Chapter 430 Anger
Chapter 430 Anger
"What happened? Why do you look so bad?" Jun Zeqian whispered, "Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"
Shang Ruoyi shook her head: "Nothing, just thinking about something." She looked outside again: "When can we go back? I'm a little tired."
"When the emperor comes back later, I will take you back to the palace."
Upon hearing this, the Seventh Prince stepped forward and said, "I wonder if you have time to help my mother with her illness."
"Okay." Shang Ruoyi nodded and agreed: "It's still early today, we can go to see your mother in a while."
The Seventh Prince's face lit up with joy. At this moment, a young eunuch came over and said, "Seventh Prince, Crown Prince, Little Princess, the Emperor is calling you three back! A banquet has been set up, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has also arrived."
Prince, what is he doing here?
Shang Ruoyi frowned slightly, but didn't say anything.
When the three men returned to the imperial study, the prince was talking to him about the queen's health.
"Father, Queen Mother's health has been getting worse over the past two days."
"Yes." The Emperor of the Western Regions sighed: "I don't know what kind of illness she has. Even the imperial physician can't find out the cause." Moreover, all her hair has fallen out. If others knew that his queen was a nun, people all over the world would laugh at him.
However, she is the prince's biological mother, and her status and position cannot be shaken in any way.
But every time I thought of her horrible appearance, I couldn't help trembling all over if I looked at her for even a second.
Not to mention being seen by others.
"Your mother has been feeling unwell these past few days. Try not to disturb her in the palace. Disturbing her rest will make it more difficult for her to recover."
"Yes, I will remember this."
The young eunuch stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, the prince and his men are back."
"Xuan."
When he saw Shang Ruoyi again, the emperor looked a little better than when he left.
Jun Yunting smiled and said, "No wonder my sister refused to greet me when I saw her today. She is the daughter of the Emperor's uncle. As her elder brother, I cannot accept her greetings."
Shang Ruoyi just felt disgusted after listening to his words.
What about brothers and sisters?
Who is your sister?
"Your Highness the Crown Prince is of noble status. I definitely don't dare to casually claim to be related to you."
"Sister, it's too formal for you to say that. You and I are relatives. If we were in the public, you would have to call me cousin."
Shang Ruoyi twitched the corner of her lips and was too lazy to talk nonsense with him.
"Your Majesty, it's getting late. I'm sure my father is still waiting for us to go back for lunch. We won't stay any longer." Jun Zeqian said in a low voice, "We two will leave the palace on our own accord."
"I'll host a banquet at noon. Even if you want to leave, wait until after dinner." He looked at the Seventh Prince: "Seventh Prince, what brings you here today?"
"Father, I am only here to pay my respects to you."
Before he could finish, the Western Region Emperor waved his hand and said, "In that case, you should go back first! There is nothing for you to do here."
The Seventh Prince's face changed slightly. There were so many people here, but those who wanted to leave were not allowed to leave. Instead, he, an insignificant person, was forced to leave. Was there a food shortage in the palace now?
Even if you use your nose to think, you will know that this is not the case.
There are only two reasons for him to leave. One is that his father really doesn't like him. The other is to tell Shang Ruoyi that not everyone is qualified to eat at the royal family's banquet, and she should cherish it.
It was called a banquet, but it was nothing more than ordering two more tables to be set up.
Shang Ruoyi looked at the not-so-rich food on the table and couldn't help curling her lips secretly. Just these few dishes, is this considered a banquet? The Western Region Emperor was really stingy.
She sat at the very end and only picked a few cakes and didn't eat any food.
"Ruoyi." The Western Region Emperor drank a few glasses of wine and asked with a smile, "Your brother said earlier that he found his biological sister. I haven't asked you much yet. Where did you grow up?"
"Tianshun, Prime Minister's Mansion." Shang Ruoyi put down the snacks and said softly, "I think the emperor knows that the Shang family in Tianshun that was confiscated and exterminated some time ago is my mother's family."
Her words made Jun Yunting's face change suddenly.
Shang family?
How old was the left prime minister before Tianshun?
"You grew up in the Shang Mansion?"
"Why? Your Highness the Crown Prince wants to know where I grew up?"
The Western Region Emperor also looked a little ugly.
He put down the wine glass in his hand and looked at Shang Ruoyi with deep eyes: "So, I just said that I wanted to take over Tianshun's Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures. You strongly opposed it after hearing it outside the door. I listened to your words before, and it seemed to make some sense. Now I think that you are arguing with me here just because you care about Tianshun. The purpose is not to let me send troops. You have to understand that you are the princess of the Western Region City Palace, not the people of Tianshun." He said in a deep voice: "I must get the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. Jun Zeqian, I order you to select the generals tomorrow and lead 50,000 troops to take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. As for the little princess in your mansion, your father is dead and the queen mother is still in the palace. She is very bored on weekdays. Let her stay in the palace to entertain the queen mother!"
It was said to be a way to relieve her boredom, but in fact it was just to keep her under house arrest in the palace.
Jun Zeqian frowned and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, my sister has just been found. Father must see her every day to feel at ease. Please allow me to bring her back to the palace."
"Why, do you think my palace is not good enough, so you don't want to live here?" The Western Region Emperor asked coldly, "Or do you not want her to stay with the Queen Mother?"
Shang Ruoyi smiled and said, "If you want me to be a hostage, Your Majesty, just say it directly. Why are you beating around the bush here?"
I didn't expect her to be so direct. Even Jun Yunting and Jun Zeqian were stunned.
The Western Region Emperor, who had never been contradicted like this before, shouted angrily, "How dare you! Listen to what you are saying. Do you really think I won't punish you?"
"I am the princess of the City Prince's Mansion, my father's daughter. Why should I live in the emperor's palace? This is not my home. My father is ill. It is because he is ill that I have to serve him at his bedside. Could it be that when the emperor is ill, he hopes that your children will stay away from you, for fear of being infected by the disease? As for what you said about accompanying the empress dowager." She sneered: "I heard that the emperor has many children. The empress dowager is your biological mother and the grandmother of your children. Why doesn't he use them to accompany him, but instead asks me, a person I have never met and have no blood relationship with, to accompany him?"
She raised her chin and looked straight at him: "I heard that when Princess Luoyun was in the palace, you loved her very much and never asked for such a request. Why is it that you can't do it with me?"
"Disobeying my order!" The Western Region Emperor shouted angrily, "Come here! Take him away! Beat him with fifty sticks! Put him in jail and wait for your punishment!"
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