$199, The Queen's Favorite Husband

Father and daughter, mother and son, brothers and sisters, this kind of fate is determined by heaven, while husband and wife, this is the cause and effect of the acquired world.

Not all relationships can bear the karmic debt for others. In addition to the bond of blood, the marriage contract is also recognized by the heaven and the underworld. Therefore, when Yan Chu decided to use the rest of his life to atone for the grievances caused by Hongnv, he could only use this method.

In fact, he still took advantage of the loopholes in the rules of heaven, because he knew that he would not enter reincarnation. Even if he could not wash off the karmic debt in his lifetime, he did not have to worry about this karmic debt implicating himself.

As for the original body, his soul had long been immersed in the main god space after the wish was successful, or became the energy to maintain the operation of the system, or became something else, and was no longer restricted by reincarnation, so naturally there was no big problem.

In this world, Yan Chu did not live long, and died at the age of 47. The old Taoist died many years earlier than him. This is the case for people in the Xuanmen. The secrets of heaven that are leaked involve too many causes and effects, and few people can live long.

Except that Lin Yang and others could occasionally receive letters from Yan Chu, they had no other contact information. No one knew where Yan Chu went, and no one knew what he had done over the years.

Until he was dying, Lin Yang came to the hospital where he died, and buried his remains with Lin Yuan's bones according to his will, completely completing the cause and effect relationship.

No one knew whether he had paid off the debt owed by Lin Yuan and successfully entered reincarnation. They could only pray in their hearts.

*****

"Put incense for your aunt and uncle."

Every Qingming Festival, Lin Yang always brought his wife and children to worship his sister. After Yan Chu died, there was one more person to worship.

There were two tombstones. One tombstone did not have a photo on it, and the other tombstone had a photo of a seven or eight-year-old girl.

"Dad, why has my uncle never come to pay respect to my aunt in these years?"

Lin Yang now works at Yu's real estate company. He is very eloquent and is the champion of real estate sales every year. After finding his sister's bones and burying them, his life gradually got back on track. In the third year, he married a gentle and virtuous wife and gave birth to twins.

Lin Yang's two children are named Nian Chu and Nian Yuan. Except for those who experienced all that, few people know the meaning of these two names.

At this moment, Lin Nian Yuan, who has grown into a graceful young lady, asked her father curiously that she had never seen her aunt and uncle since she was born. Her aunt was dead, but her uncle was still alive.

Before, Lin Nian Yuan thought that her uncle had remarried and had no contact with them. Now, looking at her father's complicated eyes, and the behavior of bringing her uncle's ashes from afar to bury with her aunt, it is obviously not what she guessed.

The most important thing is, looking at the photo on her aunt's tombstone, how could she have a husband at such a young age?

It's a pity that Dad never told them the story of their aunt and uncle. Whenever the name of the aunt was mentioned at home, Dad was always very sad. Gradually, no one dared to mention it.

"Your uncle is atonement for your aunt. He is really the best person I have ever seen in my life. It is your aunt's luck to meet him."

Lin Yang did not explain in detail, thinking about the man who did not even leave a photo. They might never be able to repay him in this life.

Lin Nianyuan and Lin Nianchu agreed ignorantly. After the incense was burned out, the family of four left.

*****

"Huang Zhengfu is awake, Huang Zhengfu is awake."

Yan Chu absorbed the memory of the original body. Coincidentally, at this time, a palace servant came over and saw Yan Chu open his eyes and ran out in panic.

"Young Master."

Several handsome men trotted in. Seeing Yan Chu wake up, they half-knelt in front of the bed, wiping their tears with handkerchiefs, and their eyes were wet with tears.

I don't know if she had been trained in advance, but she was wearing makeup and could keep her makeup perfectly when she cried.

When Yan Chu absorbed the memory of the original body, he knew that this was not any world he knew. This country respected women, similar to the description in some novels about women.

Most women are strong and sturdy, while men are more likely to wear makeup and consider weakness as beauty.

Yan Chu felt that he was also a man who had seen many storms, but looking at these effeminate palace servants, he felt that this world was too challenging for him.

He couldn't imagine himself learning from these palace servants in front of him, twisting his waist and swaying when walking, and panting three times a step. Let alone doing this, just thinking about it can make people crazy. He would rather the system directly destroy him.

"You all go out, I want to have a good rest for a while."

Yan Chu waved to several crying palace servants and told them not to let anyone disturb him unless His Majesty came in person.

Several palace servants seemed to have something to say, but after being coldly glanced at by Yan Chu, they immediately became scared and walked out in fear.

Looking at the appearance of these palace servants, Yan Chu couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Only his original body thought they were good and left his former loyal servant aside.

Now he is still a wounded soldier after all. There is no sadness in the eyes of these palace servants. Instead, they have the leisure to put on makeup. I don't know who they are going after.

"Bah, ugly people are more likely to do bad things."

Several delicate and beautiful palace maids slowly left the main hall of Fengyi Palace. One of the most outstanding palace maids could not help but spit in the direction of the palace with a frown.

With his ugly appearance, the queen was impatient to look at him for a second. He didn't think about how to rely on them to consolidate her favor, but only knew how to be jealous. He was simply a waste.

The palace maid felt sorry that her beauty was wasted by this jealous ugly husband. If he could be more generous and recommend himself to the queen, wouldn't he take care of his former master when he was favored in the future? He really didn't know what to do.

"Keep your voice down. After all, he is the emperor's legal wife. Although he is ugly, he is very useful to his mother and sisters. The Yan family is a loyal family. The empress has many favors for the girls of the Yan family and will definitely not treat him badly. If that ugly and mischievous man hears it, we will be in trouble."

The empress is so majestic and graceful. How many boys in the country hope that the empress can take a look at them. If they can be favored by the empress and be included in the harem, it is a blessing they have cultivated for several lifetimes.

Several beautiful palace maids around Yan Chu also wanted to be the queen. At the beginning, everyone was trying to squeeze into the position of the emperor's husband because he was ugly. If they wanted to keep the queen, they must promote those beautiful palace maids to consolidate their favor. But who knew that the emperor's husband was not only ugly, but also jealous and stubborn. Although he liked to be served by good-looking palace maids, as long as the emperor appeared, they would not allow them to appear in front of the emperor. The whole Fengyi Palace was full of complaints, and they wished that Yan Chu, the emperor's husband, would die immediately.

Yan Chu couldn't hear what these palace maids were talking about, but he could roughly guess their conversation. He didn't take it to heart. When he recovered, he would definitely drive these people out.

But before driving them away, they had to warn their respective masters behind them.

Speaking of which, the original body was also a legend. Putting aside some of his subsequent behaviors, Yan Chu personally admired him very much.

The original body was born in a military family. His physique was not like the delicate young men that are popular nowadays. Instead, he was tall and not inferior to women.

People all like beautiful women, and require men to have fair skin, thin waist, delicate and charming. The original body had none of these. On the contrary, because he grew up outside the Great Wall, he was proficient in riding and archery. His skin was wheat-colored, which was not liked by the world. His face was angular and his features were handsome.

He was a woman's heroic spirit, but lacked the delicateness of a man.

In the eyes of the women-dominated country, such a man was ugly, especially because he was taller than most women in this country. To a large extent, this was also a provocation to the authority of the wife. Which woman would like a man who was taller and stronger than herself?

If the original body had thought more clearly, he would have found someone to marry outside the Great Wall. In the tough folk customs outside the Great Wall, he might have found a girl who appreciated him and lived a happy and smooth life. Especially his family background was enough to shock the future wife and dare not bully him. But he fell in love with the most noble woman in the world. He just followed his mother back to Beijing to report on his work. He saw the empress at the palace banquet and entrusted his heart to her.

He cried and made a fuss to enter the palace. In view of the past achievements of the Yan family, the empress generously gave him the position of the emperor's husband. However, the original body was a very pure person in terms of feelings. He thought ahead that there should be no third party in true feelings. But in this harem, besides the emperor's husband, there must be many other men. In addition, the original body was ugly, so how could he monopolize the favor of the empress.

Jealousy makes people crazy. The original body actually thought of rebellion for the first time.

After many years outside the Great Wall, he knew that men were not inferior to women, especially in some barren areas, men could be used by women. He was obsessed with overthrowing women's rule and letting men become emperors in the world.

He thought that if he could become emperor, there would be only one woman in his harem, the empress, and at that time, she would be truly his.

Ideals are full, but reality is very skinny. The original body had good ideas, but his intelligence could not keep up. At the beginning, he did encourage a large number of men who were dissatisfied with the low status of men, but in the end, this great plan was stillborn. It was strangled in the cradle by the empress just when it had sprouted.

Fortunately, the empress was wise and did not vent her anger on other people in the Yan family, but the head of the Yan family, that is, the original body's biological mother, was too ashamed to be her general again. The family of hundreds of people returned to their ancestral home and never stepped into the court again. It can be said that the achievements accumulated by the Yan family for generations were ruined by this unfilial son.

The original body attempted to rebel, which was a capital crime. Until his death, he was still obsessed with the queen, thinking that if he was given a chance to start over, he would definitely come up with other ways to occupy the queen's heart.

Then, Yan Chu came over.

This time his task was also very simple. The main task was to make the queen willing to disband the harem for him and favor him alone.

The side task was the queen's 18-year-old coming-of-age ceremony, hoping that the queen could stay in his palace.

According to the rules of the Tianhuang Kingdom's royal family, women can only release their original essence when they are 18 years old. Before the age of 18, they can marry a main husband and a concubine, but they cannot consummate the marriage. There is still more than a month left before the queen's 18-year-old coming-of-age ceremony. In other words, he must make the queen think differently about him in this month.

Generally speaking, royal women will stay in the room of their husbands on the night of their coming-of-age ceremony, but there are always exceptions, especially since the queen is the most noble woman in the world. Her words and deeds are of course based on her own preferences.

When Yan Chu came here, his original body had a serious illness, which was caused by the men in the harem. Everyone thought that the queen would not be so desperate to hold such an important wedding ceremony with an ugly man like him, which would greatly reduce the queen's happiness and thus reduce the queen's expectations for this matter.

The original body was so angry that he became ill, and he missed the queen's coming-of-age ceremony. In the previous life, the queen naturally could not have a wedding with a patient, which was also the most infuriating thing for the original body.

Yan Chu got out of bed and looked at himself in the full-length mirror in the bedroom.

Sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes, tall figure, because he grew up in the border since childhood, there was wind and sand everywhere, his skin was much rougher than those pampered noble men in the capital with skin as white as jade, and not white enough, but a healthy wheat color.

Such appearance can still attract many girls in modern times, but in the country where women are respected, there is only one word, ugly.

Thinking about the aesthetic preferences of the country where women are supreme, and his own appearance in this life, he was embarrassed to say that he could play a little wolfdog.

Or, change the style and play a big wolfdog?

Yan Chu touched his chin, a little undecided.

******

"How is the emperor's husband now?" In Minghuang Palace, Feng Zhao, the queen of Tianhuang, asked the maid beside her.

The palace servants are all men, only the queen can be served by maids, but these maids can only stay in the outer hall. In the harem, without the queen's permission, the maids cannot step into the half-step.

Feng Zhao is slender, with a gorgeous and heroic appearance. Although she does not apply any makeup on her face, people still can't move away from her face. In modern times, she is a queen-like figure, or she keeps a fitness habit all year round and has a beautiful body.

She has been in a high position for many years, and the deterrence flashing between her eyebrows can shock people's hearts.

"Just now, the palace servant of Fengyi Palace came to pass on the message that the emperor's husband is now awake." The maid bowed and said in a steady tone.

"Your Majesty, do you..."

As soon as she said half of the sentence, the maid realized that she was daring, and hurriedly stopped the unfinished words and bowed her head.

"Give the order, I will go to visit the emperor's husband later."

Feng Zhao thought that he was her husband after all, so she had to give him some face.

The maid also understood the queen's meaning. I'm afraid that today's dinner will also be eaten in Fengyi Palace. The emperor's husband's appearance may not be valued even in ordinary wealthy merchants, let alone in the harem full of beauties.

The queen did not dislike it at all, and was willing to give her this face. I don't know where he got the blessing.

The maid bowed and retreated, and conveyed the queen's order to Fengyi Palace.

*****

"The Queen has arrived."

As the voice of the chief palace attendant beside the Queen sounded, Fengyi Palace suddenly became lively.

As a patient and the husband of the Emperor, Yan Chu certainly did not need to stand up and greet her at the palace gate. This gave those palace attendants with ill intentions an advantage. They dressed up ostentatiously, wishing to use their most valuable jewelry and the most high-end cosmetics on themselves, so that they could be dazzling and let the Queen remember them.

Unfortunately, all these dressing up was in vain. Feng Zhao walked through the palace gate without looking sideways, ignoring those palace attendants who were performing etiquette and looking for opportunities to throw glances at her. She even frowned because of the strong fragrance of cosmetics.

"Jiang Liu, can the palace maids dress like this?"

When they were about to step into the inner hall, Feng Zhao suddenly stopped, which made the originally disappointed palace maids suddenly confident, thinking that they had left a deep impression on the queen. They straightened their backs, lowered their heads with shyness, and showed their most beautiful appearance.

"To answer the queen, the palace rules are that the eunuchs who are not above the ninth rank are not allowed to wear jewelry that exceeds the regulations, and are not allowed to apply makeup. Those who violate the order will be punished ten times at the lightest, and will be sent to the treasury for serious punishment."

The treasury is the place with the most work, the most tiring, and the dirtiest work in the palace. If a palace maid enters the treasury, don't think about getting out in this life. Be prepared to be honest in it for the rest of your life. It is a place that everyone in the palace avoids.

The palace rules are strict. In addition to the clothes issued every season, ordinary palace maids cannot wear other styles of clothes, their hair cannot exceed half a foot of shoulders, they cannot wear gold and jade accessories, and they cannot apply makeup. This is also to prevent palace maids from seducing the queen suspiciously, hurting the queen's body, and causing trouble for the palace.

However, there are always exceptions. The first-class palace servants who serve the queens of the fourth-rank good monarch and above are all of rank. Palace servants with ranks can dress up, but there is a limit. As a palace servant, they cannot dress more than the queens.

And the palace servants who are saluting Feng Zhao, although they are the palace servants of Fengyi Palace, they wear gold hairpins and have a strong smell of powder on their bodies that almost makes people breathless, which is obviously beyond the regulations.

After all, they are people of Fengyi Palace. Feng Zhao originally did not intend to interfere in the affairs of the official husband's palace, but now these palace servants have used their methods on him, which is obviously unbearable for Feng Zhao.

Besides, let's not talk about her official husband. The female generals of the Yan family are loyal to the Tianhuang Kingdom. Even if it is to reassure those loyal ministers and good generals, Feng Zhao will not want the palace servants of Fengyi Palace to make a joke.

"Your Majesty."

A palace servant with a waist as thin as a willow and fair skin slowly saluted her. His eyebrows were full of affection, his eyes blinked, and his eyelashes as dense as a fan trembled slightly. What a shy and lovely young man.

"Ru Xiao is a first-class palace servant serving Zhengfu. The red jade hairpin on his head was given by Zhengfu. I dare not not wear it."

At this time, the other party raised his head, and people realized that his dress was different from the group of palace servants next to him. For example, he also applied rouge, but he only put some rouge on the end of his eyes and cheeks to make his complexion better.

Especially his fair skin, the red seemed to penetrate from under his skin naturally, three parts delicate and three parts attractive.

In addition, his clothes and hair accessories were all in accordance with the rules of the palace, and only the red jade hairpin on his hair violated the taboo.

Such a dress, placed in this group of rich and gorgeous palace servants, is like a lotus emerging from the water, which makes people impressed.

The other palace servants saw it and were angry. Seeing the empress's gaze lingering on him for a moment, he secretly cursed him in his heart, "Little bitch."

"Except for the eunuchs with ranks, all others will be dragged to the palace and asked to re-organize. As for these people, wait for the emperor's husband to deal with them."

The entire Tianhuang Kingdom belongs to the empress. If she wants to deal with a few people, she certainly doesn't need to get Yan Chu's consent.

It's just that the eunuchs with ranks are different from ordinary palace servants. If she deals with them, it may make others think that this is because she, the empress, is dissatisfied with her emperor's husband.

So Feng Zhao thought about it and said coldly to Jiang Liu, the chief steward behind him.

"Your Majesty, in this case, I'm afraid that Fengyi Palace will be short of a lot of people."

Jiang Liu glanced at the dense group of people waiting at the palace gate. I'm afraid the entire Fengyi Palace is empty. I don't know how the emperor's husband manages the palace servants and selects palace people. Each one doesn't seem to be a good person.

"Let the Ministry of Internal Affairs select a new batch of people who know the rules."

Feng Zhao's voice could not tell whether she was happy or angry. Only people like Jiang Liu who had served the empress since childhood could sense that the empress was dissatisfied.

I just don't know whether these dissatisfactions were directed at the emperor's husband who was not good at managing his subordinates in Fengyi Palace, or at the Ministry of Internal Affairs who failed to do their job.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty——"

What is the Ye Ting? It is the place where the palace servants who made mistakes are punished. After entering, they must be skinned. Moreover, the palace servants who have been in the Ye Ting can only go to places like the laundry bureau or the cold palace after they come out. These places are only better than the treasurer. They have worked hard all their lives, and anyone in the palace can step on them.

Those beautiful palace servants who have never suffered any grievances since they came to Fengyi Palace are panicking, and they beg Feng Zhao for mercy one by one.

And those eunuchs who have temporarily escaped because of their ranks are not much better. Judging from the appearance of the empress, it seems that she is a little dissatisfied with them.

Especially Ru Xiao, who was full of confidence just now, his face turned green and white at this moment. He thought that the emperor had taken a new look at him just now. After waiting for a few months, the emperor would finish the New Year ceremony and start staying in the harem. Maybe he could also get a share of the pie. But now it seems that how to change the empress's bad impression of them has become the first priority.

No one cares about what the empress said just now about letting the emperor's husband deal with them. In the eyes of Ru Xiao and others, Yan Chu, the emperor's husband, is soft-hearted. When the time comes, just a few words will be enough to fool him and the matter will be over.

The wailing palace servants were dragged away one by one, and Feng Zhao did not stay any longer, but went straight to the inner hall.

Thanks to his sensitive five senses, Yan Chu had heard most of what happened in the outer hall before.

"Ah Chu is better now."

In any case, the one who was sick inside was her husband, and Feng Zhao had some respect for Yan Chu. When she saw him, her face softened a little.

The previous empress gave birth to two daughters and three sons. Feng Zhao is the eldest daughter of the empress. According to the date and the identification of the blood phoenix flower, she was conceived when the empress was visiting the emperor. She was the most noble among all the empress's children. She was raised by the current empress as the crown princess when she was very young.

Blood phoenix flower is a specialty of Tianhuang country and can be used to identify the biological father of the flesh and blood in a woman's belly.

For example, when the doctor diagnoses the month of the fetus in the belly, the woman may have had sex with several husbands and servants within a few dozen days before and after that period. In this way, it is necessary to rely on the blood phoenix flower to identify the biological father of the child after the child is born.

Feng Zhao has been given great hope since she was a child. She has lived up to the efforts of the current empress and is the most outstanding among the princesses of all dynasties. The same point is not only reflected in government affairs, but also in her attitude towards the concubines in the harem.

Regardless of beauty or ugliness, the emperor's husband must be the most important. In addition, other concubines are valued to different degrees according to the power they represent. She almost treats people in the harem according to her own likes and dislikes.

In a sense, such an empress does not need to worry about her emotions, because a man does something that harms the interests of the country, and as her concubine, as long as her family is strong enough and she does not do anything stupid, she can stay in the palace safely and comfortably for the rest of her life, but at the same time, you don't have to dream that she will have any real feelings for you for the rest of your life.

She is too rational, so rational that she is a little cold.

Yan Chu looked at the person who came. She was wearing a royal blue dress and a white jade belt around her waist, which made her look tall. Her hair was tied up high and she wore a jade crown. There was no strands of hair, neat and handsome.

The genes of the royal family have been optimized by various beauties. Feng Zhao's appearance is naturally not bad. Her appearance is extremely gorgeous, coupled with the sharp eyebrows and eyes, she is like an iceberg that is difficult to climb. It's impossible, even if she has tried to make a gentle expression.

"His Majesty."

Yan Chu raised his upper body from the bed and saluted her.

Because of his illness, he did not put on makeup and powder as before. His long hair was casually spread behind him, making him look fresher and cleaner.

Feng Zhao glanced at him twice. In the past, even if he was sick, he would dress up specially when he learned that she was coming over, and then imitate the servants in his palace and call her Zhao Niang in a sweet voice.

This is a name that can only be called by the emperor's husband. In the past, the original person was also happy to call her that in private, which highlighted that he was different from other men.

"Why don't you call me Zhao Niang today?"

Feng Zhao sat next to Yan Chu's bed and took his hand. He didn't mind that he was born in a family of military commanders and practiced martial arts all year round, so his palms were rough and calloused.

In fact, she wasn't used to Yan Chu calling her that in such a sweet tone, but he was her real husband, so there had to be something special. He mentioned it like that on the wedding night, and Feng Zhao agreed.

In the past, when I thought that he was still young and ignorant, he must have been scared to be away from his relatives and sisters and come to the capital. With his appearance, he would inevitably feel inferior, so Feng Zhao didn't mind pampering him a little.

Now that he behaves like others, Feng Zhao is not used to it.

However, upon closer inspection, I found that the emperor's husband was seriously ill, and he seemed to look a little different from before.

Feng Zhao paused while touching Yan Chu's palm, and glanced at his earlobe inadvertently. He looked away when he saw a black mole the size of a small sesame seed there.

She asked the question with a smile, her eyes unfathomable.