Stand-in beauty favors the Sixth Palace

"Slaves pay homage to the emperor."

"The servant pays homage to the emperor."

The sound of paying homage outside the hall sounded, and Chu Tingyue's deep voice of "Pingshen" could be faintly heard.

"The emperor is here, please hurry up, young master. Since the emperor has left the young master, the young master must behave well and serve the emperor well."

Liu Xu spoke very quickly and walked out after putting down these words. After a while, Chu Qing heard Liu Xu's voice: "The servant is paying homage to the emperor, and the young master is taking a bath..."

Holding wet clothes in his hand, Rong Yin said anxiously with a sad face: "Master, what should I do?"

What can Chu Qing do, he can't go out naked.

Chu Qing couldn't bear to look directly at the pieces of tulle, "Bring... that one."

Chu Tingyue waited impatiently, and said angrily, "Why don't you come out?"

Liu Xu lowered his head, with sweat dripping from the corner of his forehead, and said nervously, "I'm going to urge you."

Chu Tingyue waved his hand to signal him to go, Liu Xu took a few steps back, raised his head and walked towards Tangchi, and was stunned for a moment.

Liu Xu hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to take another look, "Master."

Chu Qing was barefoot, and the red gauze on his body was indistinct. He tightened a few pieces of gauze around his body, trying to cover his exposed chest more, with his hands in front of his body, feeling uncomfortable, and the roots of his ears were stained red.

Chu Tingyue heard the reputation and looked over. Chu Qing noticed his gaze, walked towards him barefoot, and saluted, "The foreign minister pays homage to the emperor."

Chu Tingyue frowned, turned his eyes away, "Who told you to dress like this?"

For the sake of the 32 prisoners of war in Nanliang, the eldest prince Liang Yu and the beauties dedicated to him took turns to fight, and really used all kinds of tricks.

Chu Qing groaned, glanced at Liu Xu, and before pointing out the culprit, Chu Tingyue asked, "Did Nanliang teach you this?"

Chu Tingyue's voice was cold and emotionless, but there was a strong sense of contempt and disdain in his words.Chu Qing was stabbed for no reason, and his heart was not smooth.

Chu Tingyue ordered, "Go and change."

He didn't want to wear these pieces of tulle at all, and he wished for them to be replaced. Chu Qing said "yes", got up and retreated into the side hall.

Rongyin and Lingyin were together with him, Rongyin was aggrieved, "Master let you wear it, why is the Emperor Chu so, so unreasonable!"

Lingyin tugged at her, "Keep your voice down, it's okay for people to hear you!"

Rong Yin was so angry that she shook off her hand and went to prepare clothes for Chu Qing.

"Master, look at her!" Lingyin complained, "The Chu Palace is no different than the Nanliang Palace, so we must be more cautious in our words and deeds, so that no one can catch us."

Chu Qing glanced at her and didn't say anything, which seemed to be his acquiescence to Rong Yin's behavior.

With Chu Tingyue's temper, is there any difference if he is arrested or not?Since they are all the same, it is better to be more comfortable.

Lingyin stomped her feet, looked at the color of the clothes Rongyin had chosen, and went to get a hairband to tie Chu Qing's hair.

Rongyin and Lingyin have been serving Chu Qing for a long time, and they cooperated seamlessly even when there was an awkward situation, and they cleaned him up in a short time.

Standing in front of the bronze mirror of equal height, Chu Qing secretly took a deep breath before re-entering the main hall.

He changed into a blue auspicious cloud gown, his black hair was tied up with a headband of the same color, and he was neatly dressed, revealing nothing that should or should not be exposed.

Chu Qing stood three feet away from Chu Tingyue, "Your Majesty."

Only then did Chu Tingyue look at him, narrowing his eyes slightly, his eyes stayed on his face for the longest time, "Come here."

He would like to see the real purpose of Nanliang's boldness in sending this person here.

Chu Qing took a step forward. Seeing him standing still, Chu Tingyue asked, "Didn't Nanliang teach you to serve others?"

Chu Qing didn't say a word, Nanliang taught, but he didn't want to do it.

"Or, Nanliang only teaches you how to do that kind of thing to please people?"

Chu Tingyue leaned slowly on the soft couch, raised his eyelids and looked at him mockingly.

Shocked by the words Chu Tingyue uttered, Chu Qing was startled for a moment, and anger welled up from the bottom of his heart, sweeping him.The unexpectedness that was suppressed before, mixed with the anger and unhappiness now, Chu Qing's impression of Chu Tingyue fell directly to the bottom.

"The foreign minister is stupid and knows nothing." Chu Qing almost gritted his teeth and spit out this sentence. No matter how he serves people, he will not know.

"Really?" Chu Tingyue looked him up and down, but regretfully said, "Look at him, he is clever."

Chu Qing's chest rose and fell, and he took a few deep breaths before he could hold back his anger, "The emperor was joking, and the ministers are clumsy, afraid of offending the emperor."

"Clumsiness doesn't get in the way, as long as you can use your brain." Chu Tingyue asked Liu Xu to add some tea, looked at Chu Qing who was still calm, added fire, and continued to say to him, "I like dealing with smart people. If you want to... Your eldest prince understands right and wrong better, so you shouldn't end up with him."

Chu Qing's heart skipped a beat, he didn't think about the wit in his words, but focused on another matter, did Chu Tingyue really kill Liang Yu?

"The eldest prince, he..."

Is it finally about to show off?Chu Tingyue took a sip of tea and said slowly, "Dead."

Liang Yu died.

When he left the Golden Luan Hall, he heard a civil official persuade Chu Tingyue, he thought Liang Yu could save his life, but who would have thought that Chu Tingyue was so determined to kill the prince of a country.At this moment, Chu Qing really felt how domineering the domineering tyrant was rumored to be.

Chu Qing's thoughts were confused, and he looked at Chu Tingyue with an extremely complicated expression, intertwined with disbelief and fear, mixed with a little wordless disappointment.

He thought... It was just his thought, he had never seen Chu Tingyue before, so he didn't know what his temper was, but it was all his imagination.

Chu Qing was unsteady, staggered and took a step back, Rong Yin immediately supported him, "Master..."

"It's the master and servant who love each other deeply."

Chu Tingyue scoffed, not knowing whether it was Rong Yin and him, or Sang scolding Huai about him and Liang Yu, Chu Qing couldn't think more.

The color faded from Chu Qing's face, the corners of his lips were stiff, and he tried several times before he could say, "Where is the eldest prince's body? Where is it?"

He was afraid that Chu Tingyue would go mad, and he would not let the corpse go.

"..."

Chu Tingyue stared at him, trying to force him to reveal more, with a half-smile, "What do you think?"

Chu Qing did not speak, Chu Tingyue did not speak, the hall of Nuo Da was silent, and Chu Qing seemed to be able to hear his own heartbeat that was gradually accelerating.

Chu Qing looked at Chu Tingyue who was drinking tea as if nothing had happened, his heart gradually sank, and he was frightened by the thoughts he had, his back was covered with cold sweat.

Chu Tingyue put down the teacup and made a light "click", Chu Qing's eyelashes trembled, and his pupils were squeezed tightly.

Seeing that he lost his composure but did not reveal more, Chu Tingyue knew that Chu Qing had already sounded the alarm, and it was impossible to try more.

Chu Tingyue didn't waste any more time, stood up and left, and stopped when passing Chu Qing, "Zhen, it's not like I won't even give you a face after life."

Chu Qing turned his head and met a pair of deep eyes with mocking expressions. The distance between the two was relatively close, and Chu Qing could smell the cold fragrance from Chu Tingyue's body.

Chu Tingyue withdrew his gaze and passed him.

Chu Qing realized later, lowered his head, "The foreign ministers respectfully send the emperor off."

Liu Xu nodded to him, said "Slave leave", followed Chu Tingyue's footsteps out of the palace gate.

Chu Qing turned around, staring at Chu Tingyue's slender back, his thoughts were confused.

After Chu Tingyue left and he could no longer be seen, Chu Qing stepped back and sat on the chair weakly.

Rong Yin was almost frightened, her eyes were red and she wanted to cry, but she still remembered to take care of Chu Qing, poured a cup of hot tea and handed it to him, and said in a trembling voice, "Master, drink tea."

Chu Qing broke out in cold sweat, his palms were cold, and the warm touch of the hot tea spread from his palms to his whole body. Chu Qing seemed to emerge from an ice hole in the cold winter months, feeling a little warmth, and able to breathe freely.

Chu Qing let out a breath, holding the warm tea cup tighter and tighter, trying to draw warmth from it.

"Master..." Lingyin called him softly, "Eldest Prince..."

Chu Qing didn't speak, leaned against the back of the chair, and closed his eyes weakly.

He had imagined this trip countless times, but he didn't think it would be so difficult.

The monarch Chu Tingyue resembled the rumored tyrant eight to nine points. He was domineering and moody. In the palace of Chu, it was like a sharp knife hanging above his head, which might fall down at any time to take people's lives.

He originally thought that entering the Chu Palace would be no worse than being in the Nanliang Palace, but he didn't want to step into a deeper abyss.

Nowadays, it is not easy to save one's life under Chu Tingyue's subordinates, and it is nothing more than a dream to escape Nanliang's ubiquitous surveillance and find one's background.

He can only make plans for what he plans.

Chu Qing frowned, and in the next moment a pair of cool hands pressed on his temples and massaged gently.

"Master, don't worry, you will have a headache later."

Rong Yin's eyes were still red, after all, she was more pure-hearted, she felt at ease with him around, fearing that she would be overwhelmed after a while, and her full attention would fall on him again.

The strength of Rong Yin's hand was just right, which relieved his discomfort very well.

Ling Yin also recovered from the death of the eldest prince, her face was still a little dazed, "Your servant is going to tidy up the bed, master, please rest for a while."

Chu Qing nodded, his body swayed involuntarily when he stood up, and he held onto the back of the chair to stabilize his figure.

Empress Rong Yin was terrified, and supported him, "Master, you have just recovered, so you have to be more careful, have you forgotten what the national teacher told you?"

He was injured and was bedridden for two years. He had not stopped the decoction and medicine. He had recovered seven to eight times in the past year, but his bones were ruined by taking medicine for a long time in bed, so he had to take care of it carefully.

Before leaving Nanliang, Li Yunyi, the national teacher, specially told him not to be overjoyed, sad, angry, thoughtful, or afraid... The implication was to make him calm and be a saint without sadness or joy.

How is this possible, Chu Qing can't do it.

Hearing Rongyin's chanting, Chu Qing immediately said, "I remember, I haven't forgotten."

Rong Yin just gave up.

Chu Qing was holding a breath in his heart, unable to vent or swallow, which made him extremely uncomfortable.

Lingyin made the bed, and Chu Qing lay on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. I don't know how long it took, and fell asleep for a while, but was caught by the nightmare, and slept extremely unsteadily.

On the other side, on the palace road, Chu Tingyue walked slowly, Liu Xu followed behind him tremblingly, cold sweat broke out on his forehead in the cold spring days.

Chu Tingyue suddenly stopped, "Do you have anything to say?"

Liu Xu trembled all over, knelt down with a thud, knocked his knees on the bluestone slab, and begged for mercy: "The old minister is guilty, I shouldn't presumptuously guess what I want, please the emperor punish me."

Chu Tingyue glanced at him, "Just take the blame yourself."

"Yes, the slave is taking orders." Liu Xu kowtowed and trembled.

Chu Tingyue stopped looking at him, turned around and continued walking.

A young eunuch hurried over, "Your Majesty, Chu Yuanyan is waiting for Lord Chu to see you, and he is waiting in the Palace of Qinzheng."

Chu Tingyue closed his eyes, changed his destination, and went to Qinzheng Palace.

"I pay homage to the emperor." Xuan Yuanyan said, "The emperor came back in time, I thought I would have to wait another two hours."

Chu Tingyue ignored his strange ambiguity, knowing that he left someone who looked like Ah Qing in the palace, and Xuan Yuanyan felt uncomfortable.

"This person is different." Chu Tingyue defended himself and sat down in front of the desk.

"The emperor doesn't need to explain anything to his ministers, as long as the emperor has no shame in his heart." Chu Yuanyan said slowly, not at all yin and yang.

Chu Tingyue did not say a word, closed his eyes in silence, and suddenly said after a long time: "Second brother thinks... what is Nanliang's intention this time?"

Chu Yuanyan was Chu Yuanqing's second elder brother. After Chu Tingyue and Chu Yuanqing expressed their affection to each other, they changed their mouths and followed Chu Yuanqing's address to the Chu family, giving the Chu family the greatest honor.Even though Chu Yuanqing has passed away for three years, he has only given the Chu family a lot.

Speaking of business, Chu Yuanyan straightened his expression, "I'm afraid only Liang Yu knows this best."

"In this case, I shouldn't have let him go. I think he hasn't gone far, so send someone to bring him back."

"Why bother, there happens to be ready-made ones in the palace." Xuan Yuanyan looked at Chu Tingyue, "Nanliang's conspiracy, try it and you will know."

In Qingyan Palace, Chu Qing woke up from a dream, stared at the strange carvings on the top of the bed, was stunned for a while, and then woke up, he had already entered the Chu Palace.

"Master, are you awake?"

Lingyin brought warm tea, and Chu Qing sat up propped up, took a small sip and drank it.

"What time is it?"

"It's the beginning of Shen Shi." Lingyin replied, took the empty teacup in his hand and put it back on the table, took out the clothes and changed it for him, "Master was in a deep sleep, the servant did not call you for lunch, and there is no one in this palace." It’s a small kitchen, and the servants are warming the food with hot water, which is just right for you now.”

Chu cleaned his face and hands, his right eyelid twitched, he was not superstitious, he didn't take it to heart, "Okay, let's go."

Rong Yin set out the food, saw him come out and moved the round stool for him to sit on, and put the food at his hand.

Chu Qing was hungry and was about to start eating, but there was a sound in the yard: "The imperial decree has arrived——!"

Chu Qing paused the hand holding the jade chopsticks, and looked up to the outside of the hall.

"master?"

Rong Yin looked at him puzzled, Chu Qing put down the jade chopsticks and walked outside.

It was a young eunuch who came to deliver the decree, holding a roll of imperial decree with black background and gold border in his hand, "My lord, come to receive the decree?"

Chu Qing didn't know what Chu Tingyue was going to do, so he could only respond to all changes without changing, and knelt down to accept the order.

The little eunuch unfolded the imperial decree, "Following the heavens, the emperor ordered that the Chu family has both ability and political integrity, and is very heart-warming. I specially conferred the title of Emperor Qinghe, who ranks higher than the fourth concubine, and honors me!"

"...The foreign minister took the order."

The little eunuch smiled and handed the imperial decree to him, and said in a low voice in front of him: "The emperor will stay with the young master tonight...in the servant palace, the servant should prepare well."

Chu Qing: "...Thank you for letting me know, sir."

The little eunuch hurriedly waved his hands, "I don't deserve it, my servant Zhou Porridge, you just call him that."

Chu Qing nodded with a smile, and entered the hall holding the imperial decree. The smile disappeared, and he threw the imperial decree on the table, sat down and continued to eat.

Sure enough, it's no good if the right eyelid twitches.