Three days before Ling Wushuang and Xuanyuan Mo went to the other courtyard, in a town about 100 miles away from Xuanyuan Capital, Prince Rui and the county lord of Qingyang did not hurry again because it was too late, and planned to find an inn to rest for the night and then continue to hurry.

The closer they got to the capital, the more nervous Mama Gui and Ruan Cui became.

They were afraid, afraid that the county lord of Qingyang would really return to Mingcui Courtyard, so they waited for the eldest princess to come back with expectations.

But the county lord of Qingyang didn't know what they were thinking.

She was about to see her mother, and she was very happy.

However, while she was happy, she was also a little melancholy because someone suddenly appeared a few days ago.

Of course, she didn't know what the word melancholy meant. She just saw the man with a smiling face going back and forth around her, and her emotions were not as happy and happy as before.

After Yu Wenmingxuan finished talking with Father Mu's father and daughter that day, he rode out of Jizhou City quickly, and in the evening of the next day, he caught up with Prince Rui and the county lord of Qingyang. However, he clearly felt that there was a slight estrangement between the county lord of Qingyang and him.

The last time I came to Jizhou, the little girl rode a horse with him almost all the way, and no matter what he said this time, the little girl didn't nod.

She shook her head at him politely and said that she would sit in the car with Mama Gui and the girl Ruan Cui.

As a result, he was very depressed.

Tonight was the bright moon in the sky, and the silver glow was pouring, but who knew that suddenly there was a strong wind, followed by dark clouds covering the moon, thunder and lightning, and heavy rain.

Inn, in the guest room where Prince Rui lived.

"Uncle Huang, what do you think I should do?" Yu Wenming Xuan and Prince Rui sat face to face at the table, the light in their eyes was extremely dim, "Ling'er, she seems to be really angry with me!" Prince Rui raised his eyebrows and glanced at him, and said, "You kid deserve it!" After losing Yu Wenmingxuan's words, Prince Rui said: "I think your father is right, Ling'er's child is simple-minded, completely different from ordinary girls, even if you are busy, you should take time to go to the palace and tell her what you are busy with." Well, what's the use of talking to me all the way? You didn't see the little girl crying so sadly in the imperial study, and it hurt to see your father and me. ”

"Uncle Huang, didn't I know that I was wrong!"

Yu Wenmingxuan's head was lowered, and he couldn't lift a little spirit when he spoke.

"If you know that you are wrong, go to the little girl and say it, what's the use of grinding in me?"

Prince Rui glared at him angrily, got up and prepared to rest.

"Uncle Huang, you can help me think of ideas, after all, you know and experience much more than your nephew!" Yu Wenming Xuan got up, but there was no intention of leaving in his eyes, "You kid, what's the matter, just ......" If he really knew more, he wouldn't have been able to win the heart of that woman back then, Prince Rui turned his back to Yu Wenming Xuan, and a wry smile overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

Next to Prince Rui's guest room is the guest room of Yu Wenming Xuan, and the next two rooms are the county lord of Qingyang, Mama Gui and Ruan Cui.

"Mama!" The sound of thunder and lightning startled the sleeping Qingyang County Lord to sit up from the couch suddenly: "Mama ......" She looked around the room left and right, and did not find Mama Gui, so she put on embroidered shoes, put on her coat, and prepared to go to the next room to find Mama Gui.

She was afraid of the dark when she was a child, and she was even more afraid of thunder and lightning.

Therefore, the lights are on in her house at night.

Usually, as soon as she hears the sound of lightning and thunder, the eldest princess will accompany her in the main house of Qingyang County as soon as possible, while Mama Gui is guarding their mother and daughter outside. But at this moment, Mama Gui and Ruan Cui were sitting on the chairs in their guest rooms, their eyes lowered and absorbed in their own thoughts, so that they did not hear the intermittent thunder and lightning outside the window.

At this time, Ruan Cui's head was raised.

"Mama, if the county lord returns to the other courtyard and sees that the eldest princess is not there, and then learns the news that the eldest princess has passed away from other girls or servants, what should you do when you say it?"

Mama Gui sighed and said, "I've just been talking to you for so long, and I'm not worried about this matter anymore." "Princess, what do you say the old slave should do so that the county lord can return to his usual happy appearance without seeing you?" The county lord can think of going back to the other courtyard to find the princess, and it is not difficult to see from the relationship between her and His Royal Highness the Idle King in the past two days that it must be His Royal Highness the Idle King who has done something to make the county lord feel aggrieved. will make her unwilling to stay in Daqi any longer, and she wants to go back to the other courtyard to find the eldest princess. ”

Ruan Cui thought for a while and said, "Mama, do you think that because His Royal Highness King Xian didn't enter the palace for two days, the county lord thought of the eldest princess?" ”

"Look at my fool, I just said something ambiguous to you, but I am not as transparent as you. You're right, most of the county lords thought that His Royal Highness Xianwang didn't like her anymore because His Royal Highness Xianwang didn't come to the palace to play with her, so he became depressed, and wanted to go back to the other courtyard to find the eldest princess for comfort. As soon as the words were spoken, Mama Gui's eyes gradually became sad, "The time that the county lord and His Royal Highness the idle king have been together has changed a lot, and she seems to have suddenly grown up a lot. For her, I don't know if such a change is good or bad? ”

"Mother died?" The county lord of Qingyang stood outside the door of the guest room where Gui Mama and Ruan Cui lived, muttering silently, and suddenly, tears in her eyes poured out irrepressibly. The county lord of Qingyang is simple, and she lacks IQ, but she is not stupid.

The eldest princess passed away and sent her out of the Mingcui Courtyard, which meant that she was exposed to all kinds of things in the world, and it was impossible for her to be like before, not knowing anything. Pass away? It's that the person died, she and Yu Wenming Xuan went out of the palace to play on the street some time ago, and heard passers-by say that Xuanyuan's King Qi died in the prison because he committed a serious crime, and there is that his side concubine died because she couldn't accept the blow......

"Mother......" she opened her mouth, but she couldn't make a sound, and sad tears blurred and rolled down her cheeks.

Turning, she smacked away.

She is so sad, so sad, she wants to find her mother, to find the mother who has always loved her and loved her since she was a child.

"Was someone eavesdropping on us just now?" Mama Gui glanced at the door of the room and asked Ruan Cui.

Ruan Cui said: "I didn't pay much attention, but there was indeed a rush of footsteps passing by from the door of our room." ”

"Oh no, it's thundering!" Mama Gui hurriedly got up and walked to the door of the room, "Why didn't you remind me of thunder, the county lord has been afraid of the sound of thunder and lightning since he was a child, and he may not be scared in the room." As for what Ruan Cui just said, she didn't put it to heart at the moment, and it was the most important thing for her to be sure of whether the county lord of Qingyang was frightened.

The door was wide open, there was no one on the couch, and when she boarded, Mama Gui exclaimed: "Ruan Cui, Ruan Cui, the county lord is gone!" Go quickly, go to King Rui and His Royal Highness King Xian, hurry up, let them help find the county lord! She was so flustered that she burst into tears.

She thought of it, thought of what Ruan Cuigang had said to her.

Could it be that the county lord heard the conversation between her and Ruan Cui outside the door just now, and knew the news that the eldest princess had died, so he couldn't stand the blow and ran away......

She can't think about it anymore, she can't think about it anymore, she has to find the county lord as soon as possible.

It's dark outside, it's raining heavily, and lightning is thundering, in case the county lord is in trouble, how can she explain to the eldest princess under the nine springs?

Ruan Cui heard Mama Gui's exclamation, and she was also flustered. As soon as she stepped out of the room, she saw Mama Gui's short and thin figure disappearing from her eyes like a wind.

Passing through the movement on the corridor, Prince Rui and Yu Wenming Xuan vaguely heard it.

"Xuan'er, quick, let's go out and take a look, it seems to be Mama Gui's voice." Before Prince Rui's words fell, Yu Wenmingxuan's figure had disappeared from his room.

"Ruan Cui, where is the county lord of your family? What's wrong with her, tell me quickly! ”

Finding that there was no one in the main house of Qingyang County, Yu Wenmingxuan's eyes were red with anxiety, and he questioned Ruan Cui loudly.

Ruan Cui burst into tears, and said in a trembling voice: "County Lord, she maybe, may know the news of the death of the eldest princess, so, so ......" Yu Wenmingxuan's heart suddenly tensed, and he smashed the window in the main room of Qingyang County with one palm, and jumped into the rainy night.

Ling'er, Ling'er, you must not have an accident!

Brother Moon is going to find you!

You must not have an accident!

Prince Rui walked out of the door, naturally he heard Ruan Cui's words with Yu Wenmingxuan, and when he wanted to say that Yu Wenming Xuan was calm and calm first, and then thought about how to find the county lord of Qingyang, he saw that his figure had already drifted out of the window.

"Ruan Cui has seen it, I have seen Prince Rui!"

Ruan Cui wiped her tears with her sleeve and saluted Prince Rui.

Prince Rui raised his hand to excuse her salute, frowned, and said, "Tell this king what happened just now." "Even if the little girl knows that the eldest princess has died, but it is raining so heavily outside, she shouldn't be able to run far.

Besides, she didn't know the way, and with the natural conditions of the night, the heavy rain, and the lightning and thunder, maybe she would hide in some corner of the inn and cry alone!

"Here's ...... thing," Ruan Cui sobbed and told Prince Rui carefully about the conversation between her and Grandma Gui, the sound of hurried footsteps they heard outside the door, and then the passage of Grandma Gui finding out that the county lord of Qingyang was not in the room. Well, this king knows it. Prince Rui nodded: "You go back to the room and wait, this king will go downstairs and ask the innkeeper to see if he has any unusual findings." ”

"Prince Xie Rui! Prince Xie Lu, Prince Xie Rui! ”

Ruan Cui knelt on the ground, tears and tears continued to Prince Xie Rui.

"It's cold on the ground, get up and go back to the room!"

Prince Rui waved his hand and turned to go down to the second floor.

The first floor of the inn.

"Little brother, have you seen a little girl, she is very good-looking, she is about this tall, dressed ......" Prince Rui went to the first floor, saw the inn guy, and hurriedly asked him if he saw the Qingyang county lord go out and leave the inn, for fear that the guy would not understand, he also compared the height of the Qingyang county lord with his hand.

When his voice fell, the guy smiled on his face and replied politely: "Back to this master, the little one just saw an old woman running out of the inn in a panic, as for the little girl that the master said, the little one has never seen it." Speaking of this, the man tilted his head and thought for a moment, and added with some embarrassment: "However, just before the old woman left the inn, I, I was napping, I vaguely heard someone running down from the second floor, and when I opened my eyes to look, I didn't find a figure. ”

What the man said made Prince Rui's expression become anxious.

Ling'er, she won't really run out of the inn, will she? He asked himself in his heart, twisted his eyebrows and looked around the first floor of the inn, and said, "Man, does your inn have a back door?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes." The man raised his eyes to look somewhere, pointed there and said, "I obviously closed the back door well, why is it open now!" He withdrew his hand and scratched the back of his head.

When Prince Rui heard this, he immediately walked over.

"Ling'er, Ling'er, wake up, Uncle Rui will carry you back to the guest room to sleep!" Stepping out of the back door, Prince Rui saw a thin figure curled up under the eaves outside the door, and by the light shining from the door, he stepped forward to take a closer look, the little man who was curled up on the ground, with tears on his face and his head resting on his arms, was not the lord of Qingyang, who else could it be.

In an instant, his heart tingled slightly.

Picking up the little man, he got up and entered the inn.

The child who has no mother to take care of is so distressing.

I don't know what his Rou'er would be like if he was wronged?

Will she also find a place where no one is, curl up in a corner, and cry sadly until she falls asleep?

The thunder and lightning receded, and the heavy rain gradually subsided

I searched for nearly a night, to. The east was slightly bright, Yu Wenmingxuan and Gui Mama looked tired, and returned to the inn with their front and back feet.

"His Royal Highness the Idle King, Mama, the county lord has found it, found it!" After Prince Rui returned to the guest room with the county lord of Qingyang, Ruan Cui was instructed by Prince Rui to wait for Mama Gui and Yu Wenmingxuan to come back at the door of the inn, so as to tell them the news of finding the county lord of Qingyang as soon as possible, so as not to worry them. No, as soon as she saw Mama Gui and Yu Wenmingxuan appear wet in front of her, she hurriedly stepped forward and said to the two of them.

"Found it?"

Yu Wenming Xuan and Mama Gui didn't seem to believe what Ruan Cui said, and confirmed at the same time.

"The county lord didn't leave the inn, it was Lord Rui who found her under the eaves of the back door. Moreover, and the county lord has nothing to do, she has nothing to do, I'm afraid she's still asleep this time! ”

Ruan Cui was emotional and replied to them.

"The county lord has nothing to do, it's good if there is nothing to do!" Mama Gui is old, and she has been looking for the county lord of Qingyang in the rain for so long at night, her body must be unbearable, and the moment she confirmed from Ruan Cui's mouth that the county lord of Qingyang was not in trouble, her body was weak, and she fell to the ground, but fortunately, Yu Wenmingxuan's eyes were quick and he reached out to catch her.

Otherwise, she would have fallen hard.

The morning sun was shining, and Mama Gui fell ill and had a high fever, so she couldn't rush at all.

So, Prince Rui decided to stay in the town for a day, wait for Gui's fever to subside, and leave early tomorrow morning. According to his estimates, if he leaves tomorrow morning and rests for one night along the way, he will definitely arrive in Xuanyuan Ducheng before dark after tomorrow.

The county lord of Qingyang slept until mid-afternoon before he opened his red and swollen eyes.

"Mama......"

"Ling'er, you're awake!" After Yu Wenmingxuan returned to the inn to take a bath and wash up, he stayed on the side of the main couch of Qingyang County, and saw that even if he was asleep, the good-looking eyebrows were also frowning together, which made him blame himself even more, if it weren't for him, she wouldn't have been wronged, and she wouldn't have thought of finding the eldest princess, she wouldn't have overheard the conversation between Mama Gui and Ruan Cui last night, and she wouldn't have run to the back door of the inn alone to blow the cold wind, crying helplessly, "Ling'er, I'm Brother Moon, don't you know me?" Seeing the strange eyes of the people looking at him, Yu Wenming Xuan chuckled in his heart, and then stretched out his hand to help the county lord of Qingyang.

"I know you, but I want to find Mama!"

The county lord of Qingyang broke free from his grasp, put on his shoes and wanted to go to the door.

"Ling'er, Brother Moon is wrong! Brother Moon shouldn't just ignore you by asking the doctor to help Daddy Mu heal his illness! Yu Wenming Xuan grabbed her arm, and his words were full of apology and guilt.

"I'm looking for Mama!"

The county lord of Qingyang turned to him, without a trace of gleam in his eyes, and said to him in a daze.

"I, I'll go with you!" Yu Wenming Xuan is very sad, is the little girl really going to ignore him? I knew who he was, but I didn't want to talk to him, and I didn't even have a smile on my little face.

Is this still the happy and carefree, bird-like happy angel of the past?

"Don't!"

Pulling out his arm, the county lord of Qingyang went out of the door alone.

"County Lord, are you looking for Mama?" Ruan Cui served Mama Gui to take the decoction, and saw that she was sleepy because of taking the medicine, so she picked up the bowl and walked out of the house lightly, preparing to go to the backyard to use the small stove borrowed from the inn kitchen to boil a bowl of millet porridge suitable for the patient.

"Hmm."

The county lord of Qingyang nodded.

"But Mama just took the decoction and fell asleep, or the slave will accompany you back to the room to talk and help you relieve your boredom!" Ruan Cui saw that the county lord of Qingyang had become more different from before, and was worried that she would be sad and sad when she saw Grandma Gui sick, so she smiled to prevent her from seeing Grandma Gui at the moment.

Mama Gui, who is sick, not only has a bad face now, but also because she didn't find the county lord of Qingyang last night, she was anxiously angry, causing a lot of blisters on the corners of her mouth, which made people feel nervous.

The county lord was brought up by Mama Gui, and the feelings in her mind were second only to the eldest princess's mother.

If she saw Mama Gui lying ill on the couch because she was looking for her, she would be sad.

Ruan Cui really didn't want to see her county lord cry sadly.

"I won't disturb Mama's rest."

The county lord of Qingyang whispered, crossed Ruan Cui, and entered the room.

Ruan Cui wanted to call the county lord of Qingyang again, but was stopped by Yu Wenming Xuan raising his hand.

"Don't stop her, maybe she will be in a better mood when she sees Mama and speaks her heart."

"Hmm." Ruan Cui answered, standing outside the door with Yu Wenmingxuan, listening to the movement in the room.

"Mama, you're sick, you're sick in the rain in order to find me!" The county lord of Qingyang walked slowly to the side of the couch, sat down beside Gui Mama, held her hand, and whispered: "My mother is dead, my mother will never talk to me again, I am very sad and sad, I want to go to my mother, but the rain is very heavy, and there is thunder and lightning, I am so scared, woo woo......"

Mama Gui walked out of the room in Ruan Cui, and not long after she closed her eyes, she heard the voice of the county lord of Qingyang and Ruan Cui in a daze, and at the same time, she also heard what Yu Wenming Xuan and Ruan Cui said later.

Therefore, she knew that the county lord of Qingyang had come to her side and sat down, and held her hand to speak, suppressing her urge to open her eyes.

So that the county lord of Qingyang poured out his heart and no longer felt sad and sad.

But, hearing the choked crying in her ears, she still couldn't hold back, slowly opened her eyes, and said: "The county lord doesn't cry, there is a grandma with you, don't be afraid, we are not afraid......" Her voice was very weak, the county lord of Qingyang heard her voice, the crying suddenly stopped, and her eyes were red and swollen and said: "Mama, it's me who is not good, and you are resting!" ”

She said and tried Mama Gui's forehead, originally when she was sick, the eldest princess and Mama Gui tried her like this, and after making sure that her head was feverish, she immediately asked the doctor to prescribe medicine for her. Still, she was scared. Mama Gui's forehead was so hot that it was as hot as the stove in the kitchen.

Looking down at Mama Gui's face, her red and swollen eyes were bursting with tears again. Mama Gui didn't comb her hair, her face was haggard, and the corners of her mouth were full of blisters, but in order to comfort her, she opened her eyes, her voice was hoarse, and she spoke to her softly.

The county lord of Qingyang cried: "Mama, am I good or bad? I heard Ruan Cui say that you are sick, but I still want to go into the room to disturb you! ”

Mama Gui pulled the corners of her mouth and smiled abruptly, and said in a weak voice: "Don't cry, Mama has nothing to do." Mama has already drunk the decoction, and Mama's body will recover well after a while. ”

"Mama, I don't want you to be like my mother, and you will leave me forever." The county lord of Qingyang stretched out his hand to hug Gui Mama's body, crying so sadly: "You said that your body will be good, you must be good!" Don't lie to me......" Mama Gui's eyes gradually filled with tears because of the words of the county lord of Qingyang, she raised her hand, stroked the hair on the back of the county lord of Qingyang, and said: "No, Mama will not lie to the county lord." ”

"Mama and Ling'er pull the hook!" Sitting upright, the county lord of Qingyang stretched out his little finger and lightly hooked it on Mama Gui's little finger: "Mama don't worry, I, I won't be sad because my mother leaves me forever." You sleep well, I won't bother you! With that, she got up and walked slowly out the door.

The tears in Mama Gui's eyes instantly slid down the corners of her eyes to her gray temples after the figure of the county lord of Qingyang disappeared outside the door.

Little by little, it seeped into her hair. She had always known that her county lord was a sensible person, but she never expected that the child would stop mentioning the eldest princess so soon.

Is she afraid that she will be worried about her illness?

Silly boy!

Mama knows what you mean.

Sighing softly, she reached out to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, closed her eyes and fell asleep.

An inconspicuous corner in the backyard of the inn.

"County lord, it's better for the slave to help Mama make porridge!" Ruan Cui's eyes were red, standing behind the county lord of Qingyang, watching him squat down and add firewood to the stove, stirring in a small pot with a soup spoon, "Mama is sick because she is looking for me, I want to, I want to make porridge for her myself!" Speaking of this, the words in the mouth of the county lord of Qingyang paused, for a long time, and then said: "You have taught me how to do it, don't worry, I won't boil the porridge." ”

It rained last night, and the firewood was damp, and from time to time thick smoke came out of the bottom of the pot.

choked the tears of the county lord of Qingyang.

He also coughed a few times from time to time.

"County Lord, please, you better let the slave come!"

Ruan Cui saw that the county lord of Qingyang was choked uncomfortably by the smoke, covering her mouth with her hands, tears lingering in her eyes.

She was afraid that if she was not careful, she would cry.

"Ruan Cui, I'm not a fool!" The county lord of Qingyang continued to add firewood to the stove and muttered to himself: "Brother Mo and Sister Shuang'er went to my uncle's palace to play, and I heard some palace people whispering that I was a fool!" But I'm not angry, because I'm not stupid, I'm smart, right? ”