It's not that I want to fall in love [Quick Transmigration]

Lin Chao sat beside the dragon bed, although he didn't feel the fear and fear of ordinary courtiers, but he couldn't say how relaxed he was.He faintly felt that the emperor purposely left him alone, not out of any desire to have a heart-to-heart talk with him.

The emperor took his hand and let go when Zhao Tuo and Yang Qingshan exited the Ganquan Palace.

"Lin Qing, it has been ten years since I first called you into the palace."

Lin Chaodao: "More than ten years."

"At that time, my health was not very good, but it was not as good as it is now, lying down for more than half a month."

Lin Chao was thinking about the reciprocal words, and the emperor said to himself again: "I think I have no one close to me in the past ten years, but you, Lin Qing...cough cough, do you know that the Taiwei and the prime minister have written a few books in private? , It is inappropriate to say that I am too close to you."

"I'm guilty of the crime." Lin Chao was startled, and wondered if he had been holding the imperial badge these years, and went to the palace several times to inquire about the news for Zhao Tuo and was discovered.

The emperor smiled, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were crowded together, showing his old age.

"Why are you nervous. If I really heard their nonsense, can you still stand here?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your love."

"They just think that I love you too much." The emperor couldn't tell if it was a joke, but his expression was very leisurely, "They thought that I treated you... just like the Emperor Ai of the previous dynasty treated Dong Xian. Lin Do you know what this means?"

Lin Chao was shocked: "This... this..."

The emperor observed his expression very carefully, and after a moment of silence, he smiled and said, "Of course I don't care about you that much."

Lin Chao hadn't let go of Gao Gao's heart, and heard the emperor say again: "I'm afraid that the person who has other thoughts about you is not me."

The emaciated body due to long-term illness did not make the emperor look weak.In his deeply sunken eye sockets, a pair of dark pupils were full of clear light.

Before the emperor spoke again, Lin Chao felt his heart beating violently in his chest, afraid that the other party didn't know how nervous and excited it was.

"Does Ai Qing not know that there is a person..."

"I don't know!" Lin Chao got up, stepped back, bent down, and bowed down in front of the emperor.

The emperor did not flatten him as before, but quietly looked down at the kneeling man.The palace people held their breath, suppressed each other's curiosity, and looked at each other.

The emperor spoke mercifully, but not to Lin Chao.

"You go back."

The palace people filed out as if they were granted an amnesty.

Lin Chao did not get the emperor's order and continued to kneel.After kneeling for a long time, my knees began to ache, and if I kneeled for a while longer, the pain would disappear.He thought about the past endlessly, trying to forget his legs that were about to lose consciousness.

If he had known that kneeling was such a tormenting thing, when he was still sitting on the throne, he shouldn't have punished him to kneel for a moment of displeasure.The servants in the palace have to kneel when they see this concubine, and they also have to kneel when they see that prince. How many layers of skin have to be peeled off their knees every day.

"Lin Qing, flat body."

After waiting for the emperor's belated words, Lin Chao stayed on the ground for a while longer before getting up.I didn't feel it when I got up, but when my legs stood up straight, my knee felt like thousands of thin needles pierced at the same time, the pain was indescribable.

The emperor didn't give him a seat anymore, so he let him stand staggeringly.

"Ai Qing, do you know what that man thinks of you?"

Lin Chao didn't know how the emperor noticed Zhao Tuo's thoughts on him.Also, the Guangling Palace was originally used by the emperor to imprison the children of various families, so it is not surprising that there are countless spies.It would be absurd if the emperor didn't even hear about Zhao Tuo's unscrupulous behavior.

Of course, the most absurd thing is that he doesn't believe that Zhao Tuo, knowing all of this, can continue to act so unobtrusively, just because——

Can't help it?

Lin Chao gritted his teeth and bowed down again: "Your Majesty, he didn't start this matter. It's the minister... the minister is pleased with him first."

"Oh?" The emperor's sickness was overwhelmed by the interest in his eyebrows.

Lin Chao endured the severe pain, and said word by word: "It was the minister who first liked him. That person... that person was forced by the minister..."

The emperor laughed lightly: "Where did Lin Qing start with this remark. You are a mere painting academy waiting for an imperial edict, and as the son of the Imperial College to offer wine, why should you be afraid of you?"

"Ah." Lin Chao's heart skipped a beat, what the emperor thought was...

Fortunately, the emperor thought it was...

Lin Chao kowtowed and said, "Everything I said is true."

The emperor played with his taste: "You know Lin Qing, I only talked with you for a few words just now, how many times did Yang Qingshan secretly look at you?"

"three times."

The emperor clasped his thumb and forefinger, making a gesture of three.

"I heard that when King Ning was still there, one of you taught painting in the palace, and the other often went to play chess with King Ning. You got acquainted after coming and going, didn't you?"

Lin Chaodao: "Your minister and Yang Jijiu have known each other for many years."

"You asked me for an edict to stay in a place like Guangling Palace for ten years, and it was also because of him?"

Lin Chao remained silent, and the emperor took it for granted.

"I have no intention of embarrassing you." The emperor said, "The timing of Yang Qingshan's recovery this time is too strange, and I have to guard against it. You won't blame me, will you?"

Lin Chao said in a muffled voice, "I dare not."

"You can stay in the palace. It's not too late to go out after the matter is over." After saying this, the emperor put down the curtain and lay down on his back, "Your painting is truly rare in the world. I want to keep your hands and draw two more pictures for me."

"Thank you, Lord."

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Yang Qingshan and Zhao Tuo walked out of the palace gate in silence.

One after the other, it seems irrelevant.

After being far away from the palace gate, the carriage of the two reunited in a dark alley.

Yang Qingshan lifted the curtain of the car first, and said loudly: "Lin Chao is staying in the palace today, I'm afraid he won't be able to get out."

Zhao Tuo didn't respond.

Yang Qingshan asked: "Are you really not worried at all?"

The curtain of the carriage that Zhao Tuo was riding in was completely motionless.

Yang Qingshan also put down the curtain of the car, thinking of the ten-year-old boy who raised his head and told him that he wanted to see Lin Chao, he shook his head silently.

The emperor must have known something, but he was not absolutely sure, so he detained Lin Chao in the palace, hoping that they would be afraid.

The emperor is a person who enjoys this way and is proficient in it.

Many years ago, the same method was used to force King Ning to defile himself and withdraw from the struggle for succession.But at the beginning, he was only a prince, and it took a lot of trouble to detain the woman whom King Ning loved.But now he is an emperor over ten thousand people, and he can easily keep people with just one imperial edict.

They have not made any substantive actions at the moment, but once the emperor is critically ill, they will inevitably face a choice.

Give up Lin Chao's life?

Or give up the idea of ​​​​rebellion?

Yang Qingshan originally thought that Zhao Tuo needed to waver and struggle, and was even ready to persuade him.

I didn't expect Zhao Tuo to be so indifferent.

How could he think that Zhao Tuo would repeat the mistakes of King Ning?Zhao Tuo... is clearly not King Ning's son.

The wheels of the wheels pressed against the stone slabs, the sound gradually died down, and the carriage left.

Zhao Tuo's carriage was still parked at the same place, and the driver did not know where he was sent.

It was dark in the compartment where the light was blocked by the curtain, and Zhao Tuo's expression was gloomy.

He was carefully and meticulously recalling what happened today.The emperor sent him into the palace at this time, which meant to test and beat him.Yang Qingshan was also summoned into the palace, the emperor obviously regarded them as fellow party members.

Judging from today's dialogue, the emperor is still on guard against the king of northern Xinjiang.But for him, it was just an intuitive vigilance.Maybe it was Yang Qingshan's reinstatement that made the emperor turn his attention slightly to him.After all, the relationship between Yang Qingshan and him is obvious to all, and it cannot be wiped clean no matter what.

What about Lin Chao?

Although his actions in Guangling Palace were outrageous from time to time, all hidden posts were cleaned up, so no one would leak them.In the eyes of outsiders, the close relationship between him and Lin Chao should have happened ten years ago.No matter how much a thoughtful person speculates, he wouldn't think that a ten-year-old child would have any vague involvement with his master who was ten years older than him, would he?

The emperor probably didn't know the relationship between the two of them, so why did he leave Lin Chao alone?

If it is hoped that he will be afraid of it, no matter how you look at it, it is more reasonable to detain Yang Qingshan who is closer to him, right?

What went wrong?

Thinking of the words spoken by the palace man at that time, Zhao Tuo suddenly sat up straight.Why do you want to report separately to Yang Qingshan and Lin Chao when you asked for an interview?Because Lin Chao was not like Yang Qingshan who was summoned by the emperor to enter the palace as he thought.

Lin Chao entered the palace by himself!

Zhao Tuo covered his eyes in pain.He remembered that when the three met the emperor, Yang Qingshan uncharacteristically showed intimacy with Lin Chao, and even made offensive words when the emperor wanted to keep Lin Chao.Even if he knew that he didn't say a word to Lin Chao in order to avoid suspicion, wouldn't it be possible that Yang Qingshan didn't know?

Yang Qingshan did it on purpose.

If his guess was correct, if Lin Chao did not enter the palace without authorization, then Yang Qingshan would be the one who was detained in the palace today.

Yang Qingshan must have been deeply impressed by what happened to King Ning back then.When he was summoned by the emperor, he could probably already guess what that person wanted to do.So in Ganquan Palace, he intentionally acted like that, leading the emperor to misunderstand his relationship with Lin Chao.

Indeed, after Yang Qingshan self-destructed and entered Guangling Palace, Lin Chao followed him eagerly.The emperor must have doubts in his heart for so many years, so it is not surprising to guess like this.

If you think about it one more step, you will need to explain a little more about detaining the wine offered by the Imperial Academy.But to detain an insignificant painter, there is no need to find more excuses.

It is wise for the emperor to do so.

if only--

Yang Qingshan really valued Lin Chao as he thought.

Zhao Tuo paid no attention to Yang Qingshan's thoughts on Lin Chao, guilt or regret.

All he knew was that the emperor's action had forced him onto the path that he had originally planned to give up.