Chapter 283 Not bad

While Chen Wan and Xie Jingyu were having dinner, over there in Hanyuan Palace, the emperor had a poor appetite and barely ate half a bowl of rice before putting down his chopsticks.

Looking at the memorials piled on the dragon desk, he walked over with his hands covering his chest, picked up one and started reading.

After reading one book, he picked up another.

Eunuch An asked, "Did the Prince of Jingbei handle the matter to the Emperor's liking?"

"good."

"We'll continue tomorrow."

Eunuch An, “…”

Thinking of the look of a certain gentleman who looked like he wanted to die while reviewing memorials, Eunuch An smiled unkindly.

The Empress Dowager and Queen Song had hoped two years ago that Prince Cheng could help the Emperor share the responsibilities of state affairs, but the Emperor refused.

The emperor has been on the throne for eighteen years and is tired of reading memorials. Now that he has someone he can trust, the emperor can finally take a few days off to relax under the pretext of his rashes and internal injuries.

However, Xie Jingyu did not review every memorial. He put aside a few important ones as he did not dare to make decisions on his own. He wrote down his own ideas and waited for the emperor to review the rest.

The emperor took out the painting again. The person in the painting was blurry, but as clear in his mind as he had been twenty years ago.

He was happy to have found his long-cherished daughter, but his son's whereabouts were unknown, and Lin Qingyin had been dead for fifteen years. The emperor's eyes were filled with sorrow.

The emperor knew in his heart that from the moment the late emperor granted their marriage, he and Lin Qingyin would never be together in this life. Even though he was the emperor, he could not disregard human ethics. If Lin Qingyin had not been drugged, they would not have taken that step.

Although he hadn't been able to see her in the past sixteen years and missed her terribly, he was happy for her when he thought that she could live the free and easy life she wanted outside the palace.

What's the result?

After escaping from Prince Jin's Mansion, what awaited her was displacement and assassination.

Who drugged her back then?

Who is killing her again? !

The emperor wanted to get to the bottom of these things, but unfortunately, the "Princess of Jin" had died in a fire sixteen years ago and was buried in the imperial mausoleum with the Prince of Jin, so he couldn't even investigate openly.

The emperor was looking at the portrait, unable to let go, while Queen Song was sitting on the phoenix chair, feeling uneasy.

Ever since that suspicion came to her mind, Queen Song couldn't eat or sleep.

She must get to the bottom of this!

"Let the wife of the Marquis of Wucheng come to the palace tomorrow."

The next day, Queen Song went to visit the emperor, but was stopped outside the palace and was unable to see the emperor.

On the way back to Fengyi Palace, the palace maid said, "After Duke Dingguo left the palace yesterday, he stormed back in to look for the Emperor. All the palace attendants had already left the palace. After Duke Dingguo left, the Prince of Jingbei left the palace, but was summoned back by the Emperor. He stayed in Hanyuan Palace until evening before leaving the palace..."

Queen Song stopped.

How dare Duke Dingguo go to the emperor in anger? What did the emperor want that required the Prince of Jingbei to stay in Hanyuan Hall until evening?

Queen Song returned to Fengyi Palace with a lot of doubts in her mind. Chen Wu didn't know why Queen Song wanted to see her, so she didn't dare to keep Queen Song waiting for long, so she went into the palace early.

After dismissing the palace maids, Queen Song asked, "Does the Crown Prince's wife of Prince Jingbei have any birthmarks?"

Chen Wu, "......???"

Shen Wu felt strange, "Why does the Queen ask this?"

Queen Song's expression darkened. "Do I need to explain this to you?"

Chen Wu quickly knelt down and admitted her mistake.

Queen Song asked impatiently, "Is there one?"

Shen Wu shook her head.

Queen Song frowned, "No?"

Could it be that she was being overly suspicious? It just happened that the Prince Consort of Jingbei had eyes like that woman, and like the Emperor, she couldn't eat pecans...

As she thought about this, she heard Shen Wu say, "I don't know..."

Queen Song was so angry that she almost ordered someone to drag Chen Wu away and beat her.

If you don't know, just say you don't know. Why are you shaking your head?!

Sisters who grew up together, don’t they know if they have birthmarks?!

Useless thing!

Queen Song sent Shen Wu away with a look of disgust, and then ordered Zheng Mama, "Go find Nan Yan."

After breakfast, Xie Jingyu accompanied Shen Wan to pay his respects to the princess, and then accompanied her to visit the garden. Shen Wan said, "You were so busy yesterday that you didn't even have time to eat lunch. Aren't you busy today?"

Xie Jingyu, “…”

It’s not that he didn’t have time to eat lunch, it’s that he had nothing to eat.

However, Shen Wan did remind him not to be too idle, lest the emperor look for him again.

After accompanying Shen Wan to stroll around the garden for a while and sending Shen Wan back to Zhaolanxuan, he went to the military camp to find the prince.

The prince asked, "Why are you in the military camp?"

Xie Jingyu said, "Father, please find something for me to do..."

The prince thought he was hallucinating.

Did the sun rise from the west? He actually took the initiative to share the work with his father.

Before, apart from sending him to the Duke Dingguo's Mansion, everything else depended on his mood.

The prince said, "The military camp is not busy these past two days."

Xie Jingyu asked, "Nothing happened at all?"

The prince thought for a moment, picked up the memorial on the table and said, "If you are too idle, take this memorial to the emperor."

A certain gentleman, "..."

He was afraid that the emperor would ask him to go to the palace to review memorials, so he deliberately looked for trouble. His father even asked him to deliver memorials to the emperor. Isn't this sending a sheep into the tiger's mouth?

“No!”

After saying these two words, the man turned and left.

But before he could even leave the tent, a soldier came over and said, "My Lord, the Emperor summons you to the palace."

Xie Jingyu, “…”

We've already hidden ourselves in the military camp, so how can we not escape?

Xie Jingyu turned around with a depressed look on his face, picked up the memorial and went out.

A certain gentleman walked into Hanyuan Hall with a look of despair on his face. Seeing the huge pile of memorials on the dragon table, the corners of his mouth twitched.

No wonder the emperor asked him to help review memorials. If he didn't review them for five or six days, who knows how many memorials there would be.

In addition to the memorials from officials in Kyoto, there were also memorials from officials posted outside the capital from all over the country. Several of them had to be sent to the capital every year to ensure that the emperor would not forget about them.

After reviewing more than a dozen memorials, it was time for lunch. The emperor had an appetite for lunch today.

Xie Jingyu thought that the emperor would let him have dinner with him, but he was overthinking it. The emperor ate alone, but his treatment today was much better than yesterday.

Yesterday I only gave him two steamed buns, which were flashy and looked very big, but they were not filling at all. Today he had three dishes and a bowl of rice, so he was barely full.

After reviewing the memorial, Xie Jingyu said as he was leaving, "Your Majesty, I want to accompany my wife on a boat trip tomorrow..."

The emperor did not stop him, "Come early the day after tomorrow."

Xie Jingyu, “…”

Eunuch An was almost laughing madly in his heart.

Others can escape the first day but not the fifteenth; the Prince of Jingbei can escape tomorrow but not the day after tomorrow.

The Prince of Jingbei had the Emperor give him a beating, and during the few days he was recuperating from his injuries, the Emperor was determined not to approve the memorials, and there was no way he could get away with it.

Xie Jingyu resigned himself to his fate and retreated.

Back at the Jingbei Palace, Shen Wan was feeding the fish in the lotus pond, and Xie Jingyu said, "I'll accompany you to the lake tomorrow."

Shen Wan exclaimed, "Ah," "Why do you suddenly want to accompany me on a boat trip?"

Xie Jingyu said, "Don't want to go?"

Shen Wan shook her head. "I'm planning to visit my elder sister tomorrow. I've already sent someone to talk to her. How about we go boating the day after tomorrow..."

Xie Jingyu was melancholy. "The Emperor and I agreed to accompany you on a boat trip tomorrow. If you don't go, you'll be deceiving the Emperor."

Shen Wan's face was filled with black lines.

Why does it sound so strange coming out of his mouth?

He would also be afraid of deceiving the emperor...

Even if he was afraid, would the emperor still care about such a trivial matter as him accompanying her on a boat trip?