That night, Wanyan Yong didn't return for a long time, and everyone in the government became anxious and gathered in Biluo Garden under a row of dim candles.
The candlelight flickered, reflecting the red curtains, and the purple smoke rising from the incense burner slowly rose into the sky. The hot tea that had been set down had long lost any trace of heat, and the small fan in the hands of the female family members never wavered again.
Everyone sat around, looking at each other, and the room was so quiet that you could even hear Yungong drinking tea.
Yungong rubbed himself in front of Li Hongyuan's knees, looked outside the empty door, and then asked: "Grandma, when will daddy come back?"
She picked him up, put him beside her, and replied, "I'll be right back, soon!"
He looked up at Xiang Ling's tears again, and asked, "Why is Madam Ling crying?"
Everyone was silent, Qingya slowly raised her head and looked up. Mingxuan, who was sitting on the other side of the sofa, had been in a posture for half an hour. The silk in her hand was already wet. Looking at Qinli again, her face was calm and hao There was no trouble, even the makeup on her face was painted on, and she didn't care. ..
Seeing several girls and young men in the mansion, they sat down quietly, and heard Xiang Ling's cry from among them.
When Qingya heard the sad cry, she became very angry. She lectured her in a gentle and powerful voice: "Why are you crying? The king will come back sooner or later. What do you look like crying now!"
The lady stopped and said, "You child, what are you trying to do to provoke her? She has a soft temper!"
Qingya was silent, looking away with her red eyes, and took the crying Yujun in Xiangling's arms, and said deliberately: "If you cry again, Yujun will be scared by you!"
She picked up the baby very easily and coaxed her not to cry, but she couldn't be happy.
A waiter approached quietly and said with lowered brows: "Masters, I have gone to inquire. King Yuan, King Feng and several other kings have not returned home. However, the younger princes and brothers have returned. !」
Such news made everyone's hearts hang up again. Ye Xiao seemed a little scared, sobbed secretly, thinking about her father.
"Ma'am, I'm afraid, will something happen to daddy?" Yuxiao trotted into her mother's arms and burst into tears. Wang's younger brother Yuling also wiped his tears and walked to Mingxuan to sob. .
They were both hugged into each other's arms: "No, no, daddy will definitely come back and nothing will happen!"
A long time passed, and it was almost the third night. Everyone was a little tired, and everyone was sitting on their chairs in despair. The child in Qingya's arms was already fast asleep, so she called the wet nurse to take him down.
Suddenly, Zhang Jiyan exclaimed outside: "Your Majesty, the king is back!"
Everyone swarmed to the wide door, watching the majestic figure swaying on the red corridor, and the haggard cheeks gradually became clearer.
"It's the king, it's the king!" At that moment, Mingxuan went up to him with tears streaming down her face, gently hugged his arms, and stroked his cheeks. In an instant, her legs were unsteady, and she cried and shouted: " Husband, husband!"
"Xuan'er, the lonely king is back! Don't cry, don't cry!" He held her for a long time.
"Let's go in!" He simply picked her up and carried her into the house in front of many concubines and children.
In this scene, Xiang Ling was jealous, Qin Li felt distressed, and Qing Ya could only remain silent.
"That's what happened..., the lonely king came back too late."
He sat on the sofa in the circle and told everyone in detail about the tragedy of today's emperor's massacre of the clan. After saying this, everyone was sighing and feeling sad.
Xiang Ling wiped away her red tears, sat on the embroidered pillar, held his hand tightly and asked, "Your Majesty, are you okay?"
He gently wiped away her tears: "Isn't the lonely king back? If something happens, can he come back again?"
"Your Majesty, I am really scared. Your Majesty, please promise me that everything will go well in the future. I am willing to shorten my life, but I also want you to be safe!"
"Ahem, what are you talking about? You are not allowed to say it again in the future. You all must stay by King Gu's side. Everything King Gu does is for our family."
"Your Majesty!" She quietly wiped away her tears again, her pear blossoms and rain making people pity her.
His Adam's apple moved up and down slightly and he clenched it tightly.
Her hand probed the young and old in the room, her red eyes were already covered with bloodshot eyes, and her majestic figure quietly bent down.
At this moment, he was a dutiful son, a husband, and a loving father. Looking at the old and young in the hall, he took out a wet handkerchief from his lap, held it in his hand, and drank a cup of tea.
"I saw my clan brothers being killed, with rivers of blood flowing..."
"At that moment, I couldn't hear any sound. There were corpses under the city wall."
"I'm really afraid that one day I will become a corpse under his sword, so it's better to go to Liaoyang, better! It doesn't have to look like this."
The madam nodded and recited the sutra: "Amitabha! Buddha, please bless my son to be safe!"
"Lu'er, let's go back to Liaoyang! It's easier to do things in Liaoyang. The Bohai gentry over there were all promoted by your grandfather. If anything happens, they will take care of each other! "
"Sister said, go to Liaoyang and feel more at ease!"
After he finished speaking, he sighed softly, and suddenly felt that the bitterness in his throat could not go away for a long time. After a moment of silence, he asked everyone to get down, and arranged for the waiters to set up their cars tomorrow and pack the things that should be moved. Depart for Liaoyang the day after tomorrow.
Just as everyone was leaving, he raised his head and looked at the silent Qing Ya under the curtain, and called her over. He looked at her red eyes and the tear stains streaked across her makeup, and felt a little distressed.
"Qingya, please stay with the lonely king!"
He hugged her gently, and the two stood together under the dim light for a long time. He stayed up all night, and she stayed with him all night, watching him write down the names of the people who were killed today in front of the desk. On the thick booklet, you can vaguely see the note on the front: "In December of the ninth year of Huangtong - King Xun Wanyan Yuan... passed away."
As he wrote, tears filled his eyes, dripping down on the ink.
It turned out that he had written down all these souls who died in vain. He has never forgotten the mutilated state of their bodies when they were killed. Their ferocious faces and dazzling blood redness burned a deep scar on his heart like an iron brand.
"Qingya!" He suddenly grasped her hand with his left hand.
"Qingya! Tomorrow, I want to go see my uncle. Can you accompany me?"
She didn't reply, just nodded quietly, and wiped the remaining tears from his eyes with her hand.
In this quiet summer night, there are only chirping insects and birds, and the two people embracing each other under the dim candlelight outside the bright window.
I came to Li's house on the second day and had not seen Li Shi for a long time. He had been in a lot of trouble recently, and he looked quite haggard. When he saw Qingya and Wanyanyong, he invited them into the main hall without saying a word.
He ordered some tea and refreshments, and then called the senior female official to bring Jingke out. This Jingke was already two years old. He walked in a neat manner, never swaying from side to side, just like Xianke.
Xiao Jingke stepped forward and called sweetly: "Second sister!"
Qing Ya suddenly saw how big he had grown, and felt sad for a moment, so she stretched out her hands to pick him up and put him on her knees, looking at him with red eyes: "Why has Jing'er grown so big! "
Li Shi, without a trace of sternness, pursed his lips and replied: "Of course you are older. Second girl, you have grown up too! You are fifteen, and you are in your hairpin years."
She had only a hint of a smile and said with her hair held back: "I have been married for more than two years, so dad should stop making fun of me. It has nothing to do with me that I am still young!"
Li Shi nodded, looked into her increasingly calm eyes, and asked, "Second girl, are you feeling better recently?"
"so far so good!"
"Yeah, okay, it's okay. I'll make plans soon to give the king a baby as soon as possible. Your aunt's hair will turn gray in a hurry!"
She was used to hearing these words, so she didn't reply. She fed Na Jingke the refreshments on the table and heard a little about the Li family's affairs.
Li Shi sighed as he drank the tea, thought about it, stood up and knelt down in front of the two of them and said: "Your Majesty, I was really sorry for you and your wife. I am deeply sorry and hope that your Majesty will forgive me. "
Seeing his old figure, Wanyanyong knelt down and stood up again. Thinking of his old love, he personally stepped forward to help him up and said, "Uncle, the lonely king and his wife have already let go of their worries.
But please uncle, please don’t do such stupid things in the future! It is a great harm to Qingya and my aunt. They are all your family members! "
"Weichen knows, Weichen knows! It's my fault, I shouldn't have treated Qingya and my wife like this."
He did look sad, with a blush on his haggard cheeks, and his beard, which had not been trimmed for a long time, looked messy.
"Your Majesty, thank you for your tolerance and generosity!"
"Your Majesty, last night, I already told you that your majesty massacred the entire clan and sent you to Liaoyang!"
Wan Yanyong nodded and calmed down.
Li Shi was also calm and composed, and slowly lowered his head and said: "It's okay, it's okay, I'll go back to Liaoyang, so that I won't be frightened every day!" He looked at the bright sunshine outside the window and sighed a little: "Now, the king is here Say goodbye to me, and I will say goodbye to you too!"
"Your Majesty was afraid of the clan, so he demoted my position and sent me to Zhongjing to guard the Duanmen of the new imperial city. I am about to leave the capital!"
"I didn't plan to bring the children with me, but I was so far away in Zhongjing that I really couldn't bear to worry about it, so I just brought them with me! The palms and backs of my hands are full of flesh, so I couldn't bear to part with them after all!"
After hearing this, Qingya felt distressed again. After a long wait, she hugged Jingke and walked out of the house. She happened to see Jiagu Tantan who was four months pregnant outside, and the two started chatting on the corridor.
"Sister-in-law, how many months have you been pregnant with this belly?" she said with a smile, stroking her round belly.
"It's four months old!"
She found out that her belly was larger than the normal four months, and she was surprised and said, "If it's four months, the belly looks bigger. They can't be twins!"
"It's so easy. It's just that I ate too much!"
The two of them suddenly laughed, and Qingya thought for a while and then said: "Let me think about it, it seems that when I grow up, I have only seen one pair of twins, the two twin sisters from my aunt's family! But... It’s not easy to have a daughter, she gave birth to two daughters and died long ago!”
