Chapter 357 – Ah Yu, he lied to me!

Huo Xiu pulls on her arm.

“Marquis, the county princess is here!”

Before he could speak, Yao Lin had already walked back with the medicine with a nervous expression.

Luo Yanru changed color and turned around, “Why is the county princess here?”

“I don’t know.” Huo Xiu let go of his hand and took the medicine handed by Yao Lin, picking up her palm with one hand and smearing some ointment on her affected area with the other. Then he said, “I’m going back. You stay here and don’t move, don’t worry, no one will know that I came to see you.”

After saying this, he turned around and walked towards the door.

Luo Yanru subconsciously chased after him.

Huo Xiu walks out of the doorway and turns back, looking deeply at her for a moment before leaving again in large strides.

Huo Mingyu stands in the front yard, talking to the nun who came to greet her. Raising her eyes, she sees Huo Xiu walking out accompanied by the Abbot and immediately greets her, “Brother!”

Huo Xiu stops chilling with the Abbot, “What are you doing over here?”

Huo Mingyu glances back and forth between the two of them, “What are you doing here again?”

The abbot puts his hands together, “The marquis has set up a tablet for your highness in the temple, and tonight the marquis is here to add incense and oil money.”

Huo Xiu also nodded.

Huo Mingyu looks at them, then says, “In that case, I’ll go in to pay my respects as well.”

“It’s late, go home.”

“I’ve come all the way here, how can I not go?”

Huo Mingyu said and crossed over them towards the middle hall.

Huo Xiu paused, then followed suit.

On the side wall of the center hall, there is a furnace of half-burned incense, and behind the furnace is a tablet with the posthumous name of the Princess. Below the tablets are many copied scriptures piled on top of each other. Huo Mingyu looked for a long time, and then lifted her skirt and knelt down, paying a few respectful obeisances.

……

The moon climbed high into the sky, and the earth became brighter.

The large pot of stewed mutton that the shopkeeper had brought up had been mostly consumed as half an hour passed.

The aroma of wine wafting from the store, mixed with the aroma of meat, was just the most wonderful thing about the fireworks on earth.

Zhao Su said, “When are we going to eat?”

The emperor was about to speak, when Liang Ying had already walked up, “Your Excellency, there is a carriage from Elder Master Luo’s residence coming out next door.”

“Elder Eunuch Luo?”

Even though Zhao Su had been sedated for a small part of the night, he still couldn’t help but be surprised when he heard this. “Who is it?”

Liang Ying glanced deeply at her, “Luo Yanru.”

“……”

Luo Yanru, this person, say she is important, except for the birthday festival on the back of the color, and then there is no movement. Saying that she was unimportant, she always appeared from time to time. Right now, for example, she appeared again in the here and now, which was completely out of one’s reach. She remembered another key point: “What’s the place next door?”

“Nanshan Temple.”

“Could it be that you all knew she was here tonight?”

“No.” The Emperor shook his head and picked up a skewer of mutton in his hand, moving with the skill of a shopkeeper’s son. “What I do know is that another person frequents this place.”

“Who?”

The Emperor looked at the meat in his hand, but did not speak. He sat with a puzzled expression for a while, then stood up suddenly, “Let’s go!”

Zhao Su was stunned, and when she returned to her senses, he had already walked out.

Marquis Weiyuan mansion together with the princess house, covers an area can not be said to be not big, along the acacia tree alley to the end, you will see the marquis high wall. Mansion corner of the octagonal lamp tower exposed to a section, the light will be the wall of the glazed tiles shining snow bright. Even if the population is sparse, the grandeur of the marquis’s house is also revealed here.

Zhao Su and the emperor stood outside the eastern corner door of the marquis house, looking at the closed door and the high hanging lanterns. The floating clouds have covered up half of the moon, and the wide green stone floor reveals a bluish hue.

The last time she came to the Huo family, Huo Mingyu was the one who explained to open the marquis’ gate to greet them, she had never been to this east corner gate, but she could see that this corner gate, which was no less than the gate of a normal official family, was the main doorway for them to enter and exit on weekdays.

“My lord, someone is coming.”

Han Jun came to remind him, calling back both Zhao Su, who was about to be unable to hold back the frenzied surge in his heart, and the Emperor, who had been silent and taciturn all along.

The sound of cart wheels and horse hooves really came from the silent streets.

Zhao Su was pulled into the shadows by the emperor, and through the shade of the street, he watched as a horse and carriage drove through the door.

The carriage was surrounded so tightly that it was impossible to see inside, but the man on the red-maned horse was handsome and tall, so it was no longer possible for people not to recognize him.

Zhao Su twisted his head to look at the emperor, who had his hands on his back, his eyes like eagles, and was looking straight at the vermillion-painted gate.

“Where did he come back from?”

Although she already had a clear clue in her mind, she still wanted to hear a more precise statement.

“I remember telling you that Luo Yanru had someone in her heart, he came to tease me at that time, not willingly.”

“Hmm.” Zhao Su said, “It was said.”

Not only did she hear the emperor say that, she had also personally picked up the pad that she had dropped to the ground, and the embroidered bamboo of that pad was not something that women were accustomed to using. At that time she had been in doubt, Luo family even if the external strong, Luo old master’s prestige position is still there, Luo Yanru’s heart someone, why Luo family did not directly Yu Cheng this matter? They thought that the other party was not a person whose status could match hers. ……

“Huo Xiu is back from Nanshan Temple.” The emperor put his negative hand down and leaned his back against the wall, looking up at the moonlight in the sky: “He actually came back from the Nanshan Temple where Luo Yanru is. The person that Luo Yanru is in love with, but is keeping it a secret, is actually my cousin. They obviously have the same family, so why are they having a private rendezvous?”

This young and mature monarch in the eyes of the world, at this moment leaning against the wall and looking at the moon, sighed in deep sorrow, just like an ordinary sorrowful teenager who was betrayed by his family. His locked brow was full of disbelief at this fact.

“I absolutely refused to believe that he would do this to me, so I’ve always automatically skipped my suspicions over him, and if you guys hadn’t forced Long San to venture out the other day, I still wouldn’t have been willing to treat him as an object of suspicion. –Why the hell is that?”

He withdrew his gaze to look at Zhao Su, his clear eyes making him look like an innocent little beast in a mountain stream. “I thought I was already considered very wise, I tried hard not to be confused, and he would never be able to fool me in general, but I didn’t realize that the person who betrayed me was the one I trusted the most. Ah Yu, he lied to me!”

Zhao Su couldn’t bear it and went forward to hug him, gently patting his back, “Betrayal doesn’t necessarily mean you’re bad. You’ve done a good job. And we don’t have any proof that he is the one now do we?” How many good emperors are so stimulated and blackened, she must not stand by and watch his faith collapse.

But how could she not even trust herself when she said these words of comfort? Of the people who took Long San away that day, who else’s level of martial arts skills and clothing would be a better match than Huo Xiu’s? Long San is still in hiding without any whereabouts, if it’s not someone like the Wei Yuan Marquis’ family, like Huo Xiu, who else has the strength to cover it up so tightly with both his ability and his family’s strength?