King Rui may have heard his ridicule, but he was unwilling to cooperate and said, “If Your Majesty is fine, I’ll leave. I still have to practice martial arts.”
The Emperor said angrily, “Who said I’m fine? I ask you, where is Princess Rui? Where is my nephew?”
King Rui used his usual way of dealing with things, standing there with a blank expression.
The uncle and nephew stared at each other, and in the end, the Emperor lost because he had read too many memorials and his eyes were dry, so he could not stare at him anymore.
He was so angry that he waved his hands: “Go away, don’t be an eyesore here. Go and pay your respects to the Queen Mother.”
After King Rui left, he said to the eunuch beside him: “Ask the Imperial Hospital to prepare some medicine and send it to King Rui.”
The eunuch agreed with a smile.
As the person closest to the Emperor, he certainly knew that no matter how much His Majesty disliked him, he cared very much about King Rui in his heart. It even caused secret dissatisfaction among several princes because of this.
Fortunately, King Rui had no interest in government affairs, otherwise, the future dispute over the throne—
Realizing that he was thinking about something he shouldn’t have been thinking about, the eunuch quickly came to his senses and stood behind the Emperor with his head lowered.
When King Rui went to pay his respects to the Queen Mother, he naturally attracted a lot of concern because of the bruise on his forehead, and then he was urged to get married as usual and stop hanging around in the military camp all day.
King Rui listened with his left ear and let it go with his right ear. When he left the Queen Mother’s palace, he was still relaxed and didn’t remember anything.
He and his subordinates had their own independent military camp. Usually in the capital, if the Emperor did not summon him, he would stay in the camp every day and randomly pick a few subordinates to fight.
Every time someone was chosen, they felt both pain and happiness.
In the eyes of these iron-willed soldiers, their king was good at everything, especially his subordinates, except for one thing: he was too obsessed with martial arts.
No matter whether it was a war or a fight, he took it seriously and never let go until the opponent was defeated.
Although every time they fought with the king, they would definitely gain something, which meant that they had a little more hope of surviving on the battlefield, but this hope was too damn painful.
It came at the cost of a bruised face and nose, and being unable to get out of bed for three days. It was really not something that most people could bear.
Therefore, every time King Rui picked someone, some old-timers would hide behind and trick some young and inexperienced ones to come forward to be beaten, under the pretext of giving them a chance to grow.
When the young people grew up to be old-timers, they would continue to fool the younger ones, and this good tradition was passed down endlessly.
This time, as soon as King Rui arrived at the camp, the conspicuous bruise on his head immediately attracted everyone’s attention. Many people conveyed information with their eyes.
“What’s going on? Which hero can beat the King?”
“I didn’t see it yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon, the King went to a banquet and had no chance to fight with anyone.”
“So, the King got angry and punched himself?”
“Don’t talk nonsense. Look, the King asked the Old Seventh to come over.”
“The Old Seventh is not good at fighting, but he is good at finding out information. I have a hunch that the King called him, which must be related to the injury on his forehead.”
Thinking of this, the two exchanged a tacit smile. They wanted to know what happened. They could just catch the Old Seventh and use threats and bribes to deal with him.
That afternoon, the two met again.
“How is it? How much did you get out?”
“He refused to tell me everything, so I only got a little.”
“Are you not giving it your all?”
“I even threatened to strip him of his pants and hang him upside down on the military flag, but he just wouldn’t obey. What else can I do? Otherwise, come and really strip him of his pants?”
“Forget it, what should I do if I get stye? What did he reveal?”
“He said that the King asked him to check the news of a madam at the banquet for Master Ning yesterday.”
“Madam? Are you sure she’s not some young lady or maid?”
“Yes, it’s a madam.”
“Tsk, tsk, tsk… I never thought our King would like this. No wonder he never even glanced at those delicate young ladies. It turns out that he was thinking about the young lady’s mother. Does that mean that every time the King enters the palace, he has to go to the Emperor’s harem to take a look? Oh my, this is terrible. Why are you flirting with me? I tell you, although I don’t like my wife, I definitely don’t like men either. Are you giving up– Uh… K-King?”
On this day, everyone in the camp was very happy because the King somehow caught someone to practice on, so they were lucky enough to escape. Amitabha…
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