"Here we go again." Su Wanyan chuckled. "If you insist on putting it that way, should I start by setting the score for you from the beginning?"
From the very beginning, she was helping him—helping him cure his illness, helping him eliminate the spies from Prince Gong's mansion, and helping him bring Wang Zhang and his ilk into his household.
She had been doing all of this from the beginning, so why did Yu Nanqing say he didn't need her help anymore after he recovered?
Su Wanyan laughed and said, "I know you think you're all better now and can handle everything on your own, but don't you think that's a bit of a pipe dream? Since I'm staying by your side, how can I really not interfere in everything? If you really wanted that, you should have let me go in the first place."
"I..." Yu Nanqing choked up, speechless after Su Wanyan's words.
Su Wanyan pouted: "Little brat, I've already put it very tactfully. Don't look all wronged later."
"I..." Yu Nanqing was speechless: "I didn't, and I'm older than you..."
"Oh." Su Wanyan brushed his hand away from her eyes, her eyes crinkling with a smile. "Speaking of which, I have a lot to say. You're a full ten years older than me. When I'm twenty, you'll be thirty. When I'm thirty, you'll be..."
Yu Nanqing's heart skipped a beat. He covered Su Wanyan's mouth with his hand, his eyes filled with resentment and grievance. He didn't know what to say to refute the age difference that was as deep as the chasm.
She pursed her lips and hesitated for a long time before finally managing to utter, "I...I also wanted to be born later..."
If possible, he hoped to be born on the same day, month, and year as Su Wanyan.
He hoped to be by her side since childhood, and he hoped that the two of them could grow up together, childhood sweethearts, innocent and carefree.
"Nonsense." Su Wanyan chuckled and uttered two words, then reached out and intertwined her fingers with Yu Nanqing's: "The current age is the best age for us to meet. Maybe if I had met earlier or you had met later, we wouldn't have met. There's no need to deny it. The current age is the best outcome."
The main reason is that she was born a few years earlier and may have already married before meeting Yu Nanqing, so there was no chance for Yu Nanqing to have anything to do with her.
If Yu Nanqing had arrived a few years later, Yu Nanyi might have already seized the throne before she even entered the military camp. Would she still have fallen for Yu Nanqing if she hadn't experienced such training?
Who knows these things?
Now that we've encountered this situation, isn't it the best arrangement?
The touch of her small hand was warm and smooth, as if it had penetrated into Yu Nanqing's heart. He pursed his thin lips, unable to stop the throbbing in his heart.
Her cigarette was the best; it accepted everything about him.
"..." Su Wanyan suddenly glanced at Yu Nanqing and said quietly, "You're up."
"Ahem!" Her ears had only turned slightly red before, but after Su Wanyan's words, her whole face started to burn. She hurriedly turned her face away and said in a panic, "I...I need to calm down for a moment!"
Su Wanyan got up from him and said, "Okay, calm down."
As soon as Su Wanyan distanced herself from him, Yu Nanqing quickly turned around, sat with his back to Su Wanyan, his face flushed red, and obediently kept his hands and feet still.
Seeing his expression, Su Wanyan couldn't help but smile.
The more he acted this way, the more Su Wanyan liked him.
In this era, Yu Nanqing is like a treasure.
She wished she could hide him away so that no other woman would covet him.
Su Wanyan breathed a slight sigh of relief and went over to sit back to back with him.
Yu Nanqing's body trembled, and he straightened up even more, not daring to move at all.
"Yu Nanqing," Su Wanyan said, "I'll ask you one last question."
"Um?"
Do you want to be emperor?
Yu Nanqing's brows twitched slightly: "Does Yan'er want me to be the one?"
"Don't ask me, I don't want to get involved in this kind of thing."
"Yes." It was his fault; he shouldn't have put that kind of pressure on Su Wanyan.
Yu Nanqing pondered in silence for a long while before saying, "The responsibilities of a monarch are too great; I am not capable of fulfilling them."
Su Wanyan smiled and said, "I see."
She paused for a moment, then added, "Yu Nanqing."
"Um?"
"Let's go back and finish what we need to do, so we don't have to live in constant fear like this every day."
"good."
"Back this afternoon?" Yu Nanqing asked.
"Let's do it tomorrow." Su Wanyan looked exhausted. "Today was quite a journey, I'm afraid I'll be exhausted if we travel any further."
"good."
Just as it was confirmed that we would return to the city early tomorrow morning, an imperial edict from the palace was delivered to the mosque in the afternoon.
It simply means that since the Valley Master of Baiyou Valley has already arrived in the capital, and the Princess's condition cannot wait any longer, he ordered Yu Nanqing to immediately bring Xiao Chensheng to the palace to meet the Emperor.
Yu Nanqing declined, citing Xiao Chensheng's fatigue from the journey and need for rest, and replied that he would return to the city early the next morning.
Upon seeing this, the eunuch who came to deliver the imperial decree dared not return to report immediately. He sent his entourage back to the palace to relay the message to Emperor Yuanhe, while he himself remained at the mosque to supervise Yu Nanqing.
He feared that Yu Nanqing might agree readily now, but then delay returning tomorrow, and if Emperor Yuanhe blamed him, he wouldn't have enough lives to pay for it.
Yu Nanqing naturally ignored a eunuch. For the rest of the time, he accompanied Su Wanyan to the back mountain of the mosque.
The area is covered with lush vegetation and trees, and many wild herbs can be found in the jungle.
Yu Nanqing was responsible for carrying the medicinal baskets, while Su Wanyan was responsible for pulling out the medicinal herbs.
Perhaps because of the proximity to the temple, the monks in the temple would occasionally go up the mountain to collect herbs, so Su Wanyan found only very common herbs.
That makes sense. The best season for collecting medicinal herbs is March, and it's already April now, so all the good herbs must have been picked.
Fortunately, during their herb-gathering, Su Wanyan and Yu Nanqing found a clear spring in the back mountain, with the spring located right below a mountain stream.
Su Wanyan went down to check and found a cave at the bottom of the ravine, with a few drops of water falling from the cave entrance.
It's probably not the right season yet. Once the mountain water flow is plentiful, there should be a waterfall here.
Coming here to escape the summer heat would be a great choice.
Su Wanyan dragged Yu Nanqing around to other parts of the back mountain. Seeing that the vegetation was getting denser and denser until there was no way to go, Su Wanyan finally turned back home.
Although the gains were not many, the trip was full of fun. Su Wanyan was quite satisfied with the trip to the mosque. It would have been even better if Xiao Chensheng hadn't disturbed her.
In the palace, when Emperor Yuanhe heard that Yu Nanqing would not return until tomorrow, his already annoyed brows furrowed slightly, but he ultimately said nothing.
The next day, as the sun rose, Su Wanyan and Yu Nanqing had already packed their things and left the mosque, while Xiao Chensheng was naturally among the group returning to the city.
Such punctuality and trustworthiness were unbelievable, even to the eunuchs who stayed behind to supervise.
Yu Nanqing had disobeyed the imperial edict several times, and he thought Yu Nanqing would do the same this time. He had prepared a lot of arguments to persuade him to return to the city, but now he saved himself the trouble.
Naturally, it should be done sooner rather than later. Su Wanyan already said yesterday that we should finish what needs to be done as soon as possible to avoid any unforeseen problems.
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