Chapter 319 – Who says it must be for regicide?

Huo Xiu looks at her for half a moment and walks towards the door, “You’re overthinking it.”

Huo Mingyu follows him out the door, “I’m serious.”

Huo Xiu then turns around on the porch, “Don’t you think that every time you talk about the young lady of the Marquis of Qingyun, you’re extraordinarily preoccupied?”

Huo Mingyu is stunned.

Huo Xiu retracts his gaze, “Go eat.”

……

Zhao Su finishes eating in Qianqing Palace and wants to go sit in Ci Ning Palace, the emperor doesn’t let her go and has someone make fresh tea to drink.

Zhao Su did not agree: “The palace door is almost closed, if I go out late, I will have to labor to open the general’s door again later.”

“I don’t think opening a door is anything less to you.” The Emperor sat cross-legged, sizing her up, and raised his eyebrows, “You’ve been extraordinarily polite these past two days, so there’s no need to be.”

“Have I?” Zhao Su blinked her eyes, “I thought I was always polite.”

“How could that be? I’m just worried that it’s getting late.”

The emperor lightly tapped her forehead and said, “Sister Yu lived in the palace since she was a child, and of the three imperial sons, I have the smallest age difference between her and I, so we spend a lot of time together. She called me brother, and I also regarded her as a younger sister. To be honest, when I was a child, I took her over the wall, skipped classes, and also received punishment together, the love is different from others.

“Now that she’s back, she can come to me when I’m not busy, and she can be unpretentious in front of me, but that’s all. For even a true princess of the palace would not be more free in front of me.

“Earlier she came to me to talk about the various utensils that the Empress Dowager had sent to the Palace of Eternal Life, but in fact she wanted to hear my opinion on whether she should listen to the Empress Dowager’s arrangements. I told her to feel free. After all, it has no effect on me. Just as I finished speaking, you came and she left.”

Zhao Su waited for him to finish this long string of words, and it took a while for him to get his breath back: “Why are you talking to me about this for no reason?”

The emperor smiled lowly and said, “I don’t believe you haven’t heard the rumors outside.”

Speaking of this, Zhao Su also slowly hold up the tea: “So you also care about these rumors.”

“What do I care about them for? I only care about you.” The emperor leaned back on the pillow, his face with a bit of anger and amusement, “Originally I did not intend to say again, because long ago told you that she is only my sister. However, you become so polite, I think it is necessary to let you eat a pill. You put your heart on the ground, I do not have any antecedents.”

Zhao Su hold tea for a moment, turn his face to him: “This topic but you automatically pick up, not I ask.”

The emperor nodded deeply: “What else do you want to ask, directly say.”

Zhao Su changed the direction of the front to him, like him to cross his legs: “You and her childhood sweethearts, did not develop some other love out?”

“Let you disappointed, right?” The Emperor’s gaze was cool, “If I want to have another affair with her, what else can you do?”

Zhao Su already know this reasoning, but the words from his mouth out, and different, as if it has been corroborated.

Side head thought for a moment, she patted up her knees and said: “Since you are so frank, then I also clear people do not say the dark truth. In fact, inbreeding is not good for offspring, easy to give birth to deformed children. You’re doing the right thing! You can also rest assured that in the future, your sister is my sister, as long as she does not see outside, then I absolutely will not see outside.”

The emperor poked her in the head: “When you saw Sister Yu earlier, why did you stare stupidly?”

Speaking of this, Zhao Su is also unable to hold back: “I just feel that she is somewhat familiar. But I can’t remember where I’ve seen her before.”

“Is it not because of the memories that Sister Su left you?”

“No.” Zhao Su said with certainty, “That’s different.”

In the end how different, she naturally could not say.

Taking a sip of tea, she remembered his injury: “Where’s Big Orange? How is it today?”

The emperor raised his head and looked out the window: “I haven’t seen it. Originally, I asked Four Happiness to look for it, want to see what happened to its injury? But I haven’t seen it for a day.”

“I’ll go look for it!”

Zhao Su then went down to the ground.

“You can find it?”

“That’s not likely, after all, it’s closest to me!”

She said and headed out, the Emperor paused and also immediately shuffled his shoes to follow.

From Zhao Su into the dining room, the big orange weight and up a step, on Zhao Su this “food and clothing” is also extra close, in short, so the character of the idyllic cat, to Zhao Su under the hand will be randomly jacked, happened to Zhao Su hand with food, but also at the beck and call.

But today Zhao Su took a piece of chicken breast, along it often frequented the wall root called half a day did not see it out.

Zhao Su also felt that the emperor’s guess was reliable, the big orange’s injury was not an accident. The reason why she is so easy to attract cats, because in the past in the countryside cats and dogs are not a lot of, through the view of its injuries, may be able to find any clues. She followed the roots of the wall and found the eunuchs to it in the corner of one of the cat house, called twice, and heard the big orange meow response.

The emperor then took out a night pearl from his purse and shone it close to him, only to see Big Tangerine coiled in the cabin, looking at the two of them warily.

Zhao Su handed over the chicken breast, and called it twice, and when it finally began to eat, she gently touched it along its back.

“Can you carry it out?” The Emperor asked.

“Wait until it finishes eating.”

It was good to see that for Zhao Su’s petting in the middle of eating, Big Orange didn’t resist. It just looked like it still wasn’t in the best of spirits, and after a few bites it went back down.

Zhao Su held it out, skillfully controlling its limbs and turning out its hind legs to show the Emperor.

The emperor practiced martial arts, for Jinchuang stumble class or must have mastered. He pinched the cat’s leg and looked at it carefully, saying, ”It’s a fracture. The fracture is still quite flush, so it is evident that the injury was not only caused by a strange external force, but also fast.”

Zhao Su was puzzled, “If it’s man-made, then it has to be someone with high martial arts. But in this palace, at the time when you and Huo Xiu were fighting, who would dare to be out around?”

The emperor stroked his cat’s leg for a moment before letting go, “It can only be the guards.”

“…… The guards?!”

Zhao Su was in the guards, she was too familiar with the atmosphere of the forbidden guards department, it was simply impossible that there would be someone who was not loyal to the emperor. In other words, if the palace couldn’t even guarantee the loyalty of the people in the forbidden guards department, then don’t even mention about managing the court! So Zhao Su was not even thinking about the guards’ heads. “I don’t think it’s possible, it’s all about having a family behind you, no one in the Prohibited Guards Department is so thoughtless!”

“But at that time, only the guards had the conditions to commit the crime.” The emperor looked at her, “Even Huo Xiu didn’t bring an attendant in.”

“Then who would have such audacity to dare regicide?!”

“How are you sure that he must have come for regicide?” The Emperor straightened up and said in a slow voice in the ghostly pearl light, “What if he’s here for another purpose?”

Zhao Su was stunned. “What other purpose?”

The emperor’s gaze became even more ethereal, “For example, to provoke me and Marquis Wei Yuan.”