In late autumn, the grass and trees are withered and yellow, and the withered leaves have been knocked to the ground by the rain. The weather is getting colder and it is raining heavily. There are only a few pedestrians on the street rushing home.
Yu Shuyue held an umbrella and walked in the rain. Listening to the dripping rain, her irritable heart calmed down a lot.
As she walked, she arrived unknowingly and headed towards the eastern suburbs, finally arriving at Fuxian Lake.
At this time, all kinds of lotus flowers in Fuxian Lake have withered, and only the remaining branches are still exposed on the water.
Fuxian Lake is already shrouded in a thick layer of fog all year round. Recently, there has been a lot of rain, and the fog on the lake has become even thicker. The mountain opposite the lake is completely hidden in the thick fog.
If she hadn't seen the secluded mountain shrouded in thick fog before, I'm afraid she wouldn't have believed there was a mountain behind the lake.
She sat on the stone table in the pavilion nearby, holding her chin with her hands and staring at the ripples on the lake dizzy by the rain. Her whole body and mind were relaxed.
"Aster, since I returned to Shangjing City, Miss has always been in a daze like this. She doesn't have the lively, cheerful and carefree energy she had when she was outside the Great Wall. Shangjing City is prosperous, but she doesn't feel comfortable at all."
It has only been more than a year since I returned to Beijing, and Shaoyao has seen the young lady in a daze without saying a word too many times.
"Um."
Of course Aster also discovered it, but she had no choice but to stay with the young lady silently.
Suddenly, there was a rolling sound on the ground, and the two of them looked up and saw Hua An pushing His Royal Highness the Crown Prince towards this side.
"See...His Royal Highness the Crown Prince..."
The salutes of Shaoyao and Shaoyao were interrupted by Qi Xiuyao raising his hand, their voices dropped, and he waved his hand to signal them to leave.
"Your Highness, why are you here?"
Hearing the noise, Yu Shuyue turned to look at him and asked curiously.
"Ah Yue is worried about the marriage?"
Qi Xiuyao pushed the wheelchair to stop beside her. Both of them were sitting, but he still had to lower his head to meet her eyes.
Yu Shuyue looked at him in surprise, "How did the prince know?"
In fact, it is not difficult to know why she is worried. After all, in the morning, the embroiderer went to Yu Mansion to measure her for a wedding dress. Not long after the embroiderer left, she went out with a worried look on her face, and finally came to this sparsely populated eastern suburbs.
Besides worrying about marriage, what else could it be?
Qi Xiuyao just smiled and did not answer her question, but continued to look at her and whispered softly: "Ah Yue still doesn't trust me because of Xiao Mi and Shi An?"
"Not really, it's just that I still have a lot of confusion in my heart, which has been weighing on me."
Since they talked last time, Yu Shuyue now doesn't have as many scruples about talking to him as before.
She also knew that if she wanted to solve the problem, she had to talk it out. Otherwise, if one person guesses and the other holds it back, the gap will only become wider and wider.
This is what she has realized over the past year.
But she didn't say anything about the inexplicable anxiety in her heart about the marriage. In her opinion, this must be because of the chain reaction caused by the doubts in her previous life.
Sure enough, it was because of those things that she felt so insecure. Qi Xiuyao's hands on his knees could not help but clenched into fists. He was also a little worried in his heart, but it didn't show on his face at all.
"Ah Yue, I have carefully read all the historical materials about three hundred years ago. Combined with the dream mentioned by Ah Yue and the two corpses in the mountain behind Huayan Temple, I think things are not as simple as they seem."
"Since Ah Yue has been disturbed by these things from time to time, and now it even makes Ah Yue afraid of marriage, let's solve all the mysteries first, okay?"
Qi Xiuyao actually had no idea. He didn't know what Xiao Mi had done. He only knew that some things couldn't be put off forever. When encountering a problem, he should solve it instead of escaping from it.
If you don't resolve this matter, you will always stay between the two of them, causing some friction between them from time to time. He doesn't want to see Ah Yue being exhausted mentally and physically by this matter every time, and all his thoughts are on you.
Things that have passed.
He didn't want the events of his previous life to affect their present.
Yu Shuyue was moved by what he said. She had long wanted to find out the whole story, but her eyes always seemed to be covered with a veil, making her unable to see clearly and unable to touch the essence of the matter.
Now that he said this with an extremely serious expression on his face, Yu Shuyue suddenly felt that maybe he could really solve the problem that had troubled her for more than a year, and looked at him expectantly, "But what should we do?
Woolen cloth?"
"Maybe Ah Yue should take me to the cave on the back mountain of Huayan Temple first. After Ah Yue told me last time, I also thought about going to that stone room to have a look, but no matter what method I used, I could never enter.
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"Then His Highness has never suspected that Ah Yue made it up?"
"I will never doubt Ah Yue. Even if I am really cheated by Ah Yue one day, I will be willing to do so."
Yu Shuyue thought he had already entered and looked at the things inside. She couldn't enter at first, but then she went in and wandered around for no reason.
She thought it was because there was a corpse that looked exactly like hers in the stone room, so she thought he had gone in too.
She thought that there was a corpse inside that looked exactly like him, and that he might be able to get in for some reason just like her.
Unexpectedly, he was not able to see the best evidence that she was not lying, and he also said some sweet words.
This made Yu Shuyue not know how to respond to him for a while. Although she had gradually gotten used to the sweet words he often said, she still wasn't used to it. She blushed and her heart beats every time he teased her.
But this is much better than at the beginning, and she is more or less immune.
"Then Ah Yue and His Highness will go to the back mountain to explore again another day."
She didn't dare to boast that she could take him directly into the stone room. She could only say that she would take him to take a look.
"How about tomorrow?"
Qi Xiuyao's curiosity was also aroused, and only by resolving the matter quickly would their relationship be smoother.
"Tomorrow?"
"Aren't you free?"
"It's okay, let's do it tomorrow."
Yu Shuyue didn't expect him to be so anxious. She originally planned to go find Liu Ruoxi, but her brother didn't seem to explain it to her yet. She thought of tentatively revealing something to her first, so that she wouldn't be unable to accept it when she suddenly found out.
In fact, she hadn't thought about how to tell her friend, so now Qi Xiuyao asked her to go to the mountain behind Huayan Temple tomorrow, and she agreed without much hesitation.
After saying this, the stone in Yu Shuyue's heart also fell. Although the doubts in her heart had not yet been answered, all Qi Xiuyao's actions gave her a lot of security.
At this time, she was not so afraid of the truth of the matter, because she was no longer the one to bear it.