Chapter Seventy-Three: The Last Resort

After the glimpse disappeared, Murong Zhi took a cloak and went out.

"Whew-" It was night, a cool breeze blew, Murong Zhi gathered his cloak and walked aimlessly.

Unconsciously, he walked to Shouping Garden, Murong Zhi paused, looked at the three big words "Shouping Garden", and thought thoughtfully.

Keep the peace, keep the peace, and protect the peace of the world. Murong Jin has been fighting on the battlefield for most of his life, but in fact, what he desires most in his heart is the peace of the world, but as the general of a country, everyone in the world says that this is the peace of the world, but the peace of the world is just the peace of the world.

Murong Zhi gently raised her feet and walked into Shouping Garden, although she had been to this garden before, she had never seen it well.

The garden is full of orchids, especially under the pine and cypress on the left side of the garden, where the orchids bloom very luxuriantly. Murong Zhi approached, she remembered that Aunt Lan said that her mother's favorite is orchids, and Aunt Lan's name, Lily of the Valley, was also taken by her mother back then, hoping to bring luck to Aunt Lan, because the flower language of Lily of the Valley is that she is lucky to return.

Looking at these white and noble petals swaying in the night breeze, Murong Zhi couldn't help but sigh: Mother is like this orchid, gentle and kind, but still ...... Alas!

"Zhi'er?" Murong Jin looked at the drunk Murong Zhi tonight, and couldn't help but think of his beloved wife. I couldn't sleep when I thought about it, and I wanted to sit under the pine tree, and I saw a familiar figure.

"Daddy?" When Murong Zhi heard this, she turned around, "Dad, why haven't you slept?" ”

"I thought of some things from the past, and I couldn't sleep, so I went out for a walk." Murong Jin smiled bitterly, then looked at Murong Zhi and blamed: "In the middle of the night, why don't you stay in the room well, what are you running out for?" Beware of catching a cold. ”

"I can't sleep either." Murong Zhi listened to the concerned tone, and the corners of her lips hooked slightly, "Dad, don't you blame me for trespassing on Shouping Garden?" ”

"You, knowing that your father won't blame you, still say such things." As he spoke, Murong Jin sat down on the stone bench under the pine tree.

"Isn't Dad missing his mother?" Seeing this, Murong Zhi also sat on the stone bench. As soon as Murong Jin sat down, his eyes were locked in these orchids, and the tenderness in his eyes was something Murong Zhi had never seen.

"It seems that Zhi'er has grown up, and even her father can guess his thoughts." Murong Jin smiled lightly.

"Dad, do you still love my mother now?" Murong Zhi cautiously probed.

"She is the only love of my life and the best woman in the world." It seems that when I first saw him that day, he was in a hurry to enter the palace to report something important, but she stopped him with a smile in the imperial garden and asked him not to step on the orchids on the ground. It's rude to lead troops to fight, who cares about these flowers and plants, but that day, he actually made a detour by the gods......

"So, Dad, can I ask you a question?" Murong Zhi didn't notice that Murong Jin was indulging in memories at all, and interrupted Murong Jin's thoughts very incomprehensibly.

"Huh?" Murong Jin came back to his senses, "What questions, you ask." ”

"That's it, that's it." Murong Zhi was entangled for a while, feeling that if she didn't ask, she would always be unhappy in her heart, so she gritted her teeth and said, "Dad, since you love my mother so much, why do you still take the second aunt as a concubine, and even Murong Xuan?" ”

When Murong Jin heard this, his stretched hand turned into a fist, and the green tendons on his forehead also loomed, as if he was suppressing his anger.

"Dad, isn't loving someone a couple for the rest of your life? Zhi'er envied your previous relationship with your mother, but Zhi'er couldn't understand the existence of the second aunt and Murong Xuan. There was no turning back when he opened the bow, and although he felt Murong Jin's anger, Murong Zhi still said what he had always wanted to say.

After a long time, Murong Jin sighed heavily, and after letting go of his fist, he seemed to be much older, and said slowly:

"People live in this world without their own hands. There are some things I can't do about it. Murong Jin picked up an orchid that had been blown off by the wind and put it in Murong Zhi's hand.

"Zhi'er, I promised Ruoxin that I would take good care of you, as long as you don't want to, even if you do your best for your father, I will protect you well, and if you want to, my father will do my best for you."

Murong Jin's helpless and vicissitudes of tone, coupled with such words, Murong Zhi felt that maybe there was some unavoidable hardship, but what was the reason?

"Dad~" Murong Zhi and her last stubbornness.

"Well, there are some things I'll tell you later." Murong Jin got up, "It's getting late, you go back and rest first, I'm tired for my father." ”

"Alright then, Dad, you're so rested, I'll go back first." Picking up the orchid in his hand, Murong Zhi left.

Looking at Murong Zhi's lost back, Murong Jin pressed his eyebrows, looked at the orchids on the ground, and returned to the palace banquet more than ten years ago-

Today is the day of the princess who left the emperor, and only the royal family members were invited. Because Gongyi Ruoxin gave birth to Murong Zhi not long ago, she was still in confinement, so this banquet was only attended by Murong Jin alone. At the staggered banquet, when he saw the little Princess Yunyao, he couldn't help but think of his wife and daughter in the family, so Murong Jin drank a few more glasses.

"Murong Aiqing, aren't you drunk?" The Emperor Li's eyes were a little wavering when he looked at Murong Jin, and he asked worriedly.

"Your Majesty, Weichen is indeed a little drunk, but the emperor is happy today, and Weichen is also happy, and he will be greedy for a cup if he is not careful." Murong Jin said with a smile.

"Haha, I'm happy about the little princess, aren't you happy with your daughter?" The Emperor teased.

"Hehe, they're all happy." Murong Jin touched his head awkwardly and smirked.

"Okay, don't make fun of the general." Seeing this, the Queen Mother smiled gently: "Come on, first help the general to the side hall to rest for a while." ”

"Yes."

After Murong entered the side hall, he retreated from the palace people, and looked at the round moon outside and the pot of orchids in the imperial garden, and couldn't help but think of the white moonlight in his heart......

Suddenly, a burst of fragrance came to his face, Murong Jin closed his eyes and rubbed his temples that were a little swollen, and when he opened his eyes again-

"Ruoxin? What are you doing here? Murong Jin excitedly held the woman's soft.

"I'm not worried about you, just take a look." The woman asked.

"Madam, when you go out so late, don't wear more clothes, be careful of catching a cold." Murong Jin blamed.

"General, you're also drunk, let me serve you and have a good rest." As the woman spoke, she began to reach out to untie Murong Jin's clothes.

"But you've just given birth to a baby, isn't that okay?" Murong Jin said worriedly.

"Isn't the general disgusted?" The woman said coquettishly.

"How so?" Murong Jin hugged Gongyi Ruoxin in his eyes, "I said that I only love you in my life." ”

......

"Ahh

Afterwards, Murong Jin thought about it carefully, and felt that although he was a little drunk that day, he would never recognize the wrong person, and besides, he was still the person he loved the most, so he should have been plotted against by someone.

A few years later, he found out about an herb in the frontier, called Tranquility Grass, if this herb is made into powder and inhaled into the body, it will cause people to hallucinate and lose consciousness, and he did smell a fragrance in the side hall that day.

Murong Jin originally planned to give the palace maid a sum of money and let her go, but if she was a fellow woman, how could she not know what would happen to a woman without innocence? He left her behind for Murong Jin and took the concubine.

As Duan Xiu said, the second aunt may have been planted in the eyes of someone in the General's Mansion, but although there were not many people attending the banquet that day, Murong Jin never found out who this person was. Although there were some clues, Murong Jin didn't want to believe the person these clues pointed to.

Over the years, the reason why Murong Jin didn't drive the second aunt away, except for Murong Xuan, was mainly because he was afraid of affecting the person behind her, which would be unfavorable to Murong Zhi.

Alas, I blamed myself for being careless for a while, and the words in the side hall that day could never come out of Ruoxin's mouth.