readytorunbook Chapter 253 Surviving the Disaster
Chapter 253 Surviving the Disaster
Long Mohan didn't ask Zhao Ji anymore. He pushed the door open and walked straight in.
At this time, Shui Furong was hurriedly putting on her clothes.
The palace dress had too many layers and was very troublesome to put on. He put it on in a hurry, but the more he was busy, the slower he got.
When Long Mohan barged in, he had just put on several layers of lining. However, even with only a few layers of lining, all the parts that should be covered were still covered, and his true gender could not be seen.
Long Mohan rushed over and grabbed his shoulders excitedly. He was so excited that he couldn't say anything.
Ji Anni was afraid that he would suddenly do something shocking, so she hurried in to stop him, saying, "Your Majesty... Your Majesty, please don't get excited!"
Long Mohan took a breath and said, "Zhao Ji, go and close the door."
Although these words were spoken to Zhao Ji, those two eyes like sharp swords were fixed on Shui Furong's face without moving at all.
Shui Furong felt uneasy when he stared at her. She didn't know what to do and looked down at her feet.
"Your Majesty..." Ji Anni frowned in worry. She didn't know what Long Mohan was going to do, but since he could say such a rational thing as "go and close the door", it proved that he hadn't been overwhelmed by the scene he just saw.
"Zhao Ji, go and close the door. I have something to ask him." Seeing that Ji Anni was motionless, Long Mohan repeated it again. This time his voice was softer, but still mixed with some dull breathing. It can be heard that he was trying hard to suppress his excitement and not let himself explode.
Ji Anni looked outside the door and saw Eunuch Hua and two guards looking in here worriedly.
If the door is not closed, and Shui Furong's secret is known to them, won't the world be in chaos?
Judging from Long Mohan's current reaction, although he has begun to doubt Shui Furong's gender, he did not get angry. Instead, he calmly helped Shui Furong to conceal it and did not want to make the matter public.
In this case, Ji Anni might as well hypnotize herself in a positive way.
She listened to Long Mohan and closed the door obediently.
When there were only three of them left in the room, the atmosphere suddenly became solemn and the air seemed to be frozen.
No one spoke, as if everyone was thinking about the next lines in silence.
At this time, the emperor's gaze moved from Shui Furong's face downwards, and slowly to her chest.
"You...what do you want to do..." Shui Furong nervously covered her collar with her hands. From Long Mohan's angle, he could just see his chest. If the other party found out that he had no chest, wouldn't he be exposed?
"Take your hands off." Long Mohan grabbed his shoulders tightly and said in a semi-commanding tone.
"What...what are you doing..." Shui Furong didn't dare to move, like a girl being teased, and warned, "Don't think you can touch me just because you are the emperor. If you dare to do anything, I...I will still call you molest."
As he said that, he waved away Long Mohan's hand and ran to Ji Anni guiltily.
"Explain the matter clearly. What is going on?" Long Mohan tried to make his voice sound gentle. From the eye contact between Shui Furong and Ji Anni, he had already seen that the two were in the same group.
"Your Majesty, things are not what you think..." Ji Anni already knew that she could no longer hide it, and she only hoped that the emperor could tolerate and understand Shui Furong.
"What exactly happened?" Long Mohan was about to explode.
Ji Anni's words just now clearly acknowledged that Shui Furong was a man, but how could a man enter the palace as a concubine? And how could Ji Anni know this secret? The most unforgivable thing was that he actually let his beloved concubine live under the same roof with a man. This was too dangerous!
"Your Majesty, please calm down first. Can we sit down and talk slowly?" Ji Anni tried her best to calm Long Mohan down.
Now the three of them were still standing by the door. Although the door was closed, if the volume was too loud, Hua Gonggong and the others outside would still hear it. Even if they wanted to confess, they should control their volume and emotions and not cause unnecessary trouble.
"Zhao Ji." Long Mohan grabbed Ji Anni's arm, pulled her into his arms, leaned close to her ear, and asked in a low voice, "Tell me first, is he... is he... is he... a man?"
I almost bit my tongue when I said the last two words.
Ji Anni didn't dare to answer rashly and looked back at Shui Furong's expression.
Although Ji Anni already knew Shui Furong's secret, and knew that the matter could not be concealed today...but even if the truth was to be revealed, Shui Furong should confess herself, and it was not her turn to confess to the emperor.
"Zhao Ji..." Long Mohan was determined to force Ji Anni to speak, and subconsciously squeezed her arm.
Ji Anni felt pain and groaned muffledly.
Seeing this, Shui Furong risked her life and rescued Ji Anni from Long Mohan, saying in a low voice, "Okay, I'll confess everything. Let her go first. It has nothing to do with her."
"Of course I know it has nothing to do with her...it's all you, you, you...you..." Long Mohan pointed at Shui Furong's asking-for-a-punch face. He wanted to curse but couldn't find the words. He was about to explode from holding it in.
"Do you want to call me an 'adulterer' or an 'whore'? I've already said it's not what you think..." Shui Furong helped him find two appropriate insults. If Shui Furong is from the perspective of a concubine, she is an 'whore'. If Shui Furong is from the perspective of her true identity, she becomes an 'adulterer'. Oh, it's a real mess.
Long Mohan was speechless for a moment. He put his hands behind his back and let out a long, heavy sigh.
"Your Majesty... calm down..." Ji Anni said in a low voice. She had never seen Long Mohan angry before, and today she finally saw it, and she felt inexplicably flustered. No matter how good his temper was, he was still the emperor. The emperor was a tiger, and being with the emperor was like being with a tiger. If you are not careful, you will lose your head.
"I'm not angry." Long Mohan said stiffly, "I just want to know, what's going on with him...he...he?"
As he said this, he pointed at Shui Furong's head with his index finger.
"Now that things have come to this, I won't hide it from you anymore." Shui Furong calmed down, raised her head fearlessly to meet Long Mohan's angry gaze, and admitted, "Okay, you are not mistaken, I am a man... I am a man..."
"Why did you suddenly become a man?" Long Mohan could no longer control himself and rushed forward to grab Shui Furong.
Shui Furong struggled under his dragon claws and shouted, "I am a man. I was born a man. There is no need to pretend."
Ji Anni was afraid that something might happen, so she hurriedly stood between the two and tried to stop them from fighting: "Your Majesty, please let him go first, let him go first, we have something to talk about, everyone should calm down."
"How could I not be excited? Zhao Ji, you were actually with him...actually with him..." Long Mohan was almost out of breath.
"There is nothing between him and me, Your Majesty. He and I...he and I...we are just good sisters." Ji Anni explained bitterly.
"Good sisters?" I don't know if Long Mohan can accept this relationship.
"Your Majesty, actually, I didn't enter the palace to do anything sneaky. I... I came here to investigate a case." Shui Furong finally got to the point.
"Investigate a case?" After hearing these two words, Long Mohan's emotions obviously stabilized.
"Yes, Your Majesty, it was not easy for Consort Shui Cong. He risked his life to sneak into the palace to redress his sister's grievances. Your Majesty... Zhao Ji accidentally learned his secret and was moved by his sincerity, so she kept the secret for him. She did not intentionally deceive Your Majesty, nor did she have any affair with him... Your Majesty, you have to believe Zhao Ji."
Ji Anni showed Zhao Ji's charm, with sincere eyes and eloquent speech, and indeed she managed to calm the emperor.
"What case are you investigating?" Long Mohan asked Shui Furong with a deep gaze.
At this point, Shui Furong confessed everything to Long Mohan. She explained to Long Mohan why she entered the palace and all the clues she had found since entering the palace.
Long Mohan listened very carefully, occasionally interrupting him to ask more questions, as if he already had some plans in mind.
They talked for so long that they didn't even have dinner.
Before I knew it, it was already very late.
Eunuch Hua couldn't wait any longer, so he bravely came over and knocked on the door.
At this time, Shui Furong had already explained everything that needed to be explained, and Long Mohan could no longer ask any unnecessary questions, so he followed Eunuch Hua back.
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After Long Mohan left, Ji Anni and Shui Furong were almost exhausted, and they both lay limp on the bed.
"Huh... I was scared to death..." Ji Anni still felt a little scared when she recalled it now. If the emperor really pursued the case, Shui Furong would be dragged to the Meridian Gate and beheaded. Fortunately, the emperor seemed to be very interested in the case three years ago, and he and Shui Furong had a very good conversation. By the end of the conversation, he had completely forgotten to pursue Shui Furong's crime of deceiving the emperor.
Shui Furong drank a few cups of tea in big gulps, moistened her throat, and then lay back on the bed, boldly predicting, "As the saying goes, 'Those who survive a great disaster will have good fortune in the future.' Anyway, I have a feeling that our house arrest order will be lifted soon."
"Why?" Ji Anni didn't understand why he was so optimistic.
Shui Furong said, "Think about it, the emperor likes you so much, how could he bear to put you and me under the same roof? He will definitely ask the queen mother to lift our house arrest order, so that we can go back to the concubine's palace and sleep in separate rooms. No, no, no, given the emperor's personality, he definitely won't want me to stay with you for more than one night. If I guess correctly, he will definitely take action tonight."
"Do you mean that he will go to the Queen Mother to plead for mercy tonight?" Ji Anni asked while lying on the bed.
Shui Furong said, "But even if you go to the Queen Mother tonight to plead for mercy, the earliest you can cancel the confinement order is tomorrow morning, right? ... If you ask me, the Emperor will take you to sleep with him tonight."