The pet career of Shaoqing of Dali Temple

Chapter 368 My Eldest Son Is Very Good

The emperor took a few old officials and walked around Huayan Temple.

Leaning on the railing, the emperor pointed to the distance, "Do you know where it is?" He asked Qinghou who was beside him.

Master Qing looked up, "It's the old hall."

"The former hall?" The emperor looked puzzled, as if he couldn't remember what happened here before.

"The side hall caught fire back then, and the main hall in the past also burned down. The current main hall was built later." The old Hou Ye carefully looked at the emperor's face.

"Oh." The emperor didn't show displeasure, but nodded lightly, "It's been so many years, I almost forgot about it."

Hearing what he said, everyone secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

Who didn't know that Concubine Ying disappeared back then.

A fire broke out in Huayan Temple, and the emperor's favorite concubine disappeared. The emperor was furious, beheading the heads of many imperial guards, and hundreds of officials were implicated.

Everyone turned out from the front hall, the emperor was very excited and left the old Hou Ye to play chess in the wing room.

Old Hou Ye's heart went up and down.

For so many years, he has never been able to get the chance to enter the emperor's presence again. What happened to the emperor today, could it be that he remembered the old love of the old minister again?
The emperor twisted the chess piece in his hand, and suddenly said, "Do you think Concubine Ying really died?"

Old Hou Ye shook his hand, and the chess piece fell on the board.

"emperor……"

Back then, anyone who dared to say that Concubine Ying was dead in front of the emperor would be dragged out and beheaded, so this topic can be said to be taboo for the emperor, and no one dared to touch it.

"I... I don't know..."

The emperor smiled slightly, "You don't know?"

Old Hou Ye buried his head low, he didn't dare to answer these words, and he couldn't answer them.

"I always feel that Concubine Ying is not dead, she is a smart woman, smarter than those women in my harem." The emperor said mockingly, "She doesn't like what I give her, but I just like her, She just didn't want to let go, so she thought of a way to deceive me and you as well."

"But... that fire burned down even the side hall, and no one saw Concubine Ying escape." Old Hou Ye said bravely.

"No one saw her, it doesn't mean she is really dead." The emperor paused, and suddenly changed the subject, "I remember that you were still working in the Jinwu Guard, responsible for searching the area around the back mountain."

"Yes."

At that time, he led people to search almost all the back mountains, even every cave.

There was a man-eating monster hidden in a cave. When he led people in to search, he almost died in it.

No one knows what is hidden there, and all the people who entered the cave died without even a bone dregs left.

Thinking of these made him shudder.

"I remember that you were injured later, was it very serious?"

"Yes, all of Chen's subordinates were in danger at that time, so I had to escape alone."

"You were saved by someone, right?" asked the emperor.

"Yes." Thinking of the Lu family, the old Hou Ye had a complicated look in his eyes.

"I don't know who rescued you, why have I never heard of it from you?" The emperor seemed extremely curious about this matter.

Old Hou Ye bite the bullet, "It's just an ordinary village woman, and she won't be in the eyes of the emperor."

The emperor asked a few more questions, but Lord Qing Hou only said that he was too old to remember clearly, so the emperor didn't ask any more questions.

The two played another half game of chess, when it was already dark outside.

The emperor pushed the chessboard, and sent a servant to take the old Hou Ye back to the wing to rest.

The servant picked up the lantern and walked in front, and the old Hou Ye followed behind. The more he walked, the more he felt that something was wrong.

Judging from the direction, they were not going to the wing where he lived.

"Did we go wrong?" he asked.

"How is it possible? This servant knows the way." The servant in front who was carrying the lamp smiled and said, "How dare the slave who is ordered by the emperor take the Lord Hou around? There are many nobles in the temple today, and there are female family members visiting the temple at night. You go this way."

It's hard for Old Hou Ye to refute after hearing what he said.

The two walked through the path in the temple and unknowingly came to the ruins of the side hall that had been burned down before.

The night wind blew, and the cat's claw flowers rustled, as if waving to him.

At this moment, the lantern in the servant's hand suddenly went out.

"Ghost...there is a ghost!" The servant suddenly yelled, and fell to the ground after slipping.

Old Hou Ye was taken aback, and then scolded: "Bold, this is a temple dedicated to gods, how could there be ghosts!"

"Yes... the ghost of Concubine Ying came out..." The servant pointed tremblingly at a faint figure in the distance, "All the monks in the temple have seen her before, so I dare not lie."

At any rate, the old Hou Ye was also from the Jinwu Guard when he was young, and he had some martial arts skills. He boldly took a few steps forward, and yelled at the figure: "Who is it!"

The man turned his head, and the veil on his body was shaken by the night wind.

"It's...it's the ghost of Concubine Ying!" The servant knelt on the ground frightened, kowtowing like garlic.

When the old Hou Ye saw the woman's face clearly, he was struck by lightning and stood there in shock, even forgetting to breathe.

This woman... is clearly the Lu family!

The servant is still muttering, "... Your Majesty, please forgive me... Your Majesty, please forgive me..."

The old Hou Ye grabbed the servant and said through his teeth, "Open your dog eyes wide and take a good look, this person is really Concubine Ying?"

"That's right, she is Concubine Ying. The slaves have always served the emperor, how could they admit to being wrong!"

The woman on the opposite side turned around and went to the cliff behind.

Old Hou Ye couldn't help shouting: "Stop!"

The woman acted like she didn't hear it, and walked straight towards the cliff, and finally stepped into the suspension, and the figure disappeared in an instant.

Only then did Old Hou wake up suddenly, and hurried towards the cliff.

The night wind was blowing, weeds were overgrown between the cliffs, and the sky was dark, so he didn't see anything.

"Don't look at it again, Lord Hou. It's the ghost of the empress. How could she fall down? She flew away." The servant picked up the lantern and murmured, "Let's go back quickly, don't let the emperor know, The eunuch has been hiding this matter all these years, just for fear of scaring the emperor."

Old Hou Ye followed the servant and walked away step by step.

"No... how could she be Concubine Ying..." The old Hou Ye seemed to have lost his soul, and muttered to himself, "She is clearly the Lu family...how could it be Concubine Ying..."

The servant supported him, as if he didn't hear what he was saying at all.

It wasn't until the figures of the two disappeared into the night that the emperor in a golden dragon robe appeared behind a tree opposite.

He looked at the direction where Old Hou Ye was leaving, his eyes were full of killing intent.

"What did you hear and see just now?" the emperor asked the servant beside him quietly.

That man was the emperor's confidant, so he naturally understood what the emperor meant, and immediately knelt down, "I didn't hear anything, I didn't see anything."

The emperor snorted coldly, and stood there quietly looking at the cat's claw flowers swaying in the night wind.

"My concubine, the eldest son you have with me...is very kind, and is very much in my favor."

(End of this chapter)