After King Jiangling came in, Sima Yuan and Sima Xuan immediately came forward to salute him.

It's just that when King Jiangling left the capital, Sima Yuan was still in his mother's womb and had not been born, and he didn't have time to see each other. As for Sima Xuan, needless to say, he had just heard that there was such a nephew.

But thinking that according to Yingshi's return, Sima Yuan and Sima Xuan contributed a large part of their strength in the Fufeng County incident, so King Jiangling's gaze at their brothers was very cold, and he only saw Sima Yuan and Sima Xuan's hairy hearts.

After that, King Gangneung didn't say a word to the two brothers, but just raised his feet to bypass them and went straight to the back.

Empress Dowager Li was already standing in front of the bed at this time, holding back her tears and saying to Emperor Qinglong: "Ah Ye sees you coming." ”

King Jiangling stood still half a step behind her, looking at Emperor Qinglong lying on the bed wordlessly.

In fact, Emperor Qinglong was only three years older than him, just in his early forties. It's just that now, he looks very strong, without a trace of old age, and even his hair is jet black, but Emperor Qinglong, who is lying on the bed, has loose skin, a sallow complexion, and gray hair.

I remember when I was young, once the two of them agreed to go to the suburbs to race horses. The wind and the sun are beautiful, the clothes are light and brocade, and the spirit is high, but now Emperor Qinglong is lying here like this.

King Jiangling felt that someone had forcibly stuffed a ball of cotton in his chest that had absorbed water, it was swollen and painful, but he looked down at Emperor Qinglong silently and did not speak.

And Emperor Qinglong has been looking at him silently, looking at this younger brother who followed him like a fart every day, listened to him very much, and later left Jiangling because of his suspicions, and he hadn't seen him for 20 years.

He also knew that his end was approaching, but he was just lying here waiting to die. However, when he was able to see King Gangneung before he died, he suddenly felt that he had no regrets.

"Ah, Ah Ye," he tried hard to sit up, but he really didn't have the strength to support him to sit up, he couldn't even lift his hands, and it was difficult to speak. So even if he just wants to simply call his younger brother, it's like needing to gather the strength of his whole body.

He lay weakly, his throat was choked with thick phlegm, and between he exhaled and inhaled, his chest sounded like a broken bellows.

Unable to speak, he could only desperately gesture to the others with his eyes. It's just that including Empress Dowager Li and Sima Yuan, they still don't understand what he wants to do, and they have been guessing for a long time, but they still haven't guessed the essentials.

And Emperor Qinglong was also anxious when he saw it, a pair of pale lips were tightly pursed, and his eyes were only glanced to the side as if he was ruthless, and even the five thin fingers like chicken feet grabbed the quilt fiercely, and the knuckles of the fingers were blue and white.

In the end, the inner supervisor who had served him for more than ten years touched his mind, stepped forward and bowed down and asked, "What does Your Majesty mean, but what is under the pillow?" ”

I saw Emperor Qinglong nodding extremely slightly.

The inner eunuch asked again: "Your Majesty wants the old slave to take out this thing?" ”

Emperor Qinglong nodded very slightly.

So the inner prisoner stepped forward, stretched out his hand and groped very carefully under the soft pillow on which he was now lying.

After a while, he took out a small box from the inner warden.

It's just an ordinary rosewood box, and there is no carved luodian on the box, only the original texture of the wood. And because it may have been stroked for a long time and number of times, the surface of the box looks very smooth.

Emperor Qinglong saw that the inner eunuch took out the small box, but then his eyes turned to King Jiangling again.

The inner eunuch pondered his thoughts and asked, "Your Majesty wants to hand over this box to King Jiangling?" ”

Emperor Qinglong blinked. He didn't even have the strength to nod his head at this time.

So the inner eunuch turned around, held the small wooden box in both hands, held it high above the top, and handed it to King Gangneung.

King Gangneung did not reach out for a moment to take it.

In fact, he has already recognized the food box that the inner supervisor touched out of this small wooden box from under Emperor Qinglong's pillow just now.

Before he left Beijing in anger, he put the mutton fat pixiu jade pendant that Emperor Qinglong gave him in the box, dug a pit, and buried it next to the corpse of the little bird. And the small wooden box that the inner supervisor is holding now is the box he used to hold the jade pendant and buried it under the tree.

The eyes of everyone in the room were focused on King Gangneung's hand, and he didn't have time to pay attention to it, just raised his eyes to look at Emperor Qinglong who was lying on the bed.

He was also looking at him, his eyes full of pleading.

In the end, King Jiangling still reached out and took the small wooden box held high in the hand of the inner supervisor, and then slowly opened it.

His hands trembled involuntarily, and he naturally held his breath because of the nervousness.

There was a jade pendant lying quietly in the box.

White, Pixiu-like jade pendant. The veins on Yu Pei's body are still red, but after many years, this red is far less vivid than it was at the beginning.

King Jiangling suddenly felt that his throat was like a ball of cotton that had been soaked up with water, and he was choked so that he couldn't speak.

After all, he stepped forward, knelt down on one knee in front of the bed, reached out and held the thin hands tightly, and choked up and called out to his eldest brother.

"Ah, Ah Ye," Emperor Qinglong also held his hand tightly backhanded, and the green tendons on his neck were strained out because of the force, but he still called him very hard, and said in a low voice, "Yes, I'm sorry." Forgive me. ”

If you don't say something, I'm afraid you'll never have the chance to say it again.

Emperor Qinglong died that night, but Empress Dowager Li and Sima Yuan decided not to mourn externally. At the same time, they strangled Queen Cui this night, as for Sima Yu, who was only eight years old, it was best not to keep it according to Sima Yuan's original intention. But in the end, under the repeated insistence of King Jiangling and Sima Xuan, remembering that he was young after all, and that he was Sima Shi, he was spared his life, but he was just under house arrest somewhere in the suburbs.

At this time, Wang Jun and Sima Yue didn't know that there was already such an earth-shattering mutation in the palace, and the two of them both felt quite distressed.

Since Fufeng County came back, under Wang Jun's repeated requests, even if the two of them were just chatting under a quilt, they would have slept together every night. And since returning from Luochuan County, Sima Yue's eyes have been blind, and the two can almost be said to be inseparable. But now King Gangneung and Princess Gangneung are back, although King Gangneung has not come back since he entered the palace, but Princess Gangneung is still here.

She is here, so Wang Jun naturally can't openly stay with Sima Yue. It's just that he has long been accustomed to holding Sima Yue every night and smelling her breath to fall asleep, and this suddenly wants to sleep alone, and he can't sleep after turning over and over.

In the end, he simply got out of bed.

Open the door, the night outside the house is as cold as water, and the sweet fragrance of osmanthus lingers on the tip of the nose.

Wang Jun jumped over the wall familiarly, only to see the bamboo leaves in Sima Yue's small courtyard swaying, and the mottled moon shadow sprinkled on the ground.

He listened intently, knowing that there was no one else in the courtyard right now.

So he walked over lightly, flexed his fingers, and knocked lightly on the door.

In fact, he couldn't tell if Sima Yue was asleep now, after all, it was so late, and the lights and candles in the room had already been extinguished.

But then he knew that Sima Yue was not asleep. Because he had just knocked on the door, Sima Yue's low voice in the room immediately came: "Who?" ”

Wang Jun was overjoyed in his heart, and he hurriedly whispered: "It's me." ”

As soon as the words fell, he gently pushed the door open, and then quickly dodged in, and closed the door softly with his backhand.

The moonlight shredded like silver, piercing through the window lattice, illuminating the room in a hazy place. As soon as Wang Jun entered the room, he saw Sima Yue sitting on the bed with his arms in his arms, facing his direction, calling her softly and softly: "Wang Jun." ”

Wang Jun agreed softly, walked over and hugged her into his arms with the quilt.

The warm fragrant nephrite in his arms, the tip of his nose is the most familiar breath in his daily life, Wang Jun only felt satisfied for a while, and the gloom and depression of not seeing her were immediately swept away.

"Why haven't you slept yet?" He raised his hand and gently touched Sima Yue's head. Cool long hair is as smooth as fine silk.

"I can't sleep without you being by my side." Sima Yue wrapped his arms around his waist and answered truthfully in his arms.

This sentence only made Wang Jun extremely useful, and the corners of his lips couldn't help but bend an extremely joyful arc.

"Good," he soothed, "I can't sleep without you by my side." ”

Sima Yue lay in his arms and laughed sullenly.

She naturally knew that he was also used to sleeping with her in his arms, otherwise he wouldn't have climbed over the wall in the middle of the night and sneaked over to her.

It's just that......

"You climbed over the wall like this, if my father and my mother knew about it, maybe they would have to say how you ruined my reputation, what, aren't you afraid?" Sima Yue teased him.

"Don't be afraid," Wang Jun smiled and bowed his head and kissed her, before he said, "Tomorrow I will go and discuss with your father and mother about when we will get married." ”

It's best to marry her home as soon as possible, otherwise the two of them will sleep separately all the time, he will definitely go crazy, and he can't sneak over the wall every time.

Wang Jun didn't leave that night. It's just that although he is in the arms of a beautiful woman, even though he is asleep, he is also very awake when he sleeps. However, Sima Yue slept very calmly in his arms.

When the sky was about to dawn, Wang Jun suddenly opened his eyes.

He listened intently, and heard the sound of someone calling for the door in the front yard, then the sound of the guard opening the door, and then the sound of boots all the way.

Wang Jun knew that this was the return of King Gangneung from the palace.

So he immediately got up and sat up, rolled over and got out of bed.

Sima Yue slept very calmly, but she didn't wake her up. Wang Jun tucked the quilt corner for her, hoping to make her peaceful and sweet sleeping face, and couldn't help but kiss her lightly on the forehead, and then moved very quickly, but he also opened the door very lightly and dodged out, and then closed the door with his backhand, and went back to his yard over the wall.