Warmth in My Chest… Guess I’m Dying

The Great Yan True Dragon reigned for ten years before passing away, entrusting the orphaned prince to Grand Tutor Zhong.

Consequently, Shou Prince Yan Shou was established as the Son of Heaven, called King Zhou, with the capital at Baizao, in the Emperor’s third year.

Zhou enjoyed peace, the people prospered, the weather was favorable, the country was peaceful, the surrounding barbarians bowed their heads, and all directions submitted.

The Great Yan lords all paid tribute to Yan.

In the autumn of the Emperor’s third year, the True Dragon ordered Jiang Bohou Bai Dingshan to be demoted to guard Baizao’s Xuanwu Gate.

The following year, the government was smooth and the people were harmonious, and all abandoned affairs were revived.

The Great Yan hundred clans and lords from all directions advanced to Baizao.

As for why all kinds of officials from various places in Great Yan entered Baizao from the Xuanwu Gate, and even those who didn’t need to enter from the Xuanwu Gate detoured to enter through that gate, Bai Dingshan didn’t know.

He just greeted everyone he saw, smiled, told them to slow down, not to stand by the roadside and affect his work, and continued to patrol his gate, holding his broom and sweeping his ground.

He even used this sweeping experience to refine a set of Autumn Wind Falling Leaves Palm.

It can be imagined how bored he was.

The prefects who entered through the Xuanwu Gate were a bit dazed. How could Great Yan’s Bohou be assigned to sweep the ground?

Of course, some people felt that this was not good, but others felt that this was ominous.

In short, people with various thoughts entered the city one after another.

At this time, Yan Shou had changed his clothes and appeared at the Xuanwu Gate.

“Is Your Majesty inspecting the words and deeds of foreign officials in disguise?”

Walking to the gate, Yan Shou saw Bai Dingshan waiting for him with a broom at a glance.

Yan Shou shook his head: “I heard that the lords from all directions enter the city through this gate, so I came to take a look and pay attention to the jade beauties among the people.”

He was here to forcibly seize civilian women.

If he didn’t do something fatuous for a day, he would feel flustered, without confidence, and always felt that the Fatuity Value he gained from his actions would be stabbed in the back by the hardworking Grand Tutor and the serious ministers.

Therefore, he didn’t dare to relax his vigilance for a moment.

Now that the local officials had all arrived in Baizao, Yan Shou had to start acting.

First, he had to establish his fatuous image, giving the local prefects a preconceived impression of a fatuous ruler.

What if they mistakenly thought he was an enlightened monarch?

Everything should pay attention to first impressions, and first impressions are very important.

Therefore, Yan Shou took the initiative to forcibly seize civilian women on the street. As long as he made this matter a reality, it would be impossible to clear his name.

However, he had to carefully select the civilian women he forcibly seized. First, they had to be beautiful, and second, they had to have temperament. A fatuous ruler was just fatuous, not aesthetically challenged, right?

At the same time, at the ancestral hall where the Qilin clan was located.

The Qilin family had a daughter who was as beautiful as a country, in short, very beautiful, and also very strong and capable.

Jingzhe herself refused to become a concubine, but to some extent, she couldn’t refuse.

Since the matter was a foregone conclusion, and according to Granduncle’s analysis, this Majesty didn’t seem so fatuous, Jingzhe thought that she could share the worries of her elders and serve the monarch with her body for the sake of the family’s grand plan. It wasn’t unacceptable.

Moreover, this was also related to the plan that her uncle mentioned, so she put on makeup, tidied up her attire, and arrived near the Xuanwu Gate.

First, she wanted to see how many competitors she would have, how many beautiful women had been sent from various places. Second, she wanted to act.

Yes, she had been informed of Yan Shou’s plan by Bai Dingshan, and knew that this new monarch was defaming himself in order to measure the local officials entering Baizao, especially the four town lords and royal descendants.

With the disguised Bai Dingshan following him, Yan Shou wandered aimlessly on the street.

As the capital, Baizao was very prosperous and the people were very simple. He walked around, looking for a target.

He had his own plans for having Bai Dingshan follow him.

One moment I bestowed a marriage on the Qilin family, and the next moment I took you to the street to forcibly seize civilian women, doing the absurd actions that a fatuous ruler should have, in order to force you Bai Dingshan to rebel, causing your Qilin family to be filled with resentment, and then let the matter ferment.

I have entrusted you with such an important gatekeeping position. You would be embarrassed to guard this gate if you didn’t collude with the local lords or the royal descendants to rebel.

Walking on the street with Bai Dingshan, Yan Shou saw a beautiful figure after a few steps.

From the back, she had a tall and slender figure, bright and high-rolled hair, and a slender waist. It could be seen that her figure was very good.

He had to think of a way to see her face.

As he walked, Yan Shou found that a jade pendant suddenly fell from the other party’s body.

“Hmm?”

Although it was a bit strange, it didn’t matter. Yan Shou said it was okay.

“Hey…”

Yan Shou walked over, picked up the jade pendant, and called out to Jingzhe, whose expression was a little stiff.

The veiled Jingzhe turned her head.

How should he describe the face shrouded by the veil that Yan Shou saw?

In layman’s terms, she had clear and bright big eyes, curved willow eyebrows, long eyelashes, and red cheeks like the sun.

Her cloak and dress were not very gorgeous, and a string of bright pearls hung around her neck, emitting a faint halo.

In a more literary way, her hands were like soft reeds, her skin was like congealed fat, light gauze brushed her face, she had a delicate head and moth eyebrows, and beautiful eyes… In short, she was very beautiful.

“Your jade pendant!”

While observing, Yan Shou felt that the horns on the other party’s head were somewhat familiar, but he couldn’t remember which one it was for a moment.

“Thank you!”

Glancing at Bai Dingshan beside her, Jingzhe took the jade pendant and quickly scanned Yan Shou from top to bottom.

How should he put it, this was a blind date.

Although Jingzhe was next to Yan Shou’s imperial carriage as Shaoqing of the Great Prison Temple on the last trip, she really didn’t see clearly what this Majesty looked like because of the curtains.

What about the court?

The court was so big, and she, a small Shaoqing of the Great Prison Temple, was not qualified to be among the court officials.

Even if she occasionally attended court, it was a hundred meters away, and she couldn’t see Yan Shou behind the beaded curtain.

This time was considered the first real meeting between the two.

Taking the jade pendant, thanking him, and turning around were all done in one go. Jingzhe left without any hesitation, but hesitated slightly and turned in a different direction.

Bai Dingshan nodded. Everything was going according to plan so far.

Jingzhe walked far away, and Yan Shou, who was standing in place, looked lost.

“Bai Qing, I have treated you well, right?”

Bai Dingshan cupped his hands: “With His Majesty’s love, your subject has what he has today.”

Yan Shou nodded with satisfaction: “What do you think of the woman just now?”

My own niece and disciple, how could I not know?

Although she was a bit upright, she was really beautiful.

So Bai Dingshan cupped his hands again and said: “Although her face is covered with a veil, she must be as beautiful as a country. Your Majesty has met an immortal.”

Yan Shou said indifferently: “How about adding her to the harem?”

Bai Dingshan said calmly: “Serving the monarch is the blessing of women in the world.”

“Good!”

Yan Shou couldn’t help but applaud.

Although Bai Dingshan’s reaction was different from what he had expected, his answer already had some of the qualities of a treacherous official.

It didn’t matter that he hadn’t initially achieved the goal of forcing him to rebel. What the Great Yan court lacked was the so-called treacherous officials. It didn’t matter if you weren’t angry, I could be more fatuous and make a bigger fuss.

After thinking, Yan Shou took out the jade pendant from his waist: “Call the Forbidden Army and bring this woman into the palace for me.”

Bai Dingshan was stunned.

He quickly thought.

He was wondering if Yan Shou had seen through Jingzhe’s identity, or something else?

Could it be that Your Majesty knows my plan again?

That shouldn’t be.

I only told Jingzhe, big brother, and Zuo Le about this.

Big brother wouldn’t talk nonsense, and Jingzhe wouldn’t either. That child Zuo Le is too simple; then… am I a mole?

That’s even more impossible.

In that case, Your Majesty must have discovered the clues and understood my plan with his discerning eyes.

Although he discovered it, he didn’t reveal it, and thoughtfully asked me to take someone to snatch her, presumably approving of my plan… Seeing through it but not revealing it, and being very considerate in cooperating.

What was this feeling that suddenly welled up in his heart?

In short, Bai Dingshan felt warm in his heart.

In the future, loyalty would be his, Bai Dingshan’s, greatest asset in the court.

Look, in order to cooperate with my plan, His Majesty didn’t cherish his reputation and snatched civilian women on the street.

Although this civilian woman was arranged by him, Bai Dingshan.

“Your Majesty is wise. The concubine selection is handled by the local prefects alone.

If they have set up spies in advance, all matters in the palace will be known to them.

How can the beauty personally selected by Your Majesty be more reassuring?”

“It is precisely this kind of encounter on the street that is the so-called golden opportunity. I will go and do it now.”

Bai Dingshan accepted the jade pendant without hesitation. Everything was normal so far…

Wait, did A’Yan turn in the wrong direction?

To meet first, then a hero saves the beauty, and finally to be together in a proper way, this was the three-step strategy he had arranged for Jingzhe to meet Yan Shou.

If it developed normally, this strategy would be absolutely fair and beautiful, and it would be impossible to see that he, Bai Dingshan, had any possibility of favoritism or bribery.

But Your Majesty has already agreed, and even directly asked him to snatch her in one step, so there was no need for the subsequent arrangements.

But Jingzhe, this silly child, didn’t know.

Judging from the direction, she was heading towards where Zuo Le and the others were ambushing, right?

Quickly making a few gestures to the crowd, Bai Dingshan continued to follow behind Yan Shou, watching Jingzhe from a distance.

After walking for a while, to a street corner, Yan Shou was about to arrange for Bai Dingshan to snatch her, but unexpectedly someone was faster than him.

He saw a burst of smoke rising from the street ahead. Bai Dingshan heard his niece, who was proficient in thunder magic, exclaim pretentiously, and then she was helplessly covered in a sack by several people, lifted up, and carried away.

???

Yan Shou’s footsteps stopped, and Bai Dingshan was dumbfounded!

It’s bad!!!