72. Around
The charges against Mother Cheng need to be carefully sorted out. This matter involves too many people. How can she not make the people below tremble in fear when she is the biological mother of the current emperor?
Speaking of Queen Mother Cheng, one thinks of the Su family. Su Lin came back alone to support the Su family's affairs, which can barely be considered a blessing in disguise. His Majesty also began to use her.
It’s just that Su’s mother passed away, and the Su family is in mourning.
Yun Zhihe and Lou Zhi were involved in the Su family matter with Cheng Guomu, so their words must be of paramount importance.
So she went to find Lou Zhi, preparing to organize the information and hand it over to the Ministry of Justice for processing.
The Lou Mansion was too big, and his temper was like that, so he knocked on the door for a long time but no one responded. How should he put it? The Yun Mansion was too small and inconvenient for all parties, and the Lou Mansion was even more inconvenient because it was too big.
After the drunken confession that day, Yun Zhihe didn't say much to him. Lou Zhi was a dull person. Even when they met on business, he would just look at her with his eyes lowered for a long time before leaving in silence.
...especially embarrassing.
For Yun Zhihe.
No one responded to the visiting card she sent. Since official business was important, she had to visit in person.
Seeing that there was really no one around, Ah Zhi complained slightly, "Why not buy a few more servants?"
Yun Zhihe paused. It was no use shouting like this, so he had to let Azhi use his lightness skills to send her up the wall and then climb down.
The graceful Miss Xiaoyun hasn't climbed a tree or anything like that since she was ten years old.
Climbing the wall is kind of funny now.
Just as I reached the door of the house on the upper floor, I saw a figure swaying in the window, and there was someone there.
“Knock, knock.”
She walked forward and knocked on the door gently. In an instant, a burst of intermittent noises came from the room. After a while, Lou Zhi's voice came out, and his voice was hoarse.
"Come in."
Yun Zhihe stepped inside and bowed his head. "General Lou, I have official business to attend to with you. I sent you a visiting card but no one responded, so I came here in person. I'm really sorry to bother you."
Lou Zhi stood by the window, squatted down and picked up a page... a letter? He put his hand behind his back, glanced at Yun Zhihe, and nodded.
The atmosphere was somewhat dull and awkward.
You Qi Lou Zhi seemed to be deep in thought, with his eyes lowered and no words spoken, and the atmosphere around him was depressing.
Yun Zhihe saw that he didn't want to talk any more, so he asked Azhi to pass the documents over and pursed his lips. "I'm really sorry to bother you, General Lou. I'll take my leave now."
Lou Zhi lowered his eyes and looked somewhere nearby, and after a long time he hummed.
After Yun Zhihe walked out, he closed his eyes in a daze, and with trembling fingertips he took out the page of letter-like thing.
The sunlight today is too glaring. Standing by the window, it can almost burn people.
Lou Zhi stroked the letter with his fingertips and closed his eyes again. His profile was almost invisible in the sunlight.
His voice was hoarse and calm.
"Ah...as expected."
I understood and felt relieved as if it was just as I expected.
He calmly folded the letter and put it in the stove next to him. In an instant, the paper was burned to ashes.
Only the fingertips trembled slightly.
Yun Zhihe's departing figure suddenly stopped, and he turned to ask Azhi, "Did you see anyone in the house just now?"
Ah Zhi blinked, "Isn't General Lou a human being?"
Yun Zhihe paused after hearing her words and frowned slightly. "The shadow I saw outside the window just now, following the sunlight, doesn't match General Lou's figure. Besides, how did General Lou get from the window at the door to the window next to the coffee table the moment he opened the door?"
"When I knocked on the door, I heard hurried noises from inside. General Lou has always been calm and leisurely in his work. Even in an emergency, he wouldn't rush..."
"Just now, there was someone here."
Yun Zhihe narrowed his eyes, paused, and walked out.
“Ah…ah?”
Azhi looked confused and quickly caught up with Yun Zhihe.
Not even a few days had passed when she suddenly heard the imperial edict ordering Lou Zhi to go on an expedition. The barbarians were in serious internal strife, and in order to prevent the war from spreading, people were needed to guard the Beidi border.
They were about to go to war in a few days. Yun Zhihe paused and walked towards the imperial study. This was a rare occasion for her to come here, so Eunuch Li hurriedly invited her in, his face wrinkled with laughter.
Madam Xiao Yun did a particularly good job in the Ministry of Public Administration. The power of the Xuanyuan family was gradually suppressed. Yun Zhihe personally investigated and became the Queen Mother, which was considered a great honor for a person from a humble family. In addition, she had outstanding abilities, so she was praised by the old ministers for a long time.
This time she came to report on the local memorial. Eunuch Li had not informed anyone yet and was afraid that she would run away, so he hurriedly pushed her inside.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw Xuanyuan Ying sitting on a chair, with his head lowered, eyes cast down, not saying a word, his hair covering his dark hair.
He slowly looked up when he heard someone coming in, his hair disheveled and his eyes dull.
Seeing Yun Zhihe suddenly stopped and pursed his lips.
"...Jinniang."
Yun Zhihe knelt down and saluted, handing him a memorial. Just as he was about to start reporting, Xuanyuan Ying did not take the memorial. Instead, he lowered his eyes and spoke in a hoarse and trembling voice.
Stretch out your hands slightly.
"Give me a hug...can you?"
Yun Zhihe's breath suddenly stopped and he looked up at him in disbelief.
But she saw that Xuanyuan Ying's eyes were dazed, particularly distraught, with a rare fragility.
Seeing that Yun Zhihe didn't respond for a long time, he lowered his head again, his shoulders trembling slightly.
"Give me a hug."
With a slight cry in her voice.
Yun Zhihe paused, looked up hurriedly, stretched out his hand slightly, pursed his lips and said nothing, feeling a little touched.
She knelt at his feet to submit a memorial on his behalf.
But, she was hugging him.
Xuanyuan Ying seemed to have found a life-saving straw. He suddenly leaned over and hugged her. His chest was trembling with rapid breathing, and his breath was moist and hit his ears.
She just listened to him murmuring over and over again, "Jinniang."
With a slight cry.
The scorching body temperature almost burned them, and the rare hug was filled with uncontrollable joy and the pain of being apart for a long time.
Yun Zhihe lowered his eyes, casting a layer of sparse shadows, which was particularly beautiful.
She couldn't explain the aching sweetness that surged in her chest; even the hug felt so hot that it seemed to burn her.
But she was thinking about the moon again.
Who is his moon?
His moon is her.
Xuanyuan Ying's arms tightened more and more, as if he wanted to bury himself in her arms. The tip of his pen was slightly red, and his cold and deep eyes were stained with soft moisture.
They are obviously not like that.
She deliberately kept herself suppressed, suppressing the emotions and desires that were about to burst out. Xuanyuan Ying almost drove her crazy. Her dreams were filled with moonlight, hugging him, and kissing him gently.
Looking at him softly and noblely.
She caressed the corners of his lips with her fingertips again, then placed a gentle kiss on them.
He was close to tears.
Extreme pain mixed with love, Xuanyuan Ying closed his eyes, tears slowly streaming down his cheeks onto her shoulders.
"Jinniang, let me hold you for a while longer."
Yun Zhihe responded softly in his throat, his fingers trembling slightly, but he carefully placed them on his back, gently soothing him.
She touched His Majesty's back.
The protruding spine gradually narrows along the waistline, outlining an ascetic figure.
The fingertips feel the warm body temperature and the touch of the dragon robe, which is particularly delicate and smooth.
They hugged each other for a long time.
Xuanyuan Ying is clearly the emperor.
Regardless of his achievements, this male emperor will be remembered in history simply because of his gender.
But he should have been sitting on a high platform, high above everyone else, looking down on the world, just like every time I saw him before, standing coldly on a high position with his eyes lowered and giving orders.
Now, it seems like he has fallen into self-degradation... ?
He got down from his seat and threw himself into the arms of the kneeling, groveling minister, holding her tightly, as if afraid that she would leave.
Perhaps if the minister allowed it, he would humbly and pleadingly touch the corner of her lips.
...How pitiful.
Like now, crying silently with red eyes.
Finally, Xuanyuan Ying fell asleep. He had just recovered from an illness and could not be tired. After he fell into a deep sleep, Yun Zhihe carried him to the bed.
She walked out carefully.
Eunuch Li was beaming with joy, and was even happier when he saw the two of them staying in the room for such a long time.
Yun Zhihe paused and asked, "Your Majesty...who did you meet before me?"
Eunuch Li paused, thinking back, "Oh, General Lou was here earlier."
"Then His Majesty issued an imperial decree, and no one was there after that."
Floor stop...
Yun Zhihe lowered his eyes.
Your Majesty's misconduct this time must be related to Lou Zhi's imperial edict.
She asked, "Eunuch Li, what was the relationship between His Majesty and General Lou before?"
She had only heard that the two of them were close friends and had been in close contact before they got married.
Eunuch Li paused, not knowing why Yun Zhihe wanted to know these things, but he still looked around and spoke in a low voice.
"Your Majesty and General Lou have been good friends since childhood. Your Majesty comes from a distinguished family and has countless people trying to curry favor with him, but Your Majesty simply disdains them all and only chooses General Lou as his friend."
"The two knew and respected each other, but after Your Majesty married the late Emperor, they had little contact."
"At that time, General Lou had not yet married, and the Lou family was in dire straits. To appease the hearts of his old ministers, the late emperor chose a good marriage for General Lou, and that was Madam Xiao Qi."
"It's just..." He sighed, "Who knew that Xiao Qiniang was such a beast in human form, sending General Lou to his doom."
Eunuch Li hesitated again, and was about to say something but stopped. He had already regarded Yun Zhihe as his daughter in his heart. After thinking about it, he continued, his voice even lower.
"I don't know whether I should say this or not... General Lou was aloof and unloved when he was young. Only Your Majesty was willing to interact with him. The two of them... how should I put it... General Lou rarely spoke, and seemed more like Your Majesty's follower."
"But Your Majesty is so high and mighty, and apart from General Lou, you have no friends."
Yun Zhihe paused, nodded and left.
I was lost in thought along the way.
General Lou and Your Majesty...
She remembered what Xuanyuan Ying had said long ago. At that time, she had not yet become an official. She played the piano for him and looked at him standing by the window, the fierce sunlight almost swallowing him.
Then his face was dimmed by the sunlight, deep and hazy, and he turned his head slightly to look at her.
Yun Zhihe suddenly couldn't remember anything. She only remembered that the ice was cold and cool that day, and His Majesty was standing by the window.
He reached out his hand to her, his fingers long and slender.
Said in a dumb voice——
"I am lonely... come to me."
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