Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress-Chapter 1882 - 1889: New Palace Maid (4)
Nangong Yi decisively said, "No, if anyone is to leave and build a residence, it should be those two boys. Bright Pearls will stay by our side. She’s delicate, and if she gets bullied and doesn’t dare to tell us, we’ll all be kept in the dark."
’Delicate daughter?’ Cai Wei couldn’t see where Bright Pearls was delicate. This little girl looked cute, but she was actually a cunning little Loly. She didn’t believe she would be wronged by the son-in-law. However, her Imperial Father believed firmly that his daughter was delicate and insisted on a son-in-law to join the Palace, having long made up his mind, leaving her, the Empress Dowager, with no options. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮
So be it, who could blame him for doting on his daughter? Who said that ancient people all valued sons over daughters? This saying does not apply to Nangong Yi. It wasn’t until now that Cai Wei deeply realized how reasonable the saying ’daughters were fathers’ little sweethearts in their past life’ was. Nangong Yi was so good to his daughter that she was almost jealous!
In fact, Nangong Yi treated his daughter well not just because she was his only daughter, but largely because Bright Pearls looked like Cai Wei, simply a smaller version of her. It was because of this that the man cherished his daughter so much!
One meal ended amidst the debate of whether the daughter should get married or the son-in-law should join the household, whether to build a residence or live inside the Palace.
After the meal, the whole family dressed and went to Qixia Palace to pay respects to the Retired Emperor. The Retired Emperor hardly saw anyone these past two years, only occasionally meeting with Cai Wei to borrow a few scriptures left by Cihai Zhenren from her; otherwise, he wouldn’t see anyone even during the New Year Festival.
This time, for unknown reasons, the Retired Emperor unexpectedly saw them. After they met, Nangong Yi led the family to kowtow to the Retired Emperor. The Retired Emperor told them to rise and ordered them to take their seats.
Not long after they settled, the Retired Emperor told them something, specifically his decision—he decided to leave the Palace and go into seclusion and cultivation at the famous Tianlun Mountain, planning to leave after the Lunar Month, without the carriage, horse, or guard of Nangong Yi seeing him off, just he and Li Chongzong would leave quietly, not letting anyone know, to avoid causing trouble.
Although Nangong Yi had little affection for the Retired Emperor, he didn’t want him to leave. He was old and used to comforts, and it wouldn’t do without someone to serve him. In the deep mountains and old forests of Tianlun Mountain, should he fall ill with no one around, he would only be left to die, and Tianlun Mountain is in the north, making it sealed by heavy snow in the winter, where the breath is enough to freeze into lumps, unsuitable for living.
However, despite Nangong Yi voicing his thoughts, the Retired Emperor was already determined to go. He met them today just to inform them, not to discuss with them. Seeing the insistence, Nangong Yi had no choice but to agree.
Upon leaving Qixia Palace, Cai Wei saw that Nangong Yi looked somewhat wistful, so she said, "Don’t worry about the Imperial Father. White Tiger’s mother is cultivating at Tianlun Mountain. When the Imperial Father and Master Li Guo reach Tianlun Mountain, I can entrust them to White Tiger’s mother. I reckon they will be fine. Besides, Tianlun Mountain is full of auspicious energy, and perhaps when the Imperial Father gets there, he may truly reach immortality, who knows."
Nangong Yi nodded, said no more. His feelings for this father were very complicated.
In his childhood, he greatly admired his father and longed for the Imperial Father’s affection, and was eager for his family to receive the Imperial Father’s protection. But as he grew older, the Imperial Father disappointed him time and again. His youthful admiration gradually turned to hatred, and at the most severe times, he even harbored the thought of patricide.
Later, Cai Wei came into his life, causing an earth-shaking change, and the Imperial Father’s attitude towards him also underwent a dramatic reversal. Slowly, their relationship thawed, becoming a fatherly love filled with filial piety, and under his father’s coercion, he became the new emperor of the Great Jin Nation.
