Half-dead paulownia

Although it was getting late, Guiyue was still in a hurry to prepare his horse and was about to leave. He happened to be met by Ziye who came here specially. This seemingly accidental encounter was actually because Ziye went back and thought twice, because compared to them, he was more serious. Xiao Jinmo is needed.

"Why haven't you gone back to accompany the baby?" Guiyue never expected to meet Ziye at such a moment.

"Are you going to find Duguao?" Ziye asked directly.

Guiyue pursed her lips, stepped onto the steed, and said in an affirmative tone, "I must find him."

Ziye knew that Guiyue was not referring to Duguao, but the man named Xiao Jinmo. What kind of relationship they had was a relationship that no one could see through, but looking at Guiyue who was so firm, While speaking, there was still some faint unhappiness in my heart.

"Remember when you came back to Anling Imperial City, you asked me about Xiao Jinmo's strangeness?" Ziye suddenly brought up the conversation that day.

"Actually, you found something wrong, right?" Guiyue still had a guessing expression.

Ziye raised his neck, looked at the eager Guiyue, and said quietly: "I noticed that he is indeed different from before. If I guessed correctly, he has already begun to lose his memory."

Guiyue was at a loss for this slight guess. How could he not know Xiao Jinmo's physical condition, but when he confirmed it again from Ziye, he still couldn't accept it.

"If it's really as you said, then his current situation is very bad." Guiyue said with some concern: "However, his disappearance seems to be much more reasonable, because he has forgotten everything, so Let others control you."

"It happens to explain one point." Ziye took Duguao's words and calmly analyzed: "Duguao may have known it long ago."

"It's not too late, I need to find Duguao as soon as possible." With a nervous expression on Guiyue's face, she nodded to Ziye, then turned her horse's head and whipped away.

(Anling Imperial City, Sun Moon Pavilion)

It was almost another sleepless night, An Ruo didn't eat or drink, just stayed beside An Ling Mingcheng, he was already emaciated and disfigured.

The early morning sunshine filled the room, as if with hope of vitality, finally he closed his eyes slightly tiredly, feeling the baptism of the sun.

An Ruo suddenly felt the warmth of the back of her hand on the bed. Is it because the autumn sun is too strong?I couldn't help but slowly opened my eyes curiously, but couldn't stop crying again.

I saw An Ling Mingcheng quietly looking at An Ruo who was taking a nap, and he didn't have the heart to disturb her, but he also covered the back of her hand with distress, and the coldness he touched made him extremely painful, which was more tormenting than his illness uncomfortable.

"Mingcheng?" Almost kneeling in front of the bed, An Ruo ruthlessly grabbed Anling Mingcheng's hand and pressed it to her lips, tears streaming down her cheeks.

Looking at An Ruo's face, An Lingmingcheng squeezed out a smile, and tried to gently wipe the tears on her face with his hands, "Don't??? Don't cry anymore, you're not pretty at all."

"Well, stop crying." An Ruo promised with all her mouth, but her tears couldn't stop like beads with a broken string.

"Have you been blaming me?" An Lingming said in a weak voice. "An Ruo, I???"

"There's no need to say anything, I want you to make it up to me in the future." An Ruo interrupted him because she understood everything.

Anling Mingcheng once again showed a gratified smile, but also showed a little helplessness, the word 'later' might be an extravagant hope for him, and then he looked around expectantly as if suddenly remembering something, but he couldn't help it. A little disappointed after looking around.

"Hao'er stayed here with you all night last night. I was afraid that he would burn himself out, so I asked him to go back to rest early in the morning." An Ruo saw what An Ling Mingcheng meant. Although he didn't say it, it was already revealed in his eyes. .

"Now is the time when the imperial court needs him, so don't tire him out." An Lingming was full of pampering and worry.

"You'd better worry about yourself, your son is old enough to take care of himself." An Ruo said some reproaches, but in a gentle tone.

"Lord Luo, I told you that the emperor has some important business this morning, so it's inconvenient to visit, so you should go back." Eunuch Zhang's voice suddenly came from outside the door.

"I, Luo Shengchuan, have never come to the imperial city if I have no important business. Now that I am here, there must be something important to announce. I think since the establishment of the capital of Anling, I have never heard of a Ming emperor who did not go to the early court and was not allowed to report. In history, there is no Those who manage the government are often fools." Luo Shengchuan's sarcastic words seemed to be intentionally insinuating.

Anling Mingcheng and An Ruo naturally heard the truth, but if Luo Shengchuan saw the recovery from a serious illness, it would even stir up a bloody storm in the government. He, who has been eagerly waiting for the opportunity, might take this opportunity to come. A conspiracy.

"Lord Luo, don't talk nonsense. The current emperor is a rare wise king in the world. He is deeply loved by the people, but it is really inconvenient for him to go to the court today to discuss matters." Eunuch Zhang did not expect Luo Shengchuan's words to be so presumptuous now. Don't worry about anything.

"I have already heard that the emperor came to this Sun Moon Pavilion yesterday and has never left. Sure enough, I saw Eunuch Zhang here, but what important matter does the emperor need to solve in the room? Is it more important than this state affairs? If you don't report, you will delay important matters, I don't think any of you can take care of it." Luo Shengchuan firmly believed that the emperor was in the room, and couldn't help being a little angry.

Hearing Luo Shengchuan's words, An Ling Mingcheng couldn't help feeling a little bit impatient, struggling to get up, but An Ruo pushed him back, motioned him to keep quiet, instead he straightened his clothes and walked out calmly.

"Who is making noise outside?" An Ruo opened the door, with a proud expression full of nobility.

"Zhenxiang King Luo Shengchuan is visiting the empress." Startled by the sudden voice, but quickly regained her composure, but she didn't expect that the person who came out was actually the empress.

"It's so early in the morning that it doesn't make people clean. Who do I think it is? Isn't this our scholar-bureaucrat Ye Shengzhang? Oh, it's Zhenxiang King Luo Shengchuan now. I didn't expect that after leaving the palace, he even changed his surname. The name bestowed by the biological parents can be changed, how dare Lord Luo achieve the filial piety that is the best in the world?" An Ruo didn't even give Luo Shengchuan a little respite, and said some harsh words, which was based on his personality. The way also cures the person's body.

"Back to your mother, Luo's parents have both died since he was a child. His father's surname is Ye, and his mother's surname is Luo. The first half of his life was to keep filial piety for his father, and the second half of his life was to keep filial piety for his mother. Retaliate." Luo Shengchuan actually ignored An Ruo's sarcasm, and instead said it clearly and logically.

"So, Master Luo is really a loyal and filial person." Although An Ruo praised her in words, her tone was a bit cold.

"Loyalty and morality are the way of human beings." Luo Shengchuan said with some deep meaning.

"What a way to behave, but I don't know what is meant by Lord Luo's early morning visit?" The conversation changed and the question got to the point.

"I just want to have an audience with the emperor. Please forgive me that I have something important to do. It's inconvenient to mention it to the empress of the harem. Let me report it to the emperor in person." Luo Shengchuan seemed to deliberately put the word "harem" in a particularly heavy tone, clearly reminding She doesn't want to interfere in government affairs.

An Ruo couldn't help showing a smile, "That's strange, since it's not convenient to mention it to me, why did you come to me so early in the morning?" An Ruo said in a puzzled tone.

"I know that the emperor is here, so the empress must also know that he didn't go to court today, right? The ministers have already talked about it, and I have no choice. I am afraid that traitors will disturb the court, so I hereby have an audience." Luo Shengchuan said in an extremely loyal tone.

"I don't know who told Lord Hou that the emperor is here? Eunuch Zhang just came to visit me at the order of the emperor, and he is not here." An Ruo denied.

"Your Majesty, this is an important matter, we must not delay it!" Luo Shengchuan still seemed not to give up.

An Ruo walked down the stairs step by step, looked at Luo Shengchuan with burning eyes, stood in front of him and said softly: "Master Luo was full of loyalty and morality just now, but now he has been lingering in front of the Queen's room in the capital of Anling." Go, I know that I listened to the slander and had an audience with the emperor, but I don’t know that I thought you were staying on purpose, what kind of plot do you have, don’t you?” There was even a hint of evil charm.

"Empress, you..." Luo Shengchuan didn't expect An Ruo to come up with such an excuse, which made him speechless for a while.

"Why, in broad daylight, some people say that the emperor came to the Sun and Moon Pavilion and never left. Why didn't it come out that Lord Luo met the empress in private and was unwilling to leave? Or maybe this was deliberately set up by others. The trap is to ruin one of your plans? I don't think Marquis Luo is just a fool." An Ruo took a step closer to Luo Shengchuan.

The atmosphere was suddenly a little depressed, but it also revealed a suffocating embarrassment.

"Your Majesty??? Please forgive me for my ignorance and misbelief in other people's slander. If the emperor comes to visit, I still need my empress to say a few words for my minister. It seems that I can only wait for my minister to go back and write the memorial. I will hand it over to the emperor, and I will leave first." Luo Shengchuan had heard about the intelligence of Empress An Ruo, but now that she saw it, she indeed possessed an aura and courage that no other woman could match.

(Huanzhao Capital)

After a few days of intensive care, Ling Zining has recovered a lot, and her pale complexion has finally returned to tenderness, but there are occasional flashes of uneasiness in her eyes, but she didn't mention anything, and others didn't ask too much about it. , as if nothing happened, everything returned to the most primitive calm.

"Ning'er, what are you thinking about?" Ling Zhuoxi found that Ning'er was always staring at one place in a daze.

"Huh? It's nothing, I just feel so good at home." Ling Zining couldn't help feeling a little emotional.

"Then we'll stay at home all the time, and we won't go anywhere." Ling Zhuoxi looked at the face of her most beloved sister. Although she had recovered her former glory, she also realized that her hurt heart would never return to the beginning innocence.

During the speech, he gently hugged Ling Zining's shoulder, and said softly: "My brother will always be here, no matter how much wronged you suffer, no matter how powerful the other party is, brother will go through fire and water and sacrifice everything for you."

"What if the other party is Xiao Jinmo?" Ling Zining suddenly asked coldly in Ling Zhuoxi's tender embrace.