Chapter 221: She Disappeared
The emperor looked at her, “What is it?”
Zhao Su looked at the ground: “The first thing, I dare to ask Your Majesty, the teacher who taught you that song ‘Liang Zhu’, who is he? Where is he now?”
The emperor’s face converged, his thin lips pursed into a line.
Zhao Su was still looking at the ground, waiting for his answer.
After thinking for a night, she still gave up on the Empress Dowager’s proposal, this kind of thing like the beauty plan was not suitable for her, nor could she learn it. Although it was said that coming to this world, he still had to submit to power, but she also did not want to do something that went against her principles.
The emperor treated her ……
Even though she didn’t want to admit it and didn’t want to take the initiative anymore, his approaching time and time again made it impossible for her to avoid. If at this time he still did something that made him misunderstand or deepened the ambiguous atmosphere, that would be wrong of her.
Admittedly, the emperor as the centralizer of this world, slagging him is not much of a problem, he is fully capable of keeping the damage to a minimum, you don’t have to care about her at all.
But regardless of whether he can afford to play or not, Zhao Su, as a modern youth who has been educated in the correct values, can’t take his ability to lose as a reason why she can mess around.
What’s more, from yesterday’s delivery of the Ice Criterion, she has already determined that the Emperor is not in a “playful” frame of mind. As long as he wasn’t a power-tripper, damaging the human rights she wanted, then he was a good young man.
She had no reason to tease a good youth.
So she chose to open the door and ask directly.
Silence fell in the hall.
Only after a moment and the emperor spoke out, “So you deliberately ingratiated yourself with me yesterday because the empress dowager asked you to ask this question.”
Zhao Su already had no intention of covering up, “Yes.”
“Then why didn’t you ask directly yesterday?”
Zhao Su did not answer. It only said, “Please also ask the Emperor to clarify, otherwise it’s quite difficult for my subordinate to be caught in the middle.”
The Emperor nodded slightly, “Then turn around and I’ll go and resume with the Empress Dowager myself.”
Zhao Su looked up suddenly ……
He went directly to review his orders with Empress Dowager Lu, so wouldn’t she not be able to hear them?
“It’s not just the Empress Dowager, you want to know too don’t you?” The Emperor seemed to have read her mind and said in a rambling voice.
Zhao Su wouldn’t be foolish enough to admit it.
“Since the Emperor has agreed, then my subordinate will go and report back to the Empress Dowager.”
With that, she was about to exit the door.
The big deal was that she would go back to Empress Dowager Lu’s place to inquire. If it wasn’t something important, Empress Dowager Lu might have told her. If Empress Dowager Lu didn’t tell her, then it was 80% that the Emperor wouldn’t tell her either, so she absolutely couldn’t be curious anymore.
“If I am willing to tell you?”
At this time the emperor’s voice suddenly came from behind her again.
Zhao Su crossed out of the threshold of the half leg, can not help but put back.
Turning back to see the emperor’s calm demeanor, she was immediately angry at herself for being so easily fooled!
Is the emperor not clearly teasing her?
She sank her temper and said, “My subordinate wouldn’t dare to casually inquire about the emperor’s affairs, even if you say so my subordinate won’t listen.”
After saying that she went out of the curtain bar.
“Ten years ago I had a little accident in the paddock.”
As the words rang out, Zhao Su’s two legs retreated back again still so spinelessly.
The emperor, who was originally leaning back in his chair, had gotten up by this time, and after waving back the people in the room, he slowly walked under the curtain bar.
“That tune, that’s what I learned during my accident.”
Zhao Su took a moment to digest those two sentences.
After determining that this was indeed his intention to tell himself, she spoke out, “Even ten years ago, you were at least a prince, so why did you have an accident in the paddock? Could it be that there was no one following around?”
“Still saying it’s not something you want to know?”
The emperor’s eyebrows seemed to have “sees through everything” written on them.
Zhao Su was a little embarrassed. But it wasn’t too embarrassing, after all, the emperor himself started it.
The Emperor looked at her, “That day when I went with you to fly paper kites outside the city, I was very happy.”
Zhao Su suddenly blushed.
The emperor paced away and added, “Even though I am a prince, there are times when I am naughty. After the late emperor started from nothing and created great achievements, the most important thing he valued was the ability to rule the country. As an emperor, the way he treated his favorite youngest son was to bring him around from a young age, hating to share all his experiences with him.
“And the way to treat my older brothers is to be strict, hating the fact that they can’t let the capable ministers in the court pour out their knowledge. For at least one of the two of them must inherit his kingdom.
“This instead resulted in my needing to spend my childhood under my father’s watchful eye, and I was naturally fortunate that it was because of those years of exposure that I was able to handle myself with ease after steeply becoming the Crown Prince.
“But I never tried to be as wanton as a normal child – even my elder brother, who was the Crown Prince and who had such a heavy school schedule, could still go out of the palace often.
“So when going to a place like the paddock, how could I possibly resist the temptation to hold back from having fun?”
“So you left the guards behind and went out alone?”
“Not exactly alone.” The Emperor walked back, “I had company.”
“So this companion was the one who taught you that song?”
“No.” As he said this, the Emperor’s face gradually showed the same gravity as that day again, “It wasn’t her.”
“Then who is it?”
“A …… person who gave me the strength to survive when I was in a desperate situation.”
To be honest, Zhao Su didn’t understand.
First of all, she didn’t understand why the emperor would have a time when he was in a desperate situation? Secondly why could he learn a song when he was in a desperate situation?
She said, “Do you know that the song ‘Liang Zhu’ is a tune from our side?”
“Originally I didn’t know, but then after you told me about your origins, there were some things I more or less guessed.”
Zhao Su couldn’t help but mentally lift her heart, “So the person who taught you the tune could indeed have traveled across as well?”
The emperor, however, looked fixedly into her eyes, “Who knows? Other than that one side, I have never seen her again.”
“…… disappeared?!”
“Hmm.”
The Emperor moved his eyes away and hmmm’d.
“Then you …… haven’t thought about going over to look for her?”
It didn’t make sense!
He, who was an emperor, was so unguarded against a traveler who knew about the future? Even if he didn’t drive him to extinction, he should at least have a grasp of his movements, right? It was as if he was like this, that was being transferred to his side.
“Can’t find it.” The emperor said quietly, “Not long ago I even had Liang Ying go over to the paddock to poke around, and still found no such person.”
“Then that jade whistle ……”
“It’s her thing.”
Zhao Su suddenly understood. “So the nursery rhyme that Yu Qingping blew out was also played by this person, right?”
“That’s right.”
“Then why was the jade whistle in Yu Qingping’s hands?”
“Because that companion of mine was in a very bad situation at that time, in order to encourage her to hold out until she got out of danger, I gave her that jade whistle. Later on, she said she lost it, and I didn’t pursue it any further.”
Regarding the time adjustment, tried several times to change it back to a daytime update and failed. At the moment, I can only say that I will try to keep two shifts under the condition of quality assurance, and whether I can go back to daytime updating or not, I’ll just let it be.