Harem Daily Life

Chapter 757 The Queen is Angry

The mother had to pay for the trouble caused by her own son. Tao Yanyan had to say all the nice things to appease the jealous man.

He Linzhang wasn't actually angry; he just found this mother and son pair amusing. One had mistaken the father for the other and was trying to appease him, while the other, unable to stop the child from mistakenly admitting the father, was begging for mercy like a kitten. Thinking of how he was aging while Tao Yanyan was still young and the child was still young, he felt even more reluctant to leave her. He wished he could spend every day with her.

He wished Doctor Liu would send back good news sooner rather than later. With the antidote, he could regain his appearance. Unfortunately, the nether grass grew on the cliffs by the sea, making it incredibly difficult to obtain. After recovering from his injuries, Wang Xingchuan personally explored twice, but failed to obtain the herb. Everyone else tried to carve a secondary path through the cliffs, but that would take time and wouldn't be accomplished in a few days.

After Qi Yizheng led his troops to meet up with the people sent by Ying Yi and King Yong, they wiped out the Dark Night Island in one fell swoop, captured the island owner and hundreds of believers, destroyed the poison they had secretly refined, and also found some antidotes. This was good news that was exciting.

Qi Yizheng and his men did not dare to delay and quickly returned to the capital with the antidote. If they could find the antidote to His Majesty's poison among them, it would be a great achievement.

Qi Yizheng returned to Beijing at the end of June. By then, He Linzhang looked to be in his fifties. The poison had taken its toll on him, his hair turning almost half white. To spare Tao Yanyan's grief, he refused to see her again, wearing a mask every day.

Whenever Tao Yanyan got angry, lost her temper with him, and wanted to get close to him, he always refused, and the relationship between the two of them became coldest ever.

Qi Yizheng brought the antidote he had found into the palace. All the members of the Imperial Hospital came to identify the medicine, and the Qinzheng Hall was shrouded in a solemn atmosphere.

"How is it? Is there any antidote in there that Your Majesty can use?" Tao Yanyan couldn't help but ask.

There were more than ten small bottles in front of Doctor Wang, each of which contained hope.

After a long moment, Doctor Wang put down the bottle in his hand and said with some regret, "There is nothing in the pile I just examined. There are only three bottles left. Please wait a moment, Your Majesty."

Tao Yanyan's eyes were fixed on the last three bottles of medicine, a glimmer of hope still lingering. He Linzhang averted his gaze regretfully, not wanting to see the young queen's disappointed look.

Finally, Doctor Wang shook his head and said, "None of the antidotes can cure your Majesty's poison, but they can cure other poisons, so they are still somewhat useful."

Tao Yanyan sat down helplessly, his heart darkening again.

Seeing her listless appearance, He Linzhang sighed: "The imperial doctors, please go down. General Qi, you have worked hard, so you should all go back first."

The imperial doctors packed up the bottles and retreated respectfully. Qi Yizheng wanted to say something to comfort her, but in the end he didn't say it.

Eunuch Zhang called away all the servants, leaving only the emperor and the empress in the hall. It was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

"Just... agree to the plan I told you about before." He Linzhang broke the silence first and spoke.

Tao Yanyan looked up at him. He was wearing a mask, revealing only a pair of familiar eyes, which looked at her calmly.

"Your Majesty, do you want to just walk away like this, leaving me alone in this palace to face the court officials, the children, and all your concubines, shouldering all of this? Don't even think about it. I don't agree!"

They had discussed this topic once before. He Linzhang wanted to retire and make Yucheng the crown prince. Considering that the child was too young, he let Tao Yanyan rule the country from behind the scenes, while he wanted to find a place to live in seclusion until he died of old age.

Tao Yanyan was furious when she heard this and lost her temper. She absolutely did not want to see him leave alone. She wanted to be with him, no matter what the final result was, and she did not want him to be alone.

But he just refused to do so. He didn't want to leave his oldest and most unbearable side in her memory, and let her be left with a haggard and old face after his death. He couldn't accept that.

He Linzhang soothed her softly, "Don't embarrass me, okay? I rarely discuss decisions I've made in my life with anyone. I'm telling you in advance that this is... between you and me, husband and wife. I don't want to hide it from you."

Tao Yanyan took a step forward and wanted to hug him, but He Linzhang dodged sideways.

Tao Yanyan sneered: "Your Majesty wants to get rid of me, and now you are just thinking about avoiding suspicion, right? Okay, very good, then Your Majesty, just go, go wherever you want, and leave everything to me. I am young and have power in my hands, I don't know how to be free and unrestrained!" After Tao Yanyan finished speaking angrily, she looked at He Linzhang who was still cold and still refused to take a step back to coax her. She stomped her feet in anger, turned around and left angrily.

When Eunuch Zhang saw the Queen leave angrily, he entered the hall and saw His Majesty sitting in a chair in a daze, looking lonely.

"Your Majesty, the Queen is young. If you talk to her carefully, she will understand your Majesty's painstaking efforts."

He Linzhang laughed self-deprecatingly. "In her heart, she's probably mad at me. Well, we'll have to part ways sooner or later. Go and make the preparations. Tomorrow, the imperial edict will be issued to establish the crown prince, and the empress will be ordered to rule the country from behind the curtain. I'm going to recuperate and leave the palace for a while."

It is said that he is leaving the palace temporarily, but in fact he will never see her again until he dies.

After Tao Yanyan had a big fight with He Linzhang, he was so angry that he locked himself in the bedroom. He wanted to smash things, but he couldn't bear to do it, so he could only hold the pillow and smash it around.

"I told you to act on your own, I told you to leave, I told you not to coax me, huh, what's the big deal, just go if you want to, I don't care!" Tao Yanyan hit the pillow until it was deformed, then sat on the couch with red eyes and cried.

After she finished crying, she stood up expressionlessly and went outside to see Mingyue and the others looking at her worriedly.

"Your Majesty, the princess and the princes still need you. You must not fall down!" Mingyue stepped forward to support Tao Yanyan and said.

"Yes, Your Majesty, His Majesty is just leaving for a while, maybe just to relax. When his mood gets better and he thinks things through, he will come back. His Majesty hasn't thought it through yet, so when he does..." Qingfeng also stepped forward to persuade him, but was stopped by Tao Yanyan.

"Alright, let's go to the Imperial College and invite the Second Prince back. Tonight's dinner will be served in Changle Palace. I will personally cook a delicious meal for the children."

Chang Tai took the order and left. Mingyue asked, "How about His Majesty? Should I go and invite His Majesty over?"

"Humph, why invite him? He doesn't want us mother and son anymore, so who wants to have dinner with him? No one is allowed to be invited. We mother and son are having a great time tonight, so we don't want to invite him."

Only Mingyue and the others knew the truth about His Majesty's departure; the children were still in the dark. Seeing the Queen so angry, Mingyue didn't know what to say, so she went downstairs and told Caiyun to prepare the food.