Hearing the ridicule and complaint in Yufei's tone, the emperor looked at her:
"Whether Cheng'en can go is just a matter of my words. Since I can offer to let him go with me, I will never do anything unnecessary."
Concubine Jade: "Even if Your Majesty doesn't know how to do it, it doesn't mean that others don't know how to do it."
The emperor took a deep breath and endured it:
"It's a good thing that Cheng'en didn't go with you today. I was almost killed in an assassination attempt today. I'm afraid Cheng'en would have been frightened if he had been there."
After saying this, the emperor stared hopefully at Concubine Jade's expression, hoping to see a look of concern.
When Concubine Jade heard this, she was surprised for a moment and glanced at the emperor up and down:
"Assassination? Who did it?"
Seeing that Concubine Jade was only surprised and curious, and showed no concern at all, the light in the emperor's eyes slowly dimmed:
"Don't you ask me if I'm hurt? Don't you worry if I'm frightened?"
Concubine Jade: "Your Majesty is a lucky person, so I don't see any injuries. If your Majesty is frightened and looking for someone to comfort him, I'm afraid he's in the wrong place. I'm in a gloomy mood and can't say anything nice. That's right. If you are frightened, you should go back and have a good rest, it is also good to rest your mind."
Zheng Cheng: "Your Majesty, after being assassinated today, Your Majesty has been sleeping for two hours after handling state affairs. He just woke up and came to see you and the young prince."
After Zheng Cheng finished speaking, Concubine Yu just thanked her dryly and remained silent, pretending not to understand the implications of Zheng Cheng's words.
The emperor felt helpless and lonely. He put his hands on his knees and looked down at his toes. There was no movement for a long time. Concubine Jade stood aside like a statue, without saying a word, and the sound of needle drops could be heard in the room for a while.
After a while, the emperor patted his knees and stood up and walked out. Zheng Cheng saluted Concubine Jade and followed closely behind him.
Concubine Jade sat down by the bed, took the handkerchief on the side, and gently wiped the little prince's forehead that had just been touched by the emperor.
The emperor left Wangshu Palace and walked around the dragon chariot with his hands behind his hands. Everywhere he went, everyone in the palace knelt down to salute. The emperor looked at the magnificent palaces and felt increasingly lonely in his heart:
"Sitting thousands of miles away, but feeling that I have nowhere to go and no one to talk to, I can't help but think that the emperor is a loner."
Zheng Cheng bent his waist slightly and silently followed the emperor's footsteps:
"In this huge palace, every empress in the palace is looking forward to seeing His Majesty day and night, wanting to talk to His Majesty. The Jade Concubine is just an exception."
"She is an exception not only in my palace, but also in the harems of all dynasties. Throughout the ages, which concubine has been so ignorant of promotion and rejected the emperor thousands of miles away like her?"
"Throughout the ages, His Majesty is indeed the only one who can be so broad-minded and tolerant of concubines."
The emperor squinted at Zheng Cheng: "Glib tongue."
Zheng Cheng smiled and said, "I have a good master, and my life will be smooth and the food will be good."
The emperor rolled his eyes because of Zheng Cheng's jokes, and the loneliness in his heart was alleviated by two points:
"That's all, an ungrateful woman, don't care about her. You should look it up for the strangeness of Cheng'en's disease. If it's someone else, just deal with it. If the queen mother or empress did it, don't make it public. Doesn't Concubine Yu like that girl from the Lin family? , find a reason to let that girl enter the palace to accompany her, her bad temper that refuses to talk to others properly, she has been lonely in Wangshu Palace for these years."
Zheng Cheng responded and said with relief: "Jade Concubine has a cold temperament, so I'm afraid it will be too noisy if there are many people."
The emperor's eyes drifted away: "She was not like this before. She loved to laugh and speak nicely. She especially loved to smile at him. I have never seen her smile since she moved into Wangshu Palace..."
(End of chapter)
