"My husband, the luggage is all packed."
His wife, Lin, held their one-year-old child and called to him softly.
Su Ruofan turned around, reached out and touched his son's soft face. The little boy babbled and grabbed his fingers, laughing innocently.
“Mei’er, your parents are not well, so please take care of things at home. I will come back soon after I find my sister.”
He looked at Mrs. Lin with deep regret.
Madam Lin smiled gently: "Go ahead, don't worry, I'll take good care of your parents."
The two people at the door bid each other farewell, while the two men, including Minister Su, who was bedridden inside the room, were also discussing the matter.
Minister Su leaned against the headboard, coughing. His illness had worsened over the years, and the sharp edge he once had in the court had long since faded, leaving only an old, frail body.
Madam Su sat on the edge of the bed, clutching a slightly faded jade hairpin in her hand, which she placed in a box to give to Su Ruofan later.
"Father, Mother, your son will set off for the capital today to find my elder sister and reunite our family!"
After bidding farewell to his wife, Su Ruofan walked in, knelt down and kowtowed, then stood up and packed the box into his luggage.
Minister Su closed his eyes briefly: "Five years have passed in the blink of an eye... Fan'er, remember, never act rashly. Although His Majesty has allowed us to leave the capital, he may not be willing to let you go around inquiring about Dan'er's whereabouts. Do you understand?"
"Understood! I will certainly not act rashly."
"If my sister is still alive... she must be waiting for us to come back."
So many years have passed, and Su Ruofan naturally understands how foolish their attempt to assassinate the emperor was.
Madam Su suddenly burst into tears: "If she were still alive, would she... hate us?"
She resented that they couldn't take her with them back then, and she resented that they had been suffering from illness all these years and couldn't go looking for her.
Su Ruofan clenched her fists: "No, my sister wouldn't do that."
Five years ago, he was a boy who was forcibly taken back to Qingzhou by his father. He was full of resentment and unwillingness. However, with reforms, the Northern Cang Dynasty developed rapidly and even annexed several other major countries. The people lived in peace and had no worries about food and clothing.
There will be no more refugees for at least a century.
Now he is a husband and a father, bearing heavier responsibilities. He is no longer the naive young man he once was.
But a persistent obsession has never faded: to find my older sister.
Before the morning mist had dissipated, Su Ruofan slung her pack over her shoulder and mounted her horse.
As the sound of horses' hooves faded into the distance, Lin stood at the city gate, holding her child, until the figure completely disappeared at the end of the official road.
She murmured softly, her voice full of blessings: "My husband, you will definitely find my sister... and bring her back safely."
Meanwhile, in the imperial palace, Zi Xi burst into the imperial study with a secret letter in her hand: "Your Majesty! News from Qingzhou says that Su Ruofan has arrived in the capital."
Yin Jiuxiao paused, ink spreading across the memorial, and frowned as he looked at Zixi.
"Su Ruofan, who is he??? It's a man's name. Why is Azi paying attention to a man's news?"
"Your Majesty has forgotten? That Minister Su's son from before!"
Zi Xi was speechless. What was there to be jealous of?
"Oh...it's the Su family that Azi used to care about so much..."
Yin Jiuxiao raised his eyes, his gaze deep and meaningful as he looked at Zixi.
He remembered, but what did it have to do with them? So what if they went to the capital? He hadn't forbidden the Su family from ever returning to the capital.
“He must have come back to find his sister. Husband, do you remember? Two years ago, we released his sister. She was the woman who insisted on seeing you, the woman who was driven away.”
Zi Xi may not remember things that happen to other people, but this is something that happens between the female lead and the future male lead.
If the plot is revised or something else goes wrong, and Su Ruofan goes crazy and starts some kind of rebellion, then all the beautiful dynasty she and Yin Jiuxiao have built over the past few years will have been for nothing!
The key point is that Yin Jiuxiao doesn't understand the importance of this. Su Ruofan is the future male lead who will start a rebellion!
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