On a gentle slope outside the south gate of the capital, there is a pavilion, which is the Shili Pavilion.
October is about to enter, and the temperature difference between morning and evening is much greater. The temperature dropped sharply in the past few days. The next morning, the green all over the mountains and fields turned yellow, and many leaves fell. The weather actually had a kind of winter depression.
.
Just like the heart of the person in the pavilion who sits very upright.
Five years have passed, and he still often comes to this Ten Mile Pavilion to drink tea.
Rong Che's face was covered with vicissitudes of life, and there was a strand of silver on his temples.
In fact, he is only twenty-seven years old, but his handsome face is covered with frost that should not be approached by strangers or acquaintances.
Butler Liu was squatting on the path outside the pavilion, with a look of bitterness and hatred on his face.
However, he actually felt that the prince was quite peaceful when he was at Shiliting, so even though it was getting very late, he still had no intention of reminding his prince that it was time to go back.
"Liu Zhe, go back home." Rong Che stood up. He was wearing a purple tunic and a black coat with gold trim. After standing up, his clothes were still straight. He has changed a lot in the past few years, but he pays attention to appearance.
The habits haven't changed at all.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Butler Liu stood up and quickly followed him. When he saw him getting on the carriage, he ordered the driver to leave quickly.
The carriage was swaying, and everyone who saw Prince Xuan's carriage along the way quickly gave way. The woman with the child quickly covered the child's mouth and controlled the child's actions for fear of offending him.
Butler Liu felt extremely sad when he saw all this. Now the prince has really become the "Prince of Ghosts and Gods"!
As soon as I returned to the palace, I saw a eunuch milling around the door. He didn't dare to rush the carriage when he saw it.
"Your Majesty, this is Eunuch Hai." Butler Liu said in front of the carriage.
"What's the matter?" Rong Che asked with his eyes closed in the car.
Eunuch Hai bowed and trotted to the side of the carriage and said respectfully: "Your Highness, Your Majesty, please come to the palace when you are free."
"Yeah." Rong Che didn't even raise his eyes.
Eunuch Hai didn't know what this meant, so he looked at Butler Liu for help.
"Go back, the prince knows." Butler Liu said in a low voice.
"Your Majesty means that His Highness the Prince should enter the palace immediately..." Eunuch Hai looked embarrassed. He did not dare to say this to Prince Xuan just now.
Butler Liu was also in trouble and looked at the carriage hesitantly.
"I will enter the palace after changing my clothes." Rong Che had already heard this and did not want to embarrass Eunuch Hai.
"Slave, please retire!" Eunuch Hai said as if he had been granted amnesty.
Rong Che returned to the courtyard, changed his clothes elegantly, and paused while tying his hair.
It took him several breaths to resist the urge to open the box.
Yes, the wooden hairpin that Yan Qing was giving him was kept in his collection. He had never taken it out to look at it in the past few years, but the hairpin had grown into his heart. It didn't matter whether he looked at it or not.
Yan Du was the same, Yan Qing was the pain in his heart.
"Your Majesty..." Butler Liu watched Rong Che walk out of the room worriedly.
"It's okay, he... slept very deeply today." A trace of black flashed in Rong Che's eyes.
Butler Liu breathed a sigh of relief and quickly went to arrange the carriage. When Rong Che walked out of the palace, the carriage was already ready.
The emperor's life has not been easy these past few years. Although he repeatedly asked Yan Xi to rejoin the court as an official, he got what he wanted, but...
Yan Xi is back, but something goes wrong with Rong Che.
I don't know what happened five years ago. After Rong Che came out of Yan's house, he seemed to have stayed alone in the house for more than ten days without coming out. Butler Liu knocked on the door and wouldn't open it. He didn't dare to break in, so he had to risk it.
If your life is in danger, go to the emperor.
Only then did the emperor know that something had happened to Rong Che.
He hurried to Prince Rong's Mansion, knocked on the door anxiously, and finally let the guards break in. Suddenly Rong Che opened the door.
He looked very strange, looking more embarrassed than ever before, and his beard seemed to have received sufficient nutrients overnight and grew thicker. Two strands of silver appeared on his temples, and the look in his eyes was no longer there, only coldness remained.
Although he used to be very cold, he was not freezing. Now his appearance made the emperor, who was so anxious that his head was smoking, as if a bucket of cold water had been poured on him in the cold winter. It was really chilling!
"Rong...Rong Che?" The emperor shouted weakly.
Rong Che slowly raised his head, and a black ax suddenly flashed in his eyes. At that moment, the emperor felt that his heartbeat had slowed down.
Suddenly Rong Che stretched out his hand and pinched the emperor's neck. From such a close distance, the emperor finally saw clearly that he was struggling!
So he stretched out a hand to stop the guard who was about to come to his rescue.
"Xiao Che..." The emperor's voice rang in Rong Che's ears. The black ax in his eyes began to flash violently. The flashing time of the black ax became shorter and shorter. Finally, when the emperor was about to suffocate, Rong Che's eyes recovered.
Qingming.
The emperor felt his throat loosen.
Rong Che let go of his hand, glanced at the emperor in surprise, and then fell down softly.
The emperor gasped for air, and then shouted at the top of his lungs: "Emperor Physician!"
The emperor was carried back to the palace by the guards. Although the emperor had ordered to keep this matter secret, it was already too late. The news that Rong Che turned black and almost killed the emperor had spread like wildfire.
After Rong Che woke up, he went to the palace in person to plead guilty, and then asked to be removed from all his posts.
After some thought, the emperor agreed. Rong Che confessed to the emperor that there was a demon in his body and that he could no longer fully control his actions, so he could no longer serve as the commander-in-chief of the army.
Now that five years have passed, Rong Che has gradually become accustomed to slaughter's occasional awakenings, and sometimes he even talks to slaughter.
Slaughter can feel the darkness in his heart. Every time he thinks of Yan Qingzheng's "unworthy" words, Slaughter will wake up like a cat that smells fishy smell, and then he will keep encouraging him to take revenge and take revenge.
Sometimes he would be very irritable and the people around him would be in danger. Butler Liu, as the chief steward of Prince Xuan's Mansion, had been through hell several times, but he still guarded Rong Che loyally.
Later, more often, when his dark psychology emerged, he would drive to Shiliting to sit and sit. Only there could he suppress those negative emotions and only think about correcting those beautiful memories with Yan Qing.
He also wanted to go to Miao'er Mountain, leave the capital, and live in seclusion in the mountains, but the emperor would not let him go.
"When you are in the capital, you often come to the palace, and you can suppress the demonic energy in your body..." The emperor said to him seriously, Rong Che was confused, and the emperor said something in his ear, Rong Che was shocked.
, but it was just a contraction of the pupils.
"Yes, my brother obeys the order." He lowered his head and concealed his true emotions.
Now everyone in the capital knows that once Prince Xuan's carriage leaves the city and heads south, they must avoid it and must not delay Prince Xuan's departure from the city, otherwise his life will be in danger.
Yan Qingzheng didn't know this, but she only fell down after Rong Che left Shiliting, and the two of them just missed each other.
And Rong Che has already entered the palace.
Ever since he learned about his situation, Rong Che had asked the national master or Yan Xi to be present every time he entered the palace, otherwise he could not guarantee that he would be able to finish the conversation soberly.
"How have you been recently?" The emperor finally became calmer. Rong Che's experience made his heart heavy. He was no longer as free as before. He always believed that this matter was the prince's responsibility. If the prince hadn't gone to Yanfu to cause trouble,
Rong Che would not have gone to Yan's mansion, and would not have made an appointment with Yan Qing by mistake.
The prince's responsibility is also his responsibility.
"My brother is okay." Rong Che said expressionlessly.
The emperor sighed. Knowing that Rong Che had returned from Shiliting in the south of the city, he felt inexplicably anxious.
"Rong Che, can't you completely forget about such a girl?" The emperor didn't understand that Yan Qingzheng was indeed the most beautiful woman in the world, but she was not the only one in the world. There were many beautiful women in the world, so why should she be there?
Hanged from a tree!
"My brother has forgotten."
Rong Che lied without changing his expression, but he had to say so because Yan Xi was on the side.
"You!" The emperor was helpless and sighed deeply, but he could not let out the heavy and turbid air in his chest.
"If it's all right, my brother has resigned." Rong Che wanted to leave. If there was one person he didn't want to see in Feng Rongguo, it was Yan Xi, the man who almost became his father-in-law but would never become his father-in-law.
Yan Xi looked at his nose and heart, neither looking at the emperor nor at Rong Che. He knew his responsibilities and his status. He didn't really want to see Rong Che. Maybe he still felt a little guilty, even though he never believed in his daughter.
Those words were true back then.
"Wait a minute, the prince wants to see you, but he said you have refused to see him for two years." The emperor sighed and said.
Yan Xi's brows frowned unconsciously when he mentioned the prince.
Four years ago, the Crown Prince married Yan Shuangyu as Crown Princess, and two years ago, the Crown Prince married two concubines.
But so far, no heir has been born in the Prince's East Palace.
Yan Shuangyu finally became the crown princess as predicted by the Imperial Master.
No one thought that Yan Shuangyu, who had always been obedient and obedient, would give up the principle of marrying one husband to another for the sake of the prince. Yan Zhao hated his daughter for not living up to her expectations and did not attend the wedding day, so Yan Xi took her place.
Nowadays, the prince still likes and dotes on Yan Shuangyu very much, but equally, he treats his two concubines well. As he confessed to Yan Shuangyu, his status as prince destined that he would never be with her for the rest of his life.
Rong Che didn't want to see the prince. The prince was the reason why he started drinking Yan Qingzheng, and he also married her cousin.
But he knew he couldn't hide forever.
"Brother, I will go to the East Palace now." Rong Che said in a low voice.
"Okay, okay, let Shengwen follow you." The emperor said.
"Excuse me, sir." Rong Che nodded slightly.
"Prince Xuan is polite," Yan Xi replied.
The two of them left the Imperial Study Room one after the other and walked towards the East Palace. On the long corridor, the high walls on both sides were constantly being left behind by the two of them. Yan Xi felt very heavy in her heart.
The Imperial Preceptor has been avoiding the Emperor recently because the Emperor likes to tease him more and more.
Moreover, because Yan Shuangyu agreed to the fate of the Crown Princess, the emperor pestered the Imperial Master all day long to ask him to solve the problem of Yan Qingzheng's fate. After all, the Crown Princess was fine, but Yan Qingzheng's fate was "born"
Anti-bone"!
No one in power would not worry about the inheritance of his empire.
The Imperial Preceptor has already explained that the Qianji Abacus can only calculate fate and cannot change it, but the Emperor still refuses to give up and calls him out at every turn. If he cannot solve the problem, he will find trouble. The Imperial Preceptor is very annoyed.
That's why the important task of protecting the emperor when Rong Che enters the palace always falls on Yan Xi.
Rong Che looked at the East Palace in front of him. After all, he couldn't help but couldn't suppress his strong will, so he stopped.
With his back to Yan Xi, he asked in a difficult tone: "Will she... come back?"