49 Welcome to His Holiness in front of the abbey (1/2)

The mother and daughter pair spoke a lot this afternoon, talking about the days after An Jinxiu marries, how An Yuanzhi would be once he joined the army, Shangguan Yong, how he would be when he raise their son and a lot of things about the future. At this moment, when things were no longer possible to be recalled, An Jin and the Aunt Xiehad a tacit understanding to only think about their future.

At dusk, rain began to fall again from the clear sky. The guest room, which was not bright to begin with, became dark all of a sudden.

”You also have a family to take care of. After you go to the Buddhist hall and worship Buddha, you can go back. Don't let your family wait for you for too long.”

An Jinxiu held onto Aunt Xiu hand and said, ”I don't know when I'll be able to see you again after I leave.”

”There will be another chance.” Aunt Xiu pulled up An Jinxiu to her feet. ”Quickly go to the buddhist hall and remember to be sincere.”

An Jinxiu walked out of the guest room. The old woman who had greeted her before came out of the hall and called out to her from afar, ”Second Madam, His Majesty has arrived. The Crown Princess wants you to meet him at the gate.”

An Jinxiu was stunned. Shouldn't she, as a concubine, avoid him? Why did he want her to pick up the car? And why would the Emperor come to the Anshi temple?

”The Esteemed wangfei told you to go, so you won't leave any idle rumors. You can go, and see His Majesty. That'll be good too.”

It was indeed a good thing to see the Emperor Shizong in person, to be able to impress him for Shangguan Yong. An Jinxiu just couldn't understand, what day was it today, even the Emperor had come to the main hall, it was as if they had agreed, someone had already arranged it like this?

The old woman who had come to pass on the message walked up to An Jin. When she saw that she was still standing there without moving, she hurriedly urged her, ”Second Madam, hurry up and leave. That's a saint's carriage, you can't neglect it.”

Under the repeated urging of this old woman, An Jin didn't have much time to think. After glancing at the woman, she brought her to the entrance of the Main Hall.

At this time, the Shizong had already arrived at the gate of the An family monastery. Initially, the Emperor didn't want to bother with the crown prince at all, but the crown prince had invited him in front of all the other princes, thinking that the princes had caused a lot of trouble behind his back for the sake of Wang Yuan, and had even criticized the crown prince in many ways.

The Emperor had never thought of crippling the crown prince to look at the princes, and other than the fifth prince, Bai Chengze, who had a normal expression, the rest of them all revealed expressions of watching a good show, as if they were waiting for him to scold the crown prince. This was the brother of the royal family. At that time, the Emperor felt a wave of helplessness and finally agreed to the crown prince's request in front of all the princes.

The Emepror didn't care about the princes' moods after that. He only knew that the Crown Prince was relieved of a great burden.

As he went out of the palace to hunt, even the Shizong was only slightly dressed. In the eyes of the Shizong, there was a large group of people following him, and even the wild animals were scared off. What kind of prey could he possibly hunt?

Usually when hunting, the Crown Prince would put the safety of the dragons as the top priority and urge the Emperor to bring the imperial guards and the imperial guards. However, this time, the Crown Prince did not try to persuade him.

The Emperor was happy. He felt that the Crown Prince was afraid of being scolded by him.

It was a sunny day after the rain, and the air was fresh. As the horse galloped through the forest in the mountains of the northern city, the raindrops that accumulated on the branches began to fall.

When he was deep in the mountains, he saw many animals that he could easily meet. He nocked an arrow and shot it through the neck of a sika deer. He asked the crown prince, ”Have you prepared this place in advance?”

The crown prince followed behind him and said, ”I can't hide anything from royal father. This son wants royal father to have a better time today, so I had the guards take care of the mountain beforehand.”

Shizong turned to look at the crown prince and said, ”You'd better not hide anything from me.”

He dismounted from his horse and knelt in front of the horse. ”Imperial Father, this subject is truly not aware of the matter with Wang Yuan. I also want Fourth Brother to quickly capture those two deathsworn from Wang Yuan to prove my innocence.”

Shizong only looked at the guard who had placed the blood of the deer not far away and said to the crown prince, ”Don't bring up the matter about Wang Yuan for now. You are the crown prince, you don't have to lower yourself like this in front of me.”

The Crown Prince smiled bitterly to himself. He was just an official after all. How could he dare not be humble? Wang Yuan was practically beyond his means. ”This son thanks Imperial Father,” The crown prince kowtowed to the Emperor.

”Rise,” Shizong said, as he ran past the crown prince, his legs clamping on the horse's side.

By the time the Crown Prince stood up, the Shizong had already led the guards to the west side of the forest.

”Your Highness,” the guard said as he walked over with two wooden gourds that were carved with fine patterns and filled with the blood of the deer.

The crown prince looked at the two gourds and said to the guards, ”Be careful with them. My royal father and I may need to consume them in a while.”

”This servant obeys,” the guard said as he hung the two wooden gourds by his waist.

The Crown Prince then mounted his horse and started to chase after Shizong.

Half a day passed unknowingly as Shizong led his guards to hunt in the forest north of the city. As the sky darkened, Shizong realized that he had stayed in the forest from the afternoon until dusk.

”Father,” The Crown Prince looked up at the sky and stepped forward, ”It seems that the rain is coming again. This son knows that the An clan's home is here, so why don't you go there and rest?”

”An clan ?” Shizong said, ”What did you do now?”