Chapter 25: Follow Me, What Grievances Do You Have?
Royal study room.
Pei Chuchu stood in the room, looking at the young man sitting behind the desk, flipping through the account books.
The eunuchs and maids had already retired, and the whole study could be heard, except for the rustling sound of the young man turning the pages of the book.
She looked at him quietly.
She had seen such a face since she was a child for more than ten years.
He had red lips, white teeth, phoenix eyes, and a high nose. As he grew older, he looked like a green pine growing in the wind, and his skin became more handsome and beautiful than when he was young.
But……
The emotions he hid in his eyes and the heart he hid in his chest made it increasingly difficult for her to understand. Although they were childhood sweethearts, he now only made her feel scared.
After an unknown amount of time, she pursed her dry lips.
She spoke in a very soft voice: "Your Majesty has known for a long time that what the servants did in the palace was just a matter of deliberately turning a blind eye, right?"
Xiao Dingzhao had long known about her secret methods and the existence of the account book.
He even took away the real account books and ordered people to forge false accounts to deceive her.
She thought she had destroyed evidence, but she didn't know that what she burned was just false accounts.
And he had all her handles in the palm of his hand.
When did the innocent and gentle child in the past become so profound?
Xiao Dingzhao slowly turned over a page of the account book and scanned the accounts with interest: "Sister Pei has embezzled money over the years, amounting to as much as two hundred and fifty thousand taels... Officials have embezzled ten thousand taels of silver, and it is still necessary to I don’t know how to deal with the crimes that Sister Pei committed, including dismissal from office, investigation and confiscation of family property?”
Pei Chuchu bit his lower lip.
The hands wrapped in the wide sleeves could not help but be clenched.
Her breathing gradually became heavier.
Suddenly there was a chirping of birds outside the window.
The spring breeze is blowing, the shadows of flowers are dancing, and the sky is clear and moist. It is the best time of the year.
Pei Chuchu glanced at the imperial study room. Outside the palace, the mountains and green waters were full of freedom, but everything in the palace was closed. Even the study room was full of royal majesty. Even the pens, inks, papers and inkstones were carved with solemn dragon patterns.
She could hardly breathe here.
An inexplicable pressure enveloped her, as if she would collapse completely in the next moment.
It's obviously far away from that palace door...
Just one step away.
Pei Chuchu's cheeks were pale and her voice was hoarse: "I know that I am guilty. I am willing to take the two hundred thousand taels of silver rewarded by His Highness King Yong and all the wealth I have accumulated over the years to compensate for the sins I have committed. I just ask. Your Majesty, please let your daughter out of the palace."
Xiao Dingzhao raised his eyes.
The girl who caught his eye had a stunning beauty and a graceful figure. Even if her cheeks were bloodless, she was still beautiful. The most rare thing was her aura, which was like an orchid in an empty valley. Once he took one look at it, it was difficult to look away. .
Chang'an was rich and prosperous, with a sea of flowers, but he only missed this one.
Want to put her...
Trapped in this palace.
Want to put her...
Stay with him.
He closed the account book with a smile on his thin lips: "Sister Pei is serious. I have been in love with Sister Pei for many years, so how can I be willing to convict you? Your money is your private property, and I will never take it. But there is only one thing , Please also ask Sister Pei to agree."
He paused and looked deeply: "I want Sister Pei to stay in the palace and become my concubine. As long as Sister Pei is willing to be the imperial concubine, isn't this harem your territory? What about corruption and bribery? It's just an ordinary personnel transfer. Who dares to say anything wrong with you?"
The boy grew up in the palace.
He has always been involved in state affairs, and he is a supreme being above ten thousand people. He does not understand what love is.
All I know is that he wants to keep her, he wants to get her.
Facing the young emperor's strength, Pei Chuchu frowned and took half a step back.
And her resistance was clearly visible to the young man.
Xiao Dingzhao stood up and approached step by step: "Sister Pei won't?"
Pei Chuchu backed away again, his face even more ugly: "My daughter has always regarded your majesty as a relative, so why should your majesty be so aggressive? My daughter... just wants to leave the palace!"
She is also a noble daughter of an official family.
No matter how honorable a concubine is, she is still just a concubine in the final analysis.
A daughter from the Pei family will never be a concubine.
What's more, the young man in front of her doesn't understand what love means at all. His possession is just driven by desire. When the desire subsides and the freshness is lost, without the emperor's blessing, she will have difficulty in the rest of her life in the harem.
That was definitely not the future she Pei Chuchu expected.
The girl's slender back hit the bookshelf.
Xiao Dingzhao came closer, put one hand on the side of her face, and looked down at her: "Sister Pei wants to marry, and she has been picking and choosing someone all day long, but she can't take a look at me? Am I not more outstanding than any husband in Chang'an City?" What grievances do you have about following me?"
There was already a trace of impatience between his delicate and beautiful eyebrows.
And such impatience in Pei Chuchu's eyes made her feel even more chilled.
The young man had a scent of ambergris.
She didn't like his taste and her breathing was very difficult: "My maid... just wants to leave."
Hearing the rejection again, Xiao Dingzhao suddenly frowned.
He let go of his hand, took a half step back, and stared at the girl leaning in front of the bookshelf.
Danfeng's eyes were dim and unclear, as if he was thinking about how to deal with this disobedient prey.
After a while, he turned around with a sullen face: "I have been on the throne as emperor since I was a child. Whatever I want, I can't get. Sister Pei should know the consequences of going against me."
Pei Chuchu's eyes turned red and his nails dug deeply into his palms: "If more than ten years of friendship are not enough for Your Majesty to let my daughter go, then I will assume that my daughter has been blind all these years and has seen the wrong person. My daughter I used to think that Your Majesty was a wise king, but now it seems that you are just a lustful and foolish king!"
The word "faint king" was like an iron blade, deeply piercing Xiao Dingzhao's heart.
Growing up, all he heard was how wise and powerful his father was.
As he grows older, everyone will compare him to his father.
A little mediocre, but under the influence of his father, he became a faint king.
But……
Who wants to be a foolish king?
He just... wants to get a girl he likes.
He stared at the piles of memorials on the desk and was silent for a long time, saying word by word: "Sister Pei really refuses to agree to me?"
Pei Chuchu's eyes were firm: "My daughter, I just want to leave the palace."
Xiao Dingzhao suddenly clenched his fists.
He sneered and murmured: "Don't even think about it..."
He walked resolutely towards the outside of the imperial study, his tone extremely cold: "Come here, Pei Chuchu has been corrupt, accepted bribes and bought and sold palace officials, so he broke into Dali Temple and awaits trial!"
She is his.
Even if the fish is dead and the net is broken, he won't let her go.
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