The Ugly Empress《丑娘娘》Chou Niang Niang
The Ugly Empress vol 1, Chapter 13: New concubine entering the Palace (sweet stuffs)
Xue Hou Yang invited Teng Shang to have a drink, but he didn't put a banquet in the tent. Instead, he set up a small table beside the fire in the empty field, on which there were several small dishes, which were not very delicate. Instead, there were several large stalls of wine.
The table was very short. Xue Hou Yang didn't let anyone move the chairs. He sat down on the ground directly. Teng Shang seemed to be a scholar, but he was not unpretentious. After all, he was a man who had gone to the battlefield and killed the enemy through blood. He sat down with him.
Xue Hou Yang patted off the seal mud on the wine jar, filled the two bowls in front of him, and said, “I'm going to the imperial capital tomorrow. I haven't had time to entertain Shang Xiang yet. Will Shang Xiang blame me for this?"
“Why?"
Teng Shang picked up the sea bowl with a smile and said, “It's not the ordinary friend who can deliver the death sentence wine. How can Teng blame his friend?" [1] Death sentence wine is like a last meal before execution in the ancient time
Xue Hou Yang was stunned for a moment, then filled Teng Shang with wine and said, “You know what kind of wine it is."
“I've always known myself that I could see the Marquis of Wannian sending me off to my death, and I didn't miss anything this life."
What he said was very easy. In the Mid-Autumn Festival, it will be the eight month of the year 15th day a few days later. The weather is getting cold. There is no forest outside the capital city. When the wind blew, it brought thick dust and made the fire crash and sway. There was a kind of desolation in the night.
Teng Shang doesn't think that the dust has soiled the wine and vegetables, as if he doesn't care about the details.
Xue Hou Yang looked at the other person for a long time. Teng Shang looked down at his skirt and said, “What's wrong with me?"
"No... No.
Xue Hou Yang turned his eyes. After three rounds of drinking, both of them are drunk. The weather itself is not too cold, but the liquor is full of fever.
Xue Hou Yang suddenly said, “Do you remember that many years ago Emperor Teng went hunting, and you saved a child who was called an assassin.”
After he mentioned it, Teng Shang was a little confused. He obviously didn't remember it, but after thinking it over carefully, he seemed to have some impressions. He smiled and said, “How does Lord Marquis know? Is it not that he has eyes of thousands of miles? Many years ago at that time, Emperor Teng was still the first emperor. I was also temporarily soft hearted when a child broke into the paddock by mistake to be executed... "
"Lord Xiang should not be soft hearted."
Suddenly, hearing Xue Hou Yang's cold words, Teng Shang seemed to feel that he had drunk too much, had a bad headache, and could not respond. He said, "Lord Marquis here do these words stem from?"
Xue Hou Yang looked at the other person and said coldly after a long pause: "Because of his kindness, Shang Xiang the child you had ended killed many soldiers. I'm afraid you will regret it."
Teng Shang also looked back at the other person. His eyes were fogged by alcohol. He stared at the Marquis of Wannian on the opposite side. It seemed that the answer was coming out, which made him feel uncomfortable. Or he said with difficulty, “Why?"
"Because I was the man Lord Xiang saved."
Teng Shang felt a sudden pain in his heart, as if he had been hit by a huge stone. He was so stiff that he couldn't speak. After a long time, his throat rolled twice before he smiled and said: “It's true I do regret it.”
Xue Hou Yang's eyes showed a trace of clarity. He stood up and recited: “I don't know if Shang Xiang has heard of it. Once a passing shaman said that I was born to be too violent, and I will be a disaster at that time, I was not very old, and I ran out in a rage before my mind was calmed. I didn't expect to meet you.”
Teng Shang laughed. It seemed to be a little bitter. He didn't expect to save a child himself. However, the child became the God of War in the future.
Teng Shang doesn't know what to say.
Xue Hou Yang turned around, stooped down, picked up the sea urchin bowl on the table, raised his head to gobble up the wine in the bowl, finally shook the bowl and threw it on the ground, laughed and said: “Shang Xiang thought I invited you to drink wine, but I was holding you back and didn't let you escape, right? In fact, on the contrary, I'm doing this for you so let’s go. "
Teng Shang also stood up, cold wine on his head, which made his limbs soft and almost fell down. He smiled and said: “Go? Where am I going? Will Lord Marquis let me go? Where is my shelter when I go you must think I'm nitpicking, but can Lord Marquis put himself in the same place? Even if I saved your life, now if I want you to take 5000 elite soldiers to fight against the other person and kill Xue Jun Liang! Will you?"
He may be drunk and speak in a loud voice. They are standing on the empty ground. There are elite soldiers patrolling and holding the night. They stop to look at the other person, and their halberds were against the fire.
Teng Shang said with a smile: “How can I be willing if you don't want to, so thank you so much, Lord Marquis.”
Xue Hou Yang just took a deep look at him, but he didn't speak. Two people drank a bowl of death sentence wine alone, and the jar after drinking fell to one side.
Teng Yun didn't close his eyes this night. Xue Jun Liang seemed to fall asleep soon. Teng Yun didn't dare to move. He was lying on his back with some numbness. His eyes were staring at the wall.
He didn’t know how long it took for Teng Yun to suddenly feel his waist sank. Xue Jun Liang's arm was on his waist. It seemed that the man's body was close to him, and he was clinging to himself.
Teng Yun tensed his nerves for a while. He moved in, but the man moved with him. If the breath of the person behind him was not very even, he must think Xue Jun Liang was intentional.
Teng Yun didn't dare to move. After a while, the people behind moved a little, but they were followed up immediately.
Suddenly Xue Jun Liang chuckled. Sure enough, he didn't fall asleep. He put his arm around Teng Yun's waist and put Teng Yun in his arms. The warm breath was vomited to the other side's ears. He said with an ambiguous smile, “What's wrong with me? Is Consort Ai so disgusted?"
His voice was very small, especially clear in the quiet dormitories, but Teng Yun did not reply, so he closed his eyes and acted like he did not hear. He has retreated to the extreme and can't do it again.
Xue Jun Liang didn't care either. He put his hand in the quilt and patted Teng Yun gently. Like a child, he said in a warm voice, “Go to sleep soon."
When he got up early the next day, Jiang Yu called several times outside the door, but he didn't hear Xue Jun Liang's voice. He didn't raise his voice until there was no time, but no one answered.
The emperor is in the empress's bedroom. No one dares to enter. Only servants were in a hurry. After all, today is the day when the Teng state great princess entered the palace. The Marquis of Wannian took the elite soldiers to the imperial capital in the early morning. Now they have entered the palace, waiting for Xue Jun Liang to go up.
In fact, Xue Jun Liang woke up early, but he didn't move, he was still holding Teng Yun. He was very leisurely.
Teng Yun also woke up. In fact, he didn't fall asleep. Jiang Yu's voice outside was not small, and it was getting louder and louder, indicating that he was worried, but the people beside him didn't move.
Teng Yun knew what the other side was stalled and didn't speak.
Xue Jun Liang just remembered to be a little late, let the Teng state’s imperial court officials wait a little longer, and then let them know that yesterday his Majesty was happy in the empress palace, a little Teng state's princess was not very dignified thing, and he didn't pay attention to it.
Another moment later, a drum was suddenly playing outside. The sound of the drum was loud. Xue Jun Liang got up slowly and called Jiang Yu in.
Jiang Yu rushed in. It's not a small matter when the state rings the drum. There is a big drum in the Xue state palace. When the drum rings, even those standing in the most corner of the Forbidden Palace, can hear it clearly.
This big drum is used for diligent administration. If the emperor doesn’t arrive when the imperial court session is going on, the imperial court official will play a drum. If the drum is sounded three times, the emperor can be abolished and a new emperor can be established.
Xue Jun Liang was not in a hurry, but Jiang Yu has suffered a lot of worries. He had to wash and change clothes for Emperor Xue, and hurry to prepare the chariot to go to the front hall.
Before Xue Jun Liang left, he also asked Xiu Yao to take good care of the empress. The medicine must be drunk regularly and the ointment should be applied regularly. If she feel that the soup and medicine are bitter, you can make several more sweet dishes in the small kitchen.
Xi Yao's mouth was about to reach the bottom of her ear. She knew how to smile when she looked at Teng Yun. She giggled and tried to say: “Empress your body [Cough], is your body OK? Is there any discomfort? I see that empress is a little sad, isn't she tired? The maidservant will help you prepare the bath now!"
Teng Yun didn't hear anything wrong at first, but later looked at Xiu Yao's ambiguous smile, and more and more felt that the other party's words didn't taste right. In addition, Xu Jun Liang said some ambiguous words when he left, and Xiu Yao must have misunderstood something.
"No need to bathe, just wash and rinse."
After all, I only bathed once last night. Although Teng Yun is now a woman's body, she is not so particular about it. I'm afraid that she would wash off her skin if she washed it again.
Hearing this, Xiu Yao was surprised and said, “Don't you need to bathe? Empress…… That... Don't bathe that... If it's clean that... "
Teng Yun suddenly felt a headache. He was a little sickly, but it was actually because he had something on his mind and stayed up all night. Xue Jun Liang was lying beside him, nervous and unable to relax.
Xue Jun Liang went to the imperial court session, met the Teng state and the imperial court official Teng Shang, and settled the princess in a new palace. Although the new palace has been built for some years, it has not lived in concubine, just for the new concubine.
The new palace and the Yunfeng Palace are not far away. Although Teng Yun and great princess are not very close, they are blood relatives in the end. He wanted to see Teng Qian Yi, but he doesn't dare to go. He doesn't know how to face this body family member.
The marriage was scheduled for the Mid-Autumn Festival two days later.
However, Xue Jun Liang still stayed in the Yunfeng palace frequently these two days. It seems that it was a long time ago. It's very convenient for new concubine to ask for any information.
The existence of Teng Yun became a chess piece used by Xue Jun Liang, which helped him maintain the relationship between the Feng state and the Xue state, and at the same time checks and balances the Teng state. It has to be said that although Xue Jun Liang is not good at self-cultivation, he is good at playing blind chess and killing opponents slowly in an orderly manner.
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~ The Ugly Empress ~
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