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This night was destined to be a sleepless night of celebration. From the kings to the court officials, they all ate delicious food on the newly conquered land of Aldo, drinking wine, watching the singing and dancing, and listening to the orioles' gracefulness. Dong Yuheng pardoned all the civil and military officials, and drank happily. The banquet hall was so lively and the cups and plates were in a mess.
Dong Yuheng, who had returned home with great pleasure, was half drunk and half awake. He walked to Chen Ning's yard without informing him. After entering the room, he waved his hand and asked everyone to retreat, and slowly walked into the inner room.
He sucked a smile on the corner of his lips, and he was about to call her around the screen, but unexpectedly he saw Chen Ning sitting by the window with his knees held by the window, with sadness almost overflowing in his eyes.
His smile froze on his lips, staring at the woman who felt more and more distressed as he looked at her for a long time, he spoke in a low voice, "Why is Ning'er sad?"
Chen Ning heard the sound, looked up suddenly at him, and said stiffly with his face: "It's okay."
"If you dare to deceive the king, I will hit you on the butt." Dong Yuheng stepped forward, pulled her over and hugged her tightly in his arms, "What happened?"
The bloody truth pressed down on her heart and took away all Chen Ning's strength, but she couldn't push him away.
Her warm chest was exactly what she needed most now. She buried her head and closed her eyes.
Seeing her so fragile, the emperor felt even more distressed. He tightened her tightly, "Tell me, I'll make the decision for you... is it because I recalled the arrest of Nuerling?"
Chen Ning didn't move.
"It's over. Good man, no one dares to bully you now." He kissed her hair.
Chen Ning still kept silent.
"Hey, I will dismember the five horses tomorrow at noon. Do you want to go?" He said that, then shook his head again, "The scene is bloody, it's better not to go, so as to avoid having nightmares again when you come back."
Chen Ning took a deep breath and said hoarsely: "...So what if the five horses dismembered? Huang Yi can't survive even if he dies."
Huang Yi? I thought she was suffering because of her own suffering, but I didn't expect it was for Huang Yi. Could it be that she witnessed his death with her own eyes? The emperor's voice was lowered, "Huang Yi is dead, no matter how sad you are, why bother?"
"Huang Yi..." Chen Ning pushed him away and wanted to say something. Close his eyes and was facing Huang Yi's tragic death. How could she easily forget all this!
"What's wrong with Huang Yi?" He heard that Xu Han's return was that Huang Yi was killed bravely, so why did she seem to be suffering?
Chen Ning's lips trembled and he shook his head weakly.
"Good man, tell me, don't keep it in your heart. What's wrong with Huang Yi? Don't you tell Ziling about anything else?"
The gentle words and gentle comfort broke through Chen Ning's fragile defense line at this time, "I...I..." She couldn't help but speak and told Dong Yuheng the cruel truth of everything.
After hearing this, Dong Yuheng's face was terrifyingly gloomy in the place she couldn't see.
"I can't stop that pervert, Huang Yi... I'm so happy... I..."
"Shhh, shhh, I'm here, I'm here." It was the first time that the emperor heard her talk about the experience of being captured in person. He was not only uncomfortable because of Huang Yi's tragic death, but also felt distressed by Dong Mingyi and Chen Ning who had witnessed all this with his own eyes. He heard that Dong Mingyi was unable to cheer up after being rescued, but Chen Ning restored his spirit, but Chen Ning was also physically and mentally injured at that time, who would comfort him?
"It's all over, Ning'er, you and Mingyi save the last face for Huang Yi. He must be relieved if you know him in the spring. You did a good job," Dong Yuheng kissed her forehead, "It's hard for you, good slave, it's hard for you."
Dong Yuheng pondered for a moment and nodded in agreement.
Finally, the emperor asked the ministers to retreat. After hearing Huang Ling's report on the secret execution of Nuerling, he then heard him paying homage to the heroic souls of the soldiers and nodded heavily, "Huang Yi died for protecting the eldest prince. I am grateful in my heart. When I return to the court, I will give the title of posthumous title, which will not be in vain for the young general's loyalty and kindness."
Huang Ling knelt down after hearing this, "I, thank Your Majesty for the dog son."
Then the emperor thought about something and paused and said, "Zi Ling fought for me in the south and north. There were only two concubines I gave me in my family, and only one son Huang Yi. Now that Huang Yi is unlucky, Zi Ling should also take care of the small family and take his wife and concubines to make the Huang family sprout. Is Zi Ling aware of the royal family and the daughter Jiaojiao, the daughter of the royal family and noble family? No matter which one is, I will issue an order to marry him."
Huang Ling did not expect that the emperor was concerned about his family's private interests and said, "I am afraid that I will be slow to be with the lady of the high school."
"It's okay, my first-rank general is the good son-in-law who is so cute to Changyang."
Huang Ling hesitated for a moment, originally wanted to ask the emperor to take charge, and then he changed his mind and said, "I met with the eldest daughter of General Hua Annan in Yunzhou, the eldest daughter of Hua Annan. I thought the eldest lady was beautiful and a hard-working woman. Now the Hua family is innocent, I am willing to hire her as a big media."
"The eldest daughter of the Hua family?" Dong Yuheng really didn't expect that Huang Ling would fall in love with Hua Poyue.
“That’s right.”
"That woman is not innocent, how can she be the general's wife?" Dong Yuheng frowned.
"The general of the Imperial Republic has received the favor of General Hua and cannot repay him. Moreover, Miss Hua's glory is so beautiful that he admires the whole country. I hope His Majesty will fulfill his wish."
This matter really stumped Dong Yuheng. He thought Huang Ling would ask him to take charge and choose a noble girl from the royal family to marry him. Unexpectedly, he fell in love with Hua Poyue, who had a broken flower and willow, and even this woman had a close relationship with Han Zhen. Now Huang Ling spoke, even if he did not give her the position of general's wife, he would still give Huang Ling a side room. The woman in her inner room would not know if she would jump up after hearing about this.
She had a close personal relationship with the eldest daughter of the Hua family, and he was also aware of this.
"I have to think about this." He also dealt with such a relationship between men and women.
"Yes." Huang Ling didn't know that Han Zhen and Hua Poyue had an entanglement, and believed that the Tian family would agree to the marriage. Because although the Hua family was rehabilitated, there was only one woman left and he had already lost power. He married him, and the emperor would not suspect that he had other ambitions.
This night is the birthday of the Kymonds worshiping God Ada. The emperor specially approved the Kymond land, where the curfew has been implemented, to extend the traditional custom of bonfire worship and carnival.
Dong Yuheng walked towards Shenning's yard, intending to take her out in vain. He thought that she was crying sadly last night and should go out to relax. Recalling her happy expression on the night of the winter solstice, he couldn't help but curl his lips.
Then he glanced at the two trees planted in front of the yard and suddenly remembered something. He stepped into the yard and happened to be Shen Ning was also in the yard.
Lianyan smiled and led her servants to welcome her. Shen Ning stood still. Dong Yuheng waved his hand and looked at Shen Ning and asked with a smile: "Have you eaten?"
Shen Ning ignored it.
The emperor cursed the person who had broken the bridge in his heart, but he didn't know that Shen Ning was also secretly annoyed in his heart that he showed weakness in front of him last night.
Dong Yuheng asked everyone to retreat. The two stood silently for a while. Shen Ning turned around and walked into the room. He followed with his hands behind his back, coughing and saying, "I remember someone sending a green branch. Are you planting it?"
Hearing this, Chen Ning stopped, turned around, raised his red and swollen eyes and looked at him, "...I'm burning."
Dong Yuheng frowned and his eyes gradually became darker, "What did you say?"
"I said I burned that thing."
The emperor was immediately furious, and his chest fluctuated violently. The two of them looked at each other under the gray night, and the breath around them also condensed.
"Why did you burn it?" His jaw tightened, and he decided to give her a chance to explain.
“Because I don’t want it.”
"...Do you know what kind of branch it is?" Dong Yuheng gritted his teeth.
Chen Ning lowered his eyes, was silent for a moment before slowly saying: "Acacia Tree, I know."
Seeing that she knew clearly what she had burned, Dong Yuheng felt like she had slapped her in front of her face.
Very, very! He took two deep breaths, walked forward with a fierce look, reached out to grab her, but stopped in the air. He stared at her and pulled back his hand, humming heavily and striding back and forth around her. She was deliberately angering him! What a vicious woman, she was simply useless measures!
The dignity of the emperor and the man was trampled on by her feet. Dong Yuheng was unable to calm down. He turned around and grabbed her, "Shen Shi Ning'er, listen! I don't know that you were seriously injured. I was afraid that you would run away, so I issued an order to let someone take good care of you. I have never issued an order to lock you up!" He grabbed her arm tightly, "You would rather pretend to die than escape from my side. Can I be annoyed? Besides, when the news came, you didn't know whether you were true or false. I couldn't be happy or angry. I couldn't believe that you were true or afraid that you were false. Every day, you might feel my mood!"
Chen Ning really didn't expect that he would say these words to her in anger!
As noble as Dong Yuheng, he once said this to a woman regardless of her face? But he did not expect the woman to be so determined, "I don't allow you to face me like Nuerling. Did you hear that? He is your enemy, I am not! I am your husband!"
The captured arm was in great pain, but Chen Ning seemed to know nothing. She closed her eyes and opened it again and it was already cold, "I was defiled by Nuerling."
"Absurd!" Dong Yuheng immediately glared and shouted angrily.
"Believe it or not!"
Her slender arm was almost broken, the veins on the emperor's forehead burst out, and her chest was fluctuating violently, "Don't want to deceive me!" According to her temperament, if she was really bullied by that man, she would definitely not sue the world if she knocked off her teeth and swallowed her blood. However, she decided to say this, because she would rather be infected with the crime of imperfection than leave him!
Chen Ning's body trembled.
"Isn't it good for you now? You're just thinking about leaving?" Dong Yuheng's angry words were hurt. Is this woman's heart just cold?
"...I never thought of staying by your side," Chen Ning stared at him for a while, and finally said expressionlessly, "I didn't want to enter the palace from the beginning!"
"What did you say?" He glared at her incredible, "You never want to be by my side. Did you ever be gentle to me with all your false intentions?" They were all flattering because he grasped the lifeline of the Li family?
Chen Ning said slowly but firmly: "Yes."
The most advanced lies are always true and false.
Dong Yuheng was furious and his hands raised high.
Chen Ning was tense all over, and he didn't close his eyes, looking straight at him.
Unexpectedly, the furious emperor froze in the air, his palm stopped in front of her, and even a gust of palm wind blew.
After a brief moment of silence, Dong Yuheng, who was still angry, pushed her away and left with a slight smile.
Feng Baolan had already stepped out of the gate to attend the Kymond festival, but unexpectedly he was still blocked in front of him and invited him back.
He walked through the back garden with three steps and five steps and one whistle. From a distance, he saw a curtain on three sides of the pavilion, and a bright yellow figure appeared faintly. He walked forward and asked the emperor who was drinking alone. He rubbed his hands and exhaled and said in a white breath: "Your Majesty, why are you still sitting outside like this cold sky?"
Dong Yuheng glanced at him, drank the wine glass in his hand, and waved his hand to let him sit down.
Feng Baolan was led by Wanfu to sit on the left side of the emperor, and then he smelled the strong smell of wine on Dong Yuheng. The emperor's cousin was drinking? He was so surprised. It is reasonable that he should be happy to win the battle. What else can make the king of a country so bored?
Wanfu poured a cup for Feng Baolan, and Dong Yuheng said, "Drink, you won't be cold after drinking."
"Yes." Feng Baolan had to drink one cup after receiving the order.
The emperor drank again and again, and withdrew his blessings, he personally filled his glass with his own wine glass, but he couldn't help but smash the silver pot on the stone table.
Never expected that his great Emperor Jing would be so frustrated! Her clever smiles and tenderness were all lying to him, and he was even deceived by those false thoughts... She dared to deceive the king, but she dared to deceive the king! Anger surged again and burned to his limbs and bones. He wanted to throw this damn woman into the prison of heaven! The Meridian Gate asked to kill him! Look at her vicious mouth could spit out any crazy words!
Drinking another glass of cold wine could not extinguish his anger. Her true feelings were given to her sick ex-husband from beginning to end, and the only man she was happy with! A familiar jealousy swept across with unprecedented momentum, accompanied by Tao Tian's murderous intent. Compared to her crime of deceiving the emperor, he could not bear the fact that she had never loved him!
The murderous intent was too strong, which made Feng Baolan tremble. He looked at Wanfu, but Wanfu just shook his head worriedly.
Feng Baolan had no choice but to accompany the old emperor to pour wine and drink wine. Until the pot was empty, Feng Baolan shook the pot and said, "Your Majesty, what's the harm to your body if you drink!"
"Give another wine." Dong Yuheng said in a rough and honest voice.
Wanfu had no choice but to take the order and asked someone to bring the wine cooked beside him.
After drinking another drink, Dong Yuheng looked at Feng Baolan and spoke in a shocking way, "Concubine Rui escaped in Baizhou, are you also involved?"
This was a big deal. Feng Baolan was shocked and immediately left and leaned down and knelt down, "Your Majesty, even if you borrow Qinglan's 1,000 courage, Qinglan would not dare to do this!"
The emperor glanced at him sideways and was silent for a moment before saying, "After up, I'm a little drunk."
Feng Baolan took a breath, got up and sat back in his seat.
"Tell me what you have to do with that girl." Dong Yuheng straightened his body and said slightly drunk as if he had a whim.
Feng Baolan was silent for a long time before he slowly said, "I have only said a few words... She is the daughter of the chef in my family and the maid in my room. I have been with her day and night since I was young, but before I could even get rid of my hair, I heard that she had promised the son of a guard in the mansion. I was jealous and did many ridiculous things, so I realized my heart. I promised her a vow, but she repeatedly shook her head and refused."
"Oh?" Dong Yuheng tilted his head slightly.
Feng Baolan smiled dryly, "Yes, it was me who was threatening and tempting, which forced her to stay by my side." Speaking of this, his voice lowered a little, "and all this is what I regret the most in the years."
The scars of the old age were torn apart with a painful pleasure. Feng Baolan never expressed his feelings to anyone. But today, he finally let the pus breathe, and he couldn't stop it. "If I hadn't forced her to stay and let her leave to marry and have children, now I might still see her smile, or watch her become a trivial vulgar woman...but they are much better than heartache and nothingness."
The emperor's mind buzzed, and he felt like he had circled in the endless darkness, and he was silent for a long time.
Wanfu looked at his master worriedly, and Feng Baolan also lowered his eyes and said nothing.
Chapter completed!