IHOEAYSTTTIW Chapter 92

Chapter 92: Go Sleep in the Wood Shed, Go Sleep in the Warm and Cozy Wood Shed with Charcoal Fire and Thick Quilts

Chapter 92: Go Sleep in the Wood Shed, Go Sleep in the Warm and Cozy Wood Shed with Charcoal Fire and Thick Quilts

Lin Yan had a bit of flour on the tip of his nose. The fierce look made Yun Qi feel more and more like a proud and spoiled cat. The corners of his mouth unconsciously turned upwards, but suddenly he remembered that he was still “under punishment,” so he quickly lowered his head and obediently drank the soup.

The soup was delicious and hot, warming the heart a bit.

Yun Qi blew on the steam and tentatively asked, “Big brother has forgiven me?”

“Who forgave you?” Lin Yan reached out and tapped Yun Qi’s forehead, letting out a light hum and making a harsh statement, “A liar like you who doesn’t speak a single truth only deserves to sleep in the wood shed.”

Yun Qi, who had not received forgiveness, lowered his head and drank the soup, the disappointment around him almost solidifying.

Lin Yan felt his heart twitch, and he almost let the little thing off.

No, the little liar has told so many lies, he has to be properly punished.

Lin Yan tapped on the table, urging, “Speak.”

“There’s nothing much to say about these things…” Lin Yan snorted from his nose, and Yun Qi changed his tune at lightning speed, “But since big brother wants to hear it, I’ll tell you.”

The story Yun Qi told was roughly the same as the one Lin Yan had pieced together.

Empress Li came from a good family. She was the direct daughter of the Li family, specially cultivated according to the requirements of an empress. From painting and calligraphy to managing the palace and scheming, she had been specially trained from a young age.

When she reached the right age, she entered the royal palace. Even though the late Emperor had three thousand beauties in his harem and had no feelings for her, she managed the harem in an orderly manner despite the concubines’ jealous bickering. The Li family was very satisfied with this empress. Except for the fact that the late Emperor’s first son was not born from this empress’s womb, there was nothing else to be unhappy about.

Later, Empress Li became pregnant with twins, and naturally everyone fawned over her and envied her. The Li family placed all their hopes on these two children, sending things to the palace every other day, and never missing a single day of checking on her health.

But fate was not on their side. The Empress suffered terribly during childbirth. After the two children were born, the Empress lost her breath.

The imperial physicians and midwives were all prepared to be buried with her, but the Empress woke up again.

The awakened Empress was like a different person. She had forgotten most of the past, not to mention managing the harem and fighting for favor.

The various concubines initially only dared to probe in secret until Empress Li finished her confinement and they confirmed that she was very different from before, gradually revealing their fangs.

After that, it was just some very old-fashioned methods. When a wall falls, everyone pushes it. Regardless of whether Empress Li did it or not, it was now all her doing.

The Li family originally wanted to use the two children as leverage, but the two children looked less and less alike. The Li family’s political enemies in the court took the opportunity to accuse them, saying that the two children were ominous, bringing misfortune to their father, mother, and relatives, and that Empress Li was not virtuous as empress, which was why she was possessed by a ghost and went mad.

The new Emperor did not like Empress Li in the first place, so he took this opportunity to suppress the Li family, imprisoning the Empress in Fengyi Palace and throwing the two children in with her.

Yun Qi and Yun Song grew up in such an environment, relying on the leftovers sent to Fengyi Palace, on Empress Li’s dowry, the water mirror, to arrange things, and on the silver secretly sent into the palace by the Li family, struggling to survive.

“My younger brother never liked listening to mother talk about those messy things from a young age, but I found it very interesting.” Yun Qi drew circles in the bowl with a spoon. He chuckled and softly recounted those still-good memories: “At first, mother even encouraged me and my brother to call her sister, but after being stopped by the water mirror a few times, she stopped insisting on that. She told stories of that world, the technology, concepts, education of that world… even after I went to school, she still called me to her side every day to tell me about freedom and equality, about justice and the rule of law…”

The image of Empress Li in Lin Yan’s heart gradually became concrete. She was a girl about the same age as him, only her luck was worse. She was thrown into the man-eating deep palace.

Maybe at first those “crazy words” were still her ambition to change the world, but the deep palace was lonely. As time passed, fake madness became real madness.

Empress Li was really pitiful, but were Yun Qi and Yun Song, who were constantly torn apart by two conflicting ideologies, not pitiful as well?

Lin Yan fondly rubbed Yun Qi’s hair and secretly scolded the system in his heart.

“The things that happened after… big brother probably isn’t interested. It’s just some palace intrigue. After the death of the eldest brother, I became the eldest son and became a sweet pastry for all parties to fight over. Mother became the biggest stumbling block in this struggle…”

Yun Qi put down the bowl, his smile becoming bitter: “She stayed here for more than ten years until that fire burned Fengyi Palace clean. She failed to return to the paradise she spoke of.”

Lin Yan had heard this story many times, but hearing it from Yun Qi’s mouth was particularly shocking.

Yun Qi wiped away his tears and angrily drank the soup in his hand, his voice choked: “They all said mother was crazy. Although I had suspicions, I had no evidence until I was picked up by big brother.”

Lin Yan was not very angry with Yun Qi in the first place. Hearing him say this, that little bit of anger dissipated completely.

He reached out to take the bowl from Yun Qi’s hand, but Yun Qi dodged him.

Yun Qi tidied up the dishes as usual, not letting Lin Yan interfere at all.

“Those words were all taught to me by mother. The reason I told those lies was because…” Yun Qi took a deep breath, revealing his “calculations” in his heart, “At first, it was because there were constant disturbances in the Capital City, and I wanted to avoid the limelight. Later, it was because I valued the seeds in big brother’s hands and wanted to try to build the paradise that mother spoke of. In order to perfect this lie, I flipped through big brother’s cellphone. The more I learned about that paradise, the more I felt it was a fool’s dream. At that time, I wanted to confess to big brother several times, but you had already become dependent on me because of those lies, and I…”

Yun Qi put down the bowl. He took half a step forward, looked into Lin Yan’s eyes with stars in them, and his voice was hoarse and unlike himself: “And I… I fell in love with you.”

Lin Yan’s face flushed red. He avoided Yun Qi’s gaze and found reasons at random: “My head hurts badly. I’m going back to sleep.”

Yun Qi immediately put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hand and followed him: “I’ll go with big brother.”

Lin Yan pushed Yun Qi away, feeling a headache looking at the very aggrieved person in front of him.

Judge the deed, not the intent.

Yun Qi did deceive him, but he really didn’t do anything to hurt him.

During this period of time, he had lived a difficult life in Changning. The more he thought of Yun Qi’s goodness, the more he realized that Yun Qi was just a half-grown child. When the two of them were together, Yun Qi took care of him more.

He gave Yun Qi the seeds, and Yun Qi took care of him, protected him, understood his differences, and accompanied him in making trouble…

By this calculation, the two of them should be even?

No, how could he give up so easily on the promise to torture him? If this little brat hadn’t preferred to make up a book rather than tell the truth, how could the gap between them be so deep?

Punishment, there must be punishment.

Lin Yan adjusted his performance state, putting on an appearance that he was still angry: “You are not allowed to follow me. Go sleep in the wood shed.”

Yun Qi was stunned and said “yes” with great grievance. He sent Lin Yan back to his room before reluctantly returning to the kitchen to continue cleaning up.

An Tan, who came to Wu’s house to clean, noticed something was wrong as soon as he entered the door. He was worried that Lin Yan would take the opportunity to escape, but now it seemed he was overthinking it.

This ancestor didn’t run away, he even picked up someone to come back.

There were traces of activity in the kitchen and wood shed, and the courtyard was much cleaner than before.

An Tan already had a picture in his mind.

A refugee from who knows where swept the floor, and Lin Yan invited him in, made food for him, and arranged for him to stay in the wood shed.

The family was already very poor, but he still picked up people to come back every now and then.

The people of Changning still thought this guy was a Bodhisattva who saved people from suffering.

Bullshit!

He was more like a wealth-scattering boy.

An Tan took a deep breath and rushed into Lin Yan’s room to argue with him about this matter.

“My young master, I just didn’t keep an eye on you for a while, and you’ve already picked up someone to come back?”

Lin Yan was in the room, but his heart had already floated into the wood shed.

He didn’t hear a word of An Tan’s complaints, only happy for the sudden influx of labor. He raised his hand and fanned it under his nose, making a disgusted look: “The carbon smell is too strong.”

An Tan glanced at the charcoal basin, his eyes narrowing slightly: “This was just sent by the Administration Division, specially…”

“It smells bad, throw it in the wood shed. And this…” Lin Yan pulled over the quilt behind him and used his fingernails to pick up the pearls on it, “Who in their right mind embroiders pearls on a quilt? It’s so uncomfortable, throw it over there as well.”

Sending charcoal and quilts again, this wasn’t nitpicking, this was being afraid that the person in the wood shed would freeze.

An Tan tried again and again but couldn’t suppress the anger in his heart, recklessly letting himself speak without thinking: “May I ask, have you picked up another ancestor?”

Lin Yan covered his head with the quilt and muffledly chased him away: “My head hurts, I’m going to sleep, kneel and peace.”

“This every day…”

An Tan moved the charcoal basin to the door of the wood shed and realized it when he knocked on the door with the quilt in his arms.

Why am I sending these things over? The person inside isn’t some precious person, I can just let him come and get them himself.

An Tan stood at the door with a straight face, but the aura of establishing authority instantly dissipated when he saw the person in the room clearly.

Fuck, Prince An…

Yun Qi took the quilt and made a gesture of invitation to the petrified person: “It’s been hard, Master An. Come in and sit down.”

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