Chapter 61 The Time Traveler Who Was Cannon Fodder (14)
Chapter 61 The Time Traveler Who Was Cannon Fodder (14)
Yu Zheng and the Wild System had a very good plan. Based on the idea that like father, like son, they wanted to use the same method they used on the old emperor to deal with the new emperor.
But they forgot that the old emperor was old, tired, and unable to do anything, so Yu Zheng was the only one favored. But the new emperor was still very young. Yu Zheng's body was indeed very beautiful, but which woman in the harem was ugly?
Xie Yuanshuang smelled a very faint medicinal odor on the emperor's body. Since the palace servants had not informed her that the emperor had summoned the imperial physician for diagnosis, she did not ask any further questions and just assumed that she had not noticed anything.
The emperor has been a little distressed recently. Although he was not so violent as to have sex seven times a night before, he was always very energetic when he needed it. But recently he found that he seemed to be a little too fast.
The emperor thought that he might have been too tired in the past few months, so he cultivated his body and took supplements carefully for a few days, but the results were still unsatisfactory.
It is unacceptable for a man to get such a disease at such a young age, let alone an emperor with a large harem.
Yu Zheng also discovered that the emperor had premature ejaculation. He felt a little confused. Wasn't he fine before? How could he have problems so quickly?
The wild system thinks this is a good idea. They can take this opportunity to present elixirs to the emperor to help him regain his power. Other emperors pursue immortality and neglect state affairs, but they want to try something different this time.
Xie Yuanshuang soon learned that Yu Zheng had returned to the emperor's favor. Not only that, the emperor also specially set aside a palace for him to practice alchemy.
The court was very dissatisfied with what the emperor had done. He believed the slander of the evil concubine and began to pursue immortality at a young age. Who knows what he will do in the future.
Naturally, the ministers gave all kinds of advice, and the emperor felt very bitter. So what if he was misunderstood? As an emperor, it was better to be scolded by court officials than to be known by the world as a hypocrite.
However, the matter was soon settled because the ministers discovered that although the emperor was pursuing immortality, he was not as crazy as the emperors of previous dynasties and ignored state affairs.
As the queen, Xie Yuanshuang also offered some symbolic words of consolation, but the emperor naturally would not listen, and after that Xie Yuanshuang stopped trying to persuade him.
Lu Changqing's current job is to take care of the baby full-time and keep an eye on Yu Zheng's movements.
Although Xie Yuanshuang's two children are twins, how can they look? At least with the naked eye, Lu Changqing can't tell that they have the same parents.
The prince looks more like the emperor, while the princess looks more like Xie Yuanshuang, especially her eyebrows and eyes, which are just like copy and paste.
The two children have very different personalities. The prince is more outgoing, while the princess is much more quiet, which is very similar to Xie Yuanshuang.
The two siblings are not yet old enough to enroll in the Imperial Academy, and their lessons are now taught by Xie Yuanshuang personally. Lu Changqing also gives them special lessons in private, but the prince can't sit still. He always makes a fuss and wants to go out to play after listening to a few words. Lu Changqing doesn't force him. He is the prince, and there will be many people who will force him to study in the future.
The princess liked to put her head on Lu Changqing's knees and listen to her stories, especially those about ghosts and monsters. She was always so scared that she couldn't fall asleep alone, and she had to pester Lu Changqing to tell her stories. She was the type of girl who was both naive and playful.
Time passed quickly, and three years went by in a blink of an eye. During these three years, several concubines in the harem became pregnant, but only three gave birth to children in the end, and among the three children, only the only little princess survived.
In addition, an incident of some importance also occurred during this period. The emperor suffered from migraine and often suffered from headaches. Every time an attack occurred, he had to use both medication and acupuncture to relieve the symptoms, which seriously affected the handling of government affairs. As a result, Xie Yuanshuang was able to enter the Yanhe Hall to review memorials on behalf of the emperor and participate in the decision-making of state affairs.
Lu Changqing was sitting in Xie Yuanshuang's palace waiting for her to come back. The two siblings, who had grown up a lot, were lying on the soft couch beside them and playing around.
Xie Yuanshuang entered the house wrapped in the snow and wind. Seeing Lu Changqing standing by the children, she smiled and said, "It's so late, why haven't you taken the children to bed yet?"
When the two children saw Xie Yuanshuang stop fighting, they ran to her laughing and calling her "Mom" and asked her to hold them.
With the child around, Lu Changqing couldn't talk about anything. Xie Yuanshuang coaxed the child for a while and then urged them to go to bed. After the palace servants took the people away, they were the only two left in the huge palace. Lu Changqing then asked, "How is the emperor doing now?"
"My mental state is not very good. My headache is getting worse. I can't read the memorials for long before I get a headache and need to take medicine." Xie Yuanshuang rubbed his temple and then said, "We can't keep that evil Taoist."
"What's wrong? What happened?"
Xie Yuanshuang's eyes darkened, his face was cold, "You are such a fool! You dared to let someone report me in the memorial, saying that a hen crowing at dawn will cause instability in the country."
Lu Changqing asked: "What did the emperor say?"
"It was the emperor who threw the memorial to me and asked me what I thought about it. This was obviously a warning to me."
"Then how did you do it?"
Xie Yuanshuang sneered, "Of course I will kneel down to show my loyalty and ask the wise and mighty emperor to see it."
Lu Changqing guessed that Yu Zheng was so eager to take action against Xie Yuanshuang because he probably didn't expect that the emperor would let a woman like Xie Yuanshuang help him handle government affairs.
The wild system still thinks too simply. The emperor is indeed important to a country, but a clear and bright court is more important to the country.
In many cases, the emperor is just a decision-maker, but this identity is not irreplaceable.
Lu Changqing thought deeply for a while, then said to Xie Yuanshuang: "Then let the emperor get seriously ill, and then I will treat you to a good show."
A cold left the emperor so sick that he could not get out of bed. Looking at her husband lying in bed with a pale face and depressed spirit, Xie Yuanshuang felt so distressed that she asked someone to call the emperor's favorite Concubine Yu to sleep with him.
Xie Yuanshuang looked at the woman in front of him carefully. Time seemed to have forgotten her. More than six years had passed, but she was still as beautiful as when he first met her.
"Get up."
Yu Zheng stood up and stroked her temples charmingly. Her face looked very beautiful, but when Lu Changqing thought that there was an ugly man in that body, she felt very sick and unwell.
"What is it that your Majesty summoned me to come here for?"
Xie Yuanshuang didn't see the slightest worry about the emperor on Yu Zheng's face, and thought he was truly a heartless man.
"Your Majesty is ill, did you know?"
"Of course I know. I was just refining a cold medicine for Your Majesty in the palace. I had just prepared all the medicine when Your Majesty sent someone to call me over."
When Yu Zheng faced Xie Yuanshuang, his attitude was always neither humble nor arrogant, and there was even a hint of contempt in his words.
"Don't prescribe medicine. The Imperial Hospital will naturally treat His Majesty." Xie Yuanshuang said, pointing to the still sleeping emperor, "His Majesty usually dotes on you the most in this palace. Now that he is seriously ill and bedridden, you should come and take care of him. When His Majesty wakes up and sees you by his bedside, he might be so happy that he will get better."
Yu Zheng was speechless. It wasn't a cold medicine, so how could it have the effect of curing diseases?
He said that the queen was a master of acting. She usually pretended to be virtuous, dignified and generous. But now that the emperor had fallen, her true colors were exposed, and she targeted him first.
Xie Yuanshuang had no expression on her face. "Why? Concubine Zhang is unwilling?"
Yu Zheng rolled his eyes in his heart and said very unwillingly: "I dare not. It is a blessing for me to serve Your Majesty."
"You are right. You see, none of the other concubines in the harem have this blessing, only Concubine Zhang has it. You must make good use of this blessing."
Yu Zheng: …
One by one, they all speak in such a sarcastic tone.
When Lu Changqing followed Xie Yuanshuang to deliver medicine to the emperor, the emperor had already woken up. Yu Zheng was nestling in the emperor's arms at this moment, the two of them were talking to each other in a sweet voice and no one knew what they were talking about. All the palace servants in the hall hung their heads as if they were wooden men.
Lu Changqing coughed to alert the two people on the bed.
Hearing the voice, the emperor loosened his arms and looked at Xie Yuanshuang uncomfortably, and called out "Zitong" with a pale face.
Xie Yuanshuang raised her lips and smiled, took the medicine bowl from Lu Changqing, and after testing the medicine herself in front of the emperor, she sat down beside the emperor's bed and gently fed him the medicine spoonful by spoonful.
"Your Majesty, your illness has not yet healed, so you'd better pay more attention to your health."
The emperor almost choked on the medicine in his mouth. He looked at Xie Yuanshuang awkwardly and said with a blushing face, "We didn't do anything."
Yu Zheng rolled his eyes speechlessly. The lip balm on his lips was all smudged and he hadn't done anything yet.
Seeing that the time was almost right and that there were quite a few spectators in the hall, Lu Changqing used his mental power to surround the entire palace.
"Hola hola!"
A strange girl's voice suddenly appeared in Yu Zheng's mind. He hurriedly called out the wild system, "Were you talking to me just now?"
Before the wild system could speak, the child's voice sounded again: "No, it's me!"
The wild system jumped out, "Who are you?"
"Hmm~ How can you ask a girl's name when you first meet her? You are such a rude system!"
Lu Changqing was disgusted by the system's clipping sound and shuddered: "Put it together, it's time to work."
The wild system was shocked, "Who are you?"
"As for me, I am Mo Xiaobei, the most beautiful girl in the universe and the chief leader of the Five Mountains Sword Sect. If you think this title is too long, you can just call me Auntie."
After Lu Changqing finished speaking, he attached the power of rules to his mental power and attacked Yu Zheng's body.
With Yu Zheng as the center, a strong wind suddenly blew in the hall.
"Ah!" Several screams rang out in the hall.
Xie Yuanshuang and the emperor, who were closest to Yu Zheng, were directly thrown away. Lu Changqing flew over quickly and caught Xie Yuanshuang. As for the emperor, he was lying on the bed and even if he was thrown away, he would fall on the bed and would not be seriously injured.
Xie Yuanshuang huddled in Lu Changqing's arms, looking at Yu Zheng in shock, "What happened just now?"
Yu Zheng's mind was full of question marks. He didn't know what was going on. Suddenly, a strong wind blew, and suddenly, the people around him were blown away.
"System, was it you who did it just now?"
"Am I crazy? Using power in front of the ancients, and with so many people around, if I really did that, you would be arrested for committing a sin?" The wild system yelled irritably in Yu Zheng's mind: "Mo Xiaobei, come out, was it you who did it just now?"
Lu Changqing ignored the angry system and rushed to the bedside, lifted the emperor up from the bed, and pulled him to Xie Yuanshuang's side. He stood in front of the two of them and said to Yu Zheng, who was still confused, "How dare you commit a crime and assassinate the emperor!"
A smart palace servant was ready to run out and call for help, but just as he reached the palace gate, the door suddenly closed in front of him, and his body tilted, and he fell to the ground, unconscious.
The emperor was so frightened when he saw this that he held Xie Yuanshuang's hand tightly, as if only this could alleviate the fear in his heart.
Xie Yuanshuang was also afraid, but when she saw Lu Changqing standing in front of her, her fear of the evildoers was reduced by two points. She turned around and comforted the emperor: "Your Majesty, you are the Son of Heaven, and you have a real dragon to protect you. The evildoers dare not do anything to you!"
Hardly had he finished his words when the emperor felt a gust of strong wind blowing towards him, his face hurt, his head tilted, and an invisible hand slapped him in the face.
"You're really a dragon! Pah! A loser who can't do anything in bed or outside of bed!" A male voice came from Yu Zheng's body, and everyone looked at him in horror.
Yu Zheng was so frightened that he covered his mouth, but he quickly reacted and hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, I was not the one speaking just now."
"Humph, I am the one who is talking and I am going to scold you, you stomach-nourishing man! Nourish your stomach, nourish your stomach, the emperor nourish his stomach!"
The emperor's face turned red with anger, and he shouted at Yu Zheng in rage, "Shut up!"
"I, I, I, you dog-foot I! You are a useless thing. I was played around by my father. I have been taking poison for three years, but how come I only feel better and have a headache? Why haven't I killed you, the tyrant, with the poison yet?"
"Your Majesty, I didn't say anything. It wasn't me who was talking just now! Please believe me!" Yu Zheng was so anxious that he wanted to kneel down. He called the wild system in his mind: "System, what are you doing? Why didn't I say anything, but my original voice sounded in the room?"
"Something else has invaded this body. I'm investigating. Don't worry."
Yu Zheng looked at the emperor with a face full of shit. How could he not be anxious? The emperor was looking at him as if he wanted to skin him alive.
"Keep him steady first, I'll be back soon."
Yu Zheng wanted to die. How could he stay calm? Not only did the voice reveal his secret of nourishing his stomach in public, but it also fabricated a poisoning incident. It would be strange if the emperor would listen to his explanation.
Yu Zheng couldn't think of any other way, so he could only kneel down and cry out for justice, "I didn't even open my mouth just now, that sound really wasn't made by me, and I'm a woman, how could I make a man's voice? Your Majesty, please understand!"
The emperor was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized that what Yu Zheng said made some sense. Just as half of his anger disappeared, that annoying voice rang out again.
"Oh my, this dog emperor is the most stupid. As long as I kneel down and cry and shed a few drops of cat urine, he will definitely forgive me."
emperor:……
Yu Zheng pointed at his tightly closed mouth and looked at the emperor with hope, trying to prove his innocence.
However, Yu Zheng could not prove his innocence, because the emperor suddenly opened his third eye, and he saw that the beauty kneeling on the ground was attached to an almost transparent soul, and it was a man's soul, who was looking at him anxiously with a frown on his face.
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