I Rely on Beauty to Stabilize the Country - Chap 111
Early the next morning, when the palace attendant tied up Gu Yuanbai’s hair, he said “Hey” and said in surprise: “Your Majesty, there is a red mark behind your ear!”
Gu Yuanbai’s face was solemn and he didn’t react at all to what he said. Tian Fusheng took a closer look and took a breath of air. What’s weird is that there is a mark the size of a thumb right behind the Holy Master’s ear. The mark is red and purple, and it’s even more frightening on his fair skin. “It wasn’t there before going to bed yesterday. Could it be an insect bite?”
But there are no bugs at this time of year, and they serve His Majesty so well. It’s impossible.
The position behind the ears is hidden. If it weren’t for the purpose of tying the Holy Master’s hair, the palace attendants would not see it. Gu Yuanbai looked at himself in the bronze mirror, his face must not look good anyway, he sneered, “Put a mirror behind you, let me take a look.”
The servants found a transparent mirror and put it behind their backs so that the Holy Master could look at the traces behind his ears through the bronze mirror in front of them. The bronze mirror was a little blurry, but a red mark the size of a thumb could still be seen. Gu Yuanbai sneered several times when he touched the red mark.
When he was in northern Xinjiang, he heard that Gu Yuanbai wanted to take a concubine, so he galloped back to kiss him and touch him to reassure him. The wolf in the house had obscene words written all over his neck, more or less, large and small, but in the middle of the night he opened the window and licked his earlobe?
They are all adults now, Gu Yuanbai thought to himself, Xue Jiuyao, you still pretend to be innocent.
“Your Majesty, your ears are also red.” The little eunuch with sharp eyes almost cried in fright. “You can see bloodshot eyes.”
Gu Yuanbai was stunned, “I didn’t feel any pain.”
In the end, Gu Yuanbai did not ask Tian Fusheng to call the imperial doctor, but only asked him to apply some ointment on himself. When the long hair is draped behind the back, nothing can be seen.
Xue Mansion had already prepared breakfast. When Gu Yuanbai walked out of the bedroom, he turned a few corners along the corridor and heard a sharp sound of breaking through the air in front of him. He walked forward and took a look, and saw Xue Yuan waved the scimitar given by the emperor in the open space.
The scimitar was slender and had a delicate arc, like a curved Tang sword. When Xue Yuan held it in his hand, it made a sound of wind and danced like a tiger.
Gu Yuanbai stood at the corner, with a boy holding Xue Yuan’s clothes and a scabbard beside him. They were about to salute hurriedly when they saw the Holy One. Gu Yuanbai raised his hand to stop it, and still looked at Xue Yuan without moving. There was a mixture of joy and anger in his eyes, “Your eldest son comes here so early every day to practice martial arts?”
“You have to practice every day, but the eldest son got up at 1:00 this morning and has been practicing until now,” the young man said cautiously, “I have never done it so early before.”
In fact, Xue Yuan didn’t sleep all night.
But no one could tell that Xue Yuan had not slept all night. When Gu Yuanbai saw him now, he felt unhappy in his heart. He was about to leave, but Xue Yuan heard his footsteps. He turned around and put away the big knife in his hand. He strode forward and clasped his fists in salute: “Your Majesty.”
He paused and said nonchalantly: “Did you sleep well last night, Your Majesty?”
Gu Yuanbai asked back: “How did Xue Qing sleep last night?”
Xue Yuan’s eyes flashed, “Okay.”
Gu Yuanbai curled his lips and sneered silently, not wanting to see his face again, so he raised his steps and led everyone past him.
Xue Yuan took the scabbard from the boy’s hand, put away the scimitar, and then quickly followed the Lord, “The Lord has not had breakfast yet, but I have already ordered the cook to prepare yam porridge. The Lord can Warm your stomach with a small bowl first.”
The Holy Emperor didn’t seem to hear him. Tian Fusheng took the opportunity to grab Xue Yuan and complained: “Master Xue, is there anything unclean in your house?”
Xue Yuan stiffened, then relaxed, “Mr. Tian, what do you say?”
Tian Fusheng lowered his voice, “Mr. There are a few strands of blood oozing out of my right ear. It looks fine from the outside, but it looks like it’s bleeding from the inside, but Your Majesty doesn’t feel any pain. What’s this weird thing? ”
Bloodshot? Xue Yuan’s frown could kill a mosquito.
Can’t you bear the intensity?
Tian Fusheng was also thinking: “The Holy One fell asleep, how could it be like this?”
For a while, everyone was immersed in thinking and could not speak.
*
Gu Yuanbai returned to the palace after having breakfast in Xue Mansion. As soon as he left, Chang Yuyan entered the Xue Mansion and saw Xue Yuan sitting on the main seat having a meal.
Chang Yuyan raised his eyebrows and smiled, “It’s better to come by chance than by chance. If you come, please bring me bowls and chopsticks as well.”
The boy led him to sit down and said, “Mr. Chang, our eldest son’s bowl and chopsticks have not been used. You can use them.”
San Yuyan was surprised and pointed to the cup and chopsticks in Xue Yuan’s hand, “Since this belongs to your eldest son, whose eldest son is using it?”
The boy didn’t say a word, lowered his head and retreated.
San Yuyan wanted to ask again, but Xue Yuan quickly pulled out a dagger from his arms. The cold light shone and the sharp edge reflected on San Yuyan’s face. The man holding the dagger didn’t think anything and asked in a normal tone. :”What do you want to eat?”
San Yuyan held back his words, “Anything is fine.”
Xue Yuan picked up a fruit and passed it through the dagger. He raised his hand and the dagger flew over the long table and inserted into the wooden table in front of Chang Yuyan with a “ding-” sound.
“You lied to me, Chang Yuyan,” Xue Yuan said. “On the day you and the Holy One played chess at the Summer Palace, the Holy One clearly talked about me to you.”
San Yuyan was nervous and blurted out: “Don’t listen to other people’s nonsense——”
“I don’t know if it’s nonsense,” Xue Yuan smiled, very gently, “but it’s true that you don’t want me to have more contact with the Holy One.”
San Yuyan was speechless, Xue Yuan lowered his head and finished the last mouthful of yam porridge, stood up, walked across the long table, and pulled out the dagger. Just hearing a long “buzz” sound, Xue Yuan took the fruit off the dagger and put it into Chang Yuyan’s hand.
The sticky and tooth-ache-inducing astringency flowing out of the fruit slowly dissipated, and the juice stained San Yuyan’s hands.
“This dagger should be familiar to you.” The servant standing in front of you happens to be at the dinner table.”
“I will do whatever you ask me to do. Your parents and elders are all present at the dinner table. I spread the fingers of the slave’s hand and pressed it down. I inserted the dagger between his fingers and asked you if this knife was broken. His whole hand was broken, and one of his fingers was broken.”
San Yuyan squeezed the fruit tightly, his cuffs were soaked, and he smiled: “Jiuyao, our temperaments have been at odds since childhood. We have always been tit for tat, and we are incompatible. But you and I are also young friends, and we are the same as each other. No one is better than the other. powerful.”
Xue Yuan also laughed, “You said you would be merciful and merciful. You would not cut off people’s fingers. The slave was so excited that he cried and was grateful to you. The next day, you took the person to the lake. Let the slave choose, either to throw himself into the lake and die, or to cut off one of his hands and one of his tongue.”
Sanyu said: “It happened when I was young, there is no need to mention it now.”
“Shang Yuyan, you have a very bad heart,” Xue Yuan whispered, “But look, no matter how hard-hearted you are, you are still afraid when I take out a dagger. You have been afraid since you were a child.”
The smile at the corner of San Yuyan’s mouth slowly faded and he straightened his lips. The handsome young master also turned expressionless at this moment.
“I talked about me with the Holy One, but didn’t dare to tell me,” Xue Yuan chuckled a few times and patted Chang Yuyan on the shoulder, “Yuyan, you are a bit more childish this time.”
San Yuyan moved his mouth: “I will never harm you.”
Xue Yuan: “There are no shortage of small tricks.”
“But yes, you can continue,” he continued slowly. San Yuyan was stunned when he heard this, and looked up at him. Xue Yuan’s dark eyes were heavy, and he pulled his lips condescendingly, “There is a cultured person who is jealous of me, and I am happy.”
*
After Gu Yuanbai returned to the palace, Tian Fusheng applied medicine again.
Tian Fusheng had not yet reached the point where his eyes were dim. The more he applied the medicine, the weirder he felt. He hesitated for a moment and said hesitantly: “Your Majesty, the mark behind your ear seems to have been sucked out.”
Gu Yuanbai said neither salty nor bland, “Yeah.”
Tian Fusheng understood in his heart and stopped asking any more questions, concentrating on applying the medicine to the saint.
The smell of ointment covered up the smell of spices in the palace. After the smell of ointment dissipated, Gu Yuanbai smelled something wrong and asked, “Why is this fragrance different from the previous one?”
The palace attendant who burned the incense stepped forward and replied: “Your Majesty, this is the spice offered by Xixia. It is said to be their national incense. The imperial doctor from the Imperial Hospital said that this incense has the effect of refreshing and calming the spirit, so the servant lit it. ”
Gu Yuanbai nodded, “The taste is quite good. Xixia really made a big deal this time.”
“The apology was sent to the capital first, and the ransom was still on the way with the Xixia people,” Tian Fusheng said in a low voice, “Your Majesty, listen to the people along the way, Xixia really brought a lot of things this time. They have already We have been gone for two or three months, and the second prince of Xixia is still in the lead.”
Gu Yuanbai leaned on the back of his chair, closed his eyes and tapped the table regularly, “The second prince of Xixia?”
“The second prince of Xixia is named Li Angyi,” Tian Fusheng said. “This person is different from the seventh prince of Xixia, Li Angshun. He comes from a humble background and is not loved by the emperor of Xixia. He has been helpless since he was a child, but he has a tough life and lives a long life.” Because of his gentle temper and cowardice, no one in the Xixia royal family paid much attention to him. They would only think of the second prince when they needed him. ”
“Just like this time, this thankless task was left to the Second Prince of Xixia,” Gu Yuanbai understood, and he smiled, “I don’t care about this matter, I’m wondering about another thing.”
Gu Yuanbai frowned and murmured: “How could Xixia pay compensation so simply and neatly…”
Didn’t even make a counteroffer.
This is even more puzzling than when Xue Yuan walked into Gu Yuanbai’s room in the middle of the night and did nothing.
