After ordering Yan Xu to go down, Emperor Jingren did not return to his bedroom, but asked the secret guards to call Jing Xixian, the most capable deputy commander of the Imperial Guard. After he asked Deputy Commander Jing, he had some idea in his mind, so he ordered everyone to go down and return to the room.
Although he was refreshed when he got up in the morning, he looked tired again after listening to Yan Xu's report. The queen quickly asked the emperor to sit down and made him a cup of tea.
After drinking a sip of hot tea, Emperor Jingren frowned and sighed: "This Yan Xu... Hey, he was obviously selected by me personally to lead the imperial guards, why is he so reckless? I chose him back then..."
At this point, Emperor Jingren knocked his head and found that he could not remember the situation when he chose Yan Xu. He had the impression that Yan Xu was very loyal and reassuring, so he always trusted Yan Xu very much, but today Emperor Jingren found that sometimes loyalty alone was not enough. Yan Xu's ridiculous idea was enough to threaten the safety of the entire imperial city at once, which was not forgivable willfulness. Doing the right thing in one's position is not only applicable to emperors and civil officials, but also military officials.
But... I can't remember.
The Queen stopped him from hitting his head, clenched his fist in her palm, and without Emperor Jingren's permission, she sat opposite him and looked at him directly, saying with concern: "Your Majesty, are you hitting your head because you feel a headache? It's my fault. I shouldn't have tempted Your Majesty to drink."
"What did the Queen do wrong?" Emperor Jingren said calmly, "I was moved by the moment and drank with the Queen first. And I didn't have a headache, it's just..."
Emperor Jingren looked at the queen seriously for a while. Both his reason and emotion told him that he could trust this person. So he continued, "It's just that after I hit my head that day, some of my memories have become fuzzy. Speaking of which, Queen, please don't laugh at me. After I woke up that day, I was scared when I saw the queen's appearance. I suspected that I was kidnapped by someone, and that group of people also found a man to pretend to be the queen."
"Oh?" The Queen raised her eyebrows slightly, "Then how did Your Majesty know for sure that I am the Queen?"
"It's strange, although my memory is a little fuzzy, I still have some impression. In my impression, the queen is dignified and majestic, generous, a descendant of a general, very skilled, and slightly taller than an ordinary woman. My impression of the queen is exactly the same, but... a little beyond my imagination. It was not until the queen mother came that I still remembered her appearance and she had no grudges against the queen. Only then did I confirm that you are the queen." Emperor Jingren confessed. Although not remembering his wife might make people angry, with the queen's personality, not only would she not be angry, she would probably even care about his health.
Sure enough, after hearing this, the Queen asked with concern: "Your Majesty, besides remembering the Queen Mother's appearance and not remembering my appearance, who else do you remember and who don't remember?"
Emperor Jingren recalled his experiences over the past three months and replied, "I was a little scared when I first woke up. I don't remember the appearance of you, Doctor Chen, and your maid Xia He. Later, when my mother came to visit me, I remembered not only my mother, but also most of the maids around her. And strangely enough, when I went to see Concubine Shu, I didn't remember her stunning beauty, but I still had some impression of her two maids Cuihu and Luhu."
The queen took a deep breath and asked with a hint of anticipation: "Then... Eunuch Lian, the four concubines in the harem, Concubine Lin, Commander Yan, and... Grand Secretary Lin and Prime Minister Li, do you still remember these people who you often come into contact with?"
"What a coincidence that the Queen asked," Emperor Jingren sighed, "Commander Yan didn't even remember his appearance before, but Grand Secretary Lin and Prime Minister Li both remembered it."
The Queen did not ask any more questions, but stared at Emperor Jingren for a while and suddenly said, "Your Majesty, I have an heirloom that is said to be able to clear the mind and protect people from external evil. This item is my dowry and came into the palace with me. I would like to present it to Your Majesty."
"Since it is an ancestral heirloom, the Queen should preserve it properly." Emperor Jingren said.
"But I am worried about Your Majesty. I can protect Your Majesty from being hurt by any bad guys, but this kind of external evil... I am powerless."
Emperor Jingren was very touched. He held both of her hands and reluctantly held one of the empress's hands and said, "I am very happy to have Jinyi's care for me."
The queen smiled in relief and took something from her neck, which looked like a pendant tied with a simple red string. The pendant was crystal clear, and Emperor Jingren looked at it for a while, but couldn't tell what it was made of.
"This thing... what material is it made of? It looks like jade but it's not jade, so crystal clear, it looks very beautiful, my flesh and blood are so beautiful! This is the real jade.
"It is said that it is an alien object, found from a strange stone that fell from the sky. It is also passed down from ancient times. I have never seen such a thing in this world. I will put it on Your Majesty." The Queen took the pendant and hung the red rope around Emperor Jingren's neck with a little eagerness.
She looked at the pendant for a while, then looked at Emperor Jingren, then looked at the pendant again, and finally a trace of disappointment appeared on her face.
The Queen had always been very cunning, showing only joy and not sorrow in front of Emperor Jingren, and Emperor Jingren rarely saw her in a negative mood. Now that he noticed, he immediately asked with concern, "What happened to Jinyi?"
The Queen shook her head and smiled bitterly, "I was expecting that Your Majesty would be able to regain his memory after wearing this pendant, but it didn't happen at all. I was naive."
Emperor Jingren was relieved and consoled her, "It's a good thought. I will always carry it with me and always remember Jinyi's concern for me."
According to the way Emperor Jingren and the Empress have been getting along these days, after Emperor Jingren said this, the relationship between the two should have quickly heated up, and then they should do something when they are in love. With Emperor Jingren's restraint, naturally, such things as daytime promiscuity would not happen, but it is still okay for them to be intimate.
Unexpectedly, the Queen did not respond to Emperor Jingren at all. Her eyes kept glancing at Emperor Jingren's neck, looking at the pendant. Her expression was somewhat disappointed and reluctant, as if she regretted giving the pendant to Emperor Jingren.
The queen concealed it very well, and to outsiders it looked almost unchanged. But Emperor Jingren was very careful and knew the queen very well, so he could naturally see what the queen meant.
But even if he regretted it now, Emperor Jingren didn't want to return it to the Queen. She had been wearing it all the time, and now she gave it to him. Emperor Jingren loved the Queen, so naturally he didn't want to return it.
He was a generous person. If someone else showed such an expression, Emperor Jingren would not blame him or take away what was good from him. He was a king, he had everything he wanted, so why should he cling to other people's things? But this was not okay. The queen had already given him her personal belongings, and he didn't want to return them.
"Is Jin Yi happy with Yu?" Emperor Jingren suddenly asked.
The queen was stunned for a moment and said, "Jade nourishes people, so naturally I like it."
"Yes." Emperor Jingren nodded and took note of it silently, planning to pick out some fine jade from the inner storehouse to give to the empress after returning to the palace.
After that, the two of them never mentioned the jade again, and the queen's eyes turned away from the pendant. Emperor Jingren took the opportunity to stuff the pendant into his clothes.
They chatted casually and talked about Su Huailing. When mentioning this woman, Emperor Jingren also had a headache. All emperors like auspicious things and believe in luck. Su Huailing has been confirmed to have excellent luck. If she is really killed, Emperor Jingren is afraid that it will bring about some natural disasters. And what if a woman with such good luck is used by others instead of being used by him
"It's indeed a trouble." The queen nodded, but there was no good solution.
"Alas," Emperor Jingren sighed, "If she was like an ordinary lady from a wealthy family, she wouldn't have relied on her good fortune to cause so many troubles. But she is so uneducated... Wait, I have a solution!"
Emperor Jingren's eyes lit up, and he said to the Queen, "Since this girl has done so many things that are uneducated, why don't I teach her a lesson?"
"Oh?" The Queen asked curiously, "Your Majesty wants to find a few nurses to teach her palace etiquette?"
"I don't want her to enter the palace. What's the point of learning palace etiquette?" Emperor Jingren said, "I want to find a few idle people in the Ministry of Justice to teach this girl the law."
The Queen thought for a moment and praised, "This is a good idea, but Your Majesty, why don't you find a female teacher to teach her the Three Obediences and Four Virtues, instead of learning the law? What's the point of a woman learning the law?"
"She can say that she will take full responsibility in front of me, and she still has to distinguish when I want to punish someone. I think she is quite disdainful of these ethics. For such a person, asking someone to teach her is likely to be counterproductive, making her even more disdainful. Fortunately, she still has some conscience and does not want to implicate others. Then I will let her know how many people she will harm by acting recklessly. And I will never let these people go just because she wants to take full responsibility!"
After the queen heard this, she showed admiration in her eyes. She bowed her head deeply and said, "Your Majesty is wise."