Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Thinking that he had no other business to deal with, the King thought about visiting the town.
Well
He had planned to make her think it through personally. She had spent so many years in the court, and she was no longer that young, inexperienced girl. She would understand his point, but after such a long time Jiang Shuang still had not thought it through. She had even fallen ill because of what he had
said. It would not work if the situation continued in this way.
He believed that he should speak with her personally. At least in this way, she could feel better. That was why he planned to visit the town.1
De Fu got frightened and turned pale. He had not expected that the King would want to visit the town.
As long as the King visited the town, he would definitely get to know what the Queen was like.
Well… De Fu had no idea what to do at this moment.
He wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeves. He forced a smile and made no move.
The King frowned as he looked at him. “What is going on, De Fu?”
De Fu would always react to his order in the past, and get down to business, but right now, De Fu looked as if he had heard nothing and his mind was drifting about.
If it were for other servants, he would have punished them, but he was slightly patient with De Fu.
De Fu had been serving him since he was little, and he had been very loyal and devoted. Although he was not perfect, he was totally devoted to him, and he did not even obey the Empress Dowager’s order, so the Empress Dowager kept saying that De Fu wasn’t a good servant.
Well, the worse De Fu sounded in the Empress Dowager’s eyes, the more satisfied he was with him.
De Fu nodded with a forced smile. “Okay… I will…”
The words had just been spoken when the Empress Dowager hurried in, She had known about De Fu visiting the town the day before. So she was there for a reason.
Although her men had told De Fu about many things, she was still worried that De Fu would spill the truth out of nervousness. That was why she was there.
She looked at the two of them.
She noticed that De Fu was panicking whilst the King was still wearing a plain expression on his face. Then she understood that De Fu had not said a thing.
She let out a sigh of relief and felt assured.
“Mother, what are you doing here?” the King asked.
He sensed that his mother kept coming in and out of the Qianging Palace – his mother used to care so little about what was happening in Qianging Palace in the past.
The King was a nice child, but he still felt quite displeased about her appearance.
The Empress Dowager did not notice but said, “I am here to talk about Lord Huai’s wedding with you. Normally, it should be his mother or the Ministry of Rites that takes care of the process, but his mother is in the town, so I have to be involved with it. They said that the wedding will take place in spring,
so now it is time for the wedding right? How about I take care of it, so that the Queen can just return when she feels better,” the Empress Dowager said.
‘When Lord Huai’s wedding was mentioned, the King stopped thinking about anything else.
He felt that the Empress Dowager had made a great arrangement.
The Queen wasn’t doing well, so the Empress Dowager could take care of everything instead.
“Then I can go and get the Queen these days. She doesn’t have to take care of Lord Huai’s wedding, all she needs is to rest in the court instead,” the King said.
The Empress Dowager’s face changed.
