C158 (1/2)
After eating breakfast, the emperor saw that the Prince Zhan was determined to drag him to the empress dowager's ”seat.” Helplessly, he forced himself to play a few games of chess with the Prince Zhan.
The empress dowager was very happy. Although the Prince Zhan just sat there indifferently, the emperor had a helpless expression on his face.
In a blink of an eye, Prince Zhan accompanied the empress dowager for lunch. When she thought about how Qin Ruxue would also accompany the empress dowager to the palace in the afternoon, the empress dowager's mood became even better.
”I have matters to attend to today, so I won't be keeping the empress dowager company.” After Prince Zhan finished his lunch, he suddenly looked like he had something to do, and wanted to leave in a hurry.
The emperor and empress dowager looked at each other. It wasn't that the Prince Zhan was full of filial piety this year and had come early in the morning, but he had some matters to attend to this year …
Although the empress dowager was unwilling, she didn't say anything in the end. The emperor, on the other hand, had a mischievous smile on his face as he asked the Prince Zhan, ”Chu Xiuhan, you brat, don't tell me you have an appointment with a beautiful woman?”
The Prince Zhan naturally ignored the emperor's teasing. After sitting for a while, he left the palace.
The empress dowager pondered for a moment before asking the emperor, ”Han'er, do you have a beautiful woman you'd like to meet?”
The Emperor answered vaguely, ”I was just teasing him. I heard that he is ranked first among the thousands of young ladies in Shangjing City that want to marry him. How could he lack some beautiful woman?”
She cast a sidelong glance at the emperor, ”Don't think that I'm too old to know, but it's just that Nangong Waner from the Assistant Minister’s Residence s of the Ministry of Public Administration. The Wind Criticism is not very good, and a while ago there was a marriage with Xiao Ze from the Minister of Industry's office, and there were rumors about some plans he had to spend the rest of his life with a man. The empress dowager said the last words with some vehemence.
When the emperor heard the empress dowager's rage, he hurriedly and observably pinched the empress dowager's shoulders, ”Empress Dowager, those are just rumors. When did you become so gossipy? In my opinion, she is very compatible with Chu Xiuhan. ”
The empress dowager couldn't be bothered to reply to the emperor, but continued to speak with a cold snort. The last time you entered the palace, you saw a child who came from a small family didn't even have a foundation. How can he help the Prince Zhan's Mansion to spread the leaves and manage the backyard? ”
The emperor looked at the empress dowager and muttered under his breath, ”Chu Xiuhan's personality is already good enough to marry one, and he's even managing the backyard. How could he have three wives and four concubines?”
The emperor also wasn't used to it. After sitting with the empress dowager for a while, he still couldn't sit still. Not long later, Qin Ruxue dejectedly walked into the empress dowager's sleeping quarters.
The emperor happily found an excuse and slipped away, leaving the empress dowager with Qin Ruxue.
”What happened to my Snow? It's a festival, why is your expression so bad? Could it be that it's frozen? ” The empress dowager pulled Qin Ruxue away, and the anger she showed to the emperor disappeared immediately. Instead, she looked at Qin Ruxue benevolently and asked this.
”No, no.” Qin Ruxue explained in embarrassment, but the more he explained, the more he seemed to be concealing it.
”Aunt, when Ru Xue entered the palace, she ran into Prince Zhang at the entrance. It's just that he …” Qin Ruxue suddenly lowered her head, there seemed to be a lot of dew hidden under her eyelashes, it was a little bright.
How could the empress dowager not know? It must be because the Prince Zhan's cold face chilled Qin Ruxue's heart yet again.
When the Prince Zhan was young, she had always been good to Qin Ruxue. In this palace, she would always bring along Little Sister Xue wherever she went, but when she woke up thirteen years ago, she had completely changed. The empress dowager thought that she had only been stimulated a little, and would need to slowly recuperate.