Farewell Flower Festival

After the banquet, Chaoyan and Han Min said goodbye for a while and then each got on a carriage and returned home.

In the carriage, Chao Yan told Mu Tianling about her meeting with Furong, who revealed a piece of news to her, saying that Zhao Zhong was planning a rebellion. Mu Tianling was slightly surprised, not surprised that Zhao Zhong had ill intentions, but Furong's act of informing on him was a little confusing.

Chaoyan gave Furong an advice, that is, to divorce, so that she would have nothing to do with the Marquis' Mansion. Furong said that she would consider it for two days and then give her an answer, but Chaoyan dared to bet that there would be no news from the other party. Mu Tianling held a different opinion and thought that Furong would look for her again, so the two made a bet that the loser would have to eat vegetarian food for a month.

Two days later, Furong didn't send anyone to look for Chaoyan, and two days later, there was still no news.

Chaoyan ordered the kitchen to cook two more vegetarian dishes every day. After Mu Tianling had eaten vegetarian food for three days, Chaoyan canceled the bet. After all, they were eating at the same table. She ate meat and drank soup, while Mu Tianling could only eat tofu and cabbage. He felt guilty about it.

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This year Emperor Mu will go to Nanshan Paddock for autumn hunting. This time he will leave Crown Prince Mu Tianyuan and Prince An Mu Tianchen as regents, while Prince Rui Mu Tianchen and Prince Ling Mu Tianling will accompany him.

Since the beginning of autumn, Chaoyan has become more sleepy. Sometimes she takes a nap at noon and wakes up in the afternoon. She also likes to dream at night, always dreaming about the world over there. Many times she can't tell whether it is reality or a dream. Recently, she started to have dreams within dreams. When she wakes up, she doesn't know whether she is really awake or awake in a dream.

As the person sleeping next to her, Mu Tianling naturally knew whether Chaoyan slept well at night and whether she had any dreams. Once, Chaoyan woke up crying in her dream, and he held her in his arms and coaxed her for a long time before she calmed down. He asked her if she had a nightmare, and she shook her head and said she didn't remember.

She lied.

She dreamed that she returned to the modern era and could never come back here again, and would never see Mu Tianling again. Slowly, she began to forget everything here.

Everything she had experienced was like a distant dream that gradually faded out of her life. She began to forget Mu Tianling, forget everything between them, forget what he looked like, forget his name. Everything was just an illusory dream. After waking up, she remembered nothing...

She was afraid that all this was just a dream. There was no time travel, no Yunmeng Dynasty, but only an unrealistic dream. But she didn't want to forget Mu Tianling. She had promised to grow old with him. If there really were gods in the world, she would pray devoutly to the gods to give her more time. Even if it was just a dream, she wanted to accompany him until the last moment of his life.

After that day, Chaoyan liked to daydream when she was alone, with an expression that she was worried about something. Mu Tianling had seen her several times. She was standing by the window in a daze, standing under a tree in a daze, and standing in the pavilion in a daze.

The night before leaving the capital, Mu Tianling asked Chaoyan if she was hiding something from him. Chaoyan hesitated for a moment, then shook her head, not daring to look him in the eye.

"Yanyan, when I come back, let's be honest with each other, okay? I won't hide anything from you anymore, and you can't hide anything from me anymore."

Mu Tianling has decided to confess his coldness after returning from the autumn hunt. Ever since he drank the bottle of medicine in the Lantern Pavilion, his coldness would flare up every once in a while, on the night of the new moon. He wants to open the door to the deepest part of her heart without reservation.

Sometimes you only have one chance, and if you miss it, it's hard to get it again.

He would give her time to think about it, and when he returned he hoped there would be no more secrets between them.

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On the day of departure, Chao Yan accompanied them all the way to the city gate. After the team had gone far away, she climbed up to the city wall to watch.

Mu Tianling looked back and saw a figure on the city wall. Although he couldn't see the face clearly, he knew it was Chao Yan.

In addition to the two princes Mu Tianling and Mu Tianqi, Emperor Mu also brought King Xiaoyao Shen He and some court ministers with him. Prime Minister Shang stayed in the capital to assist Crown Prince Mu Tianyuan in handling state affairs.

Zhao Zhong also stayed in Beijing.

A storm seems to be brewing beneath the calm surface.

Chaoyan stood on the city wall for a long time, and only went down with Feicui and Amber after she could no longer see the team.

Mu Tianling was not at home, and Chaoyan didn't want to stay there either, so she planned to go see Hua Xiangrong.

When the carriage stopped by the roadside, she lifted the curtain and looked at the store entrance. There were no customers at noon. Then Cuicui came out, looked around, and left in a hurry.

Chaoyan ordered the coachman to follow from a distance. Feicui and Amber were both in the carriage. Amber pulled open the curtain and quietly observed Cuicui's whereabouts.

Finally, Cuicui stopped outside an inn, looked around for a while, and then went into the inn.

Chaoyan asked Kohaku to go over and see what was going on.

When Amber entered the inn, she saw Cuicui going upstairs and walking to the left, as if she was going to meet someone. Amber followed her quietly, and when she was almost at the stairs, she saw Cuicui entering the third guest room.

As soon as Cuicui came in, she was hugged by the man in the room. The man asked her what she had thought about it. Cuicui asked him if he would really marry her. The man told her not to worry, as long as she went with him, she would enjoy endless wealth and glory. Cuicui was still a little hesitant. The man asked her if she was willing to be ordered around by others and never get ahead in her life?

Under the other party's brainwashing, Cuicui made up her mind to leave the capital with him and go to Jiangzhou to live a life of wealth and glory.

Seeing that Cuicui agreed to go with him, the man immediately revealed his true nature and wanted to consummate the marriage with her first. Cuicui struggled and refused, and the man brainwashed her again. Under the man's sweet talk, Cuicui half-heartedly gave in. When he was about to succeed, someone outside the door called "Cuicui", and Cuicui was startled.

Amber knocked on the door again, and an impatient male voice came from inside, "Who is it?" The other party's voice was filled with obvious anger, as his good plan was ruined.

Amber knocked on the door again, and a middle-aged man with an angry face opened the door. When he saw that Amber was good-looking, the anger on his face subsided a little.

When she saw Amber, Cuicui felt shy and afraid, and lowered her head, not daring to raise it.

"Cui Cui, why are you here? Have you finished all the work in the store?" Amber asked, and Cui Cui buried her head even lower.

The middle-aged man comforted Cuicui and asked her not to be afraid. He looked at Amber and asked who she was. Amber asked him what was the relationship between him and Cuicui. The middle-aged man said that he wanted to redeem Cuicui and asked Amber to name a price. Amber said, "My master is outside. If you want to redeem Cuicui, you have to ask my master if he agrees."

The middle-aged man asked Amber to lead the way, and he wanted to meet who the other party was.

Amber asked Cuicui to wait in the room, and Cuicui dared not disobey.

After about a quarter of an hour, the two men came back. The middle-aged man changed his previous appearance of being rich and ostentatious, and walked in timidly behind Amber. Then he told Cuicui that he already had a wife and concubines at home. Since Cuicui was pretty, he wanted to take her back to be a concubine, but he did not plan to marry her. He was not the richest man in Jiangzhou, and could not give Cuicui wealth and glory.

Cuicui was stunned when she heard this, and followed Amber in a daze.

Amber took Cuicui to a teahouse nearby. When she saw Chaoyan, Cuicui was too embarrassed to look up. Chaoyan asked her if she wanted to get married. Cuicui lowered her head and dared not answer. Chaoyan gave her a month, and she would be in charge of Huaxiangrong in this month. As long as she earned 500 taels of silver, she could leave, and the money she earned would belong to her.

When Cuicui heard this, she was dumbfounded again and wondered if she had heard it wrong.

Chaoyan asked Amber to take Cuicui back to the store. Amber conveyed Chaoyan's intention to Yu Bo and others. Only then did Cuicui believe that what Chaoyan said was true.