Liu Mingzhi didn't bother to help Tao Ying wipe the water stains on her hair and face that he had accidentally sprayed on her face. He took a few deep breaths and then looked at Tao Ying with disbelief.
"Who? Tell me again who your husband is?"
Tao Ying grabbed the dirty clothes scattered on the bedside and wiped the water stains on her body with an unhappy look on her face.
"You heard it right, my husband Li Yunlong!"
Young Master Liu was silent for a long time with a tangled look on his face. He pointed in the direction of the imperial palace, pointed in the direction of Shu, and then pointed in the direction of the imperial mausoleum.
"Is the Li Yunlong you are talking about the Li Yunlong I think of?"
Tao Ying looked at Young Master Liu's depressed face, which was extremely entangled and unwilling to believe, and nodded with a neutral expression.
"You don't have to wonder about anything. My husband is the Li Yunlong you think of, His Highness the King of Shu who died in your hands after the rebellion failed."
Listening to Tao Ying's loud and unquestionable words, Liu Mingzhi breathed out heavily, covering his face with his hands and rubbing them back and forth.
"Alas! How come you are in this position?
If you didn't take the initiative to confess your identity to me, I would never have imagined that you would have such a background even if I tried to break my head.
only"
"Just what?"
Liu Mingzhi stood up with a strange expression and walked towards Tao Ying. He kept looking at Tao Ying's face and looked at her carefully again.
"For some reason, my third brother and I have not had a deep friendship, and we rarely interact with each other alone in private.
Especially when I was the governor of the two provinces in the North, I was traveling all over the world, and I didn't see him once in a year and a half.
But I am still impressed by the name of Princess Shu, Yu Qing, and I have met her twice.
She is the biological mother of Li Geng, the crown prince of the King of Shu. When my father was in power, she came with my third brother to give me a gift. Her appearance has almost no resemblance to yours now!
Although after the third brother's rebellion failed, the King of Shu's family mysteriously disappeared for a period of time, resulting in me not seeing the Princess of Shu again for many years, but even if a person's appearance changes with the passage of time, it will not change like this.
Big right?
You wouldn't...couldn't you be disguising yourself?"
Liu Mingzhi hesitated for a moment, then slowly stretched out his hand to touch Tao Ying's face, tore it apart a few times, and then looked at Tao Ying doubtfully.
"Eh? You are real leather!"
Tao Ying slapped away Young Master Liu's right hand that was tearing her cheek, and glared at him angrily: "Nonsense, of course it's true.
You are such a smart person, why are you so confused at this time?
A dignified prince of a country, besides Princess Shu, has several concubines. Is it strange to have concubines?"
"Ah? Uh! That's right.
I'm sorry, it's just that your identity shocked me so much that my mind is still confused and I haven't turned around for a while."
Liu Mingzhi smiled bitterly, scratched the back of his head and sat back, looking at Tao Ying curiously.
"Then are you a concubine or a concubine?"
"Barely considered a concubine!
In the nearly two years since I have known you, at least I have not lied to you about one thing, that is, I am really a concubine, but this concubine is just the concubine of my husband, the King of Shu.
On the eve of her husband's rebellion, Ran Tongyun, the second sister's side concubine, accidentally discovered his conspiracy with his second brother, fourth uncle, fifth uncle, and seventh uncle. She secretly sent her maid to secretly send a message to her elder brother Li Baiyu.
.
Before she could send the secret message, her husband's dead man raised a clue. After some interrogation by her husband, it turned out that the second sister, Ran Tongyun, had been a spy planted by Emperor Wu Zong Li Baiyu a long time ago.
Even after becoming the concubine of the King of Shu, she has been inseparable from her husband and secretly worked for her eldest brother Li Baiyu.
Then she was given to her by her husband... You know, in order to win the throne, the husband will never allow the slightest mistake to occur.
Later, after the matter calmed down, my husband was going to promote me, my side concubine, to a side concubine. However, before I had time to report it to the clan office and record it, my father was in poor health, and the news of His Majesty’s impending death was spread to my husband and his brothers.
in one's hands.
I only know you and know your identity clearly because after your father passed away, you helped your eldest brother, who was the Crown Prince, to handle the funeral arrangements for your father. I followed my husband and went to the palace to express my condolences to my father.
I saw you in the palace when the coffin was placed.
It's just that at that time, I wasn't qualified to be by your husband's side to give you gifts, and naturally you hadn't seen me either.
But in the crowd of Li clan members, I have already clearly seen you who is in charge of the overall situation.
After all, on the way to Beijing, my husband kept talking about how easy it would be for him to seize the throne if he had your full support.
I inevitably became curious about you. After entering the palace, I began to observe what kind of person you, Liu Mingzhi, the former Duke of Dingguo, was, who could actually be so respected by your arrogant husband.
However, after my father's coffin was buried in the imperial mausoleum, my husband has been planning to raise troops.
The fact that I became a side concubine was never reported to the clan government and recorded in the records.
Until my husband failed in his rebellion and died in your hands, I was still just the concubine promised by my husband verbally, but in fact I was just his concubine.
Compared with the status of a female concubine in the palace of a noble official, the status of a side concubine is nothing more than a concubine at best.
So, I didn’t lie to you on this point.”
Liu Mingzhi nodded clearly: "Listening to what you said, it turns out that my eldest brother was not as honest as he thought.
It seems that he is also guarding against the second brother and the third brother who want to rebel and seize the throne.
No wonder you know my identity so clearly, but I have no impression of you at all. It turns out there are so many twists and turns and bizarre stories.
The causes and consequences of the revenge of killing my husband turned out...it turned out..."
Young Master Liu stood up as he spoke and looked at Tao Ying in astonishment: "That's not right! That's not right!"
Tao Ying was startled by Liu Da's startled behavior, and looked at Young Master Liu angrily while stroking her chest: "Can you stop being so startled?
Something is wrong again.”
Young Master Liu buttoned the stubble on his chin, and his eyes slowly turned to the brocade quilt wrapped around Tao Ying's jade body. Looking at the clear bright red on the corner of the quilt, Young Master Liu's face became awkward.
"My relationship with third brother Li Yunlong is really average. I don't know whether third brother is a pervert or not.
But Li Geng, the eldest son of King Shu, is about two years older than my eldest son Liu Chengfeng.
This shows that he is a normal man. If you were the third brother’s concubine, how could you still have an innocent girl’s body?
You are about the same age as me. It is estimated that the time it took for you to become third brother's concubine is at least five or six years, and it may be more than ten years.
Don't tell me that he rebelled because he was busy, he has never had time to touch you in all these years."
Tao Ying's face, which gradually calmed down, turned red again under Liu Mingzhi's fiery gaze. Her pretty eyes helplessly dodged a few times and glanced back at Young Master Liu.
"Who... who told you that I'm still a girl?
In the summer, I was so thinly dressed when we were alone with you. Just now, before you and I were in love, we stayed with you for so long without any trace of clothing.
Did you see the gecko sand on my arm?
When did I tell you that I am still an innocent young girl?
It's you who has been saying it all this time. Have I admitted it once?
Besides, you have a lot of wives and concubines, and you are already a veteran in the field of flowers. Can't you still feel whether I am a girl or not?"
Feeling that Tao Ying was looking at him like a fool, Young Master Liu looked dull for a moment. He carefully recalled the days when he was alone with Tao Ying, and then recalled the scene after Tao Ying took a bath just now. It seemed that he really hadn't seen it.
The gecko sand on her arm.
"That...that..."
Liu Mingzhi pointed at the bright red on the brocade quilt, his eyes a little tangled.
"Then what's the matter with the red spots on the reverse side of the brocade quilt? How could you have these on your body if you're not a girl?"
Major General Liu looked at Tao Ying suspiciously for a while, then frowned suddenly.
"It's impossible for me to be in a bloody battle, right? What's going on?"
Tao Ying looked at Young Master Liu's troubled expression and almost doubted his life, and silently stretched out her left arm from the brocade quilt.