"Your Majesty, you can't drink any more. This is already the third jar. If you keep drinking like this, your body won't be able to take it," Fang Xi said, watching Si Junlin pour himself wine non - stop ever since Su Wan'er left. He was sweating all over. There was no way one could drink like this. After all, the emperor's drinking capacity wasn't that high to begin with.
"Fang Xi, tell me," Si Junlin grabbed him by the collar, scaring Fang Xi so much that his neck seemed to shrink.
"Tell me, Su Wan'er is clearly the empress I married. How come I can't even touch her now, and she's engaged to someone else?"
Fang Xi was, of course, so scared that cold sweat broke out on his back. He didn't dare to say a word.
"Tell me, is this woman being too bold? Is there even a place for me in her heart!"
Fang Xi felt it was difficult to even catch his breath. He quickly replied, "Your Majesty, General Wei surely has you in her heart. In fact, this servant thinks that the person General Wei truly likes is you." Si Junlin immediately got excited and flung him aside. "How do you know?"
Oh my god, this was killing him. He was just a eunuch. If he knew, that would be strange.
"Your Majesty, it's getting late. How about you take a bath first and then rest?" What a mess! There wasn't even a single concubine in the harem now. And this kind of thing always fell on him. Poor thing! Was there any chief eunuch in history more miserable than him?
"No, I will never let her off so easily. Su Wan'er must be having a good time outside the palace now. The two of them... The Su Mansion and the Gu Mansion are so close..." Si Junlin was almost drunk. Clearly, his mind was not clear. He spoke in a halting manner but gritted his teeth and forced each word out.
Fang Xi was startled by him. "Your Majesty, what do you plan to do?"
"I'm going out of the palace. I'm going to keep an eye on her. I will never let her..." Si Junlin was so drunk that he staggered. Fang Xi quickly supported him.
"Your Majesty, at this hour, the palace gates have already been locked. How about we go tomorrow?"
"Bold! Who dares to stop me? Who?!"
In the end, Fang Xi naturally didn't dare to stop him. Unlike the last time when he went out of the palace alone, this time Si Junlin was so drunk and muddle - headed that he didn't care about such things. So the maids, eunuchs who usually followed him, including the secret agents in the dark, all quietly followed.
The emperor's exit from the palace was, of course, a grand and bustling affair. And the whole road from the Yangxin Hall to the Meridian Gate soon became brightly lit. The maids, eunuchs and the imperial guards who were about to start their night duty saw him and immediately knelt down to pay their respects, thinking that something big had happened.
With such a grand spectacle, those who didn't know would think that Si Junlin was going on a personal expedition.
Si Junlin walked straight to the Su Mansion without stopping. Naturally, Su Wan'er didn't know he was coming. But as luck would have it, today her elder brother and father wanted to invite Gu Jingtian over for a gathering. Who would have thought that they would run into Si Junlin.
Su Wan'er had been scared by him in the morning, so now she naturally tried to avoid him. But even though Si Junlin was drunk, he still saw her and ordered his men to arrest her.
Su Wan'er got angry. She thought, I'm trying to avoid you, and yet you still dare to arrest me.
"Your Majesty, what are you doing? May I ask what crime I've committed?"
"Of course you've committed a crime. I'm going to punish you severely!" When Si Junlin opened his mouth, Su Wan'er noticed something was different about him. Looking at his flushed face and unsteady steps, she guessed that he was probably drunk.
Si Junlin, how much have you drunk? Sure enough, as she got closer, she could smell the strong odor of alcohol all over him.
These servants naturally recognized Su Wan'er, and most of them had witnessed her martial arts skills. So they naturally didn't dare to use force against her. Moreover, everyone knew that the emperor was not in his right mind now. They didn't know what the emperor would do to them when he sobered up. So they just pretended and dragged Su Wan'er in front of Si Junlin.
Fang Xi thought that if they continued talking like this, things would probably get out of hand. So he ordered everyone to retreat.
Out of curiosity, he himself was reluctant to go too far. But when he saw the look in Si Junlin's eyes when he glanced at him, he thought it was better for him to stay away.
"Si Junlin, are you coming to my place to cause trouble just because you're drunk? Take your men and leave quickly. I'm busy. I don't have time to entangle with you here."
"I'm not leaving. I'm going to keep an eye on you here!" Never overestimate the intelligence of a drunk person. Su Wan'er had seen that clearly. Now that Si Junlin was drunk, he was just like a three - year - old child, not willing to listen to reason at all.
"What are you staring at me for? I haven't broken any laws."
"I don't care. Anyway, anyway, you can't go out alone from now on. I'm going with you next time." Si Junlin's words were jumbled, but Su Wan'er still managed to catch the gist of it.
"Go with me? Where are you going with me? To the battlefield?" Su Wan'er thought it was simply nonsense.
"Right. I'll issue an imperial edict tomorrow. I'm going on a personal expedition with you."
"Si Junlin, stop being so absurd. If you dare to go with me, I'll cut you into pieces on the way!" Anyway, you can't beat me. Su Wan'er still thought that trying to reason with him now was like playing the lute to a cow. It was better to be straightforward.
"You, you! Fine, then don't blame me for being rude!"
"What do you want to do?" Su Wan'er stared at him intently, afraid that he would do something excessive like he did in the morning.
But who would have thought that as Su Wan'er took two steps back defensively, Si Junlin took out the jade pendant that the national teacher had given him before from his bosom. That was the thing used to control the body - swapping between the two of them. But didn't it stop working in the end?
"Si Junlin, don't mess with it. It's not working now."
"How do you know if you don't try?"
Si Junlin's thinking was very simple now. As long as he successfully swapped bodies with Su Wan'er again, Su Wan'er would have no choice but to take him with her.
Suddenly, both of them felt a sharp pain in their bodies. Although it wasn't unbearable, it was enough to sober Si Junlin up. But when he opened his eyes, he found himself in Su Wan'er's body. Did it succeed?
"Si Junlin, do you know what you're doing?!" Su Wan'er didn't expect it to succeed. She suddenly widened her eyes and looked at herself in Si Junlin's body, wearing a dragon robe and reeking of alcohol.
"Wan'er? Was I drunk just now?" Si Junlin naturally realized what he had done after sobering up.
"Quickly swap back!" Su Wan'er shouted at him angrily, jumping up and down in a hurry. But then she found that the jade pendant seemed to be in her own hand. She fiddled with it for a while, but there was no reaction at all. Had it stopped working again?
"Let me have a look." Si Junlin took the jade pendant and tried it too, but sure enough, it was not working.