Harigana frowned slightly, looking at the table full of green food. She felt as if she had returned to the time when she was hospitalized, where all she ate were various vegetables and sugar-free foods.
"Eat!"
Kangxi noticed Harigana's frown and, recalling how she ate only meat and no vegetables the night before, he resolved to change her bad habit.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Harigana's voice was muffled. It smelled very good at first, but who would have thought it was just a table full of vegetables. The table looked like it had more than a dozen dishes, but there was only one meat dish, which was just a mutton soup with a layer of oil on top.
Suddenly she lost her appetite. A single vegetable leaf seemed to be over ten meters long. Kangxi had almost finished half a bowl of rice, but she was still struggling with a single vegetable.
"Not to your liking?"
Kangxi asked the question knowingly, but Harigana shook her head. It was her own business if she didn't like the food, and she didn't want to elaborate. Once Kangxi had finished eating, she pretended to be full too, planning to have Dulan prepare some more food for her when they returned.
Emperor Kangxi frowned, wanting to reprimand him, but dared not speak loudly. He was timid to begin with, and if he frightened him, he would have to coax him later.
"Eat quickly, it'll get cold soon!" After saying that, he placed another vegetable on her plate.
Harigana almost couldn't hold back, silently repeating to himself: He's the emperor, he's the emperor! He forced himself to swallow it down!
"Alright, stop eating?"
Kangxi looked at Harigana, who seemed to be eating poison, especially her angry but speechless expression, and instantly forgot that he had been trying to correct her habit of not eating vegetables since last night.
Harigana was eating very attentively when he was startled by Kangxi's sudden voice, causing him to drop his chopsticks onto the plate.
Jingle bells!
From the moment the chopsticks fell, Harigana could swear to God that she absolutely did not make such a big commotion on purpose, but her hand just wouldn't obey her command!
I was trying to stop the chopsticks from falling onto the plate, but for some reason, I ended up knocking the plate over. I was trying to prevent the plate from falling to the ground, but my hand went into the wrong place and I ended up flipping the table over!
Harigana looked at everything before him, then cautiously glanced at Kangxi, wondering if he would be beheaded in this situation.
But when she saw that Kangxi's expression was not quite right, she couldn't help but burst into tears.
"Waaaaah! I told you I wouldn't go to the palace! Am I going to be beheaded?! Waaaaah!"
The veins on Emperor Kangxi's forehead throbbed. After living for decades, someone had finally dared to overturn the table in front of him!
But listening to Harigana's words, he was truly at a loss for words. He wasn't a tyrant; how could he possibly take her life over this matter?
"Don't be afraid!" Seeing that the person was about to faint from crying, Kangxi quickly picked them up and comforted them.
Li Dequan and Du Lan were stunned and didn't know how to react!
Upon hearing the clanging sound, the two hurriedly entered and saw the frail princess, who was so poisoned that she couldn't walk. Not only had she overturned the emperor's dining table, but she was also crying and accusing the emperor of wanting to kill someone!
Li Dequan had never seen Kangxi like this before. He immediately raised Harigana's rank in his mind. Even under such circumstances, the emperor was not angry. He thought that even if Harigana lost favor in the palace in the future!
Dulan wondered: Was the Emperor planning something, which was why the princess was acting this way? But the princess was going back to the palace with the Emperor in a few days; wouldn't the Emperor be angry?
Although the two were standing together, their thoughts were wandering far apart. But when they saw the Emperor gently coaxing Harigana while holding him in his arms, they both felt relieved.
"Get ready!"
After Kangxi finished speaking, he carried Harigana back behind the screen. Looking at the little man with a red face from crying, he paused, intending to put him on the bed, but instead turned around and sat on the bed with him in his arms.
"Alright! Stop crying! I didn't say anything to you, why are you crying?"
Harigana didn't know why she was crying. It might be because of the caution she had been taking recently, or it might be because of the poisoning, but more so because of the helplessness she felt in the second half of her life.
Each and every incident flashed through her mind like a short film, and tears streamed down her face uncontrollably.
Especially when she heard Kangxi gently coaxing her, it reminded her of when she first fell ill, her father had also been very patient in comforting her, but later he became increasingly distant and disdainful.
"I...I can't stop!"
Looking at the pitiful-looking Harigana, Kangxi couldn't help but laugh out loud. Li Dequan, who was outside, shook his head, thinking: "Alas! The Emperor has really fallen for this princess of the Borchijin tribe! Even after having his table overturned, he can still laugh!"
However, after the eunuchs finished tidying up, they gave them a sharp warning, telling them to shut up.
Regardless of whether the Emperor will pursue the matter of the princess of Borchijin, this matter must not be spread, otherwise any official who finds out will surely report it to the emperor.
Although there shouldn't be any major problems, since it's the Emperor's business, it wouldn't sound good if word got out. The princess might get a reputation for being spoiled and willful.
The young eunuchs were already terrified by the sight of the room full of shards, but now, hearing Li Dequan's warning, they assumed it was an order from the Emperor and nodded repeatedly, promising they would never speak carelessly.
Inside the imperial tent.
"Waaaaah!"
Harigana felt even more aggrieved upon hearing Kangxi's laughter. He completely forgot how worried he had been about being beheaded just moments before, and clutched the dragon robe, crying his heart out.
"Jiaojiao, if you keep crying, I'll call you Jiaojiao! I haven't even scolded you, why are you crying so spoiled!"
It would have been better if Kangxi hadn't said anything, because the moment he mentioned the name "Jiaojiao," she cried even harder.
In her past life, her name was Jiao Jiao.
Her parents doted on her when she was little, which is why they named her that. But fate played a cruel trick on her. Seven or eight years later, she heard the name Jiaojiao again from the mouth of an old man who was hundreds of years older than her.
"good!"
Harigana even took the time to agree to Kangxi's request. After all, there are quite a few people named Harigana, but from now on, Kangxi will probably be the only one named Jiaojiao!
"Okay! Jiaojiao! Don't cry!"
Emperor Kangxi was taken aback, not expecting this little girl to actually try to climb the social ladder. However, the name Jiaojiao was truly fitting for the little darling in his arms.
"Okay! Don't cry!"
Harigana knows when to stop, a skill she honed in the hospital. If she wants to go for a drive, she'll whine to the nurses, even crying pitifully, and they'll let her out for a few minutes because they see she's young.
Although it was only a few minutes, it was earned with every single tear she shed!
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