Quick Wear: After I captured the hero, I ran away with the ball

He Shu always liked quietness, but when he heard the quarrel below, he couldn't help but frowned: "Zilin, take people to search."

Zilin nodded and led the people behind her to the eunuch's bedroom. Xu Zhaorong was covered in cold sweats, and Chi Yue was sitting on a soft chair eating chestnut cake.

After a while, Zilin came in with a large bag of silver. "My lady, as the eunuch said, I did find the silver. It is absolutely impossible for an eunuch in the palace to save this much silver."

"Xu Zhaorong, do you have anything else to say?" He Shu looked at her with coldness in his eyes.

"Empress--" Xu Zhaorong wanted to explain herself but she didn't know how to start. She could only hope in her heart that the emperor would arrive sooner.

As expected, Chi Yue was just about to see how the Queen would punish these three people when she heard a voice outside the house announcing: "The Emperor has arrived——"

He Shu also stood up from his seat and saluted him with his concubines: "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you."

Her expression was cold, as if she didn't like him at all, and Chi Yue could even see a hint of disgust in her expression.

"Everyone, get up." Li Ji said. Just as Chi Yue stood up, he supported her in time. "I heard that the queen found out the truth about my beloved concubine falling into the water, so I rushed here in time."

Chi Yue had a shy look on her face. She held onto his hand and stood up straight, leaning on him somewhat dependently: "Your Majesty, you have to make the decision for me."

She acted like a favored concubine to the extreme, and when the concubines under her saw her like this, they wanted to eat her alive.

"She is a seductress who confuses the ruler." Shen Zhaoyi cursed in a low voice, but the concubine beside her grabbed her sleeve in time.

"What did Shen Zhaoyi say just now? I didn't hear it clearly, could you please say it again?" Of course Chi Yue heard how she scolded her, but just because she was unhappy, she also wanted to embarrass Shen Zhaoyi.

Shen Zhaoyi suppressed her anger and bowed to her with a smile: "Your Majesty, you may have heard it wrong. I didn't say anything just now."

Chi Yue lost interest immediately: "Forget it, I know that I entered the harem temporarily, and my relationship with you sisters who entered the palace together is not as good as yours. If you don't want to say it, forget it."

After she finished speaking, she looked at Li Ji aggrievedly. Li Ji's heart suddenly seemed to be stabbed, and then he shifted his gaze in panic.

Lu Qingfeng kept looking at them. When Li Ji's eyes met hers, she felt inexplicably flustered. What was wrong with him recently?

"What did the Queen find out?" He didn't want to have too much interaction with Chi Yue, so he changed the subject.

"It was Xu Zhaorong who instigated people to provoke Bai Cairen and push Concubine Chi into the water. Now that Your Majesty has come, it is up to Your Majesty to decide how to punish her." He Shu looked at Li Ji with sharp eyes, as if he would give him the cold shoulder if he showed any partiality.

Li Ji was afraid of the power of the Chi family and the He family. Now the truth was laid before him. Even though the Xu family was his, he could only abandon Xu Zhaorong temporarily.

"For murdering the imperial concubine, Xu Zhaorong and Bai Cairen were demoted to commoners and sent to the cold palace. As for this eunuch, he was executed."

Xu Zhaorong never expected that the life-saving straw she had been waiting for would become the executioner who killed her with his own hands. She found it hard to accept it for a while and even forgot to beg for mercy.

Bai Cairen has always been reckless and did things without thinking. Now she started to get scared when she heard about her punishment: "Your Majesty, I know I was wrong. Please forgive me this time."

Li Ji didn't dare to react at all under the gazes of He Shu and Chi Yue. Seeing that begging him was fruitless, Bai Cairen hurriedly crawled to Chi Yue's feet and said, "My Lady, I know I was wrong. I really know I was wrong. Please, Your Majesty, let me go this time."

She was so scared that she even forgot to address him and pulled hard at the edge of Chi Yue's skirt. The eunuch quickly stepped forward and held her back.

Chi Yue seemed to be frightened by her crazy appearance and shrank into Li Ji's arms: "Your Majesty, I am afraid."

The little one hid in Li Ji's arms, which completely satisfied Li Ji's male chauvinism. He patted Chi Yue's back gently: "Don't be afraid, I'm here, no one will hurt you."

After saying this, he was stunned for a moment, but Chi Yue seemed not to notice and hugged his waist tightly.

In a corner of the palace where no one paid attention, Lu Qingfeng's palms were covered with marks from his fingernails.

He had once said these words to her affectionately, but what did he do? He moved her to a remote palace and even did not allow anyone to know when he slept with her.

But to Chi Yue, he could justifiably pamper her, and she could tell herself in the past that he was protecting her, but now, she was like a joke.

Chi Yue stole a glance at Lu Qingfeng. The heroine, who had been aloof from the world before, now had a ferocious look on her face. She couldn't help but hug Li Ji tighter.

She had no idea how ugly the Queen's face was at this moment. It was obvious that she had helped her find out the truth, but all the credit was taken by Li Ji alone.

"Your Majesty, I am tired." Li Ji looked at her impatient look and took Chi Yue's hand.

"Go back, my beloved concubine was frightened today. I will accompany you back to the palace."

Chi Yue wanted to break free from his hand, but he held it too tightly and she couldn't get it free at all. He Shu saw this and said, "I made an appointment with the imperial concubine to have tea yesterday. I wonder if Your Majesty would give it up?"

It was the first time that Li Ji saw He Shu take the initiative to make friends with the empress and concubines. He was a little unconvinced for a moment and turned to look at Chi Yue, who nodded repeatedly.

"I made an appointment with the Queen yesterday. I don't want to break it. Would you mind accompanying Your Majesty tomorrow?"

Li Ji thought about the deep look Lu Qingfeng gave him when he left, and felt a little flustered: "Okay, your typhoid fever hasn't healed yet, be careful."

"Got it. Take care, Your Majesty." Chi Yue finally pulled her hand free, waved at him playfully, then turned around and hugged the Queen's arm.

"Empress, let's go." She didn't notice at all that He Shu's body stiffened for a moment, and then his expression returned to normal.

"Zilin, go make a pot of tea." She ordered in a deep voice, silently pulling her arm out of Chi Yue's hand.

"Please sit down, Your Majesty." After saying that, she sat upright in her seat without saying a word. Chi Yue didn't know why she kept her here.

After waiting for a long time, he finally couldn't help asking, "Why did the Queen ask me to stay for tea?"

He Shu glanced at her and said, "Didn't you tell His Majesty that you had made an appointment with me yesterday?"

Before Chi Yue could ask something, Zilin came over with a bunch of things. Chi Yue couldn't help but feel curious. Was it necessary to have so many things for drinking tea?

Zilin placed the things on the tea table one by one, uncovered them one by one, and introduced them to Chi Yue: "Madam, this is a way of drinking tea in the border area. Boiled milk is cooled down and then added to the brewed tea. People in the border area call it milk tea."