sick man

Early in the morning, Chaoyang Hall was very lively.Yuan Xi and all the eunuchs and maids knelt on the ground, and the sound of smashing things kept coming from the inner hall.There was a lot of noise, and I don't know if the white jade Guanyin statue was broken or the crystal vase fell.Some fragments of porcelain ornaments splashed outside from time to time, and some directly hit Yuan Xi who was kneeling at the front.

Young Master Xue was crying while throwing things, and kept yelling, "I don't want to stay here anymore, I want to go home!"

The emperor patiently persuaded,

"What nonsense! This is your home, where are you going?"

Xue Xiaoyun was not persuaded, but made more trouble.

"No! This is the home of you and your mother. My home is Taifu's Mansion. I want to go back, and I will go back today!"

"Did the queen mother make things difficult for you?"

Hearing what he said, Li Chengyan guessed that the matter might have something to do with the Queen Mother.

Xue Xiaoyun bit the corner of her lips, neither nodded nor shook her head, just kept crying.Li Chengyan hugged him distressedly and coaxed him for a long time, said all good things, and promised to take him out of the palace for two days.But Xue Xiaoyun just didn't let go, and was about to leave.

The two argued for a while, and finally Li Chengyan compromised, called Yuan Xi in, asked him to pack some of Xue Xiaoyun's clothes, and then arranged a carriage to take him back home for a few days.

Yuan Xi responded, and brought a few court ladies into the inner room to tidy up.Li Chengyan was very angry at Xue Xiaoyun's sudden stubbornness, so he endured his anger and went to the imperial study to review the papers.Xue Xiaoyun just cried as if he had been greatly wronged, but Yuan Xi couldn't see it, so he handed him a handkerchief with a short body.Xue Xiaoyun took it and wiped his head and face clean, sobbing and commanding the maid who was packing her bags,

"You, you guys...all...uh...everything that belongs to me, give me...collect it all, don't leave a single thing behind!"

"This……"

Several court ladies stopped their hands, you looked at me, I looked at you, they all looked quite embarrassed.Qiqi had no choice but to cast her eyes on Yuanxi,

"Eunuch Yuan..."

Yuan Xi also heard Li Chengyan's order clearly. He said that Xue Xiaoyun just went back to the mansion for a few days to relax, and it was obvious that after a few days, he would bring her back.But with Xue Xiaoyun's order, it seemed that he planned to move out of the palace completely.

Yuan Xi didn't dare to agree, he knelt on the ground with his knees bent, and the maids also put down their things and kowtowed.

Xue Xiaoyun yelled several times but no one dared to get up. In a fit of anger, he simply picked out the things and packed them up. He didn't even leave the pillow he was used to sleeping on. It was a big bag that was bulging. Lee Seung-yeon.

Xue Xiaoyun didn't take it to heart at all. After packing up her things, she urged Yuan Xi to find a carriage.Yuan Xi didn't dare to disobey him, so he brought a brand new car over. Xue Xiaoyun jumped into it as soon as he put his things down, and went back to Xue's residence without leaving a word.

That night Li Chengyan stayed in the imperial study and didn't come back, so Yuanxi brought ginseng soup to send.When Li Chengyan saw him coming in, he put down his book and pinched his brows, his voice was full of exhaustion,

"Yuan Xi, Master Xue is gone?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Yuan Xi replied, after thinking about it, he still thought it would be better to explain in detail.

"Master Xue left in a hurry and left without lunch."

Li Chengyan sighed after hearing this,

"Yuanxi, has the Queen Mother summoned Young Master Xue?"

Yuan Xi has always been by his side, if Li Chengyan hadn't ordered him to stay and be sent by Xue Xiaoyun today, Yuan Xi wouldn't even know when Xue Xiaoyun left.

Yuan Xi didn't know why Li Chengyan would think of testing him, and knelt on the ground with a frightened expression,

"Please forgive me, Your Majesty, I don't know."

Li Chengyan also thought of it, waved his hand a few times, and said lightly,

"Okay, back off."

"Yes."

When Yuan Xi exited the door, his legs were still weak, for fear that Li Chengyan's displeasure would be blamed on him.Fortunately, he didn't ask carefully. If he knew that Xue Xiaoyun had taken all the things away, he would definitely be furious.

Li Chengyan still found out the next night, and he really lost his temper.

He couldn't remember how many things he usually gave Xue Xiaoyun. Xue Xiaoyun's clothes were changed quickly, so he couldn't count them, but he still remembered the white jade pillow that Xue Xiaoyun had kept on the bed.In the past, Xue Xiaoyun also went back to live for a few days because she missed her family, but she never brought her pillow back with her.

Li Chengyan found that the pillow was missing, so he naturally felt very strange, and looked around the room, and found that all Xue Xiaoyun's favorite things were gone, and he couldn't find half of his clothes in the wardrobe.

Yuan Xi, who was in charge of cleaning up, knelt on the ground tremblingly with several court ladies, and told Xue Xiaoyun that he insisted on taking all the things away.Li Chengyan was furious, but he knew that Xue Xiaoyun had become headstrong, even bulls couldn't resist him, and Yuan Xi and the others were slaves, so it was fine not to help at the risk of being punished, but Li Chengyan scolded them a few times, but he didn't really punish them.

It's just that the next day I went to the Empress Dowager's Palace to pay her respects, Yuan Xi was waiting far away, I don't know what the mother and son talked about.Anyway, when Li Chengyan came back, his face was not very good-looking, and he went to the Imperial Study Room after lunch.

This time I stayed for three days, and Su Hongrui came to see him once in the middle.After Yuan Xi sent him in, he stayed outside the door as usual, and heard Su Hongrui ask about Xue Xiaoyun again through the half-covered window.Li Chengyan responded casually, but Yuan Xi heard Su Hongrui say seriously,

"Chengyan, don't worry, I will help you."

Li Chengyan didn't answer either, the two played a game of chess and talked about the recent border situation, and Su Hongrui left.

Yuan Xi looked at his somewhat lonely back, and felt very fortunate in his heart.Su Hongrui seemed to have noticed the relationship between Li Chengyan and Xue Xiaoyun, and never made any intimacy with Li Chengyan.

As a result, Yuanxi was only happy for two days when bad news came from the Xue residence.

On the surface, Xue Xiaoyun said that Xue Xiaoyun sent his entourage to relax on the mountain not far from the mansion, and one accidentally rolled down the cliff.The Xue family sent people to search for a whole day, and finally found a corner of Xue Xiaoyun's clothing on the edge of a cliff.Taifu Xue passed out on the spot, but it was Xue Xiaoyun's elder sister Xue Xiaowei who insisted and ordered people to go down to the cliff to look for it.But the cliff is really too high, and the walls are full of sharp-edged rocks, so there is no way to go down.Besides, even if it goes down, the ground is covered with rocks, and there is absolutely no possibility of surviving.

But the blame is that Xue Xiaoyun has been sluggish for the past few days, and has no energy at all.I heard from the servants in the mansion that Young Master Xue seemed to be a different person when he came back from the palace. Not only did he fall ill that day, but he also had an uncharacteristically lively temperament. not so good.Could it be that he was having a temper tantrum with the emperor, and when he couldn't think about it for a while, he...

There is also a reflection with a good memory. The day before Master Xue's accident, he received a guest.

That guest was none other than General Su Hongrui Su who had been getting close to the emperor recently.As for what he and Xue Xiaoyun talked about, no one knows.With General Su's skill, it's really no problem to deal with a helpless young man without anyone noticing.

All of a sudden, versions about Xue Xiaoyun's death, misstep, suicide, murder, etc. were circulated in Zhuoyang City.It's just that due to the influence of the Su family, no one dared to mention Su Hongrui by name, and Xue Xiaoyun has never seen anyone alive or dead.

Li Chengyan finally gave up the plan of ordering someone to go down the cliff to find Xue Xiaoyun, because someone found Xue Xiaoyun's jade pendant a little further down from the corner of Xue Xiaoyun's clothes.The jade pendant was passed down to him by Xue Xiaoyun's mother who died of illness. Xue Xiaoyun once told him seriously that the jade pendant was like his life to him.Jade is alive and people live, jade is broken and people die.Li Chengyan also called him a crow's mouth.

Unexpectedly, the words became a prophecy, although the jade pendant hung on the branch was not broken, but Xue Xiaoyun was probably more ominous than ominous.

Ten days later, the Xue family also stopped searching. Master Xue endured the grief of losing his son in his old age, and erected a tomb for Xue Xiaoyun, and buried it next to Mrs. Xue. Li Chengyan helped the spirit himself, which is considered a grand burial.

After Xue Xiaoyun's death, the sparse smile on Li Chengyan's face also disappeared.The young emperor, who was vaguely youthful and childish, seemed to mature in a blink of an eye, but the way he looked at people became colder and colder.

Fortunately, although the emperor has changed a bit, he is still clear about his identity and responsibilities. Even if his beloved young master of the Xue family passed away suddenly, he still married Su Hongrui, the son of General Su, as promised during the funeral period.

That day was originally a sunny day, but it changed around noon. Dark clouds rolled in from the east, covering the sky for an instant, a thunder flashed, and it rained heavily.Li Chengyan took Su Hongrui's hand and accepted the worship of civil and military officials, and suddenly leaned close to his ear, and said softly,

"Tell me, could it be Xiaoyun crying in the sky?"

Su Hongrui's originally reddish face suddenly turned pale, and he held Li Chengyan's hand tightly, but he didn't feel it let go.

That night, Li Chengyan got drunk and rummaged around in the Chaoyang Palace, as if he lost something important.Su Hongrui was afraid that he would be disrespectful in front of the palace people, so he sent away all the attendants and followed him step by step.

"Chengyan, what are you looking for?"

Seeing Li Chengyan standing still in front of the opened wardrobe in the inner room, Su Hongrui went up to him and asked him.

Li Chengyan stared straight at the grid full of clothes, and murmured,

"No...it's gone, really gone."

"What's missing?"

Su Hongrui said patiently.

"I've searched everywhere...but he... just disappeared..."

Li Chengyan turned around suddenly, hugged Su Hongrui and cried.While crying, she called Xue Xiaoyun's name softly, for fear that the loud volume would frighten him.

Su Hongrui felt a pain in his heart. Although Li Chengyan kept concealing it, he had already seen that the relationship between him and Xue Xiaoyun was unusual.He just didn't understand, since Li Chengyan loved Xue Xiaoyun wholeheartedly, why would he ask him to marry him?

"Chengyan, you're drunk."

Su Hongrui sighed and pushed the person in his arms away.

But Li Chengyan clung to him relentlessly, Su Hongrui grabbed his shoulder to remind him to open his eyes and look at himself,

"Chengyan, look clearly, I'm not Xue Xiaoyun!"

"Ah……"

Li Chengyan stared at him for a while, then struggled to open Su Hongrui's hand.

"Yes...you are not him...how could you be him..."

As he spoke, he was about to go out, but he stepped on the hem of his clothes, tilted his body and fell forward.

"careful!"

Su Hongrui dangerously hooked his waist to bring him back, and never dared to let go, for fear that if he was careless, Li Chengyan would really fall.

"Let me go!" Li Chengyan insisted on leaving.

Su Hongrui persuaded helplessly,

"Your Majesty, it's getting late, it's time to rest."

"Rest?"

Li Chengyan was stunned for a moment, stretched out his hand to pinch Su Hongrui's chin, looked around for a while, and suddenly raised the corner of his mouth and smiled frivolously,

"Will General Su wait for me to rest?"