first and second

Chapter 22**

Chapter 23

Mu Yu standing at the door stood like a deaf-mute, standing like a pine tree.

Concerned that this is still a cabin, Li Chengyun let him go only once, wrapped Liu Wenchao tightly with a quilt, put on his clothes again, got up and ordered Mu Yu at the door to bring a bucket of hot water, but after a while, Mu Yu poured the bucket down. full of water.

Li Chengyun pushed back the quilt, kissed Liu Wenchao's eyebrows, and said softly, "Qingchuan, I'll take you to wash it!"

Liu Wenchao felt pain in his lower back, and he didn't bother to talk to him now, allowing Li Chengyun to carry him horizontally into the barrel.

The wooden barrel is big enough to hold two people. Li Chengyun put Liu Wenchao in front of him, hugged him tightly, took the handkerchief and wiped it lightly for him. When he wiped his back, he found that Liu Wenchao's last injury had turned pink. Li Chengyun's eyes fell on it, his eyes darkened, and he kissed it.

Liu Wenchao felt a little itchy, moved, and said softly, "It's been gone for a long time."

Li Chengyun hugged him tightly with both hands, pressed his lips to the back of his neck, and said in a hoarse voice, "My heart aches."

Liu Wenchao turned around, looked at Li Chengyun gently and said, "Now I have nothing to give you, I will help you win the position of prince as soon as possible, so you can say that you are on the right track and become a prince praised by everyone. Be a wise king."

Li Chengyun has never seen such a gentle side of Liu Wenchao, and this moment reminded him of the word "virtuous wife". This thought that he couldn't help jumping out made him feel hot inside. He hugged Liu Wenchao and let him sit on his lap On: "You are finally mine."

Liu Wenchao felt the heat of his thighs, and blushed suddenly: "Don't." At this moment, Li Chen's voice came from outside the door, and he asked Mu Yu at the door: "Is my second brother inside?"

Mu Yu coughed in embarrassment, and said tactfully: "Sixth prince, the prince has rested."

"I went in to see him. I heard he fell into the lake."

"Sixth Prince, come back tomorrow."

"I'll just go in and take a look to make sure that my second brother is safe, and then I'll leave." Li Chen was still talking at the door, and before he finished speaking, the door was opened.

Li Chen shouted: "Second..." Brother was dumbfounded before he could say the word, didn't he say that second brother was sleeping?How come there is a chief assistant here!

Liu Wenchao said: "Sixth Prince, go in! The King of Chu is waiting for you inside."

Li Chen watched Liu Wenchao walk past him calmly, but he always felt that something was wrong between Liu Wenchao and Li Chengyun. After a while, he entered the cabin as if waking up from a dream.

Before the person stepped into the room, he called out: "Second brother, I heard that you fell into the lake, are you feeling well?" Li Chen saw the steaming wooden barrel: "Are you still taking a bath?"

Li Chengyun adjusted his clothes and said: "Well, the water in the lake is too cold, soaking in hot water will not make you sick."

Seeing that there was only one wooden barrel here, Li Chen asked, "Just now I saw the chief assistant go out from your place, did you two soak together?"

Li Chengyun was not guilty, and said calmly: "What's wrong with taking a bath together, two big men?"

"It's nothing, it's just weird." As soon as Li Chen entered the cabin, he smelled a faint fishy smell, but he had never been in the cabin, so he didn't know what the smell was. He frowned and said, "Second brother, What's the smell in your cabin?"

Li Chengyun pretended to sniff: "What's the smell? Why didn't I smell it?"

Li Chen wasn't sure if he had smelled it wrong, so he changed the subject and said, "Second brother, let's not talk about this, why do I see you in high spirits and full of energy, is there anything happy about it?" ?”

"I have a big banquet today, can you not be happy?" Li Chengyun patted Li Chen's head and said: "You have seen it, I have nothing to do, you go out and play, your sons and brothers Still waiting for you!"

Li Chen was also thinking about drinking, throwing dice, and seeing that Li Chengyun was really fine, he said, "Then I'm going out."

After sending Li Chen away, Li Chengyun asked Mu Yu to wash his and Liu Wenchao's clothes.

On the second day when he went to court, the minister of Dali Temple said that the person who kidnapped Tang Yiqing had been caught. He was an ordinary robber. It was his first time to rob. Seeing Tang Yiqing's generosity, he thought that she must be a lady from a wealthy family, and she was alone, so he had the idea of ​​robbing money and sex, but he was stopped by a monk.

Liu Wenchao asked, "How is the robber doing now?"

Dali Temple Minister said: "He knew that he would die, so he bit his tongue and committed suicide."

Liu Wenchao took a deep look at Dali Siqing, but said nothing.

Emperor Huiming continued to say a few things about this year and reward Xuanjing, and then retreated.

Ying Zi had already returned to normal, and Liu Fang questioned him about Wei Yi, but he didn't find anything useful.

Although he is the chief eunuch now, taking care of the emperor is still the same as before, caring for his health, being considerate and considerate, and doing everything by himself. Ever since Emperor Huiming was saved by him, he trusts him very much. Talking to him, asking him for his opinion, Ying Zi also followed suit and answered in an orderly manner.

Emperor Huiming was sitting in his study reviewing the memorial, when a maid in a pink dress walked in cautiously. She first refilled the emperor's tea, and then grinded ink for Emperor Huiming without authorization.

"Why is there a smell of fat and powder?" Emperor Huiming took a sip of the tea, looked up but found that the person beside him was not Ying Xin, and asked suspiciously: "Who are you? Where is Ying Xin?"

The maid said in a low voice: "The servant's name is Hongzhao. Eunuch Ying Xin met the servant on the way. He said that he had something to do at the moment, so he asked me to pass the tea to the emperor. Seeing that the ink was gone, the servant researched the ink for the emperor without authorization." .”

Emperor Huiming sized her up from top to bottom, with almond eyes and cherry lips, and a silver hairpin in her hair, he said, "Then you can replace Ying Zi and come to the study every day to grind for me!"

Hong Zhao knelt down, kowtowed and said: "My servant thanked the emperor, long live the emperor, long live, long live!"

Emperor Huiming bent down slightly and helped her up, squeezed her hand and said: "Ying Xin asked you to bring tea, do you know what he means?"

Hong Zhao bit her lip, her face was completely drained of blood, and said coyly: "Slave~ slave..."

Emperor Huiming let go of her hand, turned cold, and said impatiently, "Let's go!"

Hong Zhao knelt down again with a plop, and this time said without hesitation: "This servant is willing to serve the emperor."

Emperor Huiming looked at Hong Zhao who was kneeling on the ground trembling, lifted her chin with his fingers, and asked, "Serve? How?"

In this cold weather, Hong Zhao was sweating, her eyes were downcast, she still didn't dare to look at Emperor Huiming, and whispered: "I beg the emperor to love you."

Emperor Huiming rubbed Hong Zhao's lips with his thumb, and said, "I will ask Ying Xin to send a sedan chair to pick you up tonight, you go down first!"

Hong Zhao kowtowed to thank the emperor, turned around and went out, and when he turned around, a line of clear tears flowed from the corner of his eyes.

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After the office was dismissed, Liu Wenchao went to Tang Weizhen's mansion. As soon as he was ushered into the hall, Tang Weizhen greeted him and joked, "What wind brought you here?"

"Stop." Liu Wenchao picked up the oranges on the table and peeled them as if he was at his own home, as if he had done it thousands of times with skill. People who didn't know thought Liu Wenchao was uneducated!

Tang Weizhen asked with a smile, "Is it sweet? There are winter dates specially prepared for you."

Liu Wenchao stuffed a piece of orange into his mouth, chewed it and said, "It's quite sweet, try it." Liu Wenchao handed the remaining half of his pants to Tang Weizhen's hand, and asked again: "Hey! Where is this girl Yiqing? She comes out."

Tang Weizhen took it: "She went to Guangqi Temple and hasn't come back yet, this girl is really getting bigger and more nonsense."

Liu Wenchao changed the subject and asked, "What do you think of Master Xuanjing?"

Tang Wei thought for a while, and said, "I've seen it once, don't say it, if Master Xuanjing hadn't become a monk, he should be the target of women in the boudoir. It's a pity."

Liu Wenchao was a little surprised, and said with a smile: "You give him such a high evaluation, you see that girl Yiqing runs to Guangqi Temple every day, aren't you afraid that Yiqing will also become one of those boudoir girls?"

Tang Weizhen slapped the table and said, "She dares!" Then he felt that Liu Wenchao seemed to have something in his words and was deliberately testing himself, so he couldn't help wondering, "Qingchuan, do you know something?"

After Liu Wenchao returned from Guangqi Temple that day, after thinking for a long time, he decided to tell Tang Weizhen what he saw and what he thought. After all, behind closed doors, they are real brothers and sisters, so Liu Wenchao told Tang Weizhen that day at Guangqi Temple. What he saw and heard told Tang Weizhen.

Tang Weizhen was stunned for a long time, but he couldn't say a word.

Liu Wenchao remembered again that Li Chengyun said that he would not marry Tang Yiqing. It happened that one would not marry and the other would not marry, so he slapped the table and said, "Why are you in a daze? If she doesn't want to marry the King of Chu, I will find an excuse to tell the emperor, Call off the marriage."

Tang Weizhen worried: "The King of Chu will return to Changping after he has no marriage. How can you fight for the crown prince for him?"

"You'd better worry about Yiqing! It's unknown if Master Xuanjing is willing to return to vulgarity or not!"

Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived, Tang Yiqing jumped up and down, just stepped into the hall, saw Liu Wenchao was there, jumped over like a bunny, and called sweetly: "Brother Wenchao."

Tang Weizhen had a disgusted expression on his face: "I'm such an adult, I know how to act like a baby to your brother Wen Chao, and if I have the ability to let your brother Wen Chao stay at our house tonight."