Chapter 82 Jade… What is jade?
Will she start to regret what she heard from Zhou Mingxi?
An He kept his eyes fixed on Zhao Liangxu, not missing a single subtle change in Zhao Liangxu's face.
But Zhao Liangxu simply turned her head to look at the gate of Yu Yue Palace, deep in thought.
After hearing An He's words, she turned her head slightly to An He and said, "Eunuch An, it was so lively in the bedchamber just now, I had nothing to say and no intention of adding fuel to the fire. I came here just to find Eunuch An."
"What do you want with us? Why don't you stay with the Dowager Princess a little longer?"
Zhao Liangxu smiled faintly: "Naturally, I was talking to the Dowager Consort about Eunuch An, and then I started missing you again. As soon as I heard that you were still with the Empress Dowager, I rushed over."
An He glanced at Zhao Liangxu and snorted, "Do you think I believe your nonsense? Only the first half of what you said sounds somewhat true."
Zhao Liangxu withdrew her gaze from the gate of Yu Yue Palace and said, "The second half of the sentence is also very true."
She didn't elaborate on her conversation with Xu Huayue. Although Zhao Liangxu had come here intending to ask Anhe about her relationship with the Empress Dowager, seeing Anhe's current agitated state, Zhao Liangxu considerately refrained from saying anything.
She turned to Li Ying and asked, "Now that Your Majesty has seen Eunuch An, are you at ease?"
Li Ying was startled by these words: "Don't worry, don't worry."
He didn't see Anhe today, and his mind raced. He meticulously analyzed every political matter he had heard from the court, but he still couldn't figure out why Anhe had suddenly skipped court without warning, making him think that Anhe knew he had lied to him and was preparing to replace him.
That's why he was so eager to find Anhe, and even subconsciously went to the Empress Dowager's palace.
She hoped that her mother could bring her some comfort.
However, he overestimated Zhou Mingxi's identification with the "Empress Dowager" identity. Almost all of Zhou Mingxi's maternal love for Li Ying was expressed in her words "my son" and "Ying'er".
Now that Li Ying is at ease, An He is going to make her unhappy.
Using Li Ying's lack of composure as an excuse, he made him study the "Imperial Instructions" with the Grand Tutor for several more hours. By the time the "Imperial Instructions" class ended, Li Ying's expression had changed from initial resistance to numbness.
He complained to Zhao Liangxu in a low voice, "I've studied it so many times that I can almost recite it, but Eunuch An still makes me study it. He's doing it on purpose."
Zhao Liangxu picked up a piece of paper and scribbled on it, saying without looking up, "Of course, seeing how bad his mood is, he must have done it on purpose."
"You've been writing and drawing on this paper the whole time. What exactly are you writing?" Li Ying had just recovered from her pain and desperately needed something else to distract her.
Zhao Liangxu sat in the corner behind the screen, her head down, focused on her work during his class, which naturally piqued Li Ying's curiosity.
Just then, Anhe was called away by Zhang Sheng in the middle of the class and hadn't returned yet, so Li Ying felt much more relaxed and went straight to Zhao Liangxu's side to find out what was going on.
"Secrets are not to be seen."
Zhao Liangxu put down her brush and carefully moved the paper aside so that Li Ying couldn't see it at all.
Before Li Ying could even ask to see it, An He quietly entered the palace.
His face always wore a gloomy expression.
Hearing Zhao Liangxu speak of the secret with such a serious expression, his heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't help but walk behind Zhao Liangxu and snatch the paper away.
Zhang Sheng just reported that Lu Ming, a guard by Zhao Chengxin's side, has been missing for several days. The secret police are naturally focused on monitoring Zhao Chengxin, who is a member of the royal family. They are not paying as much attention to Lu Ming as they are to Zhao Chengxin, but they are not looking down on him either.
When Lu Ming hadn't appeared in the courtyard for a whole day, the hidden surveillance was timely enough to detect the anomaly, but after investigation, they found that Lu Ming had already disappeared without a trace.
Upon hearing this news, Anhe felt that his subordinates were a bunch of useless idiots.
The people around Zhao Chengxin actually have some skills.
Therefore, when he returned to the Qianqing Palace, his expression was even colder, and his icy gaze made the palace servants even more cautious in their work.
Anyone who saw Anhe's appearance knew that she was in a very bad mood.
When he heard Zhao Liangxu say the word "secret" with a serious expression, he couldn't help but connect Zhao Liangxu with the news he had just learned, even though he knew that the two had absolutely no credible connection.
He folded the paper in half and held it in his hand. He couldn't see what was written on the front, but he could see some ink blots on the back. He just knew that it didn't look like a letter.
Anhe realized he had overreacted; perhaps Zhao Liangxu was just joking, and it wasn't a secret at all.
Anhe asked, "A secret? I'm very curious what the secret is." He hoped Zhao Liangxu would tell him the truth, so he didn't open the paper directly.
At such a moment, even if the fleeting thought was completely unreasonable and absurd, he still hoped that Zhao Liangxu would say something herself to dispel his doubts.
Zhao Liangxu was startled when An He took the paper away, but when she heard An He's question, she relaxed and said lazily, "Eunuch An can take a look, just don't let His Majesty see it."
Li Ying was annoyed and uneasy. Why couldn't he see it?
Since it was written in the Qianqing Palace, if it were truly something to be kept secret, it shouldn't have been written so openly in his palace.
Anhe became interested at this moment, and a strange feeling flowed through his heart, dispelling some of the frustration that had been weighing on his mind.
It's a secret, but I can let him see it.
This was exactly what he wanted Zhao Liangxu to say.
With some interest, Anhe unfolded the paper, wanting to see what was written in the few strokes visible through the folds.
He focused his gaze on the square characters formed by the solidified ink; he wanted to see exactly what was written...
Upon seeing those two words, Anhe froze, his eyes widening and even the corners of his eyes twitching without him realizing it.
Li Ying was shorter than An He, so she looked up to try and figure out what was written in the handwriting on the back.
Only two characters can be seen.
Li Ying tried to decipher it, saying, "Wang? No, no, there's an extra stroke, it seems to be... Yu? The other character is a bit complicated, what is it?"
Looking at the many strokes, he couldn't immediately tell what they were.
Anhe quickly crumpled the paper in his hand into a ball.
There were some random doodles on the paper that Zhao Liangxu had crossed out or covered up with a brush, so they were all illegible and there was no need to investigate them.
Even though Anhe immediately closed the paper again, crumpled it, and held it in his palm, or even if he tore the paper and burned it with a candle, those two words still lingered in his mind.
The other word is "势" (shì).
Indeed, as Li Ying said, there are many strokes, making it difficult to distinguish from the back.
When put together, it becomes a jade dildo.
Jade...power.
Does she even know what she's writing?
An He was speechless, stunned by those two words. He couldn't even imagine what Zhao Liangxu was thinking when she casually wrote those two words on the paper.
Doesn't she feel ashamed?
Why write these two characters?
Who would write these two words on paper? Who would write these two words without any prior cause or effect?
He even put on an extremely serious expression and told Li Ying that it was a secret and she couldn't see it.
Isn't it true that you can't watch it?
How could I show those two words to Li Ying!
But... why show it to him?
Anhe quickly crumpled the thin paper into a ball, a tiny ball, and held it tightly in his hand until his palms were sweaty.
He took two deep breaths and stared at Zhao Liangxu as if he had seen some kind of monster, his face expressionless.
Li Ying, still puzzled, asked, "Eunuch An, what is the other word? I saw two words. What secret could these two words hold?"
An He seemed not to hear, and simply said to Zhao Liangxu, "You..."
He started by saying "you," but couldn't utter a word afterward.
What can he ask?
How did he ask!
Zhao Liangxu smiled and said to An He, "Eunuch An saw it? Indeed, it shouldn't be shown to His Majesty."
The fact that she said that clearly shows she knows what those two words represent and what they mean.
She had been trying to convince herself that Zhao Liangxu was a girl who didn't understand these things, but she could no longer keep up the lie.
He had no time to dwell on his gloomy and irritable mood; his mind was now filled with bewilderment and confusion at the sight of Zhao Liangxu's handwriting.
"Do you know what you've written?" Anhe asked.
The answer to this question is clear from Zhao Liangxu's behavior; how could she not know?
"I know."
"Then why did you write it?" Anhe asked again.
Zhao Liangxu replied, "Naturally, I just write whatever comes to mind when I have nothing else to do."
She answers every question, but what kind of answers are they?
What does it mean to write down whatever comes to mind?
Why did she suddenly think of that thing here?
An He rarely lost his composure in front of Li Ying, but now he could hardly maintain his usual expression. He scolded, "You're not allowed to write this nonsense anymore!"
“What is this…” Zhao Liangxu was interrupted by An He before she could finish speaking.
"Still talking!"
Li Ying still didn't know what was written on the paper, but seeing the shock and confusion on An He's face, she knew that An He's strong reaction must mean some outrageous things.
He had silently accepted the relationship between An He and Zhao Liangxu. Since Li Ying couldn't change Zhao Liangxu and An He treated him much the same as before, it didn't matter.
Seeing that Anhe had reprimanded Zhao Liangxu but hadn't punished her in any real way, Li Ying knew that Anhe was indeed treating Zhao Liangxu very differently. As for the words on the paper, although he was curious and itching to know what to do, the paper was already firmly held in Anhe's hand, so he could only give up.
He wasn't particularly curious about what was written on it.
real.
Li Ying forced herself to withdraw her gaze and thoughts.
After speaking, Anhe paused for a moment, suppressing his shock, before revealing a hesitant expression.
After pondering for a long time, he finally frowned and said to Zhao Liangxu, "...I'm leaving, I'm leaving the palace."
He chose to avoid the topic altogether.
Otherwise, what else could he say in this palace? Was he supposed to interrogate Zhao Liangxu in the palace?
He simply said, "I...I just pretended I didn't see it."
After briefly learning about Li Ying's "Imperial Instructions," An He had no energy left to make any other arrangements, so he returned to the An residence with a restless mind.
He didn't speak a word the whole way, and Zhao Liangxu, unusually, didn't say much to An He either. An He didn't even notice that after getting off the carriage, Zhao Liangxu didn't return to her own residence, but instead followed him to his bedroom.
Anhe was about to go in when he was surprised to find Zhao Liangxu's presence.
"What are you doing here? Go back to your room. There's no way you're allowed in here!"
An He adopted a resolute stance to stop Zhao Liangxu.
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Author's note: What is jade?
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