Chapter 11 The Month He Served as My Servant
After I fell from that tree.
Father hurriedly submitted a memorial. Chen Bo took me back to the General’s Mansion to recover.
The Emperor knew he was in the wrong.
Not only did he agree, he sent Jing Xuan to the General’s Mansion.
To serve as my page for a whole month.
Page in name.
In reality he acted more like the master of the mansion than I did.
Ordering people around.
Even bringing in five or six cooks.
That was when he got into the habit of coming and going freely.
I couldn’t be bothered to argue with him.
In all these years of birthdays, Father only came back the year I came of age.
With my parents gone, I didn’t want to celebrate.
Only Jing Xuan insisted on sending gifts every year.
Gold and silver jewelry, silks and satins, antiques and paintings, swords and staffs.
Whether I liked them or needed them, he stuffed them all into the storeroom.
I never told him.
I actually had plenty of money. I didn’t need these things.
“Just you?”
“Have Big Brother and Jing Can come too?”
I stood up.
I walked to the doorway and scanned outside.
The Eldest Prince Jing Yu and Jing Can were born of the same mother, both legitimate.
But Jing Xuan’s mother consort was the most favored.
So the Emperor indulged him and spoiled him.
Otherwise how could he openly bring Yingying into his residence? People said he did.
Hearing me ask, Jing Xuan gave a cold snort.
I sighed deeply.
Fine.
They were all here.