After teasing the emperor, I overturned the car

He Rongchuan knew why he was so lost.Outside the city of Longzhou, voodoo brought out the deep ailment in his heart. In the confusion, he heard a haunting voice telling him that he would never leave again.

At that time, he would believe everything others told him.The moment he heard these words, he suddenly plunged into the soil like a rootless plant. Relying on the strength brought by this person who promised never to leave, he broke free from the quagmire of the past step by step, and re-survived in the world with another face.

But since then, he has to rely on the nourishment of this soil to live.Once the other party breaks their promise and abandons him, it will be like the sky falling apart, and he will become a walking dead with nothing but appearance.

These days, he is forceful and useless, dragging an empty shell and still sleeps day and night.But the grass and trees lose their soil and will be squeezed dry one day. Anyone with a discerning eye can see his haggardness, and he also knows that he can't last long.

Now that Gu's domestic and foreign troubles have not subsided, and the court system has not yet been perfected, he has to force himself to continue.So I had to spend some time every night to walk around the Royal Garden, to the place where he and Chi Yi had stayed together, trying to find some traces of that person from every stone and tree.

In the end he always came to this cave and lay down in the boat for a while.He kept himself from thinking about bad things, and not thinking about the feeling when he found out that Chi Yi was plotting. He only remembered that on this boat, he had kissed that person recklessly.

At that time, Chi Yi was obviously terrified, and stood there without any response. Finally, when he moved a little, he plundered almost crazily. He had never felt such a strong desire in his life.

He turned to look at the empty side.In fact, he did nothing wrong, but he missed a word to Chi Yi.

One less sentence, no matter how he betrays, I will not really hurt him at all.

He Rongchuan stood up slowly, stepped out of the cave with the withered Sophora japonica flowers all over the ground, saw Wang Lu waiting at the entrance of the cave, and asked, "...but where else can we go?"

Wang Lu wondered: "You have been to Yuquan Pool and Zhuoqing Bay dozens of times, and this palace road has also been walked back and forth a hundred times. The rest... the place that Mr. Chi often goes to is probably only Chunyang Palace. .”

He Rongchuan was startled, then raised his eyebrows, "Then go to Chunyang Palace."

……

In the main hall of Chunyang Palace, Concubine Wan kicked out all the servants in the house. Although Madam Wu was gone, she was not willing to throw those cats away, so she just locked them outside the door.

She had to be the only one in the room, so she dared to take out the letter written by Chi Yi to her brother, and then unfold the scroll, and outline the landscape of Jiangnan according to the words on the letter.

She has always had a dream about Jiangnan in her heart.When she was a child, her father went on patrol in the south, and when he came back, he always told her something, and she longed for the scenery there.When she was ten years old, she planned to let her brother take her to Jiangnan next time, but her father stopped her just as she packed her bags.

Her father told her with a serious expression that he had just arranged a marriage for her, and asked her to marry the eldest prince at that time in the future, so she could not go out from now on.

She also resisted, but later realized that this was the decision made by the first queen mother, and her father could not refuse at all.There are also dozens of noble daughters from aristocratic families who, like her, were inexplicably betrothed at a young age.

In the end, she didn't go to Chengnan either.She sometimes wants to go away like Chi Yi, regardless of her style, but with the family's reputation on her body, she can't do whatever she wants.

The first layer was only marked on the drawing paper, when a palace official rushed in to report: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty has come to Chunyang Palace suddenly, and has already reached the door..."

Wanpin was taken aback, now it was too late to pack up her pen and ink, so she could only press the letter paper in her hand under the book.

She quickly tidied up her appearance and went to greet him at the door. She was still instinctively afraid of this supposedly "murderous tyrant".However, when she saw the man, she was startled. The man's complexion was abnormally pale, his former fierce expression was exhausted, and even his walking steps became vain.

When He Rongchuan entered the house, several cats were let in.He sat down directly, as if he didn't have the strength to be polite to her, so he asked directly: "When Chi Yichang came to Chunyang Palace, what did he tell you?"

Concubine Wan only thought that he had some doubts again, and quickly dismissed it: "It's just chatting. I often ask him for advice on how to make dim sum."

"How did he teach you?"

She thought that the other party didn't believe in making dim sum, so she rummaged in the drawer, ignoring the cats next to her, and allowed one of them to press a few paw prints on her painting.

She handed over a few pieces of paper, "This is a recipe I left behind before. This one was dictated by Mr. Chi and I memorized it, and this one was written and sent by him later."

"Written by him?" He Rongchuan snatched one of them, took a lamp over, held it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully.

Wanpin thought he was going to check the authenticity, but he didn't expect him to be very focused, the more he looked at it, the closer he held it, and he carefully stroked the words with his fingers.

She understood that this was not a paranoia, but a longing for solace everywhere.So she rummaged through her closet, packed a basket of those things that Chi Yi gave her and she didn't want, and gave them to He Rongchuan, and explained the origins one by one.

After hearing this, he was silent for a long time, then thanked him, and packed up the basket of things to take away.When I got up, I saw a few cat's paws in the unfinished painting on the table, and I rarely smiled.

At this moment, the cat that had been lying on the table suddenly arched the book next to it, exposing a piece of paper pressed underneath.He Rongchuan didn't pay attention at first, but when his eyes glanced over inadvertently, he saw the last thing on the paper...

A few irregular strokes, like symbols, look like a smiling face when put together.Someone once drew a similar image on the memorial in his hand when he thought he couldn't see it.

After a moment of daze, he quickly stepped forward to pick up the stack of papers, and held it under the lamp tremblingly.

Seeing this situation, Concubine Wan immediately became anxious, and knowing that she couldn't catch him, she could only let him watch.Seeing that his body was trembling more and more unconcealable, with surprise, anger and sorrow on his face, he said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, Mr. Chi wrote this letter to my brother. He specifically asked not to reveal his whereabouts. He didn't want to let him You found him."

He Rongchuan slowly raised his head and stared at her, biting his voice between his teeth: "Where is the other person? Where are the first few pages? Take it here."

Concubine Wan avoided his question with a worried expression on her face, "What crime did he commit? It should be worth it for doing so many things for you. Please let him go, Your Majesty."

"Let him go?" The corners of He Rongchuan's mouth curled up in a contemptuous arc, "According to what you said, I came back to kill him after looking for him?"

"Isn't it? That is to torture him, persecute him, and humiliate him."

"Is there no other possibility?"

She muttered in a low voice: "I can't just love him and protect him..."

He Rongchuan stood up suddenly when he heard this, put away the letter paper, picked up the basket of things and went out.

He walked quickly back to Zhenghuai Palace, Wang Lu trotted behind to catch up.Seeing that his expression was wrong, Wang Lu asked tentatively, "But the concubine Wan is annoying you? If so, the harem also has rules for dealing with it..."

He Rongchuan sat on the couch where Chi Yi usually slept, and said in a daze for a long time: "No need. She is not allowed to leave the palace, and she is not allowed to deliver news. Otherwise, if Chi Yi learns that I have dealt with the concubine because of him, You want to take your anger out on me again."

Ignoring Wang Lu's surprised expression, he lowered his head and fiddled with the basket of small things.

Wanbi couldn't see what he had done to Chi Yi, she would feel that he was persecuting Chi Yi, only Chi Yi himself told her.

He's been the iron-faced tyrant in people's eyes for too long.There are many things that people like him don't deserve.

But that doesn't stop him.No matter what others think of him, or how Chi Yi himself thinks of him——

He will never let go.

He Rongchuan read the letter with missing pages again, and these alone are enough to find someone, so he told Wang Lu: "I will tell you some courtiers, and you can find them. I will leave the palace after I explain something, and go south , go to Huizhou."

Wang Lu said helplessly: "Think twice, Your Majesty. Now that we have finally obtained clues, if we rush to scare people, why not hide further away. Why don't I go over to check the situation for you first, and ask him what he means."

He Rongchuan nodded after thinking for a moment, and added: "Bring more hidden guards. Even if he refuses to come back, he must be well protected."

……

Living in Zhuangzi in the outskirts for a few days, Chi Yi watched the plan gradually progressing and had nothing to do, so he planned to make some desserts for the soldiers in the camp to improve their mood.

When he went out to buy ingredients, he ran into an acquaintance: Aunt Li who used to cook in Wangguilou, was arrested by the pure Chinese, and was rescued by Chi Yi back to Longzhou City.

At that time, Wangguilou was destroyed, and she died again, her son had no one to rely on, so she came to Huizhou to seek refuge.And the person she defected to was actually Mu Di's brother. During the period of exile, that person was suddenly granted an amnesty by the emperor for some reason, so he was released just like that.As soon as he was released, he met Chao Yong and joined the rebel army.So Aunt Li is now cooking for the Goo army.

Chi Yi didn't want to understand the logic of their joining the rebel army. Aunt Li said innocently: "Wangguilou is to overthrow the tyrant, and Guguo is also to overthrow the tyrant. Isn't it the same?"

Chi Yi: ...

He keenly felt that this person might be the breakthrough point of the whole plan, so he decided to take Aunt Li back to his residence, intending to ask her to help deliver some letters.

But all the way back, he felt as if someone was following him.When he was about to enter the door, Chi Yi suddenly looked back, and saw two figures in black on the side of the road quickly avoiding them.

Chi Yi's heart sank. He recognized the clothes of the two men, which were the uniforms of the hidden guards in the palace.

So is he... exposed?

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