Li Qi narrowed his eyes: "Okay, very good. Since you are willing to be a coward, forgive Li for not being able to accompany you any longer. Why don't we make a break today, and we can all go our separate ways from now on."
"Since Brother Li has this intention, it will be difficult for Huan to persuade him. In this case, let's just say goodbye." Huan Yuan sighed.
Li Qi sneered: "You can let me go, but you are alive today thanks to my mediation in the palace. You should give me something to repay me."
"What do you want?"
"Of course it's military power." Li Qi said coldly.
Huan Ci curled his lips, despising his wishful thinking.
Sure enough, Huan Yuan glanced at him coldly and whispered: "I can give you everything else, but the military power alone is not enough. Although it is indeed thanks to you that I came out of the palace alive, I will never hand over the soldiers under my command."
Go out, Brother Li, you should order something else."
"Okay, you," Li Qi put his hands on his hips angrily, "You ungrateful bastard, I really regret saving you."
Huan Ci held his chin and watched him jumping up and down like a monkey. Just let him scold him, since military power cannot be handed over anyway.
After cursing angrily for a long time, Huan Yuan and Huan Ci remained indifferent, and Huan Ci even yawned several times. Li Qi finally got tired, sat on the stool and panted, and began to speak like a lion.
Huan Ci listened boredly for a long time, playing with the tea cup in her hand. After Li Qi's figure disappeared in the corner, she looked at her sad father: "Dad, you are not sad because he is leaving, are you?
"
Huan Yuan shook his head: "I was just thinking about how much of the news he told me in the palace over the years was true and how much was false. Maybe he really wanted to avenge your mother at first.
But what about now? His purpose of doing these things may have changed a long time ago."
"Does he like A Niang?" Huan Ci looked at his father with burning eyes.
"Alas," Huan Yuan held his forehead and sighed, "your mother-in-law liked him before she came out of the court, but after marrying me, she devoted her whole heart to me. But after your mother-in-law left, he came to visit him again,
I heard that she is a distant relative of your mother-in-law, so I helped her. I never thought that your mother-in-law had poor eyesight when she was young."
Huan Ci didn't comment, but she didn't dare to say anything. She didn't want to be scolded again for talking about A Niang.
That night, Li Qi took the Queen Mother out of the city overnight. He also took a lot of things with him. According to the information reported, he actually went north. There were no good places further north, and some were also in Yong.
Inside the country, Huan Ci couldn't help but suspect that he had already colluded with Zong Zhengche.
Early the next morning, his father ordered the house to be cleaned from top to bottom. It was too much trouble for Huan Ci to stay there, so he took A Yao and Zhao Jin to go shopping on the street. When they left the house, they met Ah Lian in the outer courtyard, so the team
There's one more person inside.
The four of them were wandering aimlessly on the street when they suddenly caught a glimpse of several officials in official uniforms walking towards the city gate in unison. Huan Ci was very curious and hurriedly raised his fingers to signal them to follow.
It turned out that he had gone to greet the officials from the imperial court those days. Huan Ci looked at the familiar figure and couldn't help but sigh at Zong Zhenglu's patience. His father had clearly refused no less than three times, and he still kept sending people.
Persuade surrender.
"Girl, it's Mr. Kong, and the emperor actually sent him to sue for peace." A Yao shook his arm excitedly.
Huan Ci looked at A Yao helplessly and said softly: "Then go find her quickly. Ah Lian, you go with him and take them to the mansion."
"What should you do?" Ah Lian raised his eyebrows.
"Can I still throw it away? Go quickly." Huan Ci pushed him and urged him.
Watching the two of them walk over leisurely, Huan Ci smiled with satisfaction and said loudly: "Zhao Jin, I will take you to visit. I am more familiar with Daizhou than they are."
After not hearing a response from the woman for a long time, she looked back in confusion because the man who was very close to her took a breath of cold air.
"Fu Shen."
Fu Shen lowered his eyes and looked at her face, which was fatter than before: "It's me."
"You, you, you, why are you here?" Huan Ci stammered, "Are you here for peace talks?"
"No," Fu Shen's lips curled up slightly, "I'm here to find someone who escaped."
"I didn't run away." Huan Ci pursed his lips, and worry appeared on his face for a moment, "You mean you came to Daizhou privately, and no one else knew about it."
"Yes, whether I can leave here alive depends entirely on you." Fu Shen said softly.
Huan Ci hurriedly dragged her to the nearby shop. Officials from the imperial court were at the city gate, but he still dared to stand here.
"Strange, where did you take Zhao Jin?"
"I'm just inviting her to tea. Someone will send her back soon."
"Your people are very skilled in martial arts, but I didn't notice it at all." Huan Ci hummed dissatisfied, suddenly remembering Fu Shen's lawsuit against his uncle.
I wonder how much he knows now?
Huan Ci looked at him and asked cautiously: "You and your uncle?"
"It's okay. He has pleaded guilty and the case has been transferred to Dali Temple. I will take a look at it after I return to Beijing."
"He confessed? What crime did he admit to?"
"It's nothing, you don't have to worry about this." Fu Shen touched her face and asked, "Tell me first why you ran away."
Huan Ci stuck out his tongue: "I don't know who was stabbed a thousand times, but he lied to me that my father was seriously ill and made me rush back all night. In the end, my father stood still and scolded me."
After hearing what he said, Fu Shen already made a judgment. Who else could have done it? It must be the attendant named A Lian. He blinked lightly and leaned his head on Huan Ci: "I'm tired, I want to rest."
"Huh? When did you arrive in Daizhou? Isn't there a place to rest?" Huan Ci asked, holding his shoulder.
"I arrived last night. How dare I stay in a hotel in Daizhou with my identity? I had to find a haystack outside the city to stay overnight." Fu Shen lied casually.
Huan Ci hurriedly pulled him to look around, and then touched his forehead with the back of his hand. It was really hot: "Are you crazy? Don't you want to find some black hotels to live in?"
"Do you still have a black shop in Daizhou?" Fu Shen looked at her funny.
Huan Ci pinched him and snorted: "It's not just Daizhou. There are quite a few in Puzhou as well. Only the ones in Beijing are so hard to find that they almost caused me to live on the street."
Fu Shen chuckled softly and looked at the woman sleepily. He was really tired. He had never had a good rest these days, but now that he saw her, he suddenly wanted to have a good sleep.
Huan Ci's eyes were rolling, thinking about where would be a good place to go. Although there was a black shop here, she really didn't dare to let Fu Shen stay there. But he couldn't stay in a serious inn, let alone the palace.
Just think about it, where else could you go?
"I understand." Huan Ci suddenly patted his thigh and looked at Fu Shen excitedly.
"What?" Fu Shen was confused.
Huan Ci hurriedly grabbed his hand and walked out, grinning and saying, "I know a place where you can stay."
It was a small courtyard built by her father here because her uncle's family lived here when she was young. Her father came to visit them occasionally, but didn't want to trouble them, so he bought a courtyard nearby. I don't know if there is one now.
No one lives there.
Huan Ci ran away with Fu Shen and saw that the courtyard was locked and looked quite clean from the outside.
"Let's climb over the wall and go in." Huan Ci winked at Fu Shen.
Fu Shen shook his head helplessly: "How many people have you climbed over?"
"Why don't I do it when someone invites me to do it?" Huan Ci pushed him away and said coquettishly, "You carry me up on your back."
The wall here is higher than elsewhere, and it took a lot of effort for the two of them to get in. There was some dust in the yard, but the house was relatively clean, just a little damp.
Huan Ci rolled up his sleeves and said with a smile, "How about we clean up this place?"
Just as she was about to stand up, she was suddenly stopped at the waist, and in the blink of an eye she was sitting on the man's lap with her back to her.
"Ah Ci." Fu Shen's voice was extremely low, which made Huan Ci feel itchy.
She looked back at the man in surprise: "Aren't you sleepy? Take a good rest. I'll dry the quilt in this room."
"Huh? There's no rush."
The man's breath blew against her ear, and Huan Ci swallowed involuntarily.
"You don't mean to?"
Before she could finish her question, the man's face had already come closer. Huan Ci hesitated for a moment, and in the blink of an eye, he threw all etiquette, justice and integrity out of the window.
This place was already secluded and dark, but now it was just the two of them, so they didn't have to worry about being disturbed. Moreover, the two of them hadn't seen each other for a long time, so it took them a long time to stop.
Huan Ci's eyes were filled with mist, and he was panting as he leaned on the man's arm, looked at the beam above his head, and asked in a low voice: "Ah Mo, do you want to get married?"
"With whom?"
Fu Shen's response shocked her.
Huan Ci sat up and pinched his waist gently: "Who else do you want to marry?"
"I'm afraid I'm just wishful thinking." The man's eyes were filled with disappointment.
Huan Ci opened his mouth, held his face and asked, "Ah Mo, how about we get married now? Let's worship here."
Fu Shen narrowed his eyes and looked at her, as if he was thinking about whether she was serious. Huan Ci felt a little frustrated and reached out to pat his head: "I'm serious, do you dare?"
"Humph!" Fu Shen sneered, neither admitting nor denying.
"Then I will go find paper and pen now, let's write a marriage letter, and then we will have a wedding ceremony."
Huan Ci quickly jumped out of bed and rummaged through the boxes and cabinets to find something.
When she spread out the paper and ink, the man got off the bed, approached step by step, and finally hugged her from behind: "Aci, you can't regret it after you write the marriage letter."
"I don't regret it." Huan Ci looked back at the man's profile.
"Okay." Fu Shen responded in a low voice, holding her hand and slowly writing on the paper.
*
At night, Ayao looked at Huan Ci who came back alone, and pulled her around to look around: "Girl, where have you been? You scared us to death. Zhao Jin thought he had lost you."
"I couldn't find you, so I went shopping by myself." Huan Ci blinked, "I'm tired. I want to rest. Let me boil some water."
"Have you had your meal, girl?" Ayao asked with a frown.
Huan Ci nodded and hurriedly drove her away. When she was lying on the bed, she took out the marriage document from her arms, and a smile appeared on her face. Thinking of what Fu Shen did in front of the desk today, she felt ashamed.
He hugged his head and finally fell asleep in this happy and tired mood.
