When only the two of them remained, Kangxi picked her up and nuzzled her neck.
"Hmm! What's wrong?"
She shrank her neck, feeling a little itchy, and reached out to pull his braid over and play with it in her hand.
"Once the army returns to the capital, we can set off for the Summer Palace."
Harigana nodded; he had said that before.
I looked up at him, waiting for him to continue.
Emperor Kangxi was not in the character of repeating these words; he must have had other considerations.
"I'm wondering what to do about the Empress Dowager?"
The Empress Dowager's current condition is not suitable for her to go to the Summer Palace with them. Although the imperial physician keeps saying there is no problem, the journey will be bumpy, and she will be with Harigana day and night. If she gets really upset, she will suffer a serious injury.
He would take the Empress Dowager with him every year, but if he didn't go this year, the court officials would definitely overthink it, and there might be all sorts of rumors and gossip.
"Xuan Ye, don't you think you're just worrying about nothing?"
"The army won't be back for at least twenty days. Don't you think the Empress Dowager might come to her senses in those twenty days?"
Emperor Kangxi sighed. If his grandmother could really understand, she wouldn't still be so confused after a year.
"Jiaojiao, you don't understand your grandmother. She won't understand."
"So what do you want to do?"
Kangxi shook his head; he didn't know what to do either, which was why he was in a dilemma.
"If you can't figure it out, don't think about it. Things will work themselves out. There's always a way."
Thinking about these things now is pointless and only makes you feel bad.
She hugged Kangxi's neck and shook it, blinking her eyes as she looked at him: "Xuan Ye, there will be a way, I believe in you."
Besides, whether the Empress Dowager goes or not is not something you or I can decide; it depends on her own decision, right?
"Yes! That's true!"
Kangxi realized he had gotten himself into a rut and, holding Harigana, said, "Jiaojiao, your little brain has been clever for once!"
Harigana patted him on the shoulder, then leaned close to his ear and said, "It's rare to hear the Emperor praise me!"
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