Chapter 40 News of an old friend

In the rear hall, Consort Yue and Emperor Chunjia sat apart, playing Chinese chess on the table.

Consort Yue was holding a chess piece, and her jade-like fingertips were more immaculate against the black piece. However, she wore an angry look on her face. After a while, she messed up the pieces, saying, “I don’t want to play anymore!”

She dropped the black piece after she said that, stood up and walked to the round huanghuali-wood table inlaid with marble carved with a crane and a deer in the spring. Then she sat down at the round table and frowned slightly.

Emperor Chunjia followed, held the square silver teapot with a mandarin duck-shaped top on the table, poured two cups of tea, pushed one to her and said, “Then we won’t play. Let’s talk.”

Consort Yue bit her lip, and said, “Could Mammy Zhu convince that bitch?”

“... It’s hard to say.” Emperor Chunjia pondered, “It’s mainly because we can’t figure out what she wants