Chapter 46046 It’s lonely and cold at the top.
No, isn’t Ning so direct as soon as he arrives?
When Master Kang suddenly asked this question, Xianyu was stunned for a moment.
Before she came here, she had actually thought that Master Kang would be very angry about the incident of the prince cheating on him, and might even be quite devastated. It would be normal for him to lose his temper, punish people, or even become furious...
After all, being cuckolded is a very hurtful and insulting thing for a man. At that moment when the emotions are running high, it is understandable that he would do anything extreme.
But what Xianyu never expected was that Master Kang was so irrational that he actually called her, the daughter of an outsider, to have a heart-to-heart talk, and even got straight to the point and directly raised this question.
This is not a problem at all.
It's simply a trap, guaranteed to kill you, right?
Xianyu was speechless, but Master Kang seemed to be very stable, without any signs of going crazy - to be honest, it was already quite crazy for him to call Xianyu over to discuss this issue, so the current calmness was probably just superficial, and the madness of this calmness seemed even more terrifying.
While she was thinking about how to answer Master Kang's question, she even paid attention to the surrounding environment. In fact, she was instinctively looking for a way to escape.
Unfortunately, she soon discovered that it would be difficult to escape from here.
She is now in Master Kang's imperial study.
This place is quite spacious. As Master Kang's daily office, it not only has to accommodate so many office and rest furniture, but also many ministers who discuss political affairs with him.
However, there were no ministers such as grand secretaries present today. There were only a few daily servants such as Liang Jiugong. Even the crown prince was not seen. As a result, the place seemed empty.
I don’t know how long Master Kang has been staying here alone, but he looks tired and haggard.
Xianyu suddenly felt a surge of sympathy and put herself in Master Kang's shoes. She felt more and more that he was really miserable.
Although he was born into a royal family and enjoyed the best material life, he never enjoyed the warmth of family since childhood.
Having parents like Emperor Shunzhi and Lady Tong Jia, he spent his childhood without being loved by his father and mother. Although he had the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, she was a generation apart and could not replace the missing love of his father and mother.
The same thing went for his biological mother, Empress Dowager Renxian. Even though she had tried her best to be nice to her stepson, Master Kang, she was only thirteen years older than him and had no children of her own, so she had no experience in being a mother.
Perhaps it is for this reason that Master Kong particularly desires and values family warmth.
What he didn't get, he wanted to make up for it for his children.
The most typical example is his attitude towards Crown Prince Yinreng.
As soon as this son was born, he lost his biological mother, Empress Hesheli. As soon as Master Kang saw him, he was filled with love and affection. Not only because of Empress Hesheli's white moonlight filter, but also because he might have seen himself many years ago in the little Yinreng.
Although he was not without a biological mother at birth, his biological mother Tong Jia was really not reliable - she, who was in love, and Kang Shifu, the love-brained father, were a perfect match, but the key point was that the objects of their love were completely different.
This is tragic.
When Master Kang was young, he suffered enough from love-brain syndrome, and he became desensitized. It is absolutely impossible to be a love-brain, but it is still possible to be a good father.
So Crown Prince Yinreng became the best example for him to practice and prove himself as a good father.
If you were born without a mother, then the Emperor is your mother.
Master Kang played the role of both father and mother, and raised Yinreng carefully, and it can be said that he put in a lot of effort.
He originally thought that he was very successful, after all, Yinreng was indeed very outstanding at the beginning.
There is a lot of historical data to prove this. Even when foreign envoys came to visit, they could not help but praise the prince for his talents in both civil and military affairs, and said he had the demeanor of a possible successor to Master Kang.
Master Kang himself thought so too, otherwise he would not have allowed Crown Prince Yinreng to offer sacrifices to heaven on his behalf and to act as regent on his behalf when he was on tour.
As a father, he gave Yinreng everything he could.
As an emperor, he also gave the crown prince Yinreng everything that an emperor could give to a crown prince.
But how did Yinreng repay him?
A big green hat!
And yet so many people knew about it and even saw it happen... I was really angry, but more of me was sad.
Master Kang sat in the imperial study for most of an hour until Liang Jiugong knelt down and begged him to take care of himself, get up and move around, or drink some ginseng tea, then he came to his senses.
Yes, it is very sad, but after being sad, he felt more confused.
He really couldn't understand why the crown prince, whom he had taught with so much effort, had become like this - even during the time of the previous emperor, who was too love-minded and left his sons alone and didn't care about them at all, such a thing had never happened.
How could the crown prince, whom he had carefully brought up, do such a treasonous thing?
I just can’t understand it!
If Liang Jiugong had not reminded him, he would probably have fallen into endless doubts and internal friction and was unable to extricate himself. Fortunately, Liang Jiugong interrupted him and allowed him to temporarily escape from that chaotic state.
To be honest, at that moment, I really felt like I was in another world.
It was at this time that he thought of Xianyu.
Although they had only met a few times, Master Kang was still deeply impressed by Xianyu, the little girl from the Wang family.
It's not just because Xianyu has the "magic power" to "express her inner voice", but more because of the open-mindedness, wisdom and insight she showed throughout the whole process, which made him feel that this child is not as young and naive as she looks, but rather has a wisdom beyond her age. He can't help but want to have a long and heart-to-heart talk with her.
Master Kang has always been a man who does what he thinks of, so when he came up with this idea, he immediately asked someone to summon Xianyu.
Fortunately, the timing was good. Xianyu had just finished her visit with the Queen Mother and had not left the palace yet. Otherwise, if it was any later, after she left the palace and returned to the Wang family, she would have to wait until tomorrow to be summoned to the palace.
Even if I wanted to have a long talk with her, I couldn't talk all night long - if that was the case, I would have no choice but to take her as my concubine.
In fact, as an emperor, it is not impossible for Master Kang to do this if he really wants to, but for some reason, he just doesn't want to do it.
It was probably because of Xianyu's explosive desire to enter the palace to serve him due to misunderstanding when they first met that made him want to back off, or it could be because of the mutual admiration between them that Master Kang didn't want to force her, or more likely because he wanted to give her a more suitable and better home... In short, Master Kang really had never thought about taking Xianyu into his harem.
Therefore, in order to avoid giving others a chance to talk and damaging Xianyu's reputation, Master Kang would definitely not let her talk to him all night long.
Fortunately, the timing was well chosen and the goal could be achieved without taking any risk, so Master Kong was very happy at the beginning.
Therefore, he didn't feel like beating around the bush and directly asked his question - how to deal with the dilemma of the successor he carefully trained doing something stupid.
This is indeed a very difficult question.
But Xianyu's point was not to solve this problem. She was more concerned about how to say it and to what extent... After all, serving the emperor is like serving a tiger. No matter how sincere and easy-going Master Kang seemed, he was still an emperor.
As long as he was the emperor, he would have the power of life and death over all the people in the world. In other words, if she was not careful, she would be killed - maybe even her entire clan would be implicated...
It’s really scary when you think about it.
So how do we solve this dilemma?
System 003 was eager to try in her mind, and it seemed that there were a hundred ways to escape, but Xianyu was no longer the Xianyu who had just come through. She had already figured out the tricks of System 003 - it was very human-machine. Although it made sense and was quite intimidating if you didn't think about it carefully, as long as you thought about it carefully, you would find that these things were not feasible at all...
Well, it's quite a rip-off.
So, at this time, you still have to rely on yourself.
While Xianyu pretended to be thinking seriously, she was frantically searching for a solution in her mind.
[Master Kang, you asked this, obviously you are emotionally exhausted. And you even came to a little girl like me to discuss this matter, obviously you don’t have a close friend... So, what’s so good about being an emperor? It’s really lonely at the top. ]
[What's that saying? Since ancient times, saints and wise men have all been lonely...so, just get used to it. ]
[By the way, since you asked so sincerely, it would be impolite if I didn't give a good answer. So I'll just think about it and figure out how to answer.]
[Generally speaking, there are two ways to solve this situation. 】
[One is to use drastic measures to make you face the bleak life. The Crown Prince Yinreng, whom you have cultivated with so much effort, has now done such a shameful thing, and he has no sense of responsibility at all. Even if he could say that he just liked that little noble lady, that he just liked her, and that he didn't even care that she was his father's woman, I would respect him as a man, at least he dared to act and take responsibility. But in the end, what did he do? ]
[He actually threw all the blame onto the little noble lady... See what he did, right? He has no responsibility at all, and even no brains. Who wouldn't be a good noble lady to seduce a prince like you? After all, Master Kang, you are only in your early 40s, and you still have at least 30 years to be the emperor. Is the little noble lady crazy to be so eager to find a buyer? ]
[So, you, the crown prince, have been spoiled. In the final analysis, it is because you spoiled him too much... You want to be a good father, there is nothing wrong with that, but Master Kang, you are not an ordinary father. Before you are a father, you are first an emperor. And before Yinreng is your son, he is also first a crown prince. The relationship between the emperor and the crown prince has never been good. If it is too strict, it will be inhumane, and if it is too loose, there will be no constraints. Just look at how terrible it is without constraints. He doesn't distinguish between you and me, and he starts to enjoy the women you don't have time for...]
[In short, your education of "family warmth" has completely failed on Yinreng. I don't know if you can accept this direct statement. Will you kill all nine generations of our family...]
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