Multiple crimes

Chapter 12

There is not even a well in this yard, so where is the pool?Yuan Zhao is a man whose feet have been restrained, let alone a three-year-old child, even a grown man can hardly step out of this gate.Slip and drown?Inadequate care?hehe……

Yuan Ziyou wandered around the palace aimlessly, walking slowly.At the beginning, I was full of resentment, but in the end even the resentment was gone, and my heart was almost at a loss.

Ever since he entered Luoyang City, he felt that everything was not going his way. Although he became the emperor, nothing happened according to his own wishes.Xizhi and Yuanzhao were a surprise he found in this dying palace—not a big surprise, but at least it could make him smile seriously and look forward to it.However, it seems that God just can't see that he is going well, and wants to take away even such a little surprise.

"I'm honest and honest. I haven't committed any crimes, and I haven't offended anyone, but someone won't let me have a good time!" Yuan Ziyou shook his head and suddenly raised his head, realizing that he had arrived at the gate of the palace at some point.

By the way, Er Zhurong.

When the servant at the gate of the general's mansion saw Yuan Ziyou coming, he just bowed and did not stop him.Er Zhurong had told them that if the emperor came to the door, they could just let them go.And just as the doorman was hesitating whether to report or not, the emperor had disappeared in a flash.

Yuan Ziyou had only been to this General's Mansion once a month ago, and he didn't know anywhere except the back garden, let alone looking for someone among the layers of halls.After wandering for a long time, he couldn't even find a decent door, so he had to grab a passing maid and order her to take him to Er Zhurong's residence.

Seeing the emperor suddenly descending from the sky, the servant girl cried out in shock, but quickly calmed down again, and said softly, "The general is not in the bedroom, the emperor invites you to come here."

Yuan Ziyou responded and followed closely behind, thinking as he walked: "As expected of Er Zhurong's mansion, even a maid is more pleasing to the eye than those in other places." Thinking of those in his bedroom, he couldn't help feeling angrily Get up, "Seeing me one by one is like a mouse seeing a cat. It's not easy to say a word, it's boring!"

Passing through most of the General's Mansion with twists and turns, the maid led him to a low house on the west side of the main building.The house is a single-story house, which looks a little rough from the outside, but it is large enough, and there is an independent front hall, and a corridor connects it with the main building.

"Why did you come back after walking for a long time?" Yuan Ziyou asked suspiciously when he saw the gate of the mansion not far away.

"Hee hee..." The maid chuckled lightly, "Your majesty took the wrong path just now, and you're almost at Dongyuan. If you had just walked through the corridor from the beginning, it wouldn't take so much time."

It's not that she is brave, but that Yuan Ziyou really doesn't have the airs of an emperor.If it wasn't for wearing a dragon robe, she would have thought that this was some kind of young master who had lost his way when he came to the house as a guest.

She went to the door and called "Uncle Chen", but seeing no response, she pushed the door open and walked in.

After entering, Yuan Ziyou realized that it was not actually a front hall, but a small space artificially isolated.Two maidservants stood side by side, holding some towels, clothes and pants in their hands. There was a door opening in the right wall, which was covered with a curtain. I don't know what it was for.

Just when Yuan Ziyou was wondering, an old man opened the curtain and came out, and was taken aback when he saw the person coming.

"Uncle Chen." The maid who led the way stepped forward and saluted: "The emperor wants to see the general."

The old man's name was Chen Dezhong, and he was a retainer brought by Er Zhurong from Xiurong. He took care of the general's daily life on weekdays, and had a certain status in the mansion.

"This... the general is taking a bath, Your Majesty..."

Yuan Ziyou didn't wait for him to finish speaking, rushed forward to lift the curtain and walked in.There is also a carved wooden door behind the curtain.The board was very thick, Yuan Ziyou pushed it but failed to push it away.

"Your Majesty, stay!" Chen Dezhong followed closely, with a perplexed expression on his face, neither to stop nor not to stop.

At this moment, Er Zhurong's voice sounded from behind the door: "Let him in!" The muffled voice seemed to come from far away.

Yuan Ziyou no longer hesitated, and pushed the door open with all his strength.In an instant, the hot air and water mist covered his head and face, and he couldn't see anything clearly in front of him.

After getting used to it a little bit, he opened his eyes and looked around.The sight in front of him made him slightly distracted.

There was only this one room in the entire low house, and it looked much more spacious and luxurious from the inside than the outside. The pillars inlaid with jade were smooth and shiny, almost reflecting people's shadows.A built-in artificial bath occupies most of the room, and Er Zhurong is half leaning on the other end of the pool and looking at himself lazily.

"The emperor is here, what's the matter?"

The temperature of the pool water is very high, and the bathroom is closed and airtight.Er Zhurong's whole body was so limp from steaming that he couldn't use his strength, and his voice also softened, as if he had lost his bones.Yuan Ziyou felt an indescribable feeling when he heard it, and his back trembled numbly.

"Is this where you take a shower?"

"It was just made by someone last month, and I haven't used it a few times...Why, the emperor is interested?"

Yuan Ziyou kept silent, but kept looking at Er Zhurong.

The water in the pool was neither deep nor shallow, just over his navel, and his long, straight hair was soaked together wetly, wrapped around half of his neck and hung down from his right shoulder to the water, covering one side collarbone and most of the chest.The parts below the lower abdomen are hidden in the water and cannot be seen clearly.

Seeing that Yuan Ziyou was silent, the man rested his elbows on the edge of the pool behind him, his shoulders shrugged, and his crotch protruded slightly forward.Probably because he was comfortable in the bath, instead of being offended by the other party's presumptuous gaze, he even thought of making fun of it, squinting his eyes and said: "Is the emperor here to watch the subject take a bath? It's really interesting."

Sure enough, Yuan Ziyou blushed instantly when he heard the words, but at the same time he came back to his senses and remembered the purpose of this trip.

Pursing his dry lips, he asked in a cold voice, "Master Erzhu is really in a good mood. Why did you think of taking a bath in the middle of the day? Did you work hard at night, or...was your body stained with blood?"

"Haha, when did the emperor learn to turn around the corner?" Er Zhurong laughed when he heard this, "Yes, I ordered Yuan Zhao to be executed. Just like that old woman, Queen Mother Hu, she just threw it into the river. You don’t even need to draw a knife.”

"You!" Yuan Ziyou saw his playful face, as if telling a joke, his voice trembled angrily: "Why did you kill him? He's just a child!"

So young, so weak, only a small ball in the hand.

"Why? I didn't intend to kill him at first. So many people begged for him, it would be too inhumane to kill him... But now thinking about it, it's useless to keep him, and wait for him to rebel when he grows up?"

"Er Zhurong! You...you are so cruel!"

"I'm cruel?" Er Zhurong raised his eyes and looked at Yuan Ziyou with a half-smile.After a long while, he raised his head, stared at the direction of the roof, and opened his mouth slowly.

"Yang Yi, you have been with me for four years. He is not very capable but loyal. Two months ago when he injured his foot during the siege, I arranged for him a part-time job in the palace..."

Yuan Ziyou stared at his rolling Adam's apple: "Who is Yang Yi?"

"The guard guarding the gate of Lingzhao Pavilion. You pierced through your shoulder blade with a sword. The wound was too large and infected with festering. He died yesterday afternoon. Yuan Ziyou, I really didn't know you were capable of this!"

"It's just a guard. He doesn't pay attention to me and makes me angry. Death is not a pity!"

"...Yuan Ziyou, you are a very cruel person. Has no one told you?"

"no!"

"I told you just now." Er Zhurong sighed, with a hint of impatience on his brows, "That's the end of Yuan Zhao's business. If you like children, I'll go and recruit some concubines for you." , give birth by yourself, don’t give it to me in the future... Yuan Ziyou! What are you doing?!"

This cry was terrible.Chen Dezhong who was outside the door was startled, hesitating whether to rush in, put his hand on the door panel but put it down again - the general had ordered that no one can enter this bathroom without his permission.

On the other side of the door, Yuan Ziyou was walking cautiously into the pool step by step, ignoring Er Zhurong's angry shout.

When he first jumped in, he was still a little worried, fearing that the water would suddenly become deeper. After walking two steps, he realized that the pool was shallow in the middle and sunken all around, and the deepest part should not exceed his chest.As for the water temperature, it is also moderately hot and cold, which is very comfortable.

"You, get out of here quickly!" Seeing this, Er Zhurong's voice changed in anger.

He is the person who likes to be clean on weekdays, and the bathing pool is scrubbed once, so there is no room for any stains.However, the person in front of him was talking to himself, jumping in without even taking off his shoes.

Staring at the layers of clothes that were soaked in water and floated to the surface, he seemed to have seen the water in the pool slowly turning black. Dust and skin flakes—maybe even oily residues were scrambling towards him with the ripples. come over.Taking half a step back and sticking to the wall of the pool behind him, he silently thought: This bath is a waste of time.

Yuan Ziyou didn't notice Er Zhurong's gloomy expression at all.Slowly wading over, his thoughts were still stuck on the previous topic of the two: "End here? You are a murderer, why should you tell me to end here?"

The temperature in the water was much higher than above, Yuan Ziyou soon felt hot and dry, and his throat was dry and sore.

"You have no direction, and you kill innocent people indiscriminately. I will punish you for your crime!"