Sometimes the palace is sunny

Chapter 7 Bathing
"Leave the door open."

It was late at night, and the lights in Chaohua Garden were still brightly lit. The eunuch Yiji was afraid that the evening wind would disturb Shengjia and wanted to order someone to close the gate, but His Majesty stopped him.

There are a few osmanthus trees outside the Chaohua Garden, which are tribute trees transplanted from the south of the Yangtze River by the craftsmen in the palace many years ago. In the cool autumn season, the sweet fragrance of osmanthus flowers hits you very pleasantly.

A chicken stopped by the door, but his mind didn't stop. He summoned two young eunuchs and gently moved a screen made of silk gauze to block the wind without hindering the cool and refreshing night.

After finishing these, Yiji stood silently in the corner, just waiting for His Majesty to order.

These days, His Majesty has been working very hard. He has to revise memorials until late at night almost every day. He doesn't like to joke with them, and he doesn't like to get angry. As long as the servants are careful not to commit greedy diseases, they can also avoid disasters. Now His Majesty is not showing any emotions, but it makes them troublesome for the servants.

The chickens, dogs, cats and mice were in a dilemma for several days, but the chicken who took the lead made up his mind:

"Shut up, shrink your hands, and do things carefully. We are the beasts raised by the emperor. If the emperor gives us something, we will kneel down and thank him. If the emperor doesn't give it to us, we don't want anything."

After deciding on this idea, everyone from the four eunuchs down was more careful than before.

After reading the memorial in his hand against the cabinet ticket, Shen Shiqing let out a sigh of relief, and then raised his head.

I have to say that Emperor Zhaode's body is much healthier than her own, and she is only a little tired after sitting and watching the memorial for a whole day. If you don't rest for a while after the book, your body will definitely not be able to stand it.

Seeing His Majesty put down his pen, Yiji tentatively said, "Your Majesty, do you want to take a bath today?"

Shen Shiqing was stunned.

In the past two days, she didn't dare to look down when she went to the toilet, taking a bath...

Fortunately, after being neglected in Xie's house for seven years, Shen Shiqing's temperament is open-minded, thinking that the Emperor Zhaode who is in her body at the moment will not resist not taking a bath all the time, so she calms down.

They had to be washed anyway, and they had to be washed. She washed his and he washed hers too.

fair.

Reassuring herself so much, she nodded: "It's time to wash."

In the hot rosewood bathtub, in order not to look down, Shen Shiqing raised her head, pretending to take a nap.

Several eunuchs took off their burqas and rolled up their sleeves to scrub the body of "Emperor Zhaode".

The long hair was also untied, and it was soaked alone in the shampoo basin, and the three cats washed the "dragon silk" for His Majesty bit by bit with the comb.

Shen Shiqing's gaze swept over the several great eunuchs one by one. After being the "Emperor" for these three days, she also got to know these great eunuchs a little bit.

Yiji, the chief eunuch in the palm of the hand of the chief inspector of ceremonies, looks a little handsome, like a scholar, and is the oldest among them, about 30 years old, and he is the most stable person. The other three are also headed by him, and he is also Zhaode The eunuch most relied on by the emperor.

Supervisor Bingbi Ergou looks the least like a eunuch, but looks like a 25-year-old warrior with a thin body, long hands and long legs, really handsome and powerful.

Sanmao, the eunuch in the palm of Shangshan Supervisor, was in charge of the details of Emperor Zhaode's basic necessities of life. He was round and dignified, with big eyes. Personally, I like to joke and make Emperor Zhaode happy.

The four rats at the bottom of the list are the smallest, fair and delicate, and their voice seems to be lower than others, and his position is also the lowest. The factory was handed over to him.

These four people are extremely humble both to the emperor and to foreign officials, and they always call themselves animals. It can be seen that Emperor Zhaode often scolded them as chickens and dogs, but their own expenses were all exquisite, most of them were gifts from the emperor. He was also calm and friendly in speaking and doing things in front of the emperor. It can be seen that although Emperor Zhaode was extremely strict with them, he rewarded them with faith and gave them a lot of power.

Inferring from this, Shen Shiqing gradually portrayed in his mind the way Emperor Zhaode treated people and things - he was moody, he made great achievements for the king, and he used both kindness and power to know others... Apart from Gan Gang's arbitrary domineering, privately There should still be a bit of the willfulness and informality of young people in getting along with others.

In her heart, she had repeatedly deduced the disposition of one gentleman and four servants, and when talking to them, Shen Shiqing became more confident:
"What's the fun these days?"

Hearing His Majesty say such words casually, the eyes of chickens, dogs, cats and mice lit up.

The eyes of the three cats who were washing His Majesty's hair were narrowed into smiles: "My lord, what do you want to play with? The maple trees on Tashan Mountain have turned red these days, and they are very beautiful. If Your Majesty is willing to move, I will find some servants to help you." The samurai just wrestled in the maple forest for His Majesty to watch? If the emperor thinks it’s noisy, then find a few players to play and sing in the forest, and no one can hear the sound. Also, there was a wind on the lake, which made the two teams It would be nice for the children and grandchildren to come and race dragon boats for His Majesty."

When it comes to eating, drinking and having fun, the three cats can't help but talk more and more lively. If he didn't remember to wash His Majesty's hair, his cat's paws would dance to the sky.

Yiji on the side coughed softly, the current emperor is different from usual, if San Mao gets carried away and breaks a taboo, they don't even dare to intercede.

After being reminded by Yiji, the three cats froze in place.

He peeked at His Majesty, but His Majesty seemed to be enjoying himself with his eyes closed.

Not angry? !

San Mao breathed a sigh of relief, and became a little more courageous. He gently pressed His Majesty's hair roots with his fingers, and he smiled again and said:
"My lord, you haven't talked to your servant for a few days. Today, you suddenly asked about your servant. The servant was happy and talked too much. The servant should be punished. You should kick your ass."

kick ass?
Shen Shiqing, who has read poetry and books since she was a child, and has never touched a finger of her maidservant, really never thought that there is such a "punishment" in the world.

After thinking about it, Shen Shiqing said casually:

"Remember first."

"Okay! I've made it down, I owe the emperor a kick on my ass!"

Shen Shiqing remained motionless, and remembered one thing in her heart - she had to learn how to kick people's butts.

Learn to make people "roll off", learn to make people wait, learn how to make people afraid, and learn how to kick people's ass.

It's not easy being an emperor.

Emperor Zhaode didn't like to be served by maids by his side, which made it easier for Shen Shiqing. Although her body is now a man, but because of her body, she would rather be touched by eunuchs than maids.

Facing a full-length bronze mirror, Shen Shiqing slowly looked to the left and then to the right, but she was too embarrassed to look in the middle.

In the bronze mirror, three cats and four mice twisted up "his" long hair with a silk scarf to remove the moisture from it.

Emperor Zhaode Zhao Surui looked extremely handsome, and his figure was even taller and more vigorous. At this time, "he" was only wearing a set of underwear. Through the thin fabric, Shen Shiqing felt that he could see the outline of the muscles on Emperor Zhaode's chest and abdomen.

I silently said "see no evil" in my heart and lowered my eyes,
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

There are a lot of "indecent" things about this man.

"It doesn't matter, if you look at him, he also has to look at you. If you come and go, it doesn't count as you taking advantage of others."

After repeating it silently several times in her heart, Shen Shiqing opened her eyes.

The man in the mirror also opened his eyes.

Long hair draped down, thin clothes, and an unruly sitting posture... Shen Shiqing's eyes carefully outlined the body that now belongs to her, from the strong arms to the angular chest and abdomen.

Finally, she couldn't help but raised her hand to cover the corner of her mouth.

For three days since transferring her soul into this body, she had been careful and thoughtful, but at this moment, she suddenly felt that she had earned it.

It's not because she changed from a down-and-out woman who was forced to leave the court overnight to a high-ranking king of a country.

It's not because there are countless people around her who are smiling and flattering, who can decide the life and death of others with a single word.

It's that she has such a physique and such an identity, she can do what she wants to do, see the scenery she wants to see, and blow the wind she wants to blow.

In seven years, this was the first time that Shen Shiqing really felt at ease.

It's been a long time.

In the full-length bronze mirror carved with patterns and inlaid with jade, the impeccably handsome young king smiled.

"A chicken."

"My lord, the servants are here."

"Why haven't I seen any of the memorabilia for Chen Shouzhang's intercession these days?"

Yiji bent down and said cautiously: "If you go back to the emperor, the memorial to Chen Shouzhang's intercession has been left by the cabinet. I want to wait for Chen Shouzhang to be escorted to Beijing before submitting it with Tiao Chen."

In fact, it was just that he was afraid of arousing His Majesty's anger again, and that Chen Shouzhang would be sent to the execution ground to beheaded by His Majesty as soon as he was escorted to Beijing.

"Well...then, in the past few days, no one has said that he thinks Chen Shouzhang deserves to die?"

After a pause, he whispered: "If you go back to the emperor, there are still a few copies."

Shen Shiqing knew it in her heart.

In other words, most of the courtiers felt that what Chen Shouzhang said was reasonable, and he shouldn't deserve to die anyway.

In the past few days, she read Chen Shouzhang's memorial no less than ten times.

In terms of writing alone, Chen Shouzhang wrote it very happily.

Since the victory over Moxi last year, Emperor Zhaode's prestige has grown day by day. Even she, an ordinary woman trapped in a deep house, knows that Emperor Zhaode is only interested in two things - fighting and having fun.

Needless to say about pleasure, less than half of the Xiyuan where she is at the moment was built by him after he ascended the throne, and the various rare and exotic animals he domesticated were collected from all over the place. It is said that his favorite thing to do before Just riding an elephant to the garden.The reason why Emperor Zhaode moved into Xiyuan to see his ministers again this time was because he wanted to build a "Baixi Street" in Xiyuan, so that eunuchs and court ladies pretended to be ordinary people for him to visit and have fun.

How should I say it?Shen Shiqing felt that compared with Emperor Zhaode, the last emperor of the previous dynasty was simple, honest and incapable of playing.

In order to fight the war, Emperor Zhaode has been dispatching a large number of troops to the northwest area, spending countless money and manpower. Last year's great victory was claimed to be 30 royal divisions, which almost wiped out the treasury.

According to Chen Shouzhang's memorial, in order to support His Majesty's personal conquest, all localities not only increased taxes repeatedly, but also imposed corvees. Life is not easy, more food is collected, and more taxes have to be paid. In his place alone, six new taxes have been added this year, including the "West Pay", "Suppressing Barbarian Pay", " "Soldier training", "soldiers and horses"... The people were so overwhelmed that they abandoned their fields and fled during the autumn harvest.

In the memorial, Chen Shouzhang advised Emperor Zhaode that as the king of a country, he should not only think about militarism, but should learn from the previous emperors, learn from the previous princes, and be a benevolent ruler who governs the world and the people.

For Emperor Zhaode, who was determined to make unworldly achievements, Chen Shouzhang's memorial was considered a tiger's ass. He ordered someone to arrest Chen Shouzhang, and he kept saying that he would kill him, but it was probably not a lie.

——Based on Shen Shiqing's shallow understanding of Emperor Zhaode, since he wants to conquer the Northwest next year, he will not hear any other voices from the court.

Now, she has become Emperor Zhaode, how should she choose?

If she let Chen Shouzhang go, I'm afraid that when she and Emperor Zhaode changed their bodies, she would be ordered to die for panting without authorization, right?
Shen Shiqing moved her fingers, subconsciously wanting to touch the silver hairpin on top of her head, and held it gently again.

"Tomorrow, all those who think Chen Shouzhang deserves to die will be called into the palace. I want to have a look."

Looking at the indifferent "Emperor Zhaode" in the bronze mirror, Shen Shiqing had an idea in her heart.

Didn't Emperor Zhaode like to kill people?Wouldn't it be enough for him to calm down by killing a few more damned than Chen Shouzhang?
(End of this chapter)