After the rebellion was successful, I realized that this place was the Red Mansion

Chapter 110 Yuan Chun helps Daiyu change her clothes; Daiyu wishes to see the Emperor.

The next day, morning.

Baoqin re-entered Linjing Hall, entered the east bedroom, and saw the Empress getting up lazily.

The traces of last night remained on her fair, moon-like body. Coupled with the disheveled bed and the hairpins and clothes lying by the bedside, it was clear at a glance what had happened last night.

"I knew it. How could His Majesty resist having such a beauty as His Majesty by his side?"

Baoqin muttered to herself, but her hands never stopped moving as she hurried forward to help the Empress up.

His Majesty has already woken up and is admiring the beautiful face of Consort Haitangchun after she woke up, while resting his head on the pillow. When the Consort wanted to get dressed, he smiled and started to touch her.

He grabbed her and rubbed her, making the Empress fall into his arms again. The two embraced tenderly. Baoqin stood obediently by the bed, with several palace maids carrying clothes behind them. The water bucket outside was filled with hot water, waiting for His Majesty to go out for a bath.

after a little while.

"Your Majesty," Baoqin whispered a reminder.

"Ah."

Chu Yan released the soft, bouncy flesh from his hands, got out of bed, and went to bed.

Yuan Chun was somewhat weak, but compared to the previous times, she still had some strength. She had been thinking about helping His Majesty change his clothes for a long time, so she forced herself to get up.

But Chu Yan didn't wait for her. After putting on his shoes, he walked out. Yuan Chun bit her lip, knowing that there was a bathtub and several palace maids outside. She said shyly, "This concubine will bathe and change Your Majesty's clothes," and then followed him out.

Baoqin's heart pounded wildly.

His Majesty's masculine and vigorous physique was displayed without any hesitation, causing her and several palace maids to blush.

The Empress went out with him again without any clothes on. Her snow-white and plump body, combined with His Majesty's muscular physique, was truly mesmerizing at first glance.

Baoqin was lost in thought, and her movements inevitably slowed down. Several palace maids followed her out, and only then did she come back to her senses. She patted her cheeks and hurriedly followed them out.

"Yuan Chun, do you know how to serve someone a bath?"

Chu Yan couldn't help but laugh when he saw her come out naked.

Yuan Chun blushed and shook her head, then said, "I will learn as I watch."

"Okay, come on then."

Chu Yan sat on the stool. Although there was a bathtub, he usually didn't take a bath in the morning. He would just wash his body and tidy his hair.

The palace maid soaked the towel in hot water, wrung it out slightly, and handed it to the Imperial Concubine.

Yuan Chun took it and, following the maid's soft instructions, began to slowly wipe Chu Yan's back and cheeks.

"You come too, Baoqin," Chu Yan instructed.

Normally, two palace maids would wash him, otherwise it would be too slow.

So Baoqin also took a towel. As Yuanchun's personal maid, she had naturally served her during her bath, so she could teach her how to wash herself.

Chu Yan closed his eyes and enjoyed the service from the two men. Yuan Chun was also unclothed, so she would occasionally brush against him, making Chu Yan almost lose his composure.

But he didn't actually lay a hand on her. Although he didn't have to worry about the palace maids watching, once he got into a mood, he would never stop. Today he was planning to attend the morning court session. Otherwise, if he had asked ministers such as Chu Ming and Xu Zhiyi to wait in the front hall, who knows when another memorial of admonition would be presented.

Baoqin combed his hair.

Chu Yan stood up and extended his hand. Yuan Chun didn't know what he meant, but the palace maid quickly wrung out a towel and handed it to him.

Yuan Chun blushed, realizing that His Majesty's important task was for her to wipe herself clean.

"Your Majesty, please wipe His Majesty's legs and feet," a palace maid whispered a reminder.

Yuan Chun then squatted down, took the towel, and continued wiping.

But when she raised her head to look at His Majesty's face, she was startled by the enormous thing blocking her way. Chu Yan happened to see the expression on her round, fair face and couldn't help but laugh. Yuan Chun, who was startled, was quite cute.

"Your Majesty... I'm rude to you."

Yuan Chun blushed with embarrassment and dared not raise her head again, obediently wiping him with a towel.

Chu Yan resisted the urge to knock her on the head.

after a little while.

"All right."

he laughed.

Upon hearing this, a palace maid quickly handed him a clean towel, and Yuan Chun and Bao Qin dried his body together before he changed his clothes.

Chu Yan put on an ochre-yellow, round-necked, narrow-sleeved robe. Yuan Chun tidied her clothes, and after that, Chu Yan pulled her, who was still naked, into his arms and kissed her lips.

Yuan Chun quickly softened.

Chu Yan quickly released her and handed her to Baoqin, then casually stroked Baoqin's rosy cheeks to show his satisfaction with her service, saying, "I'm going to court, so this hot water is still for you to use."

No one else dared to use the bathwater he had used without imperial decree, not even Yuan Chun.

"Thank you, Your Majesty~"

Yuan Chun gracefully performed the Wanfu salute.

Chu Yan glanced at her a couple more times. Yuan Chun, who was naked, bowed, her plump, white body exuding a unique freshness.

I'll still favor her tonight.

When Chu Yan went out to court, he was actually just walking from the back hall to the front hall. No wonder the Shun Dynasty emperor liked to live here. With the court in the front and the palace in the back, things were not delayed at all.

"Your Majesty, we respectfully wish you good health!"

Chu Yan took his seat, and more than thirty ministers knelt and bowed in greeting.

"I am well, you may leave."

Chu Yan nodded and said that according to the rules of the previous dynasty, there would be further etiquette, but he exempted him from it and proceeded directly to the meeting.

After listening to their report for a while, Chu Yan asked, "What is the current situation in the capital? Have prices stabilized? Have the refugees returned?"

"Your subject, Liu Fu, Prefect of the Capital, respectfully reports: The prices of rice, cloth, iron, firewood, and other commodities in the capital have all returned to normal levels. Most of the people who fled earlier have returned to the capital. However, there are still some families who are associated with former officials of the Shun Dynasty, but they dare not return. Their gates are tightly closed, and only two or three servants remain at home to guard them."

Chu Yan said, "If you dare not come back, you must have something to hide. Post notices and in three days search all uninhabited residences in the capital with two courtyards or more. Any residence whose owner dares not show up will be confiscated."

In the capital, many officials below the fifth rank did not have a two-courtyard residence. However, a servant like Lai Da from the Jia family could have a fairly large garden in his home. Chu Yan wanted to investigate families like Lai Da's, confiscate their houses, and reward them to the civil and military officials of the new dynasty. "Your subject Li Changjin reports."

General Li Changjin stepped forward, and Chu Yan gestured for him to report.

Li Changjin said, "The south has been largely pacified. Most of the loyalist troops who came from Tuhe and Guzhu in the north have now surrendered and their more than 40,000 troops have been dispersed and gathered. There has been no news of the more than 10,000 loyalist troops led by the military commissioner He Qing. It is estimated that they have marched to the Lingzhi area."

Chu Yan asked, "How many days has it been since the messenger arrived?"

"It's been about five days."

"They should be back by now, according to the schedule. If there is no news in two more days, then order Changneng to lead five thousand troops to meet the enemy."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Li Changjin returned to his post. The Emperor's decree was exactly what he had expected, giving Chang Neng just two days to reorganize the army.

After the morning court session, Chu Yan summoned the Imperial Secretary and instructed him: "Draft an imperial edict: Lin Ruhai, the Salt Commissioner of Yangzhou, has a daughter named Lin who has entered the palace as a concubine. Order the officials of Suzhou to restore the Lin family's old residence and have the government offices in Suzhou and Yangzhou post notices to find the whereabouts of the Lin family."

After Chu Yan finished breakfast, the Imperial Secretary presented the draft imperial edict to him.

Chu Yan read it and saw that he had praised Lin Daiyu in the imperial decree, saying things like "dignified in appearance, gentle and virtuous, and favored by the emperor." People who knew Lin Daiyu well, such as Lin Ruhai and Shi Xiangyun, would probably laugh themselves to death if they saw it.

Chu Yan laughed, but ignored it. He focused on which local government offices the Imperial Secretary had listed. Seeing that he had included all the government offices in the Jiangnan region, he guessed that the Emperor had mistakenly thought Lin Daiyu was a favored concubine, which was why she deserved the Emperor's special decree.

So Chu Yan took a pen and crossed out more than half of the government offices, saying, "There's no need to disturb so many places. After it's drafted, hand it over to the Prime Minister for his seal."

This kind of imperial decree does not require the use of the emperor's seal.

After the Imperial Secretary withdrew, Chu Yan summoned a young eunuch and instructed him: "Go and tell Miss Lin that I have issued an edict to restore her ancestral home and ordered local officials in Jiangnan to post notices to find her father."

Give a beating, then a sweet treat.

……

After watching Chu Yan leave to attend court, Jia Yuanchun bathed and changed clothes with the help of palace maids.

As Baoqin washed her fair and radiant body, she whispered with a smile, "Your Majesty was favored by His Majesty again last night~"

The palace maids secretly looked on with envy.

Jia Yuanchun's face was rosy. She instructed her, "Do not spread this around, and do not show off. Now that there are more and more concubines in the harem, it is no longer as carefree as before."

Baoqin agreed.

Dressed neatly, Yuan Chun went to the west wing. She saw several palace maids and eunuchs standing outside the wing. When she went in, Lin Daiyu had already gotten up and was doing her makeup in front of the mirror, her expression indifferent.

Yuan Chun chatted with her casually, without mentioning Chu Yan, but only talked about the Jia family's affairs, and briefly told her about the people in the palace.

Seeing that her expression had softened, Yuan Chun smiled and said, "There used to be many rules in the palace, but after His Majesty entered the palace, many rules were abolished, and palace servants were allowed to visit the Imperial Garden and Daming Palace. There are not too many restrictions."

"If you find it stuffy here, sister, you can take a walk around the palace. Since you're frail, you can have the eunuchs carry you in a palanquin to the rear garden of the Daming Palace. Consort Qin often goes there too."

Qin Keqing's more formal title today is Consort Qin.

Just then, a gentle and kind laugh came from outside: "Is Miss Lin awake?"

Speak of Qin Keqing, and Qin Keqing will appear.

Daiyu rose to greet her and saw Rongge's daughter-in-law, now Consort Qin, walking in with a graceful figure and a smile, followed by Baozhu and Ruizhu.

She was still wearing a strapless dress, a dark gray satin top with a light gold strapless bodice that bulged out, revealing her slender waist. Her expression was gentle and peaceful, not at all like a seductive vixen.

"Big sister is here too?" Qin Keqing asked with a smile.

Zijuan found it strange that Consort Qin did not address Jia Yuanchun as "Noble Consort".

Yuan Chun nodded with a smile, then smiled at Daiyu and said, "His Majesty allows the concubines to occasionally visit the Laijing Palace, but they must not go to the front court to disturb them. His Majesty also told Sister Yun and the others that ignorance is no excuse, and they will gradually learn the rules of the palace."

Daiyu responded softly.

The eunuch brought breakfast, and the three of them sat down to eat. Just as they finished, the eunuch came to convey His Majesty's oral decree.

"Father……"

Upon hearing that Chu Yan had issued an imperial decree to search for her father's whereabouts, Lin Daiyu was deeply moved. Her father had been missing for more than two years, and the Jia family had sent people to inquire about him, but to no avail.

Now that Chu Yan is the emperor, he easily restored her family's ancestral home with a decree... even though the Lin family's ancestral home was originally confiscated by him.

Qin Keqing smiled and said, "Sister Lin, you should quickly thank His Majesty. His Majesty has decreed that your father will be found in a month or two."

Daiyu looked at her.

Yuan Chun smiled and said, "For His Majesty's daily instructions, Lin Meimei, you only need to face the direction of His Majesty and bow to express your gratitude. If the reward is valuable, you can express your gratitude in person another day."

Daiyu pursed her lips and did as she was told.

My feelings are very complicated.

Last night, she was humiliated in Chu Yan's arms, and he truly kept his word, issuing an order to find his father.

Even though Daiyu was unwilling to gamble with her own life, the thought of exchanging temporary humiliation for news of her father still brought her a slow sense of relief.

After seeing off Yuan Chun and Consort Qin, Daiyu asked Zijuan quietly, "Should I go to thank him tonight, or wait a couple of days?"

Zijuan guessed most of what the young lady was thinking, and said with a smile, "You live in Linjing Palace, so it's only a short walk to see the Emperor."

Daiyu hesitated and said, "If he sees me, I'm afraid he will mistreat me again..."

Zijuan didn't know how to answer, so she could only say, "His Majesty's words are law, and they won't ruin your reputation, so please believe him for now."

Because Zijuan caught her being held in Chu Yan's arms, the two of them had a lot of private conversations in bed last night.

Daiyu closed her eyes, pondered silently, and made a decision after a long time.

In the evening, she estimated the time, figuring he would return to the inner palace for dinner, and then set off to find him.

To everyone's surprise, when they arrived at the back hall and asked the eunuchs, they learned that Chu Yan would not be staying at Linjing Palace that night, but instead at Consort Xiande's Changchun Palace.

Upon hearing this, Daiyu was both relieved to have escaped a disaster and secretly cursed him in her heart, thinking, "He really is the emperor, summoning his concubines every night!"

He was licentious and immoral, and tyrannical and unreasonable.

(End of this chapter)