Reborn Rongruo

Soon after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chengde received a letter from his family in the capital, and the envelope was written in his Ama Mingzhu's handwriting.

Chengde opened the envelope in the study of Suixiantang, his face was full of smiles and eyes full of anticipation, but it dimmed as more and more handwriting jumped into his eyes.It's like a basin of cold water being poured into the head, and it will be cold to the bone in an instant.

Mingzhu said in the letter - "he" seems to have let go of his mind, and is indifferent to your affairs as usual, you may return to Beijing with peace of mind...

Returning to Beijing with peace of mind... Cheng De stared blankly at these words, all the strength in his body seemed to be taken away at that moment, just like the empty mind at the moment, it lost all color in an instant.

Does that mean that he has given up?After several urgings to no avail, he finally gave up on me?Can't wait for me to go back anymore?For some reason, at this moment Cheng De clearly felt sore eye sockets but could not shed a single tear, and clearly understood his desire for Xuan Ye more clearly than ever before despite his unbearable chest pain.His empty eyes stared at everything in front of him, but he seemed to be indifferent to everything, until a gust of autumn wind blew the page of letter paper off his hand, and he gradually came back to his senses. The letter that has been written but has not been sent yet due to various reasons is his letter to Xuanye. The handwriting of the Magnolia poem on the letter is still clear and vigorous, and the true feelings between the lines are still strong and eager, but it seems that it can no longer be read. Touch that person's heart.

Cheng De fell into the chair, and the letter fell to the ground along his hanging hand.

From the east of Chaoyang to the west of sunset, it is not long before dusk.Chengde just sat in the study like this, as if the passage of time had nothing to do with him, and the disputes in the world were far away from him. He was at a loss as to why he had worked so hard, and the original reason was that he couldn't remember it no matter what. up.

Xuan Ye, how could I just let you go away like this?How can I have the heart to let you bear the coldness in the heights alone?Even if you don't want me anymore, I will always try to find ways to get back to you again, but please wait a little longer, wait a little longer...

Time flies, more than a month in a blink of an eye.

In the early winter of October, another major event that caught the attention of the whole country happened in the capital—that is, the emperor in the Forbidden City, who was high above the ground, young and talented, and powerful and wise, fell ill for no reason.What's more, the disease was so violent that he was bedridden, and the hospital was helpless. The emperor had been unable to go to court early for seven consecutive days.

Cining Palace.

There was another sound of shattering cups and saucers. This was the first time the Empress Dowager got angry.Except for the slight sound of the little maid serving tea shivering on the ground, the rest of the people in the hall were silent like cicadas, wishing to disappear immediately, lest they become the fish in the pond that was ravaged by anger.

The empress dowager sat in the main seat with a sullen face, glanced at the debris on the ground, sneered, and said, "Are you all stupid? Let's clean it up soon!"

Seeing that the Empress Dowager did not take her anger out on her, the little maid immediately knelt and crawled over as if she had been pardoned, and quickly picked up the pieces of cups and saucers all over the place. She didn't dare to stay any longer and ran out of the palace.

The Empress Dowager stared at the trembling figure disappearing at the door, sighed exhaustedly, and asked, "Has Li Dequan not come back yet?"

The little eunuch quickly replied: "Just now, Eunuch Li asked someone to reply, saying that he returned before the palace gate was locked!"

"Understood, he is back, let him come to see Ai's family immediately! You all go down!"

"Whoo!"

The crowd withdrew one after another, and the confidant maid beside the Empress Dowager helped the extremely exhausted old man to his seat. She looked at the gray hair that had grown on the temples of the Empress Dowager with distress, and hesitated to speak.

The Empress Dowager sighed, and walked towards the inner hall holding the hand of the confidant maid. She didn't look at the people around her, but she seemed to know what she was going to say, and said, "You don't need to persuade the Ai family, half of the Ai family is buried in the ground. People, I have never experienced anything in this life, Xuan Ye can leave the government this time, and he will not look back until he sees the child. Let him meet, how can he not be willing to see him with his own eyes? What about the dead heart? Alas, the person who untied the bell still needs to tie it, and the heart disease needs a heart medicine doctor!"

Outside the palace, on the Mingzhu Mansion.Li Dequan took a letter from Mingzhu and put it in his arms properly, and it was inconvenient for him to stay longer, so he rushed to the palace immediately.

It turned out that when Emperor Kangxi left the palace this time, he not only kept the empress dowager a secret, but even Li Dequan, who was serving him personally, did not let him follow him. Apart from taking away four masters and the sword representing the identity of the emperor, it can be said that he went to Tianjin alone.Since the Empress Dowager discovered that Xuan Ye had left the palace privately, she already guessed that he must be looking for Nalan Chengde.Considering Xuanye's safety, the Empress Dowager immediately ordered to publicize that the emperor was suffering from an emergency, and ordered Li Dequan to call Mingzhu into the palace overnight, and asked where Chengde was now. When she heard that Chengde was in Tianjin, she told Mingzhu that she could serve the emperor. The Empress Dowager Yizhi told Chengde that no matter what the emperor said or did, he must not come back with Xuanye, otherwise the lives of the Nalan clan would be lost.

Mingzhu received the decree dripping with cold sweat, and ordered his loyal servant to rush to Tianjin overnight, and must deliver the empress dowager's decree to Chengde before the emperor saw Chengde.

But what Li Dequan carries in his arms now is the reply letter written by Cheng De to Mingzhu after receiving the imperial edict from the Empress Dowager.

Since it is the imperial edict of the Empress Dowager, how can Cheng De not respect it?Writing this reply is just to ask Ama to explain to the Empress Dowager.

Now that this letter has been sent back and forth, it is natural that Tianjin has seen it.

One acre garden.

Zhang Lin has never been so nervous as this day, or he never thought that he would be lucky enough to see the holy face of today's son in his lifetime.And this His Majesty the Emperor was actually the Young Master Huang whom he had met once.

I still remember the scene when I met Mr. Nalan for the first time at the Lantern Festival in the first month of that year. He also suspected that the status of the Mr. Huang next to Mr. Nalan was either rich or noble, but he never thought that he was actually the current emperor. The talented Emperor Kangxi.What made him even more unexpected was that the Emperor Kangxi had come to his own Zhuangzi and entered the study of the one-acre garden.

In the study, Cheng De knelt on the ground straight, without saying a word.

Xuan Ye stood in front of him, his tightly pursed lips quietly revealed the anger he was holding back at the moment.

"I asked you, why didn't you answer? Tell me, why didn't you hear from me?" Xuan Ye seemed to be unable to stand the silence, and shouted in a low voice.

Chengde knew that Xuan Ye was already extremely annoyed at this time, and his heart was so painful that there was nothing to add. Although he was unwilling to answer against his will, but the Empress Dowager wanted to go first, even if he saw the person he was thinking of now, he would never give up. You can't tell the truth, otherwise Nalan Man will be gone in an instant!

After another moment of silence, Cheng De bent down and pressed his forehead to the ground. His humble posture expressed his pleading attitude at the moment. He only asked Xuan Ye to forgive him. Unfortunately, in Xuan Ye's eyes, his gesture was just invisible. Just keeping the distance between the two of them, Xuan Ye felt that Cheng De was deliberately reminding him that he is the emperor and the fact that he is the people.

"The grassroots dare not speculate on the holy will, I hope the emperor will forgive me!"

"You—" Xuan Ye flicked his sleeves angrily, turned around on the spot, pulled the person up from the ground, and said angrily: "Do you have to talk to me like that?! I only ask you, you Are you coming back with me?!"

Xuan Ye's face came close, and he looked closely at Cheng De, who raised his eyes to meet him.At this moment, he clearly saw from the bottom of Xuan Ye's eyes the crumbling forbearance and the turbulent pain under this forbearance.At this moment, Chengde could hardly bear to blurt out what was on his mind, and he was about to nod his head almost uncontrollably, but when he thought of the imperial edict, he bit his lower lip hard, his eyes flickered several times, and finally he gently pulled Xuan Xuan away. Ye's hand, and knelt down again.

This process seems to be extremely slow, so slow that it seems as long as many years of rebirth to Cheng De.He remembered the kites they had flown together when they were young, the Lantern Festival that year, the first time the two of them got intimate with each other, and the day when he entered the empress dowager's game in the square of the Jiaotai Palace. , witnessed Xuan Ye's teasing with his own eyes, and for the first time clearly understood how unfair it was for him to stay by Xuan Ye's side like this!It was also the first time since then that he was determined to go out of the palace to seek fame and come back to Xuan Ye's side to be with him in an open and honest manner!

He always wanted to wait for him to gain fame and have a proper identity, instead of staying by Xuan Ye's side as a eunuch. Those women in the harem, even if they were the empress dowager, would no longer have the right to intervene. I have persisted for two years, and there are still a few months before I can get what I want. Is it wrong for me to suffer so hard?If he had a choice at this moment, he really wanted to tell Xuan Ye what he wanted desperately, and Xuan Ye must be able to understand him and forgive him!

Unfortunately, he has no choice!

Now his every move is related to the lives of hundreds of people in the Nalan family, and facing Xuan Ye, he will refuse or refuse!

He lowered his head, so Xuan Ye couldn't see the pain in his eyes, Xuan Ye only heard him say in a very soft voice: "Your Majesty, please forgive me for not being able to go back!"

"Why?!" Xuan Ye roared like crazy, the voice was so loud that even Zhang Lin, who was guarding in the yard, trembled three times in fright.

Cheng De kowtowed, he was speechless, he couldn't say, Xuan Ye was in pain, he was in more pain than Xuan Ye.In fact, he understood the original intention of the empress dowager's intention, and it was nothing more than wanting to use this sharp knife to kill Xuan Ye's friendship with him completely. The empress dowager wanted Xuan Ye to hate him, and she wanted Xuan Ye to hate him!Only when Xuan Ye hates him, can this emperor no longer be trapped by love in his heart, and he can really become a generation of emperor!Just like... in my previous life!

"Okay... okay... hello...Rong Ruo, I've misjudged you!" Xuan Ye raised his head and forced back the tears that were about to come out of his eyes.

He took one last look at Chengde, then turned around resolutely, walked around the person who was still kowtowing in front of him, pushed open the door without any hesitation and strode out.

In the courtyard, Zhang Lin and the others immediately knelt down to meet them, and four masters rushed forward, but Xuan Ye walked straight out of the courtyard without even looking at them.

In the room, Chengde was still kowtowing, his forehead was already bloody and bloody, but he seemed to forget to stop and let the blood flow out continuously, as if only in this way could he alleviate his guilt towards Xuan Ye and the severe pain in his heart like hanging.

Tears flowed down uncontrollably the moment Xuan Ye turned around, because Cheng De knew better than ever that Xuan Ye would never turn back after turning around, so he would not see himself at this moment of tears.