Chapter 558 Duan Rongshi: How fortunate I am to have you in my life.
Zongzheng Xingyao: ...
Well, her father might indeed do such a cruel and inhumane thing.
"But I can't... help you with my father..."
Li Qingluo: "Would you like to use your merit in saving the emperor to exchange for the possibility of no longer becoming a monk and marrying into the Western Regions?"
Zongzheng Xingyao: "What should I do, Your Majesty?"
Li Qingluo curled her lips into a smile, "Easy."
She had only exchanged a few words with Nangong Xingyao when Zheng Mama rushed in, shouting, "Something terrible has happened! A large number of guards are searching this way!"
Li Qingluo looked at Zongzheng Xingyao.
Zongzheng Xingyao immediately waved his hand and shook his head: "It wasn't me!"
"I... I never intended to betray you."
"Perhaps it's because this Cold Palace is where Father Emperor spent his childhood, so they might have thought of coming here to look for it."
Li Qingluo: "What did you say?"
"Is this the cold palace where your father and aunt once lived?"
Isn't that the place where my mother was born and grew up?
Li Qingluo looked at the dark bed and remembered that her mother was born on it.
Looking at the pony and the stool, they were probably items that the mother used when she was young.
Looking at this dilapidated room again, I suddenly felt a sense of warmth and familiarity.
His gaze softened unconsciously.
Seeing her suddenly lose herself in a daze, Zongzheng Xingyao couldn't help but nudge her: "Nangong Qingluo? Nangong Qingluo, what's wrong?"
Li Qingluo took a deep breath: "Let's get away with this first."
Li Qingluo looked up and around.
The roof beams can no longer be hidden.
The house is leaking. When the guards come in and see the puddles on the ground, they will definitely look up and check.
However, the big tree in the yard is so lush and leafy that it has probably been neglected and untended for years, so it has grown into an incredibly large tree.
"Walk!"
The four hid in the tree.
When the guards rushed in and searched the area, finding nothing, they truly hadn't expected that the tree could hide someone.
After everyone had left, Li Qingluo took the lead and jumped down with Zongzheng Xingyao.
Granny Zheng lingered behind them, and after placing the person under the tree, Li Qingluo was examining the pit in the ground.
"Wasn't the late Empress buried here back then?"
Zongzheng Xingyao: "How did you know?"
"My father never allows anyone to approach this cold palace."
"Including himself, I heard that he has never come back since he left."
"How do you know that the Empress Dowager was buried here?"
Li Qingluo: "Just guessing."
Isn't there only one big tree in this yard?
Anyone who has heard the story of the late empress can guess it, right?
Li Qingluo thought of the late empress's fate and sighed in her heart.
But it was precisely because of her lack of decisiveness and incompetence that her mother was born in the Cold Palace, and that she and her brother spent countless miserable days and nights in the Cold Palace, suffering and enduring all kinds of hardships.
However, I have no right to criticize others.
After all, he wasn't very useful in his previous life either.
"Let's go."
Li Qingluo turned her head and met the eyes of the Chu Emperor, who was staring intently at her like a venomous snake.
When did he wake up?
Li Qingluo looked at Granny Zheng, who had a bitter expression on her face. How could she dare to say anything?
Zongzheng Xingyao rolled his eyes and fainted.
After Li Qingluo knocked the person unconscious again.
Zongzheng Xingyao cried with a heartbroken expression.
"It's over, it's over!"
"Waaah, I was originally asked to save the emperor, but now look what's happened. If Father sees that you and I were conspiring together, I'm afraid that when he wakes up, he won't let me go through with the marriage alliance; he'll just kill me outright."
"Waaaaah..."
Li Qingluo: "Why give him the chance to kill you?"
"If we make sure he dies, won't everything be solved?"
Zongzheng Xingyao sobbed twice: "Are you crazy? I would never kill my father!!"
"Moreover, even if Father Emperor dies, my elder brother Crown Prince will definitely follow Father Emperor's original choice and marry me off to the Western Regions."
"It's all been a waste of time! Waaah..."
Li Qingluo had a headache.
His voice rose several decibels involuntarily: "Stop crying!"
Zongzheng Xingyao was truly speechless.
He looked terrified by Li Qingluo.
Li Qingluo quickly said, "I've tied you and your father up together. When he wakes up again, he'll understand that you were kidnapped by me."
"As for whether your father will be moved by you, or whether he will go back on his word after being moved, based on your understanding of him, are you sure you can make a decision on this matter?"
Zongzheng Xingyao shook his head.
Li Qingluo: "I thought the only way was to—"
With that, she slashed her neck with a knife and said fiercely, "To prevent future troubles!"
"As for what you said about the Crown Prince, is it really that difficult to alter a draft document?"
Zongzheng Xingyao's eyes lit up.
My mind felt suddenly clear.
"Nangong Qingluo, you're so clever!"
"As expected, it had to be you!!"
Li Qingluo: "So, you're willing to kill your father?"
Zongzheng Xingyao certainly wouldn't dare.
Li Qinglu was just teasing her.
Before we knew it, night had fallen again.
The entire palace remained brightly lit.
Although the search for the crown prince became increasingly perfunctory, the appearance of the prince was still becoming more and more complete.
On the surface, no one could find fault with his lack of effort.
Although the news of the Chu Emperor's disappearance has not yet spread throughout the court, some rumors have already leaked out.
Now, a sense of unease has settled over the entire Nan'an area.
People began to come and go from the palace.
Ironically, the Crown Prince was the most lax in his control over this area.
The guards at the palace gates were no longer as attentive to the carriages coming and going over the past two days.
Zongzheng Xingyao took this opportunity to leave the palace in a carriage.
Although they said they were going to the former princess's residence, now the Zhang residence, to find Princess Changning, the carriage was taken over by Granny Zheng after they had only gone three streets.
The carriage disappeared down the main street in the blink of an eye.
When it reappeared, it had already been taken over by the "killers".
Should we leave the city?
Zongzheng Xingyao leaned against the carriage window, quite excited about having accomplished such a momentous event in his life.
Li Qingluo: "The city gates are locked, so we can only leave the city early tomorrow morning."
As she spoke, she opened the mechanism in the floor, and after seeing that the Chu Emperor below was still half asleep, she was completely relieved.
Just in case, she asked Zongzheng Xingyao to get some sleeping pills.
This seventh princess, although she said she didn't want it, was quite ruthless when it came to her father, the emperor.
Zongzheng Xingyao nodded.
Then he looked strangely at the little rocking horse and stool in the corner.
"These things are practically rotting, it's strange, why did you steal them out of the Cold Palace?"
Li Qingluo: "Of course, it's so that seeing these things reminds me of the person I'm looking for."
Zongzheng Xingyao: ?
Sometimes, she felt that Nangong Qingluo was not quite normal.
The carriage did not head straight for the Nangong residence.
Instead, they went to the Flower Pavilion Restaurant.
“Watch him. If he wakes up, give him medicine.”
The Chu Emperor was still left under the carriage, guarded in shifts by the executioners.
Even with just one quilt, he wouldn't freeze to death.
Li Qingluo and Zongzheng Xingyao secretly entered the restaurant and each stayed in a private room.
I've been exhausted from running around for several days.
Just as Li Qingluo was soaking in the hot water tub, a noise came from inside the room.
She turned around and was immediately greeted by someone who covered her mouth.
"Hmm...time..."
There was a splashing sound.
Li Qingluo's body, which had just been wet, was pulled out of the water.
Duan Rongshi couldn't help but hug her tightly, pressing her close to him.
She didn't care that the brand-new and clean robes she had specially changed into were now soaked with water.
The hot kiss finally ended when Li Qingluo was being kissed so deeply that her waist was pressed further and further back, and she finally sat down in the water with a splash.
She was pulled out of the water again.
The two looked at each other and chuckled.
"You've arrived."
Li Qingluo stared at the person in front of her with a flushed face.
Their eyes met, and they hugged each other tightly.
"Let's get down to business first."
Duan Rongshi, his voice hoarse, quickly got up and took off his outer robe without saying another word.
Then one by one, they fell to the ground.
As the sound of water filled the air, he sat down in the bathtub.
The room was filled with the colors of spring.
A soft, low murmur.
In the flickering candlelight, shadows overlapped and intertwined.
Only when the candle was almost burned out and the room became dim did the two of them put on clean silk undergarments again.
Li Qinglu trimmed the wick of the oil lamp by the bedside.
They lit the candles again.
When he sat down again, he took the little wooden horse and stool out of the box next to him.
“Ah Shi, this is what my mother used when she was young.”
Duan Rongshi initially looked disgusted when he saw these two dark and nearly rotten objects.
But upon hearing her words, his expression suddenly froze.
Mother?
"You went to that cold palace?"
Li Qingluo nodded. "I've already wiped off the dust. Take a look."
Duan Rongshi touched the two items, and a wave of bitterness welled up in his heart.
He gently pulled her into his arms and softly held her hand, saying, "Luo'er!"
"It is a blessing for my mother to have a daughter-in-law like you."
"How fortunate I am to have you in my life, Duan Rongshi!"
"With you, even if the whole world abandons me, I will be content."
Li Qinglu's eyes reddened as she listened.
Besides her grandmother, he is now the person she loves most and cares about most.
Just as her mother said, she was his destined marriage star.
Her rebirth, with revenge already taken, was all for him.
"Ah Shi, having my mother and you love me is the happiest and most blissful thing in my life, Li Qingluo."
"By the way, did you open the package I asked you to take home?"
Duan Rongshi: "How can I touch your things without your permission?"
What kind of treasure is it?
Li Qingluo had no idea how Duan Rongshi would react after learning about the existence of those things.
He had no choice but to say, "It's just a few paintings."
"How about we go see it together after I get home?"
Duan Rongshi readily agreed: "Okay."
"I will leave after dawn."
"Luo'er, it's getting late, I should go to bed."
After saying that, he easily picked the person up and carried him to the bed.
The two had just lain down together when Sha Yi knocked on the door.
"girl."
"The person you requested has been brought out of the prison for you!"
Duan Rongshi looked down at Li Qingluo, whose hair had become disheveled, in his arms.
He reached out and tapped her nose: "Your people are quick, but they're all a bit tactless."
"How can we ask a young lady to get up and do errands in the middle of the night?"
"Alright, go to sleep."
"I will get up."
This whole thing was his scheme.
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