"I knew he wouldn't. He is such a good kid..." The old man slowly let go of his hand and repeated this sentence repeatedly.
Mrs. Yang wiped her tears and said reluctantly: "Mr. Fang, this is fate, how can I blame you? Has the murderer of my husband been caught?"
"Your Majesty has issued an official document on sea arrest. I believe he will be caught soon." Fang Zilan's voice was a little lower, and Mrs. Yang murmured: "That's good..."
Fang Zilan was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but saw that the old man and Mrs. Yang seemed to be relieved, and they both passed out and fell unconscious.
"Madam, Madam Yang!" Fang Zilan supported someone with one hand, and Li Qiyou quickly asked the accompanying maid to step forward to help.
"Mother..." A thin voice caught Fang Zilan's attention. After she handed the old man and Mrs. Yang to the maids to help them down, she walked into the mourning hall and saw the child hiding behind the coffin, timidly looking at everything.
The moment the child saw Fang Zilan, he couldn't help but take a step back, tripped over the futon and fell. After saying "Ah", he slowly stood up.
Fang Zilan looked at the child in front of her. He was only five or six years old, and his ignorant appearance made people feel pity for him. She walked to the child and squatted down. Before she could speak, she heard him ask: "What's wrong, mother?"
"Your mother is fine, she is just too tired. She will wake up after a while." Fang Zilan's voice softened a little, and the child pouted and doubted: "Really? Mother said the same, but daddy Haven’t woken up yet.”
He pointed to the coffin and asked curiously: "And daddy sleeps here, isn't it cold?"
Fang Zilan was speechless for a moment, and when she was speaking, she heard Li Qiyou's voice coming from behind, "Son, your father has worked hard for many years, so he must sleep longer."
"When will daddy wake up?" The child frowned, "I want him to play ball with me, and I want him to catch butterflies for me. Xiaoqiu's dad next door often catches butterflies for him, and I want it too."
Simple words tell simple wishes, but all these can never be realized.
Fang Zilan lowered her eyes slightly, not daring to look at the child. Li Qiyou came over and gently rubbed the top of the child's hair, "Brother, can I help you catch butterflies?"
"Okay!" The child raised a big smile, "Brother, help me, we will catch the butterflies and give them to daddy."
"Your father won't wake up." Fang Zilan suddenly said. Li Qiyou's face was full of astonishment. Before he could say anything, he heard the child say: "Why won't he wake up?"
"Because the dream is so beautiful and wonderful that your father can't bear to wake up." Fang Zilan said in a sad and controlled tone, and the child seemed to understand: "Then can I go to the dream to find my father?"
"No." Li Qiyou hurriedly answered: "You are too young, dreams are not suitable for you." After he finished speaking, he pursed his lips and looked a little unnatural, as if he had never thought of such a bad thing. Lies come out of your own mouth.
"Then when can I go to find my father in my dream?" The child asked. Li Qiyou was startled, but then he heard Fang Zilan slowly speak: "One day, you will see all the butterflies in the world and find them." I will capture the most beautiful one among them. If you catch it, you can go to your father."
"I understand!" The child suddenly understood and tugged on Fang Zilan's sleeves excitedly, "Sister, my father taught me that if you want to eat candy cakes, you have to pay for it yourself. I think the same goes for butterflies, and you also have to catch butterflies. go alone!"
After saying that, he jumped up and ran out of the mourning hall, shouting as he ran, "When I catch the most beautiful butterfly, I can go find daddy in my dream!"
Li Qiyou laughed dumbly. Although he didn't fully understand the logic behind the child's words, he finally deceived him.
cheat? When this word flashed through Li Qiyou's mind, he was suddenly stunned. He used to hate the word "liar" deeply, but when he later discovered that his grandmother and queen mother would also lie to him, and that he could also deceive others, he subconsciously hid the word.
It was as if as long as he didn't say it, nothing had happened. Now that I think about it, I was really deceiving myself and others.
Fang Zilan stood up and inadvertently caught a glimpse of a wry smile emerging from the corner of Li Qiyou's lips. She said helplessly: "Your Majesty, you don't have to smile uglier than crying. I know that Your Majesty never likes to lie to people, let alone children. This time, even if you are the victim, Will the prince feel better if I threaten you?"
"Master Fang doesn't have to be like this." Li Qiyou suppressed a smile and shook his head: "I am different from before. I will not do such self-deception even if I don't want to."
"Really?" Fang Zilan looked sideways at him, "Actually, there was nothing wrong with the prince before. After all, not everyone can have that kind of sincerity, it's rare."
"I will take it as Mr. Fang is complimenting me." Li Qiyou relaxed, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Master Fang, I..."
Fang Zilan frowned slightly, seeing that he hesitated to speak, it took him a while to react, and said calmly: "Speaking of which, I have never congratulated the prince on his wedding in person..."
She suddenly stopped mid-sentence, her eyes swept across the white silk flowers in the room, and she coughed lightly and said: "It's too unlucky to say this now. I'd better find a suitable time to go to the prince's house to congratulate him in person."
Li Qiyou breathed a long sigh of relief, "So Master Fang didn't show up that day, wasn't it to avoid suspicion?"
"No." Fang Zilan said simply: "My lord, you have known me for a long time. Don't you know what kind of person I am?"
Li Qiyou looked at her steadily and said word by word: "In Mr. Fang's heart, why do you treat me?"
"Your Majesty, in the critical situation in the north, I fought to save your life because of my true heart." Fang Zilan looked serious, "I will do the same even if it happens again."
"Is it because I am King Yucheng?" Li Qiyou's voice was a little lower, "If I..."
"No." Fang Zilan quietly interrupted what he was saying, "I saved you not because you are King Yucheng, but because you are Li Qiyou. In the future, as long as you don't affect the world and don't harm others, you will be saved thousands of times. This time, I will save you without hesitation."
Li Qiyou was silent, but his heart felt as if a huge stone had fallen to the ground, feeling extremely relieved.
Fang Zilan didn't say anything more. She walked straight to Yang Zhiqing's spiritual tablet, knelt down on the ground, folded her hands on the ground, and kowtowed solemnly.
Li Qiyou was surprised: "Mr. Fang, how could you pay such a great courtesy to Mr. Yang?" In his impression, Fang Zilan had always performed the military salute of bending over and holding hands, at most he would kneel down on one knee, but now she To give such a great gift to a subordinate's spiritual body is really...
"He's worth it." Fang Zilan knelt straight, her expression solemn and sad. She couldn't say the next words, it was a debt she could only hide in her heart forever.
However, what Li Qiyou didn't know was that this was not the first time that Fang Zilan performed such a grand ceremony. She had already performed it before when Qiluo City paid homage to General Shen.
"Send you to Mr. Yang Zhiqing, have a good journey." Fang Zilan high-fived with her arms straight, and her body cheered up.
