628 I’m Your Father (3)
When Eunuch Wang heard that he had passed through the palace gate but did not enter, he guessed that he was here to look for the Eldest Princess. He quickly chased after him in a carriage. Just as he alighted from the carriage, he saw the Emperor with a green face.
“What… What’s going on? Your Majesty?” He went forward in a panic.
The Emperor did not say anything and stepped onto the wooden stool to get into the carriage. Eunuch Wang abandoned his carriage and mustered his courage to follow the Emperor into his carriage.
The Emperor was in a fit of anger and did not see the washboard he had casually thrown on the ground. He tripped and knelt down.
The Emperor, who suddenly knelt on a washboard: “…”
Eunuch Wang who had seen the Emperor kneel on the washboard: “…”
No one said anything on the way back to the palace.
Eunuch Wang thought to himself, Your attitude of admitting your mistake is very pious. You even brought a washboard, but why are you kneeling when she’s not around? Could it be that you have to secretly practice? So be it. There’s no need to be so serious, right? Look, the washboard is cracking from your kneeling.
As a loyal servant, Eunuch Wang felt that it was very necessary for him to share the Emperor’s worries.
The Emperor returned to his bedchamber and took a bath first. When he returned to his room, he found a brand new washboard on his bed.
An iron one!
One that would not crack!
The Emperor, who really wanted to strangle Eunuch Wang: “…!!”
… .
The Emperor’s previous worries had all become reality. Before he could even sit down in the bedchamber, a palace servant reported, “The Empress is here.”
The Empress was a woman who could enter his bedchamber directly. Although he did not want to see her now, she was already here. It was useless for him to stop her. He braced himself and met the Empress.
The Empress had already heard about the incident on the altar. Her daughter had angered everyone and was imprisoned by the Emperor.
What kind of place was the Dali Temple? Would her daughter have a good ending there?
The Empress couldn’t even care less about her usual manners. When she saw the Emperor, she cried. “Your Majesty… why are you so heartless? You didn’t even ask me, your mother, before you threw your own daughter into jail… The child I gave birth to after ten months of pregnancy… Are you so disregarding our marital relationship?”
The Emperor, who had been rejected by the Helian family, was not in a good mood. He could not patiently comfort the Empress as usual. He said, “She did something wrong herself, so I dealt with her impartially.”
“She’s your daughter!”
“She’s also the Princess of Nanzhao! If the Emperor breaks the law, he’ll be punished with the commoners!”
The Empress was stunned by his anger. They had been husband and wife for many years, but she had never seen him so angry. Tears welled up in the Empress’s eyes. She was in disbelief but also as if she had expected it. She said in a daze, “You went to see that child, right?”
The Emperor did not reply. He turned around.
The Empress choked and said, “Turn around and look at me. Did you go to see her? Ever since she came back, my Yan’er has not had a good day. You actually went to see her? Have you forgotten the life that the Old State Preceptor gave her? She’s a jinx. If she was born into a family in the market, she would only jinx her father and mother. If she was born into the royal family, she would offend the fate of the entire Nanzhao.”
The Emperor clenched his fists. “Old State Preceptor… might have given the wrong divination.”
The Empress said sadly, “What you mean is that the child of that woman is the lucky star. Is my Yan’er a jinx?”
The Emperor definitely did not mean that. He only wanted to say that that child might be lucky. They were all his children. They were all good.
Just as the Emperor and the Empress were in a deadlock, the palace servants’ voices came from outside the door. “Your Majesty, Consort Yun requests an audience—”