I don’t know if he was connected with her thoughts, but Dongling Yuanyong pressed her head against her head intimately and whispered:
"I admit that the surname "Ximen" on your body made me deeply disgusted at one time. I even thought of taking your life at any time. But... I don't want to take your life now."
"Is it because I am still useful, so His Majesty is reluctant to kill me?"
"That's right, I can't bear to part with it!"
His "reluctance" was not because she could still be used, but because he had a place for her in his heart! He had just realized this conclusion.
Maybe from the moment he felt pity for her, his heart was broken by her!
Dongling Yuanyong's inner monologue failed to reach Ximen Yourong's understanding, and his "reluctance" was interpreted by her as that she was just a pawn of his after all!
Therefore, her heart was very cold, so cold that the arms she leaned on became cold and no longer warm!
At the same time, she asked with some sympathy:
"Your Majesty, don't you feel tired?"
"What?"
"Neither Concubine You nor I can make His Majesty feel at ease."
She is the daughter of the sinful Ximen family, and You Kouyi is the daughter of the powerful You family. They are both people he has to guard against.
However, he doesn't actually need to guard against her. After all, she has no intention of power, doesn't want to cause trouble, and won't harm him.
As for Dongling Yuanyong's uneasiness about You Kouyi, Ximen Yourong seemed to understand, but when he was silent, she turned to face him and asked:
"You Zhongru, the head of the You family, was loyal to the late emperor and made great contributions to Your Majesty's return to the throne. And since Your Majesty allowed You's daughter to sit on the position of noble concubine, isn't it a reward for Your Majesty's recognition of You's contribution? But why did Your Majesty do this? Now you are secretly snubbing Concubine You? This may be unfair to her!"
Dongling Yuanyong felt the sincerity of her words, and he also lowered his guard and looked into her eyes and asked:
"If it's unfair, do you want me to favor her?"
More than anything else, he wanted to know what her attitude would be if he hugged another woman?
Ximen Yourong didn't know how to answer. She once thought that no matter how many concubines he had, it had nothing to do with her. But now, she found that her previous "thinking" was no longer certain.
"Why don't you answer? Do you want me to hug Concubine You?"
Dongling Yuanyong pinched her slender waist to urge her answer. Ximen Yourong's body was agitated. She hesitated for a while and said with a bit of discomfort:
"It's not like your Majesty has never hugged me before!"
"What have I hugged? You Kouyi?" Dongling Yuanyong frowned.
"I have hugged you. Your Majesty, there is no need to pretend to be surprised."
"I'm pretending?" Dongling Yuanyong suddenly sat up and looked at Ximen Yourong and denied unhappily:
"I haven't even touched her hand, so what am I pretending to do? Don't forget that it was your hand that I held during the wedding. After the wedding, the woman I held in my arms all night was also you. The one I hold in my arms now is you. Or you. You occupy my arms every day, how can I have time to hold her?"
Listening to Dongling Yuanyong's almost aggrieved cry of grievance, Ximen Yourong was shocked and confused. Even if he and You Kouyi had something, isn't it normal? Why should he be excited?
Moreover, there was no need for him to explain so much to her. She didn't know how to do it, and she didn't dare to have any objections!
Besides, it’s not like she occupies his arms every day, doesn’t he want to hug her most of the time? Why does he make it sound like she’s pestering him?
"Why don't you speak again?"
Ximen Yourong was so stunned that he just blinked and didn't reply, which made Dongling Yuanyong even more depressed. She had the courage to accuse him unjustly, so she should give him some evidence!
Ximen Yourong, who was originally very sleepy, was disturbed by him in such a serious manner. Her sleepiness dissipated a lot. She also got up and looked at him and asked:
"Why is Your Majesty so angry?"
"It's not because of your nonsense, You Kouyi and I have nothing...!"
Dongling Yuanyong stopped, and he suddenly realized that he was acting unreasonably like a childish man in front of Ximen Yourong.
This realization made him stare deeply at Ximen Yourong. What happened to him? Why was he so anxious to clarify to her that he had no relationship with other women?
Even if he has other women, so what, why should he bother to explain in such a hurry?
Ximen Yourong noticed that his eyes were sometimes deep and sometimes conflicted, his brows were furrowed and relaxed, and an uncomfortable look gradually appeared on his face!
She vaguely guessed what he was embarrassed about, and suddenly she couldn't help but wanted to laugh, but she didn't dare to laugh, so she could only purse her lips to control her smile!
However, her disobedient expression still made it easy for Dongling Yuanyong to see that she was smiling, and she was laughing at him!
A burst of smoldering fire arose again, and Dongling Yuanyong suddenly reached out with his long arm to bring her closer to him. He narrowed his eyes and said:
"What kind of expression are you looking at, laughing at me?"
"I didn't...!" She smiled because she wanted to laugh, but she definitely wasn't laughing at him.
"It's obviously there." He was not blind.
Ximen Yourong could see that he was very annoyed at this moment. In order to have a good sleep tonight, she wisely but awkwardly put her hands on both sides of his shoulders and slightly wrapped them around his neck. Then she raised her eyes and looked at him squirming.
:
"I really didn't laugh at Your Majesty, it's just...!"
She felt that if she spoke softer, she would sound like a coquettish person, but when she was so old, had she ever acted like a coquettish person to anyone?
"Just what?"
Because of her shyness, the dissatisfaction in Dongling Yuanyong's heart quickly dissipated.
Ximen Yourong was silent for a moment, but she didn't reply him why, but asked directly:
"Since Concubine You and I are the women His Majesty has no choice but to choose, why is Your Majesty willing to sleep with me but avoiding Concubine You?"
"What do you think?"
Dongling Yuanyong asked in a low voice, not to mention that she wanted to know why, he himself also wanted to know why he was willing to get close to her?
"Because unlike Concubine You, I have a powerful mother's family. Even if His Majesty is a little jealous of the blood flowing from my body, compared to Concubine You, I can be controlled more easily without any support."
Ximen Yourong's answer, if we go back a few months ago, Dongling Yuanyong would definitely approve of her.
However, that was not exactly what he was thinking now. After looking at her for a while, he asked bluntly:
"Will you be willing to be controlled by me?"
"I don't want to be controlled by Your Majesty..." Ximen Yourong paused for a moment, and she blinked her bright eyes: "If possible, Your Majesty, please believe that I will never do anything detrimental to Your Majesty."
Before that, she had never thought that she could face him so sincerely. The warmth he gave her during this period made her guarded heart less tense. Every cold night when he held her intimately in his arms made her feel more...
She felt nostalgic and touched her heart lightly!
Dongling Yuanyong still couldn't completely trust her, but the color in her eyes was so real that he unconsciously raised his hand to touch her pink face, and then asked softly:
"As my queen, your only promise is not to do anything harmful to me?"
She made him believe that she would never do anything bad to him, and he was actually willing to believe that.
However, the word "forever" sounds so sacred. How far is the "forever" she promised?
If it can be far away, her "promise" would be too dull and devoid of warmth at all!
"This is actually not a promise, but it is my original intention."
Ximen Yourong subconsciously avoided Dongling Yuanyong's invisible request. She didn't know what "promise" he wanted. But no matter what it was, she knew that she couldn't give it, at least she didn't dare to give it now!
This palace was not the place she wanted to stay from the beginning. If one day, she could leave, she hoped that she could leave as she had originally imagined, with nothing left to remember!
Dongling Yuanyong noticed that Ximen Yourong was distracted. He was about to call her back to her senses, but she suddenly sighed and looked at him and said:
"Your Majesty, it's getting late. We have to go to court tomorrow morning. Is it time for you to have some rest?"
As Ximen Yourong spoke, she raised her hand to cover her mouth and yawned first. Dongling Yuan Yongqu laughed out loud. It seemed that she wanted to sleep.
With a bit of natural pampering, he lay down with her.
However, as soon as he lay down and reached out to hug her, he suddenly remembered that there seemed to be something he didn't understand.
After thinking about it for a while, he remembered that he had been wronged by her and that he had not yet been cleared of his innocence.
So, he propped himself up and half-pressed on Ximen Yourong and asked:
"You didn't seem to have made it clear just now, why did you say that I hugged You Kouyi?"
Ximen Yourong just closed her eyes and was forced to open them slightly. It took her a while to realize what he was asking. Then she murmured in her half-asleep and half-awake state without thinking too much for the sake of purity:
"Last time, His Majesty was already feeling hot in his body, and after drinking Concubine You's velvet antler soup, Your Majesty must have been even more unable to bear the heat of the sun. Concubine You accompanying His Majesty is so charming, so it is logical that Your Majesty favors Concubine You...!"
Before she finished speaking, Ximen Yourong's mind suddenly came to her senses, and she realized that she seemed to have said too much. When she looked at Dongling Yuanyong's thoughtful eyes, she knew that her words aroused his suspicion.
Sure enough, Dongling Yuanyong raised his eyebrows and said with narrowed eyes:
"How did you know that my body is hot? How did you know that deer antler soup will stimulate the Yang fire in my body and attack my heart?"
He knew the "last time" she mentioned was the day after her cold poison attack. She sent "ice pear soup" to Longtai Palace, and You Kouyi also sent deer antler soup.
.
But he drank You Kouyi's deer antler soup first, and it was precisely because the deer antler soup almost caused the Yanghuo evil in his body to collide.
Finally, he drank her "ice pear soup" to suppress the yang fire in his body.
Based on this association, she must have known from the beginning that he had an uncontrollable fire in his body, so she brought him "ice pear soup".
It can be seen that the bowl of "ice pear soup" is not an ordinary drink, but a "medicinal soup" prepared for him.
In other words, she knows where his anger comes from!
Ximen Yourong didn't know how to smooth things over for a while. Her red lips moved for a long time before she could squeeze out a single word. Dongling Yuanyong asked again:
"The "pickled camellia" you gave to your mother-in-law is not just "pickled camellia", but "medicine", right?"
No wonder Concubine Yi said that after eating Ximen Yourong's "pickled camellia", her thirst and headaches were relieved. It turned out that it was all because Ximen Yourong secretly did good deeds without leaving his name!
"Your Majesty, you are overthinking it. I am not a doctor, so I don't know what medicine is good or not. I just eat the "pickled camellia" to stimulate the appetite and promote fluid production. It just happened to make the concubine like it."
"What about the "ice pear soup"? It happens to extinguish my anger?"
He would let her use an excuse, but if he made another excuse, he would see how she would break it off?
If he was not mistaken, his queen might be even more talented than he knew, she was just hiding it secretly!