"Darling, don't move!"
Liu Shuyue grabbed a pug by the neck and shooed it aside. "Bad dog! Who told you to point your butt at my husband? Shoo, shoo, go play somewhere else!"
The pug swept its tail across Zhou Yunshen's nose, then reluctantly trotted off to sit nearby.
Liu Shuyue wiped his face and straightened his hair. "Darling, are you all right?"
His body was fine, but his heart was shattered. Did that count as being all right or not?
"It's fine. This was your first time. Crawl through a few more times and you'll get used to it. Come on, let's go eavesdrop."
Liu Shuyue pulled him toward the inner courtyard.
With Huahua navigating and Zhou Yunshen beside her, she successfully avoided all the servants and soon reached the rear courtyard.
At that moment, Zhou Yunshen could only hope the spies sent by the emperor hadn't followed them...
But that was impossible!
The emperor and empress were walking through the vegetable patch, inspecting the newly grown vegetables, while the Empress Dowager fed pine nuts to the chickens nearby.
When the little sketch documenting the incident arrived, their laughter frightened the chickens into flapping their wings several times.
"Hahaha! Zhou Yunshen crawled through a dog hole!"
"That old rascal crawled through a dog hole! A dog hole! Mother, can you imagine it? A great big fellow nearly six feet three, dressed in all that splendor, crawling through a dog hole into someone else's house!"
The Empress Dowager rocked back and forth with laughter too. "So this brat finally had his day! Your Majesty, summon a painter to properly capture this scene. We'll invite him over for tea one of these days and let him admire it."
The empress said, "The Marquis of Zhennan holds grudges. If we do that,