Chapter 432 - 415 Bee King Honey, 3 Yellow Plums
And just as Yu Qingyi and his companions hurried towards the Capital City, within the Imperial City of the Capital, Emperor Chengping also received the memorial and gifts from Yang Zhenshan.
The current Emperor Chengping hardly intervened in state affairs anymore; although he wasn’t at the brink of death yet, he was nearly there.
Most of his days were spent in a drowsy stupor, only lucid for a little more than two hours, with sluggish limbs, even walking had become an insurmountable task.
Birth, aging, illness, and death are the natural course of life; no matter if you’re the Emperor, you’re merely a speck in the ocean in the face of these, small and powerless.
The wheel of life rolls on relentlessly, no one can stop its pace, no one can escape its cycle.
At this moment, Emperor Chengping had just awakened from his midday nap, the time of day when he felt most alert.
Eunuch Chen, accompanied by a few young eunuchs, arrived at the bedchamber with several boxes in hand.
"Your Majesty!" he called out softly.
"Hm!" Emperor Chengping lifted his body slightly, leaning on a cushioned couch, and glanced at the bowl of lotus seed porridge on the table in front of him, shaking his head slightly as he spoke in a feeble voice: "Take it away, I’ve lost my appetite!"
Eunuch Chen didn’t insist, he signaled the young eunuch beside him with a glance, and the eunuch immediately stepped forward and respectfully removed the bowl of porridge.
"Your Majesty, Marquis Jing’an has sent two items from Chongshan Town, your servant thinks they’re quite fine, so I brought them for Your Majesty to see," Eunuch Chen said, a smile plastered across his face.