Chapter 160 How can one word describe this? (1)
Chapter 160 How can one word describe this? (1)
Overnight, Shen Yin seemed to have opened up her Ren and Du meridians. She began to take medicine and eat food seriously to nourish her body. After she was able to get out of bed, she asked the palace servants to bring a rectangular box that was taller than her.
She gently wiped the dust off the box with a wet handkerchief. Since she entered the palace, she had never picked up anything in the box again.
Shen Yin picked up the spear in the box. The cow tendon wood of the spear shaft was still as tough as it was seven years ago, but the spear tip was already covered in rust.
"Go get me a whetstone."
"Your Majesty, your health is good now. Let the servants take care of these things."
Shen Yin dodged the palace servant's hand and repeated, "Go get me a whetstone. Don't make me say it a third time."
The two palace servants serving Shen Yin in the room looked at each other and retreated together, one to find a whetstone and the other to find the emperor.
The gun in Shen Yin's hand is not a treasure, it is just an ordinary spear.
With an expressionless face, she sharpened the gun tip on the whetstone again and again. She hadn't done such physically strenuous work for a long time, and a dense layer of sweat appeared on her forehead.
What Yun Che saw when he entered the hall was Shen Yin with a sullen face, rolling up his sleeves and grinding the disassembled gun tip in his hand over and over again as if he was venting his emotions.
"Yin'er, what are you doing?"
Yun Che grabbed Shen Yin's wrist, stopping her movements, and said distressedly: "Let me see if your hand is hurt?" Then he turned around and questioned the palace servant kneeling in the hall: "Is this how you serve the queen? Let her do such a dangerous thing?"
Shen Yin looked at Yun Che's angry face and said, "Your Majesty, I want to go to the battlefield."
“Yin’er, don’t say such things. You’re not well yet.” Yun Che didn’t look into Shen Yin’s eyes. He reached out and took the still rusty gun tip from her hand.
“I’m already well again. If you don’t believe me, just look.” Shen Yin spread her arms and turned in a circle in front of Yun Che.
Yun Che casually threw the gun tip on the table and took the handkerchief to wipe Shen Yin's hands.
"I will listen to the imperial physician for everything. He told me that your illness is not yet fully healed."
"Your Majesty, don't you want me to go to the front?"
Yun Che dotingly tucked the strands of hair on Shen Yin's forehead behind her ears, held her in his arms and said affectionately: "I hope you can always stay by my side."
Shen Yin was not moved by this, but just said coldly: "Will I stay by your side and watch you have three palaces and six courtyards and have children with other women?"
Yun Che froze in his embrace, then slowly loosened his arms, looked at Shen Yin with a sad face and said, “I thought you would understand me after all these days.”
Shen Yin shook her head, "I can't, I will never understand you! It was you who told me that a man can have only one wife for his whole life! It was you who promised me that no matter what happens, you will only have me! It was you who promised me that I would still be myself after I married you!"
"But I find that I am no longer myself now!" Shen Yin roared in despair.
Big tears flowed from her eyes. She spread her white and smooth hands in front of Yun Che and asked, "Are these hands beautiful? But they were not like this before. They were rough and covered with calluses before, but because you said that my hands are slender and long, it is a pity to have calluses on my hands. So since I entered the palace, I have never touched a gun or ridden a horse again."
"You said you would love me and respect me forever and never let me down, and I believed you. You said husband and wife are equal, and I believed you, but what did I get in the end? I got your betrayal!" Shen Yin held her face with both hands. "If Shen Rou was here, she would laugh at me to death. After all, I swore to her that you would never betray me."
Yun Che reached out his hand to pull Shen Yin, but the latter dodged. He shouted to the palace servants kneeling in the hall, "Get out!", then reached out to pull Shen Yin and explained anxiously, "Yin'er, this selection is just a temporary measure. You are still the queen, my only wife, and the love of my life! Those women who enter the palace are all concubines, and their status will never surpass yours."
"Your Majesty, don't you feel disgusted when you say such things? Do you know what you have become now? You are now like the kind of emperor you once despised the most, an incompetent emperor who relied on his lower body to balance the situation in the court."
Yun Che didn't expect Shen Yin to say such cruel words. He couldn't help but feel disappointed. He looked at Shen Yin with a hurt expression, "Is this the kind of person I am in your eyes?"
Shen Yin wiped the tears from her face, raised her head and looked at Yun Che, and said word by word: "If you had not told me your advanced ideas over and over again, if you had not taken me to imagine the dreamy modern world again and again, if you had not always told me about monogamy and equality between husband and wife, then facing the current situation in the court, I would really feel sorry for you, and even take the initiative to persuade you to expand your harem and give birth to an heir as soon as possible.
Your Majesty, it was you who gave me the yearning for marriage, and it was you who destroyed it with your own hands.
You are the most despicable person I have ever seen in my life. Not only did you break the oath you made to me, but you also want me to understand you, comfort you and accept you. Isn't this too shameless?"
Yun Che looked like he was hit hard. He grabbed Shen Yin's shoulders and asked loudly, "How dare you say that I am despicable and shameless? How have I treated you badly in the past seven years? In order to marry you, I knelt outside the palace of the late emperor until I fainted. You have no children. In the past few years, I have withstood such great pressure and refused to take a concubine. Now your sister is rebelling in the south, and the ministers are clamoring to depose the queen, but I tried my best to suppress them. Shen Yin, ask yourself, how have I ever let you down?"
Yun Che felt extremely aggrieved as he spoke. His eyes were red and his voice was filled with tears. “Do you think I want to participate in the selection? I don’t want to either! Who made me have no son and no heir? I have suffered defeats on the border and the south is in chaos. My brothers and uncles are eyeing the position under my buttocks. I am twenty-six years old and I am the emperor. I don’t have a child yet. I need to stabilize the court. What do you want me to do if I don’t take a concubine?”
Shen Yin suddenly thought of her mother who was far away in Jiangnan. Yun Che knelt for most of the day in order to marry her, but she did not dare to ask for any reward in order to marry him. Because of this, her mother hated her to death and scolded her for being an ungrateful person.
How did she comfort herself afterwards? She thought her mother was just vain.
What's wrong with being the queen's mother? Why does she have to be obsessed with being a lady of honor?
Now she understood that the title of "Queen's mother" was bullshit, because the position of Queen was bullshit.
In this world where nothing is equal, the equality of husband and wife is just empty talk. There has never been equality between her and Yun Che. One is the emperor in front of millions of people, and she is the queen under the emperor.
One of the prerequisites for her to become the queen is that Yun Che is the emperor, but if Yun Che is the emperor, she may not be the queen.
Shen Yin sat back on the couch and turned to look at the autumn scenery outside the window. She no longer wanted to care how sincere this man was to her, and she was too lazy to care.
Since the throne is more important than her in the other person's heart, there is no need for her to regard the other person as more important than herself.
"Your Majesty, please go out. I want to be alone." Shen Yin began to order the guests to leave.
Yun Che wiped his face with his hand and said, "Okay, I'll come to see you later. Remember to eat and don't starve yourself."
Shen Yin shaved her hair behind her ears, put on a gentle smile, and said in a calm voice, "Don't worry, I won't commit suicide. I'm still waiting for your Majesty's children to call me mother."
Yun Che tightened his fists that were hidden under his long sleeves, and after moving his lips a few times, he finally said nothing and turned away.
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