The Blind Concubine was expressionless. Motionless. Also speechless.
The Emperor said again: “You told me, you hope that I could often come to see you. Accompany you and talk with you. I am now here with you, for all my life I will never leave. Please smile a little.”
The Blind Concubine retreated a step backward. Mockingly he said: “That was all merely a joke. Your Majesty took it seriously?”
The Emperor’s fingers were smoothing out the sleeve of The Blind Concubine. Looking down he said, “All that you have said, I took it all seriously.”
The Blind Concubine hurriedly pushed away his hand, “You only lie to me!!”
The Emperor stepped forward to hug him, “I am truly earnest towards you. Why are you unwilling to believe me, Mu Yan?”
The Blind Concubine desperately struggled from his hug. His hands were slapping the Emperor’s shoulder and upper arms unstopping. “Don’t use that name to call me!” Each and every word, he shouted out his with his saddened and hoarsened voice. He pushed and struggled to get free, resulting in him falling to the floor. His hand accidentally pressed on the smashed porcelain.
The Emperor’s face became pale, with a strict voice he warned him: “Why are you being so careless?! To flare up and do as you please just to act recklessly!”
He took Wen Mu Yan’s pair of hands. Spread them to examine. In the center of that palm was filled with the pieces of broken porcelain. The blood was pouring.
Even though the Imperial Physician had been summoned, yet he still anxiously ordered the Palace’s servant to go to the General’s residence to call Jue Yu to enter the Palace.
When Jue Yu hurriedly came to the serving quarter, the Blind Concubine had already fallen asleep. His sleep was not comfortable. He was sleeping lightly.
“Mu Yan’s body is already so broken. At this rate, I was afraid that he wouldn’t hold up until he’s thirty-five. If he doesn’t take good care of himself like this, even if the greatest doctor, Hua Tuo, was still alive, he would also feel quite helpless for this situation.”
The Emperor retorted: “I also don’t want him to be like this, however with his current temper, sometimes, he truly asks me to lose my temper to the point that I would kill him if I could.”
Jue Yu said again: “Wen Mu Yan, his first time meeting Your Majesty in that Cold Palace, had no idea that Your Majesty was the one who caused his blindness. That was because Your Majesty’s voice at that time was still of a youth. Not same at all with the current voice. Afterwards, it was known, yet, there wasn’t the slightest bit of intention for revenge. He only thought about leaving this place and going faraway. He is a good child. From his early ages he already suffered that kind of misery. This sickness of the heart needs the heart to be cured. For now, you must just yield to him and listen to his will.”
The Emperor hesitated for a moment, then said: “I can agree to whatever he wants, all except the matter of leaving the Palace. For all my life, I will never let him go.”
Jue Yu fell silent all of a sudden.
At that time, the first time when Qi Sheng went down the mountain to enter the court, if he was the same as the Emperor today, definitely without compromising, who knows what kind of relationship the both of them might have had now.
Even if Qi Sheng might have hated him, however, he wouldn’t have had to suffer the pain in his heart for bitterly waiting for him.
The Emperor asked him: “Mu Yan’s eyes, are they curable?”
Jue Yu cast a quick glance to the inner room, said in a soft voice: “There is no way to cure his eyes. It can’t be cured anymore.”
The Emperor stroke his folding fan, his fingers because of the pressure had become white. After a long while later, he said: “Can’t be cured anymore, it is also good.”
Jue Yu stood on the outside for quite some time. Looking at the Palace’s servant cooking the medicine on the slow fire. Entered in and out from the serving quarter, but he didn’t see Xiao Bao’s figure. He asked lightly: “Where is Xiao Bao?”
The Emperor answered him: “He is someone assigned by the Empress Dowager after all. I can’t be relaxed. I placed him somewhere else.
Jue Yu said again: “Xiao Bao has served Mu Yan with all his heart. Besides, when he was assigned to serve at the Cold Palace, he was still a little child. He didn’t have any calculated plans. He only accepted the order from the Empress Dowager. He had followed Mu Yan by his side for so many years. Making an all out effort. Dependably taking care of him. Mu Yan actually couldn’t be parted with him.”