Chapter Thirty-two Playing a bitter scene for nothing
After Dongling Yuanyong returned to his own "Longtai Palace", Wuhen soon appeared in front of him and knelt down on one knee. He looked at Wuhen and asked:
"Is there anything strange in "Xiangyun Temple" last night?"
Ximen Yourong took sleeping pills, and he felt that it was more likely that she was drugged.
On a day like yesterday, the person most likely to want to see Ximen Yourong make a fool of himself, or rather not to see him and Ximen Yourong consummate their marriage, was You Kouyi.
Therefore, he temporarily asked Wuhen to pay attention to the developments in "Xiangyun Palace".
Wuhen lowered his head slightly and replied: "Until dawn, no one came in or out of Xiangyun Hall, and there were no other suspicious abnormalities."
"Nothing strange...ha!"
Dongling Yuanyong gave a meaningful cold smile. It seemed that the two women he married yesterday were not vulgar people. One seemed to be calm and gentle and did not ask for his favor. The other abided by women's ethics and was full of heart.
Her eyes were full of waiting for his favor. This stark contrast was really interesting.
Eunuch Cao looked at Dongling Yuanyong and hesitated before stepping forward and said:
"Your Majesty, I believe that regardless of whether the sleeping pill the Queen took last night was taken by herself or someone else administered it, it is not a fatal drug. It is better to just leave the matter undisturbed. Because I am worried that Your Majesty will overdo it early.
Interfering in it will easily make those who want to cause trouble more vigilant, and it will be even harder to see clearly what they want to do in the future."
"Does Eunuch Cao mean to let a few people sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight?" Dongling Yuanyong raised his eyebrows and looked at Eunuch Cao.
"If not, wouldn't His Majesty's harem be boring?"
There is something in Eunuch Cao's words. He is over sixty years old. He has been a slave in the palace since he was a child. The ups and downs of the harem, the honor and disgrace, the overt and covert fights happen every year, and they are not new every day... He has really seen a lot.
Dongling Yuanyong's harem had been fighting for money from the first day, and Eunuch Cao didn't find it strange at all.
Dongling Yuanyong concealed the faint smile on his face. In fact, even if Eunuch Cao didn't hint, he knew in his heart that now was the time to let "people with good intentions" stir up troubles.
As long as the matter does not affect the overall situation he wants to control, he can turn a blind eye or close his eyes.
Whether they were motivated by the struggle for power or profit, or whether they were just doing good things without fighting, he was waiting to see.
As long as he can control the overall situation, he is happy to see them check and balance each other. Anyway, for him, it is not necessarily a bad thing.
However, he still has to control the trends that he should control, and he cannot arbitrarily weigh those that should be weighed.
The reason why he sent an unclear instruction to You Kouyi last night was to test her reaction.
However, You Kouyi's performance was not bad. On the contrary, it was almost perfect, but it was also so perfect that it made him even more taboo.
You Kouyi was able to obey his orders patiently and meekly without questioning or impatiently, and stayed up all night just to show him the womanly virtue of following her husband.
Also, she is good at showing what she says and does as a woman that she admires her husband, and she boldly reveals her love for him in her reserve.
It can be seen that she is either a sincere and sincere woman, or a scheming person!
However, in comparison, Dongling Yuanyong's feelings for You Kouyi are more inclined to the word "powerful"!
However, he doesn't care what kind of woman You Kouyi is now. What he cares more about is, is it possible for Ximen to fight against such You Kouyi?
Thinking of Ximen Yourong, he couldn't help but subconsciously think of the night he slept with her last night. When he woke up early in the morning, he was inexplicably irritated by Ximen Yourong's calm temper. So he hadn't even thought about how he allowed himself to hug her?
Moreover, when he saw that she was cold, he still bothered to use energy and energy to warm her up? He could have taken her life if necessary, but he actually had a kind heart toward her. What was he trying to do?
The key is that the woman lay in his arms like a kitten and stayed warm all night. But when she woke up and saw him, she automatically hid away like a tiger.
It was because she was hiding so obviously from him that he deliberately wasted so much time letting her serve him.
She was clumsy in serving her, but when he saw her being a little at a loss and having to help him dress in silence, he actually felt like bullying her, and he... enjoyed it a little bit!
Dongling Yuanyong's face suddenly flashed with an unexpected tenderness, which made Eunuch Cao on the side look a little confused. He was about to say something, but unexpectedly, he was interrupted by a call from Dongling Yuanhao asking for a meeting.
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Soon, Dongling Yuanhao got permission from Dongling Yuanyong and walked in. He was holding a small wine jar that seemed to have just been dug out of the ground.
As soon as he came in, he put the wine jar on Dongling Yuanyong's desk, and then he bowed to Dongling Yuanyong in a decent manner and then asked respectfully and "concernedly":
"Brother Huang had a wedding yesterday, so he must be very tired. I wonder how well Brother Huang slept last night?"
"Tell me something!"
Dongling Yuanyong was too lazy to talk nonsense to him. When things go wrong, there must be demons. When Dongling Yuanhao met him in private, when had he ever bowed to him seriously?
"Brother Imperial, I kindly came to greet you early in the morning with fine wine and congratulated you on your wedding, but you have a cold and dark expression on your face, as if I'm here to collect a debt. It's scary."
"To show your courtesy for nothing is to be either a traitor or a thief!"
Dongling Yuanyong rolled his eyes with a smile but not a smile. He didn't believe Dongling Yuanhao's sincerity at all, but the person who was questioned protested with a face full of injustice:
"Brother, why are you talking about me like this? I am here sincerely."
"If you want to ask me to remove you from the military post of commander of the imperial city, don't even think about it, I won't agree to it!"
Dongling Yuanyong glanced slyly at Dongling Yuanhao, who couldn't pretend to be serious. He knew very well what Dongling Yuanhao was thinking!
After hearing his prophetic words, Dongling Yuanhao's handsome face collapsed. He didn't show any pretense and immediately cried out with a bitter look on his face:
"Brother Emperor, when it comes to this matter, please forgive me. I can't do the hard work. Fortune tellers say that I was born to be a prince in charge of food and drink. Being a high official will shorten my life. This is what my mother and concubine are looking for.
Forget it, many people in the palace know it. If you don’t believe me, go and find out. Brother Emperor, you can’t hope that I will become a short-lived ghost, right?”
Dongling Yuanhao took the opportunity to come back to witness the emperor's wedding. He originally wanted Concubine Yi to help persuade Dongling Yuanyong not to let him hold such an important military position.
But Concubine Yi didn't take the lead, so he had to rely on himself. He stayed in the palace and waited for Dongling Yuanyong to get married before trying his best to see if he could make Dongling Yuanyong change his mind and relieve him of the "heavy burden".
But he performed a tragic drama with great emotion, but it failed to impress Dongling Yuanyong. Instead, Dongling Yuanyong said even more indifferently:
"Don't worry, the Lord of Hell will not easily accept someone like you."
"Why not? As a commander-in-chief, I may go to the battlefield at any time. When I go to the battlefield, it is too easy to be shot by arrows, slashed with swords, fell off my horse... and other dangerous things. The fortune teller said,
My precious life had better be kept away from the light of swords, otherwise my life will definitely not be a legend!"
"Really? That's just right. If you die because of this, it proves that you regard death as a great inheritance and go through fire and water, and I will be proud of you."
Dongling Yuanyong's ruthlessness without even blinking made Dongling Yuanhao feel sad in his heart. He asked "sad and angry":
"Brother, do you plan to happily watch me die on the battlefield one day?"
"of course not."
"Right, brother, you can't be so ruthless to me, right? You still want me to live a long life, right?" Dongling Yuanhao began to feel moved.
"If you generously serve justice, how can it be a "pleasant" thing? It must be a tragic and heroic example of loyalty, worthy of admiration and imitation!"
"Isn't it true? If I die by a knife and an arrow, it will be so tragic. It is indeed worthy of praise..."
Dongling Yuanhao suddenly stopped talking. He blinked, then twitched the corners of his mouth. He wrinkled his face and almost shouted:
"Brother Emperor, you are going too far. I am still not your brother. Aren't I just begging you to remove my black gauze hat? If you don't withdraw, you won't withdraw. Why do you expect me to die?"
"When have I been expecting you to die? Didn't you yourself say that the fortune teller said you were going to die on the battlefield?"
Dongling Yuanyong's rhetorical question made Dongling Yuanhao open his mouth, but he had nothing to say for a long time. In the end, he could only say:
"That's why I begged the emperor to remove me from my military post and stop letting me go to the military camp to eat dust."
"If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will let you "die generously" in advance."
"Brother Imperial..."
"Shut up, you can leave the city and go back to the military camp immediately."
Dongling Yuanyong glared at the unwilling Dongling Yuanhao and ordered, but Dongling Yuanhao snorted:
"I dont go!"
"You want to rebel?" You dare to take Joe, do you want to be beaten?
"The emperor and the empress are getting married, and the court will be closed for three days."
"That's a court, not a military camp."
"Everyone in the military camp is also the emperor's subjects, so why can't we all have fun together?"
Dongling Yuanhao went back without fear of death. Now the world is at peace. Let alone three days without going back, there will be no problem even if he doesn't go back for three months.
Dongling Yuanyong looked at Dongling Yuanhao who seemed to be having trouble. He stopped joking and said seriously:
"Yuan Hao, since I have put the imperial city and even my life in your hands, do you think I am joking with you?"
Dongling Yuanyong knew very well whether Dongling Yuanhao was qualified to be the commander-in-chief of the imperial city. He knew that Dongling Yuanhao deliberately acted like a child and refused to command the 100,000 guards outside the city. It was just a pretense.
Dongling Yuanhao listened to Dongling Yuanyong's serious words. His expression changed for a moment, but he almost immediately returned to his cynical state and said unpleasantly:
"Okay, okay, since the emperor wants me to be ready to sacrifice generously at any time, why don't I admit it? I will eat dust now."
As soon as he finished speaking, Dongling Yuanhao felt that he had acted out a painful drama in vain. He could only say goodbye, curled his lips, turned around and walked out, muttering dissatisfiedly:
"Each one is more cruel than the other, and they don't want to make things easier for me. I have never seen such a mother and brother..."
"stop!"
"Why, can't I even complain?"
Dongling Yuanhao turned around and looked at Dongling Yuanyong. The expression on his face showed determination not to accept any more grievances!