Huan Yuan sat up under the service of his servant, and looked at the woman in front of him quietly. Suddenly, a drop of clear tears fell from his eyes, and soon disappeared.
"Rou'er, I can't help you." The man raised his hand and touched Huan Ci's face, his eyes full of regret and pain.
"Dad, it's me, I'm A Ci." Huan Ci couldn't hold back anymore and cried bitterly while hugging Huan Yuan.
In all these years, she had never heard her father mention her mother-in-law. But now it seemed that her father-in-law was suffering this pain alone, and it was not that he missed her mother-in-law.
Huan Ci's cry made Huan Yuan clearer. He looked deeply at the woman in front of him and called out "girl" in a low voice.
Huan Ci responded quickly and pulled his father to look up and down: "Dad, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with you?"
"I'm fine, just come back." Huan Yuan raised his arm with difficulty and touched her head.
"Yes." Huan Ci nodded quickly. Seeing her father's face gradually improving, she wiped away her tears and asked softly: "Dad, do I look a lot like my mother-in-law?"
The smile froze on Huan Yuan's face. There was sadness in his eyes when he looked at the woman. After a long time, he lowered his head and said softly: "It's very similar."
Huan Yuan's look made Huan Ci feel a little guilty. His father was still very weak, how could she upset him by mentioning these things?
"Stop talking about this, take the medicine quickly and I'll feed it to you." She took the medicine from someone else's hand and looked at her father with a forced smile.
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In the eleventh year of Dehua, Emperor Zong Zhengyuan of the Rongguo State was seriously ill, and Prince Zong Zhengche took charge of political affairs. In June of the same year, Zong Zhengyuan died of illness, and the throne was passed to Prince Zong Zhengche.
The throne finally returned to Zong Zhengxun's heirs, and there was a lot of discussion among the people. But just a few days before Zong Zhengche's coronation ceremony, the rumored dead heterosexual Wang Huanyuan raised troops in Daizhou and took the Queen Mother hostage to threaten Zong Zhengche.
At the same time, the rumor that Zong Zhengche forged military symbols and falsely conveyed imperial edicts quickly became the talk of the people after dinner.
Later, someone revealed that Zong Zhengche had secretly opened mines and made weapons privately when he was the prince. The person who made the revelation was executed on the spot, which quickly caused a sensation among the people.
In mid-July, the eldest prince Zong Zhenglu returned to Beijing, and with him came Zong Zhengyuan's imperial edict. From then on, Zong Zhengche and Zong Zhenglu turned against each other.
Because of Huan Yuan's sudden appearance, the generals in the Jin army defected one after another. Just when everyone thought that Zong Zhengche was about to be desperate, General Modi, who had been imprisoned for rebellion, left the capital overnight with Zong Zhengche and met with Su in Linjiang.
Army General Yuan Lu met.
Two days later, Zong Zhengche proclaimed himself emperor in Linjiang, and Rongguo fell into civil strife.
With the support of everyone, Zong Zhenglu ascended the throne in Yingdu. Since Prime Minister Su Ran and Zong Zhengche went to Linjiang together, the new emperor worshiped Wei Zhao as his prime minister, promoted Fu Shen to deputy prime minister, and helped manage political affairs together.
In the Prime Minister's Mansion at the foot of the palace, Fu Shen lazily slumped on a chair in the living room, casually playing with the fox hairpin in his hand.
Kneeling beside his legs was a young woman, Lan Fu, who had just followed Zong Zhenglu to Beijing not long ago.
Although they had sent someone to deliver a letter to Fu Shen at that time, Fu Shen had been busy in the capital and had no time to summon her until today.
Lan Fu trembled in his heart, waiting for Fu Shen to deal with him. Huan Ci had escaped from her once before, and Fu Shen would not let her go just like that this time.
According to Sao Ye, Huan Ci has settled down with Huan Yuan. Huan Yuan made a promise in Daizhou that he would find a husband for Huan Ci.
Even she already knew about this, let alone Fu Shen?
However, she had been kneeling for a long time and her legs were already numb, but the man was silent for a long time.
Just when she thought she might have to kneel here all night, a man's unexplained whisper came from above her head.
"You go out first." Fu Shen said softly.
Lan Fu quickly raised his head and glanced at him, only to see the man staring at the hairpin in his hand with no unnecessary expression on his face.
Originally, I wanted to ask her about her responsibilities after arriving in the new mansion, but Fu Shen didn't look at her, and she couldn't speak, so she bowed her knees and bowed before going out.
Only Sao Ye was guarding the door. He grabbed the frustrated Lan Fu and asked in a low voice, "Did the third master say anything?"
The woman shook her head as expected. Su Ye sighed softly and secretly glanced at Fu Shen, who was sitting quietly.
Because of the new emperor's affairs, the Third Master has barely slept a wink these days. When the people from Puzhou sent the news, he was just stunned for a moment, then chuckled and left. Now even he can't figure out the Third Master's identity.
Thoughtful.
Thousands of miles away in Daizhou, Huan Ci was busy mediating with Huan Yuan.
Huan Yuan has been nursing for many days. Although his health is not as good as before, he is gradually getting better.
After he got off the hospital bed, he listened to Li Qi's suggestion and defended Daizhou to threaten the court.
It's just that Huan Ci is worried. Now that things have come to this, my father can no longer look back.
Now Zong Zhengche and Zong Zhenglu are at odds with each other, and neither of them cares about the affairs of the north. Instead, my father is at peace.
I don't know what's wrong with him recently, but he actually wants to help Huan Ci find a husband.
But Huan Ci didn't know why, and he often saw Fu Shen in his dreams. The men in the dreams either smiled at her gently, or stared at her with cold eyes. She even had such a dream, and they were in the dream.
As intimate as those days.
Huan Yuan looked at his absent-minded daughter and felt a little upset. He had already heard Li Qi mention Huan Ci's residence in Puzhou. He knew all about the past events between Huan Ci and Fu Shen, but Fu Shen was a poor man back then.
Boy, besides, their Fu family is not at peace, so he doesn't want Huan Ci to marry him. Now that Fu Shen's situation is rising, and that man has some scheming intentions, could he come to provoke his daughter again?
He cleared his throat with a cough and asked: "Aci, you are not young anymore. None of your previous marriages were successful. Dad has always felt guilty in his heart. There are so many good men in Daizhou, is it possible that none of them can get married?"
blinded you?"
"I don't want to get married." Huan Ci lowered his head and said.
Fu Shen's words in her ear, "Wait for me when I come back" before leaving, have been haunting her like a ghost these days, always making her feel upset.
Huan Yuan sighed helplessly, looking at Huan Ci's disappointed look, he hesitated for a long time before he said tentatively: "Tell dad, are you getting involved with that boy Fu Shen again?"
"What's the matter? Dad, why do you say it so harshly?" Huan Ci raised his head depressedly.
Huan Yuan looked at her red ears and already made a judgment in his mind. He walked to the door with his hands behind his hands, looked at the cats playing in the yard, and said to Huan Ci: "Ci'er, he is a very ambitious person.
, I appreciate this very much. But he has too many ambitions, and I am afraid that one day he will suffer from it. How can I trust such a person to hand you over to him? What's more, now that I am in trouble with the court,
, and he has just become the deputy prime minister, you and him——"
"I know." Huan Ci interrupted his father.
Three years ago, from the moment she heard that Fu Shen had become the emperor's favorite, she knew that the two of them would belong to different camps in the future. She had already seen Fu Shen's ambitions when they were in Bingzhou. He was a
Ambitious man, that was what had always attracted her to him.
He is different from those men in the world who are like losers, and he is also different from those men who have messed with too many things in court. He is a man who knows how to advance and retreat, and will use some means to achieve his goals, but he is also a noble person.
People always have their own obsessions on certain things.
But now, it's no longer possible for the two of them. This time she took the initiative to leave again. Unless Fu Shen was a shameless person, how could he bow his head again and again?
"I have given up on him," she said to her father, "but I don't want to find a husband either. If you force me, I will go to the mountains to become a nun tomorrow."
Huan Yuan's eyes widened at Huan Ci's words, and after a long while he said: "If you don't want to, forget it? How can you go to the mountains to be an aunt? How do you let my father handle himself?"
As he spoke, he glanced at Li An, the steward on the side.
Li An immediately understood what he meant and hurriedly retreated. The prince found a few handsome men in front, waiting for the princess to see him. Now Huan Ci is threatening him like a nun. These
Don’t people need to be driven away quickly?
This time he ran out of the courtyard and saw Li Qi, who was dressed in a smart outfit.
Deep down in his heart, he despised this eunuch. He only talked about it every day, and when he heard that he had nothing to do, he would go to the prison to torture the kidnapped Queen Mother.
There are too many people here who don't like him, but it is said that he is a distant relative of the wife who went there, and he can be related to their prince. How could he go to the palace and become a eunuch?
Li An hurriedly ran past Li Qi without saying hello to him, causing him to roll his eyes several times.
He slowly stepped into the courtyard and immediately saw Huan Yuan standing by the door.
"Li Qi, why are you here?" Huan Yuan also saw him and asked hurriedly.
Li Qicai had just come out of prison, and now he felt completely comfortable. He looked at Huan Yuan, who had a lot of white hair, and felt a strange sense of joy in his heart.
"I wonder how the prince has considered this?" he asked loudly, revealing that he was an eunuch as soon as he opened his mouth.
Huan Yuan glanced at the curious Huan Ci from the corner of his eye and shook his head towards Li Qi.
Zong Zhengche and Zong Zhenglu had been fighting fiercely since the late Emperor's body was still cold. Now that they are in a stalemate, they both come to win over him, a person who has rebelled. It is really interesting.
But he was tired of dealing with their royal family's affairs, and he just wanted to sit back and watch the fight between tigers and reap the benefits. There had to be a winner between the two of them, and this was a good time for him to recharge his batteries.
, since he can sit on the sidelines, he will not be foolish enough to be a lackey and good bow for others.
But Li Qi seemed to want to get involved in this matter, and had been coming to ask for his opinion for several days.
"Zong Zhengche is his son. Since he is dead, as the saying goes, the father's debt is paid by the son. Don't you want to avenge her?" Li Qi saw him shaking his head and couldn't help but ask.
But when he got closer and saw Huan Ci, he felt a little regretful. Huan Yuan could listen to Huan Ci's words better, and she had always been openly arguing with him, always refuting his words in front of Huan Yuan, and letting him speak in front of everyone.