Allure of a Country Maiden

Zichen Palace

The emperor sat happily at a table made of fine golden nanmu inlaid with white marble with natural dragon patterns, carefully peeling green-skinned walnuts.

Last night, that brat Shangguan Xuanyi brought him a bag of green-skinned walnuts just after dark, telling him to peel them slowly to pass the time. He was so angry that his teeth itched! I almost threw the green-skinned walnut in his face.

He must have done it on purpose! Knowing that he is a "patient" now, and a "patient" is someone who should go to bed early and get up early, yet he still brings walnuts when it gets dark. Why are you peeling walnuts when it’s dark?

During this period, he turned off the lights and "sleeped" within half an hour of holding the lights every night.

He absolutely couldn't stop working for the green-skinned walnut that he had been thinking about for more than half a year.

So the emperor, who had the power of life and death for everyone in the world, was made sleepless for most of the night by a bag of walnuts.

He scolded Shangguan Xuanyi from the end of his hair to the end of his toenails.

That unfilial son, didn't you just want me to rest more and do more things by myself? As for making such an excuse, saying that I was too busy, so I sent it to my father so late.

He must have done it on purpose! For a small bag of walnuts, just find someone to deliver it to you. There is no need to deliver it in person!

The emperor, with two big dark circles under his eyes, was struggling to peel off the skin, thinking to himself.

At this time, the voice of the old eunuch outside the door sounded: "Your Majesty, the third prince wants to see you!"

After hearing this, the emperor hurriedly threw away the knife and walnuts in his hands and quickly lay down.

Then ask the little eunuch who is waiting nearby to quickly put away the things on the table!

"Quick~quick~" he whispered while waving his hands.

The little eunuch quickly cleaned up the green leather on the table and the floor and hid it.

After the emperor saw that he had cleaned up, he said angrily: "Pass."

Just one word, as if all the strength in his body had been exhausted.

The third prince walked in and saw that his father's eyes were so green that he looked very haggard.

The third prince was a little confused again. Is his father really sick? But doesn’t Shangguan Xuanyi have a medicine that can cure all diseases? Because of this incident, the staff told themselves not to act rashly, because maybe the emperor was pretending to be ill. Thinking back to the time when Li Mingjun was bombed beyond recognition, many imperial doctors said they had resigned themselves to fate, but their lives were saved by the pill.

Now my father looks more and more lethargic day by day. What's going on?

Wait, I don’t want my father to get better, or the other princes don’t want it either! After all, the throne will be vacant only if the father dies!

Thinking of this, he sneered in his heart. The usual picture of a loving father and a filial son was actually all fake! How could the true love between father and son come from being born into an imperial family!

He retracted his thoughts and asked with worry on his face: "How is your father's health recently? Why does he look more and more haggard?"

"I'm fine, I'll be able to go to court soon." The emperor said a little anxiously after hearing this, and because he spoke too hastily, he choked on his saliva and coughed violently. He finally regained his breath and his face became even more expressionless. Worse.

The third prince even felt that the emperor was really ill.

"Why do you want to see me, Your Majesty?"

After hearing this, the third prince carefully took out a pair of green-skinned walnuts from his sleeve pocket: "I heard that playing with walnuts is good for the body. The spikes on the walnuts can stimulate the acupuncture points in the hands, thus relaxing the muscles and activating the muscles. . I specially walked to Wenwan Street for two days and bought this green-skinned walnut king to give my father some exercise."

When the emperor saw the two walnuts, he showed a surprised smile: "Your Majesty is interested. It's just that my father is inconvenient to move. Please peel the skin off for me."

After hearing this, the third prince quickly agreed, and then asked the eunuch to get tools. He carefully peeled off the green skin in front of the emperor.

When Shangguan Xuanyi came over, the third prince was already doing the last step, which was to carefully clean up the remaining skin with a crochet hook.

This walnut king deserves to be called the walnut king, and is actually a pair of identical Qilin Twisted Lion King Walnuts.

Even the emperor couldn't help but sit up straight when he saw it.

"Huang'er picked these walnuts well, didn't he put a lot of thought into it?"

"As long as the father likes it and can bring health to the father, it will be worth it no matter how hard the son works!" The third prince felt a little satisfied, and he secretly glanced at Shangguan Xuanyi's expression.

Shangguan Xuanyi is still expressionless, pretending! The third prince snorted in his heart.

"Okay, okay, okay!" The emperor said three words in a row, "Bring it to me and try it!"

The third prince quickly put the walnut into the emperor's hand.

The emperor tried hard to suppress his excitement, reminding himself that he was a patient and his hands and feet were not flexible, so he could not play with the walnuts too smoothly.

Or maybe it was because of his conflicting and excited mood that the emperor played with the pair of walnuts. It looked very awkward, but it really looked like he had lost flexibility in his hands and feet.

The third prince glanced at Shangguan Xuanyi again. His father loved him so much, but now that his father was ill, he could ruthlessly not take out pills to cure the emperor's illness for the sake of the throne!

You can do this to your father now, and you can do this to your brothers in the future...

The third prince was distracted when suddenly there was a "pop" sound in the emperor's hand, and a walnut broke into two halves.

It turns out that the inside of this walnut has long been damaged by insect infestations.

The emperor came back from his astonishment: "It's a pity. Such a perfect pair of walnuts will become a good collection after being played."

Shangguan Xuanyi's face was still expressionless, showing no signs of happiness or sorrow.

But the third prince's face turned red, he was ashamed and angry!

This is the walnut king he bought for more than three hundred taels!

There is actually a resident insect!

"Father, forgive me. I didn't mean it. I didn't know that these walnuts were worm-eaten. Otherwise, I would not have given them to my father and made him happy in vain!" The third prince immediately stood up and handed over his hands. Bendou said.

The emperor threw away the walnuts in his hands, put his hands into the copper basin held by the eunuch and washed them. Then he took the cloth from another eunuch and wiped the water droplets in his hands: "Well, people's hearts are separated from each other, and these walnuts are even more so. With two layers of skin separated, who knows if his inner beauty has long been ruined by the beauty on the outside!"

The third prince suddenly felt aggrieved. He had snatched this from Shangguan Xuanyi at a high price, more than three hundred taels! When he found out, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood. His money has been tight recently. With more than three hundred taels, he can buy a lot of things!

But thinking that this walnut could please my father, I forgot about it.

But I didn’t expect that more than three hundred taels would be a bad idea! Give yourself a sentence: "People's hearts are separated from the belly, but gold and jade are ruined on the outside!"

"Brother Three Emperors, are these the Walnut Kings?"

"Yier knows about this walnut?" The emperor looked over after hearing this.

"Originally, I wanted to buy this king walnut as a gift to my father, but Cheng Yaojin came out halfway to compete with Xiao Fuzi and raised the pair of walnuts to a sky-high price of more than three hundred taels. Xiao Fuzi remembered that his father was diligent and thrifty. For the purpose of saving, I gave up bidding. I didn’t expect that the person competing with Xiao Fuzi for these walnuts would be the Sanhuang Brother. If I had known better, I wouldn’t have fought.”

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