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Chapter 54 As long as you are brave...

"Uh……"

Ye Jingtang glanced at the empty red sandalwood box, slightly embarrassed:
"This box is quite special, um...Young lady, you can report this matter to Prince Jing, and I will explain it to Prince Jing later."

The Empress didn't delve into Ye Jingtang's outrageous behavior just now, and looked at the bookshelf in a blink of an eye:
"My son can stay overnight in Mingyu Tower, and dare to flip through Prince Jing's personal belongings. It seems that he has a very close relationship with Prince Jing."

Ye Jingtang has nothing to do with Prince Jing. If people in the palace misunderstand and the news reaches the empress, it will be self-defeating. Xia Luo might stab him to death when she comes back!
"I'm just the adopted son of a merchant's family. I just entered Beijing at the beginning of the month. I have some martial arts skills, which were appreciated by King Jing. I helped the black government with some cases. Yesterday..."

Ye Jingtang seriously explained why he appeared here.

But the empress didn't listen at all, even if Ye Jingtang was meaningless, her sister's attitude towards Ye Jingtang was already unusual since she could let men sleep in Mingyu Tower.

"You look good, and you have such skills at a young age, so you can be considered capable. You come to the Heiya, do you want to be a son-in-law?"

Ye Jingtang hurriedly shook his head: "I am the adopted son of the Pei family in Tianshuiqiao. I am a businessman, and I will inevitably encounter troubles. I come to Hei Ya to walk around, just to make friends and find a big tree to enjoy the shade. Prince Jing is a high-ranking and powerful man with an extraordinary appearance. , I don’t belong to the right family, how dare I think about it like this.”

Feeling that Ye Jingtang wasn't lying, the empress nodded slightly, and said:
"It's true that King Jing is a martial artist, but he was born in the family of an emperor, and he has seen too many people with high martial arts skills. Lu Taiqing and Zhenji Xuanji from Yuxu Mountain are all regarded as masters of King Jing; no matter how powerful ordinary martial arts are, in King Jing's eyes, they are just A thug. If you want to establish friendship with Prince Jing, you'd better find another way."

Ye Jingtang was slightly surprised: "The girl wants to give advice?"

The empress showed a smile, hugged her chest, and rested her buttocks on the desk, looking like a female president instructing her subordinates:

"Although King Jing dances with guns and clubs all day long, he is good at 'literary talent'. He is proficient in everything. When the young master talks about martial arts, King Jing can't talk too much about it; Whatever it is, Prince Jing can chat with you for a long time."

Seeing that the girl was from the palace, Ye Jingtang actually wanted to inquire about the situation in the palace, but these questions were too sensitive and he couldn't find a chance to speak up.Hearing the other party talk about poems and songs, Ye Jingtang began to think of ways to formulate:

"I do know some poetry."

"Oh?"

The empress raised her eyes, slightly surprised:
"I really haven't figured it out. Can you compose a poem and let the little girl comment on it? If you have real talents and learning, I will help you to pass it on to Prince Jing, and say that you accidentally heard it. If you do it, you won't have to make a fool of yourself in front of Prince Jing."

Ye Jingtang looked at the palace outside the window with one hand behind his back, thinking a little:

"Hmm... until autumn comes, September [-]th, when my flowers bloom, hundreds of flowers will kill. The sky is full of fragrance... Tou Yun'an, the whole city will be full..."

"?"

The Great Wei Empress was stunned for a moment, and after careful reflection, a hint of intrigue gradually appeared in her eyes.

This poem, why does it sound like an anti-poem?
In the future, if I want to come to Yun'an with my troops, it will be impossible to usurp my position...

If you write this and read it in front of me, you won't be afraid that I will castrate you...

Empress Nian didn't know her identity in Yejingtang, so she didn't show any strangeness:

"You wrote this poem?"

Ye Jingtang shook his head and smiled: "I'm a martial artist, I'm not good at literary talent, I remembered this poem by chance, and I wrote it out of feeling, what do you think, Miss?"

"I'm expressing my feelings... Could it be that the young master has some ups and downs with unfulfilled ambitions? For example, if the court treats you unfairly, one day I want to..."

"The girl was joking, but she just thought it was suitable for the girl, so read it to the girl."

Suitable for?

Empress Wei was slightly taken aback, her eyes showed a strange look.

If this poem was written for her, it would indeed be quite suitable.

She and Li Sheng were born princesses. Although they are amazingly talented, intelligent since childhood, and deeply loved by their father, the daughter is doomed not to be able to show her talents on stage.

After the father died, the eldest son of the emperor succeeded to the throne. Out of old grievances, he wanted to marry the two sisters to the enemy country Beiliang.

Then she came out with a "gold armor all over the city", bloodbathed the court, abolished her elder brother, and sat on the throne that only men can sit on since ancient times, and she was no longer subject to anyone or even rules and etiquette. Restricted, became the emperor of this world.

The empress thought that Ye Jingtang had seen her identity and was trying to please her by showing off her literary talents, and wanted to enter the palace to be her bed-warming beauty.

But looking carefully at Ye Jingtang, it didn't look like much, so he asked:

"What's the meaning of this statement?"

Ye Jingtang cast his eyes out of the window and sighed softly:
"I heard that the women in the palace are all the emperor's women, but our sage should not favor women. The girl is so beautiful, but she has to spend half her life alone in the deep palace. Isn't this like a depressed literati raising a son? But With the girl's conversation and appearance, I think that one day, I will be able to 'kill my flowers after they bloom'..."

?

The Empress understood the meaning this time - the bold Young Master Ye in front of him is trying to tease her because he sees her beauty!

The Great Wei Empress raised her eyebrows slightly, and looked Ye Jingtang's figure up and down:
"The palace is not as lonely as you said. If the maid is not favored, she can leave the palace to marry at the age of 25. I am still staying in the palace because I look down on men outside."

Ye Jingtang just wanted to start the conversation, and took advantage of the situation to ask:

"Is the palace very interesting? Besides serving people, what else can the girl do?"

"Everyone performs their duties, taking care of the palace courtyard, flowers and plants. The palace is so big, you can walk around in your spare time."

The place where the maids can hang out is definitely not the core area where the emperor haunts. Ye Jingtang looked at the palace and asked:

"Really? I see that the palace is full of houses, and there are no special sights. Where do girls usually hang out?"

The empress raised her white jade finger and pointed to the imperial garden behind the palace:
"There, do you see it, on the right side of Fushou Palace."

Ye Jingtang raised his eyes and found that it was in the northwest corner of the imperial city, and he was about to nod.But looking carefully, I found that there was a big tree in the area the woman was pointing at—the trunk was estimated to be several feet in diameter, and it was already higher than the palace.

Ye Jingtang's heart moved, and he asked:
"That tree is so big, what kind of tree is it?"

"The ginkgo tree, more than [-] years old, was planted by the concubine of Emperor Wu Xuan."

"Twelve hundred years old?"

Ye Jingtang's eyes were amazed, but his heart was filled with surprise—the foster father's letter only mentioned the ginkgo tree, and nothing else was mentioned. The ginkgo tree that hides the picture of the singing dragon is most likely to be this one.

Although still out of reach, at least the place is visible to the naked eye.

Ye Jingtang secretly memorized the location of the Millennium Ginkgo, and began to look at the surrounding terrain...

Seeing Ye Jingtang looking at the ginkgo tree from a distance, the empress asked:
"Do you want to go and have a look?"

? !
Ye Jingtang quickly retracted his gaze and said with a smile:

"It's the first time I've heard of a [-]-year-old tree. I'm sure I'm curious. But it's the imperial palace. As a man, how dare I go in? Could the girl let me visit?"

Naturally, the empress can, but she didn't say it clearly, and said instead:

"The poem just now is good, but it's too murderous, and it's suspected of treason. Don't talk about it in the future, and I'll pretend I haven't heard it."

"The girl thinks it's inappropriate, so naturally I won't mention it."

"My lord, let's get busy first, I'll go down and have a look, and see you if there is fate."

Ye Jingtang's thoughts were all on the ginkgo tree, and he didn't keep this memorable female official.

But when the woman was about to disappear at the top of the stairs, he felt that he knew someone from the palace who might be helpful in digging out Minglong Tu, so he said again:

"Acquaintance is considered fate, dare to ask the girl's name?"

The empress walked briskly, and gave Ye Jingtang a meaningful look, until the figure disappeared, and then came a sentence:
"Yuhu."

Ye Jingtang thought the name was weird, but for some reason, he also felt that it was very suitable for this woman's temperament, delicate as jade, imposing like a tiger...

Of course, a tiger that is not a tigress is a tiger that says 'the woman under the mountain is a tiger'...

Ye Jingtang waited until the woman's footsteps disappeared, and then went to the window to look at the scenic lake, looking for the jade that had been thrown away-there was a maid walking by the lake, Mr. Xiashui Laojiao must have been found.

While thinking about countermeasures, a palace maid suddenly ran upstairs with her robe and saber in her hands:

"Young Master Ye, King Jing asked you to go back to the mansion first, and then summon you after you are done with your work. Change your clothes quickly, and I will send you out of the mansion."

"Ok?"

Ye Jingtang didn't expect Prince Jing to let him go without even seeing him.He couldn't force it to stay, so he looked at the lake in the garden, and picked it up when he wanted to go out.

What I didn't expect was that the maid didn't lead him through the main entrance, but instead sent him to the back street through the side door where the servants entered and exited in a sneaky, devious way...

(End of this chapter)