Chapter 196: The Past
Li Huairong put down the teacup and said worriedly: "I have to rush back to Jiangnan before the end of next year, so I still hope that Gongzi can pay more attention, and Mr. Guanghan also hopes that Gongzi can say a few good words, and this kindness will be repaid in the future." β
Jing Yan smiled, but didn't say anything, the hand holding the teacup paused slightly, then stood up and walked outside the house.
Li Huairong was surprised, and he also got up and went out, and saw Jing Yan standing under the corridor with his hands in his hands, looking in the direction of the inner courtyard.
Li Huairong was puzzled: "Childe? β
"Don't worry, Mrs. Zun's matter can be resolved in these two days." Jing Yan retracted his gaze, looked at Li Huairong, and suddenly sighed softly, "However, Mrs. Zun has suffered from this, and Brother Li will inevitably have to be distracted to take care of him in the future. β
Li Huairong was slightly stunned, Jing Yan continued: "It's just that the general affairs over there in the south of the Yangtze River are very important to the Tianshu Palace, and Mr. Guanghan also attaches great importance to it. β
Li Huairong then understood what Jing Yan meant, in fact, since three years ago, the Li family began to use juniors, and then the connection between Li Huairen and him was no longer as close as before, he knew that something should have happened on the Chang'an side. Now it seems that if it is true, the head of the Li Palace of the Tianshu Hall is afraid that he is about to fall out of favor, and the prince of Jing Yan wants to take back the main control of the Tianshu Hall of Jiangnan from the head of the Li Palace on behalf of Mr. Guanghan.
In the long run, this is not a good thing for the Li family, but for him. But it's a new opportunity. He had no reason to refuse. The pros and cons are all too clear. So Li Huairong did not hesitate at all, and said: "The son has compassion and great talent, and I beg the son to help people to the end." β
Jing Yan glanced at Li Huairong, a smile on the corner of his mouth, his eyes were gentle, and his deep eyes seemed to have a bit of compassion.
Li Huairong bent down slightly, and said in a gesture of surrender: "I am in charge of the general affairs in Jiangnan. It is mostly related to the Tianshu Palace, and I am very afraid of going on a business trip, hoping to ask Gongzi for more advice in the future, but I hope that Gongzi can be distracted in the future. β
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After Ye Qingqing finished offering incense in Pu'an Temple, when he thought of facing a strange husband when he went back, he felt that his chest was clogged, so he left the maid and went out for a walk alone. She didn't know what was wrong with her, and she always felt that life was a mess. It's obviously nothing, but the depression and anger in my heart can't get rid of it. Where do these feelings come from?
What the hell is she angry about? Why are you depressed?
She...... Why did you marry Li Huairong?
Ye Qingqing walked to a clump of azaleas and stopped, she didn't completely forget about Li Huairong, she just forgot that the person she married was Li Huairong, and forgot about her many years of married life. But she remembered Li Huairong before she got married, and she also remembered Li Huairen before leaving, and she still remembered why Li Huairen left Jiangnan. It was because of her, for her, and for her sins, that she had to leave Jiangnan, and the situation at that time was almost equivalent to being expelled by the Li family!
But...... Ye Qingqing raised his face a little dazedly, but what?
She couldn't remember how she had spent all these years, she only remembered the situation when Li Huairen left.
An Lan slowly walked behind Ye Qingqing, Ye Qingqing heard the footsteps, turned around vigilantly, and was about to call someone, but after seeing the person behind him, he was stunned for a moment.
After a long while, she muttered, "Ziyao!?" β
Ziyao is Li Huairen's cousin, and An Lan at this time is not the current Li Dian's chief in Ye Qingqing's eyes, but Li Huairen more than 20 years ago.
An Lan looked at Ye Qingqing silently, and Ye Qingqing said in disbelief: "You're back!" Ziyao, you, you came to see me specifically? β
An Lan still didn't speak, watching Ye Qingqing walk towards her step by step with a confused expression, the surrounding rhododendrons were defeated at a speed that they could see, midsummer suddenly turned into a cold winter, the cold fog was filled, the soft grass under her feet turned into a heavy bluestone slab, the nine-curved corridor revealed its original appearance, the dense fog condensed into water, surrounded by pools, and schools of brocade fish.
An Lan spoke, her voice low, with a bewitching taste: "This is Chang'an." β
Ye Qingqing was stunned, turned his head sharply and looked left and right, the look on his face was sometimes dazed, sometimes surprised, and after a while, he covered his mouth and said: "Yes, this is Chang'an, it's Jinyuyuan, I, I'm here to find you!" β
An Lan asked, "Why are you looking for me?" β
"I, I don't know, but-" Ye Qingqing looked at "Li Huairen" in a daze, "Why didn't you write anything in that letter you gave me?" β
An Lan looked into her eyes and asked, "What do you want me to write?" What do you want to see? β
"Why don't you call me by my name?" Ye Qingqing looked at her in a daze, with tears in her eyes, "Do you still blame me?" β
An Lan's heart moved, the time was too short, Lan Indigo couldn't find out too many things, especially the events of so many years ago, if she could know it directly from Ye Qingqing's mouth now, she might be able to find out what happened before Ye Qingqing's amnesia, so that she could prescribe the right medicine.
Ye Qingqing choked up and said, "You should blame me, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't have been forced to leave Jiangnan." β
The surrounding fog suddenly rose, and the surrounding scenery appeared and disappeared from time to time, An Lan asked seductively: "Because of me, what?" β
Ye Qingqing was unconsciously dragged by it, the expression on his face became more and more dazed, and he muttered about the things back then, the story was not complicated, and it even sounded a little sloppy. On the night of the Lantern Festival twenty-four years ago, Ye Qingqing changed the maid's clothes and sneaked out to find Li Huairen with an admiring heart, but he didn't want to run into human traffickers. At that time, she was naΓ―ve and simple, and in a few words, she stupidly followed a stranger, and was almost defiled by someone, and in the struggle, she accidentally killed the man. Looking at the blood on the ground, she was stupefied, just at that time Li Huairen and Li Huairong came over, and the two of them were also stunned when they saw the situation. Not to mention the crime of murder, just because she was deceived there and spread out, this reputation will definitely not be kept.
Fortunately, Li Huairen quickly came back to his senses and asked Li Huairong to take her away, and then Li Huairen took the initiative to admit that he killed that person. Fortunately, the person who died was already carrying several murders, and the Li family moved around again, and finally the matter was hastily closed in the official mansion, but Li Huairen killed someone in the end, and his biological mother's background was not good, he was already embarrassed in the Li family, and with this incident, he couldn't stay anymore, so he simply left Jiangnan.
It's just that his departure made Ye Qingqing unable to let go anymore.
An Lan sorted out the past from Ye Qingqing's intermittent narration, and was a little surprised, she couldn't imagine that the head of the Li Palace would be such an affectionate person.
It seems that because of this muttering that has aroused more than 20 years of pent-up emotions, something has been broken all at once, Ye Qingqing's voice suddenly rose: "I have always felt sorry for you, I have always been grateful to you, and I have never been able to let you go, but I didn't expect it-" (To be continued......)