He then realized that when he got anxious, his brain couldn't function properly.
Your Majesty's trip is a private affair.
Those guards were no match for him.
After easily escaping, he dressed in night clothes and secretly investigated in the dead of night, only to discover that He Lin and Xiao Ran were actually...
Never returned?
That shouldn't be the case. He went home and stayed for more than a month before setting off again.
As an emperor, He Lin should not have stayed outside for too long.
Unable to find anyone, he had no choice but to find an inn on the spot to rest for the time being.
In the days that followed, he would circle around the palace gate every day.
Unexpectedly, he waited for two months.
And so, today, as usual, he wandered around the palace gates, and finally,
He Lin arrived.
He Lin, dressed in a dark robe, walked towards the palace gate one after the other with his personal guard, Zhan Yue.
Li Zheng rushed over and stood in front of He Lin. His first words were...
Where is Xiao Ran?
He Lin was startled by Li Zheng's sudden appearance.
He paused for a moment, his face as pale as an autumn rain in the dead of night, with obvious dark circles under his eyes.
After her initial surprise, Zhan Yue's expression turned ugly.
Receiving no reply, Li Zheng asked again:
"Where is Yu'er? Where is Yu'er?"
"He..." He Lin hesitated for a long time before finally speaking.
"He's gone; he disappeared in the blink of an eye."
He Lin was on the verge of collapse. Why was this child so unruly?
"What did you say? Lost again?"
Upon hearing this, Li Zheng was struck dumb, as if by a bolt from the blue, or as if he had been hit on the head with a club, leaving him dizzy and disoriented.
“You said I could protect him for a while, but not forever, but you couldn’t even protect him for a while.”
He said he would protect Xiaoran, but what about now?
Li Zheng genuinely felt that He Lin was a very unreliable person.
I don't know how he, as an emperor, managed to get to where he is now.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." He Lin's face was full of remorse and endless regret.
"When did he lose it, and where did he lose it?" Li Zheng's feelings could not be described by the word "anger" alone.
Worry filled his entire heart.
He Lin lowered his eyes slightly: "At the border."
Li Zheng: "The border?"
"That day, he said he wanted me to help him find his mother, and I agreed. Then he said that his mother had gone to the West, and I agreed to help him find her as well."
He was being unreasonable, and I let him be, continuing our search. But even after we reached the border of Northern Qi, we still hadn't found any trace of Qiu Yan.
So I tried to take him back, but he cried and insisted on finding his mother.
He wouldn't listen to advice and refused to come back with me no matter what.
He said he regretted it and wouldn't come back with me.
God knows how furious He Lin was at that moment.
He was almost driven mad by Gu Xiaoran.
What he didn't say was that he himself was also eager to find Qiu Yan.
He still held the same opinion: Qiu Yan knew how to use gunpowder, and it would be absolutely unacceptable if she were used by foreigners.
"And then?" Li Zheng pressed.
He also knew that Xiao Ran was very dependent on Qiu Yan.
However, Qiu Yan had important things to do, and she had never raised a child herself, so how could she take care of him every moment?
"I was so angry that I thought I should give him a hard time."
I left him at the inn and sent Xuanming and Xuanying to guard him.
But in the blink of an eye, he was gone, vanished.
He Lin became more and more remorseful as he spoke, and he vowed that if he found the child, he would punish him severely.
"Where is Xuanming Xuanying now?"
He Lin: "They're all gone too. Xiao Ran's maid and his beloved dog are all gone as well."
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