Yi Huan lowered his head and followed the palace maid, looking cautious.
Zhaohua asked the little eunuch beside him: "Who is that?"
"Back to Your Highness, that is General Lin's wife, Mrs. Yi."
Zhaohua pondered for a while: "It's the one who caused a lot of trouble recently..."
Seeing her submissive look, Zhaohua showed contempt in his eyes and said, "She's just an ignorant housewife. Why did she enter the palace?"
The young eunuch replied: "She entered the palace with a warrant from Tang's concubine. As for why she entered the palace, I don't know."
Zhaohua snorted coldly: "My imperial brother is not easy to get along with. He has sided with this woman again and again... There must be something that I don't know about."
Zhaohua planned to send someone to follow Yi Huan privately after she returned home to investigate, maybe they could catch something against her imperial brother.
*
Yi Huan was taken to the side hall of Linde Hall by the palace maid.
Yi Huan called the palace maid and said: "Sister, this is His Majesty's handkerchief. Can you please help me transfer it to Your Majesty? There is also this land deed, which is the ancestral home worth thirty thousand taels. Please also transfer it to my sister."
The palace maid belonged to Zhang Desheng. After hearing this, she hesitated for a while, then reached out to take it. She said: "Madam, please wait here for a while, and I will go and report."
"good."
In the imperial study room.
Jin Yuan saw the bright yellow silk handkerchief and asked, "Did she ask you to hand it over?"
The palace maid knelt on the ground and replied: "Madam asked me to hand it over, as well as the land deed. Madam said it was an ancestral home worth thirty thousand taels."
It is clear that the little woman wants to distance herself from him.
The man stroked the silky handkerchief with his fingertips. He was not angry and whispered: "Isn't it so insincere that you don't come back in person to return the things?"
He threw the veil back to the palace maid and said, "Tell her to return it in person."
The palace maid buried her head lower, "Yes, Your Majesty."
In the side hall, Yi Huan heard the maid's reply and thought so.
Entering the palace this time was a Hongmen Banquet, and there was no way Jin Yuan would let her go easily.
The palace maid said: "Madam, please don't embarrass me. Your Majesty asks you to return these things to him personally."
The maid did not dare to speculate on the relationship between Yi Huan and His Majesty, so she just lowered her head and followed orders.
Yi Huan really wanted to put his things down and leave.
But the other party was the emperor, and she really didn't dare to do such a thing.
"Please ask sister to lead the way."
The palace maid breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Madam, please come with me."
The palace maid followed Jin Yuan's instructions, avoided people all the way, took Yi Huan into the imperial study, and then closed the door wisely.
Yi Huan stood at the door and nervously squeezed the handkerchief in his hand.
Jin Yuan rested his forehead with one hand and said, "I won't let you return it in person. Do you want to drop the thing and run away?"
Yi Huan was so embarrassed that she knelt on the ground with a plop.
Holding the silk handkerchief and the land deed in both hands, he said: "Your Majesty previously lent me the handkerchief. I have washed it and came here to return it. Also, Your Majesty helped me redeem my father's belongings earlier. I am very grateful. Now, The land deed is also worth thirty thousand taels, please accept it, Your Majesty."
After all, the emperor didn't need the handkerchief at all, he just asked her to return it in person just to... tease her, right?
Jin Yuan said: "You get up first."
His voice was not harsh. It was completely different from when he spoke to the eldest princess before. It could even be called gentle.
"Your Majesty, accept it first." Yi Huan insisted.
The man narrowed his eyes and asked, "Are you disobedient?"
Yi Huan trembled. He did not dare to disobey the emperor. He stood up with difficulty. The hand holding the silk handkerchief could not help but tremble.
Being in the same room with this man made Yi Huan extremely stressed.
"Come here." Jin Yuan waved to her.
Yi Huan followed the words and walked over, but he was still far away from the desk and did not dare to get too close.
Jin Yuan couldn't help but laugh, and asked, "Can I eat people? It's so far away."
"I dare not..." Yi Huan took two steps closer.
Jin Yuan couldn't bear the delay, so the man pushed away the chair and stood up, striding towards her.
Yi Huanben lowered his head and couldn't help but raise his eyes when he heard the movement. He subconsciously stepped back, panicking like a little rabbit.
The man had his crown tied up today and his hair was neatly tied behind his head, fully revealing Jin Yuan's extremely aggressive face. His eyebrows were wanton and flamboyant, as if all secular ethics were not worth mentioning in his eyes. .
Yi Huan hurriedly knelt in front of his clothes, staring at the luxurious soap boots inlaid with gold, and said: "Your Majesty, I am afraid of the dragon face. I hope your Majesty will forgive you. I will let you go after accepting these." The woman leaves."
"Afraid of Long Yan..." came the man's deep voice, "I am so afraid of Long Yan. When Hua Chao looked directly at me at the banquet, she was very brave. Are you afraid now?"
"That would be my ignorance. It was my first time meeting His Majesty and I had lost my etiquette!" Yi Huan explained quickly.
"Why, is it because I look so extraordinary that Madam you are so stunned?" The man raised his eyebrows with an air of reluctance.
Yi Huan's palms were wet with sweat. She really didn't understand what she was worth for the emperor to care about.
Furthermore, when she was pointed out to Lin Qingpei three years ago, the emperor clearly had no reaction at all.
The emperor's interest in her came so suddenly that Yi Huan had to be afraid.
"lady."
Jin Yuan bent down, her hair falling down his ear. The man leaned next to her ear and asked, "Am I more handsome than your husband?"
Lin Qingpei's appearance is already extraordinary among officials, and his appearance is majestic. The emperor is even better.
The emperor's biological mother is unknown. At first, it was rumored that his biological mother was a palace maid, and some people said she was a dancer. No one knew who she was.
Yi Huan whispered: "Your Majesty is naturally more handsome than your husband."
This made Jin Yuan happy.
Jin Yuan reached out and grasped the little woman's thin wrist, then pulled her up hard.
Yi Huan raised his head in shock, his eyes colliding with the man's.
"Don't be afraid," he said.
"I won't hurt you."
Yi Huan bit his lip, turned his head unnaturally, and said: "Your Majesty, please let me go quickly, it's not good for others to see you."
Jin Yuan held her chin, looked at her, and said, "There is no one else here, and no one dares to come in."
"Your Majesty, you told my wife before that I can do what I want to do like the female general of the previous dynasty, and do what I want, but Your Majesty, do you know the final fate of that female general? I thought, my wife I don’t have the courage to do such a deviant thing. I just want to live a good life..."
However, as soon as she finished speaking, Jin Yuan lowered his head and kissed her lips.
In an instant, Yi Huan's whole body tensed up. He put his hands on the man's shoulders and pushed him out.
This is not a dream, this is reality.
In the dream, the man was domineering enough, but in reality he was even more domineering. Those thin lips that showed mercy at a glance were so hot that they seemed to melt Yi Huan.
Yi Huan's fingertips tightened, and his knuckles turned white. He tightened his grip on the man's shoulders, and dug in deeply with his vengeful nails.
