Regent she always teases me
Chapter 34
"Report to Your Majesty, people have already arrived." As soon as Yunzhu came in, she saw Song Kang'an standing there with malicious intentions, and her expression was naturally not very good.
The corners of Shen Lingyan's mouth curled up, she finally stopped worrying, sat down slowly, and stared at Song Kang'an: "Isn't this the evidence you want?"
Song Kang'an's face was a little dark, and he slowly turned his head to look at the well-mannered girls in Chunxingyuan, secretly scolding Li Xiuxian for killing him, and wanted to speak hard: "Your Majesty is too deceitful. Some brothel women want to frame our court officials? It means you would rather believe brothel women than governor Li Xiuxian, what is the reason for that?"
Song Kang'an is really out of his mind. He said Shen Lingyan so disregarding his face and identity, but it was only because his ancestors had iron scrolls of the founding heroes, which were very popular.
After he said these words, the atmosphere in the hall became solidified again, and even Dai Junwu had a headache because of him.
"I am the law of heaven." Shen Lingyan raised his legs, propped his chin with one hand, and played with the phoenix hairpin on his head with the other. He seemed to speak casually, but the volume spread throughout the hall. Dai Junwu looked a little dazed, Now that other important ministers in the court have followed Song Kang'an, Shen Lingyan's prestige this time is indeed the best.
Zhao Yinan saw Li Xiuxian who was kneeling on the ground trembling with anger. She knelt down in front of Shen Lingyan and showed the scar under her right earlobe with the other girls. That scene was chilling.
"The governor, Li Xiuxian, went to the street to rob civilian women. This is something everyone has seen. The scars under our ears were all forced by him a few days ago. If you don't believe me, please ask the doctor to verify!" Zhao Yinan hoarse Shouting, the heart-piercing feeling filled everyone's heart, Song Kang'an hated the iron and stomped on Li Xiuxian who was kneeling on the ground, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
Even though they are brothel girls, they are also performers but not their bodies, and they are even more clean. These girls are all because of Li Xiuxian's actions, and they have been reduced to become prostitutes who receive customers. They said everything they had.
Originally, with the belief that he would succeed, Song Kang'an came here with the book of the founding hero, but he encountered such an accident.He didn't expect Shen Lingyan to find other evidence even if he had a handle. When did this empress become so smart.
Not only Song Kang'an, but other ministers also felt the changes in Shen Lingyan. The corners of Zhou Jin's lips curled up behind the screen, looking at the current situation with satisfaction.
At this moment, a woman walked in from the side door of the Governor's Hall. The woman knelt down on the ground and told the story of Li Xiuxian's corruption word by word. Shen Lingyan took a closer look and found that the woman was Zhang Yiqiao's mother .
Behind the woman, there were many people who came to watch, but they were all stopped outside the governor's hall, and they attacked Li Xiuxian loudly.
"Dog officer Li Xiuxian! Dog officer Li Xiuxian!" Song Kang'an couldn't stand anymore after the crusade, and was about to sneak away with the book, but Shen Lingyan yelled: "Stop! You are the founding hero Now I am no longer the founding emperor, this book belongs to you and me. It is a piece of waste paper. Dai Junwu..."
Shen Lingyan called him.
Dai Junwu responded immediately, and then listened to Shen Lingyan's instructions: "The corrupt official Li Xiuxian, robbed the women of the people, lied to the court, put me and the regent in prison, and everything added up... Li Xiuxian punished his nine clans with chariots. "The voice was sonorous and powerful, resounding through the governor's hall, Song Kang'an's face turned pale, and he trembled his fingers: "Your Majesty!! How can you!?"
"I am the law of heaven."
As soon as the words fell, those soldiers surrounded Song Kang'an and Li Xiuxian one after another, and the thorn in their flesh was finally cleared away.
After this incident, all the ministers' views on Shen Lingyan changed a lot. After all, Li Xiuxian was originally charged with putting the emperor in prison. How could ordinary people bother to find other evidence, but Shen Lingyan was different. Not only did he consider everything, There was no help and deterrence from the regent throughout the whole process.
Shen Lingyan was also happy, originally thought it would be a matter of stalemate for a long time, but it was resolved in just a few hours.Shen Lingyan had never experienced such a sense of ease. Song Kang'an was not a big role in the first place, and he had been mediocre since he entered the court as an official. Now that his nine clans were being punished, no minister dared to refute.
After all, Song Kang'an protected a heinous person.
Shen Lingyan has also seen this plot in the original book, but it was only mentioned briefly. She just forced herself to become smarter. Zhou Jin has been helping her for the past few days, but Zhou Jin herself is also a big hidden danger.
"Your Majesty acted decisively, it really is not like before." A minister said with emotion.
Now that the dog official Li Xiuxian has been eliminated, the common people are also relieved and cheered one after another, from crusade to praise: "Long live Your Majesty the Empress!"
But when the ministers and common people gathered around to praise Shen Lingyan's decisive decision, the woman quietly stepped back and disappeared.
The next day, after settling the governor's matter, Shen Lingyan and Zhou Jin started looking for traces of the Zhang family after a night's rest.
Although the governor still fell into the French net after all, the Zhang family who deceived Shen Lingyan could not let it go.It was just because it was inconvenient for the river god to marry a wife to be made public, so Zhou Jin and Shen Lingyan decided to go back to the village alone without guards.
Dai Junwu stopped in front of Shen Lingyan with a face of embarrassment, and thought for a long time: "Your Majesty should bring a few guards, otherwise, if something happens on the road again, if I don't get there in time, what will happen if Your Majesty is injured!"
It's not that Shen Lingyan didn't think about it, but anyway, this matter has nothing to do with the other villagers in that village. If he took such a mighty group of people there, those who didn't know would think they were going to wipe out their village.
Zhou Jin also saw Shen Lingyan's embarrassment, so she spoke up and said: "Let's do it like this, take a small group of people to go with us, wait outside the village, and the king and His Majesty will enter the village together." After the concession was made, Dai Junwu couldn't insist on anything. He just selected the soldiers with the strongest martial arts skills to follow Shen Lingyan, and gave a death order: "Be sure to protect the safety of Your Majesty and the Regent. No way, see you soon."
Those soldiers kept those words firmly in their hearts and responded solemnly, standing by Shen Lingyan and Zhou Jin's side every step of the way.
"If that's the case, then let's go." Zhou Jin's thin lips parted slightly, and she almost wanted to say that she didn't need such protection, but in order to appear weaker so that Shen Lingyan could take care of herself more, she had to swallow those words forcefully.
Shen Lingyan didn't have any objections, so she walked away, but when she reached the mountain outside the village, the sky suddenly darkened without warning.
"Is it going to rain again?" Zhou Jin frowned in puzzlement, silently took an oil-paper umbrella from the soldier and followed Shen Lingyan, "It's rainy in summer, but why is it so much? The south of the Yangtze River is close, but it’s not the rainy season.”
Shen Lingyan has long felt that something is wrong, it was just sunny and sunny, but just after entering this mountain, it became cloudy, no matter how you think about it, something is wrong.
"I'm afraid you should be more careful. I don't know what other tricks the village chief has done." Now the only person who can explain this strange phenomenon is the village chief who can deceive the eyes.
"Slave servant sees this is not a trick." Yunzhu, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke, but this opening was bad news, "This mountain is surrounded by the river god's river, which means that the river has separated this mountain. Come on. A few days ago when I went down to Liangzhou, I felt that the temperature was not right when I just entered this mountain, and it was the same when the servants rode out of the forest on horseback. Now the weather is actually not right..."
Yunzhu racked her brains to recall these details, and provided the two ancestors with what she knew as much as possible. Shen Lingyan and Zhou Jin were not fools.Hearing Yun Zhu's words, the atmosphere instantly became frozen.
"Now I can only take one step at a time. Could it be possible that there really is a river god?" Shen Lingyan murmured to herself, whether she should say it or not, she was a little flustered now.
Zhou Jin was still heartless, she put her arms around Shen Lingyan's waist again, making an intimate gesture like a friend, she was willing to hug if she had nothing to do, and Shen Lingyan also changed from being shy at the beginning to being indifferent now.
Because this cunning fox Zhou Jin would say every time: "What's the matter, sister Your Majesty, isn't this a gesture of intimacy between friends?"
Shen Lingyan: ...
The road in the mountains is not easy to walk, because it has been raining for the past few days, everyone walked with muddy left and right feet, and finally came to the gate of the village during this trek.
"According to what I said before, you just wait outside." Shen Lingyan bent down and wiped off the big dirt on the embroidered shoes with a handkerchief, but she was speaking to the soldiers.
Those soldiers were still a little worried, they were afraid that Shen Lingyan would encounter some danger in the village, wouldn't they want to raise their heads to see Dai Junwu?
Zhou Jin glanced at the leading soldier lazily, the meaning was self-evident.The soldier didn't know why he was afraid of Zhou Jin, so he immediately changed his words after just one glance: "The subordinate is waiting for His Majesty outside the village, I hope His Majesty will pay more attention." Shen Lingyan nodded, and pulled Zhou Jin towards this familiar yet unfamiliar place. Village to go.
It's only been a day since we saw each other, and the village has become much quieter. The villagers have stopped coming out to enjoy the shade and chat, and even the large piece of land next to them is not working and weeding.
"What's the matter? It's not sweltering now, and there's no sun overhead. It stands to reason that all the villagers should come out to work." Shen Lingyan had an ominous premonition in his heart.
Zhou Jin, who likes to talk and tease, kept silent, and saw her speeding up to the front of Zhang's hut. In just a few days, a white silk was hung in front of Zhang's hut.
"What does this mean? That won't work, that Li Xiuxian is dead, and they still have to prepare a funeral for him?" Shen Lingyan still thought things were easy, she saw Zhou Jin's furrowed brows, and gently tugged on her sleeve: "What's wrong?"
"It's not easy." Zhou Jin left the words and pushed open the door of Zhang's hut and walked in. There was only the man surnamed Zhang and the crying woman in the pear blossom and rain, but Zhang Yiqiao was not there.
Although Shen Lingyan and Zhou Jin hated this family itchy, but now they can't care about so much, so they can only ask in a low voice: "What happened?"
Who knows that before they seek revenge from the Zhang family, the man surnamed Zhang stood up first, his eyes were red and angry: "Why did you come back?! Why did you come back alive! Do you know that my daughter will die if you come back?" gone."
Shen Lingyan, who listened to these words, was confused, and was also irritated by his attitude. He slapped the table with his hands, and his eyes widened: "Presumptuous! Do you know who you are talking to!! Could it be the regent? Is the life of a little girl in your family worthless?"
Shen Lingyan didn't know why Zhang Yiqiao's life was lost, but looking at the white silk all over the room, it didn't seem fake.
Perhaps until now, Shen Lingyan still does not believe that Zhang Yiqiao is dead. The woman grabbed the standing man with all her strength and walked forward by herself: "Your Majesty doesn't know... our Qiaoer just came back and disappeared. The sky is red and raining, it should be blood..." Seeing that the woman's words became more and more irrelevant, the man rushed over and covered the woman's mouth, and said in a bad tone: "Don't listen to her, what are you doing back? Is it the life of the family?"
There was no respect for the empress while speaking, like a broken jar.
Both Shen Lingyan and Zhou Jin let go of the burden of their identities at this moment, and they were not angry. They saw Zhou Jin walking over with a smile: "Does the king need to come in person for the lives of your family? I just wanted to come here to ask the teacher, but now This king discovered something more interesting."
The man and woman surnamed Zhang raised their heads in doubt, the woman's tears were still hanging on their faces.A quarter of an hour later, Zhou Jin and Shen Lingyan brought the man to the river.
"No! Don't come here! I don't!!!" When the woman opened her eyes and found that it was the river, she was so frightened that she tried to break free from Zhou Jin's rope like a madman. Zhou Jin tightened the rope with a smile.
Shen Lingyan originally wanted to say something, but suddenly felt a few drops of rain falling... Looking up, it turned out to be rain of blood falling all over the sky, falling on Shen Lingyan's dress, the original light pink dress turned dark red, There was no smell of blood on the tip of the nose, but the blood droplets fell on the fingers, but they bloomed like flowers on the other side.
"Is this the blood rain you mentioned?" Shen Lingyan stared at the blood drops falling from the sky with frown, could it be that the river god's theory is true! ?Shen Lingyan felt that her world view might be subverted again.She walked to Zhou Jin's side and tugged at the man's sleeve, the meaning was self-evident.
Zhou Jin took Shen Lingyan's hand with a big hand, and said soothingly: "Don't be afraid, sister Your Majesty, I think the blood rain is just some kind of strange weather phenomenon, and Zhang Yiqiao's death is really worth pondering."
These words successfully made Shen Lingyan slightly relieved. She raised the oil-paper umbrella she had taken from the soldier a long time ago, shared the same umbrella with Zhou Jin, and walked to the river to check the water.
The bloody water continuously fell from the sky and fell into the river, smudged, and the clear color of the entire river gradually turned dark red. When the bloody water merged with the river water, a thick bloody smell finally permeated. It's not a hallucination. When Shen Lingyan looked at the depths of the river, he seemed to see a figure in a complicated skirt, which looked familiar.This is... the wedding dress worn by Zhou Jin before?
"Zhou Jin..." Shen Lingyan suddenly said, Zhou Jin, who was studying the river, raised her head when she heard the words, smiled and tilted her head in response, her eyes were full of doubts, as if she was asking what's wrong.
"Where's your wedding dress?" When Shen Lingyan said this, a gust of wind blew by the river, and the wind was loud, making her voice smaller and smaller. Zhou Jin couldn't hear clearly, so she teased: " Daughter-in-law? The king's daughter-in-law, isn't this here?" She pointed at Shen Lingyan, smiling without any pressure, even though the rain of blood was getting bigger and bigger, and the original color of the oil-paper umbrella could no longer be seen clearly, which should have been a horrifying scene But being interrupted by this, he became a little blushing.
"Hi clothes!!!" Shen Lingyan couldn't get out of breath, stomped her feet with a blushing face, and the blood beads on the oiled paper umbrella kept rolling down, and the blood rain showed no sign of stopping.
Zhou Jin heard it clearly and stopped joking. She held her chin and thought for a while, still a little confused: "I haven't seen that dress since I got out of prison. What's wrong?"
Shen Lingyan pointed to the river with trembling fingers, and the figure was getting closer and closer, as if drifting here with the current. Zhou Jin took a closer look, and it really looked like her wedding dress.
"I'll go and fish it up." Zhou Jin took out a rope from nowhere, and stepped into the river again. The bone-chilling cold hit her leg, and she dragged him out with the rope.
It was a corpse that had been soaked and turned white, but because the time had not been too long, the appearance of the corpse could still be vaguely discerned. It was Zhang Yiqiao.Her delicate face was already a little swollen from blisters, which was terrifying.Shen Lingyan tried her best to resist the thought of throwing up, and turned to look at the Zhang family couple.
Sure enough, the Zhang family couple became even more excited. They were tied tightly to the tree, but now the rope has been loosened by their struggle.
The man's mouth was blocked by Zhou Jin, and now only the woman is yelling: "Qiaoer!! I finally saw you again for my mother, how is the river god treating you well? Hahahahahaha, it's fine, mother also Don't worry."
The woman asked and answered herself, as if she had already gone crazy, and before Zhou Jin got impatient, the woman yelled out, and she fell silent.Shen Lingyan held an oiled paper umbrella and walked over to check, and put her hand under the woman's nose, but she couldn't even test it out. She shook her head towards Zhou Jin, with obvious meaning.
Zhou Jin looked even more puzzled. She looked at the corpse and then at the Zhang family, as if she had made up her mind to search for something on Zhang Yiqiao's body with a handkerchief.
Although Shen Lingyan was very conflicted in her heart, she did not refute. Instead, she walked over and continued to hold the umbrella on top of Zhou Jin's head.
"Come and see!" I don't know how long it took, Shen Lingyan was a little bored, only to hear Zhou Jin speak suddenly.
Shen Lingyan perked up in an instant, followed her gaze, and saw that the collar of Zhang Yiqiao's wedding dress was pushed away from the inside, and a black mark appeared in front of them.
"What kind of imprint is this?" Shen Lingyan just came here not long ago, although she has begun to be familiar with all kinds of things in the court, but she still can't do everything.
Just like now when she saw such a mark, Zhou Jin frowned, but she was still in the fog.
Shen Lingyan looked at Zhou Jin's few frowns and unprecedented solemn expression, and a crazy desire to solve her problems rose in her heart. Shen Lingyan hoped that she would no longer be weak, not just to be the best empress ...
"It's the unique imprint of Yongli, a small country on the border." Zhou Jin's face was dark, and he looked in a bad mood.Shen Lingyan is also a little confused, isn't this on his own territory, how can there be imprints from other countries?Look at the Zhang family, all of them are locals.
The man surnamed Zhang was tied to a tree with his head down.Shen Lingyan showed the imprint to the man surnamed Zhang, and the man surnamed Zhang stared wide-eyed: "How is it possible!! Our Qiaoer has never had such a mark, this is not our Qiaoer!"
Shen Lingyan didn't dare to show him again for fear of driving him crazy again, but asked cautiously: "Are you sure Zhang Yiqiao didn't have such a mark before?"
The man nodded firmly.
Things became more complicated and confusing, Zhou Jin stood up slowly, and then Shen Lingyan guarded her back, Shen Lingyan opened her mouth to ask what's wrong with a dazed face, only to see thousands of arrows flying from the woods in all directions, aiming to see It seems clear that there is only one, kill yourself and Zhou Jin.
Zhou Jin was very skilled. She grabbed Shen Lingyan's waist and dodged around. At this moment, she didn't have a weapon in her hand, so she couldn't dodge with a weapon, so she had to rely on the blind spots of the arrows to dodge.
Looking back, the man surnamed Zhang had already died under the random arrows. In less than a day, the Zhang family was already dead...
There is too much movement here, and the soldiers guarding the gate of the village are always on high alert. When they heard the sound, they rushed over immediately. Around Jin and Shen Lingyan.
I don't know if it was because of the large number of soldiers here, the enemy's archers retreated one after another, the rain of arrows finally stopped, and there was still a faint scratch on Shen Lingyan's left arm.
Seeing this, Zhou Jin tore off a piece of cloth from the hem of the skirt, carefully wrapped it around Shen Lingyan's slender wound, and then applied the unknown herbal medicine, and the pain instantly decreased.
"Come on, let's go back to the palace."
The decorations on the carriage jingled, Shen Lingyan was already tired and fell into a deep sleep, Zhou Jin next to her was looking at her intently, and there was only this person in her eyes.
"After returning to the palace, I will teach you martial arts, and you will never be injured again." Zhou Jin said softly, not knowing whether to tell Shen Lingyan who was asleep or to herself.
Yunzhu was also very tired, leaning against the corner with her eyes closed, she and Shen Lingyan were both frowning, no one could stand the bumpy and exhausting work of the past few days.
Zhou Jin lifted the curtain of the carriage, looking at the weeds on the side of the road with killing intent in his eyes, even a small country on the border dared to be so rampant, this battle must not be fought.
On the way back to the palace, there was no such thing anymore. Thousands of guards guarded the carriage, only knowing that it was mighty, and the people in the city they passed knew everything.
Due to the many people walking, they slowed down and did not arrive at the imperial city until the evening of the second day. In midsummer, even though the sun had already set, there was no coolness at all. The maids gathered around Shen Lingyan and Zhou Jin with fans, surrounded by the crowd. Two enter the palace.
The first thing she did when she returned to Zhaohui Hall was to take a bath, Shen Lingyan couldn't bear it for a moment, the blood stains on her body could not be washed away by just rubbing.
Yunzhu was ordered by her to rest, and it was other maids who prepared water for Shen Lingyan. The steaming water was in the bath, sprinkled with rose petals that were said to be able to beautify the body. The bath, which was half the size of the playground, was only for Shen Lingyan alone. in use.
Originally, there were maids serving by the side, but Shen Lingyan drove them out because she was not used to it, and slowly took off her underwear and stepped into the bath by herself.
The slightly hot bath water soaked away Shen Lingyan's exhaustion. After taking a careful bath, she leaned against the edge of the bathtub and closed her eyes to take a rest.
I don't know how long it took before there was a slight movement by the window. After the past few days, Shen Lingyan, who was very nervous, had become very vigilant. She straightened up immediately, and reached out to find the short knife in the clothes by the bathtub. She didn't even think about getting dressed, she just stared at the window with apricot-like eyes.
Unexpectedly, in the next second, Shen Lingyan's eyes went dark, and then she was hugged horizontally by someone, and both of them lay down in the middle of the bath, splashing a lot of water.
"Who!!" Shen Lingyan waved the short knife in a panic, but she didn't know when the short knife had already been taken away, and instead she held a long whip.
"My empress, the long whip is more suitable for you." The deep and pleasant voice rang in Shen Lingyan's ears. After a trembling, she gradually felt relieved. This voice was all too familiar to her.
"Zhou Jin..." Shen Lingyan was so angry that she broke free from her arms, remembering that she hadn't put on any clothes yet, and was far away from her clothes, so she had to shrink into the water, only showing her head, carefully staring at the one in front of her who was only wearing a suit. Woman in white lingerie.
"What the hell are you going to do!" Zhou Jin was so angry that he swung the whip and splashed water onto Zhou Jin's face.
Zhou Jin closed her eyes very familiarly, and when Shen Lingyan finished venting, she opened her phoenix eyes and said with a smile: "Look, is a long whip more suitable for you... I'm here to give my sister a weapon. This whip is made of excellent material, and the handle is embedded with coral stones, it is also very good to take it off and blind the enemy's eyes when necessary."
With a dark face, Shen Lingyan looked at the whip in his hand, which was at least one or two meters long. The exquisite workmanship was indeed rare, and the handle seemed to be specially designed. I felt no discomfort when holding it in my hand, and even the jade handle was cold to the touch in summer. , Tentacles are warm in winter.
"But why are you still here?" Shen Lingyan turned his eyes and realized something was wrong, why didn't this guy leave after delivering the long whip?As a result, Zhou Jin refused to leave after hearing the words, and began to take off her clothes.
"You, you... What are you doing!" Shen Lingyan only felt that her face was flushed, what does this mean?Want to shower with her?
Zhou Jin blinked innocently: "Ah Jin's clothes are all wet, I just borrowed my sister's place to take a bath. You and I are both women, why is my sister shy?" Zhou Jin kept going to Shen Lingyan walked this way, and the water waves brought up slapped Shen Lingyan's skin.
Shen Lingyan didn't understand why she blushed even though there was nothing wrong with it.
"I'm not shy!" Shen Lingyan tried her best to cover up something, as if to prove it, she even took the initiative to walk towards Zhou Jin, and after only a few steps, she was immediately embraced by Zhou Jin.
Usually Zhou Jin often hugs her, but for some reason, now that both of them are not wearing any clothes, and their skin is pressed against each other's skin, this strange and strange feeling makes Shen Lingyan's face turn red again.
Shen Lingyan struggled to break free from her arms again, her face flushed anxiously: "Since you want to take a bath, then let me go and take a good bath by yourself."
Zhou Jin felt aggrieved again when she heard this, and picked up a handful of water with her slender hands and poured it on her white arms, mixed with a few rose petals, which made her skin whiter.
"I have long heard that rose petals have the effect of beautifying and beautifying the skin. Now I see that your majesty's sister's skin is so smooth, Ah Jin believes it." Zhou Jin even picked up water and splashed it on Shen Lingyan. Shen Lingyan, who was not at all prepared, was splashed Caught off guard, he looked at Zhou Jin with wide eyes.
"You are presumptuous!"
"A Jin was just being presumptuous to you."
After the words fell, the two of them did not speak for a long time. Shen Lingyan was always avoiding Zhou Jin intentionally or unintentionally, and had to get up and change in less than a quarter of an hour.
Just as she got her clothes and was about to walk into the bath, Zhou Jin grabbed Shen Lingyan's ankle from behind and dragged her directly into the bath.
There was another plop, and the water splashed all over again. Shen Lingyan was almost speechless, choked on a few sips of water and got a few rose petals on his face.
"Zhou Jin!!" Shen Lingyan's exasperated voice resounded through the room. Yunzhu, who had just rested, passed by here. Hearing such a scream, she was so frightened that she thought some assassin had come.
"Your Majesty!! Come here!!!! Escort!" Yunzhu shouted and ran in, but saw a very beautiful scene.
Both Zhou Jin and Shen Lingyan were naked, Zhou Jin held Shen Lingyan in her arms, and the empress was blushing, and their lower bodies were not in the water, making it difficult to see clearly.
"You, you... what are your majesty and your highness doing?" Yunzhu turned around subconsciously, not daring to look at the scenery in front of her. After an unknown amount of time, a chuckle sounded behind her.
Yunzhu turned around carefully, and saw Zhou Jin, who was neatly dressed, standing behind her, holding Shen Lingyan wrapped in brocade cloth in her arms.
"I don't know how you are slaves, don't you know the clothes you brought for His Majesty to change?" Zhou Jin smiled without showing any anger, but Shen Lingyan hammered Zhou Jin's shoulder with his hands in a rage.
Shen Lingyan: Isn't this man wearing his own clothes?
Unexpectedly, Zhou Jin who was beaten was not angry at all, but smiled and hugged Shen Lingyan back to Zhaohui Palace. The maids on the way turned around consciously when they saw this scene, but Shen Lingyan in Zhou Jin's arms roared unconsciously in her heart: "What are you doing turning around? We are two women, women!!!"
But Shen Lingyan couldn't let go of her face and shouted out, so she simply buried her face in Zhou Jin's arms and cursed in a low voice.Zhou Jin is like a masochist, as long as she is hit or scolded by Shen Lingyan, she will feel very happy, and even laugh out loud. The clear spring-like voice makes Zhou Jin smile charmingly.
Obviously, the distance from the bathing place to Zhaohui Hall is not very long, but Shen Lingyan feels that this journey is very long. After just taking a bath, there is already thin sweat on her forehead. It is already dark, and the only thing is The light that can be seen shines like crystal on her sweat beads.
Zhou Jin carried him to Zhaohui Hall, carefully placed him on the bed, took out the handkerchief embroidered with a little pattern to wipe Shen Lingyan's sweat, and teased Shen Lingyan.
"My sister is so heavy that I didn't even cry tired. Why is my sister blushing and sweating instead? Is it possible that I am tired from other things?" Zhou Jin wanted to move herself closer to Shen Lingyan as she said that In her eyes, she searched for signs of lying, making it look like the real thing.
Shen Lingyan rolled herself to the corner of the bed at once, covered her head with a thin enough golden silkworm quilt, and blushed so hard that she didn't dare to look at Zhou Jin.
There was still a little bit of anger in her heart, Shen Lingyan held back that breath, and said angrily under the quilt: "Do you think I'm too heavy, then don't hug me again in the future!"
Even Shen Lingyan didn't notice that when she said this, there was a trace of shyness in her heart.Zhou Jin was very panicked, and threw herself on the bed with a smile. It seemed that her daughter's family was arguing, but both of them blushed.
"Zhou Jin! You have the nerve to talk about me, and you are blushing too!" Shen Lingyan struggled to get out of the quilt, her hair was messy, and she grabbed Zhou Jin regardless of her image.
The two quarreled for a while, and they both lay down and stared at the delicate beam of the bed. Shen Lingyan sorted out her relationship with Zhou Jin in confusion.
friend?She is still the regent and holds half of the power in the court; the deadly enemy?No matter how you put it, it can be counted as being with me through life and death several times; monarch and minister?Shen Lingyan looked at Zhou Jin who was still playing with her hair, and immediately dismissed the idea.
How can it be!
Zhou Jin didn't care what Shen Lingyan was thinking at all, she stopped playing with her hair with her fingers, her eyes gradually darkened.The other hand took the long whip placed on the head of the bed, and handed it to Shen Lingyan: "Seriously, these recent events have made me understand the importance of martial arts. From now on, I will teach His Majesty how to use the whip, and there will be no delay."
Shen Lingyan stared blankly at the long whip she gave her. Although he had planned to learn martial arts after returning to the palace, he never thought it was a whip.
"Why is it a whip?" Shen Lingyan was puzzled, she couldn't even shake it, and it was easy to hit herself in the face.
"Keep the whip away and keep it small, don't wipe it every day, and..." Zhou Jin deliberately kept it off, turned her head and looked at Shen Lingyan seriously.
The suddenly serious Zhou Jin made her flustered, and she tentatively asked if there was anything else.
"It's beautiful! Sister Majesty, look, isn't it beautiful?" Zhou Jin took the whip back again and put it under the candlelight to watch.
The beads on it shone with soft light, which was beautiful to the eyes. Although Shen Lingyan had a dark face, she nodded unconsciously.
Obviously the two of them were still immersed in the wonderful brilliance of this bead. After a while, Zhou Jin's face changed, and she sat up solemnly: "I have never thought of the severity of the rebellion in a small country on the border. I used to think that time could slow down." Slow down, now is the time to send troops."
The topic style changed so quickly that Shen Lingyan couldn't catch up. She thought hard for a while, and looked at her thoughts in the long run: "Although so. But you didn't recruit soldiers from me before, and you didn't recruit food and grass. Send troops now Isn't it a bit sloppy?"
I don't know when, Shen Lingyan changed from calling herself "Zhen" to her now, and now he directly calls himself me. The change seems to be natural.
This week, Jin heard the words, and she also looked troubled. She didn't even feel like sitting on the bed. She stood up and walked around the Zhaohui Hall. Shen Lingyan, who was walking straight, felt dizzy.
"It's not too late to recruit from now on. Let's draw up some initial secret orders." Shen Lingyan rubbed her hands to express her anticipation. She also got off the bed and walked to the mahogany square table where the memorial was handled.
Yunzhu consciously came over to serve the pen and ink. The royal rice paper was spread out on the mahogany, and the brush was stained with thick ink and handed it to Shen Lingyan respectfully. She hurriedly wrote a few words on the rice paper. Zhou Jin Before she had time to read it, the secret decree had been covered by her.
At this time, the whole Zhaohui Palace was filled with the fragrance of pen, ink and paper lingering on the tip of her nose. Zhou Jin was not obsessed with what was written on the rice paper. A very trusting smile: "I believe in your majesty's sister."
After all, he didn't drag Shen Lingyan to continue entangled in this issue, but looked at the moonlight outside the courtyard, and the moon was hanging high, so it was not like the full moon that I saw at Zhang's house that day, but it was also full of styles meniscus.
After bathing, I should have wanted to rest, but the crescent moon touched my heartstrings. Zhou Jin looked forward to it: "How about sending Ah Jin to another crescent moon?"
Shen Lingyan instantly understood what she meant, her eyes were smiling like crescent moons, and that smiling gaze moved out of the window.
"Full moon, crescent moon... I'll give you whatever you want." Shen Lingyan knew why the domineering boss-like routine popped up in her mind, but the embarrassing thing was that she just said what was in her mind.
Zhou Jin laughed lightly when she heard the words, and then pressed her big hand up, rubbing her head, benevolently like an old father: "Whatever your Majesty wants, A Jin will try her best to give it. What is in A Jin's hands must be offered with both hands, and what others want The one in your hand, Ah Jin will also grab it for you."
After all, Shen Lingyan just stared at her silently, now who doesn't know that Shen Lingyan only wants the remaining half of the regime, but Zhou Jin still didn't say a word.
Now that the crescent moon is in the sky, Shen Lingyan didn't want to mention it at this time, so she had to endure it secretly, continued to curl her lips, and pulled Zhou Jin out.
As soon as they walked out of the door, the evening wind blew on the faces of the two of them. The maids had already heard the order and moved the small water tank to the courtyard, and the angle had already been adjusted. Among them, there is a cold light that belongs to the night.
"Actually, when Song Kang'an came with the scroll that day, I really panicked..." Shen Ling
The corners of Shen Lingyan's mouth curled up, she finally stopped worrying, sat down slowly, and stared at Song Kang'an: "Isn't this the evidence you want?"
Song Kang'an's face was a little dark, and he slowly turned his head to look at the well-mannered girls in Chunxingyuan, secretly scolding Li Xiuxian for killing him, and wanted to speak hard: "Your Majesty is too deceitful. Some brothel women want to frame our court officials? It means you would rather believe brothel women than governor Li Xiuxian, what is the reason for that?"
Song Kang'an is really out of his mind. He said Shen Lingyan so disregarding his face and identity, but it was only because his ancestors had iron scrolls of the founding heroes, which were very popular.
After he said these words, the atmosphere in the hall became solidified again, and even Dai Junwu had a headache because of him.
"I am the law of heaven." Shen Lingyan raised his legs, propped his chin with one hand, and played with the phoenix hairpin on his head with the other. He seemed to speak casually, but the volume spread throughout the hall. Dai Junwu looked a little dazed, Now that other important ministers in the court have followed Song Kang'an, Shen Lingyan's prestige this time is indeed the best.
Zhao Yinan saw Li Xiuxian who was kneeling on the ground trembling with anger. She knelt down in front of Shen Lingyan and showed the scar under her right earlobe with the other girls. That scene was chilling.
"The governor, Li Xiuxian, went to the street to rob civilian women. This is something everyone has seen. The scars under our ears were all forced by him a few days ago. If you don't believe me, please ask the doctor to verify!" Zhao Yinan hoarse Shouting, the heart-piercing feeling filled everyone's heart, Song Kang'an hated the iron and stomped on Li Xiuxian who was kneeling on the ground, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
Even though they are brothel girls, they are also performers but not their bodies, and they are even more clean. These girls are all because of Li Xiuxian's actions, and they have been reduced to become prostitutes who receive customers. They said everything they had.
Originally, with the belief that he would succeed, Song Kang'an came here with the book of the founding hero, but he encountered such an accident.He didn't expect Shen Lingyan to find other evidence even if he had a handle. When did this empress become so smart.
Not only Song Kang'an, but other ministers also felt the changes in Shen Lingyan. The corners of Zhou Jin's lips curled up behind the screen, looking at the current situation with satisfaction.
At this moment, a woman walked in from the side door of the Governor's Hall. The woman knelt down on the ground and told the story of Li Xiuxian's corruption word by word. Shen Lingyan took a closer look and found that the woman was Zhang Yiqiao's mother .
Behind the woman, there were many people who came to watch, but they were all stopped outside the governor's hall, and they attacked Li Xiuxian loudly.
"Dog officer Li Xiuxian! Dog officer Li Xiuxian!" Song Kang'an couldn't stand anymore after the crusade, and was about to sneak away with the book, but Shen Lingyan yelled: "Stop! You are the founding hero Now I am no longer the founding emperor, this book belongs to you and me. It is a piece of waste paper. Dai Junwu..."
Shen Lingyan called him.
Dai Junwu responded immediately, and then listened to Shen Lingyan's instructions: "The corrupt official Li Xiuxian, robbed the women of the people, lied to the court, put me and the regent in prison, and everything added up... Li Xiuxian punished his nine clans with chariots. "The voice was sonorous and powerful, resounding through the governor's hall, Song Kang'an's face turned pale, and he trembled his fingers: "Your Majesty!! How can you!?"
"I am the law of heaven."
As soon as the words fell, those soldiers surrounded Song Kang'an and Li Xiuxian one after another, and the thorn in their flesh was finally cleared away.
After this incident, all the ministers' views on Shen Lingyan changed a lot. After all, Li Xiuxian was originally charged with putting the emperor in prison. How could ordinary people bother to find other evidence, but Shen Lingyan was different. Not only did he consider everything, There was no help and deterrence from the regent throughout the whole process.
Shen Lingyan was also happy, originally thought it would be a matter of stalemate for a long time, but it was resolved in just a few hours.Shen Lingyan had never experienced such a sense of ease. Song Kang'an was not a big role in the first place, and he had been mediocre since he entered the court as an official. Now that his nine clans were being punished, no minister dared to refute.
After all, Song Kang'an protected a heinous person.
Shen Lingyan has also seen this plot in the original book, but it was only mentioned briefly. She just forced herself to become smarter. Zhou Jin has been helping her for the past few days, but Zhou Jin herself is also a big hidden danger.
"Your Majesty acted decisively, it really is not like before." A minister said with emotion.
Now that the dog official Li Xiuxian has been eliminated, the common people are also relieved and cheered one after another, from crusade to praise: "Long live Your Majesty the Empress!"
But when the ministers and common people gathered around to praise Shen Lingyan's decisive decision, the woman quietly stepped back and disappeared.
The next day, after settling the governor's matter, Shen Lingyan and Zhou Jin started looking for traces of the Zhang family after a night's rest.
Although the governor still fell into the French net after all, the Zhang family who deceived Shen Lingyan could not let it go.It was just because it was inconvenient for the river god to marry a wife to be made public, so Zhou Jin and Shen Lingyan decided to go back to the village alone without guards.
Dai Junwu stopped in front of Shen Lingyan with a face of embarrassment, and thought for a long time: "Your Majesty should bring a few guards, otherwise, if something happens on the road again, if I don't get there in time, what will happen if Your Majesty is injured!"
It's not that Shen Lingyan didn't think about it, but anyway, this matter has nothing to do with the other villagers in that village. If he took such a mighty group of people there, those who didn't know would think they were going to wipe out their village.
Zhou Jin also saw Shen Lingyan's embarrassment, so she spoke up and said: "Let's do it like this, take a small group of people to go with us, wait outside the village, and the king and His Majesty will enter the village together." After the concession was made, Dai Junwu couldn't insist on anything. He just selected the soldiers with the strongest martial arts skills to follow Shen Lingyan, and gave a death order: "Be sure to protect the safety of Your Majesty and the Regent. No way, see you soon."
Those soldiers kept those words firmly in their hearts and responded solemnly, standing by Shen Lingyan and Zhou Jin's side every step of the way.
"If that's the case, then let's go." Zhou Jin's thin lips parted slightly, and she almost wanted to say that she didn't need such protection, but in order to appear weaker so that Shen Lingyan could take care of herself more, she had to swallow those words forcefully.
Shen Lingyan didn't have any objections, so she walked away, but when she reached the mountain outside the village, the sky suddenly darkened without warning.
"Is it going to rain again?" Zhou Jin frowned in puzzlement, silently took an oil-paper umbrella from the soldier and followed Shen Lingyan, "It's rainy in summer, but why is it so much? The south of the Yangtze River is close, but it’s not the rainy season.”
Shen Lingyan has long felt that something is wrong, it was just sunny and sunny, but just after entering this mountain, it became cloudy, no matter how you think about it, something is wrong.
"I'm afraid you should be more careful. I don't know what other tricks the village chief has done." Now the only person who can explain this strange phenomenon is the village chief who can deceive the eyes.
"Slave servant sees this is not a trick." Yunzhu, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke, but this opening was bad news, "This mountain is surrounded by the river god's river, which means that the river has separated this mountain. Come on. A few days ago when I went down to Liangzhou, I felt that the temperature was not right when I just entered this mountain, and it was the same when the servants rode out of the forest on horseback. Now the weather is actually not right..."
Yunzhu racked her brains to recall these details, and provided the two ancestors with what she knew as much as possible. Shen Lingyan and Zhou Jin were not fools.Hearing Yun Zhu's words, the atmosphere instantly became frozen.
"Now I can only take one step at a time. Could it be possible that there really is a river god?" Shen Lingyan murmured to herself, whether she should say it or not, she was a little flustered now.
Zhou Jin was still heartless, she put her arms around Shen Lingyan's waist again, making an intimate gesture like a friend, she was willing to hug if she had nothing to do, and Shen Lingyan also changed from being shy at the beginning to being indifferent now.
Because this cunning fox Zhou Jin would say every time: "What's the matter, sister Your Majesty, isn't this a gesture of intimacy between friends?"
Shen Lingyan: ...
The road in the mountains is not easy to walk, because it has been raining for the past few days, everyone walked with muddy left and right feet, and finally came to the gate of the village during this trek.
"According to what I said before, you just wait outside." Shen Lingyan bent down and wiped off the big dirt on the embroidered shoes with a handkerchief, but she was speaking to the soldiers.
Those soldiers were still a little worried, they were afraid that Shen Lingyan would encounter some danger in the village, wouldn't they want to raise their heads to see Dai Junwu?
Zhou Jin glanced at the leading soldier lazily, the meaning was self-evident.The soldier didn't know why he was afraid of Zhou Jin, so he immediately changed his words after just one glance: "The subordinate is waiting for His Majesty outside the village, I hope His Majesty will pay more attention." Shen Lingyan nodded, and pulled Zhou Jin towards this familiar yet unfamiliar place. Village to go.
It's only been a day since we saw each other, and the village has become much quieter. The villagers have stopped coming out to enjoy the shade and chat, and even the large piece of land next to them is not working and weeding.
"What's the matter? It's not sweltering now, and there's no sun overhead. It stands to reason that all the villagers should come out to work." Shen Lingyan had an ominous premonition in his heart.
Zhou Jin, who likes to talk and tease, kept silent, and saw her speeding up to the front of Zhang's hut. In just a few days, a white silk was hung in front of Zhang's hut.
"What does this mean? That won't work, that Li Xiuxian is dead, and they still have to prepare a funeral for him?" Shen Lingyan still thought things were easy, she saw Zhou Jin's furrowed brows, and gently tugged on her sleeve: "What's wrong?"
"It's not easy." Zhou Jin left the words and pushed open the door of Zhang's hut and walked in. There was only the man surnamed Zhang and the crying woman in the pear blossom and rain, but Zhang Yiqiao was not there.
Although Shen Lingyan and Zhou Jin hated this family itchy, but now they can't care about so much, so they can only ask in a low voice: "What happened?"
Who knows that before they seek revenge from the Zhang family, the man surnamed Zhang stood up first, his eyes were red and angry: "Why did you come back?! Why did you come back alive! Do you know that my daughter will die if you come back?" gone."
Shen Lingyan, who listened to these words, was confused, and was also irritated by his attitude. He slapped the table with his hands, and his eyes widened: "Presumptuous! Do you know who you are talking to!! Could it be the regent? Is the life of a little girl in your family worthless?"
Shen Lingyan didn't know why Zhang Yiqiao's life was lost, but looking at the white silk all over the room, it didn't seem fake.
Perhaps until now, Shen Lingyan still does not believe that Zhang Yiqiao is dead. The woman grabbed the standing man with all her strength and walked forward by herself: "Your Majesty doesn't know... our Qiaoer just came back and disappeared. The sky is red and raining, it should be blood..." Seeing that the woman's words became more and more irrelevant, the man rushed over and covered the woman's mouth, and said in a bad tone: "Don't listen to her, what are you doing back? Is it the life of the family?"
There was no respect for the empress while speaking, like a broken jar.
Both Shen Lingyan and Zhou Jin let go of the burden of their identities at this moment, and they were not angry. They saw Zhou Jin walking over with a smile: "Does the king need to come in person for the lives of your family? I just wanted to come here to ask the teacher, but now This king discovered something more interesting."
The man and woman surnamed Zhang raised their heads in doubt, the woman's tears were still hanging on their faces.A quarter of an hour later, Zhou Jin and Shen Lingyan brought the man to the river.
"No! Don't come here! I don't!!!" When the woman opened her eyes and found that it was the river, she was so frightened that she tried to break free from Zhou Jin's rope like a madman. Zhou Jin tightened the rope with a smile.
Shen Lingyan originally wanted to say something, but suddenly felt a few drops of rain falling... Looking up, it turned out to be rain of blood falling all over the sky, falling on Shen Lingyan's dress, the original light pink dress turned dark red, There was no smell of blood on the tip of the nose, but the blood droplets fell on the fingers, but they bloomed like flowers on the other side.
"Is this the blood rain you mentioned?" Shen Lingyan stared at the blood drops falling from the sky with frown, could it be that the river god's theory is true! ?Shen Lingyan felt that her world view might be subverted again.She walked to Zhou Jin's side and tugged at the man's sleeve, the meaning was self-evident.
Zhou Jin took Shen Lingyan's hand with a big hand, and said soothingly: "Don't be afraid, sister Your Majesty, I think the blood rain is just some kind of strange weather phenomenon, and Zhang Yiqiao's death is really worth pondering."
These words successfully made Shen Lingyan slightly relieved. She raised the oil-paper umbrella she had taken from the soldier a long time ago, shared the same umbrella with Zhou Jin, and walked to the river to check the water.
The bloody water continuously fell from the sky and fell into the river, smudged, and the clear color of the entire river gradually turned dark red. When the bloody water merged with the river water, a thick bloody smell finally permeated. It's not a hallucination. When Shen Lingyan looked at the depths of the river, he seemed to see a figure in a complicated skirt, which looked familiar.This is... the wedding dress worn by Zhou Jin before?
"Zhou Jin..." Shen Lingyan suddenly said, Zhou Jin, who was studying the river, raised her head when she heard the words, smiled and tilted her head in response, her eyes were full of doubts, as if she was asking what's wrong.
"Where's your wedding dress?" When Shen Lingyan said this, a gust of wind blew by the river, and the wind was loud, making her voice smaller and smaller. Zhou Jin couldn't hear clearly, so she teased: " Daughter-in-law? The king's daughter-in-law, isn't this here?" She pointed at Shen Lingyan, smiling without any pressure, even though the rain of blood was getting bigger and bigger, and the original color of the oil-paper umbrella could no longer be seen clearly, which should have been a horrifying scene But being interrupted by this, he became a little blushing.
"Hi clothes!!!" Shen Lingyan couldn't get out of breath, stomped her feet with a blushing face, and the blood beads on the oiled paper umbrella kept rolling down, and the blood rain showed no sign of stopping.
Zhou Jin heard it clearly and stopped joking. She held her chin and thought for a while, still a little confused: "I haven't seen that dress since I got out of prison. What's wrong?"
Shen Lingyan pointed to the river with trembling fingers, and the figure was getting closer and closer, as if drifting here with the current. Zhou Jin took a closer look, and it really looked like her wedding dress.
"I'll go and fish it up." Zhou Jin took out a rope from nowhere, and stepped into the river again. The bone-chilling cold hit her leg, and she dragged him out with the rope.
It was a corpse that had been soaked and turned white, but because the time had not been too long, the appearance of the corpse could still be vaguely discerned. It was Zhang Yiqiao.Her delicate face was already a little swollen from blisters, which was terrifying.Shen Lingyan tried her best to resist the thought of throwing up, and turned to look at the Zhang family couple.
Sure enough, the Zhang family couple became even more excited. They were tied tightly to the tree, but now the rope has been loosened by their struggle.
The man's mouth was blocked by Zhou Jin, and now only the woman is yelling: "Qiaoer!! I finally saw you again for my mother, how is the river god treating you well? Hahahahahaha, it's fine, mother also Don't worry."
The woman asked and answered herself, as if she had already gone crazy, and before Zhou Jin got impatient, the woman yelled out, and she fell silent.Shen Lingyan held an oiled paper umbrella and walked over to check, and put her hand under the woman's nose, but she couldn't even test it out. She shook her head towards Zhou Jin, with obvious meaning.
Zhou Jin looked even more puzzled. She looked at the corpse and then at the Zhang family, as if she had made up her mind to search for something on Zhang Yiqiao's body with a handkerchief.
Although Shen Lingyan was very conflicted in her heart, she did not refute. Instead, she walked over and continued to hold the umbrella on top of Zhou Jin's head.
"Come and see!" I don't know how long it took, Shen Lingyan was a little bored, only to hear Zhou Jin speak suddenly.
Shen Lingyan perked up in an instant, followed her gaze, and saw that the collar of Zhang Yiqiao's wedding dress was pushed away from the inside, and a black mark appeared in front of them.
"What kind of imprint is this?" Shen Lingyan just came here not long ago, although she has begun to be familiar with all kinds of things in the court, but she still can't do everything.
Just like now when she saw such a mark, Zhou Jin frowned, but she was still in the fog.
Shen Lingyan looked at Zhou Jin's few frowns and unprecedented solemn expression, and a crazy desire to solve her problems rose in her heart. Shen Lingyan hoped that she would no longer be weak, not just to be the best empress ...
"It's the unique imprint of Yongli, a small country on the border." Zhou Jin's face was dark, and he looked in a bad mood.Shen Lingyan is also a little confused, isn't this on his own territory, how can there be imprints from other countries?Look at the Zhang family, all of them are locals.
The man surnamed Zhang was tied to a tree with his head down.Shen Lingyan showed the imprint to the man surnamed Zhang, and the man surnamed Zhang stared wide-eyed: "How is it possible!! Our Qiaoer has never had such a mark, this is not our Qiaoer!"
Shen Lingyan didn't dare to show him again for fear of driving him crazy again, but asked cautiously: "Are you sure Zhang Yiqiao didn't have such a mark before?"
The man nodded firmly.
Things became more complicated and confusing, Zhou Jin stood up slowly, and then Shen Lingyan guarded her back, Shen Lingyan opened her mouth to ask what's wrong with a dazed face, only to see thousands of arrows flying from the woods in all directions, aiming to see It seems clear that there is only one, kill yourself and Zhou Jin.
Zhou Jin was very skilled. She grabbed Shen Lingyan's waist and dodged around. At this moment, she didn't have a weapon in her hand, so she couldn't dodge with a weapon, so she had to rely on the blind spots of the arrows to dodge.
Looking back, the man surnamed Zhang had already died under the random arrows. In less than a day, the Zhang family was already dead...
There is too much movement here, and the soldiers guarding the gate of the village are always on high alert. When they heard the sound, they rushed over immediately. Around Jin and Shen Lingyan.
I don't know if it was because of the large number of soldiers here, the enemy's archers retreated one after another, the rain of arrows finally stopped, and there was still a faint scratch on Shen Lingyan's left arm.
Seeing this, Zhou Jin tore off a piece of cloth from the hem of the skirt, carefully wrapped it around Shen Lingyan's slender wound, and then applied the unknown herbal medicine, and the pain instantly decreased.
"Come on, let's go back to the palace."
The decorations on the carriage jingled, Shen Lingyan was already tired and fell into a deep sleep, Zhou Jin next to her was looking at her intently, and there was only this person in her eyes.
"After returning to the palace, I will teach you martial arts, and you will never be injured again." Zhou Jin said softly, not knowing whether to tell Shen Lingyan who was asleep or to herself.
Yunzhu was also very tired, leaning against the corner with her eyes closed, she and Shen Lingyan were both frowning, no one could stand the bumpy and exhausting work of the past few days.
Zhou Jin lifted the curtain of the carriage, looking at the weeds on the side of the road with killing intent in his eyes, even a small country on the border dared to be so rampant, this battle must not be fought.
On the way back to the palace, there was no such thing anymore. Thousands of guards guarded the carriage, only knowing that it was mighty, and the people in the city they passed knew everything.
Due to the many people walking, they slowed down and did not arrive at the imperial city until the evening of the second day. In midsummer, even though the sun had already set, there was no coolness at all. The maids gathered around Shen Lingyan and Zhou Jin with fans, surrounded by the crowd. Two enter the palace.
The first thing she did when she returned to Zhaohui Hall was to take a bath, Shen Lingyan couldn't bear it for a moment, the blood stains on her body could not be washed away by just rubbing.
Yunzhu was ordered by her to rest, and it was other maids who prepared water for Shen Lingyan. The steaming water was in the bath, sprinkled with rose petals that were said to be able to beautify the body. The bath, which was half the size of the playground, was only for Shen Lingyan alone. in use.
Originally, there were maids serving by the side, but Shen Lingyan drove them out because she was not used to it, and slowly took off her underwear and stepped into the bath by herself.
The slightly hot bath water soaked away Shen Lingyan's exhaustion. After taking a careful bath, she leaned against the edge of the bathtub and closed her eyes to take a rest.
I don't know how long it took before there was a slight movement by the window. After the past few days, Shen Lingyan, who was very nervous, had become very vigilant. She straightened up immediately, and reached out to find the short knife in the clothes by the bathtub. She didn't even think about getting dressed, she just stared at the window with apricot-like eyes.
Unexpectedly, in the next second, Shen Lingyan's eyes went dark, and then she was hugged horizontally by someone, and both of them lay down in the middle of the bath, splashing a lot of water.
"Who!!" Shen Lingyan waved the short knife in a panic, but she didn't know when the short knife had already been taken away, and instead she held a long whip.
"My empress, the long whip is more suitable for you." The deep and pleasant voice rang in Shen Lingyan's ears. After a trembling, she gradually felt relieved. This voice was all too familiar to her.
"Zhou Jin..." Shen Lingyan was so angry that she broke free from her arms, remembering that she hadn't put on any clothes yet, and was far away from her clothes, so she had to shrink into the water, only showing her head, carefully staring at the one in front of her who was only wearing a suit. Woman in white lingerie.
"What the hell are you going to do!" Zhou Jin was so angry that he swung the whip and splashed water onto Zhou Jin's face.
Zhou Jin closed her eyes very familiarly, and when Shen Lingyan finished venting, she opened her phoenix eyes and said with a smile: "Look, is a long whip more suitable for you... I'm here to give my sister a weapon. This whip is made of excellent material, and the handle is embedded with coral stones, it is also very good to take it off and blind the enemy's eyes when necessary."
With a dark face, Shen Lingyan looked at the whip in his hand, which was at least one or two meters long. The exquisite workmanship was indeed rare, and the handle seemed to be specially designed. I felt no discomfort when holding it in my hand, and even the jade handle was cold to the touch in summer. , Tentacles are warm in winter.
"But why are you still here?" Shen Lingyan turned his eyes and realized something was wrong, why didn't this guy leave after delivering the long whip?As a result, Zhou Jin refused to leave after hearing the words, and began to take off her clothes.
"You, you... What are you doing!" Shen Lingyan only felt that her face was flushed, what does this mean?Want to shower with her?
Zhou Jin blinked innocently: "Ah Jin's clothes are all wet, I just borrowed my sister's place to take a bath. You and I are both women, why is my sister shy?" Zhou Jin kept going to Shen Lingyan walked this way, and the water waves brought up slapped Shen Lingyan's skin.
Shen Lingyan didn't understand why she blushed even though there was nothing wrong with it.
"I'm not shy!" Shen Lingyan tried her best to cover up something, as if to prove it, she even took the initiative to walk towards Zhou Jin, and after only a few steps, she was immediately embraced by Zhou Jin.
Usually Zhou Jin often hugs her, but for some reason, now that both of them are not wearing any clothes, and their skin is pressed against each other's skin, this strange and strange feeling makes Shen Lingyan's face turn red again.
Shen Lingyan struggled to break free from her arms again, her face flushed anxiously: "Since you want to take a bath, then let me go and take a good bath by yourself."
Zhou Jin felt aggrieved again when she heard this, and picked up a handful of water with her slender hands and poured it on her white arms, mixed with a few rose petals, which made her skin whiter.
"I have long heard that rose petals have the effect of beautifying and beautifying the skin. Now I see that your majesty's sister's skin is so smooth, Ah Jin believes it." Zhou Jin even picked up water and splashed it on Shen Lingyan. Shen Lingyan, who was not at all prepared, was splashed Caught off guard, he looked at Zhou Jin with wide eyes.
"You are presumptuous!"
"A Jin was just being presumptuous to you."
After the words fell, the two of them did not speak for a long time. Shen Lingyan was always avoiding Zhou Jin intentionally or unintentionally, and had to get up and change in less than a quarter of an hour.
Just as she got her clothes and was about to walk into the bath, Zhou Jin grabbed Shen Lingyan's ankle from behind and dragged her directly into the bath.
There was another plop, and the water splashed all over again. Shen Lingyan was almost speechless, choked on a few sips of water and got a few rose petals on his face.
"Zhou Jin!!" Shen Lingyan's exasperated voice resounded through the room. Yunzhu, who had just rested, passed by here. Hearing such a scream, she was so frightened that she thought some assassin had come.
"Your Majesty!! Come here!!!! Escort!" Yunzhu shouted and ran in, but saw a very beautiful scene.
Both Zhou Jin and Shen Lingyan were naked, Zhou Jin held Shen Lingyan in her arms, and the empress was blushing, and their lower bodies were not in the water, making it difficult to see clearly.
"You, you... what are your majesty and your highness doing?" Yunzhu turned around subconsciously, not daring to look at the scenery in front of her. After an unknown amount of time, a chuckle sounded behind her.
Yunzhu turned around carefully, and saw Zhou Jin, who was neatly dressed, standing behind her, holding Shen Lingyan wrapped in brocade cloth in her arms.
"I don't know how you are slaves, don't you know the clothes you brought for His Majesty to change?" Zhou Jin smiled without showing any anger, but Shen Lingyan hammered Zhou Jin's shoulder with his hands in a rage.
Shen Lingyan: Isn't this man wearing his own clothes?
Unexpectedly, Zhou Jin who was beaten was not angry at all, but smiled and hugged Shen Lingyan back to Zhaohui Palace. The maids on the way turned around consciously when they saw this scene, but Shen Lingyan in Zhou Jin's arms roared unconsciously in her heart: "What are you doing turning around? We are two women, women!!!"
But Shen Lingyan couldn't let go of her face and shouted out, so she simply buried her face in Zhou Jin's arms and cursed in a low voice.Zhou Jin is like a masochist, as long as she is hit or scolded by Shen Lingyan, she will feel very happy, and even laugh out loud. The clear spring-like voice makes Zhou Jin smile charmingly.
Obviously, the distance from the bathing place to Zhaohui Hall is not very long, but Shen Lingyan feels that this journey is very long. After just taking a bath, there is already thin sweat on her forehead. It is already dark, and the only thing is The light that can be seen shines like crystal on her sweat beads.
Zhou Jin carried him to Zhaohui Hall, carefully placed him on the bed, took out the handkerchief embroidered with a little pattern to wipe Shen Lingyan's sweat, and teased Shen Lingyan.
"My sister is so heavy that I didn't even cry tired. Why is my sister blushing and sweating instead? Is it possible that I am tired from other things?" Zhou Jin wanted to move herself closer to Shen Lingyan as she said that In her eyes, she searched for signs of lying, making it look like the real thing.
Shen Lingyan rolled herself to the corner of the bed at once, covered her head with a thin enough golden silkworm quilt, and blushed so hard that she didn't dare to look at Zhou Jin.
There was still a little bit of anger in her heart, Shen Lingyan held back that breath, and said angrily under the quilt: "Do you think I'm too heavy, then don't hug me again in the future!"
Even Shen Lingyan didn't notice that when she said this, there was a trace of shyness in her heart.Zhou Jin was very panicked, and threw herself on the bed with a smile. It seemed that her daughter's family was arguing, but both of them blushed.
"Zhou Jin! You have the nerve to talk about me, and you are blushing too!" Shen Lingyan struggled to get out of the quilt, her hair was messy, and she grabbed Zhou Jin regardless of her image.
The two quarreled for a while, and they both lay down and stared at the delicate beam of the bed. Shen Lingyan sorted out her relationship with Zhou Jin in confusion.
friend?She is still the regent and holds half of the power in the court; the deadly enemy?No matter how you put it, it can be counted as being with me through life and death several times; monarch and minister?Shen Lingyan looked at Zhou Jin who was still playing with her hair, and immediately dismissed the idea.
How can it be!
Zhou Jin didn't care what Shen Lingyan was thinking at all, she stopped playing with her hair with her fingers, her eyes gradually darkened.The other hand took the long whip placed on the head of the bed, and handed it to Shen Lingyan: "Seriously, these recent events have made me understand the importance of martial arts. From now on, I will teach His Majesty how to use the whip, and there will be no delay."
Shen Lingyan stared blankly at the long whip she gave her. Although he had planned to learn martial arts after returning to the palace, he never thought it was a whip.
"Why is it a whip?" Shen Lingyan was puzzled, she couldn't even shake it, and it was easy to hit herself in the face.
"Keep the whip away and keep it small, don't wipe it every day, and..." Zhou Jin deliberately kept it off, turned her head and looked at Shen Lingyan seriously.
The suddenly serious Zhou Jin made her flustered, and she tentatively asked if there was anything else.
"It's beautiful! Sister Majesty, look, isn't it beautiful?" Zhou Jin took the whip back again and put it under the candlelight to watch.
The beads on it shone with soft light, which was beautiful to the eyes. Although Shen Lingyan had a dark face, she nodded unconsciously.
Obviously the two of them were still immersed in the wonderful brilliance of this bead. After a while, Zhou Jin's face changed, and she sat up solemnly: "I have never thought of the severity of the rebellion in a small country on the border. I used to think that time could slow down." Slow down, now is the time to send troops."
The topic style changed so quickly that Shen Lingyan couldn't catch up. She thought hard for a while, and looked at her thoughts in the long run: "Although so. But you didn't recruit soldiers from me before, and you didn't recruit food and grass. Send troops now Isn't it a bit sloppy?"
I don't know when, Shen Lingyan changed from calling herself "Zhen" to her now, and now he directly calls himself me. The change seems to be natural.
This week, Jin heard the words, and she also looked troubled. She didn't even feel like sitting on the bed. She stood up and walked around the Zhaohui Hall. Shen Lingyan, who was walking straight, felt dizzy.
"It's not too late to recruit from now on. Let's draw up some initial secret orders." Shen Lingyan rubbed her hands to express her anticipation. She also got off the bed and walked to the mahogany square table where the memorial was handled.
Yunzhu consciously came over to serve the pen and ink. The royal rice paper was spread out on the mahogany, and the brush was stained with thick ink and handed it to Shen Lingyan respectfully. She hurriedly wrote a few words on the rice paper. Zhou Jin Before she had time to read it, the secret decree had been covered by her.
At this time, the whole Zhaohui Palace was filled with the fragrance of pen, ink and paper lingering on the tip of her nose. Zhou Jin was not obsessed with what was written on the rice paper. A very trusting smile: "I believe in your majesty's sister."
After all, he didn't drag Shen Lingyan to continue entangled in this issue, but looked at the moonlight outside the courtyard, and the moon was hanging high, so it was not like the full moon that I saw at Zhang's house that day, but it was also full of styles meniscus.
After bathing, I should have wanted to rest, but the crescent moon touched my heartstrings. Zhou Jin looked forward to it: "How about sending Ah Jin to another crescent moon?"
Shen Lingyan instantly understood what she meant, her eyes were smiling like crescent moons, and that smiling gaze moved out of the window.
"Full moon, crescent moon... I'll give you whatever you want." Shen Lingyan knew why the domineering boss-like routine popped up in her mind, but the embarrassing thing was that she just said what was in her mind.
Zhou Jin laughed lightly when she heard the words, and then pressed her big hand up, rubbing her head, benevolently like an old father: "Whatever your Majesty wants, A Jin will try her best to give it. What is in A Jin's hands must be offered with both hands, and what others want The one in your hand, Ah Jin will also grab it for you."
After all, Shen Lingyan just stared at her silently, now who doesn't know that Shen Lingyan only wants the remaining half of the regime, but Zhou Jin still didn't say a word.
Now that the crescent moon is in the sky, Shen Lingyan didn't want to mention it at this time, so she had to endure it secretly, continued to curl her lips, and pulled Zhou Jin out.
As soon as they walked out of the door, the evening wind blew on the faces of the two of them. The maids had already heard the order and moved the small water tank to the courtyard, and the angle had already been adjusted. Among them, there is a cold light that belongs to the night.
"Actually, when Song Kang'an came with the scroll that day, I really panicked..." Shen Ling
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