My Cruel Little Empress
Chapter 3
Throughout the afternoon I continued to observe the people passing by on the capital's highway. From earlier my gaze could not be seen the appearance and their faces behind the white satin cloth dangling on the hood of my head.
As I recall, a young man named Bo Qing was going through this place when he returned to work as a foster labourer. But the day even soon welcomed the night, but the figure of the young man I was looking for never showed a nose.
"May may, we must go home now" crown prince Liang warned me
I let out a heavy sigh, before coming out of the palace, I had promised that I wouldn't be out until nightfall. In my heart I feel disappointed, because I did not find my personal bodyguard candidate today. With a frown I then got up from my seat followed by the crown prince Liang, with heavy steps I left the food stall that was on the side of the capital highway.
Maybe I'll find him next time
I continued to encourage myself by saying so, I continued to mutter the sentence in my heart so that my disappointment would soon disappear. I should have known, if Bo Qing was a tough young man. Maybe I should try harder, because to get something great, it takes effort, hard work and sincerity.
"Not to be sad, we can look for him again tomorrow" crown prince Liang said encouraging me.
"What Gege said is true" I did not forget to give him a smile
"Actually, I was very curious about the figure of the young man you would make your personal bodyguard. Was it so great that you chose to step in and look for it yourself?" ask crown prince Liang
"His skill is equivalent to that of a general, he is also the same age as gege" I replied
"Wait" hold crown prince Liang to stop my steps by blocking my arm and forcing me to turn to face him.
"How do you know so much about him?" asked the crown prince Liang in a suspicious tone.
"I've seen him participate in the selection in the recruitment of royal soldiers last year" I replied
Of course I didn't lie, I saw him when I was 13. At that time he followed the recruitment of Zhang's royal soldiers, but had to die because of an insider who had been bribed by someone until he ended up failing. After that, I met him again when I was 15 years old he managed to become a soldier and followed young general Wu Cheng. But at the age of 16 years, in the end he ended up like me, Bo Qing also ended tragically like me when the young man saved the Emperor's father. The young man lost his honor and trust, as the person he believed in ended up stabbing him in the back after the amount of time he spent in his devotion.
"Does his skills defeat me?" ask crown prince Liang
"Of course, gege's ability is still at the top level compared to his ability, so I will ask gege to take the time to train him just like Shi Rong's soldiers" my answer that made crown prince Liang surprised
"Where did you know I had a special forces soldier?" crown prince Liang asked in a whisper
I smiled and replied "Secret"
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The two of us arrived at Zhang's royal palace before sunset. We are currently passing through the secret path that crown prince Liang always passes when he exits the palace - hiding without the knowledge of the emperor's father and Empress Mother.
We managed to enter Shan's pavilions courtyard after successfully passing through the gatekeeper with a young. The two of us then stepped leisurely as the atmosphere of the pavilions seemed to be very quiet than usual, without increasing our vigilance and suspicion by casually walking up to the cold voice of the emperor's father and then making our bodies stiffen.
"Where have you been?"
Emperor Zhang Wei's question which sounded like a statement managed to make us petrified. The tone of his voice and the look on his face were enough to make us understand that the emperor's father is in a bad mood at the moment, and his bad mood is clearly due to our own actions.
"Ayahanda, you don't get angry, nor do you punish gege. I'm the one at fault, I'm the one who asked for gege to accompany me out of the palace because I felt bored" said with his head bowed deeply.
Before entering the palace, we changed clothes in a cave that was directly related to the hole in Zhang's royal backyard. Because that's what made us enter the pavilions of Shan easily because we wore our great clothes as princesses and crown princes of the kingdom.
Maybe the guards, the ladies, the eunuchs and the servants can be cheered on. But not with the father of the emperor who has many connections and his confidants who always follow them in the dark. It was easy for him to know everything we were doing, and one of them was to get out of the palace without permission or bodyguards. In the end they were caught.
"Yahanda did not care, Yue'er stopped defending and protecting your nerves, as well as Liang'er, stopped to protect mei meimu" the Wei emperor said "You are both guilty, and Father will not grant you any leniency. I will punish you for copying the royal rule book, you must write it by hand, not by bringing him into print (asking a worker at a printing press or a paper seller to write) and you are not allowed to leave your residence for 3 days" added the emperor Wei
"But father - -
"There are no words but, if you complain, father will increase your punishment" the Wei emperor decisively cut.
I then frowned at the decree of Ayahanda, while the crown prince Liang was only able to sigh and resignedly accept the punishment. We should be thankful that the punishment we received was quite light, even though if we remember our very big and fatal mistake because it concerns our lives which are the successors of the Zhang kingdom. In addition, we broke the rules and set a bad example for the rest of the kingdom. Of course we regret what we did, unfortunately the regret came so late when Emperor Wei's father continued to scold and scold them mercilessly.
Honestly speaking, I clearly feel guilty for dragging the crown prince Liang into this matter. From the very beginning it prevented me from remembering my condition that had not fully recovered, also because my desires were very risky.
My tears flowed, the guilt that I felt made the terrible memories I had in the future continue to drift and twist around, making me start to feel regret, pain and tightness.
I am a disaster, I am a person who always carries others in distress. Like today, I'm the one who dragged my own brother into trouble. Although not as big a problem as the one I created in my memory about the events we were about to experience 2 years ago, but this problem managed to make me think that whether I was able to change the destiny line, but it was, am I able to atone for my mistakes and sins on everyone? Now alone, there has not been a day of opportunity given by the heavens to me, but I have plunged the crown prince Liang into my selfishness and stubbornness.
"Gege forgive me, hiks.."
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**TBC
Saturday, 11 April 2020**