In the imperial garden of the palace, Wang Xiulin led Yan Ruocheng to the pavilion. She ordered all the maids who were following her to step back.
Seeing that she was so cautious, Yan Ruocheng must have wanted to talk about the recent rumors.
"Do you want to ask about the rumor?" Yan Ruocheng asked proactively.
"It's good that you know. Do you think I'm dead? Under my eyes, you dare to be seen like this and let people spread rumors around." Wang Xiulin said.
"When you come to me, you don't just want to scold me. Is there something wrong?" Yan Ruocheng asked the key point. She could tell that Wang Xiulin was not angry at all.
Wang Xiulin didn't say any secret words and told her directly: "Sit down. I want to find out who is behind this rumor and manage the order of the harem. So you have to help me."
"How can I help?" Yan Ruocheng agreed without hesitation.
"Create an opportunity to let that person fall into the trap and catch him on the spot." Wang Xiulin thought of a trick to lure the snake out of its hole.
"No, no...I can't do this anymore." Yan Ruocheng shook his head and immediately refused.
"Why don't you want to? Don't you dream of being so close to Brother Chenling? Are you being reserved? I turned a blind eye." Wang Xiulin asked.
"No, that's not what I meant. It's because Feng Mo is unhappy. I don't want to irritate him like this anymore. Think of other ways." Yan Ruocheng explained.
"You are such a multi-tasking woman. It was Brother Chenling and Brother Fengmo who fell in love with you because they were blind. They really owed you in their previous life. Don't you just like Brother Chenling? Why should you care about Brother Fengmo's mood?
"The thing about your fake marriage was just to deal with me. I don't care about you anymore. What do you think?" Wang Xiulin held his cheek and asked.
Yan Ruozhen hesitated for a while and said: "I just hope that neither party will be harmed. I want to protect them both for the rest of their lives."
Wang Xiulin clapped his hands and said sarcastically: "You are so great. You talk about your selfishness so openly. If you are greedy, you will be greedy. Sooner or later, you will fall apart and lose more than you gain."
Yan Ruocheng snorted and said nothing.
Wang Xiulin then said: "Back to the topic, what can you do? If you don't catch this person, it will only make you more and more black. It will not do you any good at all."
Yan Ruocheng said: "How about I play pretend with you? You pretend to be Chen Ling, and I will pretend to be a certain palace maid, and deliberately go to the cold palace for a tryst to lure that person out. That
The reason why people spread rumors is just to damage His Majesty’s reputation and harm my name. They have a revengeful mentality. Just because this person has this kind of mentality, he will definitely observe His Majesty’s every move again.”
Wang Xiulin said: "Well, yes, but how to make sure that this person knows that we are going to the cold palace for a tryst."
Yan Ruocheng said with a chuckle: "This depends on the mouths of the maids around you. As long as you deliberately spread some news, you will definitely be able to catch big fish in the long run."
"Okay, let's do it like this." Wang Xiulin nodded in agreement.
After the two discussed it, they left separately.
Afterwards, Yan Ruocheng walked through the secret passage to Huang Chenling's bedroom.
Xiaoling was already on the bed looking at the scrolls and eating pastries.
"Mom, why are you here?" he asked while chewing the pastry.
"You came to see your father so early and ate cakes all around. Be careful not to let those servants see you here." Yan Ruocheng said in a low voice.
Xiao Ling said calmly: "Don't worry, Daddy has given an order. No one is allowed to come in during this period. Otherwise, they will be punished with stick-shaped corporal punishment. Those people dare not come in. Daddy arranged these cakes for me to eat. Mom, do you want it?"
Do you want to eat?”
"What kind of pastry are you here? It's so sweet. You eat so much. No wonder I feel you have gained a lot of weight when I picked you up recently." Yan Ruocheng took the pastry and tasted it.
"I'm a child, wouldn't I be cuter if I were fatter? Mom, even if you are skinny, you should eat more, and you will look better if you grow fatter." Xiao Ling said coquettishly.
"Mom, I've been having a lot of troubles recently. How can I be so naive and have no ideas like you?" Yan Ruozhen was also lying on the bed, holding her face in her hands, and said boringly.
"What's your trouble? Tell me about it." Xiao Ling asked.
"Your Uncle Mo is angry? I couldn't coax him back just now, what do you think we should do?" Yan Ruocheng asked casually.
"Uncle Mo seems to be very stingy recently, and gets angry at every turn. He has a straight face every day, and I don't really want to talk to him. And I feel like he is occupying you, mother. I don't want my mother to talk to my father.
Together." Xiao Ling said calmly.
"Even you can see that I should be more concerned about him. No wonder his reply was so popular this time." Yan Ruozhen murmured to himself.
"Dad, he wants to see Mom and kiss you every day, but Mom, you only care about Uncle Mo. You also make Dad unhappy. Mom, do you know that?" Xiaoling continued.
"I know, isn't mother here now? She's waiting for your father to come back from his official duties. I feel a little sleepy. I'll take a nap and wait for your father to come back." Yan Ruocheng yawned a little, lay down more comfortably, and closed his eyes.
Rest your eyes.
As soon as I fell asleep, I slept until dark, even Xiaoling slept beside me.
After a busy day, Huang Chenling returned to the dormitory tiredly. When she walked to the bed, she saw mother and son sleeping on his big bed unscrupulously, and the bed was full of broken cakes.
He sighed and shook his head helplessly. He went over to shake Yan Ruocheng.
"Huh?" Yan Ruocheng opened his eyes slightly.
"Are you tired?" Huang Chenling asked.
As soon as Yan Ruocheng saw him, she naturally put her hands around his neck. Huang Chenling picked her up from the bed, held her on his body, and hugged her.
"Are you coming back? Thank you for your hard work."
"I work hard every day, but when I hear you say it tonight, I feel it's not too hard, but rather good." Huang Chenling said with a chuckle.
Yan Ruozhen touched his bangs and said, "I want to see you less often."
Huang Chenling reacted greatly to this sentence and asked urgently: "Why? Is it because of the gossip in the palace? Tomorrow I will guard the servants who talk too much and punish them with a cane. No one will be spared."
"I will settle these gossips with the queen, so I don't have time to come and see you for the time being." Yan Ruozhen explained.
"Xiulin, is she willing to help? Isn't she very busy with Fanyi? She will take the initiative to take care of this matter." Huang Chenling said.
"She is the Queen after all. If she doesn't care, people will say that she has fallen out of favor. You, the Holy Emperor, are so playful that even the First Princess is on your sight. Things will only get darker and darker." Yan Ruocheng said.
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"Then what can you do?" Huang Chenling asked. "I plan to pretend that you and the palace maid have a tryst in the cold palace, and lure that person out to take a peek. Then catch that person." Yan Ruocheng said directly.
Huang Chenling said boringly: "It's tantamount to smearing me. It's not enough to fall in love with an imperial concubine, you also have to fall in love with a palace maid. You're really wanton."
Yan Ruozhen smiled and said, "I know you are dedicated, that's all."
"You are not dedicated yourself." Huang Chenling turned away and said more boringly.
"Give me some time. I am not devoted but I also love you deeply, my Chenling." Yan Ruozhen lightly bit his neck.
Provoking a bunch of flowers from Huang Chenling, he said with a wicked smile: "You have offended me."
"I'll offend you if I offend you. Your body is full of stinky sweat, why don't we go take a bath together." Yan Ruocheng smelled the smell on his body and said.
"Okay, let's go together." Huang Chenling picked her up and walked toward the secret passage.
After going around the secret passage, we came to Yulin Pool. The water in the pool was warm, like a hot spring.
After the two took off their clothes, they soaked in together.
"We haven't had a bath together like this for a long time." Huang Chenling said with enjoyment.
Whoosh! Water splashes flew towards his face like a fountain.
Yan Ruocheng swam to the other side and splashed the water with his feet. His face was covered with water.
"You're still young, and when you play with water like this, you hit me all over my face." Huang Chenling pushed up her wet bangs, revealing her perky eyebrows.
"Help me massage the soles of my feet." Yan Ruocheng faced him again, raising her feet unscrupulously and asking him to massage them.
Huang Chenling felt that she was very impudent tonight and actually asked him to massage her soles.
"What's wrong with you? You wouldn't normally call me like this." Huang Chenling asked.
"It's nothing, I just want to ask you to do something. I usually do what you want, can't you just follow me?" Yan Ruocheng slapped him again with water all over his face.
Huang Chenling wiped her face again, followed her instructions, picked up her feet, and massaged them slowly.
"Hehe, it's so sore. It's not like this. Don't you remember how I do it?" Yan Ruocheng said with a smile as his big hands made the soles of her feet sore and itchy.
"I don't remember that much. It's just pressing here and there. Just hold back and don't move." Huang Chenling remembered one move where she stabbed her fingers directly into the soles of her feet.
He also used this move, causing Yan Ruocheng to almost kick his handsome face, but luckily he caught it with his hand.
"Oh, you still want to kick me, how do you tell me to push it down?"
"You're pressing randomly, that's not the way it is. Bring your feet over and press them according to my method."
Yan Ruocheng also took his feet, one person each, and they massaged each other together.
The happy time passed very quickly.
"Are you comfortable?" Yan Ruocheng asked.
"Are you asking about the comfort of my feet or the comfort of my heart?" Huang Chenling asked.
"Ask both questions. Answer me." Yan Ruocheng held his big hand and clasped his fingers tightly.
"Of course it's very comfortable." Huang Chenling smiled sweetly and kissed her lovely mouth.
The two of them kissed slowly, and Yan Ruocheng picked up a stone and threw it towards the window.
It seemed that something had been thrown. I heard the rustling of the grass, but no one was seen.
"Is someone peeking?" Huang Chenling hurried over to take a look. She found nothing.