Chapter 227: Night Watchman
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The empress of Great Wei was woken up by the touch. Her eyes were still blank for a moment, but she immediately realized something and lowered her head to look…
The empress hugged her arms tighter to cover the big balls that were about to slip out. She looked at Ye Jingtang and remained calm. “You… cough… get me a cup of water.”
Ye Jingtang felt that something was wrong with Yuhu’s situation. He got up, went to the outer room, poured a cup of water, returned to the bathroom, and handed it to her.
The empress raised her hand slightly and wanted to take it, but it was definitely not good to move her arms now.
Seeing this, Ye Jingtang brought the cup to her red lips.
Gulp-
The empress’s fair throat moved. After drinking half a cup of water, her almost smoking throat felt better. She glanced at Ye Jingtang, who wasn’t blindfolded, with displeasure. “Have you seen enough?”
“You think 1 want to see?”
Seeing that Yuhu still dared to blame him for not knowing how to avoid taboos, Ye Jingtang frowned and said, “Didn’t you notice that the empress dowager is outside? When I came in just now and found you lying in the pool silently, i thought you were dead. The problem is so serious, but you refuse to see a doctor. What if something really happens? What’s wrong with you?”
There was no longer much of a problem with the empress, and the internal injury was recovering, but she was feeling weak due to the lack of essence blood.
She knew that Ye Jingtang was full of chivalry and would definitely come back. For this reason, she had covered her vital points to prevent him from coming back after she fell asleep and seeing her completely naked.
Hearing Ye Jingtang’s complaint, the empress explained calmly, “My body is a little weak after the treatment, so 1 fell asleep. It’s nothing serious. I called you earlier to remind you that the empress dowager would come over at night, and I was going to rest so that you didn’t have to come again. But you suddenly turned around, and 1 forgot.”
While speaking, the empress looked out of the sliding door. “Did the empress dowager discover that I was recuperating here?”
Ye Jingtang felt that aside from being weak, Yuhu wasn’t in too much danger and silently breathed a sigh of relief. “1 just came in and bumped into the empress dowager. 1 was afraid that something would happen, so 1 knocked her unconscious. She thought that I was up to no good. Please help me explain tomorrow.”
The empress breathed a sigh of relief. She thought for a moment and revealed a helpless expression. “No one can know that I’m injured. You have to help me keep it a secret. You sneaked in in the middle of the night and knocked the empress dowager out. If 1 didn’t say anything, it meant that 1 wasn’t in the room. If I was in the room but didn’t say anything, the empress dowager would definitely let her imagination run wild. She might guess that I’m healing here, and the situation is more serious…”
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When Ye Jingtang heard the words of the woman who was not wearing clothes and was planning to make him a scapegoat, he frowned. “Are you saying that you plan to pretend that you weren’t here and let me take responsibility for sneaking in here and knocking out the empress dowager? Even if the empress dowager doesn’t kill me when she wakes up, she will tell the Prince of Jing about this. If the Prince of Jing finds out that I’ve attacked the empress dowager and offended her, she’ll kill me no matter how much she likes me. How can I take the blame?”
The empress knew that Ye Jingtang couldn’t bear this, so she said gently, “1 will explain to the empress dowager tomorrow that I called you over to arrange a top-secret mission and ask her to keep it a secret. The empress dowager will definitely let her imagination run wild, but she shouldn’t make things too difficult for you.”
Hearing this, Ye Jingtang heaved a sigh of relief. He felt that he couldn’t stay here for long and stood up. “If you’re okay, I’ll leave first.”
“Wait!” The empress’s gentle and charming voice rose a few notches, exuding a sense of irrefutable majesty.
Ye Jingtang stopped in his tracks and turned around with a serious expression. “Miss Yuhu, I’m helping you today. If you hadn’t messed around with the spear, you wouldn’t have been injured. If you were willing to see the imperial physician, I wouldn’t have carried you here. If you didn’t stop me, 1 wouldn’t have turned around. If you didn’t forget your instructions, 1 wouldn’t come back, let alone provoke the empress dowager. If you have a grudge because of this and want me to be responsible for repaying the debt, I won’t admit it.”
The empress felt that Ye Jingtang’s reaction was like a scholarly young lady encountering an overbearing emperor and found it funny. In order to pacify Noble Consort Ye’s dissatisfaction, she explained, “What are you thinking about? I’ve been in the water for too long, and it’s a little cold. Help me get my pajamas first.”
Ye Jingtang realized that Yuhu’s body temperature was very low, so he didn’t say anything else. He quietly went to the inner room and opened the cabinet to take a look. There were many gauze nightgowns of all sorts of styles hanging inside. Most of them were red, and there were also a few black ones.
Ye Jingtang took out an opaque red nightgown, covered his eyes, returned to the bathroom, and handed it to Yuhu. “Shall I call a palace maid in?”
“No. If the palace maid notices that 1 look weak, she will be suspicious.”
Seeing that Ye Jingtang had covered his eyes, the empress stopped covering herself with her arms, slowly got out of the bathing pool, took the towel from him, wiped herself, and put on the red nightgown.
The red nightgown had a special style. The gown was only slightly lower than the white jade tiger and was rather loose.
But the function of the clothes was still retained and covered her decently. When she stood up straight, other than the outline of her body under the fabric, nothing else could be seen.
After putting on the nightgown, the empress breathed a sigh of relief. “Alright, there’s no need to cover your eyes anymore.”
Ye Jingtang pulled down his blindfold and found that the curvy and elegant girl was going commando. He turned his gaze away. “Okay, I’m leaving. You must explain it clearly to the empress dowager.”
“Go ahead.” The empress nodded slightly. She held the cabinet with her hand, found a medicine box, took out a nourishing medicinal pill, and placed it between her red lips.
Then she slowly walked toward the door. After taking a few steps, she felt a sense of powerlessness from overdrawing her essence qi. She leaned against the cabinet and raised her hand to gently massage her forehead.
Plop!
Just as Ye Jingtang was about to leave, he saw this scene and sighed. He walked over to her, held her back with his right arm, put his left arm under the crook of her legs, and carried her horizontally.
The empress felt dizzy. She closed her eyes and leaned into the man’s arms. To her surprise, she realized that Ye Jingtang’s body was full of blazing heat, making the fatigue in her body ease a little. She couldn’t help leaning closer.
The empress was wearing a very loose, one-piece short nightgown that only just covered her crotch. At this moment, when she was being carried horizontally, her waist and hips sank, and her legs were bent over his arm, so the skirt naturally slid down. Her legs were not very close together.
Ye Jingtang was carrying Yuhu sideways. At first, there were no ripples, but when he lowered his head slightly, he saw the scenery under the red nightgown that was not covered by any fabric…
As fair as snow, a thin line…
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Ye Jingtang’s expression froze. When he realized that Yuhu was leaning against his chest with her eyes closed and didn’t notice, he secretly heaved a sigh of relief. Without looking around, he carefully went to the dragon bed in the inner room and placed her on it.
The empress dowager was lying on the side of the dragon bed. Her beautiful and mature side profile was presented under the candlelight, but she was still a little afraid. Her eyelashes moved slightly, and she looked like she was having some inhuman nightmare. The perpetrator was probably him.
Seeing this scene, Ye Jingtang felt that he didn’t have long to live. After putting down Yuhu, he wanted to pull the thin blanket over, but he saw her turn over slightly and cover the empress dowager with her hand.
Ye Jingtang was afraid of waking the empress dowager up, so he asked, “What are you doing now?”
The empress didn’t want to do anything. It was just that when she leaned against Ye Jingtang’s body just now, she felt especially warm. This was the first time she realized that leaning on someone could relieve her cold and tiredness that came from the inside out.
The empress dowager was beside her, so she tried touching her. In the end, she found that the empress dowager’s delicate body was soft and felt quite warm, but she didn’t have the special feeling that she had had with Ye Jingtang.
The empress frowned silently. She let go of the empress dowager and turned around to face the outside. “Give me your hand.”
Ye Jingtang didn’t understand. He half-squatted in front of her and handed her his hand.
The empress held Ye Jingtang’s hand and felt it carefully. She nodded thoughtfully and let go. “I used a secret method to recover from my injury. The essence qi in my body has been exhausted, leading to a deficiency of yang and coldness in my body. You’re a man. You have more yang and excess heat. 1 feel relieved beside you. There are only women and eunuchs in the palace. Please bear with it and stay beside me until I fall asleep before leaving.”
Faced with such a mysterious statement, Ye Jingtang was skeptical. “Is the feeling you’re talking about a sense of security?”
The empress blinked and felt that Ye Jingtang’s explanation was more reasonable than hers.
As an emperor, she was the only one who could protect herself.
Today, she had witnessed Ye Jingtang’s absolute reliability and extraordinary martial arts skills. The comfort she felt when her body was weak might really have something to do with a sense of security.
No matter what she felt, it was fine as long as it could let her sleep comfortably now. The empress did not delve into it. Sleepiness overwhelmed her, and she closed her eyes.
Half-squatting beside her, Ye Jingtang comforted her in a low voice. “Have a good rest. I’ll leave later.”
The empress leaned on the pillow. It seemed that the medicine was taking effect. Sweat appeared on her forehead, and her body alternated between cold and hot. She didn’t speak anymore, and only her breathing was sometimes rapid and sometimes slow.
The bedchamber was silent. Ye Jingtang was half-squatting beside the dragon bed with two beautiful imperial ladies in front of him. He couldn’t help feeling a little worried, mainly because he was afraid that the empress dowager would wake up and see them.
The empress dowager was wearing a dark red nightgown and lying peacefully on the other side. Although her side profile was gorgeous, she was covered very tightly. Other than the hem of her collar, he couldn’t see anything else.
But this wasn’t the case for Yuhu. After she lay down, her skirt was covering her again, and he couldn’t see the tiger anymore. But she was lying on her side in front of him, and they were facing each other. The jade balls under the red gauze were stacked together, pressing out a semi-circular outline on the chest of her nightgown, and the top of his arc…
Ye Jingtang was squatting beside her with a cold expression, looking like a heartless saint. He really couldn’t look at her, so he looked around and found a fish pendant hanging on the makeup table beside him.
The jade pendant was very familiar. It was the one that he had found for Yuhu when he entered the Bright Yang Pool. It was also the one that had caused him to see Dumdum naked.
Ye Jingtang’s gaze stopped on the jade pendant. He suddenly realized the cause and effect of the incident in the Bright Yang Pool. He sighed. She even tricked her biological sister. Really…
After looking at the jade pendant a few times, Ye Jingtang found the book that the empress dowager had dropped beside her pillow, so he quietly picked it up and opened it.
The empress dowager clearly liked this book very much. Not only was it neat and tidy without any creases, but there were even poems with beautiful handwriting on some pages.
Rustle-
In the silent room, there was only the soft sound of pages turning. The empress was lying on her side facing Ye Jingtang. Because she was really too tired, her breathing gradually stabilized, and she gradually fell asleep.
After an unknown period of time, the candle lamp on the dressing table burned out, and the room completely darkened.
Ye Jingtang came back to his senses from the gripping plot and closed the book. Seeing that Yuhu’s complexion had mostly recovered and she was already sound asleep, he stood up carefully.
The empress felt something. Her eyelashes fluttered, but she didn’t wake up.
Seeing this, Ye Jingtang sighed in relief. He silently pulled up the thin blanket to cover her.. After looking at the non-biological mother and daughter, he quietly disappeared into the night…
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