Chapter 106 Old Friend
In a blink of an eye, he had been staying in the palace for a month, and New Year's Eve was approaching. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the emperor would set off to return to the palace.
The weather was getting colder, and Yueli stayed in the hall all day, not wanting to go out at all.
That day she was copying the homework assigned to her by He Yanchen. After writing half a page, she became distracted. She fiddled with the plum blossoms on the windowsill, and then played with the chestnuts on the table.
"Your Majesty, someone in the palace has sent you a letter." Lian Qiao walked into the hall with the letter and handed it to her, saying, "It's from Jiang Ronghua."
"Jiang Ronghua?" Yue Li took it and looked at it. Jiang Ronghua was most likely looking for her because of the Shen family's matter.
Lian Qiao said indignantly, "Jiang Ronghua and the Shen family have always been on good terms. She must want you to plead for mercy. Don't fall into her trap."
Yueli opened the envelope and glanced at it casually. As expected, it was filled with Jiang Ronghua's petition, saying how good Shen had been in the past, and that even if she had made a mistake this time, it was because of a demon, and that she was not a bad person by nature...
Yue Li sneered. Jiang Ronghua's filter for Shen was even bigger than hers for He Yanchen.
She threw the envelope into the charcoal fire beside her, not wanting to pay attention to it: "She is so proud that she asked me to plead for someone who wants to harm me."
"That's right." Lian Qiao echoed.
Yueli ignored him and continued to fight with the chestnut on the table.
Half an hour later, Ji Ming entered the palace and said with a respectful smile, "Your Majesty, His Majesty has just finished meeting with the ministers and asked me to ask how your studies are going."
Yueli looked at the half page of paper and fell silent.
She rolled her eyes and suddenly rubbed her forehead with a sigh: "It's all Jiang Ronghua's fault. I don't have the mood to complete the homework assigned by His Majesty."
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You didn't even want to do it.
study.
Yueli pushed the door open quietly and saw a man sitting at the desk, concentrating on reading a memorial.
She closed the door gently, ran over and hugged his neck from behind: "Your Majesty~"
He Yanchen patted her hands: "Where's the homework?"
Yue Li's face fell. "Your Majesty, do you have nothing else to say to me when you see me? I'm not your student, so why do I think about schoolwork all day long?"
He Yanchen felt that the method of letting her read recently was quite effective. She no longer mumbled at night and seemed much more lively during the day.
"I'm reading the memorials. Stop making a fuss and go get your homework. I'll have a chair put next to you so you can sit next to me and copy it."
Yue Li said coquettishly, "No, Your Majesty, you know I left my hometown to be with you since I was little. How can you bear to torture me like this?"
"Since childhood?" He Yanchen put down the memorial and glanced back at her with a half-smile. "Leaving your hometown?"
Yueli blinked, "Isn't it?"
"Jiangning is so far away from the capital, how can it not be called leaving one's hometown?"
Seeing that his heart was as hard as iron and he was not moved at all, Yueli was depressed. Just wait, she was going to get a serious illness to show him!
Seeing Yueli glaring at him resentfully, He Yanchen couldn't help laughing, and his attitude finally softened.
He held the person in his arms and said, "Forget it, if you don't want to write, then forget it. Read the memorial for me. I'm tired of reading."
Yueli was afraid that he would go back on his word, so she quickly took out a memorial and started reading it.
But the one she chose was too literary, awkward and difficult to read. Yueli frowned and read it haltingly, unable to make it flow.
She started by turning the tables and saying, "Your Majesty, what is this man writing? I can't even understand it. Send him back and take the exam again!"
He Yanchen smiled and pinched her face: "Just act silly."
While the two were talking, Ji Ming came to announce, "Your Majesty, Madam Yang has brought the eldest prince and princess to pay their respects to Your Majesty."
Concubine Lin did not accompany him this time. The eldest princess and the eldest prince were brought by the empress dowager and have been living with the empress dowager. They would come to pay their respects to He Yanchen from time to time.
He Yanchen didn't really want to see him, so he asked Ji Ming to send the man away.
Suddenly he thought that Yueli seemed to have not played with Jiade for a long time.
"Since we came to the palace, I haven't seen you playing with Jiade anymore."
Yue Li rummaged through the memorials on the table, trying to pick one she could understand. She casually replied, "I don't want to play with her anymore. The last time Concubine Lin brought her to the Zhuoyu Palace, she broke my hairpin and kept crying. I was very annoyed."
He Yanchen's eyes flickered slightly, and he grabbed her two disruptive hands: "Didn't Jiaojiao like Jiade before?"
Yueli thought for a moment and said, "I was just bored and played with them before, but I hate others touching my things."
What she didn't finish saying was that Jiade often broke her things when she came to Zhuoyu Palace. Yueli was already beginning to feel annoyed. Every time she broke something, she would cry and cry endlessly, which was so annoying. Over time, she refused to let Concubine Lin bring people over again.
Yue Li was a person with a bad temper, and her only patience was given to He Yanchen.
Besides, she is young and needs someone to coax her, so how could she be willing to coax other children?
He Yanchen held her in his arms, his palm unconsciously caressing her belly: "Does Jiaojiao still like children?"
Yueli snuggled into his arms and asked, "Does Your Majesty like it?"
The woman's pretty eyebrows drooped. "I've seen other people give birth before. It was horrible."
She didn't like children. At first, playing with Jiade was just a novelty, but after a while, she grew tired of it. Furthermore, when she was young, she once witnessed an older sister giving birth in Chunfeng Pavilion. Her screams could be heard all night long, and the second-floor hallway was filled with the smell of blood as basins of gore were brought out. Later, she developed a condition called "paleometrorrhagia," which meant she couldn't receive clients and had no money to make a living. She had tormented herself to death simply because of giving birth.
But Yueli knew that He Yanchen was different from other men. He was the emperor and he really had a throne to inherit.
If he doesn't give birth, he will find another woman to give birth to.
Unexpectedly, He Yanchen shook his head: "I don't like it."
Yueli was stunned, as if she had not expected his answer to be like this. She opened her mouth blankly and said, "But...but Your Majesty must have a biological prince..."
"There are many boys in the royal family. Jiaojiao, are you worried that I won't have a successor?"
He Yanchen said, "Besides, even if they are biological children, what does it matter? There are many cases in this world where parents are not in harmony and children are unfilial. How can you know the temperament of an unborn child?"
Just like his and Yueli's parents, all the talk about loving father and filial son is a joke.
Yue Li found it difficult to digest his words. Is there any man in this world who doesn't want to have children to continue the family line?
He Yanchen saw that she was lost in thought again, and also knew that what she had just said was a bit overwhelming, so he patted her butt and said, "Go and have some fun. I'll come back to you after I finish reviewing these memorials, okay?"
Yueli nodded.
She came out of the study, and the howling cold wind made her head clearer.
"Let's go for a walk in the garden."
There was a swing in the garden of the palace. Yue Li sat on the swing, holding a hand warmer and swinging back and forth, thinking about He Yanchen's words in her mind.
"Your concubine pays homage to Her Majesty Concubine Yu." Suddenly, a female voice interrupted her thoughts.
Yueli turned her head and found that it was Concubine Rong.
"Get up."
Rong Jieyu stood up and exchanged a few words of greeting when they met: "I was just about to send someone to ask the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager is going to host a plum blossom viewing banquet for all the ladies the day after tomorrow. I hope that the Empress Yu will do me the honor of attending."
Yue Li nodded vaguely and said that she could go and have a look at the plum blossom viewing banquet.
"I have found a famous musician outside the palace and was just about to report it to the Empress Dowager." Concubine Rong smiled. "What a coincidence! This musician is from Jiangning, and she and the Empress are from the same hometown."
"My name seems to be...Su Huai?"
With a "bang", the hand warmer in Yueli's arms fell to the ground.
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