Chapter 697: Reluctant
The Queen took a deep breath: "I will listen to her."
In the end, even the queen didn't go to see Shen Chuliu.
In Qianyang City, Qi Yixiu received an urgent letter and looked at Chusi in disbelief: "Who dares to make up such nonsense?"
I didn’t dare to speak on the fourth day of the New Year.
It was Qi Yan who stood up and knocked over the chair. He had been restless these days and didn't care about the rules. He just snatched the letter and started reading.
After watching the whole thing, the whole person couldn't stand: "Father, Dad!"
"You...you go back...you go back and see who is the one who dares to spread such words. Catch them all for me." Qi Yixiu said.
Qi Yan nodded, without caring about anything else, and ran out immediately.
His Majesty cannot just leave whenever he wants, but the Crown Prince can leave first.
So Qi Yan ran to the front.
On March 11, Shen Chuliu dressed up and sat in the small garden: "If you don't come back, I won't be able to see you anymore. But it doesn't matter if I don't see you anymore. I'm already a grown-up now."
Zhemei and the others just forced themselves to smile and comfort her.
"Call everyone here."
The plum blossoms were picked and soon people came to the small garden.
"Madame Zhang is old. She has served me for so many years. I have already made arrangements for her to leave the palace and retire."
Nanny Zhang knelt down and cried, unable to speak.
"Yuanxiao, although you are still young, you have served as a eunuch in front of the imperial concubine. It will be unfair for you to serve others. I won't even ask you to go to Yan'er's place. Go out of the palace. Don't worry about the rest of your life. I will arrange it for you."
Yuanxiao also cried, crying for something: "I...I don't want to leave you in this life. If you want...I will stay with you."
"Are you stupid? You need to follow me to keep me here? You can keep me here wherever you are. Okay, stop crying."
"Since Zhemei doesn't want to leave the palace, just go to Concubine Yang. Although Concubine Hui is also good, she is not as open-minded as Concubine Yang. You also came from my place, and I can't bear to have you live a cautious life again. Or, you can also leave the palace, it's not too late to get married." Shen Chuliu said.
Zhemei cried so hard that she couldn't speak.
"You guys, Suihong, Xinlu, Baiyan, Huangli, all leave the palace and get married. You are all in good age. It's just the right time. The little ones below will all be rewarded. It won't be in vain if you serve me once."
"You eunuchs, if you want to go to the East Palace, you can. I will arrange wherever you want to go."
Everyone was crying.
I can't bear to leave my master. How good is my master? He is powerful, but he never tortures his own people.
In the entire palace, those who served Concubine Jing had never suffered any hardship.
Even when the master was still Baolin.
Who would be willing to do that? I was also touched. Even though their masters were like this, they were still thinking about their way out.
The master was too lazy to meet the Shen and Pei family members, and actually arranged their ways out one by one.
Who could hold back tears? Qi Yan ran so fast that two horses died back to the imperial city. He had no time to bother going to the queen, and rushed straight back to Yufu Palace.
Shen Chuliu was still in the small garden. It was already night time.
"mother!"
"Yan'er is back." Shen Chuliu smiled and stretched out her hand: "Come here, mother can't get up."
"Mom!" Qi Yan walked over and said, "Mom, please stop messing around. Where is the imperial physician? Where is the imperial physician?"
"Yan'er." Shen Chuliu reached out and pinched Qi Yan's cheek: "Good boy, listen to your mother."
"I won't listen, mother, I won't...what do you want to do? Leave me? Mother!"
"Yan'er, although I have no parents since I was a child, I have always lived a proud life. At the end of the day, do you want me to die in an undignified and ugly way?" Shen Chuliu pinched his face again and sighed, "You have grown up and your face is not easy to pinch anymore."
"Mom..." Qi Yan hugged Shen Chuliu tightly: "Please don't scare me, okay? I don't want it!"
"Just walking here, mother is very happy. Be obedient, okay?" Shen Chuliu looked at him with a smile: "In fact, you have had a premonition for a long time, right?"
Qi Yan was choked with sobs. How could he speak?
Shen Chuliu knew that it was impossible for Qi Yan to believe it without seeing the imperial physician.
So I didn't stop it after all.
But after seeing the imperial physician, Qi Yan got very angry, but it was of no avail.
"They are useless. Let me find a miracle doctor for you, okay? Mother, please don't... don't scare me. What will I do if I lose my mother? I can't lose my mother." Qi Yan was so angry that his heart was filled with emptiness and he just cried.
"You are the one that I love the most in my life. The Shen and Pei families are estranged after all, and your father has many people. But I have you. When I meet you, I don't need to act at all. So, you are my son, my friend, and my relative. You are everything to me."
"But I can only walk this far with you. I don't want to walk the rest of the way, nor do I want to walk with you. So you promise me that you will walk on your own. Okay?"
Qi Yan wanted to say no, he couldn't accept it.
But when he met Shen Chuliu's smiling but sad and reluctant eyes, he could only nod.
"Mother, do you... hate father?" Qi Yan asked, wiping his tears.
"Of course not! Silly child, how could mother hate him?" Shen Chuliu sighed: "It's just that I can't see him anymore. Mother actually misses him."
"But he has so many people..." Qi Yan said in a low voice.
"That's not his fault." Shen Chuliu smiled and said, "Mom and you are both well protected by him."
"But mother doesn't like father from the bottom of her heart..." Qi Yan said again.
Shen Chuliu smiled: "But I rely on him. When I was a child, my parents died. The Pei family left because they were sad, or because they didn't care. When I grew up, the Shen family wanted me to enter the palace to pave the way for Shen Biyu. I seemed to have never been important. I had to walk my own path. After entering the palace, your father looked at the Shen family instead of me."
"It wasn't until I had you that I had a close relative. At first, I just wanted to protect you and the two of us, mother and son, would be fine. But later on, I have to say that your father protected us a lot. You know, the day I was poisoned, I even thought that maybe I would die."
"I was worried before I saw you as the crown prince. I was afraid that someone else would bully you in the future. But then I thought, maybe if I died, your father would be more confident in you being the crown prince."
"But your father didn't do that. I was very happy at that time. Maybe your father didn't know it, but I was really happy."
"Everyone likes to be needed. I have spent so many years to be needed by your father. I think this is great."
"So I don't hate him. I never have."
Qi Yan listened to Shen Chuliu talking and her increasingly weak breathing, and his heart felt like it was bleeding.
"Your father is different from what I thought in the past. He is a very good emperor. He is also very good to you. You know very well how to go on this road, and I have nothing to worry about. There is just one thing. In the future, we need to change the rules and not send so many people to Cheng'an Temple."
Qi Yan nodded, choking with sobs and unable to speak.
"Father is on the way, mother..." Qi Yan burst into tears.
"Alas, I can't wait any longer. Fortunately, I'm very sick now, so I finally asked him to see me one more time before you left." Shen Chuliu sighed.
(End of this chapter)
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