"What did you say?!"
The bow in Li Qingwu's hand trembled.
The arrow flew out of the bowstring with a sound of breaking through the air, blending with her unbelievable voice.
Fuling's face was pale, and she stuttered: "The prince consort... the prince consort, in front of all the ministers, said that she was... a woman."
She was a little tearful, and took out a small oil paper wrapped tightly, and a letter that had not been sealed.
"I didn't find out what happened, but I heard that the adults were still in the court in the palace. I hurried back with the things."
She shook her hands, and her expression was still as if in a dream: "This is what Lord Liu gave me, saying that it was something from the prince consort. He asked me to hand it over to you."
The confusion, shock, doubt, and worry on Li Qingwu's face changed in turn, and finally reacted.
Even at this time, she remembered to place the bow and arrow in her hand gently on the stone table beside her, and then she grabbed the two things.
"Didn't you say anything else?"
"Yes," Fuling paused and said with difficulty, "The prince consort asked you to... go quickly."
Li Qingwu's chest rose and fell for a moment, he closed his eyes, tried his best to calm himself down, and then opened the letter as quickly as possible.
This was obviously a new letter, and the handwriting looked like it had not been done for a few days, but it was also obvious that it had been prepared in advance.
When the first four words came into view, Li Qingwu was stunned.
Because Qiu Che said: My wife Qingwu.
- My wife Qingwu, I am writing to you.
When you see this letter, I must have had an accident.
The Qiu family is doomed to die, and in order to protect myself, it is inevitable that my identity will be exposed, and it is also difficult to escape the disaster, or I may never see you again in this life, so I write this letter.
According to what we discussed before, we should have asked the thirteen concubines to testify together to prevent Qiu Chudong from being prepared.
But now I don't want to.
They are all miserable people. If they come forward to testify, it will be difficult for them to survive among the neighbors in the future.
This is not the heart of a saint, but empathy.
It's just that you have worked hard to lobby, but it's in vain.
I have already made arrangements for my mother at home, and the two girls from the Su family have their own places to go. I don't need to worry about other people... I thought about it for several days, and then I realized that you are the only one I am most worried about and most worried about.
I think, should I not have asked His Majesty to grant us a marriage in the Golden Palace?
But I actually have no regrets about this.
Qingwu, my wife.
I have owed you a lot. Thinking about this, I have nowhere to write. After thinking again and again, I can only say sorry. I don't
know if you believe in fate.
I didn't believe it before, but do you know that our reunion is actually a fate given by God?
You may also remember something... about the previous life.
You can also think of it as just a dream. I remember that you also had this dream at the beginning.
ââBut it must be a dream that is not very good, which made you sink into the illusion later and unwilling to wake up.
I also had a dream in the dense forest of Nanyi, and saw your past of suffering.
I also know that you always have some distrust towards me, and don't believe that I really pity you and love you.
You always try to accommodate me in every way, as if you are afraid of making me unhappy -
maybe you yourself have not noticed this, but I see it.
Many times I want to explain, but I actually have the same concerns - I am afraid that you are just in a momentary mood, afraid that you are just in love, afraid that you are so thoughtful that you can even deceive me...
You once said that a gentleman judges by deeds rather than by heart - you said I am a gentleman. I
am sorry to disappoint you,
but I am actually narrow-minded and selfish. I covet this rare warmth, so I speak several times and remain silent several times.
But now I have no worries.
Remember? I also told you not to forget your name.
I don't know how much weight I have in your heart. If I am a very important existence, then it is naturally great.
But I hope that before that, you have to remember that you are yourself first, Li Qingwu.
As long as it's you, no matter what kind of you you are, lively and cheerful, gentle and quiet, beautiful, ugly...
Because it's you, I accept it.
I don't love you because you are lively.
I love you because I love you.
You once asked me if I would send you away if you couldn't help me.
I didn't answer you at that time, but the answer has never changed: no.
I will never send you away because you can't help me.
But I will send you away because I put you in danger.
After saying so much, I'm afraid you are already anxious and want to know how I arranged your whereabouts, right?
There is another letter in the secret compartment at the bottom of the study. You will know it at a glance.
I am worried about thousands of things now, but I have limited paper and pen, so I can't go into details one by one.
If we meet again, we will talk about it then.
In ancient times, there was a spring banquet, and three wishes were made again. Now I
don't ask for three things. One is not to live a thousand years, two is not to be always healthy, and three is not to be like the swallows on the beam, seeing each other every year.
I only ask for my wife Qingwu, peace, joy, and freedom.
ââYour Aning.
She had been prepared.
Li Qingwu was dazed. After reading the letter, her mind was empty, with only this thought left.
She tightened her hand holding the letter slightly, and suddenly, through the light, she saw that there seemed to be words on the back of the letter. Turning it
over, she saw two lines of words written on it, saying that it took less than an hour to make it.
The sugar man wanted to compensate you personally, but it seems that there is no chance after all.
I owe you two... but you like to eat candy, so I will give you all three, including my share.
After that, he scribbled a smiley face.
Li Qingwu's chest rose and fell for a moment, and she was even out of breath for a while.
Her premonition came true.
She didn't expect Qiu Che to directly reveal his identity in order to put the Qiu family father and son in jail.
She didn't even need to take off her clothes to prove herself, because no one would joke about the crime of deceiving the emperor. Even
if this seems to be the best proof that Qiu Che did not tarnish the innocence of the so-called good woman, it is a way to hurt the enemy by a thousand and hurt yourself by eight hundred.
No one thought she could be so crazy.
Of course, this situation is not bad. If the father and son of the Qiu family were desperate and chose to expose Qiu Che's identity, the situation might be even more serious.
Li Qingwu tried her best to calm herself down. While thinking about how to get Qiu Che out safely, she grabbed the bow and arrow beside her and walked quickly to the study.
At this time, she still had the mood to use her free hands to peel off the oil paper wrapped around the three sugar figures.
The moment her eyes touched the sugar figures, her eyes were wet again.
The sugar figures were neither big nor small, and because they had been kept for too long, they were almost stuck together.
Li Qingwu said nothing, and took a long time to break a piece.
Then she put the candy figure of the jade rabbit into her mouth and took a bite.
She remembered that dream - that is, what Qiu Che said in his previous life. When Qiu Che died, she secretly went to the kitchen to find the body and saw many candy figures piled up in the corner.
At that time, she only thought that they were snacks given to the young ladies and young masters of various families at the Xiangfu banquet, and never thought of them on her head. She
just took a look and left with Qiu Che's cold body.
But now a flash of inspiration suddenly came to her, and she suddenly had a hesitant illusion that perhaps, it was the candy figure that Qiu Che left for her.
... Or maybe it was not an illusion.
Li Qingwu took out the letter from the secret compartment, and her face changed completely after reading it for less than a moment.
This is a divorce letter. Between
her and Qiu Che.
Li Qingwu was out of breath again.
She half leaned against the wall, slightly raised her head, and did not let the tears in her eyes fall.
Is this the way out that Qiu Che found for her?
Is this... Qiu Che's arrangement?
- A divorce letter, from then on, all the mistakes Qiu Che made had nothing to do with Li Qingwu.
She had been ready for this day, hadn't she?
She had thought of everyone's escape route, except her own.
Li Qingwu chewed the candy in her mouth numbly, biting off but not swallowing it, thinking.
In her previous life, she had never tasted the candy man since she grew up, and the candy man she had missed... It turned out that it tasted sour now.
The sourness was accompanied by a hint of sweetness.
But after chewing for a while, she suddenly covered her mouth, ran to the side, began to retch, and began to cough heartbreakingly.
She coughed so hard that it seemed to tear her whole body apart. Only then did she look at the oil paper printed with the words "Specialty of Chaojing East Street Cake Shop" in her hand amid Fuling's anxious concern and dizziness.
Tears still rolled down silently in the sound of panting.
She said she loved candy, especially the specialty candy man from the cake shop on East Street in Jingcheng.
Qiu Che really wrote down her casual remark, and remembered it for so long. Whenever he had time, he ran to buy his candy man.
But what Qiu Che didn't know was that she hadn't eaten candy for a long, long time.
The candy given by the palace maid made her walk with difficulty for more than ten years, and now she has become this indifferent appearance.
She is no longer a five-year-old child. She
doesn't like to eat candy anymore.
She asked Qiu Che to compensate her with a candy man, but she just said it deliberately to make conversation.
She thought that no one loved her, so she told Qiu Che that her former family was an abyss for her and she had no way out.
But later she thought that she had Qiu Che, so she had a new family.
Qiu Che could be her way out.
She could be fearless and unscrupulous, because the fire of freedom would burn away the past in her heart, burn away all the suffering, and let them usher in a new ending in wailing.
It turned out that Qiu Che had planted the cause a long time ago.
Then he pushed Li Qingwu away with his own hands and chose to face the result alone.
Is this...
their ending?
Two lives of obsession, breaking up?
But how could this ending be worthy of the suffering they had endured in the years before they met each other?
How could they accept it?
"ââThe imperial edict has arrived!"
A thunderous sound suddenly rose from the ground.
... If nothing unexpected happens, this is definitely an order to punish.
In the chaos outside the courtyard, Fuling said anxiously: "Your Highness, Your Highness, get up quickly, take this divorce letter to Linglong Pavilion quickly, if His Majesty asks, you say you know nothing about the son-in-law..."
No.
No.
Li Qingwu finally came back to his senses in the huge tinnitus, staggered to his feet, raised his head with a pale face, but his expression was calmer and indifferent than usual.
Facing Fuling's nagging, she opened her lips, but uttered: "No."
She raised her hand and tore the divorce letter in her hand one by one.
Until the paper could no longer see what was originally written, she finally stopped and threw it to the side.
The scraps of paper fluttered and scattered all over the sky.
In the surprised eyes of the crowd, she lifted her skirt slightly, and walked out as dignified, gentle and polite as always.
"Come with me to receive the imperial edict."
Yu Ming held her and said hesitantly: "Your Highness, my father-in-law... Miss has previously instructed us to protect you. In this situation, you have to tear up the divorce letter and go out to receive the imperial edict..."
The emperor may punish her for her crime as well.
Li Qingwu gently brushed her hand away and said softly:
"It's not the end of the road, there is still hope."
"I am the eldest princess, my father will not do anything to me, don't worry. You can take mother away first."
Yu Ming: "...Really?"
Li Qingwu said: "Of course. If you don't receive the imperial edict, you will also be punished. This edict must be received."
"Your Highness!" Just when Yu Yan and Yu Ming, who were blocking the way, were hesitating, Fuling shouted out in disappointment.
"Other people may not know your situation, but don't I know it? If you go, you'll never be able to escape again!"
She said in a tearful voice, "The prince consort has told you to go! Let's not talk about other things, just the prince consort...she is a woman! You are the eldest princess! Now that it has come to this, if you still want to be entangled with her, won't you be laughed at by the world!"
"I am one with her wife."
Li Qingwu tilted his head slightly, his hair fell a little by his ears, his face was gentle, his tone was firm, "If I don't divorce her, she will be my person in life and my ghost in death."
"Fuling." Li Qingwu said, "It has nothing to do with men and women."
It's just that she has done too many things against her will in her life.
"Only this time, I don't want to violate it again."
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