Emperor Jianxi was like he had found a panacea, and asked Zhao Ying to go back and get him a hundred pills to take. He wanted to be as thin as he was when he was young and handsome.
Zhao Ying regretted taking out the medicine after hearing this. Other emperors took immortality pills in their old age, and the worst ones were to replenish their essence and energy. But her father, on the other hand, took diet pills...
Zhao Ying nodded silently, agreeing.
Emperor Jianxi was satisfied with this and continued to eat his diet meal.
Zhao Ying looked at Emperor Jianxi with a mixture of distress and sadness. In the past, her father had been unwilling to favor only her mother, the Queen Mother, and she had resented it. Now, she was left with only pity. Ever since her mother's disappearance, her father had never favored a concubine again. Every day, he was either attending court or reviewing memorials. He must have felt lonely...
Thinking about this, Zhao Ying felt that she was an incompetent daughter. She only thought about maintaining the status of the Eastern Palace, but always put her father in opposition to them. In fact, her father was their greatest reliance.
Last night, she tossed and turned in bed, and suddenly thought of something.
Shangguan Shu knew everything about the Wei family, so how could her father not know?
The head of the Imperial City Department is her father...
Her father had always been kind to her, but he was, after all, the victor in the fight for the throne. How could things be that simple? Perhaps she had underestimated her father.
She felt that her father knew everything, but just hid it deeply.
How can the emperor allow others to guess his heart?
In this regard, she needs to learn from her father and try to control her emotions.
If it was true as she guessed, who was responsible for Si De's death? I'm afraid her father could also guess it.
My father would rather bear the curse in the eyes of the empress dowager and the ministers than say it... Zhao Ying felt more and more guilty and could not help but pick up his chopsticks and serve some more dishes to Emperor Jianxi.
Emperor Jianxi accepted all of them.
After finishing his meal, Emperor Jianxi drank tea and instructed Zhao Ying, "I know you and Runzhi have divorced, but that day, I saw that you were not completely heartless towards Runzhi... I just want to tell you that if you want something, just follow your heart. Don't worry too much. I'm not dead yet, and I can still protect my daughter!"
"I understand!"
Emperor Jianxi nodded with satisfaction and asked, "The Empress Dowager still won't let you in?"
Zhao Ying shook his head. "That's fine, though. I'll take the children for a stroll in front of the Cining Palace every day, just to show off. This will save the Empress Dowager and me, and prevent the officials and history books from criticizing us."
Emperor Jianxi nodded slightly, as an affirmation of Zhao Ying, but his brows were indeed furrowed. Zhao Ying knew that Emperor Jianxi was dissatisfied with the Queen Mother.
Good news doesn’t travel far, but bad news travels far and wide.
In the past, no matter how good Emperor Jianxi was to the Empress Dowager, no one paid attention. Only when the Empress Dowager spread some bad news, such as the suspicion that Princess Side was killed by Emperor Jianxi, did those unofficial histories, miscellaneous folk stories flocked to it without any confirmation.
What’s even more infuriating is that there’s no explanation, and the more they smear it, the worse it gets, and it increases the exposure. Not many people knew about this matter to begin with, but once it’s explained, it actually spreads more widely.
Zhao Ying felt that the Queen Mother's move might have had this intention.
Compared to Prince Shou's sinisterness, the Queen Mother's affairs are even more difficult and cruel.
If Emperor Jianxi died, he would be infamous for "killing his brother". Zhao Ying simply didn't dare to think about such a scene again!
I believe that my father also knew about it, so he kept his troops on hold, showed enough patience and tolerance, did not explain or respond, and handled the situation coldly.
She also has to endure it. For the sake of her father, she can't cause trouble anymore for the time being. She has to help her father find a way to get through this!
Emperor Jianxi said calmly, "It's good that you can endure it, but you can endure it for a while, not forever. Your mother will be back soon. In the past, your mother also endured it with me. Now that she is back, I don't want her to endure it anymore."
"Father...what do you mean?"
Emperor Jianxi placed his plump hand on Zhao Ying's and patted it. "We are a family of one blood and one branch. I cannot trust anyone else with this matter. I know that my Cheng Qian is the most intelligent and shrewd person. We, father and daughter, must clean up all the mess before your mother returns to the palace."
Zhao Ying nodded.
"Your Majesty, please tell me! I will carefully consider this matter when I return."
Emperor Jianxi's eyes were filled with satisfaction. "I heard that the Empress Dowager is overthinking and has a poor diet. Tomorrow I will go to the Cining Palace to ask her to take care of her health. By the way, I'll ask her to let you in for a look..."
"Before that, please go to your aunt Side's house and take care of her. I'm afraid that the prince consort is incompetent and the funeral was not well organized, and Side was treated harshly. If the news gets to the Queen Mother, she will be sad again."
"Yes, Father, I obey your command."
Zhao Ying immediately understood what Emperor Jianxi meant.
He dealt with the Queen Mother, and she went to clean up Princess Side's mess.
The father and daughter stopped talking without further discussion.
Zhao Ying took his leave and left the Yangxin Palace.
Coincidentally, he met Prince Shou face to face.
The two of them exchanged greetings as if nothing had happened.
After Zhao Ying left, Prince Shou looked back at her, a strange light in his eyes.
He was curious, he was really curious, what tricks his niece would use against him!
Interesting! It’s getting more and more interesting!
In the Yangxin Palace, as soon as Zhao Ying left, Emperor Jianxi summoned Wu Yonggui, "Have you found the person?"
"Your Majesty, the people are ready."
Emperor Jianxi nodded lightly, then went to review the memorials with an expressionless face.
After only two hours of approval, Emperor Jianxi prepared to go to bed.
Wu Yonggui didn't think much about it and served as usual. However, the next morning, before dawn, Emperor Jianxi got up, summoned a group of people, and walked towards the Cining Palace in a mighty procession.
Cining Palace.
The Queen Mother was sleeping soundly and even snoring.
Crying is exhausting, scolding is exhausting, not to mention having to watch the shaman dance three times a day. Even if the empress dowager was in good health, she couldn't bear it and she even snored at night.
Suddenly, a powerful voice cut through the long night and soared into the sky. It was like a thunderclap, a purple-gold hammer that could make the sky collapse and the earth sink... The queen mother was so frightened that she jumped up from the bed.
"Who? What's that noise?"
The night nanny was also startled and said bewilderedly, "I don't know either..."
The master and servant were confused, and the next second...
Outside the palace.
Emperor Jianxi: "Your son pays respects to your mother, the Queen Mother!"
The palace maids said: "Your servants pay their respects to the Queen Mother. May the Queen Mother live a thousand years and a thousand thousand years!"
Greetings?
The Queen Mother's eyes nearly popped out of her head and she subconsciously asked the nanny, "What time is it now?"
"To the Queen Mother, it is... three quarters past three in the morning..."
When the Queen Mother heard this, she took a deep breath from her feet to the top of her head, and it took her a long time to recover.
At the hour of Yin... At the hour of Yin, the Emperor came to pay his respects to her...
He did it on purpose!
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