Chapter 71
In order to get some clues, Li Yu leaned close to the crystal wall to listen carefully. However, the Emperor only mentioned this one sentence before he continued to talk about Empress Xiaohui’s many other preferences.
Li Yu understood that because of Empress Xiaohui, the Emperor had always felt pity for his son, King Jing. Recently, he had even started to let King Jing do some errands and had the intention of putting King Jing in an important position. The secret couldn’t be completely revealed. Perhaps it wasn’t time yet. Now that King Jing could be alone with the Emperor, it was the best time to make a good impression.
Therefore, Li Yu didn’t make any more noise and listened quietly with King Jing.
The Emperor spoke for a long time and recovered from the past. He smiled and said, “Tian Chi, do you think I’m too long-winded?”
Although the Emperor’s lips were curved, his eyes were very disappointed.
As the Emperor’s father, he rarely showed such a sad expression in front of his son.
King Jing shook his head and hesitantly reached out his hand to cover the back of the Emperor’s hand.
This was also very rare. King Jing showed concern for the Emperor from the bottom of his heart.
This action alone made the Emperor feel very comfortable.
“Tian Chi, you … you’re very good. I know. Zheng Jing told me about the errands from the Ministry of Works. Your performance was very good. “
The Emperor patted King Jing’s shoulder and was about to say something when the Imperial Bodyguard Captain came to report, “Your Majesty, His Highness the Sixth Prince has come to congratulate you.”
The Emperor glanced at King Jing standing beside him. Duke Chengen Mansion was King Jing’s maternal family. The marriage between the heir of Duke Chengen Mansion and Princess Jinjue was something that King Jing should attend. However, what did this marriage have to do with the Sixth Prince? The Sixth Prince was neither a relative nor an important official. Why would he come to congratulate them?
Taking a step back, if the Sixth Prince really came to congratulate them, why didn’t he arrive early like the other guests and come when the wedding was almost over? The Emperor didn’t want to disturb too many people, so he came at the last minute. Why did Mu Tianxiao come later than him?
He was afraid that his congratulations were fake and that he wanted to show off in front of the Emperor.
The Emperor saw through the Sixth Prince and said indifferently, “Since he’s here, Duke Chengen will take care of him. Let him go.”
The Emperor was not in the mood to see the Sixth Prince and meet him.
The Emperor chatted with Ye Qian for a while more and planned to return to the palace. The Sixth Prince sent word that he wanted to personally escort the Emperor back to the palace.
The Emperor agreed this time.
The Emperor brought King Jing along. When Mu Tianxiao saw that it was King Jing’s entourage, he was slightly stunned.
Li Yu had always been carried around by King Jing. Seeing the Sixth Prince suffer a loss, he wagged his tail happily. ‘What do you want? I won’t give you the throne!’
Li Yu’s eyes were sharp. He saw a graceful woman wearing a pleated pomegranate skirt standing beside the Sixth Prince. This woman wore a conical hat, and a long veil fell to cover her face.
Through the veil, one could still see her watery eyes and a pair of jade-like hands exposed outside her long sleeves. Although one couldn’t see her true appearance, it was enough to arouse the curiosity of the guests. They wantonly imagined what kind of stunning beauty would be under the veil.
Li Yu didn’t know who this woman was, but the Sixth Prince had a record of urging the Third Prince to give people to him. It was clearly the wedding of the heir apparent of Duke Chengen, but he brought a stunning woman. Moreover, he didn’t come early or late, but only after the Emperor arrived. This was clearly aimed at the Emperor.
Perhaps the Sixth Prince wanted to offer this woman to the Emperor …
Li Yu recalled that in the original novel, when the battle for the throne had reached its climax, the Sixth Prince offered an unknown beauty concubine to the Emperor. The concubine whispered a lot of pillow talk to the Emperor and said a lot of good things about the Sixth Prince. However, King Jing didn’t have this advantage.
Now that the plot was in chaos, could it be that the Sixth Prince had jumped to this point?
… I have to think of a way to mess it up! Fish were the best at this kind of thing!
While Li Yu was thinking of countermeasures, he heard Mu Tianxiao say, “Imperial Father, the journey back to the palace will be very tiring. This son happened to bring a maid who is good at massaging. I am willing to serve Imperial Father.”
Li Yu was speechless.
It seemed that Mu Tianxiao still wanted face. In public, he didn’t directly say that this beauty was for his father and asked the Emperor to accept it. He only said that she was a maid who was good at massaging and that it would be up to the Emperor whether he accepted her or not. He was much smarter than the foolish Third Prince.
Li Yu followed King Jing and stood on the Emperor’s side. Under the Emperor’s eyes, he had some misgivings and couldn’t rush out of the crystal bottle. He could only think about turning over a little. King Jing would definitely plead with the Emperor to summon people to see him. Once the Emperor had more people with him, he wouldn’t have time to care about the beauty brought by the Sixth Prince.
After Li Yu thought about it, he put it into action. Who knew that after his body turned into a koi fish, he was no longer the same as before. Recently, he had been nourished too well, so turning over a little was more difficult than paddling back and forth.
Li Yu held his breath and tilted the fish slightly. Before he could turn it over, the Emperor said in surprise, “Tian Chi, why is your fish a little crooked?”
King Jing was speechless.
In fact, King Jing had already noticed the fish as soon as it moved.
However, Xiao Yu didn’t drink alcohol and didn’t have any contact with anyone, so there shouldn’t be anything wrong with it. King Jing suspected that Xiaoyu was doing it on purpose. It was just like when they were in the room where Empress Xiaohui used to live, Yu Xiaoyu kept bumping into the crystal wall as if trying to get his attention. King Jing also felt that Xiaoyu might be trying to remind him of something.
However, he didn’t expect that the Emperor was also looking at his fish.
Before King Jing could say anything, the Emperor said, “King Jing’s fish might be unwell. Someone -“
The Emperor ordered the chief imperial bodyguard to immediately find the accompanying imperial physician.
Li Yu was speechless.
Why did he feel that the Emperor was more anxious than King Jing when he moved?
The fish didn’t dare to turn over again and tried to keep it at the same angle. This was even more difficult than being belly up.
The two accompanying imperial physicians hurried over. Regardless of whether they knew how to treat a fish, they had to know in front of the Emperor. The imperial physicians shook their heads and examined the fish for a long time, then discussed in private for a while.
After the Sixth Prince asked for instructions, his smile didn’t fade. Although he was better than the Third Prince, he also experienced the same coldness and awkwardness that the Third Prince had experienced.
The imperial physician finally said that the fish might have eaten too much and was fine. Li Yu cooperated and carefully laid the fish flat. The fish’s fins paddled the water very slowly and its cheeks puffed up. It really looked like it was bloated to confirm the imperial physician’s words.
The Emperor said, “Since the fish is fine, I should return to the palace. King Jing can send me off.”
What Sixth Prince? What maid who was good at massaging? The Emperor’s expression wasn’t very good. He only mentioned the King Jing and didn’t mention anything else.
Li Yu felt that the Emperor was angry, but who was he angry at?
He was a little uneasy. When no one was looking, King Jing put his finger into the bottle and gently touched the fish’s spine, which was quite comforting.
.. Well, Li Yu thought, King Jing is right by my side. What’s there to worry about?
The Emperor sat on the dragon carriage and returned to the palace. King Jing rode behind him to send him off. Before entering the palace, the Emperor deliberately stopped and looked at King Jing’s crystal bottle. He sighed with emotion, “Tianchi, thanks to your fish today.”
Li Yu, who had been eavesdropping, thought, What does he mean? Why did the Emperor thank the fish?
Could it be that the Emperor was really angry, but not at someone else. Instead, he was angry at the Sixth Prince?
Why was that?
Thinking that the Sixth Prince had come out to do something, and that was to offer a beauty.
Thinking of the time and place of the Sixth Prince’s offering, Li Yu suddenly had a flash of inspiration!
If the Sixth Prince was just flattering the Emperor, the Emperor might not be angry. If it was a normal day, the Emperor might accept it. However, the Sixth Prince should not have come to Empress Xiaohui’s maternal home, Duke Chengen Fu, to give her away. Even more so, he shouldn’t have given her away right after the Emperor and King Jing had met. Wasn’t this a slap to the Emperor’s face?
The Sixth Prince’s birth mother wasn’t favored. He had long wanted to offer a beauty, but he was afraid that if he directly sent the beauty to the palace, the Emperor might not be willing to accept it. Therefore, he wanted to take advantage of the Emperor’s incognito clothes to let the Emperor see half of the beauty. Once the Emperor was interested, it would be easier to do things. However, he didn’t expect the Emperor to come to the wedding banquet and think of the late Empress.
Otherwise, the Sixth Prince wouldn’t have rushed to offer her at this time.
The Emperor’s heart must be dead, but he couldn’t refuse the Sixth Prince. After all, the Sixth
Prince wasn’t offering her openly. The Emperor also needed an excuse to cover up the Sixth Prince’s matter.
The only people around the Emperor who could make a fuss were King Jing’s fish. Therefore, when the fish tilted, the Emperor used it as an excuse to summon the imperial physician and disrupt everything.
Li Yu always thought that he had successfully disrupted the Sixth Prince’s honey trap. In fact, the Emperor, who couldn’t wait any longer, seized the opportunity and personally disrupted the Sixth Prince’s plan.
Thinking back to his original plan, it wasn’t without loopholes. If the fish turned white, if King Jing didn’t find out in time, or if King Jing found out and didn’t ask the Emperor to summon the imperial physician, or if King Jing begged the Emperor but the Emperor ignored it …
As long as the Emperor had the heart of the Na ‘vi, it wouldn’t have a good effect. It should be said that this time, his luck was off the charts. He even ran into this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity when the Emperor needed an excuse.
The belated Li Yu: Hey, don’t tell me this is the system’s luck?
He remembered that the system gave him luck for three things: face-slapping villain, ample food and clothing, and Soul Imprint.
He had been working hard to have ample food and clothing, but his luck wasn’t obvious. Face-slapping villain was easy to understand. It should be referring to this time, right?
It seemed that the Koi’s special trait was still somewhat useful.
After King Jing saw the Emperor off, he returned to Duke Chengen’s Mansion. It was already late at night. The newlyweds were sent to the bridal chamber, and the guests were almost all gone.
However, the Sixth Prince still hadn’t left.
“Fifth Imperial Brother, we meet again.”
Mu Tianxiao never had a bad temper. He smiled and cupped his hands in greeting to King Jing.
Li Yu found that the beauty wearing the conical hat and veil next to the Sixth Prince was still there.
The Sixth Prince probably hadn’t found out why he was ignored by the Emperor. The reason he greeted King Jing was probably because he wanted to inquire about it from King Jing.
The little carp immediately turned into a Douyu, and his tail frantically swept at the Sixth Prince:
Ow, Master, Old Attack, don’t pay attention to him!
King Jing calmly nodded at the Sixth Prince and walked closer. The Sixth Prince was just about to lead the topic to the Emperor’s mood when King Jing looked straight ahead and walked past him.
Mu Tianxiao: “…”
Mu Tianxiao couldn’t stop King Jing. His gaze fell on the crystal bottle that King Jing always carried with him, and on the body of the fish that was constantly twisting and turning.
Li Yu also quickly noticed that Mu Tianxiao’s cold gaze was on the fish.
Li Yu’s body stiffened, and he hurriedly turned to the side where King Jing’s sleeve could cover the fish.
As long as the fish didn’t look at the Sixth Prince, the Sixth Prince shouldn’t look at the fish either.
Li Yu calmed himself down and waited for a long time before he secretly looked back. The Sixth Prince had already turned around.
Li Yu wanted to look again, but the crystal bottle was suddenly covered.
King Jing deliberately stopped and reached out to turn the fish around so that the fish could only see him.
