He said it so affectionately and explicitly that An Qingran blushed: "Why are you saying that? Aren't you afraid of people hearing it?"
"So what if they hear it? Everyone in the world knows that I only love you. Even the reign title is our two names combined. There is nothing to be afraid of others knowing." Dongfang Jin's lips curled up into a beautiful smile. The tenderness in his eyes made An Qingran shyly look away.
"Hateful!" she said with a smile.
"Do you really hate me?" Dongfang Jin raised his eyebrows and held her in his arms. The carriage suddenly became quiet. The guards outside didn't know what was going on and didn't dare to speak loudly. They just quickened their journey.
When he returned to the palace, General An sent someone to inquire about the news.
An Qingran simply wrote a letter and sent it to the An Mansion to explain the matter.
She almost wanted to go to Prince Shou's Mansion immediately to tell Lou Wanyue.
Dongfang Jin told her to wait a little longer.
Two days passed in this wait.
An Qingran couldn't wait any longer, so she said goodbye to Dongfang Jin and went to Prince Shou's Mansion.
In her mind, this matter will be resolved no matter what.
Emperor Yunqi will agree.
At worst, she could go and ask for it in person.
If all else fails, then take Ran'er with you and ask him to let Dongfang Run go for the sake of their mother and son.
When they arrived at Prince Shou's Mansion, Lou Wanyue greeted them politely with a neutral expression. It had been like this for the past two years, and An Qingran didn't take it seriously, after all, she owed her.
The misery of her previous life and the destruction of her family in this life made her sigh infinitely about Lou Wanyue's fate. She didn't care about her previous life, but her suffering in this life was entirely caused by herself. If she didn't make up for it, she would always feel uneasy.
She held Lou Wanyue's hand, but before she spoke, tears began to fall, which surprised Lou Wanyue: "Madam, why is this happening?"
"Call me Qingran. You've been calling me Niangniang for two years." An Qingran wiped her eyes. "But it doesn't matter. Sister Lou, you and Xin'er have finally made it. Dongfang Run is still alive. We found him."
"What?" Lou Wanyue seemed as if she didn't hear clearly. In fact, she heard it very clearly, every word was clear. She stared at An Qingran in a daze, "Are you telling the truth?"
"Of course it's true. He is in Qi Town, not far from here, and he is a teacher now." An Qingran finished speaking in one breath. She didn't continue with the rest of the words. What's wrong with letting Lou Wanyue get excited for a while?
Lou Wanyue really burst into tears, but they were tears of joy.
She turned around, covered her mouth with a handkerchief, her shoulders trembling, but she could still hear sobbing.
An Qingran turned around and said, "Cousin, I haven't finished what I want to say..."
"Oh, Qingran... let's go inside and talk." Lou Wanyue tried to force a smile, but she couldn't.
The two people entered the house. Lou Wanyue kept crying all the way. Those happy tears made An Qingran almost unable to say the next words.
“Is it that Emperor Yunqi is unwilling to forgive our sins? He won’t let the prince return to the capital?” Lou Wanyue finally regained her senses and said while holding back her tears.
"This is one of the reasons. There is one more thing I want to tell you. You have to be mentally prepared..." When An Qingran said this, Lou Wanyue's face changed.
"What's wrong? Is he injured? Disabled? No matter what, he is my husband and Xiner's father." Lou Wanyue said with a determined look.
"No, he lost his memory...so, in the past two years, he remarried. The woman's name is Zhong Min'er, and they took in the amnesiac prince..." An Qingran finished what she said all at once this time.
Lou Wanyue's face froze when she heard this. She thought for a moment, "Did he lose his memory? That's why he's like this, isn't it Qingran?"
"I think so, otherwise he would have come back to find you and the child long ago."
"Don't worry, I'm open-minded. As long as he is still alive, I don't care about anything else." A firm expression appeared on Lou Wanyue's face.
"Even if he has another woman?"
"I don't care that he has other women. I just care whether he still remembers us, mother and son..." Lou Wanyue's originally yellow face became lively and rosy, and she even had the shyness of a young girl.
An Qingran finally let go of the worry and murmured, "Yes, as long as people are still alive..."
She felt that she was really overthinking. She thought her cousin could not accept all this, but she didn't expect that the only person her cousin cared about was that person.
I asked myself, if something like this happened to Dongfang Jin, would it be the same for her?
That whole life can never compare to the love between two people staying together.
Nothing can compare to the word "alive".
After An Qingran returned to the palace, she asked Dongfang Jin about the progress.
Because Emperor Yunqi had caught a cold in the past two days and his condition had been getting better and worse, he had not yet found a suitable opportunity.
An Qingran was somewhat dissatisfied, but she didn't dare to be too active, for fear that Dongfang Jin's narrow-mindedness would make him think elsewhere.
An Qingran did not tell anyone else about Dongfang Run's life except her parents and Lou Wanyue and asked them to keep it a secret.
He was afraid that someone with ulterior motives would harm him again.
The same thing happened on Dongfang Jin's side. The secret guards did not withdraw and continued to protect him.
Dongfang Run must have really lost his memory, otherwise such a perceptive person would not have failed to notice anything.
Lou Wanyue was the one who was suffering the most. She knew An Qingran would help her, so all she had to do was wait quietly. However, her heart had already run to the small place called Qi Town.
She kept telling Dongfang Xin that his father was back and he was going to see him right away. Upon hearing that, Dongfang Xin stood at the door, waiting for a tall carriage to take him to find his father.
Finally, three days later, an extremely luxurious carriage really stopped in front of the Shouwang Mansion. An Qingran was wearing a scarlet dress with a pink plum blossom sticking out from the hem of her skirt, all the way to the front. Dongfang Xin became interested in the embroidered plum blossom. After getting in the carriage, he kept staring at it and said, "Apricot blossom..."
Lou Wanyue's mind was not on this, but An Qingran found what he said interesting, so she reached out and hugged Xin'er: "Xin'er, are you happy to see your father later?"
Xin'er nodded.
"What do you want to say when you see daddy?"
Dongfang Xin is already three years old. He understands her problem, but he really doesn't know how to say it.
Lou Wanyue sighed: "Let alone Xin'er, I don't even know what to say first. By the way, is that young lady treating him well?"
An Qingran felt a pain in her heart. Lou Wanyue did not ask Dongfang Run whether he was good to that lady. On the contrary, she thought that there was only Dongfang Run in her heart. As long as someone took care of him for her during this period of time, she would be grateful.
What's more, he has lost his memory.
People will always find a positive outlook.
For all the things that have happened before, when you encounter practical problems, your heart will tell you the answer.
An Qingran smiled deliberately: "When the family meets, you should naturally let Xinren call him daddy first."
"But...what if he doesn't recognize us?" There was a hint of fear in Lou Wanyue's eyes.
"How could I not recognize you? I just lost my memory. I will remember it. Maybe I will remember it as soon as I see you, right?" An Qingran was very optimistic.
"But what about his woman...?" This time, Lou Wanyue put aside all past grudges and started to speak her heart out to An Qingran.
"This... didn't my sister say it? As long as he is still alive, if that woman is willing to go back to Beijing with us, things will be much easier." An Qingran stopped here, because she knew that Lou Wanyue was not a stupid woman, and she must have thought about this matter a long time ago.
Lou Wanyue nodded slightly after hearing this: "Yes, as long as she is willing to come back..."
And then there was no more talk.
Only occasionally could Dongfang Xin's voice be heard. He was curious about everything. When he saw cows or sheep, he had no idea what they were. He would shout "monsters" loudly and scream in fear when he saw dogs. An Qingran couldn't help but feel even more compassionate. They had been "protected" in the Prince Shou's Mansion for too long. The mother and son had probably never left the mansion since then.
Although there seemed to be only an old guard at the gate of the mansion, she and Lou Wanyue knew that there were countless pairs of eyes watching in the dark. At first, even she thought that Dongfang Run might survive and be afraid of being punished, so he hid secretly, and then he would not be able to help but return to the mansion to secretly check, so there were many secret guards, but as time went by, this matter was slowly abandoned.
An Qingran thought he was really dead.
How did he survive?
How did he come to Qi Town?
You will only know these words when you meet the person in person.
Finally, in the afternoon, they arrived in Qi Town. After arriving at the posthouse, An Qingran hesitated whether to go again the next day, but Lou Wanyue could not wait any longer.
The group arrived at the Zhong Mansion.
The gate of the Zhong Mansion is quite grand. The Zhong family is a local merchant who runs a silk shop and a rouge shop. They are a fairly well-off merchant family. Of course, they are also one of the most prominent families in the local area.
When they knocked on the door, the doorman had to report inside. The secret guard took out his badge and protected Lou Wanyue and An Qingran as they walked inside. The servant was dumbfounded. He seemed to understand the words on it. Was this true?
The guards of the palace?
Who are they protecting?
If this isn't true, why do these people seem to have such natural dignity? Could it be fake?
The servants crawled inside and chased after them. At this time, everyone had stopped.
It turned out that when they entered the backyard, they saw a tall man carefully walking with a woman. The woman had a slightly bulging belly and looked like she was five or six months pregnant. She held her waist with one hand and the man's arm with the other. The two of them were talking about something. The man had a faint smile on his face. His peaceful and beautiful expression made Lou Wanyue blurt out: "Dongfang Run..."
Hearing the voice, the couple turned around and saw a group of people. They were stunned. Zhong Min'er's eyebrows were sharp, with a bit of An Qingran's shrewdness: "Who are you? Don't you know to knock on the door before coming to my house?"
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