The courtyard is deep in spring

Chapter 105 Punishment
"So it's like this..." Upon hearing this, Li Yu's eyes showed a hint of disappointment, but soon he was tortured by the scorching pain all over his body, so he had no time to think, and almost groaned.

Ye Zhaoqing took a handkerchief and handed it to him, "Put it in your mouth to prevent you from biting off your tongue."

As soon as the words fell, Li Yu's painful groans disappeared immediately. Huge beads of sweat appeared on his patient forehead. He gritted his teeth and said, "You, you underestimate me too..."

"Don't talk." Ye Zhaoqing took out a silver needle from the opened box, carefully stuck it on Li Yu's back, and quickly said: "Gather up all your strength to fight, and I will help you, otherwise you will faint……"

"It's a joke!" Upon hearing this, Li Yu immediately had a mocking smile on his face: "How could I... faint! '

As soon as the words fell, he closed his eyes and passed out.

"Quick! Liu'er, carry him out with me!" Ye Zhaoqing yelled, reaching out to pull Li Yu to prevent his head from being submerged in the water.

"Miss, why is he so heavy..." Liu'er ran over, and with all her strength, she and Ye Zhaoqing lifted Li Yu out of the tub.

"He is a man after all." Ye Zhaoqing sat on the ground panting, and when she had rested enough, she and Liu Er helped Li Yu to the side hall, washed off the medicine foam on her body, and threw it on the big red wedding bed head.

The two of them were so tired that they couldn't even straighten their waists. After a while, Ye Zhaoqing stood up and looked around, and then fixed his gaze on a sheet at the entrance of the dormitory.

"I'll sleep over there tonight." Ye Zhaoqing said happily.

After hearing this, Liu'er glanced at her with some hesitation, and said cautiously: "Miss, tonight is your bridal chamber candle!"

"So what?" Ye Zhaoqing stretched out his hand and patted Li Yu's leg hanging by the bed, stuffed it under the quilt, and said, "Look at this dead pig, how can he have a bridal chamber? Are you not tired?" ? I'm going to take a break."

Saying that, Ye Zhaoqing strode over, moved all the various gifts on the balcony to the ceremony table at the side, moved a quilt to the bed, and lay down on it calmly.

Liu'er stared blankly for a moment, finally sighed in her heart, and then retreated.

She just listened to what the lady said, and didn't ask questions that shouldn't be asked.

However, she should be called the princess, right?

Before falling asleep, Liu'er thought vaguely in her heart.

……

The next day.

Early in the morning, Ye Zhaoqing was still sleeping soundly, so she felt itchy nose, she sneezed violently, and then opened her eyes.

In front of him was a magnified handsome face, and those sparkling, smiling peach blossom eyes, and the evil fingers that were too late to retract.Who else is it not Li Yu?

"What are you doing so close to me?" Ye Zhaoqing stretched out his hand and pushed away the face in front of him, and sat up from the bed.

At this time, she already had several gleaming silver needles in her hand.

Li Yu stepped back a few steps at once, put away the playful smile on Ruyu's face, and there was a trace of grievance on Ruyu's face: "Qing'er, why did you sleep here last night?" As he spoke, he took a closer look. Ye Zhaoqing's left cheek, the slap that Concubine Rong slapped yesterday, has disappeared.

so close.

"Then where do I want to sleep?" Ye Zhaoqing said speechlessly, "You're such a big guy, the bed is all taken up by you alone!"

"That's it!" Li Yu listened, his eyes lit up suddenly, he glanced at Ye Zhaoqing and said, "Then tonight, I'll make room for you..."

"Don't be so troublesome, I think this place is very good." Before Li Yu finished speaking, Ye Zhaoqing interrupted: "From now on, I'll just sleep here."

The expression on Li Yu's face froze for a moment. He glanced at Ye Zhaoqing in disbelief and said, "How is this possible? Liangta doesn't feel comfortable sleeping at all. You should listen to me and go back to bed obediently." ..."

"No." Ye Zhaoqing shook his head and said, "I think this place is very good."

Li Yu wanted to persuade her, but Ye Zhaoqing stood up abruptly from the bed and said, "Okay, you go out! I'm going to wash up."

With that said, he went to the side hall.

Li Yu bent down and sat down on the bench, which was still warm, which made him think of the white jade-like skin on Ye Zhaoqing's neck after taking a bath last night, and a suspicious blush immediately appeared on his face .

Liu'er came in from the outside with a copper basin in her hand, seeing him in a daze, she couldn't help but call out: "Your Highness?"

Li Yu immediately came back to his senses, coughed lightly as if covering up, and said solemnly: "It's Liu'er! Hurry up and go in and help the Crown Princess change her clothes! It's getting late, and I have to serve tea to my father, mother, and concubine later." Woolen cloth!"

"However, in the early morning, Gao Nai, who was next to the noble concubine, brought a lot of palace people, saying that she wanted to help the princess get up." Liu'er whispered.

Li Yu frowned immediately when he heard this: "What is Gao Nanny doing here?"

Liu'er was stunned for a moment: "Your Highness, the rules in this palace, you probably don't know as much as your slaves, do you?"

"What do you mean, let's get to the point!" Li Yu's expression darkened immediately after hearing that.

Liu'er was shocked when she heard the words, the prince's face changed no matter how he said it!It is only in front of her lady that she is always smiling...

No, when we first met in the Jokhang Temple, His Royal Highness hated her young lady to death...

It's really good-for-nothing!
Liu'er sighed in her heart, then leaned forward and said a few words in a low voice.

When Li Yu heard this, his face immediately changed: "It turns out that Madam Gao still came with a mission!"

"That's right!" Liu'er nodded, and said: "If she can't see Luo Hong, maybe she will arrange for our young lady in front of Concubine Rong Guifei!"

Li Yu frowned deeply when he heard the words, he turned his head and looked into the side hall, and heard the sound of water rushing inside, he suddenly walked towards the bed where he slept alone last night without saying a word.

Liu'er was shocked when she heard the words, and hurriedly followed.

Li Yu walked to the bed and lifted the brocade quilt on the bed, revealing a neat white silk handkerchief in the middle of the bed.

Liu'er was surprised when she saw Li Yu take out a dagger.

"Your Highness, what are you going to do?" Liu'er only had time to ask this sentence, and saw Li Yu quickly cut the finger of his right hand with a dagger, and while the blood was gushing out before it dripped, he pressed down hard. On the white silk handkerchief.

Liu Er: "..."

"Now, they shouldn't say anything anymore, right?" Li Yu put away the dagger, took out a handkerchief, wiped his fingers, and smiled triumphantly.

Liu'er glanced at him, and couldn't help worrying: "Your Highness, don't forget that you are going to pay your respects to the empress with the princess today! If the empress or the emperor finds that you have injured fingers, then..."

"Don't worry, I will be careful!" Li Yu said, ordering Liu'er to get the golden sore medicine.

After Ye Zhaoqing cleaned up, put on a lotus color palace dress and came out of the side hall slowly, what she saw was this scene, she couldn't help asking: "What are you going to do next?"

"Miss, you're all right!" Liu'er said, quickly picked up the small porcelain bottle, sprinkled some on the wound on Li Yu's finger, put away the bottle, walked over and said with a smile: "My servant is serving you to make up, and breakfast has already been served." ready..."

Ye Zhaoqing glanced at her suspiciously, and didn't ask any further questions.

Li Yu stood there, looking at the two people standing and sitting in front of the bronze mirror, and called two maids in to help him change his clothes.

……

In the Yongchun Palace, Concubine Rong was wearing a magenta-purple tube top dress embroidered with hibiscus, a string of crystal clear pink pearls hung around her neck, and on one corner of her towering temple hair was a pair of rose crystal and lotus begonias. Yuluan shook the hairpin step by step, her whole person looked charming and elegant, making people unable to move their eyes away at a glance.

At this moment, she was leaning on the couch, and slowly glanced at Madam Xue who was kneeling on the ground, and the white silk handkerchief held high in her hand, the bright red on it was like red plums blooming in the snowdrifts, Beautiful and miserable.

"It seems that the house is still consummated." Seeing this scene, Concubine Rong did not have a happy expression in her eyes, but was slightly melancholy.

Mother Xue knew what she was thinking very well, so she couldn't help persuading her: "Your Majesty, it's better to think about the best in everything. Since there is Luohong, it proves that His Royal Highness's health is not in serious condition..."

As soon as this was mentioned, Concubine Rong's complexion suddenly changed, and she snorted coldly and said: "I really misjudged the crown princess! I thought that with her, there would be no problems on the day of the crown prince's canonization. Something went wrong like that!"

"Your Majesty." Mother Xue persuaded patiently, "The Crown Princess has actually tried her best, but after all, she is the emperor, she is not a god, and she cannot be foolproof. You have to be considerate of that." Then she paused and said: "After the prince passed out, it was the princess who tried the fastest way to wake him up and recover. If not, the emperor will definitely become suspicious, and the queen will not let go of this opportunity to attack the prince!"

After hearing this, Concubine Rong's expression calmed down, she nodded and said: "That's right, from this point of view, she is still useful."

Xue Momo laughed and said, "Prince Princess was beaten by you, but she never cried out!"

Speaking of this, Concubine Rong felt a trace of guilt in her eyes, she sighed and said: "At that time, if I didn't do that, and if I didn't put all the blame on her, how could I let the emperor give up on Yu'er?" Doubt? After all, she has been wronged."

"Your maidservant thinks, the Crown Princess understands your empress's difficulties." Madam Xue said upon hearing this.

After hearing this, Concubine Rong looked down at her, and said hesitantly: "She really doesn't blame Ben Gong?"

"Probably not." After hearing this, Madam Xue lowered her head and thought for a while, "I didn't dare to speculate about what the Crown Princess was thinking, but I could see clearly at that time that when the Crown Prince fainted, The Crown Princess was very nervous and rushed forward regardless of everyone else, from this point of view, as long as it is for the good of the Crown Prince, she is willing to do it."

"So, she won't blame the empress."

After hearing this, Concubine Rong's expression softened a lot.

"How about this! You bring the Chaoyang Wufeng hanging pearl hairpin that I like the most, and reward the Crown Princess as a meeting gift later."

"Yes, ma'am!" Madam Xue immediately responded with a smile, and then stood up.

Seeing that she was about to walk to the door, Concubine Rong suddenly shouted: "Wait!"

"Is there any other order for you?" Madam Xue turned around and asked.

Concubine Rong thought for a while, and said a little uncomfortable: "Go to the storeroom, get the good stasis-removing ointment, and send someone to deliver it to the Crown Princess later."

"The princess will definitely thank the empress for her love and care." Madam Xue responded with a smile, turned and retreated.

Concubine Rong felt even more uncomfortable when she heard this.

……

"Children and ministers and wives, see father, mother and concubine!"

At noon, in Yongchun Palace, Li Yu and Ye Zhaoqing knelt down to pay respects to the emperor, Concubine Rong, who was sitting side by side with Ye Zhaoqing, and at the same time offered hot tea in his hand.

"No, no!" The emperor waved his hand with a smile, took the hot tea and signaled the two to get up: "Yu'er looks pretty good today! It seems that the Crown Princess took good care of you last night!"

It was very good, he who was 'serving' fainted.

Li Yu rolled his eyes fiercely in his heart, but responded with a smile on his face: "Father looks very good today too!" As he spoke, he blinked.

Last night, the emperor rested in Yongchun Palace.

"This child actually teased me!" The emperor glanced at Concubine Rong Gui and scolded with a smile: "Look at this indecent look!"

Concubine Rong pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Didn't you learn this from Your Majesty?"

The emperor was taken aback when he heard the words, and then he laughed loudly: "Forget it, don't talk about this." Then, he glanced at Ye Zhaoqing and said, "Crown princess, come, this rewards you." Eunuch Cao winked.

Eunuch Cao immediately stepped forward and brought up the thing he had been holding in his hand, only to see that it was covered with a red cloth, and he couldn't see what was underneath.

"Guess what, what is this?" the emperor said with a smile.

Ye Zhaoqing saw that the east and west were square, and Eunuch Cao was struggling to lift it, so she guessed: "Daughter-in-law guesses, what is on this plate should be a chessboard?"

"Open it." The emperor smiled and said nothing, and ordered Eunuch Cao to remove the red cloth.

It was indeed a chessboard made of jade.

The chessboard is smooth and lustrous, and the chess pieces are shiny, which is indeed a rare thing.

When Ye Zhaoqing saw it, he really liked it, and thanked him immediately, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

When the emperor heard this, the smile on his face froze for an instant.

"It's time to call you Emperor Father." Li Yu poked Ye Zhaoqing with his elbow, and said, "Quick!"

However, Ye Zhaoqing was a little bit speechless when he heard the words.

Looking at the emperor sitting on the throne, what she thought of was the scene of her father's tragic death.

Her father's bones are still cold, but she wants to call her enemy her father?No!

No matter whether his father rebelled against him or not, he died at the hands of this man sitting on the throne.

At this moment, Ye Zhaoqing suddenly understood why she had always resisted marrying Li Yu, because she simply couldn't bear this scene.

"Crown Princess? What's the matter with you?" Ye Zhaoqing didn't speak for a long time, the emperor sitting above finally became suspicious, the smile on his face slowly dissipated, and his two majestic eyes fixed on Ye Zhaoqing tightly.

Concubine Rong was shocked when she heard the words, she didn't understand that it was just a sentence of father and emperor, which made things like this!At that moment she hurriedly laughed and said: "Your Majesty, this girl Qing'er seldom enters the palace on weekdays, and she has no chance to see Tian Yan, she is too surprised!" As she spoke, she winked at Ye Zhaoqing: "Qing'er, hurry up, Hurry up and call your father!"

Li Yu was also staring at her nervously, so he almost yelled out the phrase "Father Emperor" for her himself.

Ye Zhaoqing knelt there, fighting with heaven and man in his heart for a long time, finally closed his eyes, and said with determination: "Father! This is the first time my daughter-in-law sees Tianyan, and her admiration is so great that it is difficult to speak for a while, because she is afraid of blasphemy. Please forgive my father, please forgive me."

Ye Zhaoqing's heart ached so much that it couldn't be worse after shouting out three consecutive "Father Emperors".

"Really?" Hearing the words, the emperor looked up and down Ye Zhaoqing suspiciously, but the doubt in his eyes did not dissipate much.

Seeing this, Ye Zhaoqing recalled all his ambitions and ideals this time of rebirth, finally forced a smile on his face, took two steps forward, took the tea from the maid's hand and held it high above his head, saying: "Yes! Father, The cup of tea just now was offered to you by His Royal Highness, please drink this cup of daughter-in-law tea!"

Li Yu's anxious neck was about to break out in cold sweat.Based on his understanding of the emperor in the past 20 years, he could not be mistaken. A murderous intent flashed in the emperor's eyes just now.

God!How did things become like this?
Li Yu was so worried, but there was nothing she could do.

The emperor fixed Ye Zhaoqing's eyes, and when Concubine Rong's heart was about to rise into her throat, she finally reached out slowly, took the cup of tea, and took a sip from it to her lips.

"Isn't that right!" Concubine Rong breathed a sigh of relief, and smoothed things out with a smile: "The Crown Princess is really too timid. When I go back, I have to train and train."

What she said was originally just a joke, Concubine Rong was too busy herself, how could she have the time to discipline Ye Zhaoqing?

But what I didn't expect was that the emperor nodded after hearing this, and said, "It's time to train and train. If you are too timid, how can you be a princess? Or even a queen who will be the mother of the world in the future? Concubine Rong, you have to hurry up." Already!"

Although Concubine Rong is now a noble concubine, the emperor is still used to calling her Concubine Rong.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the concubine takes orders." Concubine Rong was shocked when she heard this, and nodded her head in agreement.

After such a fuss, the emperor didn't wait for Ye Zhaoqing to serve tea to Concubine Rong, he presumed that he was tired, got up and took the people away.

As soon as the emperor left, Concubine Rong's complexion suddenly darkened.She got up from the couch, walked in front of Ye Zhaoqing, stretched out her hand without saying a word, and just slapped her!

But Li Yu was already on guard. He was the one who was unconscious yesterday, so Concubine Rong slapped Ye Zhaoqing and no one paid any attention to it. But today, standing here alive, how could he watch Ye Zhaoqing suffer this slap?
So, when Concubine Rong's hand was still some distance away from Ye Zhaoqing's face, Li Yu reached out and grabbed her mother: "Concubine Mother, what are you doing?"

"This bitch! I just wanted to apologize to you for the slap yesterday, but you did it again!" Concubine Rong looked at Ye Zhaoqing coldly, wishing she could tear her into pieces, and then she was happy: "You did it on purpose, right? You just wanted to make the emperor unhappy, and then go to Concubine Liu, right? How much did Concubine Liu benefit you?"

Concubine Liu was actually pulled out. When Li Yu heard this, his head hurt very much. He helplessly grabbed Concubine Rong's hand and persuaded him: "Mother, I believe that she didn't do it on purpose! Please forgive me." her!"

"No!" After hearing this, Concubine Rong twitched her beautiful eyebrows immediately, and said angrily, "Just now the emperor said that I want this palace to discipline her, didn't you hear?"

The emperor had indeed said so, Li Yu suddenly had nothing to say, and could only look at his mother with pleading eyes.

But Concubine Rong was unmoved, she shook her head, and said to Li Yu: "Yu'er, you have just been enthroned as the crown prince, and there are still many things to do, so go back first! The princess will take good care of you."

"Mother Concubine, Qing'er has already started to detoxify me last night." Li Yu said: "I beg my mother to remember that she has no credit but hard work. Don't make things difficult for her."

Concubine Rong was startled when she heard the words, she immediately turned her head and looked around, and when she saw that all the palace people had been kicked out, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"I know how to measure!" Concubine Rong waved her hand and said, "Okay, you can go back!"

Li Yu glanced at Ye Zhaoqing reluctantly.

"Your Highness, you go back! I'll be fine." Ye Zhaoqing said calmly, "Master Taifu still wants to discuss matters with you today, so go quickly!"

Confused by the urging, Li Yu had no choice but to greet Concubine Rong, and then retreated.

When she left, only Ye Zhaoqing and Concubine Rong were left in the main hall of Yongchun Palace.

Ye Zhaoqing was already prepared to be tortured by Concubine Rong Gui, but what she didn't expect was that Concubine Rong stared at her closely for a long time, and suddenly said: "Your temper really should be tempered, but this Palace But I don't think you are timid, what happened today must have a reason."

"I was originally just a person in the Hou's mansion who has been neglected for decades." Ye Zhaoqing smiled wryly when he heard the words: "Leaving me to fend for myself for so many years, the highest status person I have ever met was a lady before you , is now the emperor."

When Concubine Rong heard this, her eyes flashed immediately: "But when you saw Ben Gong, you were not afraid at all!"

"The empress is a concubine after all." Ye Zhaoqing said bluntly: "And the emperor is the real dragon emperor. I never thought in my life that I would see the emperor! And I have to call him father emperor. It's like a dream. I How could you be calm?"

After hearing this, Concubine Rong took a fixed look at Ye Zhaoqing.

Ye Zhaoqing didn't dodge or dodge, and let her look at her.

After a long time, Concubine Rong closed her gaze, stood up abruptly and said, "Since the emperor has spoken, I have to carry it out. In a few days, I will be at the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet. At that time, I will present a few handwritten copies Scripture, this mission, I entrusted to you!"

"Daughter-in-law complies." Ye Zhaoqing nodded immediately, a smile even appeared on the corner of his lips.

Concubine Rong thought of the headaches that the princesses in the palace felt when they heard the scriptures being copied, but she never expected Ye Zhaoqing to be very happy.

But after thinking about it, she understood.

As the unfavored daughter of the Ye family, Ye Zhaoqing stays in the Jokhang Temple for more than half a month, either chanting scriptures and praying for blessings, or copying scriptures. She is already used to this, and there is no fear at all. .

She made this request, and it was really cheap for her!

(End of this chapter)