OFFERING CONCUBINES
EPISODE 63 A THREAT

His Eminence Yan Yue stretched out her embrace, holding onto those two slender shoulders of Xiao Yi.

"Chenxing, from today open your eyes wide. The palace is not the most beautiful place that many people dream of. The palace is where people feel the evil of taking down others is so commonplace, hypocrisy and deceit gather like snakes hiding in a burrow. If you're not alert then he'll peck at you." Said His Majesty.

"I will investigate this, for the sake of justice for you and for concubine Yuan." Further.

Xiao Yi nodded his head violently. He would do anything to prove his innocence.

"There are some things I want to ask you." His Majesty brought Xiao Yi to sit on top of a simple hall of wood.

"Jian has interrogated your servant who delivered soup to me, he said the last person holding the soup bushel for concubine Yuan was a servant from the palace kitchen.

Eunuch Chen had examined it, there was no kitchen maid whose characteristics were the same as what your servant described in the palace kitchen.

Even the head of the palace kitchen had not seen him from the morning. Do you remember it?"

Xiao Yi's memory was instantly drawn to a young female servant named Huanran. Wasn't he the one who helped bring the soup to concubine Yuan's place?

"Yes, I remember His Majesty, he's called Huanran!" Xiao Yi said with round eyes.

"But he's too timid to be able to poison people? And again, what was the motive for poisoning concubine Yuan" Xiao Yi muttered, unsure.

"He is the most suspicious person. And motive could have come at the behest of someone else." His Majesty looked at the innocent face of Xiao Yi, who he thought was too innocent because it was easy to trust others.

"Chenxing, over the past ten years, I have been investigating things secretly within my own palace. A lot of depravity in it, even from my close relatives. Many crimes have taken place later in the grave to cover up other evils." His Majesty breathed.

"Even my decisions as king were overshadowed by the court council by the use of the rights and laws of the state, to conceal the corruption and crimes committed by the court officials. There's a greater power quietly supporting them."His Majesty's eyes stared deeply into those vivacious bright eyeballs.

"As long as I can't reveal any evidence against the crime, I can't bring him to justice. Chenxing, you are too close to me and many people do not like that. If only concubine Mei doesn't like you, I won't be this wary. But I'm afraid someone else who is more than just a concubine feels you are a threat to her" His Majesty said slowly.

This is what he fears the most, this is what he protects the most, if the same incident happens to the person he loves. And without proof, he would only watch without doing anything.

"I? as threat?" Xiao Yi frowned, trying to remember what he had done to make people threatened.

He felt he did not want power, he did not expect to become a high-level concubine of Furen. Although only as a lowly concubine, being loved by His Majesty she felt more than enough.

"One day you will understand by yourself, now answer my question, do you remember anything else about the servant who brought the bushel?" His Majesty squinted his eyes.

"Yes, I remember her face well, because I had a little talk with her." Xiao Yi tried to recall about that servant named Huanran.

"Oh, yes.I know one thing, he said he was a palace kitchen maid who came from a village on the hillside of Zhieshan! If it's not wrong he mentioned a village name..." Xiao Yi gathered all his memories.

He felt he had to meet the girl named Huanran, at least there was hope to prove his innocence.

"He said he was from the village.Shanpo village..." Xiao Yi said it somewhat doubtfully.

"Yes, from Shanpo village!"Deuteronomy with certainty.

"Now, we have to get there...!" His Majesty stood up. Xiao Yi stood up.

His Majesty momentarily looked at the girl in silk dress but it was a bit dirty and grungy. His eyes seem to be narrowed.

"Dian!" suddenly His Majesty shouted.

Jian appeared immediately at the door,

"Yes, Your Majesty..."

"Take my clothes from Aunt Feng."

Jian was momentarily confused,

"Your Majesty wants to change clothes?"

Without asking any more Jian Out met Aunt Feng who was guarding His Majesty's halfway house in disguise outside the palace walls.

Jian appeared, handing over the dark-colored male cotton clothes, Your Majesty's clothes if disguised outside the palace.

After Jian came out, His Majesty thrust the clothes at Xiao Yi.

"Wear it."

"But this is a man's dress." Xiao Yi accepted it with a sour face.

"You'd rather wear these clean clothes than your dress. And again we'll ride horses to the slopes of Zhieshan, you'll be troubled later if dressed like that." His Majesty retreated and sat in the halls while watching Xiao Yi

"Hurry, the fate of your servant is in your hands. If you are late to return to that cell, we will have a big problem" His Majesty urged.

Xiao Yi momentarily turned his head left and right, the space was not too big just as big as the room alone, and there were no barriers there.

"I'm changing here?" xiao Yi asked doubtfully.

His Majesty shook his shoulders while pulling the corners of his lips, a sign that Xiao Yi had no other choice.

"Turn your face away for a moment, Your Majesty." Pinta Xiao Yi while walking to the corner, then opened her dress quickly.

And with a wide smile His Majesty now turned directly towards Xiao Yi, staring at the girl taking off her clothes.

"Bas stubborn!" Xiao Yi muttered in annoyance.

"Have Chenxing no shame so, I've seen more than that." His Majesty chuckled mischievously.

Xiao Yi immediately changed with a sour face.

"If we don't have any more important issues, maybe I'll lock you up in this room" His Majesty stood up then hugged Xiao Yi from behind.

His mouth did not stop grinning at the sight of the girl wearing her clothes with a flirtation. Xiao Yi lifted the waist of the pants up high so as not to fall on the floor, and His Majesty helped tie them up.

His Majesty could not help but laugh at the child-like Xiao Yi, wearing his father's clothes.

"Don't laugh like that! not funny!" Xiao Yi scowled. His Majesty wrapped his hands around his waist, briefly landing a kiss on Xiao Yi's cheek.

"Basic naughty!"

Xiao Yi broke free, stepped towards the door, Chu Cu's fate and his fate was more important than any other affair.

Not long after, five horses dashed across the night, racing towards Shanpo village on the slopes of Zhieshan hill.

Your Majesty, Xiao Yi and the three bodyguards of His Majesty.

They must find Huanran, who disappeared from the palace. Xiao Yi's fate was in the servant's hands.

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