Chapter 189 Four Years Later
Shen Yuanwei blinked, "I told her, will she still let me take her away? I will kill her first and ask for permission later, and I will leave her to you, Your Majesty, to appease."
Xie Junlin laughed angrily, "You woman, simply——"
Shen Yuanwei immediately said, "If the Queen Mother is angry, you can tell her that she let my child be born early without asking me, so what's wrong with me taking her child away now? Isn't this a courtesy?"
Xie Junlin was both angry and amused. This woman was really going to piss off his mother to death.
Shen Yuanwei looked back at the carriage.
"Your Majesty, I really want to help Ah You. I finally got him to speak slowly. I don't want all my efforts to be wasted if I leave. Let him come with me. I can't guarantee that he will recover, but he will definitely not be worse than he is now."
"Just let me try. Maybe when I come back, you can see a King Rui who has returned to normal."
Xie Junlin had no reason to object.
They all have no better idea, so if Shen Yuanwei wants to try, then let her try.
He turned around and signaled Chen Hai, "Bring the farewell wine."
Chen Hai brought up the farewell wine.
Xie Junlin picked up a glass, adjusted his mood and handed it to Xiao Lingzhao, then picked up another glass for himself.
"General Xiao, I am here with all the officials to see you off today. I wish you a safe journey."
Xiao Lingzhao bowed and toasted back, holding the wine glass.
"I and my wife would like to thank the emperor."
The two men drank their wine. Seeing that it was getting late, Xiao Lingzhao bid farewell to the emperor.
He bowed to all the officials again, then helped Shen Yuanwei onto the carriage. He rode a tall horse and led his personal guards to the border.
Xie Junlin stood with his hands behind his back, staring silently at the swaying carriage. After a long time, the carriage disappeared, but he was still looking in that direction.
It was unknown how long it would take for him and his Concubine Zhao to meet again after this separation.
I wonder how old his child will be before he can see his biological mother.
Chen Hai stepped forward and whispered, "Your Majesty, as long as you summon the general back to the capital, he can come back every year, and you and Concubine Zhao can meet every year..."
Xie Junlin glanced at Chen Hai, "I don't want to see Shen Yuanwei that much."
Chen Hai smiled slightly, "Yes, yes, it is our little prince who wants to see his mother."
Xie Junlin snorted coldly.
With him as their father and the Queen as their mother, perhaps the two little princes would not want to acknowledge their heartless and ungrateful biological mother at all.
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In the blink of an eye, four and a half years have passed.
Xie Junlin, who is already 41 years old, already has a few white hairs on his temples.
At this moment, he was walking in the corridor, his face full of anxiety and his steps hurried.
Chen Hai trotted to catch up, saying as he ran, "Your Majesty, don't worry. The Second Prince has the Empress watching over him and the imperial doctors taking turns to take care of him. He will be fine. Don't be afraid. The Second Prince will be fine!"
Xie Junlin said in a deep voice, "How can he be fine? He fell from the rockery and broke his head and was bleeding. How can you say he is fine? Then what does it mean to be in trouble?"
Chen Hai didn't dare to say anything.
The emperor always looked at the two princes like the apples of his eye. Every time the two princes caught a cold, he would stay by their side, holding the children and feeding them medicine himself, coaxing them, patting them, looking more haggard than if he were sick himself...
Now that the second prince has broken his head, the emperor might even want to kill him.
Soon, Xie Junlin arrived at the queen's bedroom.
He strode over to the bed.
The queen was holding the second prince's hand and wiping her tears. When she saw him coming, she immediately stood up and said, "Your Majesty..."
Xie Junlin did not vent his anger on the Queen.
He knew that the queen had devoted herself to the two children in the past few years and treated them as her own children. It was not the queen's wish for the children to fall from the rockery. If he scolded the queen because he was worried about the children, it would only make the queen feel wronged and alienated from the two children...
He suppressed his anger, nodded to the queen, then lifted his robe and sat on the edge of the bed.
Looking down at his tearful little son and the white cloth wrapped around his head, he said distressedly, "How did it happen? Huh? How could he fall off the rockery?"
The four-year-old second prince was still a little chubby. When he saw his loving father coming, he felt more aggrieved and tears kept falling.
He opened his arms and cried in a baby voice, "Father, hug me, it hurts—"
Xie Junlin felt so distressed that he bent down and picked up his little son and put him in his arms, his voice trembling, "Be good, father is here, don't cry, be good, father is here."
The little fat baby curled himself up into a ball, tucked himself into his father's arms, sobbing and hiccuping.
Xie Junlin gently patted his aggrieved little son and looked up to ask the queen.
"How did Yuan'er fall? Where are the palace servants who served him?"
By the end, he could no longer control his anger.
"They can't even take care of a four-year-old child. What are they doing for a living? All the palace servants who served Yuan'er today will be punished with thirty strokes of the cane!"
Queen Wei was afraid that the emperor would blame her for not taking good care of the little prince, so she knelt down immediately.
"Your Majesty, please calm down..."
When the Second Prince saw Queen Wei kneeling down, he became anxious. He immediately sobbed and gently pulled Xie Junlin's clothes, crying, "No... Don't be mean to mother, father, don't be mean to mother."
Queen Wei looked up at the Second Prince with soft eyes.
She loved both children because they were just like her own.
Everyone is very clingy to her and protective of her, which is particularly heartwarming.
Xie Junlin signaled the queen to stand up. He lowered his head and gently comforted his youngest son, "Father was not angry with your mother. Father was angry with those people for not serving you well, causing you to fall like this..."
The little kid was still crying in pain, but he sobbed responsibly, "It's not their fault, it's my own fault... I accidentally rolled down..."
Xie Junlin gently wiped his tears, "Why did it roll down, huh?"
The little guy glanced at Xie Junlin secretly and didn't dare to say anything.
Xie Junlin pinched his cheek and said, "Be good and answer your father."
Seeing that he couldn't hide, the little guy had to lower his head and whisper, "I... I want to climb higher and find where the border is..."
Xie Junlin was slightly stunned.
The next moment, he heard Queen Wei say, "Yuan'er is missing his biological mother."
Xie Junlin suddenly looked at Queen Wei.
Queen Wei sighed, "Yuan'er heard someone say that the higher you stand, the farther you can see. He thought that he could see the border and his mother from the highest rockery, so he hid from the palace servants and sneaked out of the house. He climbed up the rockery and looked around, but he accidentally slipped and fell down."
Queen Wei pointed outside and said, "Fortunately, a palace maid passed by and caught him from below. Although she didn't catch him firmly, the palace maid's arm cushioned the fall, so he didn't fall too badly and only had a small cut."
Xie Junlin pinched his youngest son's chubby cheeks and asked Queen Wei, "How is the maid injured?"
Queen Wei said, "One hand was only dislocated, but the other hand was seriously fractured. After all, our baby is chubby, so it still weighs a bit when it falls down."
Xie Junlin nodded, "Reward the maid with 100 taels of gold. If she is willing to stay in the palace, you should promote her. If she is not willing to stay in the palace, let her take the reward and leave the palace to live a free life."
Queen Wei expressed her gratitude on behalf of the little palace maid.
Xie Junlin looked at the little guy hiding in his arms, not daring to look up, with a complicated look in his eyes, "Why do you suddenly miss your mother?"
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