Chapter 298 Troubled Times 18
He used a little trick to save the palace maid's life, and Wushuang continued to speak.
One of these two people is a royal concubine and the other is a prince. Neither of them is a master who cares about others. They will not let Wu Shuang leave until they hear everything.
Fortunately, there are only 80,000 to 90,000 words in this book. Wushuang talked about it all morning, had dinner in the palace, talked for another hour or so, and finally was able to leave the palace.
After talking for most of the day, Wu Shuang thought about it and read all the stories when he got back. He would not take any of the stories that exceeded 80,000 words, otherwise he would not be able to talk until midnight.
However, thinking of the dangers in the palace today, Wu Shuang had to lament that this imperial concubine was really difficult to get along with, and he should be more careful when dealing with her in the future.
Next, Wushuang would go to the palace almost every two days to tell stories to the imperial concubine.
The charm of the novel is irresistible. At first, the imperial concubine could wait for two days, but then she couldn't wait any longer, and sent someone to recruit Wushuang into the palace every day to tell her stories.
When Wushuang told stories, Yuan Zhongjian listened with him twice out of the three times.
Two months passed like water. During this period, Chu Nanze came to see Wushuang twice, with the intention of persuading her not to get too close to the imperial concubine.
But seeing Wu Shuang pretending to be stupid, Chu Nanze had no choice but to throw up his sleeves and leave every time.
Wushuang also did not want to implicate Chu Nanze, making people think that the general was fawning over the imperial concubine.
He asked Xiao Baizhi to spread the rumor that Chu Nanze and his wife were not on good terms, so the general's wife went to fawn over the imperial concubine every day in order to ensure her status.
As expected, no one said that Chu Nanze was fawning over the imperial concubine, but his unparalleled reputation became not so good.
But Wushuang didn't care. She didn't interact with anyone except to meet the imperial concubine. It didn't matter whether her reputation was good or not.
When she succeeds in her career and leaves the general's mansion and gets rid of the name of the general's wife, no one will know who she is.
The reason Wushuang was so worried about Chu Nanze was because she was about to severely offend Chu Nanze.
During this period, Chu Nanze had been arguing with the emperor for so long that he didn't even get a cent of his food and salary. The soldiers at the border were still waiting for their food and salary to extend their lives.
Chu Nanze was forced to have no choice but to pay attention to the emperor's birthday gift.
Song Zhiyuan, the governor of Jiangnan, was a close confidant of the emperor. Jiangnan had always been the court's purse strings, and Song Zhiyuan, a confidant, helped the emperor guard the purse strings.
If you can become the emperor's confidant, you will naturally understand the emperor's preferences very well, and you will also be particularly flattering to the emperor.
Every year on the emperor's birthday, Song Zhiyuan sent the most birthday gifts, and most of the people's treasures and anointing were collected here.
This is also where Song Zhiyuan is smart. He is greedy, but he also knows how to be long-term. Most of the money he greedy gave to the emperor.
Then the money he had left became the benefit of the emperor's acquiescence in his fall. If someone in the court impeached him, the first person to protect him would be the emperor.
Therefore, even though Song Zhiyuan was known to be corrupt and corrupt, Feiqian, who had always been the governor of Jiangnan, remained standing because the emperor protected him.
Chu Nanze really had no choice. If he couldn't get food and pay, his soldiers would really have nothing to eat in half a year at most.
Chu Nanze planned to take a risk and rob Song Zhiyuan's birthday gift to the emperor, use it as food and transport it back to the border.
When Chu Nanze sent people to ambush Song Zhiyuan's birthday ceremony, Wushuang also went to visit his father Xiao Baizhi.
The purpose is to let Xiao Baizhi rob these birthday gifts in advance and hide them so that no one can find them.
Xiao Baizhi's business is spread all over the country. Nowadays, in troubled times, there are bandits and water thieves everywhere. Naturally, he needs a group of armed forces to ensure that his goods can safely pass anywhere.
Although the number of these armed forces is small, they cannot accomplish any major rebellion.
But after this period of time, after training according to the training methods given by Wushuang, it was still easy to intercept Song Zhiyuan's birthday gift.
Wushuang left this matter to Xiao Baizhi with confidence. He was very smart, otherwise the business would not have been so big.
After doing this thing of pinching Chu Nanze's neck and offending someone to death, Wu Shuang was fine and continued to go to the palace every day to read novels to the imperial concubine.
The imperial concubine's greatest pleasure every day now is to listen to Wushuang reading novels. She is a little impatient to deal with even the emperor.
In particular, the protagonists in the novel are all handsome men and beautiful women, but in reality she is so beautiful, but she is paired with an ugly man like the emperor.
The man who used to be patient and courteous in every possible way because of his imperial power has recently made the imperial concubine feel unappetizing every time she comes to see him.
The imperial concubine always took strict precautions to prevent anyone from climbing into bed around the emperor, but the day before yesterday, a palace maid was pulled into bed by the emperor.
If it were in the past, this palace maid would have either been thrown into the cold palace by the imperial concubine, or ordered to be beaten to death.
But this time, the imperial concubine who heard the news rarely found herself in a mood to embarrass the palace maid.
Especially because the emperor slept with another woman, he deliberately stayed with the imperial concubine for a few more days to appease her. As a result, the imperial concubine felt that her days were like years.
Looking at the emperor's old face, he felt uncomfortable all over, but he still had to act happy and clingy.
Early in the morning, the emperor accompanied him to dinner. Looking at his increasingly uglier face, the delicacies on the table made it difficult for the imperial concubine to swallow.
After finally finishing the meal, the emperor still refused to leave and pulled the imperial concubine to watch her dance.
The smile on the imperial concubine's face almost froze, she lost her temper and said with a forced smile: "Your Majesty, this concubine accidentally sprained her foot while practicing her new dance.
I'm afraid I won't be able to dance for the next two days, which will ruin the emperor's taste. Why don't the emperor go to the Baixi Garden to listen to the opera?"
The imperial concubine's words were also very clever. She would perform a new dance every year on the emperor's birthday. When she said this, she was telling the emperor that she had injured her foot in order to dance for his birthday.
As expected, the emperor took the imperial concubine's hand with a distressed expression and said with concern: "Why didn't you tell me that your foot was injured? I don't have to watch you dance on your birthday. You don't have to be in such a hurry to dance."
The imperial concubine bowed her head shyly and said softly: "It's not a big deal at all. Besides, it's my wish to dance on His Majesty's birthday every year. How can I not be serious about it?"
The emperor said with a gentle face: "What I like most is my beloved concubine. If my beloved concubine hurts herself in order to please me, wouldn't it be putting the cart before the horse?"
The imperial concubine endured her nausea, lay down in the emperor's arms, and said with a shy face: "Your Majesty, I know that the emperor loves me, but I also hope that the emperor can know my heart.
Everything I have is given by the emperor. Only this dance is my own and can show my sincerity.
It’s a pity that I injured my foot and have no time to practice dancing. This year’s new dance may disappoint the emperor.”
Chapter completed!