Ji Feiyu stared at him with wide eyes.
Yong Yaxuan immediately coughed lightly and turned his head to the side, saying, "I didn't know it would be this long at that time. I only found out after I got back."
Ji Feiyu reached out to grab his hand. Seeing this, Yong Yaxuan immediately wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into his embrace. Then he said, "Don't be afraid, Yu'er. It's all over now."
Hearing his nasal voice and feeling his warm embrace, Ji Feiyu finally couldn't bear to scold him. She only said, "Don't be so reckless with your life next time."
Yong Yaxuan nodded. Ji Feiyu then wriggled out of his arms and took a careful look at the wound. She couldn't help but shake her head.
Finally, she saw the bite mark on Yong Yaxuan's hand and burst out laughing.
Yong Yaxuan looked at her worriedly again, afraid that she would start having wild thoughts. Who would have thought that Ji Feiyu would say, "This is the mark I left on you. You won't be able to run away from me in the future."
Only then did Yong Yaxuan feel relieved. He said softly, "Yes, I'll be yours for the rest of my life and only yours."
"What about the other women in the harem?" Ji Feiyu tilted her head and looked at him with a hint of amusement, as if waiting for him to contradict himself.
Yong Yaxuan said seriously, "If it weren't for the unstable political situation after I returned this time, the first thing I would want to solve would be the harem."
Ji Feiyu looked at his sincere expression and couldn't help but comfort him, saying, "It's not urgent. We still haven't found out who framed me before. It's not too much to keep them around for some fun first."
Yong Yaxuan couldn't help but find it funny and said, "You should be careful. Each of these concubines has backers. I don't want to console the court officials one by one."
Ji Feiyu said, "Alas, yes. I almost forgot. Your Majesty is the master of balancing power in the court."
Yong Yaxuan felt a bit embarrassed. He cleared his throat and said seriously, "My dear...", then reached out to grab her. Seeing this, Ji Feiyu tried to escape, but the pool was so small. Where could she escape to? After some playfulness between the two of them, Ji Feiyu ended up sitting on Yong Yaxuan's lap.
Both of them were naked at this moment. This made the situation a bit awkward.
Yong Yaxuan said, "You're touching..."
Ji Feiyu immediately stood up and said, "I'm done washing. I'll go out first."
Yong Yaxuan laughed and watched Ji Feiyu rush out in a hurry to dry herself and get dressed. In fact, he was just teasing her. He wasn't even out of his refractory period yet.
After they finished soaking in the hot spring, they had dinner. The maids and eunuchs in Ji Feiyu's palace woke up from a remote corner of Qiwu Palace. They thought something big had happened and quickly returned to their posts. However, they saw the emperor and the empress sitting together harmoniously having dinner in Qiwu Palace. Everyone was very confused. After paying their respects, they went back to their duties. Only the maid in charge of cleaning the treasures in the hall saw the finely carved chicken - blood stone on the ground and shouted, "Your Majesty, what happened?"
Looking at the carving, Ji Feiyu couldn't help but think of the crazy things she and Yong Yaxuan had just done. She said, "I accidentally knocked it down while walking. Since it's broken, take it away and replace it with something else."
Yong Yaxuan buried his head in having dinner and couldn't help but want to laugh. Ji Feiyu couldn't hold back and kicked him with her foot. He immediately stopped laughing.
The little maid quickly started to clean it up. The carving was quite heavy, so she called another person in the hall to help. The two of them managed to carry it to the storeroom together.
Yong Yaxuan picked up some dishes for Ji Feiyu and said, "You've worked hard today. Eat more to replenish your energy."
Ji Feiyu's face turned red. She couldn't help but glare at him.
When Yong Yaxuan saw that there was no one in the hall, he finally burst out laughing loudly.
...
The next day, after the morning court, Yong Yaxuan changed into civilian clothes and took Ji Feiyu out of the palace.
Although they claimed to be going out openly, in fact, they were still sneaking out without the knowledge of the court officials. For this purpose, they even asked Xi Zhuang for two human - skin masks.
The two of them carried enough silver and rode a horse out of the side gate with their tokens.
Their destination, of course, was the Wangyue Tower, where all the delicious food in the world gathered.
Who would have thought that not long after they sat down on the second floor of the Wangyue Tower, they saw a figure sneaking around and rushing nervously to the entrance of the Wangyue Tower.
Yong Yaxuan squinted his eyes and looked over. He couldn't help but frown.
Seeing him frown, Ji Feiyu also looked down. She saw the man whispering something to a young servant at the entrance and then following the servant upstairs. Ji Feiyu saw Yong Yaxuan immediately regain his normal expression and stop looking at them. She also stopped looking and just caught a glimpse of them going up to the third floor out of the corner of her eye. As far as she knew, the third floor of the Wangyue Tower was all private rooms.
Ji Feiyu whispered to Yong Yaxuan, "Lord Li from the Ministry of Revenue?"
Yong Yaxuan nodded.
"What are they doing here?"
"I don't know either. How about we go and take a look?" Yong Yaxuan suddenly smiled at Ji Feiyu.
"Sure!" Eavesdropping was so exciting!
The two of them quickly discussed and then waved to the young servant waiting on the second floor and said, "It's too noisy here. Are there any empty private rooms upstairs? We're willing to pay more to move up there."
The young servant apologized embarrassedly and said, "I'm really sorry, sir. The entire third floor has been reserved today. There are probably no empty rooms."
"Oh, I see. That's okay then." Ji Feiyu was very sensible and gave up.
"If there's nothing else, I'll take my leave first." The young servant apologized to them again with a smile and then went to attend to other guests.
Ji Feiyu and Yong Yaxuan glanced at each other. There must be something fishy going on!
"How about going to the rooftop?" Ji Feiyu came up with a bad idea.
Yong Yaxuan shook his head.
"Then..." Ji Feiyu scratched her head and thought for a while. Suddenly, she had an idea. "I've got it!"
"What?" Yong Yaxuan looked at Ji Feiyu inquiringly.
"We..." Ji Feiyu whispered her idea into his ear. Yong Yaxuan couldn't help but smile and nod. Only Ji Feiyu could come up with such a tricky idea.
...
Not long after, a bowing young servant led two young masters in expensive clothes up to the third floor. No one noticed anything wrong.
A little later, these two people sneaked into a room next to the lit private room and started to eavesdrop with their ears against the wall.
That's right. These two people were Yong Yaxuan and Ji Feiyu. They went downstairs to a clothing store and bought two sets of luxurious clothes. Then they found the young servant at the entrance and said that Lord Li had invited them. They asked the young servant to lead them upstairs. Once they were upstairs, they made an excuse that they knew where to go and didn't need the young servant to show them the way, so they sent the young servant away. The young servant saw that they were dressed in expensive clothes and knew Lord Li's name, so he naturally believed them. Of course, this plan worked because Ji Feiyu was sure that since they had come here secretly for a confidential meeting and reserved the entire third floor, they definitely wouldn't tell the waiter how many people would come. In this way, if something went wrong, they could at least save one person.
At this moment, they were in a dim private room, with their ears pressed against the wall, eavesdropping. The voices over there were very soft, making it hard to hear clearly. But later, when someone got excited, they could faintly make out some clues.
Although the voices they could hear were soft, the content was really explosive, so explosive that it made them gasp in surprise.
A slightly steady voice was saying at this moment, "Since he has already foiled our plan this time, we might as well strike first. Otherwise, with that person's methods, once he finds out about us, I'm afraid none of us will end up well."