Chapter 164: Request and Departure
"Ah Mei, are you here......"
"The concubine has seen Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live Long live!"
At the door of the Funing Palace, Ling Li, who was full of joy, was about to step forward to shake Shu Mei's hand, but Shu Mei suddenly became short and knelt on the ground to greet him. Ling Li's outstretched hand was stunned in mid-air. She no longer called him "Brother Ling Li", she changed her name to call him "Your Majesty", just like the palace people around her.
"It's cold outside, come into the temple and talk."
Ling Li bent down to hold her arm, trying to help her up, but she suddenly broke free.
"The concubine is not cold, the concubine came this time, just to ask His Majesty for a holy decree." Shumei lowered his head, refusing to look at him head-on.
Got something to ask for? Ling Li's frozen smile dissolved again, "What does Ah Mei want, just open your mouth, as long as I can do it, there is nothing that I don't agree, you get up and talk, this floor tile is too cold, you just had a serious illness again......"
Seeing that he came to help again, she took the initiative to stand up, took half a step back, looked up at him and said, "The concubine asks to be reconciled with Your Majesty." β
"Ah Mei, what did you say?"
The smile on Ling Li's face completely disintegrated. She took the initiative to come to the Funing Palace, making him think that she wanted to open it, and took the initiative to ask for peace, full of joy. Unexpectedly, what she said was this sentence.
"The concubine begs to reconcile with Your Majesty." Shu Mei said again.
She had just recovered from her illness, dressed in a thick snow fox coat, her face was pale, and she looked like a pear tree in early spring, soft and delicate. And the words she spoke, word by word, were like ice ridges under the eaves of midwinter, cold and hard, piercing his heartache.
"Ah Mei, the royal family has no peace with him." After a long time, Ling Li said softly.
Shu Mei seemed to be stunned for a moment. Then he said: "The concubine dominates the holy favor, acts willfully, repeatedly violates the palace rules, causes rumors, and also injures the dragon body under impulse, begging Your Majesty to abolish the concubine as a concubine and drive her out of the palace." β
"Ah Mei, you don't have to pay attention to those gossip of the officials, I will deal with it. You don't have the sole favor of the Holy Grace, I am willing to spoil you......" Ling Li eagerly relieved.
"But the concubine doesn't want to." Shu Mei coldly interrupted him, "I beg Your Majesty to give an order!" β
She wants to leave the Yongnian Palace, she doesn't want him anymore?!
Ling Li's heart ached more and more. How could she act so arbitrarily? She is the person she didn't want to protect when she didn't want her life, but the unique Ling Li brother in the center of her eyes, how could she say that she didn't want it?!
Originally, after Shen Chan died, his heart became a cold and hard stone, a dry well without waves. It was she who warmed up the stone day by day with love and joy, and it was she who stirred up ripples in the well day by day with tenderness and pampering. But, she doesn't want him anymore?!
"Ah Mei, you don't want me anymore?"
Shu Mei avoided his gaze and pursed his lips with lowered eyes.
"Ah Mei, I'm your Ling Li brother......"
"What I owe to Brother Ling Li has already been repaid in Rouge Zhou. Now, Your Majesty and I owe each other. β
Ling Li grabbed her shoulder, "But I owe you, Ah Mei, I owe you ...... you yet."
"Then it's a write-off today."
Ling Li shook his head and said, "Ah Mei, no, I have to pay it back, and it will take a lifetime to pay it ......back."
"I told you, I don't want you to pay it back. Please, let me go, I don't want to stay here for a moment! I don't want to see you, I don't want to listen to you, I don't want to think about the stupid things I've done over and over again......" Shu Mei broke down and cried.
"Is falling in love with me something stupid you did?"
Shu Mei bit his lip, and the tears in his eyes rolled endlessly.
Ling Li hugged her tightly into his arms, "Ah Mei, you are already in my heart, I can't let you go." Unless, you personally dug out my heart. β
"Okay, if you don't let me go, I'll go by myself!" Shu Mei pushed Ling Li away, turned around and left the Funing Palace.
Her resolute and desperate back is like a little beast stubbornly breaking through the palace walls.
If she is gone, her heart will be empty.
She didn't want to leave herself, she didn't want to leave here!!
"Full blessing, tell the palace gate bureau, guard the palace gates everywhere, no one is allowed to let Concubine Mu out of the palace, those who violate the order will be killed!" Ling Li clenched his fists and spoke.
"Whoa." Man Fu looked at Ling Li with a hideous expression and trembled.
And the thin back, when he heard this stern decree, his footsteps did not stop or hesitate for half a minute.
In the evening, Huo Cheng reported in a panic: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the mother killed herself by cutting her wristsββ! β
Ling Li, who was reviewing the slash in the imperial study, was hit on the head, and after reacting, he threw the slash in his hand and ran barefoot towards Jiqing Palace.
Man Fu called urgently: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it's cold outside, you put on your boots and clothes......"
Where is Ling Li willing to listen to this. He ran barefoot on the bluestone road where there was still snow and ice, and he didn't feel cold at all. At this moment, there was only anger in his heart: how could she dare to die without his permission?!!!
The emperor is like this, and everyone in the palace is in chaos. Man Fu carried his boots and chased after him. He was afraid that the people of Jiqing Palace would suffer this time, so he hurriedly asked Xiao Dongzi to go to the Inner Service Province to ask Liu Yin for help.
After Liu Yin learned the information, he immediately asked people to go to the forbidden army camp outside the city to invite General Song You, and sent people to Persimmon Lane to pick up Shen Zhu and Bai An into the palace. If these people can't persuade Ling Li, then he has nothing to do.
When Ling Li ran to the Jiqing Palace, Guo Qian and the others had already arrived first.
"Your Majesty, Aunt Xin Qiujin found out in time, and Concubine Mu is fine. It's just that I lost too much blood and fell asleep temporarily......"
Hearing this, the anger in Ling Li's heart gradually subsided. Looking at Shu Mei, who was lying on the brocade couch bloodless and unconscious, he was heartbroken, stepped forward and hugged her tightly, buried his face between her neck, and couldn't speak for a while.
Compared to the fact that there is no more her in this world, he would rather choose to let her go.
"Ah Mei, you get better soon, as long as you get better, I promise to go wherever you want to go......"
When everyone standing beside the bed saw Ling Li's situation, they were all moved. Everyone is also happy and afraid, this Concubine Mu's heart is like a stone, if she doesn't have an accident one day, I'm afraid that she will have to be buried with her.
After Song You, Shen Zhu and others entered the palace, they were all relieved to learn that Concubine Mu was fine. Ling Li doted on Concubine Mu so much, if something happened to her, it was hard to guarantee that he wouldn't do anything drastic.
On the way to Song, he heard that Shen Zhi talked about the reason for the discord of the imperial concubine, and when he saw Ling Li, he took the initiative to say: "Your Majesty, the matter of the Anyuan Duwei Mansion has always been a hurdle in the mother's heart, Your Majesty might as well say that this matter was done by the minister, and ordered the minister to be punished, and the knot in the mother's heart was solved......"
"I've confessed it to her, what's the good of dragging you into the water again?" Ling Li said helplessly.
"Concubine Mu has a strong and unrestrained temperament, and the ministers are only afraid that the officials will hold on to it in the future. Your Majesty can protect her for a while, how can you protect her for the rest of your life? β
"If she hadn't had this temperament, she wouldn't have been able to do things that ordinary women like pulling me off the cliff and sending me to Rouge Island would never dare to think of." Ling Li said helplessly: "I have also thought about it, if she still wants to leave the Yongnian Palace after she is well, I will let her out of the palace......"
Shen nodded and said: "Back then, in Liulixia, in order to save me and Bai An, Niangniang also jumped down the snow cave, bit the hungry wolf to death, and dug up the corpse on a snowy night in Caopozi Town. With her kind of temperament, living out of the palace may be more suitable for her. β
Ling Li looked at Shen and was speechless for a while.