At the same time, on the other side, the emperor was having a meal in the empress dowager's palace.
"Chen'er, were you able to see the Princess of Shen today? How did you feel?"
The emperor paused, "Mother, please don't worry about this matter. The princess of Shen was married back just to show her power."
The Empress Dowager heaved another heavy sigh after hearing the Emperor's words. "Alas! I've found so many women for you in the harem, and you haven't even glanced at them. I thought you went to see the Princess of Shen today, and I thought you found something worthwhile in her!"
The emperor put down his chopsticks after hearing this and said, "Mother, you know that I have been poisoned. I will never have a son in my lifetime. Instead of letting those women stay in the palace alone, it is better to wait until I abdicate and give them a chance to live."
"Chen'er, you..." The empress dowager did not expect that the emperor would actually think of abdicating.
"What if?" The Queen Mother still did not give up. She had fought her way up from the harem to become the Queen, with many lives on her hands. This allowed her Chen'er to become the Crown Prince. However, Chen'er was poisoned with such a vicious poison that he would never have an heir in his life.
This made her often regret over the years whether she had killed too many people when she was young and had accumulated a lot of sins for Chen'er. Therefore, she now devotes herself to worshipping Buddha, asking the Bodhisattva to forgive her and show her power every day, so that her Chen'er can have his own descendants.
But the emperor knew that he had no chance.
In fact, Jiang Ziyi's guess was correct. The poison in the emperor not only made him infertile, but he couldn't even get an erection. Therefore, he had never set foot in the harem in all these years, but he had never told anyone about this issue.
And for the development of Yao Kingdom, he plans to give the throne to his half-brother, King Jin, in a few years.
Seeing that the emperor was silent, the empress dowager did not say anything more. She had always felt sorry for her son. If it were not for her negligence at the time, her child would not have been poisoned so severely.
After the emperor finished his dinner and was heading back to the palace, he suddenly remembered the blushing face under the veil.
He said to the eunuch beside him, "Xiao Linzi, let's go to Cangjiao Palace."
Xiao Linzi was shocked when he heard this. Why did His Majesty want to go to Cangjiao Palace? Could it be that he was going to lose the bet?
Ever since the Princess of Shen entered the palace, the palace maids had secretly set up a bet on whether His Majesty would favor the Princess of Shen. Everyone bet on "no", except for one person, who bet on "yes", and that was Nanny Qiu Jin.
Xiao Linzi didn't care and just thought that Nanny Qiu Jin was getting old and confused. After all, he had been with His Majesty for so many years and had never seen His Majesty favor any woman.
However, His Majesty's abnormal behavior today made him uncertain about his bet.
When the sedan chair reached the gate of Cangjiao Palace, the emperor got off the sedan chair with the help of Xiao Linzi.
The guards guarding the door immediately saluted respectfully when they saw the emperor coming.
"Has she done anything unusual today?" The emperor was under great pressure when asking the question. He had determined from the beginning that Jiang Ziyi was not a good person.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, there has been no unusual movement, except..."
"that is?"
"Today, the Princess of Shen came out to ask for your name. I didn't tell her, and then I went back to my room and never came out again."
After listening to the guard's report, the emperor did not expect this situation. He thought she would make a fuss because of the restriction.
I didn't expect that she just asked for the name?
The emperor looked at the faint light coming through the window in the courtyard and did not speak.
"Your Majesty, do you want to inform the Princess of Shen to come out to greet us?" Xiao Linzi beside him spoke cautiously.
In the past, he could be said to be the person who understood His Majesty the best, but now he was really unsure about some of His Majesty's reactions.
"No need, please return to the palace."
He asked the State of Shen to send a princess just to keep her in the palace as a hostage, with no other intention, so he would never fall in love with the princess of the State of Shen, no matter how beautiful she was.
Jiang Ziyi had no idea that the emperor was standing outside her door with so many thoughts in his mind. At this moment, she had finished her meal and bathed under the service of Caiyun and Xia, and was ready to lie down to sleep.
Jiang Ziyi thought that the emperor had not come to her palace yet, and he probably would not come tonight. There would definitely be some rumors in the palace tomorrow, and the real princess would definitely not be able to stand this, but she didn't care. If anyone dared to come up and be rude, she would just fight back.
After Caiyun and Xia left, they blew out the candles in the room for her. The room instantly became dark. The soft bed in the darkness made her feel at ease and she had a good night's sleep.
The next morning, Jiang Ziyi had not yet gotten up, but the news that the emperor did not stay overnight had spread throughout the Yao Kingdom Palace.
At this time, Concubine Duan of Fengxi Palace was drinking tea and listening to the news reported by the palace maid beside her.
"You said that His Majesty only went to the gate of Cangjiao Palace last night and did not stay overnight? Is this true?"
Concubine Duan was the only concubine in the Yao Kingdom Palace who was given a title, because the emperor once went out of the palace to ask the master of Xuanfa from Baiyun Temple to tell a fortune. The fortune said that the destined person who sacrificed himself to save him could cure the strange poison in his body.
At that time, Concubine Duan was still the daughter of a small third-rank official. She learned from the palace when the emperor would go to the temple, so she hid outside the temple's side room and eavesdropped early. Then, on the way down the mountain, she paid money to hire a desperate criminal to assassinate him. At that time, Concubine Duan hid in the grass, waiting for an opportunity to roll down with the emperor in her arms, which allowed the emperor to successfully take her into the harem.
The emperor did regard her as the destined person as Master Xuanfa said, but his body still had no reaction when he stayed in her palace. The emperor thought that the time was not right, but after trying to stay overnight several times and his body still had no reaction, he gradually stopped going to Concubine Duan.
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