Chapter 229: Parting is just for a better reunion
"Lan! How long are you going to linger? Do you still want to stay here for the rest of your life?" The imperial concubine's hurried scolding came from the distance.
"Master! I'm leaving!" Lan hurriedly stood up from Bi Yuntao's arms, lowered her rosy face and smoothed the wrinkled clothes, twisting the corners of her clothes, feeling full of reluctance.
"Hey!" Bi Yuntao was also reluctant to give up and sighed helplessly. He gently took Lan into his arms and cuddled with her, enjoying their brief tenderness.
Lan stood on tiptoes, rested her chin on his broad shoulders, and hugged his waist tightly with her arms, "Master! I really have to leave! I'll see you next time!" Lan smiled slightly. , but his smile was a little sour, his eyes were full of sadness of the impending departure, and the hands tightly clenching his clothes also betrayed Lan's complicated heart.
"Yes! Next time you come back, you should stay with the young master for a longer time." Bi Yuntao smelled the fragrance on her soft black hair and whispered in her ear, "You must eat well when you go back, I can I don’t want my baby Lan Lan to lose weight again.”
"Yes! Okay!" Lan reluctantly rubbed her head against Bi Yuntao's cheek. She didn't want to leave, she really wanted time to stop at this moment, so that she could be with him forever.
What was supposed to come would still come, the imperial concubine was still waiting for her, and she could no longer enjoy his love for her. She is leaving.
Lan reluctantly left Bi Yuntao's arms, bit her soft lips, looked at him affectionately, and imprinted his figure deeply in her mind, her eyes full of obsession and tenderness. Beiqi opened his mouth slightly, "Master, this short separation is just for a better reunion next time. Lan is gone!"
Bi Yuntao didn't understand the meaning. He gently brushed away the naughty and scattered hair on her forehead. With reluctance in his heart, he gently pecked her moist thin lips and licked up the sweet moisture on her lips. .
Then he took out a few ingots of silver from the storage ring and stuffed them into her hand, "Take these pieces of silver, they should be enough for the palace's expenses. If you run out of money, you can go to Zuo Xiang's Mansion and ask Meng Ruolang to borrow some. , I will return it to the young master after I am released from prison."
"Yes!" Lan pursed her lips tightly to resist the cry in her throat. She also held the silver tightly in her hands. The joints of her fingers were slightly pale due to the exertion. Her eye circles were faintly glowing with red light. A little bit crystal clear.
"Oh, what's wrong with you?" Seeing Lan's reluctant look, Bi Yuntao chuckled helplessly, held her pretty face in his hands, and brushed away the crystal tears dripping from her eyes with his fingertips. Her tears were hot and moist, incompatible with her slightly cool skin.
"The brief separation just now was just for a better reunion next time. Why are you so sad now? It's not like we will never see each other again!" Bi Yuntao smiled slightly, "Don't worry, young master, I will be able to get out of here soon. Wait for me When you go back to the palace, let someone find a good life and marry you!"
"Yes!" Lan nodded with a forced smile, "Na Lan is waiting for you to come back, young master, at the palace, and waiting for you to come back and marry me!"
"Okay! Let's go! Don't let your mother-in-law wait outside in a hurry!" Bi Yuntao pretended to be calm and calm, and pushed her away from him while enduring the sourness in his heart.
He knew that he couldn't get tired of her anymore at this time. He was afraid that his head would get hot and he wouldn't be able to control himself. He would hold her in his arms and kiss her fiercely, invading her sweet mouth, and here he would put the lovely woman in front of him. People possess it!
"Master! Take this handkerchief! If you miss Lan, take a look at this handkerchief. Don't forget Lan!" Lan smiled bitterly and put a handkerchief into his hand.
The handkerchief is exactly what Lan usually wears. It is embroidered with several clusters of orchids, and the orchids fit together to form the word "LAN". The three horizontal lines at the bottom of the word "lan" are colorful. If you put them together, you can find that they are a rainbow. Through the bright light, a rainbow character can be faintly seen in the red part of the rainbow.
"Master! Lan is gone!" Lan put the handkerchief into his hand, regardless of whether he was willing to accept it or not. She resisted the urge to throw herself into his arms, endured the reluctance in her heart, and ran with farewell. Turn around and leave.
Bi Yuntao stared blankly at her leaving figure. For some reason, he felt uncontrollable sadness in his heart, as if their separation this time would be forever!
After a long time, Bi Yuntao looked away, lying on the bed in despair, covering his face with the handkerchief in his hand. The elegant orchid fragrance on it was like the body fragrance of orchid, lingering between the nostrils, as if orchid was not there. He left, but nestled in his arms, comforting his broken heart.
Lan reluctantly ran away from here. She wanted to take one more look at him and keep him firmly in her heart, but her feet refused to obey and kept walking forward.
When she could no longer see Bi Yuntao, the sadness and sorrow in her heart could no longer be suppressed. She leaned on the wall, squatted down, covered her face and cried bitterly. The sound of crying makes people heartbroken, makes those who hear it sad, and those who listen to it cry.
"Farewell?" Huang Guifei knew that Lan would be like this and had been waiting for her here.
"Yes!" Lan choked and nodded, raised her pretty face with tearful eyes, looked at the imperial concubine and said sadly, "The Western Region has been invaded by heavy troops, and your majesty is already exhausted and suffering unspeakably! Your majesty only granted Lan half a month's time limit. , and as of New Year’s Eve, Lan had not yet succeeded, so Lan had no choice but to go back and resume her life.”
"Hey!" The imperial concubine sighed, "Since you failed to succeed last time, I have learned the truth from the emperor's mouth. They have already transferred the drawings, and the drawings you got last time were just fake. Yes, the Emperor and even this Palace have not revealed any news about this matter. If I hadn’t taken advantage of Taoer’s imprisonment and made the Emperor drunk and tricked him out, I’m afraid I would have been kept in the dark.”
"What?" Lan looked at her in surprise, with a look of panic on her face, "How is this possible? How could the drawings be fake? Then don't Qiuzhu and I be exposed?"
"Don't worry about this. The two of you made the emperor mistakenly believe that you are the second prince. Now the emperor is always wary of the second prince."
"Okay, Ru Yue is still waiting for us outside! Let's go back quickly. In the remaining half a month, you should plan carefully. As for the things His Majesty has asked you to do, I will take advantage of this time. We’ll investigate carefully. But don’t have too much hope. The Emperor has hidden this matter from even me, so I’m afraid there’s little hope!”
"Hey!" Listening to what the imperial concubine said, Lan had endless sadness in her eyes. She stood up holding on to the wall. She turned around and glanced blankly at the cell in the distance. She wanted to take another look at Bi Yuntao, but there were only dim lights in front of her. , he was nowhere to be seen.
After she originally wanted to succeed, she took advantage of this incident to put forward conditions to His Majesty, asking His Majesty to allow her to disarm and return to the countryside, and then stay by Bi Yuntao's side wholeheartedly, be his maid, and hand her body and heart to him.
She has even thought about it. If His Majesty does not agree, she will force him to die. His Majesty has always loved her very much. If he sees her forcing him to die, he will definitely agree to her.
But the chance is slim now. If she doesn't succeed, I'm afraid I'll never see him again in this life, let alone be his woman.
Lan's hands couldn't help but clenched into fists. Did she have to go to that last step?
"What are you doing standing around there? Why don't you hurry up and leave!" The imperial concubine walked a few steps and saw that Lan did not follow her. She quickly turned around, only to see Lan staring blankly at the inside of the prison, lost in thought. The way.
"Yes!" Lan's thoughts were interrupted by the imperial concubine. She looked away angrily, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, lowered her head and followed the imperial concubine's footsteps.
"Ru Yue! You've been waiting for a long time!" The imperial concubine came out of the prison and saw a slightly bleak figure not far away. She hurriedly walked over and warmly held her cold palm, "Oh, why are your hands like this?" Cold? It’s true that you don’t even know to bring a hand stove when you go out.”
"It hasn't been long." Xue Ruyue forced out an ugly smile, "How is King Qi now? How are you doing?"
"Um..." Xue Ruyue's question made the imperial concubine's smile suddenly freeze on her face, and she didn't know how to answer her question.
Bi Yuntao is having a hard time, isn't he? He has a romantic nature and was thrown into prison by the emperor, but he never forgets his romantic pleasures. Taking advantage of the convenience of money, he asked the jailer to privately call women from the Jiaofang Division for him to play and sing every night.
How are you, Bi Yuntao? He was imprisoned by the emperor again, and memorials to impeach him abounded. No one knew why the emperor was in a bad mood, so in order to stabilize the court, he was killed with a knife.
Xue Ruyue naturally saw the troubled look on Huang Guifei's face, and her heart tightened, and she asked anxiously, "How is he? No, I have to see him." Before she could finish her words, she threw away Huang Guifei's grasp on her. With his hand, he rushed towards the prison.
"Hey! Ruyue!" The imperial concubine quickly stopped her.
"Miss Xue! The young master is fine!" Lan Yan, who was on the side, had quick eyes and was one step ahead of the imperial concubine, and stopped Xue Ruyue, "The young master is doing well, but the smell in the prison is really not good, and the young master I haven’t bathed for several days and my whole body stinks, so I hesitate a little.”
"Yes, Lan's statement is absolutely correct!" The imperial concubine nodded quickly, took Ru Yue's cold hand, and said earnestly, "He has a pungent stench all over his body now, so you'd better not go see him. That's good. If he hadn't been my son, I wouldn't have wanted to see him! After seeing him, I regretted it. Even if I covered my mouth and nose, I couldn't stand the stench on his body. The stench was like crazy, going straight into my nose, and I almost vomited on the spot."
"Okay! Don't worry about that bastard. He's doing very well now. It's already late, so you didn't eat much for breakfast. I know a restaurant that makes particularly delicious wontons. I will take you to eat wontons."
The imperial concubine's words completely gave up Xue Ruyue's idea of going to see Bi Yuntao. She endured the nausea in her heart and shook her head and said, "My dear, you don't have to bother. Ruyue is a little tired and wants to go back home to rest."
"Why are you so pretentious?" The imperial concubine frowned displeased, "It's rare for me to leave the palace, and I don't want to just go back to the palace hastily. The palace is really boring. Those faces in Chengdu, looking at I find them annoying."
The imperial concubine changed the topic and softened her tone again, like a girl, coquettishly talking to Xue Ruyue, "Just go and eat with me! Just think of it as a way to relax with me, okay?"
"This..." The imperial concubine's request was difficult to refuse, leaving Xue Ruyue a little at a loss.
"Okay! What about this and that! No matter what, I will not let you go easily now. Now you are my own. If you don't feel comfortable serving me, I will keep pestering you!" "The imperial concubine didn't give Xue Ruyue a chance to refute at all. She winked at Lan and pulled her away.
Looking at the rogue imperial concubine, Xue Ruyue couldn't laugh or cry. Now she finally knew from whom Bi Yuntao learned his rogue spirit.
