Chang Xi smiled, saying, “So in his majesty’s heart, the princess has always remained the princess!”
Gong Sheng lifted his foot and kicked him. “You’re getting gutsier! Now you’re saying whatever you please! Hit yourself*!”
Tn*: He’s ordering him to slap himself on the cheek.
Chang Xi immediately lightly slapped himself twice on the cheek. “This servant has a poor mouth, please calm down your Highness. Don’t mind me.”
Gong Sheng glared at him again, furrowing his eyebrows. Much later, he released a sigh.
“That girl just can’t sit still. Yu Heng has become a complete catastrophe. Now the Yu Heng emperor is sick in bed. The power of the governor…has been so easily disturbed. There might be a change in power.”
Chang Xi unconsciously stared to remember that young girl who always wanted to steal his fly-whisk, charming and dainty. Suddenly, all the years had passed by, that girl is probably around seventeen now.
The emperor was thinking the same thing. “Thinking of which, Mo Er…is around seventeen now isn’t she?”
He squinted his eyes, smiling, “She’s almost a full-grown lady now. Sadly, no one has been educating her for the past few ways. Perhaps she doesn’t even realize she’s a lady now and needs to marry someone…”
Although he originally wanted to chastise him, yet when they spoke of her, there were feelings of yearning.
“Who knows what she looks like now…”
Chang Xi smiled again. “Princess has always looked like Madam Xue Fei. I’m sure now that she’s grown-up, she’d be the first beauty in the city!”
Although Chang Xi was only sucking up to him, Gong Sheng felt quite enjoyable from it. He couldn’t help but release another long sigh after the thought of the circumstances she was in, and her constant changing in recent years.
“Say…they are all my children, so why are they all so different?”
Chang Xi knew that his majesty must be thinking of the princess as well as the loss of the fourth prince. For the white haired to send off the black hair*, it has only occurred too often in recent years. Not only were the princes fighting in broad daylight, but also plotting against each other in the dark. The emperor’s laughter had greatly decreased as a result.
Tn*: This means for younger people to pass away before the elderly/older people
“Your majesty, don’t be disheartened. You still have many filial children.”
Besides this, there was nothing else to be said. The harem’s battles were just as ferocious as the ones occurring in the court. If you were to die, that could only be blamed upon your lack of techniques and luck. But the ones who were still alive needed to remember to focus on the positives.
Gong Sheng suddenly broke out a smile. “If that girl were still by my side, she wouldn’t only comfort me, but pout and condemn me…telling me I shouldn’t have birthed so many children, now of course I would regret it!”
While imitating Gong Yi Mo’s words, suddenly, his face was full of agony.
“But now…where is she now?”
Although the father and daughter had bickered, and while there still remained some anger within him, he still deeply cared for her. Even if she wasn’t his true biological daughter, who could dislike her clever wit and adorable appearance? How could anyone hate her?
Gong Yi Mo felt her ears. She hasn’t even gotten back yet, but someone was already thinking of her?
She looked up to the tall walls of the city gates, tsk-ing her tongue. There was some degree of longing/
All this time, had she thought of Da Yu as her home?
Despite that, she couldn’t simply walk in. There were too many people in Da Yu who recognized her. Perhaps there was someone in the city who was a master at disguising others? Although she wasn’t afraid of anything, she’d rather avoid trouble that could be evaded!
Besides, after such a mess she caused at Yu Heng, many people should’ve heard the news of her escaping, and guarded the gates as a precaution.
If she was careless and entered one of these gates and accidentally revealed her true identity, the masses would immediately spread the news. If the news got to the palace, she might not even make it to the center of the city!
A person gaining fame was just as bad as a pig growing fat and getting slaughtered…wait what kind of comparison was that?
Plus, she couldn’t head back without solving the initial problem of the flame medicine!