Xiao Yuchen suddenly whispered, "I will not compromise with him. I am afraid that you will compromise...just like last time."
Wen Jin was stunned for a moment and raised his eyebrows, "Should I compromise?"
Xiao Yuchen looked out the window and kept silent.
Wen Jin put Yu'er on the couch beside him and covered him with a thin blanket to make him lie down more comfortably.
She said, "Let's talk about it? The whole family has left Kyoto together and started to live on the run. Is there anything else that we can't tell the truth about?"
Xiao Yuchen's eyes flickered and he whispered, "It's not...that tragic. In fact, after putting down the prince's rebellion, I made two preparations."
Wen Jin was startled, "Which hands?"
Xiao Yuchen curled his lips and said, "A successful bid for the title and a roundabout strategy."
"If my father can trust us, he will appoint me as the heir apparent and not interfere with the Eastern Palace until I clear out the remaining evildoers in Kyoto. This will be a smooth success for me."
"If the matter about the crown prince makes my father more and more suspicious and no longer trusts us brothers, especially me... or even between father and son, we will have to fight each other."
"Then I will leave Kyoto temporarily to avoid his sharp edge. He is old... As a son, just show weakness for the time being and let him go."
Wen Jin looked stunned. She really didn't expect... to be guarded, suspicious, and even coerced by her father.
He was not angry at all and was already prepared to deal with it.
Because not long after, the carriage stopped.
There was another carriage outside, already parked there, waiting for them to transfer.
Xiao Yuchen looked at the sleeping Yu'er and said to the outside, "Change the horse instead of the carriage. Move gently, the young prince is asleep."
After the horses were replaced, the carriage was back on the road.
The horses were replaced with stronger legs, and the carriage moved faster and more steadily.
Wen Jin looked at Xiao Yuchen and said, "Don't change the subject... Are you saying you are afraid that I will compromise?"
Xiao Yuchen coughed slightly, glanced at his son again, and then said in a low voice, "My father wants me to accept the legitimate daughter of a noble family as my concubine. You have already compromised once. I am worried..."
He looked at Wen Jin and continued, "The concubine is different from Meiji... I have already made a mistake about Song Shiyu once. I will never make the same mistake a second time."
He gently held Wen Jin's hand and looked at her sincerely and intently.
Wen Jin was confused at first, but later he understood...
"Are you afraid that I will allow you to have a concubine for the sake of female students?"
Xiao Yuchen's heart tightened and he took a deep breath, "Yes."
Wen Jin chuckled, "Are you more worried that even if I make this kind of compromise for the sake of women's education today, I will alienate you and distance myself from you in the future because of this matter?"
Xiao Yuchen nodded like garlic, "That's right!"
Wen Jin suddenly fell into his arms and put her arms around his waist.
Faced with this sudden initiative, Xiao Yuchen felt his heart heat up and his face became even gentler.
Wen Jin said, "I was wrong about what happened last time. I should believe that you can refuse and that you can handle it well. Instead of compromising on form."
What she was talking about was letting Mei Ji into the house and then transferring them to a girls' school.
Wen Jin was in his arms and said in a low voice, "If you don't stick to your bottom line for the first time, it will be easy for others to take advantage of you."
"After the first compromise, he will want you to compromise with him every time. This is the reason why you would rather not give up the title than refuse Meiji to enter the palace."
"I misunderstood that you didn't know how to adapt, and you just stuck to it... This also made you lose confidence in me, thinking that I would abandon you for the sake of studying for girls."
Xiao Yuchen's heart tightened, "Jin'er!"
Wen Jin raised her head with a smile, their eyes met, and she said seriously, "Let's go, stay away from Kyoto, just go and relax. Yu'er hasn't been out of Kyoto yet!"
The atmosphere in the carriage immediately became lighter.
Work requires a balance between work and rest, not to mention changing the status of women will not happen overnight.
Sometimes, rest is for a better start.
Leaving temporarily is to return stronger.
The carriage left Kyoto and drifted away.
The relationship between the family of three in the carriage seemed to have broken through some kind of barrier and reached unprecedented intimacy and trust, like lips and teeth.
But someone in the palace was restless when they learned that Wen Jin could not be found anywhere.
The emperor slapped the emperor's case fiercely, "I summoned her to the palace, but how dare she not come? She hid! Where can she hide?"
But what the Ouchi guard said next almost made him faint.
"Not only is Princess Huai missing, but the prince and the prince are also missing."
The emperor staggered and fell into the dragon chair. He was stunned for a long time and looked at the great eunuch Fang Xu.
He asked, "They're all gone. What do you mean?"
Fang Xu pursed his lips, not knowing how to answer. He knelt down and touched his head to the ground.
The emperor murmured to himself, "Have they abandoned me?"
"The world is so big, it's not the land of the king. Where can they escape to?"
The hall was quiet for a while.
The emperor seemed to cheer up again, "Here comes someone! Here's my decree. Because there is a problem with the textbooks of the girls' school, the girls' school will be closed! All the gentlemen will be put in jail!"
Fang Xu was startled and said hurriedly, "Your Majesty, you must not do this!"
The expressions of the Ouchi guards also changed with surprise.
The emperor looked askance at the chief eunuch, "Why not?"
Sweat broke out on Fang Xu's forehead. He licked his dry lips, "I heard that Mr. Qi recommended the textbook for women's school. And he also made special comments."
"I also heard that Chongwen Academy and the Women's School have agreed on a debate competition at the end of this month."
"Now that there is an attack on female students...I am afraid that the students of Chongwen College, as well as Mr. Qi's disciples and admirers, will not be able to calm down."
Young people are the most impulsive.
Especially those young people who are still in the academy and have not been polished by society and officialdom.
They thought they could conquer the world based solely on their ideals and all their passion.
If they get together and make trouble...
"Hiss..." The emperor took a breath, which was enough to give him a headache.
Fang Xu hurriedly advised, "Without the concubine who is pregnant with the princess, the school for girls will probably not be able to succeed. The emperor might as well let them develop and watch them die out on their own."
The emperor tapped his fingers lightly on the imperial case, making people panic.
"Concubine Shu's place..."
Fang Xu rolled his eyes and added, "Yesterday, Concubine Shu summoned Mrs. Shen into the palace. Mother and daughter had a very happy conversation. When Mrs. Shen left, she was all smiles."
"Hmph!" The emperor snorted heavily, "So what if she has the Shen family behind her? All the glory and wealth of the Shen family were not given by me?! I can give it, and I can take it away!"
The emperor naturally understood Fang Xu's hint.
If he wanted to touch Concubine Shu, or directly attack the remaining people in Prince Huai's palace... he would be able to affect the whole body with one move, and the Shen family must not sit idly by.
Moving the big tree of the Shen family... is not something that can be accomplished overnight, and must be considered in the long term.
The emperor clenched his fist loudly. For a moment, he had a severe headache. "Where's the medicine? The medicine for headaches and the soothing incense, hurry up!"
When Fang Xu heard this, he knelt still.
The emperor's majestic eyes fell on him, "Where is my medicine?"
Fang Xu sighed softly, "Reporting to the Emperor, the medicine is gone. Today is the time for Princess Huai to submit the patent medicine and tranquilizing incense to the inner palace..."
But with Princess Huai gone, there was no one to hand over the medicine.
The emperor was shocked and turned pale.
