Chapter 154 Return to the Palace
Ning Fu couldn't help but look at Zong Si. She just thought he was omnipotent and had everything under his control. If he was going to the Duke's Mansion in the future, she wouldn't even think about how he felt now.
But he is also a mortal. Now when he returns to the palace, he faces his father and brother who are closest to him but also want him dead. He is afraid that the palace will also make him feel a little resistant.
If it is his home, it is not his shelter. If it is not his home, where else should Zong Si go in such a big world?
He seemed to have become an orphan, a rootless duckweed. In his previous life, he was in such a situation and stepped into the palace. How desolate and expectant he must have felt.
Thinking it was someone from Prince Xuan's palace, he still felt cold-hearted.
Therefore, when he was in the palace, he never went to see Madam Zong Er, and never participated in the palace's reunion dinner. During the New Year, he always had important matters to attend to.
He never even spoke a word to anyone except Princess Xuan and Zong Ning, and was indifferent to everything.
Ning Fu suddenly remembered that in the first year of her marriage, when she finished the New Year's Eve dinner at the palace and returned to Jinghuaju, he was already there. At that time, she just casually asked him when he came back, and he said lightly just now.
"Have you eaten, my lord?" Ning Fu asked him.
"You don't have to worry about me." Zong Si said.
"I'll go tell the kitchen to prepare some snacks for the prince," she said.
He didn't refuse either.
Later, he ate a lot, obviously because he was hungry. Nymph sat beside him and looked at him. He seemed not as cold as usual. He looked at her sideways and asked, "Do you want to go and see the lanterns?"
Ning Fu's eyes lit up, and she readily agreed. After thinking for a while, she said, "The prince doesn't like the New Year."
Zong Si said calmly: "I don't like it."
But the lantern viewing was not pleasant at all, as Zong Si left halfway due to important matters.
Ning Fu tried hard to recall what happened that day. That day, she later met Meng Ze.
Meng Ze did not call her cousin-in-law or Crown Prince's Consort, but called her "Fourth Miss" with a smile.
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"I really don't want to go back to the palace." Zong Si walked slowly with her, revealing his uneasiness. "The palace is no longer the palace it once was for me, but I don't know who to talk to about this. After thinking about it, only you can make me feel at ease."
He could only keep the fact that King Xuan assassinated him in his heart, otherwise the royal palace would be in disaster. He could ignore King Xuan and his brother, but he could not ignore the foundation laid by his ancestors.
Moreover, if something happens in the palace, he will not be able to remain unscathed.
In the eyes of outsiders, there must be a united royal palace.
"I know the prince is not a coward. If he had to sacrifice himself for the palace, he would have died calmly. But Prince Xuan reached a consensus with His Majesty and even personally sent someone to assassinate the prince, which hurt the prince's heart. This is not only a problem for the prince, but if it were me, I would also become a lunatic."
Ningfu was not talking nonsense. She felt suffocated even thinking about such a betrayal.
"However, life still has to go on. The prince has a bright future. It is not worth it to become a madman because of the mistakes of others." Ning Fu thought for a while and said, "As for the princess and sister Ning, they are very considerate of the prince."
Zong Si looked at her, as if wondering what she meant by "considering him very much".
"In the last life, every time the prince went to war, the princess and sister Ning would go to Hanxiang Temple to pray for him. If there was anything delicious, they would ask me to bring it back to Jinghuaju. But in the last life, they knew that the prince had a problem in his heart, so they didn't dare to get close to him. The prince clearly cared about them, but he became cold-blooded and never expressed his concern."
If they don't open up to each other, the situation will deteriorate and will never be reconciled.
Now that she had spoken out at this time, she hoped that they, mother and son, would no longer be so miserable and could reconcile sooner in this life.
Ning Fu was an outsider, but she could see that the mother and son cared about each other. In her previous life, she just thought it was just Zong Si's personality that made him not close to anyone, but she didn't know what he had been through.
What's the difference between that and surviving from hell?
After listening to her advice for reconciliation, Zong Si realized that his mother was not without sincerity towards him.
"You and I really didn't have any children in our previous life," he suddenly asked.
Zong Si hopes that with a child, he will have the courage to live a good life and not be so miserable. Even if he is crazy, he will definitely love his child.
And children's love for their parents is sometimes selfless.
Ning Fu thought he was thinking about something improper, and frowned and said: "What are you thinking about at this time?"
Zong Si was not angry at what she said, "I didn't think about that."
“That’s because I have a dirty mind.”
"How can this be considered dirty? Getting married, having children, and spending the bridal chamber with flowers are all normal. " Zong Si said. As long as they were only said in front of him, these would be considered good words.
Nymph said nothing and walked forward in silence.
"Angry"
Nymph didn't, but she didn't know how to reply him. After a moment's silence, she suddenly smiled and said, "With my personality, how can the prince feel that I am not dirty now? The prince once said that a woman like me would probably make her husband wear a green hat many times."
"I misunderstood Afu at that time, but now I know that Afu is the best queen in the world." Zong Si said.
He was quite serious about what he said.
It was because he was too serious that Ningfu felt a little embarrassed.
"Prince, please return to the palace soon. The princess and sister Ning must have been looking forward to your early return." She said.
"The thank-you gifts I brought to the Ningguo Mansion this time were all carefully selected by me. You can keep them." Zong Si said, "You have never been to the North, so I brought some toys from the North for you."
"I have lived a second life, and I am no longer a playful little princess." Nymph said.
"Even if you are reborn, you are not very old, only twenty years old. To me, you are still the little lady. In the last life, Prince Xuan's Mansion owed me, and my temper was not caused by you. But from what you said, I was suspicious of you in every way and usually cold to you, but I owed you." Zong Si said.
Ning Fu had never thought that she would hear his apology in front of him, a person who had no memory of his past life, and she felt complicated for a moment.
"The prince only married me out of kindness, so don't mind it." She said slowly.
"No matter why I married you, you are my wife. It is wrong for a husband to treat his wife like that. I am not as cold and indifferent as I was in my last life."
"Prince, please go back to the palace first." Ning Fu said with her eyes lowered.
Zong Si also knew that it would take time for her to let go of her grudge. If in the past, his apology was only because of her unhappiness in the palace, now he was blaming himself for a lot of things.
"Well, thank you Fourth Miss for your guidance today." Zong Si said.
"By the way, I hope you can keep the fact that I saved your life a secret. Just mention that I gave you a ride and that I didn't recognize you."
Zong Si naturally listened to her: "You risked your life to save me, so it's natural not to spread it to others. I'll do as you say."
Old Lady Ning and Mrs. Wei looked at each other for a long time across the lake.
"Is there something wrong with the way the prince looks at Afu? Why does he look so tender and affectionate to me?" The more Mrs. Ning looked, the more she felt something was wrong.
Normally, the prince would like to keep a distance of twenty miles between himself and everyone else, but today he didn't care about that at all.
Wei said: "She is so tender and affectionate."
They are all married women, how can they not see the difference between men.
The prince now thinks that if his daughter Afu says she wants to get married, the red sedan chair will be ready tomorrow.
"The prince now holds the power in the palace. It would be a good thing if Afu could marry him." Wei was considering her son-in-law and son. Although it was immoral, she could still take the risk.
If the prince can take care of the reputation of the Duke's Mansion, that will be enough.
Old Madam Ning frowned and said, "Xingzhi is also a good boy. Don't ruin the reputation of the Duke's Mansion. Compared with the second house, you are really out of tune. If you want Ah Yu to have a good future, let him work hard to do practical things. It's no wonder that the Duke's Mansion is declining as he always thinks of taking the back door."
Wei was embarrassed and said no more.
But I don't take it seriously in my heart. Trying to do practical things is useless without a backer, and it is much easier to go through the back door.
But when Zong Si returned to the palace, Lu Xingzhi was having a pleasant conversation with Zong Duo.
When the love rivals meet, although they look indifferent, people around them can sense the changes in them.
Lu Xingzhi was calm and composed, not as aggressive as Zong Si.
Zongduo was well aware of what was going on in the palace. Although he was not involved, he now felt a little embarrassed.
He did not agree with what his elder brother did!
But in that situation, he had no real power, so he could only acquiesce. Naturally, the palace was more important.
Zongduo opened his mouth and wanted to speak, but seeing how distant he was, he couldn't say the words.
Zong Si glanced at him out of the corner of his eye, then turned and walked towards Jinghuaju.
"Third brother!" Zong Ning, who had rushed over, called him with all his might.
Zong Si thought of Ning Fu's words and paused slightly.
It was because of his pause that Zong Ning had the courage to speak out. Third Brother still cared about her a little. What she feared most was that Third Brother would not even recognize her as his sister.
What Zong Si didn't know was that in his previous life, he didn't stop, and Zong Ning mistakenly thought that he hated him too, so he didn't say anything.
Everything, a slight change, brings about completely different results.
The next moment, Zong Ning's tears fell to the ground. She felt aggrieved and distressed for her third brother.
"It's great that you're back." Zong Ning said. What she meant was that it was great that he came back alive.
"I wanted to go to the north with Sister Zhang to look for you. After my elder brother did this, I never called him elder brother again." In fact, even King Xuan was no longer called by Zong Ning. "I wrote you many letters. Did you not receive them?"
Zong Si's eyes flickered: "No."
"I have made up my mind. If my third brother doesn't come back, from now on, I will no longer be the queen of the palace. Even if I have to beg for food, I will never eat a single bite of food in the palace again." Zong Ning sniffed. When she learned that her brother had died, she went on a hunger strike until she fell into a coma. Later, King Xuan fed her the food.
Until her mother begged her to live well, saying that she had lost her son and could not lose her daughter again.
"If Third Brother no longer considers the palace as his home, can you take me with you? Wherever Third Brother goes, there I will go." The little girl's eyes were filled with tears.
Zong Si's eyes were solemn, and then he extended his hand towards her.
Zong Ning ran towards him.
Lu Xingzhi, who was standing aside in an empty corner, had red eyes.
The Nymph not only redeemed him in this life.
In his previous life, he also saw this different ending.
The desolate wounds gradually healed.
He thought his rebirth was to protect her.
But she didn't expect that, in the end, she was still the one redeeming herself.
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