Chénshì could hear the person taking a seat and then he ask for the name of the person. Which the person responded " oh it is Chéngmíng, I am sorry for not say much earlier. It must have been a bit scary having a stranger visit you".
Chénshì replied " Ah well it was at first but I tend to not mind strangers that much."
" I would like to ask, what bring you to live in the cold place." Chéngmíng asked.
Chénshì paused for a moment he didn't really know what to say but went with what he knew " well I decided to sleep on the side of the road cause I was tried and then I found my self here and just decided I will stay here since I have no where else to be ."
"so you have no parents" he asked curiously.
Chénshì replied"well yeah, I don't actually remember what they look like now all I know is once they died I had to live by my self and it wasn't easy but I still manage to get by".
"And you don't have any siblings?" Chéngmíng asked even tho it kind of seemed more obvious.
" no , I do want a younger once but at the time I wouldn't have been able to take care of him"Chénshì replied with a slight bit of disappointment on his face.
" how did you become blind then"Chéngmíng asked still trying to get more information about him.
At this point it felt like it was an interview for Chénshì but he didn't mind and said " well I believe when I was young someone kidnapped me and demanded that my parents pay him but, my parents were busy doing other stuff so I got beat up really bad , as a result I lost sight in my eyes. At first it was horrible and I was frightened cause I didn't know what to do, especially once I lost my parents straight after, but I soon realized I had to live with it."Chénshì smiled at the end to make it seem not as bad as it was and to show that it didn't really matter anymore.
There was a bit of silence afterwards it seemed that Chéngmíng had run out of questions. All of a sudden Shànliáng asked in shock " what would your majesty be doing here". Shànliáng only just came because before he was busy doing chores somewhere else he didn't realize that the emperor had came in.
Shànliáng quickly bowed down to the emperor and said " long live the emperor" it is a normal way to greet the emperor though servant from lower ranks tend not to say it as much.
Chéngmíng said " there is no need for that , I was just about to leave." and with that he strode out of the cold place he didn't think that anyone would expose him so quickly.
Once the emperor left Shànliáng asked " are you all right. It must feel shocking to have the emperor visit you here when he abandoned you. He probably came to make your life worse ,but don't worry I am here for you." Shànliáng had no clue what the emperor was doing there he was so sure that the emperor had abandoned his consort .
Chénshì was surprised for someone as lowly as him to meet the emperor and he wasn't even formal to him at all.Chénshì felt a little guilty but heard what Shànliáng said and he just laughed saying " it is alright" and forgot about how he met the emperor without knowing.