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"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, did you call for this servant?"
Eunuch Wei walked in with a basin of water from outside the door. He had just been to the small kitchen of the nunnery and had someone prepare hot water for the Emperor.
Having served the Emperor for so many years, he understood that the Emperor would be waking up around this time.
And even if the Emperor didn't wake up on his own, Eunuch Wei had to wake him up. Otherwise, how could they attend the morning court?
"Your Majesty?"
Eunuch Wei entered the room and suddenly sensed something was off. He looked at the Emperor and then at Imperial Concubine Dowager Jing.
Hmm...
Was it just his imagination?
How come it felt like something unpleasant had happened between the two of them? The Emperor's face was way too cold, and Imperial Concubine Dowager Jing’s expression didn't look too good either.
"Your— Your Majesty?"
Eunuch Wei lowered his voice and carefully approached while holding the basin of hot water.
The Emperor covered his forehead. He still felt a bit dizzy, as though his mind had been filled with a wad of cotton.
Eunuch Wei mustered up the courage to glance at Imperial Concubine Dowager Jing, who was just staring at the Emperor without saying a word at this moment. It seemed like the Emperor's condition had shocked her greatly. Eunuch Wei thought, could it be that the Emperor's headache was severe? It even frightened the imperial concubine dowager?
Eunuch Wei knelt down and placed the basin of hot water on the floor next to him. He then asked softly, "Your Majesty, do you have a headache? Shall this servant summon an imperial physician?"
The Emperor put down his hand pressing against his forehead and responded, "No need, it's already time for the morning court."
The unfamiliar tone of the Emperor startled Eunuch Wei, and he discreetly glanced at Imperial Concubine Dowager Jing again. Something was truly strange about this morning.
After finishing his morning routine, the Emperor returned to the Huaqing Palace and changed into his dragon robe to attend the morning court session.
Grannie Cai had been released as per the Emperor's command issued last night, so no one dared to obstruct her.
She stumbled out of the Huaqing Palace's prison, and upon seeing the Emperor, her heart leaped with joy. She respectfully greeted him, "This servant pays respects to Your..."
The Emperor walked past her expressionlessly.
Grannie Cai was taken aback.
Since the Emperor had ordered her release, it meant he believed the imperial concubine dowager. Then, why was he treating her so coldly?
Grannie Cai hurriedly dragged her injured body back to the nunnery.
Imperial Concubine Dowager Jing sat quietly in her own room. On the small table next to her were two bottles, one black and one white, both overturned with pills spilled out.
"Aiyo! How did the medicine spill? It cost so much to buy! We can’t afford to buy any more!" Grannie Cai was too busy restoring the pills to their respective bottles to even pay Imperial Concubine Dowager Jing respects properly.
As she was doing so, she glanced sideways and noticed that Imperial Concubine Dowager Jing looked absent-minded. She also remembered the Emperor's indifference towards her earlier in the morning. Her heart skipped a beat. "Imperial concubine dowager! Could it be... the Emperor has found out?"
Imperial Concubine Dowager Jing didn't say a word; she simply clenched her fists tightly and closed her eyes.
Grannie Cai knew her master too well. Her face turned even paler, "If he hasn't found out... Then it must be... It must be..."
What could it be?
Did the medicine lose its effectiveness, or did she administer the wrong medicine?
Either way, the consequences were terrible.
Back then, when that incident happened, it almost caused a rift between the Emperor and the imperial concubine dowager. With great difficulty, with the help of the drug, he gradually forgot all the negative things about the imperial concubine dowager and reconciled with her. But if he were to remember... If he were to remember!
……
"Eunuch Wei."
After the court session, the Emperor sat in his sedan chair and suddenly spoke, "Is Zhen forgetting something?"
"Ah?" Eunuch Wei walked beside the sedan chair and looked at the Emperor, asking, "Your Majesty, what are you referring to exactly?"
"If Zhen remembers, would Zhen be asking you?" The Emperor replied impatiently.
"Ah... “ Well, this servant also doesn’t know what you’re talking about.
The Emperor frowned. He pressed his temple and then rubbed his forehead. He had a feeling that he had forgotten something important. How could he suddenly not recall it?
"Your Majesty, are you still going to the nunnery?" Eunuch Wei asked.
"Why would Zhen go to the nunnery?" The Emperor retorted.
This question stumped Eunuch Wei. Don’t you really have any idea why you would want to go to the nunnery?
The Emperor suddenly remembered. Yesterday, he had visited Imperial Concubine Dowager Jing.
He asked curiously, "Wasn't Imperial Concubine Dowager Jing at the nunnery outside the palace? Zhen recalls that Empress Dowager had banished her from the palace. How did she come back?"
Eunuch Wei was speechless with astonishment, "Your Majesty... Did you drink last night?"
"What are you talking about?" The Emperor furrowed his brow.
Eunuch Wei said, "Is Your Majesty still under the influence of alcohol? Don't Your Majesty remember? You personally brought the imperial concubine dowager back to the palace!"
The Emperor looked bewildered, "Zhen brought her back to the palace?"
Eunuch Wei nodded, "Yes, imperial concubine dowager had a serious fall at the nunnery. Your Majesty went to visit her and was worried about her well-being, so you brought her back to Huaqing Palace. Your Majesty even had a small nunnery built for her within the palace so she can constantly accompany the Buddha under the lamps."
"Is that so..." The Emperor tried hard to recall, but it gave him a headache as soon as he did. Although there were indeed fragments of scattered memories. Eunuch Wei wasn’t lying.
What he didn't understand was why he had done this. It was against the rules.
Although Imperial Concubine Dowager Jing was his imperial concubine mother...
That’s right, she was his imperial concubine mother.
She was the one who raised him.
It was his duty to be filial to her.
Duty.
The Emperor's head began to ache again.
Suddenly, he felt that Imperial Concubine Dowager Jing wasn't as good as he thought. She... What was she?
Yes, she punished him and Ning'an!
In the dead of winter, just because he and Ning'an sneaked out to pick a few pomelos, Imperial Concubine Dowager Jing punished them by making them kneel in the icy snow.
But that day was Empress Dowager Zhuang's birthday. He and Ning'an had only gone to the cold palace to give her a bag of silver charcoal and a few pomelos.
She punished them, and it made Ning'an fall seriously ill.
"She punished me and Ning'an." The Emperor suddenly spoke.
"Huh?" Eunuch Wei was taken aback.
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