Three days later.

Zhao Jin Yu was seasick, the first day she had happily

explored everywhere, even going up on deck to watch the riverside scenery, but

by noon she started feeling dizzy, retching from her stomach, soon after she

continuously threw up, unable to eat, just lying in bed.

A knock was heard outside the door, “Lady Zhao, I’ve bought

you medicine.”

Zhao Jin Yu felt very surprised, saying, “Auntie Chen, come

in.”

Chen Rong carried a small porcelain bowl in her hand, a

black and thick medicine in the bowl, emitting a strong traditional medicine

smell, smelling it Zhao Jin Yu’s stomach once again overturned, she couldn’t

help but retch again.

Chen Rong somewhat worriedly said, “Even if it smells

unpleasant you still have to drink it, otherwise it’ll be even worse”

Zhao Jin Yu also understood this reason, waiting until her

mood settled somewhat, she used a clean handkerchief to wipe her mouth

preparing to hold the medicine bowl, again that smell of traditional medicine

caused her stomach to roll, after trying it several times unsuccessfully, Zhao

Jin Yu shook her head at Chen Rong with a pale face, saying, “I really can’t

drink it.”

Chen Rong blamed herself slightly, saying, “I should have

asked that physician to add more peppermint.”

Zhao Jin Yu shook her head, “Adding peppermint won’t prevent

this smell, I’m sure I still wouldn’t be able to drink it.” There wasn’t a

physician on the s.h.i.+p, even if there was there was no medicinal ingredients,

Chen Rong had especially caught a small boat to a small town to buy it, Zhao

Jin Yu was very grateful for her kind intentions, “Auntie Chen, thank you so much.”

Chen Rong had been an armed escort for many years, most of

her jobs were delivering items, even if it was escorting people, then it was

only sons of n.o.bles going for a wander, a dozen or more servants following

them, she simply did not need to take care of these small things, at first when

she started she had only thought of doing her job, afterall she wasn’t hired to

be a servant, rather an armed escort, but for some reason the closer she got to

this amiable and approachable Young lady Zhao the more she liked her, when she

saw Zhao Jin Yu did not forget to thank her even now, in her heart she already

felt this child was thoughtful and proper, but she also felt a bit sorry for

her, reportedly her father was a fifth ranked official, with her status if this

matter hadn’t happened she would be at home enjoying her parent’s love, pa.s.sing

her days innocently and unaffected right?

“I’ll see if there are any tangerines on the boat.” Chen

Rong recalled the taste of tangerines can supress seasickness.

Zhao Jin Yu hurriedly nodded her head, saying, “I want to

eat a lot.”

Chen Rong seeing Zhao Jin Yu’s impatient gaze, seeming

rather like a child, she couldn’t help smile, saying, “Then wait a moment.”

When the emperor woke up he discovered, apart from the

tangerine peels covering the floor, a certain person was lying on the bed with

wispy breathes, an extremely weak appearance, he frowned, saying, 

“How is your

seasickness still not well? Could it be you’re almost dead?”

Zhao Jin Yu flushed with anger, picking up a tangerine at

her side she threw it at the stone, saying, “If I die you’ll also starve to

death!”

The emperor saw the tangerine coming over but did not dodge,

biting it in a mouthful, then cheerfully enjoyed it, saying, “Hey, if you’re

not dead then say something?” The emperor finished eating the tangerine,

thudding he jumped over to ask, Zhao Jin Yu was annoyed, turning her head she

ignored it, the emperor had never been ignored like this by someone before, he

was very unhappy, hopping to the other side he b.u.mped against Zhao Jin Yu’s

cheek, Zhao Jin Yu then again turned her head…, it repeated in this way, the

emperor was rather angry, by accident he knocked into Zhao Jin Yu’s teeth.

The stone hitting teeth, it produced a sharp and clear

sound, in pain tears fogged up Zhao Jin Yu’s eyes immediately.

It was an extremely quiet night, the curving moon rose to

the middle of the sky, contrasting the river water like gleaming reflections of

waves in sunlight…, the atmosphere in the room was slightly depressing, the stone

stood rigidly for quite a while, suddenly seeing sparkling and translucent

droplets flow out of Zhao Jin Yu’s fair narrow slits, all of a sudden there was

some strange feelings in his heart, he said, “Why are you crying?”

Zhao Jin Yu was awfully angry, she was barely alive due to

seasickness, even more her teeth was knocked against by the stone, it was

simply when it rains, it pours, extremely unlucky, bursts of dejection in her

heart.

She decided to ignore the stone, when she watched TV dramas

before the little brats of other people’s, like Tang Bao in `The Journey of

Flower`,

was a sweet little angel, but in the end she had met this loud and bad

tempered, and bad mouth stone, thinking about it she heaved a sigh.

The emperor watched those irksome tears, in every case he

felt very uncomfortable, saying, “Hey, girl, I’m hungry.”

Zhao Jin Yu was still angry, only out of the corner of her

eye she glanced at the place where the stone was missing a piece, recalling the

treatment it had suffered, and still couldn’t harden her heart, she unwillingly

said, “There will be food in a while.” She had told Juan Er before, to deliver

food every night.

The emperor nodded in satisfaction, saying, “Good, good do

what you’re told, if you make us happy maybe we will forgive you for previously

ignoring us, and will reward you.”

The stone’s words were very aloof and remote, with plenty of

arrogance, Zhao Jin Yu was once again melancholy, but she reckoned she was

still angry, an anger she would get used to, = . =, with some grudging ridicule

she said, “Thank you for Your Majesty’s favour.”

“En, now you act us you should” The emperor was like a

monarch set up on high, aloof and imposing he nodded his head slightly.

How much did Zhao Jin Yu want to strangle this little thing

to death? She gnashed her teeth thinking about it, but when all the

imposingness met food…, it would disappear, = . =, no different from a

gluttonous child.

After Juan Er delivered food, the emperor soaked in the

soup, comfortably drinking noisily giving off bubbles, thinking about it he

like soup, lying on his back in the nice and warm soup, both tasty, and warm,

and through the milky white soup he could carefully look at Zhao Jin Yu’s

richly colourful expression, when she frowned she slightly pouted her rosy

lips, when she got angry she would scowl puffing out her cheeks, like a cute

little rabbit, when she was excited she was radiant with delight, eyes bright

like the many stars in the sky…, compared to those imperial concubines whose

every smile and scowl were perfected hers was more unrestrained, even more

pure, even more genuine.

He know knew her name wasn’t Zhang Hong rather Zhao Jin Yu, that

was only because yesterday night he had seen Zhao Jin Yu’s census register in

the cabinet…, however his mood was different from several days before when he

wanted to return to the palace as soon as possible, all of a sudden he felt

travelling far with Zhao Jin Yu wasn’t a bad idea.

Ever since he ascended the throne, even if he left the

palace he was accompanied by retinues, under the watch of countless people, granted

that they revolved around him, incomparably revered, still the fact was he felt

a lack of freedom, like he was right now, only an ordinary stone, able to see

many, many sceneries he couldn’t see as an emperor, to him it was very rare.

Of course, if Zhao Jin Yu can be somewhat more well-behaved

then it would be good, but it didn’t matter, he would eventually make her learn,

the emperor haughtily thought.

The emperor finished eating dinner, he stared at Zhao Jin

Yu, saying, “Girl, you still won’t come to give us a bath?”

Zhao Jin Yu did not know when her name became girl, but she

felt this way of calling was no different from someone calling a servant girl

to wait on them, summon and dismiss at will, = . =

Just at this moment, hurried footsteps could be heard from

outside, the s.h.i.+p’s captain somewhat fearfully said, “My Lord, what wind has

blown such an esteemed person here.” Even though his tone was pandering, but

his shaking intonation was enough to ill.u.s.trate his fear.

Zhao Jin Yu was startled, enduring the dizziness she walked

to the door, opening a small crack she looked out, as a result with a look she

was actually scared out of her skin, standing on the deck was an Embroidered

Uniform Guard wearing a feiyu outfit,

solemn and respectful appearance, under the moonlight he emitted an even colder

air.

A man who looked like the leader stood with his back to Zhao

Jin Yu on the deck, tall and lean stature standing straight, the gold

embroidered crimson gown was set off by the moon, even though Zhao Jin Yu hadn’t

done anything wrong…, but she didn’t know why her heart palpitated.

For some reason she felt this person was similar to someone.

The man was talking, then he turned, at that moment Zhao Jin

Yu saw his appearance clearly, he was around twenty five or six years old, very

young, but with a sharp gaze, calm expression, an imposing manner as if he

occupied a leading position all year round, making the s.h.i.+p’s captain who was

older than him by around twenty years speak nervously, sweating profusely.

Isn’t that Su Qing Chen? Uncle Zhang’s younger brother!

The emperor naturally heard the sound of activity outside,

but calmly said, “Why are you not moving? Aren’t they just Embroidered Uniform

Guards, quickly come over.”

Zhao Jin Yu nervously took a breath, shutting the door she

walked over to the stone, lowering her voice she said, “Aren’t they just

Embroidered Uniform Guards?” She placed emphasises on the three words

Embroidered Uniform Guards, “didn’t you say before that the Embroidered Uniform

Guards are looking for you?”

The emperor impatiently said, “Give us a bath!” Having

spoken he saw Zhao Jin Yu look at him with wide eyes resentfully, his heart

softened, he hmphed, “Look at us right now? I’m missing a piece, utterly

broken, completely without spirit, would the emperor still want me?”

Zhao Jin Yu shook her head very naturally.

The emperor saw and said, “Isn’t that it, my original little

bit of spirit has been spent, just to help you find out news of those women,

now I’m only a useless stone, this sort of stone, why would the emperor still

send Embroidered Uniform Guards to search?”

Hearing this Zhao Jin Yu nodded her head at ease, and was

somewhat sad, thinking the stone was a little pitiful, it seemed extremely

miserable without spirit, disregarding the fact it was because of her, she

said, “Little thing, relax, if you don’t recover your spirit, I will still keep

you, so long as I have a mouthful of food, you absolutely won’t starve, I will

be good to you for a lifetime.” A tender and sympathetic tone, with a resolute

conviction showing through, unconsciously making people have confidence in her.

The emperor felt these words were very refres.h.i.+ng, he a

grand ruler of a country needs this girl to support him? He couldn’t help want

to mock her, but for some reason a few unknown feelings rushed to his heart,

warm, nice…, unexpectedly completely comfortable, but also very unfamiliar,

making him somewhat frantic, in order to evade such feelings, he immediately

said, “As for those women mistakenly arrested you worried about, didn’t we say

to you, they have been released, the emperor even sent some money, it could be

considered that they profited from a disaster.”

In order to make this girl even more obedient the emperor, even

though he knew he had arrested the wrong people he still kept them locked up,

until Zhao Jin Yu deeply worried and sick at heart begged him to think of a way

did he then pretend to use up all his spirit to look over to the capital city

for news, afterwards he ordered people to release the women, making Zhao Jin Yu

thank him having received the news those women had been released, equally

because he helped her and exhausted his spirit it gave rise to guilt, two birds

with one stone.

As for what spirit, what the emperor had already given up on

finding the stone, it was merely casual reasons that’s all, he was the emperor

Zhao Jin Yu talked about, and didn’t he do whatever he wanted?

Zhao Jin Yu somewhat excitedly said, “If the emperor

naturally knew he had arrested the wrong people, it also indicates, the emperor

could have already known you are now like this, and completely given up on

looking for you.” Zhao Jin Yu felt the weight on her heart finally disappear, making

her breathing much smoother, the more she looked at the stone the more adorable

and close it felt, “little thing, you are so good.”

“Right, that’s just it, from now on don’t ask such stupid

questions, hereto this matter has concluded!” 

The emperor saw Zhao Jin Yu

finally understood, slightly nodding his head, he pointed at the teacup to the

side saying, “We want to bath in there.”

“That is a new teacup I bought.”

“If it wasn’t new we wouldn’t want it!” The emperor’s tone

changed speaking up to here, pointing at his own nicked body, warningly he

said, “Why did we become like this? En? Who just said they would be good to me

for a lifetime? Don’t just merely say it and not remember it in your head!”

Zhao Jin Yu, = . =

Why did she feel the stone was intimate just now, very cute?