Chapter 323 Just Say Li

Imperial tomb.

"You go." Gu Jian said after carrying Li Mumu out of the car.

Li Mumu nodded, "I'll be back soon."

Behind him, Gu Jian and Old Master Bai sighed a few more times. The wind was so strong that Li Mumu couldn't hear clearly.

The guards of the imperial mausoleum initially thought that it was a little girl who had run away from somewhere. Just as they were about to drive her away, they saw the token in Li Mumu's hand and immediately let her in.

They have been here all the time, so it is normal that they don’t know Li Mumu, and Li Mumu did not make things difficult for them.

When Li Mumu saw Rong Jinxuan, he was weeding. It was spring again, and grass was growing between the cracks in the bricks.

He was dressed in coarse and tattered clothes, but it was still difficult to conceal his noble air. Although he was down and out, he was a deposed prince after all, and the servants did not dare to neglect him.

How could they explain the royal family's affairs clearly? If they went back one day, they didn't want to be held accountable for the past, so they didn't say they were nice to Rong Jinxuan, but at least they didn't dare to bully him.

When Rong Jinxuan heard the footsteps, he didn't pay attention at first. He had actually sent a message a long time ago asking to see Li Mumu, but there was no response and he didn't wait for Li Mumu. He thought there would never be a response.

"I heard you wanted to see me?"

Li Mumu's childish voice clearly disagreed with those older maids. Rong Jinxuan suddenly turned around and looked over. There was some surprise in his eyes, which was then replaced by hatred, but eventually the hatred disappeared.

In a short time, his mood changed again and again.

"I thought you wouldn't come." Rong Jinxuan smiled self-deprecatingly.

"I'm just passing by and want to hear what you want to see me do." Li Mumu said.

The two of them were not familiar with each other and had not had much contact, but Rong Jinxuan had not done anything unforgivable to her, so Li Mumu came.

Rong Jinxuan put down the tools in his hand and motioned Li Mumu to sit down. Although he was already in a state of poverty, his plain clothes were still kept clean.

His face was also thinner. If he were another type, he would definitely be the one who would be saved by a rich girl who saw the refrigerator.

Unfortunately, Li Mumu is not.

"If my mother hadn't let Qingyang marry to Beiyue, would you have chosen to stand on our side?"

Li Mumu shook her head, "I'm not doing this because of Princess Qingyang."

"Then why? Was it because of my mother that you were exiled? But the culprit is not my mother, it's Li Yuan's incompetence and my father's calculations. My mother was just going along with it."

Rong Jinxuan said, "You should know that temporarily avoiding the spotlight is not necessarily a bad thing. The Gu family's achievements surpass their master, and the emperor has long been suspicious of them. However, because the Gu family is still useful, he cannot kill them. He wants to teach you a lesson."

Li Mumu nodded, "You're right, but it's not because of this."

"If it's not Princess Qingyang, and it's not because of exile, then what is it?"

Rong Jinxuan looked at Li Mumu in confusion.

"Because I want to protect the lives of everyone in the Gu family." Li Mumu said, "When you get promoted, you will meet a girl, and then you will deal with the Gu family for her."

"That's impossible."

Li Mumu raised her eyebrows.

"Just because of this reason, a reason without any basis, you made this choice. I have been very good to you." Rong Jinxuan felt wronged.

"My mother loves you very much and even begged my father to grant us a marriage."

Li Mumu knew what he meant. If he came to power, he would give her the position of queen. That was his intention.

"You should have heard about the late emperor and the late queen, right?" Li Mumu asked.

Rong Jinxuan had heard it, even though he was raised outside the palace, he had heard it. Concubine Rong wanted him to know that in order to reach that position, feelings were nothing.

"I won't be like my father." Rong Jinxuan asked aggrievedly, "Why do you always choose Xie Xun instead of me?"

It's a bit absurd for a teenager to ask a little girl of a certain age.

But he still asked.

"Why did you all choose Xie Xun? Am I not good enough?"

Li Mumu shook her head. "You should have the best qualities of many men in this world. Unfortunately, we are all bad people."

Li Mumu smiled and said, "If there's nothing else, I'll leave."

"Wait..." Rong Jinxuan stopped her, "Mumu, I really want to be good to you."

"Maybe it's an illusion, because I helped you, but it should have been someone else who helped you."

Li Mumu felt that he was misled by the plot.

"No, it's different." Rong Jinxuan said.

Li Mumu took a deep breath and said, "Then forget it. We won't see each other again anyway."

Rong Jinxuan shook his head, but then he thought that he would stay here for the rest of his life and would never be able to leave, while she could go anywhere.

“That’s right!”

Li Mumu took two steps without looking back, and suddenly said, "Live well. Since God wants you to live, don't waste his kindness."

Rong Jinxuan thought, since Mumu asked him to live, then he should live.

A year later, the guards of the imperial mausoleum were not so strict, and he could walk around. As a result, he accidentally stepped on a trap, but a little kid saved him.

The little girl was fair and pretty, and there was even a bit of Li Mumu's shadow between her eyebrows.

He remembered her immediately.

"What's your name?" Rong Jinxuan asked.

"My name is Zhao Zhao, I don't know my last name." Rong Jinxuan knew that she was sold and was about to escape, but she happened to run into the woods and saved him.

"Then your surname should be Li."

The little girl nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll be called Li Zhaozhao from now on."

Rong Jinxuan couldn't help but think that if he couldn't see Mumu again in this long life, it would be nice to have someone similar to her by his side.

He brought the little girl back to the imperial mausoleum, and the guards didn't say anything. From then on, the little girl was raised by Rong Jinxuan and guarded the imperial mausoleum for her entire life, never leaving.

Li Zhaozhao was very smart and occasionally realized that Rong Jinxuan seemed to be seeing another person through her, but she asked, but Rong Jinxuan never said.

Anyway, apart from her, a young and beautiful girl, this imperial mausoleum is filled with old maids and eunuchs, and they are all fierce and not gentle at all.

What's more, Rong Jinxuan treated her very well. He never beat or scolded her, and he even taught her to read and write.

Rong Jinxuan occasionally lost his mind and called out "Mumu".

Li Zhaozhao then realized that the person in his heart was called Mumu.

But she didn't care at all, because Zhao Zhao was with him only when Mu Mu was not around.

At a certain moment, Rong Jinxuan also remembered Li Mumu's words. He really met a little girl who looked very much like her. Was this what Mumu meant?

Therefore, he treated Li Zhaozhao very well, but his heart was always thinking about Li Mumu, whom he had never met in his life.

She asked him to live well, so he lived well, thinking that maybe he could see her if he lived well.