretending to be false in front of him, so many that I am tired of watching.Wei Lian acted so recklessly, but he thought it was real and cute.

Mostly it varies from person to person.Right now, he saw that Wei Lian was happy, so he had a high tolerance for Wei Lian.If another stranger came directly to the King of Qin and blatantly said "Our country is unparalleled", Ji Yue would definitely smile gently, and then dragged him out and beheaded him.

"Peerless elegance, peerless national scholars." Ji Yue read out, with an unconcealable smile in his voice, "Wei Lang, you are very arrogant."

"Since the minister is worthy of His Majesty's own painting, he is naturally worthy of such an evaluation." Wei Lian's face remained unchanged.

"Okay!" Ji Yue clapped his hands, "I like your arrogance."

Wei Lian smiled but said nothing.

He understood.The King of Qin doesn't like people who are too flamboyant in front of him, they will be killed because of their arrogance; he doesn't like too restrained, they will be hated because they are dull and boring; Out of proportion.

It seems that Wei Lian grasped a precise speed like this, respectful and gentle but occasionally presumptuous, knowledgeable and rational, and played with his temper, which made King Qin feel novel and reluctant to kill him.

Wei Lian's attitude towards King Qin now seems to be casual, but it is actually the result of careful calculation.Every word and action is just right, this kind of difficulty is extremely high, anyone would have died [-] times early.

But he is Wei Lian.

Wei Lian was not complacent, thinking that he had captured the heart of a moody king.

Human heart is the most elusive thing in the world, not to mention the king's heart.

King Qin is by no means someone who can be coaxed so easily, and his interest in him is only temporary now.

He still has a long way to go.

The days in the Hall of Mental Cultivation are very comfortable.Now everyone in the palace knows that Wei Lian is favored, and he lives where the emperor lives, no one dares to slight him.The clothes must be the best, the food must be the most exquisite, and the bedding for the winter must be complete, and you must not be cold or hungry.

In fact, it is not necessary, he eats and lives with the king of Qin most of the time, so the things the king uses are naturally the best.It just belongs to the rules that Wei Lian should have, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs does not dare to be short at all.It can be said to be very different from the first half month when people could be bullied as much as possible.

Brocade clothes, jade food, fat, powder and ointment beams are piled up, and even a pig is already fat and strong enough to be slaughtered.

Wei Lian felt that he had gained weight recently, and he didn't look so slender anymore.One morning when he changed his clothes and saw that the belt was no longer loose, he was startled and immediately started to lose weight.

He still cares a lot about his looks.Although King Qin would not show mercy to a beautiful woman, he would even less show mercy to an ugly person.

More importantly, be prepared for danger in times of peace.The king of Qin has been really kind to him these days, and he will become numb after a long time of comfortable life. If he is slack and angers the king of Qin, that would be bad.

As long as Wei Lian eats well and sleeps well, he has nothing else to ask for.But he also doesn't like to tie his life to others.Not to mention the poison he had taken, just like King Qin's temper, he was talking and laughing with you one second, and he didn't even know how he died the next second.Getting along with such a person is too dangerous, Wei Lian still wants to get out as soon as possible.

There is nothing more stupid than putting one's life on the soft heart of others.

Wei Lian was always planning to feign death and escape—the specific implementation would be after his 20th birthday.Not before that, the possibility of feigning death turning into real death is too great.The appearance of death that his master mentioned was quite scary.

He never thought of being trapped in a palace for a lifetime.A chick who was born in a cage is willing to be raised, but he is a swan with a vast heart.

Not free, or rather die.

The most important thing right now is the weight loss plan.

If he was in Chu Palace in the past, Wei Lian could practice swords in an empty courtyard.Not now, King Qin's eyeliner is everywhere in King Qin's palace, as a helpless son, Wei Lian can only choose to go on a diet.

The concrete manifestation was that Wei Lian didn't move the meat and vegetables brought by King Qin on the dining table, they piled them in the bowl, and only picked some light ones to eat.

Ji Yue was thoughtful, and when he saw this, he asked softly, "Wei Lang has a bad appetite?"

Wei Lian shook his head: "Recently I like light food, thank you Your Majesty for your concern."

Li Fuquan said immediately from the side: "Wei Shijun, you are a servant, you should serve His Majesty, how can you make His Majesty worry about you?"

Wei Lian saw that he was silent.

The palace people showed sympathy.

Li Fuquan: "???"

Why does it feel a little wrong.Didn't he just recover from his injury for three or four days, why did the whole world change when he came out?

Ji Yue put down the chopsticks and said flatly, "Speak up."

Li Fuquan's heart skipped a beat, he didn't know which dragon's whiskers he touched again.

He followed His Majesty for 12 years.There are countless little eunuchs who have served His Majesty since he was a child, and he may be the only one who can do the job of chief executive.Because Li Fuquan was always thinking of Ji Yue, this sincerity could not be faked.

He has never seen His Majesty really like anything.His Majesty loved a rabbit very much when he was a child, and he would hug it to sleep at night, talk to it like a human being, and feed it the best radishes and vegetables.

But it was only because the rabbit ran over when the queen mother arrived, and was picked up by the queen mother and praised for being cute. After the queen mother left, she was sent to the dining room to be stewed by her majesty.

The Empress Dowager returns in the evening, Your Majesty invites the Empress Dowager to stay for dinner.The queen mother felt that the stewed pork on the table was well cooked, so she couldn't help asking: "Yueer, what kind of dish is this?"

The 12-year-old boy hooked his lips and smiled lightly: "It's the rabbit that the queen mother hugged during the day. Queen mother, is it still cute to eat?"

The queen mother's expression changed, and she immediately walked away.

The list goes on and on.Li Fuquan also understood that His Majesty may like many things, but they are only temporary interests and will not last long.

Even when he heard that the guard was favored this time, he never took it seriously.

But he forgot that no matter whether His Majesty despises Wei Lian or not, at least at the moment, Wei Lian cannot afford to offend him.

He has overstepped the position several times, which is really a big taboo for His Majesty.

After recollecting it, Li Fuquan broke out in a cold sweat, and immediately knelt down to plead guilty: "Slave overreach."

"There are only three things." Ji Yue showed no expression, "There will be a next time, don't blame Gu for not missing the old love."

Li Fuquan got up tremblingly: "... promise."

"Also." Ji Yue suddenly felt that the title of "Servant Lord" was a bit unpleasant, as if he had insulted the young man for no reason, "The order continues, and the whole palace will treat Wei Lang as a son and treat each other as a wife, so don't take it lightly. "

Li Fuquan bowed: "No."

He left the Hall of Mental Cultivation, without the heat inside the house, the wind and snow outside immediately made Li Fuquan shudder, only to realize that he was covered in a cold sweat.

He ordered the little eunuch to convey His Majesty's will, leaned on the door frame to wipe his sweat, and thought to himself:

It seems that this young master's tricks are really good, and he doesn't know how long this honor can last.

"Of course it's longer than my father-in-law thought." A warm and bejeweled voice came from behind, and Li Fuquan was so frightened that he hit his back against the wall and almost had a heart attack.

Wei Lian smiled: "Eunuch, be careful."

Li Fuquan unconsciously shuddered again, and had an absurd illusion.He felt that although this Young Master Lian had a gentle smile, the look of hiding a knife in that smile was exactly the same as His Majesty's.

"Guards..." Li Fuquan just opened his mouth, then remembered His Majesty's order, and quickly changed his words, "Why did Mr. Wei come out?"

"Come out to get some air." Wei Lianwen said in a warm voice.

Li Fuquan gave a salute and wanted to leave: "Then I won't bother you..." He didn't really want to deal with Wei Lian at the moment, and felt that this character was a bit dangerous.

...the same danger as His Majesty.

"I also want to talk to my father-in-law." Wei Lian added casually.

Li Fuquan stopped walking.