Chapter 335 Your Highness, are you willing?
Xiao Ning felt a little uncomfortable.
But facing the anxious eyes of the palace servants, she said nothing and finished washing up with their help.
After washing up, he asked someone to serve breakfast.
Xiao Ning entered the hall. Shang Xi was still asleep. She raised her hand and rubbed Shang Xi's head, then pinched his face. "Baby, get up and eat."
"tired……"
Xiao Ning: "Be good, eat first and then go to sleep."
Shang Xi: "...Can you sleep after dinner?"
Xiao Ning laughed, "If you can't sleep, go to the palace and tidy it up. From now on, this area will be under your jurisdiction."
Shang Xi: “…”
Shang Xi couldn't sleep because of Xiao Ning's disturbance. He got up, put on his shirt, and called for someone to come.
Immediately, someone pushed open the palace door and entered one after another.
Shang Xi washed and dressed with the help of the palace maids.
Xiao Ning sat on the edge of the bed and watched, sighing softly, thinking that the powerful and wealthy just knew how to enjoy themselves.
Even the clothes were ready-made and delivered to him.
All he had to do was open his arms and let someone help him put them on.
After serving Shang Xi, the palace maid bowed and left.
Shang Xi turned around and saw Xiao Ning sitting by the bed, watching with interest, and his heart couldn't help but tighten.
He was used to this kind of life and forgot that she came from a country where everyone was equal.
Shang Xi leaned over and explained carefully: "I won't do this again in the future, please don't be angry."
Xiao Ning pinched his cheeks with both hands and pulled them to the sides.
"I'm not angry."
These palace servants have long been accustomed to this kind of life. If they are not allowed to serve, they will probably become anxious and uneasy.
The liberation of thought takes time.
Besides, these palace maids don’t serve for free, they get a monthly salary.
In the future, she will also appoint female officials in the inner court and improve relevant laws to ensure their personal safety.
The lives of palace maids are also lives. Even if they make mistakes, they should be judged by the law, rather than being sentenced to death by the superiors with just a few words.
Seeing that Xiao Ning was really not angry, Shang Xi breathed a sigh of relief, moved over, sat down next to her, bent down slightly, hugged her waist, and rested his chin on her shoulder.
"Aning, if there's anything I do wrong, you must tell me. I can change it. Don't ignore me suddenly, or I'll go crazy..."
Xiao Ning felt sad when he heard this.
"Okay." She agreed, "I won't hide anything from you anymore, and you are not allowed to hide anything from me anymore."
Shang Xi nodded hurriedly.
His soft lips fell on her slender neck, biting and rubbing gently...
"Aning, you are so nice."
Xiao Ning thought, she was the one who was wrong. It was this fool who added a filter to her and loved her without principles.
After breakfast, Xiao Ning continued to deal with the problems left over from the previous dynasty.
Shang Xi was left in the palace to clean up the court.
If he could place spies in the palace before, then naturally others could do the same. He had to find these people.
After all, this huge palace will be his and Aning's home in the future.
Of course you have to manage your own home well.
Both of them are busy with their own things.
As Xiao Ning expected, someone tried to leave Shengjing secretly that night and was killed as a warning to others by the soldiers guarding the city.
From then on, we have been on even stricter guard.
The people from the aristocratic families had witnessed the ferocity and vigilance of the female king of hell, and for the time being they did not dare to make any other plans. They all stayed at home obediently, waiting for the female king of hell to sort out the current situation and then employ them again.
The affairs of the previous dynasty were complicated, and those officials from aristocratic families often concealed things, so it was very difficult to investigate.
Things in the harem were easy. Shang Xi grew up in the harem, and since he had his own people in the palace, he quickly figured out the situation and uncovered many spies.
He did not rush to deal with them, but instead had them detained first.
I plan to wait until Xiao Ning is done with her work and let her make the decision.
Furong has been following him and watching him all this time. She originally thought that Xiao Ning was going to support Shang Xi and thought that she didn't care about bloodline. She didn't expect that after all this time she wanted to be the emperor herself.
When this guess first came to mind, Furong broke out in a cold sweat.
Can a woman... also be an emperor?
When she tentatively asked Shang Xi if Xiao Ning wanted to be the emperor himself, Shang Xi gave her an affirmative answer.
"Women are no worse than men. Aning is braver than any man in the world, and she also has a compassionate and righteous heart."
"If she becomes emperor, peace will reign throughout the land, and all nations will come to pay tribute. She will create a prosperous era that belongs only to her."
Furong knew that Xiao Ning was very outstanding.
Disguised as a man, she has reached her current position step by step. No one in the entire Dayong can match her.
But……
Furong asked Shang Xi, "Your Highness, are you willing?"
She had walked alone for over twenty years, calculating people's hearts and trying to survive in the cracks. Now, she had handed over her power to others and stayed quietly in the harem, like those other concubines, gambling on the emperor's sincerity...
Furong is a woman, and she understands women. Women who are suppressed by secular disciplines can only be accessories to men, but once they gain power, there is no guarantee that they will not become the same as those men.
His Highness has been kind to her. She has followed His Highness for so many years and is deeply trusted by His Highness. Naturally, the relationship between the two is extraordinary.
As a woman, she certainly wants women to hold power, so that women all over the world can hold their heads high and no longer be disciplined and constrained.
But what about her Highness?
If one day, His Highness loses his beauty and the Prince Consort takes a new wife...
Shang Xi lowered his eyes and smiled lightly, "There's nothing to be unwilling about. Besides, the Xiao family army is brave and good at fighting. Even if I want to compete with her, I don't have the capital."
As for Xiao Ning's sincerity...
He didn't know if she would change her mind in the future, but at least for now, she loved him.
That's enough.
Furong looked at Shang Xi, her eyes filled with deep heartache.
His Highness finally changed into men's clothes and walked out of the backyard, but now he has to stay in the backyard again.
What’s the difference between days like this and the days when I used to dress up as a princess?
Shang Xi smiled and patted Furong's shoulder. "Don't be sad for me. The life I'm living now is my own choice. I love it. After wandering for half my life, I finally have a home. The person I love also loves me. Furong, I'm very happy. I've never been so happy."
Furong sighed softly, her master's life was ruined by her husband.
She could only hope that the Buddha would bless Her Highness to remain as beautiful as ever, and that the Prince Consort would not fall in love with someone else.
When Shang Xi was catching spies, he did not forget the funeral of Shen Zhiyi and others.
After all, it’s not right to keep someone else’s coffin in your own home.
The emperor's mausoleum had already been built, and it would be a waste not to use it, so Shang Xi simply packed up the coffins of the emperor and the second prince and buried them together in the imperial mausoleum.
He chose a place with beautiful mountains and rivers as Shen Zhiyi's burial site.
There was no surname written on the tombstone, only the words "Zhi Yi".
The surnames Shang and Shen were both shackles that bound him. He longed for freedom during his lifetime, so he would be given freedom after his death.
As for Chen Xiang's body, he had it thrown into a mass grave.
Xiao Ning was busy, so Shang Xi brought his own people here.
After burying Shen Zhiyi, on the way back to the palace, he met a familiar yet unfamiliar person.
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