Chapter 203 Can You Like Me a Little More
The old emperor looked at his eldest son, who looked almost unfamiliar, and coughed several times.
"If I didn't have you in my heart, how could I hand over the country to you?"
"If you still respect me, your father, then let your brother go this time and send him back to his fiefdom."
Hearing this, Xiao Jinghe's heart turned cold. He immediately stood up, his face extremely cold and gloomy. "If the emperor really cared about me, he wouldn't have given the military command of the Chuzhou camp to my second brother. Is the emperor really in love with his son, or is he always on guard against him?"
The old emperor's pupils suddenly contracted, "You...how did you know this!?"
Xiao Jinghe sneered, "Shouldn't I know this?"
The room was dead silent.
After the incident at Jiuchong Mountain, on the surface, his good second brother was confined in the palace to reflect on his mistakes, but in fact he had already left the capital and was hiding outside, holding the military power given by his good father, waiting for the day to rebel.
The old emperor's face turned purple and he was only breathing his last breath. At this moment, he suddenly realized that the son in front of him was the one who looked most like him.
"Jinghe, you are already the crown prince, so let your brother go..."
Xiao Jinghe's expression was indifferent. "Father, I let him go, but he won't let me go."
"Yesterday, he took the military order and went to Chuzhou to mobilize troops. Father, please wait a few more days. I will bring him to you."
After saying that, Xiao Jinghe strode away. He didn't care at all about the violent coughing behind him and the panic of the palace servants calling for the imperial physician.
...
Returning to the bedroom, Yu Qinghuan leaned on the beauty couch, staring at the robe placed aside, feeling a little annoyed.
Sang Ru smiled and said, "Miss, I never thought that Mr. Du could become a general."
In my impression, Du Langjun is a nerd who reads books all day long. Who would have thought that he is now so tall and strong that he can wield a sword to kill enemies.
The change was so great, otherwise I would have recognized it that night.
Yu Qinghuan responded perfunctorily.
Sang Ru came up to her and asked curiously, "Young lady, now that you see Mr. Du again, don't you have any thoughts in your mind?"
She remembered that when Mr. Du left Beijing, the girl was sad for a long time and her eyes were swollen from crying.
Yu Qinghuan looked up at her lazily, "What should I think?"
Sang Ru said with a smile, "Didn't the young lady like Mr. Du very much in the past? I still remember that when the Du family left the capital, the young lady wanted to elope with Mr. Du!"
If Mr. Du had not disagreed, fearing that the girl would suffer, the girl might have been the general's wife now, and would not have married into the marquis's mansion later, and none of these things would have happened now.
After being reminded by Sang Ru, Yu Qinghuan finally remembered the past events that happened to him.
As a young man, Mu Ai had read so many storybooks that he would naturally imagine something in his mind, not to mention that there happened to be a young man who protected him everywhere.
"It's all in the past, no need to mention it anymore."
Sang Ru smiled, "The girl must get the token of love back, otherwise if Mr. Du comes to propose marriage with the token one day, it will be difficult to end."
A token of love?
Yu Qinghuan was stunned. "What token of love?"
Sang Ru blinked, not expecting her daughter to have forgotten this. "When Mr. Du left the capital, didn't you give him the jade pendant with your name engraved on it?"
She remembered that the girl took off the pendant before going out, and when she came back, the jade pendant was gone.
Yu Qinghuan was silent. She had truly forgotten about this matter.
Eight years have passed. Du Yunxiao should have thrown away the jade pendant, right?
At the same time, in the darkness of the night, Du Yunxiao held a jade pendant with a cold glow in his hand, and his fingertips repeatedly rubbed the word "Huan" engraved on the jade pendant.
Over the past eight years, he had imagined the scene of reuniting with Yu Qinghuan countless times.
The little girl who always called him "Brother Yunxiao" by his side is now a beautiful young lady, but she is pregnant and is following someone else.
His mind was full of thoughts. If he had been able to take the person away regardless of the consequences at the city gate, perhaps he would have been the one to marry Huanhuan two years ago.
In the past two days, Du Yunxiao had someone inquire about it. He found out that the Ningyuan Marquis was just an idle marquis. He was not good at either literature or martial arts. He was not even as good as his illegitimate brother and was not worthy of his Huanhuan at all.
Xie Zhili does have some abilities, but he is obsessed with his eldest sister-in-law. With such a character, how can he be a good person?
Being the crown prince is good, but being the crown princess is not that easy. With so many concubines in the three palaces and six courtyards in the future, won’t his Huanhuan be wronged?
Du Yunxiao thought about it and felt that none of these people were worthy of his childhood sweetheart.
He carefully tucked the jade pendant back into his collar and placed it against his heart.
Now that I'm back, I will never let Huanhuan continue to live the hard life she had before, and I will not let those evil men harm Huanhuan.
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That night, Yu Qinghuan had just changed into her pajamas and was about to go to bed when the palace servant guarding the gate came in to announce that Xiao Jinghe had arrived.
Before she had time to get off the bed and put on her clothes, Xiao Jinghe came in, reeking of alcohol, and staggered towards Yu Qinghuan.
Seeing that he was about to fall and refused to let the palace servants help him, Yu Qinghuan hurriedly got off the bed, walked forward barefoot and supported his arm, "Why did you drink?"
He met Xiao Jinghe's eyes reflected in the candlelight - the eyes that were smiling and teasing him just now, now looked lost, and upon closer inspection, they were tinged with dark red bloodshot.
Xiao Jinghe hugged Yu Qinghuan, resting his forehead on her shoulder, his hot breath spraying on her neck. His voice was dull and choked with sobs: "They don't want me, and you don't want me either."
Feeling a damp heat spreading on her shoulder, Yu Qinghuan's fingertips suddenly clenched. Wasn't this man fine just now? He was even able to put clothes on her. How come he became like this after coming back from going out?
The palace servants had already left tactfully.
Yu Qinghuan raised her hand helplessly and patted his shoulder, "Are you too tired recently? Let me help you to rest on the couch."
"Hmm..." Xiao Jinghe reluctantly followed Yu Qinghuan and lay down on the couch.
The candlelight flickered slightly. Glancing at his furrowed brows and the moisture in the corners of his eyes that had not yet dried, Yu Qinghuan sighed inwardly and reached out to take off his outer robe that was stained with night dew and the smell of alcohol. She didn't know why men loved to drown their sorrows in alcohol. Xie Zhiwen was like this, Mu Huaian was like this, and even Xiao Jinghe was like this.
Just as she was about to go out and call for help, her hand was held tightly.
Xiao Jinghe's eyes, reddened by drunkenness, were now watery. He clutched Yu Qinghuan's hand, his knuckles white and trembling slightly. "Father told me to let my second brother go... and you told me to let you go too. Do you think I'm the unforgivable criminal in your hearts?"
His voice sounded like it was crushed by gravel, and the words he spoke made Yu Qinghuan's heart tremble.
The emperor favors Prince Rui, and this is known throughout the capital.
Just as she was about to speak, Xiao Jinghe murmured to her, "Can you like me a little bit, just a little bit."
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