After Mu Jingrui calmed down for two days, he wrote a letter of resignation and planned to submit it to the emperor the next day.
He put down his pen, stood up and opened the door of the study.
He knew that Yin Yuqing had been standing outside the door for a long time.
"My husband..."
Yin Yuqing's eyes were red, and even rouge and powder could not hide her haggardness.
However, she still managed to force a smile and said in a hoarse voice: "I have prepared the bath water for you, you can go take a shower and change clothes..."
"I have something to tell you." Mu Jingrui thought very clearly. There was no room for a second daughter in his heart, and there was no need to waste Yin Yuqing's youth.
It would be better for both of them to separate early while they don't have too many ties with each other.
"Let's talk about it after you take a bath." Yin Yuqing avoided Mu Jingrui's sight, "I remembered that I forgot to prepare flower petals. I'll go now..."
Having said that, Yin Yuqing turned around and was about to leave.
Mu Jingrui saw that Yin Yuqing wanted to escape.
This girl was much smarter than he had imagined.
He grasped Yin Yuqing's wrist, and when Yin Yuqing turned around and looked at him, tears were already falling unrestrainedly.
"I know you are ready to resign and retire. I..." Yin Yuqing took Mu Jingrui's hand and said, "I don't mind whether you are the Minister of War or not. You are my husband. I am willing to follow you no matter we are rich or poor. Please... don't abandon me."
Suddenly, Mu Jingrui felt a surge of guilt in his heart.
In fact, Yin Yuqing was innocent in the whole thing.
She had somehow become a pawn in the hands of the Queen Mother. When Xiao Yujue came to propose marriage, she and her parents could not disobey.
Mu Jingrui looked at Yin Yuqing's tearful eyes, took a deep breath, and decided to harden his heart and end it all.
"I think……"
"Sir," the butler ran over hurriedly.
Seeing this, Yin Yuqing quickly let go of Mu Jingrui's hand, turned her back and wiped her tears. "My husband, you have something to deal with. I'm going back to my room first."
She fled with a feeling of relief.
"What's the matter?" Mu Jingrui frowned and looked at the housekeeper.
Of course, the butler could sense that Yin Yuqing and Mu Jingrui were not as close as newlyweds. He calmed himself down and replied, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince just sent someone with a message asking you to come over immediately. Something has happened to the young lady."
Mu Jingrui's face suddenly changed when he heard this. He no longer cared to break up with Yin Yuqing and immediately prepared a sedan chair and went to the Prince's Mansion.
As soon as he entered the door, he felt a strange atmosphere.
Mu Jingrui met Xiao Yujue in the hall.
I saw Xiao Yujue sitting in the upper position. A large group of maids and servants were kneeling densely in the hall. Even the Crown Princess You Zhenzhen was kneeling on the ground, with her head down and not daring to breathe.
"Your Highness, what exactly... happened? Where is Xiaoyan?"
Xiao Yujue looked tired and said nothing. He signaled the eunuch to take Mu Jingrui to the backyard room to visit Mu Jingyan.
I learned from the chief eunuch that Mu Jingyan had a miscarriage.
Mu Jingrui seemed stunned.
"What? How could this happen? Didn't the doctor say the fetus was stable a few days ago?"
The eunuch chief was frightened by the sharp aura emitted by Mu Jingrui and shivered. He said tremblingly: "I don't know... Suddenly..."
Mu Jingrui's scalp felt numb and his whole body felt like it was about to explode.
He couldn't take care of himself, and now his sister has encountered such a thing...
Mu Jingrui came to Mu Jingyan's room. He saw Mu Jingyan lying on the bed calmly, staring up with lifeless eyes.
She didn't cry or make a fuss, she was so quiet that it seemed as if the world had stopped.
Mu Jingrui couldn't say a word of comfort. He sat down beside the bed and held his sister's hand tightly.
All kinds of pain and sadness also erupted in his heart.
He knew that he couldn't leave for the time being...
Winter passed and spring came, the ice and snow melted, and half a year passed in the blink of an eye.
Shangguan Wanning studied medicine seriously with Lu Xiangzi in Yaowang Valley. She tried her best not to recall every detail of her time with Mu Jingrui.
Perhaps, time will slowly fade away all scars.
Shangguan Wanning was walking in the mountains carrying a basket. The whole mountain was covered with small blue flowers, swaying gently in the breeze, and the air was filled with the fragrance of flowers.
"Ning'er."
"Brother Yao?" Shangguan Wanning took the initiative to greet the figure approaching. "Why are you here? Aren't you researching new medicine with Master in the medicine room?"
"I saw you haven't come back for such a long time, so I came out to check. Do you know your situation? You have no sense of direction at all. I was afraid you would get lost again and couldn't come back."
Sun Jinyao said as he took the basket from Shangguan Wanning's hand and couldn't help laughing. "This... is also medicine?"
"These are the mushrooms I picked. I'll make soup with them tonight. Master, I think you like it." Shangguan Wanning followed Sun Jinyao back, "Also, don't always blame me for getting lost. I got lost because I just arrived and I'm not familiar with the terrain."
The two chatted and laughed as they returned to the wooden house where they lived. Lu Xiangzi sat at the stone table drinking tea. When he looked up at the two of them, he complained, "Why did you come back so late? I'm hungry..."
"I'll go cook." Sun Jinyao turned around and glared at Lu Xiangzi, "I didn't see you starve to death when I was away before."
For the past six months, Sun Jinyao had been the one cooking. He couldn't bear to let Shangguan Wanning be contaminated by the smell of kitchen smoke.
Sun Jinyao cooked a pot of delicious soup with the mushrooms picked by Shangguan Wan Ning, and was the first to serve a bowl to Lu Xiangzi.
Lu Xiangzi looked at him warily.
"Why are you so nice to me all of a sudden? Are you worried that the mushrooms are poisonous and want me to try them first?"
"Master, how could that be? Brother Yao wants to honor you..."
"Yes. You won't die if you finish drinking it. Ning'er and I will drink more."
Shangguan Wanning saw that Sun Jinyao was being aggressive, so she quietly pulled her sleeve.
"Master, you don't believe me? I'm your apprentice. Don't I know how to tell whether a mushroom is poisonous or not?"
Lu Xiangzi took the mushroom soup and drank the whole bowl in one go. "It tastes okay, another bowl please."
Sun Jinyao served him another bowl.
"By the way, I see that many things in the kitchen are gone. You two should go down the mountain tomorrow and buy some daily necessities."
"OK."
Shangguan Wanning happily agreed.
She and Sun Jinyao would go down the mountain about once a month and buy a lot of things each time.
At dawn the next day, Sun Jinyao harnessed a donkey cart and took Shangguan Wanning down the mountain facing the rising sun.
The market at the foot of the mountain is very lively, and the streets are lined with a wide variety of small gadgets.
Shangguan Wanning looked around excitedly, and Sun Jinyao followed behind her without urging her, with only a doting look in his eyes.
"Miss."
A familiar voice was heard, Shangguan Wanning turned around, and a figure pounced towards her.
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