"If that's the case, why do you need to ask?" Yunli glanced at Ling Ruo sideways and deeply. In the endless thoughts that turned around in an instant, he said: "I am not an ignorant person. I know that your Majesty is doing it for my own good, and
How can you blame the empress? No matter in the past, present or future, you are the empress, and Yunli is your minister."
Ling Ruo didn't speak anymore, just nodded, and went to the outside of the inn with Yunli, and boarded the carriage waiting there. After a while, Ping'er also walked down. After Suoli made one final confirmation that nothing was missing,
The carriage left the Fuyun Inn and headed towards the capital.
The speed of the carriage was obviously much faster than walking on two feet, and it quickly passed Buqi, who was being escorted to Beijing, and... Hongli and others who were following quietly behind.
Just like when they first arrived in Zhengzhou, Ling Ruo and Hongli, mother and son who had been separated for a long time, seemed to be passing each other again...
Ping'er lifted the curtain, looked at the city gate passing by, and said with some worry: "If we leave this time, we will have to walk through the wilderness for how many days, and we don't know when we will be able to find an inn to rest."
Yunli, who had closed his eyes to rest, heard her words, opened his eyes and said, "No need to worry, there are towns along the way from Zhengzhou back to Beijing, so you won't have to sleep in the wilderness like before."
"That's good." After listening to Yunli's explanation, Ping'er patted her chest. Just when she retracted her head, the beads on her temples were hooked and fell out of the carriage. Ping'er said quickly: "
My pearl flower!"
She bought this with the remaining money when she went to the market the day before yesterday. She wanted Yunli to pay more attention to her, but she only wore it for two days and it fell off. She couldn't bear to part with it. Seeing her like this
, Ling Ruo raised her voice and said: "Sori, stop the carriage."
As soon as the carriage stopped, Ping'er couldn't wait to jump out. When she landed on the ground, she turned her foot and accidentally fell to the ground. Ling Ruo lifted the curtain and stuck her head out and asked with concern: "How is it? Did it hurt from the fall?
"
"I'm fine, slave." Ping'er said as she ran back to pick up the beaded flowers that fell on the ground, and then limped back to the carriage. Seeing how happy she was holding the beaded flowers, Ling Ruo smiled softly.
Shaking, he said through the carriage door: "Sori, let's go."
"Yes." A short voice came from outside, and then the carriage wheels started turning again, from slow to fast.
The people in the carriage didn't know that not far from them, there was a man standing there dumbfounded, staring at the carriage. This man was none other than Hongli.
Seeing Hongli suddenly stop and become stiff, Zhaohui couldn't help but wonder: "Brother Si, what's the matter?"
"I...I..." I don't know why, Hongli was having a hard time speaking, as if he didn't know what to say. After taking a few breaths, Hongli said tremblingly: "I just...just now
I seem to have seen my mother-in-law."
"Queen Xiaoshengxian?" Zhaohui exclaimed. Fortunately, there was no one where they were standing. Except for the two people around him, no one else heard his words. After coming back to his senses, Zhaohui quickly lowered his voice.
Said: "Queen Xiaoshengxian is gone a long time ago. How could you, Fourth Brother, see her?"
"I don't know either, but I really saw E Niang just now, in that carriage." After a pause, Hongli breathed quickly and said: "Just now there was a woman in the carriage who came down to pick up something, and another woman came to look at her.
When I came out, although I only saw a profile, she really looked like E Niang!"
Agui said with disbelief on his face: "Brother Si, are you dazzled? Empress Xiaoshengxian has been buried in the imperial mausoleum, how can she still be alive?"
Zhaohui rarely agreed with Agui and said: "Yes, you must have missed Empress Xiaoshengxian in the past, and the woman just now is somewhat similar to Empress Xiaoshengxian, so you think of her as Empress Xiaoshengxian."
Hongli couldn't help but shake his head and said with excitement: "No, I won't be wrong. She is E Niang, she really is E Niang, E Niang is not dead, E Niang is still alive!"
Before Zhaohui and Agui could react, Hongli had already run hard towards the carriage that was driving away, shouting at the same time: "Eniang! Eniang!"
His move shocked Zhaohui and Agui. They must know that they are still in Zhengzhou Mansion. If the secret guards do not leave or are noticed by Yang Yingxiong, they will not even have a chance to escape. And Hongli is like this
The shouting also attracted the attention of the officers escorting Buqi in front of him. They all looked at Hongli, whose face was covered with black mud and running non-stop, like a madman.
The carriage had already driven out of the city gate and was heading into the distance, but Hongli had not left the city yet. When he ran to the city gate, the official guarding there stopped him unceremoniously and said, "Where are the beggars coming from?
What, you still call me mother, there is no mother here, only your father!"
The words of the city guard officer who obviously took advantage of Hongli aroused laughter from others, and some even booed Hongli and asked Hongli to kneel down and call him daddy.
Hongli didn't understand what they said. He just pushed the official who was blocking him and said as if he was crazy: "Get out of the way and let me pass! I want to find my mother-in-law!"
The city guard officer felt some pain in his chest from being pushed by him, and said unhappily: "Hey, you little beggar is quite rude. It's okay if you want to go to your mother, but as a rule, you have to search yourself first and turn around!"
"I told you to get out of the way, don't block me, are you deaf?" Seeing the carriage driving farther and farther, Hongli's eyes were so anxious that his eyes turned red."
The city guard officer heard his rude words, his face was extremely stinking, he pointed the hilt of his knife at the experience's chest and said: "You are the only one who is deaf. You didn't hear me tell you to turn around."
Do you want to leave? If you do this again, I will have reason to suspect that you are a gangster trying to escape!"
I really don’t know how he came up with the idea of a gangster, but now he was confronting a guy who looked just like a beggar, so naturally he did whatever he said.
"It's mine!" The thought of rushing to meet Ling Ruo in the carriage made Hongli lose his mind. His clattering fists clenched again and again, and continued to expand under the disbelieving eyes of the city guards.
This... did this kid want to hit him? Before he could finish this thought, the wind of the fist had already hit his face, and the fist was close at hand. However, in the end, the fist did not come down. It was not because Hongli suddenly regained his senses.
, but someone held his arm tightly, preventing his hand from moving forward an inch.
Zhaohui grabbed Hongli's arm and shouted: "You silly boy, you are crazy again!"
After signaling Agui to hold Hongli back, Zhaohui smiled apologetically and said to the city guard Chai, who was so frightened that his eyes were blinking: "Uncle Chai, I'm really sorry. This kid has been mentally disturbed since he was a child. In addition,
His mother died early, so
He has become crazy and crazy. He always thinks that he is a Manchu. The woman he saw in front of him is his mother-in-law. He will fight with anyone who doesn't let him recognize his mother-in-law. You sir, don't be like this silly boy.