After reading my mind, Daddy, why don't you smile?

Of course the Queen Mother did not miss it. She became more and more excited. She reached out her trembling hand and grabbed the dragon robe of Emperor Jianxi, her eyes full of tears.

Prince Shou advised, "Mother, my brother has already punished you. Don't be angry anymore. The most urgent thing is to take care of your health!"

“Ah…”

Upon seeing this, Emperor Jianxi held the Queen Mother's hand that was on his dragon robe and said sadly, "Don't worry, mother. Even if I have to find all the famous doctors in the world, I will cure your illness!"

The Queen Mother closed her eyes and lay down with a thud, she was extremely angry.

Emperor Jianxi sighed, and said something else to the people in the room, and finally said to the Queen Mother, "Mother, from now on I will come to see you every day and take care of you. You must get better!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, wondering if Emperor Jianxi was just pretending or was really being filial. According to everyone's previous guess, the Queen Mother was seriously ill, so Emperor Jianxi was just going to go through the motions. No one expected that he would have to personally tend to her...

Prince Shou couldn't figure out Emperor Jianxi's temper. What was he going to do? Was he going to put on a show or...

Prince Shou was worried that Emperor Jianxi would have to take care of him personally, and he might be looking for an opportunity to make the empress dowager angry to death. After all, the empress dowager was his mother, so how could he watch others kill her?

Prince Shou bowed and said, "Your Majesty is very busy, so I will do such a small thing as tending to the sick!"

Emperor Jianxi waved his hand at him and said, "Don't think you can just sit there and do nothing. The Queen Mother's illness is also due to your inadequate care. You and I will take care of her together until she recovers!"

Prince Shou was startled when he heard this. Wasn’t he afraid that he was looking at him?

Having made the decision, Emperor Jianxi stayed in the Cining Palace that night and personally fed the empress dowager medicine, wiped her clothes, and stayed by her bedside until late at night when the empress dowager fell asleep. Only then did Emperor Jianxi return to the Yangxin Palace, exhausted.

Everyone in the Cining Palace saw this and was confused.

That night, Zhao Ying, Shangguan Shu, and the old Duke returned to Guangming Palace together. After the three of them comforted the child, they sat down and began to analyze the intention of Emperor Jianxi in taking care of him.

If it was just for show to please the court officials and the empress dowager, it would be a thankless task and unnecessary. After all, the superficial mother-son relationship between Emperor Jianxi and the empress dowager has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

If you continue to act, it will be even more hypocritical.

And there is a Shou Wang watching...

After all, the old Duke grew up with Emperor Jianxi, so he knew more. He said, "In fact, the relationship between your majesty and the queen mother is not that bad. When your majesty was young, the queen mother gave you a meal!"

"What?" Zhao Ying was surprised. Ever since she was old enough to understand, the Queen Mother and her father had been at loggerheads with each other. She really couldn't imagine that the two of them could have any real friendship.

The old Duke shook his head. "Your Highness, you don't know that your Majesty's adoptive mother, Concubine Jin, was banished to the cold palace because of the misfortune of her family. Your Majesty's situation has become even worse. The people in the palace are snobbish. In the past, you only lacked food and clothing, but since Concubine Jin's incident, your Majesty can't even get enough food."

"Your Majesty said that when he was extremely hungry, he would snatch food from the dogs in the Queen's palace. Once he was discovered, the Crown Prince and the young eunuchs surrounded him and beat him. It was the Queen at the time, the Queen Mother, who stopped the Crown Prince and had someone give the steamed buns in the dog's bowl to Your Majesty."

The past sounds so sad, let alone those who experienced it firsthand?

Zhao Ying's eyes turned red with heartache.

"But... although the Queen Mother's move helped Father, her purpose was to humiliate him..."

Who would give dog things as gifts to others, let alone a prince?

The old Duke sighed, "The late emperor had many sons, more than 30 of them. His Majesty once said that a prince who has lost favor in the palace is worse than a dog, so His Majesty is grateful for the Queen Mother's move. With this steamed bun, he has a chance to survive."

Shangguan Shu remained silent until now, but now he asked, "What happened next?"

"Later..." The old Duke recalled carefully, "Later, Concubine Jin died and was hastily buried. The Queen Mother found another foster mother for Your Majesty. Everyone thought that Your Majesty had killed his mother and was unlucky, so they were wary of him. As a result, fewer people bullied Your Majesty."

Shangguan Shu frowned, narrowed his eyes and said nothing.

Zhao Ying also sensed something was wrong. "Father took the steamed buns back, and Concubine Jin died later. Could it be that the steamed buns were poisonous, and Concubine Jin died after eating them?"

The old Duke was startled when he heard this, and shook his head for a long while, "That won't happen. Your Majesty and Concubine Jin have a deep relationship. If that steamed bun really poisoned Concubine Jin, then Your Majesty will not tolerate the Queen Mother after he ascends the throne! He won't even be willing to do it for the sake of face!"

Zhao Ying thought about it and felt that what the old Duke said made sense. "Yes, who can calmly face the enemy who killed his mother and do nothing? How can he endure it? Even ordinary people can't do it, let alone the emperor who holds great power?"

If someone could really hold it back, it would be... horrible.

Zhao Ying selfishly didn't want to think of her father as that kind of person.

Shangguan Shu took a sip of tea, the teacup hiding the faint smile on his lips. He glanced at Zhao Ying calmly, thinking that if his daughter could endure this, how much more could her own father...

Emperor Jianxi's actions tonight were beyond everyone's expectations, and what happened afterwards made all the civil and military officials in the court dumbfounded.

Emperor Jianxi really did serve the Empress Dowager personally, day and night without asking anyone else to do the job for him!

One or two days, then it's over, and it lasts for half a month...

All of this was seen by everyone, and they began to reflect on themselves, wondering if they had been too narrow-minded in the past. It turned out that His Majesty was truly filial to the Queen Mother, but they always thought it was all a show!

Especially when he learned that Princess Side died at the hands of her husband and had nothing to do with the suspect Emperor Jianxi, Emperor Jianxi did not turn evil after enduring so many days of misunderstanding and abuse from the empress dowager. Instead, he repaid the empress dowager with kindness.

Your Majesty is truly filial!

It's because they judge a gentleman's heart with a villain's heart.

All the officials beat their chests and stamped their feet, feeling sorry for having wronged their Majesty over the past few decades.

This does not include Prince Shou. Prince Shou is still observing and observing until he can't bear it any longer.

Taking care of the sick is tiring work, not to mention they are old too?

The Jianxi Emperor was no exception. He had been eating poorly to lose weight, and he was working all day. His face was sallow, and all the officials were frightened. They immediately reported to the emperor, asking him to take a rest. The emperor was safe, and the empress dowager had her own imperial physician to take care of him...

However, the voices of remonstrance were rejected by Emperor Jianxi one by one. Emperor Jianxi said, "I know what you think and say behind my back, and I have never refuted it. I just feel that it is worthy of my conscience. Although the Queen Mother is not my biological mother, she is my legal mother. I have been unlucky since I was a child and have never experienced the joy of family life. My biological mother died early, and my adoptive mothers also died one by one. Only the Queen Mother is left. I don't want to lose my last mother..."

These heartfelt words moved all the civil and military officials to tears. Some even wanted to write a book about the story of Emperor Jianxi and the Empress Dowager and spread it throughout the world.

Perhaps Emperor Jianxi's filial piety moved God, and the Empress Dowager recovered on the eighteenth day after suffering a stroke.

Emperor Jianxi could move God, but couldn’t he move the Empress Dowager?

It is said that after the empress dowager regained consciousness and was able to speak, she felt deep remorse and burst into tears. The hatred for the murder of her son completely disappeared. Not only did she let bygones be bygones with Emperor Jianxi, she also asked Prince Shou to learn from Emperor Jianxi's filial piety.

Prince Shou knelt on the ground and expressed his sincere admiration for his brother's filial piety.

Emperor Jianxi looked at Prince Shou at his feet and slowly extended his hand towards him.