Chapter 212.1

After steady changes to the prescription and acceptable acupuncture by Physician Liu, the Emperor Emeritus’s well being has improved considerably in comparison with earlier than.

Though he nonetheless couldn’t sit up and stroll, it was not as troublesome as earlier than to even flip over.

These days, the Emperor Emeritus led a leisurely life, having fun with music, watching performances, enjoying with crickets, and elevating birds. This had brought about fairly a commotion within the Imperial Family Division.

Just lately, the Emperor Emeritus has developed a liking for listening to storytelling.

He didn’t need the palace’s educated performers; he discovered their supply unsatisfactory. As a substitute, he insisted on recruiting storytellers from the commoners. Today, the sound of drums and the three-stringed instrument might typically be heard throughout the palace.

Li Dequan walked in from outdoors. The Emperor Emeritus was at present amusing himself with the fish in a blue-and-white porcelain basin on the kang desk. The basin was designed to resemble a miniature mountain, with just a few palm-sized lotus flowers rising in it. Two tiny golden carp had been swimming within the water beneath the lotus leaves.

At a look, it seemed like a portray. These had been new choices from the Imperial Family Division, supposed for the Emperor Emeritus’s leisure.

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At this second, the blind storyteller was narrating an thrilling a part of the story, recounting how Wu Tune drunkenly fought Jiang Meng, the Door God. When the blind storyteller described Wu Tune lifting a fist the dimensions of a sea bowl, he struck the sheepskin drum twice and tapped the picket board just a few instances. It was unclear whether or not the Emperor Emeritus was listening, however his gaze had shifted from the kang desk to the blind storyteller.

Li Dequan might solely look forward to that phase to complete earlier than reiterating the message.

“What are they right here for? Do they not have something higher to do?” The Emperor Emeritus tossed apart the jade rod in his hand, and it landed on the kang desk with a transparent sound.

Regardless of the blind storyteller being blind, his listening to was sharp. He was instantly frightened and knelt down, too afraid to talk additional. Solely when Li Dequan seen that the Emperor Emeritus was displeased and signalled to a eunuch beside him, did the eunuch strategy and instruct the blind storyteller to proceed.

Li Dequan smiled wryly. In fact, these outdated ministers wouldn’t discover it bothersome. Students loved fame, and their favorite exercise was opposing the emperor. Now that they lastly had a possibility with the brand new emperor, they believed it was an opportunity to indicate loyalty by giving recommendation and expressing issues for the nation and the folks. How might they simply surrender?

Naturally, as his son, Emperor Jin’an needed to influence him to remain. So, upon receiving the message, Emperor Jin’an arrived promptly.

After arriving, he exchanged just a few phrases in an try to influence the Emperor Emeritus to remain. Nonetheless, the Emperor Emeritus didn’t hassle to save lots of face: “Do you assume Laozi doesn’t know what you’re as much as? You’re inflicting chaos up forward, and when issues go mistaken, you flip to me. Zhen, with ailing well being, can’t even relaxation whereas recovering from sickness!”

With phrases spoken on this method by the Emperor Emeritus, Emperor Jin’an had no alternative however to obey and order his subordinates to arrange for the relocation of the Emperor Emeritus to the brand new palace.

Relocating the palace may sound easy, but it surely couldn’t be achieved in only a day or two. The preparations alone would take a while. First, the Xiyuan Palace wanted to be cleaned and adorned. This didn’t embrace only one or two locations; there have been dozens of palaces. The project of which palace every dowager consort and concubine would dwell in, and who lived during which palace, additionally needed to be correctly organized for

If the assignments weren’t carried out properly, or if any niangniang was sad together with her location, coping with the issues of those ladies might be sophisticated and may take a very long time.

Recently, the Qianqing Palace and Kunning Palace had been fairly full of life. Those that needed favour from the Emperor Emeritus went to him, whereas those that had been much less favoured used their standing to strategy Yaoniang, the Empress of the Central Palace.

Nonetheless, at this second, Yaoniang didn’t have time to take care of these issues. Earlier, Physician Liu had come to take her pulse for checkup, and astonishingly found she was carrying twins.

This information stunned and delighted the folks of Kunning Palace. There had been no point out of twins throughout earlier check-ups. It turned out that within the early months, it was troublesome to establish such particulars, however now Yaoniang was already over 5 months pregnant.

Apart from the shock, there was undoubtedly pleasure. One should know that the start of twins within the Zhao clan was extraordinarily uncommon. It had solely occurred in the course of the time of Emperor Gaozong. If the empress managed to provide start to twins safely this time, it might actually be a outstanding stroke of luck.

Given the empress’s present state of affairs, she naturally had no time to concern herself with which palace the opposite dowager consorts and concubines would reside in.

Whereas the commotion carried on under as a result of Emperor Emeritus’s phrases, he himself appeared considerably displeased. He stopped listening to books, stopped enjoying along with his fish, and even the complete Qianqing Palace grew quieter.

On at the present time, Xiaobao entered the Qianqing Palace. As quickly as he stepped via the palace gates, he felt a way of unease as a result of uncommon silence prevailing inside.