Chapter 434: Chasing out barefoot and revealing the truth
The emperor sighed again after he finished speaking. Even if he were to do it all over again, there were some things he still couldn't control.
Sometimes people are just too greedy and want to possess everything, but the more they do so, the less they get.
When the Queen heard about the two people coming back, she suddenly remembered a question Ye Chu had asked her: if she could choose again, would she still choose to enter the palace?
After so many years, she still doesn't know the answer to this question.
"Your Majesty is such a joke. If Your Majesty really liked me in the past, why did you train me to be like this now?"
After the empress finished speaking, she continued to bandage her hands. After she finished bandaging, she began to help the emperor tidy up his clothes. After he was dressed, she covered him with a quilt.
The emperor grabbed the queen's hand and said, "Queen."
The Queen looked at the Dog Emperor and asked, "Your Majesty, is there anything else?"
The emperor stared at the queen for a long time before asking, "Do you believe me?"
The Queen was stunned when she heard this. Looking at the Dog Emperor's serious expression, she felt as if she was back to her fifteenth birthday when Xiao Qi came to give her a birthday gift in person.
It was also on that day that Xiao Qi asked her if she was willing to marry him.
Ask her if she is willing to trust her and treat her the same way.
More than 20 years have passed, and she has come to understand the meaning of consistency, which is probably that she will be the queen and will always be the queen.
She retracted her thoughts and said calmly, "What did the emperor ask me to believe?"
The emperor's eyes were firm, and he spoke in a steady voice, "Just like before, from beginning to end."
The Queen smiled bitterly, "I understand. The Emperor promised me that I would be the Crown Princess and the future Queen. This has always been the case."
The queen took a deep breath and said, "Your Majesty is injured, so you should rest well. I will not disturb you."
The emperor grabbed the queen's hand again, and said in a tone that was almost pleading, "Queen, don't go."
Ever since the empress came back from exile, his relationship with her has been in a state of stalemate and coldness.
Things had finally calmed down today, how could he bear to let her go?
The Queen asked, "Does the Emperor have any other instructions?"
The emperor said gently, "Queen, please sit down and talk to me."
Queen: “…” If we continue talking, I’ll get so angry that I’ll have a heart attack. You’re talking about things that are not relevant anymore. You’re crazy!
"Your Majesty is injured. The most important thing is to rest and recuperate."
The emperor sighed, "The queen has always been cold and distant to me. How can I rest and recuperate in peace?"
"..." Queen: "How dare I be cold and distant to the emperor? I have been taking good care of him these past two days."
The emperor felt a little aggrieved. "Your Majesty, you said you didn't dare, but you have been cold to me since you came back from Fuyaoju. How can a couple sleep in separate beds for more than half a year?"
The Queen thought about it and realized that she and the Dog Emperor had not had sex for a very long time, but she didn't think much of it. It was the Dog Emperor who felt a little aggrieved.
"I am old, not as good as a young girl. The Queen has three palaces and six courtyards, why should she care about these?"
The emperor was not stupid and knew that the queen was looking for reasons and excuses to avoid him.
"What's so good about Ye Chu that makes you miss him so much?"
The Queen was stunned when she heard this. Looking at the Dog Emperor's serious expression, she suddenly realized that the Dog Emperor thought he was like this because of Ye Chu?
You are the king of a country, the supreme ruler, but you have a problem in your brain and can come up with such a thing!
"Your Majesty, I see that your mind is not clear enough, you should rest more."
The queen drew back her hand, turned around and left, lest any more words should be said, for she would have a heart attack from the anger she was suffering from.
When the emperor saw that the empress was about to leave, he threw back the quilt, got out of bed and chased after her.
"Your Majesty, I am very sober."
The queen just walked to the door and felt something was wrong when she heard this. She turned around and saw the Dog Emperor standing behind her. She looked down and found that he was not even wearing shoes.
"Your Majesty, what do you want to do?"
The emperor didn't know why he sighed today, but he couldn't help it.
"The Queen has been like this all the time, and I can't rest and recuperate in peace."
The queen had no choice but to help the dog emperor back to bed. His old wound had not yet healed and he would be in trouble if he caught a cold.
The emperor held the queen's hand and would not let her go. If the matter was not resolved, it would be like a thorn between him and the queen, making them both very uncomfortable.
"Queen, if you tell me where I did wrong, I will correct it, right?"
Who could have thought that the king of a country would say such words?
The Queen suddenly asked, "I remember asking Your Majesty before, if I were not the general's daughter, would you still marry me?"
The emperor couldn't help but sigh again, "Why does your majesty ask such a non-existent question? I admit that in order to consolidate my position as the crown prince, I specifically investigated General Chang's daughter, Chang Wenling. It was because of this thought that I had the opportunity to meet you and thought of marrying you as the crown princess."
The empress listened to the emperor say these words frankly. Although she already knew it in her heart, she still couldn't help feeling distressed. It was indeed because of General Chang's identity as his legitimate daughter.
"In the eyes of the emperor, it doesn't matter who he marries. What matters is that she is the legitimate daughter of General Chang. If I were a girl from an ordinary family, the emperor would definitely not marry me."
The emperor stretched out his arms and pulled the empress into his arms, holding her tightly despite her struggles.
"Queen, why do you always worry about this? If you were a girl from an ordinary family, with no status or background, and not even the qualifications to be selected, would I have the chance to know you? How can I marry you if I don't even have the chance to know you?"
The Queen was stunned when she heard this. It seemed that what the Dog Emperor said made some sense...
But it still couldn't hide the fact that he wanted to marry her because of her identity.
The emperor continued to explain, "Queen, please stop tangling with these issues, okay? I married you not only because of your status, do you understand?"
"None of this matters anymore. It is the emperor's right to marry whomever he wants, and I, a concubine, have no right to interfere." The queen looked at the dog emperor who was holding her tightly, but she did not dare to really fight, for fear that his wound would open.
The emperor said: "The queen always ignores me because of this matter. Of course it is important."
Queen: “…” There are so many reasons why I ignored you.
The emperor whispered in the queen's ear: "Ling'er, please don't ignore me, okay?"
"..." The Queen: "Don't worry, Your Majesty. I dare not."
The emperor chuckled: "Ling'er, you are so brave that you even dare to beat me."
The Queen suddenly remembered something when she heard this. She pushed the Dog Emperor away and asked, "Your Majesty, when you fought the python two days ago, your martial arts were very powerful. You didn't look like you didn't know martial arts at all. How did you get beaten down by me?"
Now thinking about the emperor holding the sword and fighting the snake, although his martial arts skills were not super powerful, they were much more powerful than hers.
The emperor never thought that after pretending for so many years, he would be discovered by the queen at this time.
"...Of course I let you do it. Who can you beat with your fancy moves?"
The queen's face turned green. It turned out that the emperor had been playing tricks on her all these years?
And the first time, she beat up the dog emperor as if he were a gangster, and even pretended to beg for mercy...
No matter what happened later, she told him, "I know Kung Fu, I will protect you in the future!"
It sounds like a joke no matter how you listen to it.
The emperor saw that the queen looked unhappy and was obviously angry. He hurriedly comforted her, "Ling'er, don't be angry. I didn't mean to deceive you."
The queen snorted: "Your Majesty is truly worthy of being the ruler of a country. He is hiding his true intentions well and playing tricks on me like a monkey. Is that fun?"
"How could I possibly tease you?"
"The emperor is not only good at hiding his true intentions, but he is also good at sweet talk." The queen became angrier and angrier. If she had known that he was pretending, she should have given him a good beating.
"Ling'er..." The emperor stretched out his hands to hug the queen.
How could the angry queen let him do what he wanted? She pushed him away, stood up and tried to leave.
Hearing a muffled groan from behind, the queen stopped and turned around, only to see the dog emperor covering his arm with a frown, as if in pain.
Thinking about the hard push I just made, could the wound have split open?
Thinking of this possibility, the queen returned to the bedside, opened the emperor's clothes, and saw that blood had seeped out of the white bandage.
"Your Majesty, can't you just take a good rest? Now the wound has opened again." The queen said as she untied the bandage and saw that the wound had opened. She stood up and took a new bandage, sprinkled some of the medicine powder sent by the prince on it, and then bandaged it again.
The emperor looked down at the empress bandaging the wound, not paying attention to the gaping wound. He raised his head and looked at the empress, "Ling'er, can't we just talk it out?"
The Queen bandaged the wound while saying, "I don't know what the Emperor wants to say. Bringing up the past is just rubbing salt into the wound. Why bother?"
It was the first time that the emperor heard the words "adding salt to a wound" from the empress's mouth. He grabbed the empress's hand and asked, "Ling'er, didn't you enter the palace voluntarily?"
The Queen did not answer the Emperor's question, but asked in return: "Your Majesty, since you love Consort Xu so much, why don't you let her become the Crown Princess?"
ps: One more