Chapter 240 The King of a Lost Country40

The setting sun burned the sky red, and the gorgeous sunset fell into the Zhaixing Palace, dyeing the palace with a layer of romantic and beautiful colors.

The palace maids slid in and lit the palace lanterns.

After finishing all the things, the palace maids retreated quietly.

"Your Majesty, are you going back to the bedroom?" Guisheng walked to Nan Liujing and asked.

Nan Liujing shook his head: "I want to stay alone in Zhaixing Palace tonight, you don't want to go near this place."

As if thinking of something, Nan Liujing's eyebrows moved slightly, and he lowered his voice to tell Guisheng a few words.

Guisheng looked a little embarrassed, but finally nodded in response.

After a while, the last sunset glow on the horizon was swallowed up by darkness.

When a full moon appeared in the night sky, Nan Liujing held the lantern and climbed to the highest point of the Zhaixing Palace.

The observatory at the highest point was quite similar to the one in Qintianjian, but it was much more magnificent.

Nan Liujing walked to the railing, hung up the lantern, and sat down on the ground.

The wind blew, making the purple bamboo in the courtyard hum. Nan Liujing took out the wishing star again.

He stared at the wishing star for a long time, and finally slowly clasped his palms, closed his eyes and made a pious wish.

"I hope my mother can return to the human world and meet me in this Zhaixing Palace."

After expressing his wish, Nan Liujing still maintained this posture.

He was waiting.

Years of martial arts training gave him a different hearing than ordinary people, so he could hear the footsteps of someone climbing up the stairs.

Very light, it sounded like a dream to his ears.

But in the end, the footsteps came closer and closer, and stopped one step behind Nan Liujing.

"Liujing."

The familiar voice finally came not from his mind, but from his ears.

Nan Liujing stood up suddenly and turned around, hugging the person tightly in his arms.

The wishing star that he had carefully protected rolled to the ground with his movements, and rolled into the corner. But except for Yao Rong's glance, its owner didn't pay any attention to it at all.

Nan Liujing buried his face in Yao Rong's shoulder, gritted his teeth and said nothing.

Tears immediately wet Yao Rong's shoulders. This young man, who was much taller and stronger than her, buried his head in her arms, crying so hard that his whole body was shaking.

Yao Rong hugged Nan Liujing back, and gently patted Nan Liujing's back with her right hand to help him breathe: "Are you afraid?"

"..."

Nan Liujing's brain was overloaded with tears for a long time before he realized that she was asking him: "...What are

you afraid of?" Yao Rong smiled and said: "I am a person who has been dead for more than 20 years and now I am standing in front of you alive. Aren't you afraid?"

Nan Liujing raised his head suddenly, tears in his eyes. His eyes fell on Yao Rong's face: "Others may be afraid, but I am not others."

Whether it is a system or a ghost, she is the person he thinks about day and night and hopes to see with all his heart.

Yao Rong's lips curled slightly, she raised her hand and touched Nan Liujing's head.

Nan Liujing was not used to such intimacy.

He had never experienced such intimacy in his life.

But he still lowered his head obediently.

Yao Rong said: "Actually, I have always wanted to touch your head like this, and then tell you that you have done very well these years."

The tears in his eyes turned into tears again, and Nan Liujing choked and said: "Mother."

Yao Rong patted Nan Liujing's face: "Okay, don't cry anymore. If the civil and military officials in the court saw you like this, they would all laugh at you. Is this still their wise and powerful majesty?"

Nan Liujing tried hard to force a smile: "They dare not laugh at me." But he still followed Yao Rong's instructions and took a few deep breaths to calm down.

From the moment he met his mother, the meeting had already entered a countdown.

He couldn't waste any more time on meaningless emotional catharsis.

"I'm fine." Nan Liujing took a half step back and stopped hugging Yao Rong. Instead, he held her arm and said, "Let's sit down and talk."

Yao Rong followed Nan Liujing's strength and sat down face to face with him.

Nan Liujing stared at Yao Rong's face for a long time, and said in a very proud tone, "Sure enough, I said those paintings don't look like you. My uncle and Guisheng have too low requirements for portraits."

Yao Rong pursed her lips and smiled.

Nan Liujing touched the back of Yao Rong's hand. It was warm and looked no different from a normal person. But when Nan Liujing's fingers slid along and brushed Yao Rong's pulse, he didn't feel any beating.

Obviously it was a very normal thing, but Nan Liujing still felt that a glimmer of hope in his heart was shattered.

He had to admit that she really could not return to this world. This meeting tonight was just a coercion from him.

Yao Rong pretended not to notice Nan Liujing's little action, and introduced in a gentle tone: "My current appearance and dress are maintained on the day when the imperial physician diagnosed that I was pregnant."

Nan Liujing followed her words and asked: "What did the queen mother think when she knew the news?"

Yao Rong recalled: "The first reaction was that it was very unreal, and the second reaction was happiness. I was very lonely in the palace, and I often missed the life on the border. It was your arrival that made my life come back. "I was full of expectations when I first came to the palace. But then something unexpected happened on the border, and I was always worried and couldn't sleep at night."

Nan Liujing understood what she meant: "Are you worried about your grandfather and three uncles, and are you also worried about me?"

Yao Rong nodded: "Yes, my position in the palace comes from the power of my family. If the family loses power, I don't care, but what will you do? What happened afterwards also proved my worries."

Nan Liujing subconsciously held her hand tightly.

Yao Rong held his hand back: "Will you blame me?"

Nan Liujing shook his head vigorously: "How could my mother say such a thing?"

Yao Rong said: "Because I was afraid that you would say something like maybe you shouldn't have lived from the beginning."

Nan Liujing's eyes widened in surprise and asked Yao Rong: "How could I say such a thing? There is nothing I am dissatisfied with in my life now."

Yao Rong smiled slightly: "That's good."

The two chatted casually.

Obviously, there have been countless such casual talks over the years, but Nan Liujing just felt that tonight was particularly different.

What was different?

Maybe the moonlight was brighter, the stars were brighter, the night wind was cooler, and even the cicada chirping, which was usually the most annoying, became much more pleasant.

Only the passage of time became faster.

After watching the moon for a long time on the observatory, Nan Liujing suggested: "Mother, let's go to another place to watch the moon."

"Where to go?"

Nan Liujing pulled Yao Rong up: "Just follow me."

After walking two steps outside, Nan Liujing finally remembered his wishing star, walked over, picked it up and put it in his sleeve.

Nan Liujing pulled Yao Rong downstairs, ran out of the Zhaixing Palace, ran through the plum forest, and ran to the lake: "Mother, didn't you say you would watch over me? I'll take you to this lake for a night cruise."

Yao Rong looked around.

The lakeside was brightly lit, but there was no one around. It should be that Nan Liujing had arranged it long ago, not allowing anyone to get close to here tonight.

"Okay, but can you row a boat?"

"I haven't rowed yet, but it's not difficult." Nan Liujing was still very confident in his learning ability. He lifted his clothes and jumped onto the boat, and reached out to pull Yao Rong.

After Yao Rong sat down, he handed the lantern to Yao Rong to hold, and he picked up the oar beside him, rolled up his sleeves and started working.

Yao Rong used words to instruct him where to go, and soon the two of them arrived at the lotus bush.

"It should be almost there."

"What do you mean almost there..."

Yao Rong paused before she finished her words.

Because she had seen it.

On the other side of the lake, lotus lanterns floated down along the water flow, falling into a patch on the water surface, as if a sea of ​​stars had been lit up in the lake.

Nan Liujing explained, "It's too late, so it's not convenient for my boat to row into the lotus bushes, but now, it can be considered as being in the lotus bushes, right?"

Just then, a lotus lantern floated to the side of the boat, and Yao Rong reached out and pulled it out of the lake: "Of course it counts."

The two of them didn't talk, but just sat quietly in the lake full of lanterns and looked up at the full moon in the sky.

When the lanterns on the lake gradually burned to the end, Yao Rong said, "It's time."

Nan Liujing turned his head and said nothing, but handed the wishing star to Yao Rong.

Yao Rong raised his eyebrows.

Nan Liujing explained: "This wishing star should not have been used yet. Before mother leaves, let's use it together."

Yao Rong: "..."

When Nan Liujing expressed his wish, she did let the system do some tricks so that Nan Liujing would not waste the wishing star. But she didn't expect him to guess it so quickly.

Yao Rong subconsciously took a deep breath: "Okay. What do you think we should wish for?"

Nan Liujing tilted his head and thought.

"Pray for world peace?" He tried to say it, but before Yao Rong could speak, he shook his head and denied it, "The wishing star is not that powerful. Moreover, peace and tranquility cannot be achieved by making a wish. It requires the efforts of countless people over a long period of time to achieve."

"I don't have anything to ask for myself. Then this wish will be given to my uncle." Nan Liujing's eyes curved, "Even if I can't restore sensation to my uncle's legs, at least I can make his body healthier. What do you think, mother?"

Yao Rong smiled and said, "If you are willing to give it up, I certainly have no objection."

This was originally Nan Liujing's thing.

Nan Liujing closed his eyes and whispered his wish.

At the moment he finished speaking, the wishing star in his palm turned into fluorescent dots, which were blown away by the wind.

Across the sky, Yao Rong said to Nan Liujing, "Then I'll go back."

"Mother, thank you for coming to see me."

Yao Rong patted Nan Liujing's shoulder, and this time she took the initiative to hug him: "What nonsense are you talking about? There's nothing to thank for."

Nan Liujing closed his eyes and hugged Yao Rong back, feeling that she, like the wishing star, had turned into a dot of fluorescent light. But the next moment, Yao Rong's voice echoed in Nan Liujing's mind.

[Don't be sad, I'm still by your side.]