The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 164

Chapter 164: 114 Rural Examination (two updates combined into one)

The old lady, with her sweet tooth, had Wuyang acting as her handyman all day at home. Wuyang would one moment hear, “Miss Gu, I’m hungry, I want candied fruit,” and the next, “Miss Gu, I’m thirsty, I want to drink green bean soup, the super sweet kind…”

When he got back to the villa, Wuyang was deeply questioning his life.

Prince An saw him in his room and asked, “How did it go? Did you see the Empress Dowager?”

Wuyang appeared rather unsettled, “I did see her…”

But was that really the Empress Dowager?

Wuyang shared his miserable experience of the day with Prince An.

Prince An was shocked. He recalled that yesterday in the village, he seemed to have heard some strange things coming out of the Empress Dowager’s mouth. He was so excited at the time that he didn’t take it to heart. Although he later realized what she must be doing, he thought she was pretending to be insane and fooling the Gu family who were guarding her.

“My subordinate doesn’t think so,” Wuyang speculated, “When Miss Gu went to fetch water and only the Empress Dowager and I were left in the room, if she had been pretending to be foolish, with no one else around, she would have shown her true colors to me.”

But she didn’t. The Empress Dowager was only interested in devouring her sunny-side-up eggs, and would always interrupt Wuyang whenever he attempted to speak.

How had he never noticed before that the Empress Dowager was such a glutton?

Prince An’s impression of the Empress Dowager was not that of a woman who would neglect serious matters for a bit of food. However, it was indeed true that she couldn’t consume too much sweet food, the imperial physicians had warned, stating that a light diet would be better for the elderly.

In a murmur, Prince An wondered, “What happened? Has the Empress Dowager lost her memory? And that has resulted in a drastic change in her personality?”

Or, perhaps, this was the true character of the Empress Dowager, the years she had spent in the palace were all an act?

But who can pretend for decades? Wearing a mask of cruelty for so many years, wouldn’t they show some cracks?

Prince An preferred to believe the former. The Empress Dowager had forgotten some things, and the resulting changes in her disposition had disappeared, making her a completely strange person.

Wuyang didn’t dare to speculate recklessly, “What does the Prince plan to do? Still planning on taking the Empress Dowager back to the capital?”

“I don’t know,” Prince An sighed.

An Empress Dowager only interested in eating and drinking wouldn’t stand a chance against the Emperor, but keeping her here, under Marquis Ding’an’s watchful eye, also made him uneasy.