Act like a spoiled child

Mingshen knew that it was Bu Yu who gave him the opportunity to enter the palace to meet Yumin, and after thanking Bu Yu, he immediately ran over with his wallet.Holding the waist card of the Cleaning Department, he notified layer by layer, and at the end of the report, Cheng Yiduo was alarmed, and he was invited in personally, and he taught the messenger that he had no eyesight: "Your Majesty has an imperial decree long ago." , the Wanling Ming clan does not need to be passed on to enter the palace, and is allowed directly."

Only then did Ming Shen be taken back to the palace.

Today Bu Yu was extra merciful, let Ming Shen go to the palace to deliver the files, and allowed him to leave work after delivery.It was still morning, and it was almost a day off for him.Mingshen also went back to Jianyin Temple to check his little hedgehog because he was free, continued to communicate with the kitten, and took a detour to see Yuwen.

Yuwen is learning poetry and book etiquette from her court teacher.In the upbringing of the royal princess, Yumin set a precedent, because Wenwen didn't like those pedantic and outdated female school officials to teach her female morality, so for the first time, she recruited several former princes and tutors. An old lecturer, studying with several descendants of aristocratic families.When Mingshen passed by, he saw Yuwen learning Fu with a group of children from aristocratic families. She looked as smart as anyone else.

Ming Shen is a minister, it is inconvenient for outsiders to know their origin, so he just waits in the corridor from a distance.Seeing him with sharp eyes, Yuwen immediately became ten times more energetic, sat upright, and rushed to answer even the teacher's questions, with such arrogance that the boys in the same class couldn't lift their heads.

In the end, Tai Tu praised Yuwen emphatically, and criticized others heavily.The little men were all gloomy, but Yuwen didn't care so much, she didn't even care about the teacher's praise, and went straight to the corridor.

"Brother Yin!" Yuwen said and jumped into his arms.Mingshen picked her up with a smile, turned her around, put her down again, stroked her head, and asked: "Is Wenwen happy recently? Brother is too busy these days, so he didn't take care of her." look at you."

Yuwen flattened her mouth: "I knew that if you didn't come, my brother didn't bother to come. Every time he said that he came to see me with you, but in fact he just wanted to stay with you. It's all right now, get busy Brother Huang will not see me, and Wenwen only has to attend classes, learn to dance and read books, which is meaningless at all."

The little girl described herself as miserable, Mingshen couldn't laugh or cry, and stretched out his hand to scratch her nose: "It happens that my brother has something to do with His Majesty, does Wenwen want to come with me?"

The little girl immediately hugged his thigh, tilted her head and said to the nanny who was trying to arrest her to do her homework: "Look, brother Jianyin said it! I want to play with brother Jianyin, no, sister-in-law Huang."

Yuwen moved out of the name of the emperor's sister-in-law, so the mother had no choice but to let her go.This little girl was quite strong, and before Ming Shen could react, she was dragging her to run, stopping and running all the way, turning around the garden in full bloom with spring plums and the gurgling water, and then stopped.

Mingshen looked up, he didn't know this place very well, the only thing he could be sure of was that it was probably a thousand miles away from Changning Hall where Yumin was.

"Xiao Wenwen, what did you bring me here for? Didn't we go to find His Majesty?" Ming Shen asked.

But Yuwen calmed down, tugged at his sleeve, and booed with the other hand, motioning him to calm down and listen.

They were in an open pavilion close to the Imperial Garden, a few hundred steps to the north there was a cold theater building, at this moment Mingshen also recognized it, it was the place he and Yumin had explored when they were young, Because the concubine was once hanged there, it was deserted and abandoned, and no one dared to go there.Two years have passed, and the old place has been renovated, and the lights are flickering, and the singing and dancing are peaceful, and the melodious singing is as weeping as a complaint, and it is far and moving.

"Is the palace setting up a stage recently? Wenwen, do you want to hear it?" Ming Shen asked.

But Yuwen was full of displeasure: "I won't go, brother Jianyin, do you know where this is?"

"Where?"

Yuwen said: "This is the place where the emperor raises women and prepares to do bad things. Aunt Huang, a few days ago that stinky bastard wanted to get close to the emperor and gave him more than a dozen women. I heard that he drank with the emperor today. Now, sister-in-law, don't you care?"

"Ah?" Mingshen was stunned for a moment, then looked at the Wuxie Getai in the distance.

There was still mist around the lake in the morning, revealing the graceful waist of the woman inside, not just one, but a group.

Ming Shen smiled: "Any emperor needs silk and bamboo music and dancing to cheer him up, Wen Wen, maybe some of them will become Brother Min's concubines."

He has not relaxed his study for a moment recently.Ever since he heard Yumin talk about the code of conduct for empresses last time, he has also searched for some bibliographies, but all he has seen are ways of exhorting the empress to be courteous and treat the monarch as a guest, which seems to be wrong. I don't know what crooked version Yumin was watching.

The bibliography does not match, but he knows some things without reading the book. For example, although men in this dynasty can only take concubines when they are 28 years old, the emperor is different. One of the responsibilities of the king is to pass on the royal blood, Yu Min His biological father had [-] concubines when he was the emperor, and the old emperor was even more amazing. There were hundreds of people in the harem, and he couldn't even remember their names.

And Yumin, according to his understanding of him, should have liked women since he was a child.

Mingshen is well prepared for this point: Yumin will accept concubines, and even abolish empresses.When I was young, I had a sudden whim, and the queen who listened to the words of the gods may not last long.

As soon as Mingshen finished speaking, Yuwen shook off his hand suddenly, and walked back quickly: "Sister-in-law Huang really hates it, every time she says this kind of thing, I am not happy to hear it, Brother Huang heard it I must be even more unhappy, I am angry. As I said, only you are good-looking, I don’t like other ugly monsters to be my emperor’s wife, and I don’t want any of them.”

Ming Shen took a look, yes, the little girl started to lose her temper again, he quickly stepped forward to chase the little guy back, and coaxed: "Okay, okay, I won't say such things anymore, don't lose your temper, okay? Wenwen?"

Yuwen still looked like she was about to cry, with tears in her eyes, she pursed her lips and ignored him.

He thought for a while, coaxing the children was more important than bragging, so he assured Yuwen: "I am the only one for the emperor's wife, I promise."

Yuwen began to wipe her eyes, and cried and said: "Then you want to catch the rape, you have to wake up the emperor, I can't sleep these days, I look for you everywhere, but I can't find you, I heard that the stinky king returned to the emperor Men are unreliable when they drink alcohol, and it's easy to get caught up in the truth."

Ming Shen: "...Okay, let's catch the traitor, if Brother Min is doing something unscrupulous, let's beat him, okay?"

Only now did Yuwen have a smile on her face, she hooked his hand again, and walked towards Changning Hall affectionately.Only halfway through, the little princess stopped again, dragging Mingshen to look him up and down, a little disgusted: "Sister-in-law, are you going to meet the emperor in such plain clothes?"

Ming Shen was wearing the formal official uniform of Yushitai.He started to feel the tricks of this little girl's film, and asked, "Isn't it good?"

Yuwen then resentfully said: "It looks good, let's go, but, sister-in-law, you lower your head a little, and I will pick a flower for you."

As she spoke, she picked up a small plum blossom, stood on tiptoe, and laboriously inserted it on the top of Mingshen's head. Due to the rain a few days ago, the petals of the plum blossom were small and soft, and half shattered as soon as it was fixed. Can be hooked softly by the hair.Yuwen fiddled with it for a long time but it still didn't work, so she was discouraged and swept away the flower heart for him, leaving only the petals the size of a grain of rice stuck in her hair, any further pulling would move Mingshen's hairpin.

Yuwen didn't dare to move anymore, and apologized to him disheartenedly: "I'm sorry, sister-in-law, I want to make you look good."

Mingshen rolled his eyes and smiled: "Okay, now we can concentrate on catching the rape, right?"

Only then did Yuwen follow him obediently.

Walking along the way, Ming Shen thought about what the little girl told him, saying that Wang Ba had been getting close to Yu Min these days, and they were sending beauties and antiques, so there might be other secrets behind them.

He knew that Wang Ba was Zhang Nianjing's number one henchman, and he was among the group who had been making trouble in the previous court recently.Now taking the initiative to show affection, is it to reconcile and compromise with Yumin, or to make Yumin numb?

He felt that the latter was probably the majority.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but walk a little faster.As soon as he turned around the palace wall outside Changning Hall, the first thing Mingshen heard was a woman's subdued cry, and when he looked up, the guards, maids, and crowded crowd were all driven out.

With Yumin's previous record of giving him a hickey very dishonestly last time, Mingshen suddenly lost his mind and was a little terrified—could it be that Yumin became violent in broad daylight?

Although he knew it was unlikely, he still didn't dare to vent his anger.He wanted to stop and ask what was going on, but he saw that the palace people were all silent.Yuwen anxiously pushed him away, Mingshen was pushed into the garden, but Yuwen herself was caught—Cheng Yiduo, who was guarding the round gate, grabbed her and hugged her to cover her eyes : "Your Highness, don't go in, someone was killed inside, don't dirty your eyes."

Turning around, he said to Mingshen: "Oh, Ah Shen, you came just in time, here..."

A faint smell of blood came from the courtyard.Ming Shen looked over and saw that it was a naked woman who had been beaten to a bloody mess by the imperial staff, barely covered with a piece of cloth to cover her, she was already on the verge of death.

"This is?" Ming Shen asked.

The old eunuch said in a low voice: "It's another one who has taken the courage of a bear's heart and leopard, and dares to drink love medicine in His Majesty's tea. No, His Majesty discovered it."

Mingshen immediately understood what was going on.

He has never seen love medicine, but he heard people in the kiln say that things like Wushi powder are useful. Some people can show their glory in bed, but they have more side effects. Medicine, this kind of medicine is even more toxic, and people often take medicine indiscriminately, eating themselves to death.

Symptoms such as palpitation, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and imbalance of Qi and blood are even more common.

Mingshen was worried about Yumin's body, so he rushed in immediately without looking back.

Leaving Yuwen behind to watch helplessly, she asked, "Grandpa Cheng, has Brother Huang been poisoned? Will something happen?"

Cheng Yiduo said: "Hush, Your Highness, the imperial physician has already come to see the problem. The problem is not serious, the dose is also small, and the effect of the medicine has long passed. The imperial physician is worried, and even prescribed a gentle prescription for recuperation, but Your Majesty does not If you are willing to take it, let us pass on Master Ming to come over, and specifically told him not to take the medicine until Master Ming came. No, you brought Master Ming over before we had time to communicate."

The little girl's eyes lit up, and she reached out to give the old eunuch a high-five.

The main hall was burning with heavy incense, and the smoke was lingering.

Yumin lay on the bed with her eyes closed, her breathing was a little short, she seemed to have fallen asleep, but she didn't sleep very comfortably.

Mingshen sat down by the bed, reached out his hand to touch Tan Yumin's forehead, it was a little hot, but not to the point of fever.He saw some broken skin on Yumin's lips, so he brought warm water, washed his hands, dipped in water and slowly applied Yumin's lips.After Yumin's lips became rosy, he put down the bowl with confidence, then twisted the hot towel and wiped Yumin's hands, face and limbs.

He looked left and right, and Yumin probably needed to rest—his face seemed a little tired, and he was in a deep sleep.

"Then I won't bother you, Brother Min." Ming Shen whispered.He took out the files and memorials in his sleeves and put them on Yumin's bedside. He was about to turn around when he noticed that the person behind him moved, and then something pressed heavily on his back.

It was Yumin's warm body.

The young emperor hugged him from behind, and tightly wrapped his arms around his waist, like a child coquettishly, with a low voice: "If I don't ask you to come again, you won't come."

Mingshen pushed him, and said patiently: "I'm here, haven't I? Brother Min, you should rest well, I'll come and see you later."

Speaking of getting up.

"Don't leave, come back to me." Yumin was really uncomfortable, her fingers were weak, and she was also drowsy, "Queen, I haven't recovered from my illness, so you can't leave."

Mingshen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he felt that Yumin was probably really confused: "Your Majesty, drink the medicine properly, and the illness will be cured."

Yumin still hugged him and didn't let go, her hot breath was blowing against Mingshen's ears, and even her voice was a bit scorching: "I didn't mean that, empress... Ah Shen, baby."

He bit Mingshen's neck, like a wild animal grabbing its prey, and said in a low voice, "The medicine is gone."