"It's best if you understand. This throne is hard-won. You have to hold on to it well and don't let the Ai family's hard work for you go down for so many years."
"I understand." Mo Chuan nodded firmly.
"Very good. As expected of his mother, he is a good son."
Empress Dowager Zhou showed her first heartfelt smile since entering the room, which made Mo Chuan feel warm in his heart.
The heart-to-heart conversation between mother and son made him feel that he had never been so close to his mother.
"Get up, your knees don't hurt after kneeling on the ground for so long, but Ai Jia's heart does."
Queen Mother Zhou pulled Mochuan up, sat beside her, and patted the back of his hand.
"Now, Aijia wants to discuss business with you."
"Mother, please speak." Mo Chuan sat upright and said respectfully.
Ever since Empress Dowager Zhou confided her true feelings to him, he no longer felt the same rejection towards his mother as before.
In his heart, he was surprised and admired his mother. She had been in charge of the harem for decades, experienced ups and downs, and seen all kinds of life.
Compared with his mother, he is too young.
Moreover, he did not understand the painstaking efforts of his mother before, but now he understands them all.
There is no mother in the world who doesn't love her son. Everything Empress Dowager Zhou did was for Xi Chu, for this country, and of course, for him to be the emperor.
In the narration of Empress Dowager Zhou, there is no sword, blood, shadow, and gloom, but Mo Chuan knows that the Empress Dowager Zhou was able to help her young self to become the emperor, and it was by no means as smooth sailing as it seemed on the surface. , so bland.
There must be some conspiracy, blood, and filth behind this throne...
But for all these bad things, Queen Mother Zhou used her loving hands to cover his eyes so that he could not see anything.
If he couldn't see it, he thought it didn't exist.
It was the Queen Mother Zhou who smoothed away the thorns and obstacles along the way.
But he thought that all this calmness was due to his diligence and love for the people. He had no idea what the Queen Mother Zhou had done for him behind the scenes!
Thinking about this, he felt ashamed and grateful at the same time. Facing such a mother, what else could he say
If he says another word that is disobedient to his mother, he will be no different from an animal!
Therefore, no matter what Empress Dowager Zhou wanted to talk to him, he would agree without hesitation.
The conversation between the two in the royal study was almost always in a lowered voice.
Xiao Si and Su Jin, who were guarding the door, didn't hear anything, only half a claw.
Su Jin lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes, quietly guarding outside the door. There was a food box at her feet, which was a snack she brought back from Shoukang Palace.
She knew that Queen Mother Zhou asked her to get snacks just as an excuse to get rid of her, so after getting the snacks back, she did not knock on the door and go in to disturb the conversation between mother and son.
Just thinking about what Queen Mother Zhou was going to talk to Mo Chuan, she couldn't help but frown, and her eyes showed melancholy, as if she was worried about someone.
Xiao Si, however, was sitting on the steps with his hands on his knees. Next to him was a large fruit basket, which contained various fruits as tribute from foreign countries. They were big and sweet, exuding bursts of alluring aroma. .
But Xiaosi's eyes did not stay on the fruit basket, but moved around Sujin's face.