Chapter 125
When Rong Xiangmian got into the carriage, he smelled a smell of alcohol coming from the wind, followed by Zhou Xianyang and his snowflake appearing in front of him.
“Moving?”
Rong Xiangmian’s hand carrying the lantern subconsciously hides behind her skirt, “What are you doing here so late?”
“What about you? Is it necessary to fight so hard to hide from me?”
“Who’s hiding from you! It’s too hot during the day, so it’s cooler to move things at night!”
“Do you know that you can only go out of the city at night, and you need a document or a warrant to enter the city?”
“……” Rong Xiangmian sighed, looking at the furniture behind him that was not easy to put together, “Do you have one?”
Zhou Xian Yang shook his head.
Rong Xiangmian’s eyebrows tightened, “Then what are you doing here?”
Zhou Xian Yang snapped his fingers in her ear, “Can’t I come if I have nothing to do? Can’t I just ride my horse through here?”
“Zhou Xian Yang, aren’t you bored?”
The man stopped joking and looked deeply into her dark eyes: “I want to see you, can’t I?”
Rong Xiangxian’s heart stuttered, her star-like eyes widened, then she turned around, “I’m not talking to you, it’s too late.”
She got into the carriage and hung the lanterns on the roof of the carriage to illuminate it, and Zhou Xian Yang followed her in on the back foot.
“What are you doing?”
“Just now, I went out of the city, I saw Vice Commander Li of the police battalion, when I rescued Shi Feng, I got to know him, so I should be able to go back and say hello to him, so you can take me as a humanoid token.”
He clearly has the royal family token available, but want to be what humanoid token, Rong Xiangmian heart clear, but she has something to say, then did not poke him.
She took out tea and drinks from the wooden box under the small table, and poured him a cup: “Thank you for your help to run, to solve the bar.”
Seeing her so positive, Zhou Xian Yang was a bit surprised, the fruit drink was sweet and sour, just like his current state of mind.
“I’ve created a Buddha Hall for my mother in my new room, when I really move over, I still need to make a trip to the royal residence to invite out her spirit, before that …… happens.”
“At that time, just let me know. I will secretly invite out her spirit seat and send it to your new home. In the past few days, I’ve gone back to offer incense, so you don’t have to worry.”
These words left Rong Xiangmian speechless, only saying a word of thanks, and not knowing how to start with the words she had prepared later.
She could only lean against the wall of the carriage and close her eyes, really treating him as a human token.
Because of the light from the lanterns, the atmosphere inside the carriage felt cozy. Zhou Xian Yang quietly looked at the person he fell in love with at first sight in the forest of lanterns, who was a stone’s throw away from him, but didn’t seem to want to say another word to him.
He found a good reason to climb into the conversation, “The assassin who broke into the king’s mansion killed himself today, and died in the Ministry of Justice’s prison.”
Rong Xiangxian really opened her eyes, and her eyes were like cold stars. She sighed slightly, poured a cup of sake, lifted the curtain and spilled it onto the ground, “Poor child, in your next life, cast yourself into an ordinary family, be ordinary, and don’t be sent as a tool anymore.”
Zhou Xian Yang watched from the sidelines, his heart flooded with a strange emotion, she to him, to that assassin, occasionally held a kind of elder to child-like care.
“This is the assassin who is coming to assassinate you. You still sacrifice him?”
Rong Xiangxian propped his jaw up and tapped his wine glass softly.
“He didn’t come to harm me, he just came to die, for the one behind him. What kind of person would willingly die for another? Besides a mother for her child?”
Zhou Xian Yang’s eyes moved slightly, “Perhaps he once received the favor of saving his life, and is now returning the favor.”
“What are you going to do next?”
“Instead of being a knife for someone else, why don’t we do the opposite. Let them tear each other apart. The investigation into the Jiangzhou dyke collapse has gotten some results, the mastermind behind it is a local Jiangzhou official called Xu Hai, who is very close to King Qing’s brother-in-law.”
“It’s really him?” Rong Xiangmian was a little disbelieving, she had always felt that King Qing was a person with more than a little intelligence, but she didn’t want him to be so vicious.
“After Zhang Pan is convicted and sentenced, this news will be released to the Zhang family, and they will definitely seize this clue and investigate with all their might in order to take revenge. I’ll just be lazy. Anyway, regardless of the outcome of their fight, when King Knight’s incident happens, all of the Zhang family’s plans will fall through.”
“This is also a countermeasure. Has there been any progress on the matter of King Li’s birth mother?”
“It should be soon. Wait for a few more days, and I’ll be the first to tell you if there’s any news.”
“Just send someone.”
Zhou Xian Yang raised his eyes to look at her, “Do you loathe me so much that you fear to avoid me?”
“After the divorce, it’s still necessary to avoid suspicion.” Rong Xiangshi looked at him blandly.
Zhou Xian Yang immediately avoided her eyes, “I told the Emperor that I will buy the mountain behind Jing Yi Yuan and expand the garden, otherwise it will always be a hidden danger. When the time comes, it will be good to build pavilions and pavilions on the mountain to enjoy the moon on summer nights and the snow in winter. When you move out of Jing Yi Yuan, I will find someone to remodel it and fix it before winter, so you don’t have to worry about this.”
Rong Xiangmi was just about to say something when he was interrupted, “Don’t excuse yourself, consider this as me doing something for you at last, otherwise it will be hard for me to rest in peace after all.”
Rong Xiangmian laughed, “I’m not going to say this …… Second sister quietly told me on her birthday that brother-in-law went to the imperial tomb the other day, and your mother’s body is now better. The sores on her hands, as well as the coughing sickness, have all been cured, so you can rest assured.”
“Really? Not to reassure me?” A trace of heartfelt joy finally appeared on Zhou Xian Yang’s face.
“Naturally, it’s true.”
“Then did she bring me any words?”
“She only said that she wishes you to take care of your health ……”
“And?” Zhou Xian Yang pursued, and Rong Xiangmian shook his head, “Nothing.”
“Didn’t say that she asked me to treat the crown princess well?”
Zhou Xian Yang looked at her reaction and knew he had guessed, smiling to himself, “I let her down.”
Rong Xiangyang lowered her eyes, “No, all along you have indeed treated me well, you don’t owe me anything. Some things, the past is the past, there is no need to care about it. You are still young, you still need to look forward.”
“I can’t get past it.” Zhou Xian Yang held Rong Xiangmian’s hand, “On your birthday, I really wanted to spend it with you. Do you know that?”
“Then why didn’t you show up?”
“Can you still be in a good mood when you see me?”
Rong Xiangmian didn’t say anything.
“I’ve figured out that all I’ve brought you since the marriage, besides a useless title of princess, is endless trouble, assassins, difficulties from King Li and the Queen. My mother is still trapped in the royal tomb, I have to rescue her. My maternal ancestor’s family, they were copied for the crime of insidious betrayal of the country. Although they are all gone, I want to vindicate them. This is a life-threatening path, so I really shouldn’t drag you into it.”
This was the first time that Zhou Xian Yang revealed the secrets of his heart. Although Rong Xiangmian had guessed it, it was a different story to hear him say it.
“You’ll be better off without me, I won’t pester you anymore. It’s good that you’re good.” Zhou Xian Yang finished calmly.
“Good.” Rong Xiangyang had originally wished to make things clear with him, and since he had mentioned it, she saved herself the trouble.
The carriage fell into silence for a while, and Rong Xiangshi suddenly spoke, “I heard half of the story of Western Qin last time. Let’s finish the story today.”
“Last time, where was it said?”
“You said that your colleagues in Western Qin sent you a beautiful girl and refused to talk about it. And then what happened? Was she good looking? Do you favor her?”
Zhou Xian Yang laughed helplessly, “At a time like that, who cares if she’s good looking or not? I was afraid that she was here to spy on me, and I was on guard against her. Sure enough, let me find that she has been rummaging through my things privately, and she moved …… your handkerchief.”
Rong Xiangxian understood at once why he refused to speak further last time. At that time, that handkerchief was still Third Sister’s.
“And then? How did you solve it?” Rong Xiangmian pursued.
Zhou Xian Yang’s mood seemed to fluctuate a bit as he rubbed his brow, “The embroidery on the pajama was typical of the National Dynasty style, very different from Western Qin embroidery. I can’t expose it, I can only find a way to solve her, you won’t want to know the process.”
“Hm.”
Zhou Xian Yang leaned against the window, reminiscing about the past with guilt, “If I hadn’t brought the handkerchief to Western Qin, perhaps she could have stayed alive. Almost, a lot of people were killed because of that one handkerchief. But I didn’t want to leave it behind.”
Seeing him so persistent, Rong Xiangmian was slightly surprised: “As for that? It was just a quick glance back then, I’ve almost forgotten about it, why do you miss it so much?”
Zhou Xian Yang’s voice was soft: “It was just a quick glance for you, but for me it was like a lifeline for a drowning man. At that time, I was only in my early teens, so what could I know about love? That night was like an obsession, a support, a dream that sustained me. Without this support, I would have long ago given up on myself in countless life and death situations.”
Listening to his memories, Rong Xiangmian’s heart flooded with complex emotions, “Forget it, Zhou Xianyang. I’m not going to hold favors hostage, and I don’t want to see you tied up in this for the rest of your life. Favor is not the same thing as love between a man and a woman. You are still young, and there will be other very good women in this world ……”
Zhou Xian Yang looked at her with sunken eyes, “What does a good woman have to do with me? It’s your freedom for you to make peace with me, it’s my freedom how I live my life in the future, I hope you won’t interfere either.”
Rong Xiangmian sighed, she didn’t advise anymore and leaned against the wall to close her eyes.
A few moments later, Zhou Xian Yang’s voice could be heard again, “Moreover, I do have male-female feelings for you first, and only after that is the favor. Xiangmian, even if you are not the girl outside of Yonghua Palace, you are still my favorite woman.”
In Rong Xiangmian’s heart, she was steeply invaded by both sweet and sour flavors, and her eyes began to moisten, she never opened her eyes for fear of shedding tears in front of him, and she also didn’t know how to face his frank words of love.
Afraid of a soft heart, I broke the freedom that was so hard to fight for.
Finally arrived at the new mansion she bought, Zhou Xian Yang stood outside the door, watched Rong Xiangmian commanded people to unload furniture, moved into the mansion, no intention to go in.
Xiao Nan flirted with him, “Master, this mansion is beautiful, do you want to go and take a look?”
Zhou Xian Yang shook his head, Yonghua Palace, Chenghuang Temple, Wang Fu, Fufeng Xuan, Jing Yi Yuan …… with her together, all the happy sadness, enough for him to chew on, spend the rest of his life.
Here is her new beginning, he should not step in again, disturbing all this. In fact, he was afraid that if he stepped in, he wouldn’t be able to leave.
He quietly watched Rong Xiangmian and the maids go about their business. In his haste, her handkerchief fell outside the door again, and the light was so dim that no one noticed.
Zhou Xian Yang went over and picked it up.
In the lower right corner was the word “see”. Seeing each other, what a beautiful name.
It is said that it is better to see each other than to miss them. But if you and your beloved can be like swallows on a beam, seeing each other year after year, who would be willing to miss it?
He looked fondly at the figure of the meeting, such as the fog dissipated in the complicated lights and shadows. He folded his handkerchief, hid it in his sleeve, rode on the snowflake, and quietly left.