An Qingran came to the former Shouwang Mansion. In the past six months, there had been no changes in the Shouwang Mansion, as if someone was cleaning it regularly. Naturally, no one dared to stop her.
The flowers in Shouwang Mansion are in full bloom. The saying that flowers can tell the rise and fall of their flowers is really nonsense.
Princess Shou had very few slaves and servants. Only one or two were seen from afar, but they cleaned the yard and did some rough work. Those personal maids and servants were implicated in this incident and have been arrested. As for their fate, there is no result yet.
An Qingran was accompanied by Rendong, and they walked at a leisurely pace. Dongfang Ran liked to go outside very much. He kept looking at everything with his eyes, shaking his head from side to side, and mumbling something. When he spoke, he spit out two bubbles. Rendong saw it and laughed out loud, but Dongfang Ran was startled. He made a stupid sound, grinned, and started crying. Unexpectedly, his crying caused the sound of a child crying to be heard on the path behind the trees, as if two kids were saying hello.
Both sides were stunned, and walked forward quickly. Lou Wanyue saw An Qingran, and her eyes were very complicated. Her man died to save her. She would never forget that scene in the rain of arrows until her death. But, how could An Qingran be blamed? So, she could not help but be stunned, staring at An Qingran coldly without saying a word. The crying of the child in her arms gradually stopped. He saw Ran'er in Rendong's arms. The two babies met for the first time, as if they saw a monster, a little monster like themselves. They couldn't help but look at each other, their eyes full of strangeness, and they were very speechless.
An Qingran understood, and she deliberately looked at the child in Lou Wanyue's arms and asked, "Is the child worry-free? Does he cry at night?"
Lou Wanyue said calmly: "Not bad."
After thinking for a while, he suddenly asked urgently: "Prince...is there any news?"
She was captured together with Princess Shou, so she had no news about Dongfang Run. She thought he had not been caught and was still on the run.
An Qingran's heart ached. She knew the truth and lowered her head: "It hasn't been salvaged yet..."
"Salvage?" Lou Wanyue was startled and swayed, almost dropping the child. An Qingran hugged the child at once. Realizing that Lou Wanyue knew nothing, she felt even more desolate in her heart. Both mother and child were harmed because of her.
In her previous life, Lou Wanyue married Dongfang Jin. She died of depression after Dongfang Jin's death. In this life, she lost Dongfang Run. Why is her life so miserable?
"What happened? Tell me." Lou Wanyue grabbed An Qingran's hand, "Did he jump into the water? Is he dead?"
An Qingran pursed her lips and said, "Cousin, listen to me, if we haven't found it yet, there is hope, right?"
"Hope? If it wasn't salvaged? What hope is there..." Lou Wanyue turned around, holding onto the tree trunk, shoulders trembling, "Why didn't anyone tell me? Why didn't anyone tell me?"
An Qingran didn't know how to persuade her. The child in her arms started crying again. Lou Wanyue suddenly turned around, hugged the child tightly in her arms, and pressed her face against the child, tears rolling down her cheeks. "Baby, from now on, we will be mother and son together..."
"Cousin, maybe..." An Qingran didn't know whether it was cruel or self-deception to let Lou Wanyue continue to hold on to hope. He was seriously injured again when the cliff was so high.
She didn't want to think about it anymore and just watched Lou Wanyue crying uncontrollably. She patted her shoulder, and she hid to the side as if frightened. An Qingran's heart was filled with self-blame and she even had difficulty breathing.
One child was crying, and another joined in the fun, attracting the maids and servants to come and see what was going on.
Finally, seeing her son crying heartbreakingly, Lou Wanyue stopped crying and gently shook her arms. Slowly, the child calmed down. Lou Wanyue seemed to have made up her mind and looked up at An Qingran: "Crown Princess, I have a favor to ask..."
Such a distant name made An Qingran speechless, and she just nodded slowly: "Anything I can do."
"My parents-in-law are old. I'm afraid they can't stand the damp and cold in prison. I want to send them a quilt. Also, my mother-in-law has rheumatism. She has a royal doctor who takes care of her..." She wiped her eyes and sighed deeply. "Please ask the Crown Princess to let the royal doctor treat her so that she can die with less pain. We, mother and son... don't dare to ask for forgiveness, but the child is so young. He hasn't enjoyed a few days of good life and hasn't even seen autumn. Can you ask the Crown Princess to plead for me, demoting him to a slave or a commoner, at least give him a chance to live."
Her voice was mournful, and her bright face was filled with heart-wrenching sadness, which made An Qingran feel distressed and helpless: "The emperor did not say that he would execute the Shouwang family, but was just considering how to deal with them. You have been released back to the Shouwang Mansion. Do you think the emperor will still kill you?"
"Before you came, I didn't think so, but now..." She sneered, "I think we are just baits. If Run has a one in ten thousand chance, you can still wait for him to fall into the trap, right?"
"You think of us like this?" An Qingran was stunned, looking at Lou Wanyue as if she didn't know her, "Cousin, I thought I made it clear to you that I have never had any feelings for Prince Dongfang..."
"I know, it's all his wishful thinking." Lou Wanyue was obviously getting further and further away.
An Qingran knew that she had misunderstood deeply, so she stopped explaining: "Let time speak. Ask yourself, if it was the other way around, would the Queen Mother let me, Ran'er and the Prince go? I'm afraid she wouldn't even wait for a quarter of an hour and would just chop us all down. I understand your concerns, but there is one thing I'm saying for your support. At least the Prince and I don't want your life, or the lives of Prince Shou and his wife. The Queen Mother committed suicide by swallowing gold, and it's not what the outside world says, that the Emperor killed his mother. The Emperor treated the Queen Mother very well, and everything was done according to the original calendar system."
Hearing this, Lou Wanyue's expression eased a little: "Yes, I was immature. I asked for help with such an attitude. I just hope that the harm will not happen to my child."
"When the rebellion started, the Queen Mother had already put everything aside." An Qingran said coldly, "She never thought about you."
"I know nothing about the rebellion. I don't know if you will believe me if I say so." Lou Wanyue smiled bitterly. "Dongfang Run and I have been in a cold war for this, putting my father and brother in danger. But what's the point of talking about this now? Dongfang Run agreed to the rebellion. I think he really wants to get what he wants."
An Qingran understood that what he wanted was her.
There's really no way to continue this conversation.
An Qingran sighed slowly: "Cousin, I came here just to make you feel at ease, but I don't want to make you angry. When I go back, if you need anything, you and the servants will have it. I will send people to take care of Prince Shou and his wife. Don't be too sad, you still have to take care of the children."
When Lou Wanyue saw that she was leaving, she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't.
He just looked at An Qingran's back, thoughtfully.
The anger on his face subsided a little.
An Qingran returned to the palace and told Dongfang Jin about this matter. Dongfang Jin didn't show any special expression on his face. He sighed and ordered the imperial physician to go to the clan house to check the health of Prince Shou and his wife to make sure there was nothing wrong.
Dongfang Jin hugged An Qingran: "Before, I thought that I would not let Dongfang Run go. Now I think that I would rather he was alive. If he was alive, he could take care of the Shou Wang couple, and compensate Lou Wanyue..."
"Do you really think so?" An Qingran asked in surprise.
"Why don't you think so?" Dongfang Jin looked at her with deep meaning in his eyes, "Do you really think I'm a narrow-minded person?"
"Not really. If you think this way, does it mean that father thinks the same way?" An Qingran's eyes lit up. Does that mean that Prince Shou and his family can be pardoned?
Dongfang Jin understood her meaning instantly, smiled and nodded slightly: "It's just that the ministers in the court have different opinions, and many people suggest severe punishment. Father didn't convince them for a while. But the people who were clearing out the rebellion are still sending news that people are constantly surrendering..."
"Oh, by the way, we should not underestimate those mountain bandits and road bullies. They are very destructive and the people cannot live in peace. They are in a panic..."
"I have already ordered severe punishment." Dongfang Jin narrowed his eyes. He heard from Rendong about their experience of being robbed. Therefore, Dongfang Jin had already ordered that all the bandits would be given houses and land if they surrendered. Otherwise, they would be beheaded.
This is probably the cruelest order Dongfang Jin has ever issued.
An Qingran felt a little more relaxed after hearing this.
"Don't you want to ask anything else?" Dongfang Jin continued to ask.
"What is the other one?" An Qingran looked at him in confusion.
"The other is Dongfang Run. We found a piece of cloth by the deep pool. That cloth is exactly the same as the shirt he was wearing at the time. It has been identified and it can be basically confirmed to be his. So, the cloth was on the side of the deep pool and not in the water. So, he... has hope of survival." Dongfang Jin was very cautious at the end. He didn't want to give An Qingran hope and then make her despair.
"When did this happen?" An Qingran was a little excited, and her hands that were holding Dongfang Jinyi's sleeves were shaking slightly. "Why did you tell me so late? Is there any better news?"
Dongfang Jin frowned slightly: "If you continue like this, I will be a little jealous. Listen, I learned this news yesterday. You know why I didn't tell you. I asked those people to continue searching. Don't let go of even the slightest clue."
An Qingran nodded, nodding vigorously: "I understand, I understand very well, this is really good news, Dongfang Run's kung fu is very high, that arrow should not have hit a vital part..."
An Qingran tried hard to recall it many times. She felt that the arrow was not enough to take his life. The only thing that could hurt him was naturally the height. The cliff was really high and steep, with rugged rocks, any of which was enough to take a person's life.
An Qingran was so excited that she was restless.
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