Reborn Rongruo

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Who will be with the embroidered quilt in the cold?Leaning on the incense camp.I wake up in spring and comb my hair under the slanting sun.

If you want to write two eyebrows, rest.Harvest the remnants of the distant mountains, don't go upstairs.

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Xuan Ye dressed Chengde neatly, covered him with the cloaks of both of them, and temporarily placed him on the couch in Liuquan's elegant room.Cheng De slept deeply, and Ren Xuanye didn't wake up after all this tossing.Xuan Ye lightly kissed Cheng De's forehead, got up and went out, and brought Li Dequan who was waiting at the door into the private room next door.

Since Xuanye came to Liuquanju, Liu Changqing wisely cleared the entire second floor gradually. Basically, no one came up for the whole afternoon, so at this moment, the entire private room on the second floor is empty.

Xuan Ye took a seat in the private room next door, watched Li Dequan follow in and closed the door, and then casually asked, "How long have you been in the palace?"

Li Dequan was stunned by the question, he really couldn't understand the emperor's intention of asking this question, he answered honestly: "The servant entered the palace at the age of nine, after the twelfth lunar month of this year, it will be 22 years."

"22 years..." Xuan Ye pondered for a moment, "It's not a short time, there must be nothing about the rules in this palace that you don't know. I remember that you served me when I was a child, and now I let you Do something for me, go help me find out what happened to Rong Ruo when I went to Tianjin!"

After Xuan Ye finished speaking, he stared at Li Dequan. Li Dequan lowered his head and rolled his eyes wildly at the moment. He is guilty. What the emperor asked him to investigate was done for the Empress Dowager. Himself?He didn't want to betray the trust of the emperor, and he didn't dare to offend the empress dowager. After much deliberation, he knelt down in front of Xuan Ye with a plop, gritted his teeth, and did everything he knew.

Xuan Ye listened to Li Dequan without saying a word, but the more he listened, the colder his heart became.Thinking of Chengde kneeling on the ground so resolutely in Tianjin without saying a word, thinking of Chengde kowtowing until his head was bleeding, thinking of Chengde's painful and depressed eyes at that time, if Li Dequan hadn't told the cause and effect today , he is still kept in the dark.

If it hadn't been for the incident in Tianjin, he would have never thought that his imperial grandmother, who loved him so much since he was a child, would be so unable to tolerate his relationship with Chengde.

Li Dequan finished the matter almost repentantly, wiped his tears and said to Xuan Ye: "Your Majesty, I have wanted to tell you all these things for a long time. I am unhappy seeing you every day. I feel more uncomfortable than you. Your Majesty , I told you everything today, that is, we will return to the palace in a while, the Empress Dowager and her old man want to chop off the head of the slave, and the slave also recognizes it! Woooo..."

Xuan Ye glanced at Li Dequan, and asked again: "Did the emperor's grandmother arrange for Rong Ruo to leave during the Tuanhe siege?"

Li Dequan shook his head immediately, and said: "The slave didn't receive the order from the Empress Dowager back then, so I really don't know the specifics."

Xuan Ye said nothing, since Li Dequan was able to tell what happened in Tianjin, it shows that this kid is ready to stand on his side. He has already offended the Empress Dowager by doing so, and there is really no need to be in Tuanhe He concealed himself about that incident, so it was probably not the emperor's grandmother's intention that Cheng De left him that time.However, if it wasn't the emperor's grandmother's intention, then whose intention would it be?Pearl?But why did Mingzhu do this?Do you think he is not good enough for Chengde?Or are you worried that he won't give Chengde a bright future?

Xuan Ye was silent for a long time, and then said to Li Dequan: "Get up and wait outside the door, I want to be quiet."

Li Dequan agreed, and went out the door while wiping away tears.

Xuan Ye got up, went to the window and opened it, letting the wind and snow blow in. Now Chengde is next door, and there is only a wooden wall between them, but Xuan Ye suddenly felt that there was a gap between them. Thousands of mountains and rivers, he couldn't understand Chengde.

Xuan Ye thought hard for a long time, but to no avail, he finally understood that unless Cheng De was willing to explain some things to him, he would have no way to understand Cheng De.In this case, then wait until he is willing to speak, and then understand!Now, everything has to go with the flow.

Li Dequan waited for half an hour in the corridor on the second floor, and the emperor finally came out.He thought that the emperor would bring the son next door back to the palace like every time before, and tie him tightly by his side. He had already ordered the good people to pack up the carriage, but he didn't expect that the emperor just looked at the private room again. Similarly, Jin didn't even go in, so he drove him back to the palace.

Li Dequan breathed a sigh of relief. Although he didn't know what the emperor was thinking, at least for him, the empress dowager would not be disturbed this time, and his head could stay on his neck for two more days.

Cheng De slept until the first quarter of the unitary hour before waking up. When he opened his eyes, he saw a brightly lit room. The room was extremely quiet, and he could hear the rustling of snowflakes outside.He sat up and looked around. He was alone.He hurriedly leaned over to the window to have a look. There were few people on the street, only bigger snowflakes were still falling.His body was clean and dry, if it wasn't for the pain in the back part, this whole afternoon was like a beautiful dream to him, which seemed unreal.

The pain in the body reminded Chengde that just a few hours ago, Xuan Ye was really by his side, they had been close to each other, and now he had left.

Xuan Ye left without leaving him a word, and he didn't even have the tenderness to remember.Perhaps this is the best way, at least compared to facing Xuan Ye's coldness directly, it is easier to deceive yourself and others in this situation where you don't have to face anything and feel nothing.Thinking of Xuanye's words "give me a son", Chengde's heart ached uncontrollably.

Time really is the most ruthless horror in the world.It's only been two years since they separated, but many things have changed, and this change is still irreversible.Just like what his Ama Mingzhu said, Xuan Ye is already doting on others, and he has several elder brothers. Perhaps the love between them could not be pure from the beginning, because he is not reconciled!But so what?Could it be that just because Xuanye has someone else to love and has a son, can he control himself not to love him? !Like, soon after I finish my scientific examination, I may have to marry and have children. As a man, carrying on the family line is the mission given from birth. Unless he becomes a monk, is there any other way to escape in this world? !

But even so, it doesn't mean that I don't love Xuan Ye anymore, fate can no longer be chosen, but love is free and can be done arbitrarily.And I have done so much just to stand in front of Xuan Ye with an upright identity, to be able to love Xuan Ye wantonly, and to not have to stay in the palace like a trapped bird and be at the mercy of those harem women.

But can Xuanye really understand?How should I tell him, now that he has realized that he seems to have hurt Xuan Ye...

Cheng De sat down in a daze, the black cloak that had been covering him all the time slipped onto his knees, he looked down and recognized that this was the one Xuan Ye was wearing when he came, and hugged it silently On the chest, hugged tightly, and buried his face in it.

Xuanye returned to the palace, changed his clothes and went to the Empress Dowager's bedroom to pay her respects.He talked about the rumors about snow disasters in various places that he heard among the people, Qin Tianjian's prediction about the future of the snow, and the proposals made by the ministers for disaster relief that day, but he didn't mention anything about the encounter with Chengde. Of course, he didn't insist on asking the Empress Dowager about threatening Chengde with the lives of the Nalan family.

Xuan Ye knew that his imperial grandmother had always been a person who could do what she said, and if he couldn't hold back now, it would not be himself who would be ruined in the end, but Cheng De and the Nalan clan.Regarding Chengde, although there are many things that he can't figure out at present, there is one thing he is absolutely sure of - Chengde has feelings for him!This is enough, he is willing to wait patiently and protect him carefully before Chengde explains to him, at least so that he will not be threatened or hurt again because of himself.

That night Chengde was sent back to the mansion by Liuquanju's carriage, and he didn't step out of the mansion for a long time after that.Until I received the joint invitation from Gu Zhenguan and Wu Zhaoqian, it was more than a month later.

Because Wu Zhaoqian has been in poor health for the past few years, Gu Zhenguan visited famous doctors for him when he was released and returned to Beijing. Doctors in the capital almost never mentioned it. Do everything you can for him.Therefore, after more than a year of conditioning, Wu Zhaoqian's body and bones have improved a lot.

During Chengde's return to Beijing for more than half a year, several of them had frequent contacts.Sometimes it is a few drinks, and sometimes it is to comment on calligraphy and painting together.Gu Zhenguan has a lot of friends, and Wu Zhaoqian and Cheng De are famous for their talents. Before they knew it, a group of great Confucian talents in the capital gathered around them, and gradually formed a monthly ritual.

However, in the past two months, Chengde has stayed behind closed doors, and others may not have noticed, but Gu Zhenguan and Wu Zhaoqian, Chengde's close friends, have already sensed something is wrong.So, just in time for the Lantern Festival in the first month, the two jointly wrote a post, inviting him to enjoy the lantern together.

When he received the post, Cheng De guessed that Gu Zhenguan and Wu Zhaoqian had noticed something about his staying behind closed doors for the past two months.Gu Zhenguan knew a little about the relationship between himself and the emperor, and because he had sent him a letter for the emperor when he was in Tianjin, so at this time, Chengde didn't want his friend to worry about him, so he returned Posts are invited.

It was the Lantern Festival of another year, and the streets were still crowded with people, but Chengde suddenly had a feeling of revisiting his old place when he was walking on the street.The closer you get to Dengshikou, the clearer the memory in your mind is, the scenes of the reunion with Xuan Ye that year emerged without any suspense. Then he walked in, completely forgetting that Gu Zhenguan and Wu Zhaoqian were still with him.Not even their cries were heard.

Gu Zhenguan and Wu Zhaoqian didn't understand, so they looked at each other, shook their heads helplessly, and followed in.