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As soon as Gu Yuanbai said the idea of the Games, Xue Yuan pondered for a moment and slowly said, "You also need to move more."

Gu Yuanbai grunted and laughed, and thought to himself, "Going to exercise on you?" "Have you bathed?"

Xue Yuan, "I am clean."

Gu Yuanbai sat on the chair and hooked his finger at him, "Come here and give me a kiss."

Xue Yuan subconsciously glanced around, and the people in the palace lowered their heads, each acting like a wooden man as if they hadn't heard anything. In addition to the palace guards, there were also officials from the Inspection Department who were disguised as Xue Yuan's subordinates.

The Inspection Office official saw Xue Yuan's sight and smiled haughtily.

Xue Yuan was relieved to come forward, Gu Yuanbai extended his hand towards him, he consciously handed his chin up and was given a resounding kiss by His Holiness.

Gu Yuanbai bit his lip and licked it again, "It smells like sweat."

"It just hurt out," Xue Yuan wanted to say, "Your Holiness, next time don't pluck there."

Gu Yuanbai just loved bullying him, "Whether there's a next time or not, it still depends on your performance."

He snapped his fingers toward the Ombudsman's office officials who were watching the show.

The supervisory official drew a ledger from his bosom, and said in as much detail as possible, "On the fifteenth day of the second month, Lord Xue passed through Yingtianfu, and had spoken two words with a woman by a bridge."

Xue Yuan was stunned and frowned as he thought about it, as if there was indeed such a thing: "One line was 'I'm not buying the cake' and the other was 'go to the side and get out of the way'."

The inspection official smiled and continued, "That woman was staring at you for a long time after you passed."

Gu Yuanbai narrowed his eyes slightly, rubbing Xue Yuan's lips with a smile or not, not kissing either, "Our Lord Xue turned out to be so pleasing to women as well."

Xue Yuan said expressionlessly, "If I remember correctly, the woman by the bridge was only a tweener and still a child."

Gu Yuanbai: "......"

He turned his head to the inspecting officer.

Without changing his face, the supervisory official turned the ledger over a page and said, "Early in the morning of February 16th, a post woman came to bring Lord Xue his morning meal, and talked with Lord Xue many times, and Lord Xue treated him with a gentle demeanor, patiently discussing with him about what he ate in the capital."

The veins on Xue Yuan's forehead rippled and he couldn't hold back, "That's an old crone who married out of the capital."

Supervisory officials rare, Lord Xue has been in Huainan for such a long time, has long become inscrutable and immovable, how come once in front of the saint has become a different look?

But rare as it was, the inspector turned another page.

This account book is very thick, a look at it is known to be detailed to the extent of every move. Gu Yuanbai is helpless, presumably because the officials of the Supervision Department know that he and Xue Yuan together, see Xue Yuan more and more bad eyes, so can give Xue Yuan to find trouble to intervene to find trouble.

As the account books in the hands of the inspection officials became thinner and thinner, Xue Yuan's face became more and more grave. Naturally, he hadn't done anything to betray Gu Yuanbai, but the way the Inspection Office was treating him, it would definitely write a big book about the group of merchants in Huainan who had sent him women.

Sure enough, the inspection official talked about this matter, and even used two whole pages to write it down. But Gu Yuanbai didn't get angry even after knowing the cause of the matter, he just asked the inspection official to step back, played with the stubble on Xue Yuan's chin, and said with a smile, "Lord Xue, aren't you not too happy that I've sent someone by your side?"

Xue Yuan broke out in a cold sweat, "How."

Gu Yuanbai feigned politeness, "If you don't like it then say so, I'm not a bad talker."

The words secretly threatened Xue Yuan if he couldn't hear it again, then it would be a waste of his efforts these days, his head shook into a wave drum, "Like, I like it very much."

Gu Yuanbai smiled with satisfaction and softly rubbed his cheek against Xue Yuan's chin again, his delicate face was reddened by stubble slag, his voice low, "My desire to control can be no less than yours."

If you are not together, then forget it, if you are together, you have to accept his desire to control as big as life and as small as hair. It is this unusual people's desire to control and strong desire to possess, so that Gu Yuanbai in modern times has not had a love affair.

Because no one could stand him, Gu Yuanbai didn't want to embarrass anyone else.

After becoming emperor, such desire for control grew even more doubly, and the Supervision Department was simply like an existence established by itching for Gu Yuanbai's itch.

He raised his hands to rest on Xue Yuan's shoulders, his arms were thin and white, and he spoke so softly that his heart was softened, "Do you really like it?"

"Truly," Xue Yuan said in Gu Yuanbai's ear, "Your Holiness, we are truly a natural couple, destined to be a pair of playful lovebirds."

"You let people look at the minister, the minister also entrusted people to look at you," Xue Yuan, "we husband and wife half catty eight taels, no one loses. If someone really took the opportunity to touch you while I was away, I would have to break him into eight pieces even if I died."

His eyes were serious, and he even took on a grim air when he spoke. It was this fascination that Xue Yuan had for Gu Yuanbai that caused Gu Yuanbai to be extremely satisfied, and even the desire to be in control screamed insatiable.

"Husband and wife?" Gu Yuanbai hummed and laughed, "Xue Qing's ambition isn't small, does she want to be my queen?"

Xue Yuan was choking on his words.

The two of them hadn't seen each other for a long time, so Gu Yuanbai put down his political affairs and accompanied Xue Yuan for a good afternoon. They strolled around the imperial garden, and when they passed by the lake, Xue Yuan said, "When the day is good, I will take Your Majesty to go to my manor to teal."

Gu Yuanbai readily agreed.

*

Xue Yuan walked back to his house from the palace, his mind wandering as he thought of the things he could do by bringing His Holiness to the manor.

But as soon as he walked into the Xue residence, there was a sound of a breaking wind coming, Xue Yuan's complexion was frozen, he sidestepped to avoid the sharp arrow, and when he looked up, General Xue was looking at him with an iron face, with a look of hatred that he could not wait for him to be killed.

Xue Yuan smiled when he saw him, "Father is well."

Old General Xue froze, and then he coldly threw his bow and arrow, picked up his stick and roared, "--I'll break your legs!"

The Xue Mansion was in a state of chaos, and upon hearing about it, Second Duke Xue hurriedly had his boys carry him to watch the action, gloating, "I have to hurry to see how father broke Xue Jiuyao's legs."

This farce didn't stop until the moon was high in the sky, Xue Yuan was still alive and kicking, and the second son of Xue was brought back to his room by the boy with a face full of regret. When the people dispersed, Old General Xue pointed at Xue Yuan and cursed angrily, "What's going on between you and that Chu Wei!"

Xue Yuan was distracted, "What does Chu Wei have to do with me?"

Elder General Xue: "Are you still not telling the truth? Your mother told me that Chu Wei is the man you love, is this true or not?"

Old General Xue's face was stoic and his heart trembled with fear.

If Xue Yuan was really duplicitous, then even if he was to be chastised by the saint, if he was to be executed by the saint, he would still risk his life to beat Xue Yuan to death.

This would at the very least save the lives of the rest of the Xue House.

"Where did Mrs. Xue hear that nonsense?" Xue Yuan sighed, poised as if he were a gentleman, "If worshipping God and Buddha is useful, then I wish Chu Wei would die sooner."

Laughing with malice, "Die well."

Old General Xue completely unloaded a breath, powerless to sit down on the ground, he inhaled a large mouthful of air, as if he had been reborn to murmur thankfully, "Fortunately not, fortunately not ......"

Xue Yuan walked over to him and squatted down, "Can General Xue tell me why he chased after me and tried to beat me to death as soon as I returned to the residence?"

His old father was infuriated and laughed, "Good you Xue Jiuyao, you once told Lao Zi that you were loyal to the king, and when Lao Zi asked you to serve His Holiness, that's how you served him?"

Xue Yuan let out a "hmmm".

The old general was furious and grief-stricken, "If you do this, how can I face my ancestors and how can I see the late emperor? If I had known this, I should have strangled you to death when you were born, so that you wouldn't come back to plague His Majesty today!"

Xue Yuan's face didn't change when he heard this, and only when the old general finished cursing did he suddenly burst out laughing, "General Xue, you should be glad that you didn't strangle me, and you don't want His Holiness to be haunted by a stern ghost, do you?"

Elder General Xue shuddered and looked at him in shock.

Xue Yuan patted his shoulder and smiled, "It's getting late, General Xue you're getting old, you can't stand the frosty cold of the night, it's time to go back and rest."

After saying that, he got up and bowed with Old General Xue in a regular manner, turning around and walking into the darkness.

Old General Xue stayed where he was and felt a bone-chilling chill.

Actions like this of saluting him before leaving had never been done by Xue Yuan in the past. This outing had made Xue Yuan's mind even deeper, and he looked like he was much better, even gentle.

The old general could not tell for a moment whether the Xue Yuan who originally disdained human affairs was more frightening, or the Xue Yuan who is now calmly observing the rules of the world is more frightening.

As the evening dew descended, Old General Xue returned to his senses and sighed heavily.

*

After Xue Yuan returned to his room, he let the gatekeeper of the residence come to see him.

The gatekeeper came in a low key, "Your Excellency, the matter you asked us to investigate has roughly come to a conclusion. Li Huan, the youngest son of the great scholar Li Bao, was arrested three years ago for breaking into the palace, and His Holiness took pity on the master and disciple of the great master Li Bao, so he sent someone to send Li Huan to his residence, and also sent him many cherished medicinal herbs."

Xue Yuan turned the jade trigger on his hand that was carved out of the same mold as His Holiness, his eyes narrowing slightly.

"Why did he break into the palace?"

The gatekeeper whispered, "I have been investigating for several months before I found out some hidden secrets from the Li residence. It is said to be that this person caught a glimpse of His Majesty's face outside the palace, and then broke into the palace by claiming to be a flower picker."

As soon as his words left his mouth, he felt a chill around him.

Xue Yuan did not speak for a long time, and when he spoke again, his tone was as eerie as a snake spitting silk, "How could His Majesty spare him?"

Just as the gatekeeper was about to speak, Xue Yuan had already said to himself, "He should have died."

"The saint had just taken power at that time, and Li Bao was the world's great scholar, the saint's crown prince tutor," the doorkeeper politely said, "this disobedience, the saint has let him lie in bed for two whole years of work, bypassing his life only to be good in the aftermath of the control of Li Bao."

Xue Yuan laughed, "This is not the past."

The gatekeeper was silent.

Xue Yuan asked, "The manor in the outskirts of the capital is ready for me, and in ten days at most, the smokeless charcoal fire around the pool will be burned, to ensure that even if the wind picks up in the evening, it will not be able to let the water cool down, got it?"

The gatekeeper retreated in response.

Only then did Xue Yuan curb his laughter and slowly read in his mind, Li Huan.