Chapter 463 Are You Reluctant to Let Me Go?
On the other side, Princess Xiling's Mansion.
With the permission of the new emperor, Ye Ninglan was able to leave Daxing and return to Xiling. The maids and attendants who came with her from Xiling packed their bags overnight and prepared to leave the next day.
Everyone in the mansion was busy, and Ye Ninglan was sitting in the back garden drinking.
The new emperor did not urge her to return to Xiling. It was because she had stayed in Daxing for too long. If she stayed for another day, she was afraid that something might happen.
And the situation in Xiling is completely chaotic.
The sooner she goes back, the sooner the situation can be stabilized.
Actually, there is nothing much to bring. It will be the same if I buy more when I return to Xiling.
But people, once they live somewhere for a while, will leave behind some memories.
I wanted to leave Daxing Capital overnight, and there would be many things I wanted to take back to my hometown Xiling.
Ye Ninglan didn't have anything to bring.
She couldn't take what she wanted to take with her.
The people in the mansion were walking back and forth, making Shao Feiyang unable to sleep.
In fact, the new emperor publicly allowed Princess Xiling to return to the country, which meant that his marriage with Ye Ninglan was over.
The emperor and empress did not even issue an order for them to divorce, as if they had just put the matter behind them and would get married after they separated.
Shao Feiyang has now been appointed as the Great General of the Nation and has his own mansion. Although the new mansion cannot be lived in yet, he can return to the Shao Mansion if he wants.
But when the palace banquet was over, he still returned to the princess's mansion with Ye Ninglan.
Ye Ninglan was sitting in the carriage of the princess's mansion. He was riding in front. No one took the initiative to speak, so they remained silent all the way.
It seemed as if their interactions in the secret passages of the agency during those days were not real.
It's just a mirage, a fleeting dream.
Perhaps Ye Ninglan chose to marry him simply because she had no choice.
She actually looked down on him.
The longer Shao Feiyang spent with Ye Ninglan, the more he discovered that she had many outstanding qualities. Her talent, her ambition, her strategy and vision were rare in the world.
Especially after rescuing the old emperor, Ye Ninglan's thoughts and ideas were more prudent than his. At that time, Shao Feiyang deeply realized that he was brave but not wise.
And every decision Ye Ninglan makes is the best choice at the moment.
When she saved the old emperor, she even said that the old emperor could not die, but he did not have to live too long.
Because the emperor was dead, even if Prince Chang'an defeated Prince Rui and succeeded to the throne, it would still attract a lot of criticism. At this time, if the old emperor could be alive and show his face and say a word, just one word would be enough.
If the old emperor had passed away safely and lived for many more years, it would not have been a good thing for Daxing.
Shao Feiyang actually understood this truth.
But as a subject he could not say it.
Ye Ninglan is different. In front of him, she seems too lazy to even pretend.
Perhaps it was because I had never felt the slightest bit moved, and never thought about what would happen in the future.
Ye Ninglan didn't even inform him in advance that he was going back to Xiling, but directly proposed it in public at the palace banquet.
It seemed as if he, the prince consort, was no different from the others at the palace banquet.
Shao Feiyang couldn't fall asleep, so he got up and took a walk in the garden. There were people walking around in the front and back yards, but the back garden was very quiet.
In the first month of the year, winter plum blossoms are in full bloom, and the subtle fragrance wafts in the air.
There were sparks in the plum blossoms, and the faint aroma of wine wafted in the wind.
Shao Feiyang walked through the plum blossoms, facing the wind, and saw the curtains fluttering and the lights swaying in the octagonal pavilion. Ye Ninglan was lying on the beauty bed, with her fox fur shawl hanging down most of the way, revealing her shoulders as white as cream. She was drinking from a cup facing the moon.
Shao Feiyang suddenly remembered the day of their wedding. Ye Ninglan had poured wine to the moon and told the maids and servants that he would definitely take them home.
So from the very beginning, she didn't take this marriage seriously.
Rumors outside said that Ye Ninglan was a playboy and had many male favorites in his house, but after she married him, she had never slept with him. Even when her words and actions were frivolous and teasing, they had never been serious.
Now that we are separating, I can finally give him a clean slate.
Ye Ninglan usually likes to drink, watch the moon, enjoy dancing and listen to music in the garden. Shao Feiyang rarely comes here, but tonight, somehow, he walked here unknowingly.
He thought Ye Ninglan was about to return to Xiling, and should be in a good mood and have a lot of things to arrange.
In short, Ye Ninglan should not be here at this moment.
Him too.
But the two of them, one lying and the other standing, were both under the moonlight.
"What are you standing there for?" Ye Ninglan finished his drink, looked up at Shao Feiyang, and asked him jokingly, "Are you so happy that you're going to be free that you can't sleep?"
Yes, Shao Feiyang should be happy.
But now, he was not happy at all.
"Don't just stand there." Ye Ninglan had been with Shao Feiyang for the past few years and had long understood his personality. Without waiting for his answer, he spoke again, "I have some good wine. Come and have a couple of drinks with me."
In fact, the two of them drank quite a bit of wine at the palace banquet, but they had very good alcohol tolerance and did not seem drunk.
Now, one of them will be able to return to his homeland soon, and the other has finally become the general who protects the country from General Shao, and can also put aside this marriage that was ridiculed by others. It's time to drink a few cups.
Shao Feiyang lifted the flying curtain and walked into the octagonal pavilion.
The pavilion was filled with the aroma of wine, mixed with the subtle fragrance of Ye Ninglan.
"Next." Ye Ninglan casually threw a jar of wine to Shao Feiyang. She didn't even need a cup to drink. She picked up a jar of wine, opened it, and touched the jar in Shao Feiyang's hand. "I toast you with this wine. I have to apologize to you. When we had the martial arts competition to win a bride..."
"Don't talk about the past anymore, just do it."
Shao Feiyang knew that Ye Ninglan had no other choice at the time, so she chose him. He knew it in his heart, but he didn't want to hear Ye Ninglan say it out loud.
So he opened the wine seal, clinked glasses with Ye Ninglan, and then tilted his head back to drink the wine.
It was as if he wanted to drink the whole jar of wine in one breath.
Seeing this, Ye Ninglan smiled lazily, "It seems that you have really been looking forward to this day. You drink so happily."
Shao Feiyang said there was no need to mention it anymore, so Ye Ninglan didn't say anything either. She raised the jar and drank. As long as Shao Feiyang didn't stop, she wouldn't stop either.
In the end, both of them drank the whole jar of wine in one breath.
Shao Feiyang didn't leave after he finished drinking.
Ye Ninglan thought about leaving tomorrow, so she asked someone to take out all the fine wines in the wine cellar. There were large and small wine jars in the pavilion. She picked up another jar and asked Shao Feiyang, "Do you want to drink more?"
"drink!"
Shao Feiyang couldn't say anything and just kept drinking.
The moonlight was quiet, and the plum blossoms fell from the branches into the gauze tent with the wind, brushing across Shao Feiyang's cheek, making him feel a little itchy.
His heart was also swollen.
Jar of wine was opened one after another.
Ye Ninglan drank with him, and wine jars of all sizes fell to the ground. No matter how good a drinker was, he couldn't withstand such heavy drinking.
Shao Feiyang was drunk, and Ye Ninglan was also a little drunk.
With drunken eyes, she grabbed Shao Feiyang's collar, pulled him in front of her, and asked with a smile, "Are you reluctant to let me go?"
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