Although the queen appeared gentle, virtuous, and considerate, she was already cursing the emperor in her heart. "She's been tired all day, and she doesn't get much sleep at night. And this man is still dragging her to talk nonsense. Is he seriously ill?"
The emperor had no idea what the queen was thinking at the moment. He held her hand and nagged her affectionately, "Ning'er, take care of yourself too. If you leave too, I will be left alone."
Empress Duan Jianing felt incredibly unlucky. How could she possibly die so early? She had been thinking about becoming the Empress Dowager after the Emperor died! It was truly unlucky.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. I will try my best to stay with you forever." After the Queen said this, she looked at the Emperor with deep affection in her eyes.
The queen thought to herself that she must take good care of her health and live longer than this heartless man.
The emperor obviously liked the empress looking at him with such admiring eyes, and immediately promised: "Ning'er, don't worry, I will protect you."
Queen: That's not necessary, really! The last person you protected died of illness.
Queen Duan Jianing had countless questions in her mind at this time. If she had read those modern storybooks, she would have suspected that the emperor had been possessed by another body.
Wasn't the Emperor's true love Concubine Zhen? Now that Concubine Zhen is dead, does that mean she will be the Emperor's true love?
This is so scary!
The queen's heart was broken, but her face was so gentle: "I know that the emperor has always protected me, and I am very satisfied."
The queen's implication was that things should remain the same as before, and there was no need to harass her so often.
Although the emperor was satisfied with the queen's understanding, he still felt a little bored sometimes: "Sometimes I really like Ning'er, but you don't have to be so sensible! You can be more willful!"
The Queen...then go down to accompany the Emperor?
The Queen adjusted her emotions, and with red eyes, she looked to the side, looking aggrieved and not wanting the Emperor to see: "I am actually quite willful, but I don't want Your Majesty to be so tired.
If one of the two of us is willful, there will always be someone else who has to clean up the mess. I can't bear it!"
The queen appeared to be hiding something, and she calculated the angle of her actions to ensure that the emperor could see her red eyes.
Of course the emperor saw the queen's red eyes, and she tried to avoid him, saying, "My Ning'er is the best."
As soon as the emperor said this, Queen Duan Jianing was immediately disgusted.
But the Queen didn't say anything else, and just let it go. So the Queen simply put her head on the Emperor's shoulder and tried to relax herself.
As the queen expected, as soon as she relaxed her mind, she felt sleepy and let herself fall asleep.
At this time, Queen Duan Jianing had only one thought: since she couldn't faint, she might as well just fall asleep! The more she talked, the more mistakes she made.
There was another silence. Seeing that the queen had not spoken for a long time, the emperor thought that she was crying secretly.
The emperor deliberately turned his head to look at the queen beside him and saw that the queen was sleeping with steady breathing.
The emperor laughed happily. This was the first time he laughed since the death of the retired emperor.
What made him happy was that there were people who trusted him so much.
Others might not be able to guess why the Empress Dowager's hair turned white so rapidly, but the Emperor guessed it.
This is probably one of the reasons why the emperor is depressed! He doesn't want to be seen as a cruel and ruthless person in his mother's eyes.
He was even a little afraid to be alone with his mother for a while, and was even afraid to look her in the eye.
The emperor personally sent the queen back to the harem before he returned to the Wenwu Hall.
The emperor ordered all the servants in the hall to leave, as he wanted to be alone with his father for a while.
The emperor knelt alone in an empty civil and military hall, constantly adding paper money to the basin with his hands.
"Father, I guess you don't want to see me the most right now!"
The emperor was self-aware and felt that his father definitely didn't want to see him.
"Father, please hold on a little longer. Once you are buried, you won't have to see me again.
If you ask me if I regret it, I will still answer you with "no regrets."
When the emperor said this, his emotions were a little overwhelmed. He spoke in a very loud voice and was a little furious.
No matter how tough the emperor's words were, he did regret it in his heart.
What he regretted was not putting medicine in his father's favorite wine, but not stopping Xie Zixin from putting people around his father.
This gave the woman the opportunity to incite my father.
At this time, the emperor was the only one in the hall, and of course the emperor emeritus could not stand up to answer him.
The emperor didn't need to answer. He said a lot by himself, recalling the father-son relationship between them, recalling how they worked together to find a way to resist the Shenggan Kingdom, and recalling the emperor's worries when his father was fighting outside during those years.
When did he become afraid of his father?
Perhaps it was because after my father returned to the court, whenever he wanted to implement a policy, the ministers would ask, "What does the emperor think?"
Maybe when he made a decision, those who were dissatisfied would go and kneel in the Royal Villa;
Maybe it was when my father also wanted my cousin to help him earn money;
Maybe……
Although my father had always shown no intention of interfering in state affairs, he began to feel uneasy.
The emperor told him all his inner thoughts in front of the retired emperor's coffin.
After the emperor finished speaking, he felt much more relieved. As for whether his father would forgive him or not want to see him.
None of this matters anymore, I won’t see you again anyway.
Even if he saw it a hundred years later, he would just let his father deal with him.
The emperor never cared about the idea of rebirth after death. He just wanted to live a good life according to his wishes.
Afterwards, everyone thought that the emperor seemed to be in a better mood. He was no longer like the previous few days, like an angry tiger who could be angered by anyone.
No one thought much about it, they just thought that the emperor should have recovered from the sorrow of the death of the retired emperor.
When the queen saw the emperor like this, her heart became even colder. How could he recover in just a few days?
After that, the queen hid her true self even deeper. Since the emperor needed a queen who loved him, she must be it.
Zhou Qiongyue used to be in good health, but after kneeling before the emperor this time, she fell ill.
At first, I had a high fever that wouldn't go away, and I felt drowsy and slept most of the day.
This made Yuan Bohua and his two children very anxious, and even Marquis Cheng'en and his wife made an exception and lived in the palace.
The Emperor came out of the palace to visit twice, and the Empress Dowager also came out of the palace to visit. If the Emperor had not ordered the Empress Dowager to be taken away, she would have stayed in the palace.
For a time, all the good medicinal materials from the homes of many nobles in Yuan'an flowed into the palace.
Once again, everyone in Yuan'an witnessed the strength and stability of Zhou Qiongyue's backing.
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