A dream ends life

At the dinner table, Su Ci and Xiao Che sat opposite each other.

There was a lot of food on the table, and there was a bowl of tonic soup beside it.

Xiao Che served her a bowl of soup and gently placed it in front of her.

Su Ci looked at him, smiled, and continued eating.

This should be their last meal together. If she guessed correctly, Xiao Che should leave.

Ever since He Wei had spoken to him, he had been absent-minded. From the way he looked at her and the way he hesitated to speak several times, she knew it was time for them to part.

Xiao Che put some food in her bowl, but he didn't move his chopsticks and his eyes never left Su Ci.

After watching Su Ci finish his meal, the two of them walked to the back garden one after the other to digest the food.

Chunshui and Hewei knew what was going on and didn't follow. They were the only two people in the whole garden.

The afternoon sun was extremely strong, making people feel a little hot, but Su Ci felt very comfortable. He lazily enjoyed the sunlight with a lazy and casual look.

The tall figure hugged her from behind, and Xiao Che buried his face in her neck.

"The prince is leaving, right?" Su Ci said softly.

Xiao Che did not answer her. He did not want to leave her, not even for a moment. So much so that he could not utter a single word.

Su Ci did not ask further questions, and continued, "I have prepared some things for the prince, and I will ask He Wei to take them with him when he leaves. Take care of yourself, Prince."

Xiao Che tightened his grip, feeling as if someone was pulling at his heart.

He opened his mouth and wanted to say that he would be back soon, but God knew when he would be back.

He was not sure whether Su Ci would wait for him here. He knew that she had unfinished business, and he also knew her past, her resentment, and her anger. How could she swallow them so easily?

He wouldn't stop her from doing what she wanted to do, she just had to stand behind him.

With her slender fingers, she lifted the hair beside Su Ci's ears and said, "Take care of yourself. I will come to find you."

Su Ci's eyes flashed with surprise, and then he was relieved, "We will meet again in the future if we are destined to do so."

After this separation, no one knew when they would meet again. She herself didn't even know where she would end up. Where should he go to find her?

The two of them stood in the garden hugging each other. An autumn breeze blew, and yellow leaves fell from the trees, floating around them.

No matter how reluctant he was, he had to leave. No matter how unwilling he was to be separated, he had to leave. Xiao Che still left.

Su Ci saw him out. The carriage not far away was already ready to go. He Wei sat in the carriage, his eyes full of anxiety.

Xiao Che took a few steps, then turned back and hugged Su Ci, "I will come to find you. I mean it. No matter where you are, I can find you. Just leave a seat for me."

Don't like others, and don't let others fill the space around you.

After saying that, his face flushed a little, and he got on the carriage without looking back. He Wei whipped the carriage and it rushed out.

Su Ci was left standing there in a daze, unable to recover for a long time.

……

He Wei drove the carriage hard, raising dust wherever he passed.

He felt a little depressed. His master was already thirty years old and he finally met someone who made his heart move. He was unwilling to leave like this.

That ancestor is really something, why is he causing trouble at this time? Isn't he really afraid that his son will be single?

The carriage ran without stopping for a moment, covering more than a hundred miles in one breath.

Xiao Che said, "Stop the car and let the horse rest."

If you don't take a break, this horse will be exhausted.

Hewei pulled the reins and slowly stopped the horse to let it catch its breath.

"Master, let's go to the posthouse to change horses! This way we can get to Huaxi City as quickly as possible."

Xiao Che said in a deep voice: "My mother should not be in Huaxi City anymore, so it would be useless for us to go there."

He Wei paused and said, "But, if we don't go back to Huaxi City, where can we find her? Qingyuan has searched Yuzhou every corner but couldn't find her. She must be on the way back to Huaxi City."

The Empress Dowager actually left a letter and ran away, saying that she was going to Yuzhou to eat autumn crabs. After that, this ancestor disappeared. How can we find her?

Xiao Che rubbed his brows and said in a deep voice: "Go to Yuzhou."

He Wei didn't understand why Xiao Che was so sure that the Empress Dowager was in Yuzhou, but he would just go wherever his master said.

Xiao Che said: "Although my mother is not in Yuzhou, since she mentioned Yuzhou, she should have expected that I would go there to look for her. There should be clues about her in Yuzhou."

His mother obviously wanted him to go to Yuzhou, so he went to see what was waiting for him in Yuzhou.

The Empress Dowager has secret guards around her. As long as she doesn't want them to find her, they will never be able to find her.

I can only accept my fate and follow my mother's wishes.

Since leaving the palace to enjoy her retirement, she has been letting herself go, doing whatever she wants, under the pretext that after living in fear in the palace all her life, she wants to live happily outside the palace, leaving no regrets for her old age.

The master and servant re-designated the direction and got on the carriage to Yuzhou.

What they didn't know was that after their carriage left Qingzhou's jurisdiction, a gray carriage entered the city.

Lying crookedly in the carriage was a woman who looked to be around 40 years old. She had a ruddy complexion and an oval face. Although she was over 50 years old, she was favored by time. There was not a trace of aging on her face, and there was not even a wrinkle at the corners of her eyes.

Especially that pair of clear and affectionate eyes, which are unforgettable and have 60% similarity with Xiao Che's eyebrows and eyes.

The Li Ma beside her was an old lady who had accompanied her from the boudoir to the palace and to the present. The two were of similar age but looked very different.

Nanny Li's hair was gray, and although her face didn't have many wrinkles, it matched her actual age. She looked like an old lady in her 50s or 60s.

"Miss, if we do this, will the prince be unhappy?"

Nanny Li was always feeling uneasy. Her young lady had deliberately sent her son away to meet that Madam Su. If the prince knew about this, he would definitely be angry with them, right?

It's rare for the prince to find someone he likes, so don't let the young lady break them up again.

The beautiful woman lazily spat out the green date pit in her mouth and hummed softly.

"I just want to see what this Su is like. Che'er has never been tempted by love at her age. She can't let some little devil outside coax her. I, an old mother, have to check on her."

The beautiful woman's voice was lazy, but with a hint of coquettishness that made Madam Li feel both amused and helpless.

"You know what kind of personality our prince has. Over the years, he has seen all kinds of women, but he has never been tempted. I think that Su must be a good woman."

"Humph! That's not necessarily true. You still don't understand men. If a man is interested in a woman, it's definitely not just because she has good character. Love at first sight is just lust. I think that Su is a person who knows how to manipulate men."

She has spent most of her life in the deep palace, so she doesn't need to know too much about the things between men and women.

This was also what worried her most after she heard that her son had someone he liked.

Ugh!

When her son doesn't want a woman, she worries. When her son wants a woman, she is heartbroken.

Is it easy for her as an old mother?