r18novel Chapter 1756 Don't Look at Them
Chapter 1756 Don't Look at Them
When Lu Zhaoling heard the Emperor speak, she subconsciously looked towards him, but before she could see his face, Zhou Shiyue covered her eyes, leaving her feeling both amused and exasperated.
It seems Zhou Shiyue is genuinely afraid of seeing the emperor's face.
Lu Zhaoling didn't struggle. Since Zhou Shiyue really didn't want her to see the emperor's face, then she wouldn't look.
Anyway, there's no harm in not watching, and I heard the emperor isn't handsome either.
However, the emperor was somewhat bothered. Seeing Zhou Shiyue's unruly behavior, his face darkened, and he forgot his earlier panic. He sternly reprimanded Zhou Shiyue.
"Ah Yue, what do you mean by this? Do you have even a shred of royal etiquette? At this time, you should be instructing your princess to come and pay her respects to me and the Empress Dowager. After all, she is a junior, and I am the Emperor of the Great Zhou. This is the first time your princess has met me, so she should come and pay her respects properly."
"I can spoil you and indulge you however I want before, but royal rules cannot be disregarded."
The Emperor felt this might be his only chance to put on airs in front of Lu Zhaoling.
After that, Zhou Shiyue would definitely not allow Lu Zhaoling to enter the palace often, and he also did not want to see the people of the First Mystic Sect often, so he would have very few opportunities to meet Lu Zhaoling in the future.
Today, Lu Zhaoling should give him a proper bow.
Even if he didn't bow, what did Zhou Shiyue mean by covering Lu Zhaoling's eyes like that? Did he, the emperor of a country, look so unpresentable?
At this moment, the emperor certainly did not think that Zhou Shiyue covered Lu Zhaoling's eyes and face because he was afraid that Lu Zhaoling was not good-looking enough to be seen by others. In Zhou Shiyue's eyes, the only one who was not good-looking enough to be seen by others was himself.
The Empress Dowager was also furious at Zhou Shiyue's actions.
She wanted to say a few words of reprimand, but her knees started to ache and she could no longer stand.
So the Empress Dowager signaled to the maidservant beside her to help her into the hall. At this moment, even kneeling down would be better than standing like this.
Just as the Empress Dowager was about to speak, a sudden, sharp pain shot through her knee, causing her to scream in agony and collapse to the ground.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, what's wrong?" The people around her rushed to help her in a panic.
The Emperor forgot to reprimand Zhou Shiyue and quickly turned around, wanting to reach out and help the Empress Dowager.
But as soon as he reached out his hand, he remembered what had happened when he entered the ancestral temple. Suddenly his expression changed, and he wondered if the Empress Dowager's legs had gone weak and she had collapsed because she had entered the ancestral temple.
If that's the case, wouldn't this ancestral temple be extremely eerie?
"Quickly help the Empress Dowager up!" the Emperor said anxiously.
Yin Yunting and the others also came out of the side hall. Seeing the Empress Dowager's appearance, they exchanged a glance, their expressions becoming serious.
Lu Zhaoling's eyes were covered by Zhou Shiyue, so she couldn't see, but she could tell from the noise that the Empress Dowager had fallen to the ground.
She tugged at Zhou Shiyue's sleeve and whispered, "Let go of my hand, what's wrong?"
Zhou Shiyue felt something was wrong when he saw the scene before him. At that moment, a breeze blew by, carrying a faint scent of incense. Zhou Shiyue subconsciously sniffed it and suddenly frowned.
Before he could speak, Lu Zhaoling whispered, "Why is there a strange smell? This shouldn't have been the smell in the ancestral temple before."
Zhou Shiyue immediately released his hand from covering her eyes.
"Promise me that when you look at them, you'll just glance at them and not look at their fate."
Lu Zhaoling knew he cared about this, so she seriously agreed, "Don't worry, I definitely won't look."
She herself cherishes her life very much.
At this moment, Yin Changxing whispered from the side, "Someone has tampered with the ancestral temple. Something's not right."
Weng Songzhi covered his eyes briefly, then immediately removed them, and gazed intently at the sky above the ancestral temple.
I saw tiny particles, like dust, floating in the air.
Those things were ethereal and invisible to ordinary people. He hadn't seen them before either, but now that he had opened his Heavenly Eye, he could see these things that looked like floating dust.
His expression changed, and he said in a low voice, "Something has sneaked into the ancestral temple."
"These look like items collected from fallen soldiers."
Lu Zhaoling didn't see it, so she quickly asked, "Uncle-Master, what does it look like to you?"
Weng Songzhi described it.
"Like dust floating in the sunlight, only red."
Evil spirits cannot enter the ancestral temple.
However, items collected from fallen soldiers can be brought in, because these soldiers died defending this land.
But these things shouldn't be harmful to the people of the Great Zhou royal family.
Why would the Empress Dowager suddenly fall down?
At this moment, the Emperor called out in a trembling voice, "Sect Leader Yin, hurry, hurry, take a look at what's going on. I felt something was wrong when I entered the Ancestral Temple just now."
He had previously thought he wouldn't meet with many people from the First Mystic Sect, but now that he's in trouble, the first thing he wants to do is seek the protection of the First Mystic Sect.
Compared to Lu Zhaoling, the Emperor actually trusted Yin Changxing more, because Yin Changxing was Lu Zhaoling's master and was now the head of the First Xuanmen Sect. By all accounts, he should be the one with the greater cultivation.
Yin Changxing walked up to the Emperor's side, and Weng Songzhi followed. "Your Majesty, did something seem amiss just now?"
At this moment, the Emperor had no idea of any treason. He blurted out, "My legs went weak the moment I stepped into the ancestral temple. If it weren't for Eunuch Qin supporting me, I would have collapsed to my knees. Don't you think the ancestral temple is a bit eerie?"
Upon hearing his words, the retired emperor immediately flew into a rage and shouted at him, "I think you're the one who's weird! You scoundrel!"
Even if something is wrong, one should suspect something external, not say that the ancestral temple is evil.
Yin Changxing reached out and put his hand on the Emperor's shoulder, intending to let him see clearly, but the Emperor inexplicably remembered what Zhou Shiyue had said earlier and immediately avoided it.
He said, "Isn't it said that you shouldn't pat someone's shoulder randomly?"
Zhou Shiyue was speechless.
You can't just pat someone's shoulder randomly, but you also have to consider the occasion and who's patting you.
Yin Changxing did not reach out again; he simply looked the Emperor up and down.
"There is nothing strange about His Majesty."
Upon hearing Yin Changxing's words, the Emperor did not breathe a sigh of relief and quickly hid behind Yin Changxing.
"If there is nothing strange about me, then there must be something strange about this ancestral temple! You are from the First Mystic Sect, so you should take a look quickly."