"Your Majesty, you're finally back!" Liang Jiugong almost burst into tears as he said this.
"Alright, are you all alright?"
"Your Majesty, everything is fine. Lord Doruo led his men to look for Your Majesty, but they haven't returned yet."
Emperor Kangxi: "I understand."
Kangxi then asked many more questions about the details, ordered the three still unconscious robbers to be taken away, and then went to the tent with Youqing.
He's still injured! Although it's been stitched up and bandaged, he still needs to be carefully cared for, otherwise an infection could be a serious problem.
Back in the tent, after sending the servants away, Youqing asked, "You've been traveling for so long, is your wound alright?"
"How could nothing be wrong?" Seeing Youqing's worried expression, Kangxi said, "It seems there's some bleeding. Why don't you take a look?"
Youqing nodded: "That works too."
It's a good opportunity to change his dressing.
Kangxi took off his clothes, revealing his bare upper body, wearing only a pair of underpants. Only then did Youqing realize that something was wrong and the atmosphere was not right.
There's no danger now, and there's no need to worry about the system being discovered. Looking at the rather handsome Kangxi, with his upper body bare, Youqing's face flushed slightly.
She hadn't paid much attention to him while he was being treated, but now that she looked at him, Kangxi's physique was even better than it had been a few years ago. His abs were perfectly proportioned without being grotesque, and his waist looked very strong, which reminded her of certain scenes.
"What are you thinking about? You're so engrossed!"
Youqing quickly snapped out of her daze: "It's nothing."
Then, the gauze on Kangxi's wound was removed carefully, as it was indeed bleeding. The gauze was then changed and the wound was re-bandaged.
"Alright, don't move around too much until your injury has healed."
"Thanks for your hard work."
"You're welcome."
The two of them had already done everything they should and shouldn't have done, yet their conversation now seemed distant.
In fact, Youqing did have feelings for Kangxi, but those feelings weren't that important. Strictly speaking, Kangxi's injury was a life-saving grace, and Youqing wasn't a robot, so how could she not feel anything?
Should I give in and agree?
She went back to the palace with him, and then watched him surrounded by a whole bunch of beautiful women. She didn't even have the right to be jealous openly.
Let's forget about it; she's not that pathetic.
However, Youqing still felt somewhat uncomfortable around Kangxi.
The wound had just been bandaged when Liang Jiugong came in.
"Your Majesty, Lord Doruo has brought several more bandits and is asking how Your Majesty should deal with them."
"Let Doro conduct the trial first."
“Zha”
Let's see if we can find out who it is before we talk about it.
That night, Kangxi still shared a tent with Youqing.
To avoid touching Kangxi's wound, Youqing didn't sleep very soundly. So when Kangxi pulled her into his arms in the middle of the night, Youqing immediately woke up and realized she was in his arms. Her expression immediately turned sour.
This man's wound went through his abdomen, yet he still dared to hug her; he certainly has a lot of guts!
Youqing didn't stand on ceremony and directly woke him up. Kangxi was already injured, so he slept very soundly. After being woken up, he was still a little dazed.
"What's wrong?" Kangxi asked, squinting.
"Look at how you're sleeping!"
Originally, the two slept in separate quilts, but now, Kangxi's quilt has long since disappeared, and he's now in Youqing's quilt.
Kangxi realized what was happening and was initially a little embarrassed, but then he remembered what the two of them had done before, so he became more relaxed and shamelessly said, "I guess it was cold at night. I don't know how we ended up in the same bed. It's getting late, let's go to sleep first, and we can talk about it tomorrow."
"No, you're still injured. I'm a restless sleeper, so I'll just fall asleep on my own."
In the end, Kangxi was forced to sleep in a separate bed by himself again.
Only when Kangxi's breathing became even did Youqing close her eyes and fall asleep.
When she woke up the next day, Kangxi was no longer in bed.
After some interrogation, the robbers came to a conclusion: just as they had suspected, the robbers were not real robbers, but rather hired by someone at a high price to kill them.
There were more than fifty people who came, but only a dozen or so were caught, and the rest disappeared without a trace.
As for who hired them, they themselves didn't know.
Unable to extract any information, Kangxi ordered all the people to be imprisoned and to continue interrogating them upon returning home.
After the assassination attempt, for safety's sake, I consulted the system and planned a new route. After traveling for more than a month, I finally returned to the capital.
Upon arriving in the capital, Youqing did not return to the palace with Emperor Kangxi. Instead, she spent money to buy an estate on the outskirts of the capital.
Emperor Kangxi could only let her do as she pleased and returned to the palace.
Youqing was fairly satisfied with this.
Upon returning to the palace, Kangxi went to Cining Palace and met with the Empress Dowager.
Empress Dowager: "I heard you were assassinated on the road and were injured?"
"It wasn't a serious injury; it's already healed."
The medicine in the store is very effective; my wounds healed very quickly.
"Can we find out who did it?"
“The other party is very cunning. My grandson found out that they were anti-Qing and pro-Ming people. I think it’s too suspicious, so I plan to investigate further in secret.”
After repeated interrogations, those who were captured actually obtained some information. However, when this information was used to investigate, the findings did not match what the assassins had said. It seemed that someone was using the pretext of overthrowing the Qing dynasty and restoring the Ming dynasty to cause trouble.
Emperor Kangxi had some thoughts in mind, but since the matter was of great importance, he couldn't say them directly.
"As long as you have your own plans, that's fine. By the way, I also heard that you brought someone back to the capital?"
Youqing's existence could not be kept secret from the people in the palace. However, most people in the palace only knew that there was such a person, but did not know that the person was Youqing.
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