Through the palace of the king of subjugation

The noon sun finally managed to squeeze out some warmth from the clouds, and the frost and mist on the water surface of Taiye Pool had just been dispelled before being wrinkled by the wind again.

The waiter Gao and all the servants were left by Li Yu at the place where he had just separated from Zhou Zheling. He was the only one by the lake staring blankly at the pool of water.

"Your Majesty has something on his mind."

The white gull was lying on the tree trunk, and the leaves had fallen from the canopy in late autumn. Li Yu followed the direction of the sound and saw the person at a glance.

"You're presumptuous again." He said flatly.

Bai Gu raised his eyebrows, turned over and jumped down from the tree, brushed off the dust on his body and saluted Li Yu, "Habayashi Army holds a halberd Bai Gu, I have seen Your Majesty."

"It seems that the injury is not serious." Li Yu turned his head and looked in the direction of Taiyechi again, "Let Xiao Yao pass the message that you can resume your job tomorrow."

"Then His Majesty is going to see me every day again, don't you find it annoying?" Bai Ou smiled, leaning over to Li Yu, "Or is it because Bai Ou is not here these two days, Your Majesty already misses me?"

"You are getting more and more presumptuous." Li Yu turned his head and met Bai Ou's eyes. From a very close distance, he could see the unnatural self in Bai Ou's pupils, "What do you know?"

"The stove in Guangming Palace is already on, right? If it wasn't for me—" Bai Guu waved his hand above his head and stretched lazily, "It's cold, your Majesty, come and do it by the Taiye Pool. What?"

Xu is used to Bai Gu's undisciplined behavior, Li Yu didn't show any special disrespect to him, but just looked at him blankly, "What do you know?"

"Bai Ou knows that His Majesty's imperial decree will be issued sooner or later—" Bai Ou said, without looking back at the little emperor's expression, as if he was a little guilty, he shrugged his shoulders pretending to be relaxed, "That's it , then sooner rather than later."

"You said that you are not from the Empress Dowager." Li Yu said, probably believing it in his heart. After a while in the morning, even the letter was not so fast, "But why do you know so much?"

Bai Ou still didn't look back, and even took two steps forward, completely ignoring Li Yu's gaze, "I've answered this question before."

"Then what else do you not know?" Li Yu raised his chin slightly, looking at the back of the white gull.

"I don't know why Your Majesty hates Zhou Muyun."

Zhou Muyun didn't look as strong and difficult as Zhou Zheling, and his appearance was considered beautiful. The emperor was going to marry sooner or later. The Sangong and Sixth Courtyards had beautiful women like clouds. Who would he not marry?Thinking this way, Bai Ou comforted himself as if he was using Li Yu, even the one who helplessly forced the little emperor with Zhou Zheling...

A faint sense of guilt.

"You can--"

Would you be willing to live under the nose of another person all the time?

Even when you sleep, people are staring at you.

Li Yu didn't say what was in his heart. Although Bai Ou seemed to have a believable magic power, he couldn't take such a risk just by instinct.

At least with options.

Life is hard enough, and it can't afford to be a little more turbulent.

"Do you have a way?" He was still staring at the white gull's back, "If I don't issue an edict to establish a queen, do you have a way to make my wish come true?"

"White Gulls can see everything, but they can't do everything."

The sun, which had just peeked out of the clouds, hid back again, and the wind by the pool became stronger in Taiye, and even the white gull felt a bit of coolness.

He turned around and saw Li Yu's hair disheveled by the wind scattered on his thin and fair face. In the bleak cold wind, he felt an inexplicable sense of fragility.

Even he felt a little cold, the little emperor should...

Is it cold?

"If Your Majesty is willing to tell me the reason why you don't want to issue an edict, maybe Bai Gu can think of a way."

"I just—" Li Yu felt his throat tighten.

After an accident at the age of seven, he has already forgotten what it means to talk, even though that accident has always been in his dream.

Even if he is as close as Xiao Yao and Su Momo, he can't be vulnerable...

He needs to reassure them.

"I just want to sleep well," he said softly.

There was only so much he could say.

"Then Bai Ou will make a bet with Your Majesty again?" Bai Ou saw Li Yu's frown, deliberately relaxed his tone, and said with a shallow smile: "Your Majesty ordered Zhou Muyun to be the empress, and to find a reason to delay the wedding until now. After next autumn, Zhou Muyun will not pass through the door, nor will he lie down on His Majesty's dragon couch."

Zhou Muyun will definitely be made queen, and he will definitely not be able to wear the crown of queen in the end. This is the only thing Baiou can do for Li Yu now.

Li Yu tilted his head, raised his head and stared at the white gull seriously, trying to find a certain affirmation from the other's relaxed expression.

White Gull is indeed always inexplicably convincing.

Maybe it was because of the previous two bets that the man had won.

"What do you want this time?" Li Yu asked.

Today, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the little emperor was in a displeased mood, and the servants in the distance shook their heads in trepidation.

So the word "rule" no longer exists in Baiou's mind.

"Let me think about it—" He turned around smartly, waved his hands as a farewell: "Anyway, your Majesty still owes me what I lost last time—"

In the afternoon of that day, Zhou Zheling woke up after taking a nap, and saw Zhou Muyun who was guarding by the couch.

"Didn't I ask you to take a rest too? This is—" He put Zhou Muyun's hand and got up, seeing the other's expression changed, "Is there something wrong?"

"Your Majesty is here." Zhou Muyun still nodded respectfully, "Aunt took a nap, he sat in the main hall for a long time, and he didn't teach us to call you."

"The emperor figured it out quite quickly this time." Zhou Zheling sat in front of the bronze mirror, and Zhou Muyun tidied it up for her. "It seems that old Chen Yu has put in a lot of effort this time."

Li Yu, who had been waiting in the main hall for a long time, saw Zhou Zheling stepping out of the dormitory with Zhou Muyun's support, and hurried up to help him on the other side, and obediently called "Grandmother" during his movements, without showing the slightest displeasure.

"The emperor has figured it out?" Zhou Zheling's smile was also very standard, without easily showing any satisfaction.

"Yes." Li Yu helped Zhou Zheling sit down, and said after saluting: "I will immediately make an order to make the third lady the empress, and it will be announced to the public tomorrow morning, and the wedding date is set at—"

"After next autumn."

"After Autumn?" Zhou Zheling took the hot tea from Zhou Muyun, raised his eyebrows and stared at Li Yu, "Why?"

"Winter is coming soon, and the end of the year is approaching. The palace has to prepare a grand banquet for the officials on New Year's Eve, as well as many other matters related to worshiping the ancestors in the next year. In just a few months, I can't save a decent gift. I'm afraid I'll wrong Miss San."

"Now the national treasury is not rich in money. In addition to the expenses of the New Year's Eve, we have to allocate some for Chen Zhen to use for patrolling the Jiangnan embankment. I always want to hold the grand ceremony after the seal; I will wait for a bumper harvest in the south of the Yangtze River next autumn. , Beiyin's yearly offering also entered the court, and it happened to be a grand event, and all the people congratulated."

Li Yu's words made sense, and he said it for the Zhou family's daughter, Zhou Zheling was powerless to refute.

But she is not stupid.

For the Jiangnan water conservancy issue, Li Yu has not shy away from it, almost blatantly aligning himself with Chen Yu; to Zhou Zheling, this is the emperor's ambition for the government.

It wouldn't be a worry if he was just an ambitious idiot, but this little emperor is still very smart.

The child was playing with her to delay the attack, exchanging a piece of imperial edict for a year of peace.

She felt even more uneasy.

"The emperor's empress dowager ceremony, no matter how grand it is, it's up to you; but—" Zhou Zheling's smile remained unchanged, "The emperor's harem is empty, and in the future, even the empress will enter the lord's palace with only one person. Can cover everything.”

"Since the emperor is cautious about conferring, let's take two beauties and talented people to wait on him, even if it's a palace maid serving the bed; in the final analysis, someone must take good care of His Majesty, so that the Ai family can feel at ease."

Zhou Zheling watched Li Yufang's calm and obedient face darken a little bit, and the corner of his mouth finally showed a hint of satisfaction.