Chapter 278 She'll never get married in this lifetime
When Tuoba Wenjing returned to the palace, the soldiers guarding the palace gate came to report, "Your Highness."
Tuoba Wenjing nodded. "Has anyone entered the palace today?"
The two soldiers exchanged a glance and both shook their heads. "Today, apart from Your Highness, no one else has entered the palace."
Tuoba Wenjing clenched his fists tightly.
He cursed under his breath, "Damn it!"
"However..." the soldier hesitated, then stopped himself.
"explain!"
"About an hour ago, a very large bird flew overhead and landed outside the Emperor's bedroom. According to the guards inside, three people came down from there."
“One of them looks like the Empress. It seems this fellow didn’t sleep well last night and his eyes are playing tricks on him. Your Highness, please don’t worry, your subordinates will definitely guard the palace gates.”
"What did you say?" Tuoba Wenjing asked in shock.
The soldier repeated himself, afraid that Tuoba Wenjing would blame him. No one would believe such a thing if he said it. He was just asking for death by talking too much. How could he have said it?
"Your Highness, please forgive me. I have only heard about it and have never seen it."
Before the soldier could finish speaking, Tuoba Wenjing had already rushed towards the direction of the emperor's bedroom. When he reached the door, he saw a large wooden bird.
It was the wooden bird that had stopped at the Lingxiao Sect earlier. At first, he thought it was a protective bird that Lin Qingshuang had brought for Shen Ruzhi.
How did we get here so quickly?
"Could they really have come riding this thing?" Tuoba Wenjing muttered to himself.
Just as he was about to go in, a eunuch came out of the hall and blocked his way. "Your Highness, His Majesty does not wish to see anyone right now."
"Who's inside?" Tuoba Wenjing asked.
"Your Highness, the Empress and Princess Ling'er are speaking with His Majesty. His Majesty has said that he will not see anyone today."
"Didn't you tell Father that I invited this person?" Tuoba Wenjing said, peering inside.
The eunuch blocked his view, saying, "His Majesty will reward Your Highness."
"Then I will wait here," Tuoba Wenjing could only say upon seeing this.
If we leave now, wouldn't that give others an opening?
Tuoba Wenjing looked at the large wooden bird beside him and began to study it. "You mean this thing can fly?"
"When did Dongling become so advanced? They even have things like this. If a war breaks out in the future, wouldn't that be..."
"You said... hey hey..." Tuoba Wenjing turned his head and the eunuch had already returned to his palace and ordered someone to close the door.
Inside the palace.
Emperor Tuoba Xiong of Western Xia had completely white hair, and he could barely sit up because of the soft pillows, but his body did not show any signs of thinning. "This illness has not made me lose weight."
Shen Ruzhi muttered to herself, her first thought being, why would such a beautiful woman like her mother fall for this old man?
The reason she's not good-looking has been found: it's because her father is not good-looking either.
If it weren't for this old man lowering his own looks, he could easily rival Ningning in beauty.
“You are already very beautiful,” Yu Hai whispered in Shen Ruzhi’s ear.
Startled, Shen Ruzhi quickly covered her mouth, thinking she had blurted out her innermost thoughts.
Emperor Tuoba Xiong raised his hand and beckoned, "Come closer, let me take a good look at you."
Shen Ruzhi glanced at Lin Qingshuang, and seeing Lin Qingshuang sitting to the side nod, she then took two steps forward.
Emperor Tuoba Xiong squinted and looked carefully at Shen Ruzhi, "She still resembles the Empress more."
"Luckily, she looks more like my mother," Shen Ruzhi muttered under her breath. "If she looked like you, I'd never be able to get married in this lifetime."
Although he thought to himself, he could tell that Emperor Tuoba Xiong was not bad-looking when he was young; it was just that he was a bit of a disappointment now.
"I'm so glad you've come back to see me, cough cough... cough cough cough..."
"Since you are a princess of Western Xia, it would be best if you lived in the Western Xia Imperial Palace from now on. I will have someone teach you proper etiquette and manners."
"It will be useful to you in the future."
"And I've heard that the name hasn't been changed yet. It still needs to be changed. How can the bloodline of my Tuoba family have someone else's surname?"
"From now on, you will be called Tuoba Ling. Forget about the past."
Emperor Tuoba Xiong then squinted at Yu Hai, "Is this your servant?"
"If you are used to him serving you, then I will arrange for him to be cleaned up and brought into the palace in a short while."
Yu Hai inexplicably squeezed his legs together, a chill rising from below.
"Tuoba Xiong!" Before Shen Ruzhi could speak, Lin Qingshuang's voice rang out from behind, "I shouldn't have let Zhizhi come to see you!"
"Zhizhi can do whatever she wants, and call herself whatever she wants. What gives you the right to interfere from the start?"
"If you want to talk properly, let Zhizhi talk to you a little longer. If you don't want to talk properly, I'll take Zhizhi and leave. Do you think everyone is like you, yearning for life in the palace?"
Shen Ruzhi silently gave her mother a thumbs up in her heart. Not to mention the empress reprimanding the emperor, even the mistress of an ordinary family rarely wants to reprimand her husband.
And her mother, who usually spoke to her gently, turned out to have such a fierce side.
She said that she wondered how her mother, such a gentle person, could establish the Lingxiao Sect and be respected by everyone. She originally thought it was because of Tuoba Xiong behind the scenes, but now it seems that's not the case.
It's because her mother was too pretentious in front of her.
Yu Hai: Sure enough, when choosing a wife, you should first look at the mother-in-law.
Yu Hai secretly glanced at Emperor Tuoba Xiong, only to see Tuoba Xiong looking aggrieved like a child, listening to his parents' scolding, until Lin Qingshuang stopped scolding him, at which point he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Shuang'er, it has been a long time since I have heard you scold me like this."
Sinking like a branch...
Yu Hai: A typical masochist.
Lin Qingshuang showed no kindness. "You've seen the person. I'll take Zhizhi with me. And your Nine-Leaf Resurrection Grass, I need it. Give it to me."
Shen Ruzhi: My goodness, you're really direct.
Emperor Tuoba Xiong waved his hand, and a eunuch carefully stepped forward carrying a box.
"I had already heard about it. The notice posted by the Empress of Dongling can be easily found with a simple search."
"This thing is of no use to me. Even if you hadn't come, I would have sent someone to deliver it to you."
"This is how I repay them for taking care of Ling'er all these years."
"As for that Shen Zhao, my son has called him 'father' for so many years in vain, so we're even."
After Tuoba Xiong finished speaking, he looked at Yu Hai. Fearing that his manhood might be in danger, Yu Hai immediately said, "I can take Your Majesty's pulse and maybe cure your illness."
Emperor Tuoba Xiong waved his hand, "Never mind, this is retribution for the mistakes I made when I was young."
"You don't need to look at it."
"But boy, if you treat my son badly in the future, I will not let you off even after I am gone."
"How could I dare to be bad?" Yu Hai muttered softly.
"Someone, bring the things up here." Emperor Tuoba Xiong's expression turned serious.
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