Bai Yueguang, the stand-in for Prince Sick Jiao

Chapter 364 Grief
Pei Ce knew that after Ji Shuyu returned to Beijing, he would come to him sooner or later, but he didn't want to tell the cruel truth, so he hid early.

Sure enough, Ji Shuyu ran into nothing in Jing'an Palace.

The butler wiped his forehead, and said in an embarrassing way: "My son, he hasn't come back for several days, and the old slave doesn't know where he went, so why don't you come to him some other day?"

In the capital, there were only a few places that Pei Ce could go to, and there was no one in the palace, so he looked elsewhere.

In short, Ji Shuyu must find Pei Ce today.

Seeing that the situation was not good, He Feng quickly slipped out through the back door and ran to report to Pei Ce.

After Mu Xiaoxiao moved back to Su's house, the garden where he used to live was vacant. Pei Ce expected that Ji Shuyu would go to the place where the two of them often played to find him, so he hid in Xingwu Garden.

When He Feng Huo Liao hurried over, Pei Ce was sitting in front of the Nuan Pavilion and dozing off, but before he could fully fall asleep, he was woken up by his yelling.

"Young master, something serious happened!"

Pei Ce jumped up suddenly: "What happened?"

"Master Ji, he, he is here to find you!"

Pei Ce thought that something serious had happened. It turned out to be this, so he didn't care and said, "Let him look for it. After all, I can't see him. If you go outside and ask about Miss Cai, someone will know about it. Why does he bother to catch me?" ?”

"Young Master, even though you say that, but Young Master Ji—"

Halfway through the conversation, a joking voice suddenly came from outside the courtyard: "Huanzhi, it's rare for me to come back, but you are avoiding me. Are you still angry about my missed appointment?"

Pei Ce turned his head stiffly, and saw that the visitor was wearing a green robe, and his hair was tied with a jade crown. He was a little darker than before, and he had grown a lot taller. He was no longer romantic in the past, but now he was only young.

Ji Shuyu didn't seem to notice his stiff expression, and hooked his shoulder with a smile: "Huanzhi, I happen to be free today, shall we go for a drink?"

"Ah? Oh, okay." Pei Ce knew that he couldn't escape, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go.

Who knows if Ji Shuyu simply wants to drink with him, or for something else?

The two went to Tianxiang Pavilion as usual. At the beginning, Pei Ce felt uncomfortable and didn't dare to drink too much, for fear that he would leak his words when he was drunk.Later, Ji Shuyu didn't mention the word "Cai" the whole time, and only talked to him about the big and small things that happened in the northern border this year.

As time passed, Pei Ce also let go of his guard, and listened to his stories fascinated.

After drinking for three rounds, both of them were a little tipsy.

Ji Shuyu hooked his shoulders and said, "Huanzhi, I heard that Miss Mu is the daughter of the Su family? When I was in the north, I always heard your elder brother talk about your childhood, and the general was also thinking about your marriage. Since Miss Mu has already gone back, you just happened to marry her back earlier, so as not to end up like me in the end."

When Mu Xiaoxiao was mentioned, Pei Ce's heart began to flutter: "Brother Ji, you don't know, when Xiaoxiao was in Huixianlou, I said that I would redeem her body for her, but she refused. Now she has returned to Su's house , it is even more difficult for me to see her, last time I said I would take her back, but she still insisted on staying at Su's house."

Ji Shuyu leaned on him, his voice unconsciously carried a hint of sadness: "Huanzhi, do you think I'm late? Aya hasn't replied to my letter yet."

"No," Pei Ce kindly explained for Cai Fuya, "It's not that Ms. Cai doesn't reply to your letter, it's just that she can't."

Ji Shuyu's eyes flickered, and he said casually, "Why?"

Pei Ce was drunk and closed his eyes, not noticing the change in his expression, and said honestly: "The palace wall is so high, you can't send those letters in, let alone the Cai family won't let you—"

Before he could finish speaking, the weight he was leaning on was suddenly withdrawn, Pei Ce was caught off guard and fell to the ground, and most of the wine suddenly woke up.

"Hiss, brother Ji, what's wrong with you?" He rubbed his arms, frowned and looked at Ji Shuyu, "Even if I hide from you, you wouldn't come here suddenly, would you? It hurts me to death."

Ji Shuyu clenched his hands into fists, the drunkenness in his eyes disappeared completely, only grief and anger.

He should have guessed it a long time ago. Since he returned to Beijing, everyone kept silent about the Cai family's affairs, for fear that he would know something, and even Pei Ce would avoid seeing him.

If it wasn't for something major happened to the Cai family, how could they be like this?

It wasn't until later that he sent someone to inquire about it, and he found out that Mrs. Cai passed away on the night his mother invited someone to the Cai family to discuss marriage.

The old lady passed away, and Cai Fuya had to observe filial piety for one year, but Cai Yuan sent Aya to His Majesty before the filial piety period was over for his own self-interest!
Ji Shuyu clenched his fists tightly, the churning pain in his heart seemed to swallow him up, and when he opened his eyes again, he felt scarlet in front of him.

Pei Ce was a little flustered, and called him weakly: "Brother Ji... are you okay?"

Ji Shuyu froze there, looking at the cold and ruthless palace with difficulty, unable to imagine how sad she must be in these days when he is not around?

If only he could come back sooner
He leaned on the window sill, slowly lowered his head, his stiff back gradually bent.

The vigorous young general on the battlefield can protect the people on the border, but he can't protect the one he loves; the spear in his hand has killed countless enemies, but he can't point it at the man in the bright hall.

why?why!
He grasped the window sill with ten fingers, the bulging veins on the back of his hand were the pain he was trying to suppress, the pain in his heart spread little by little, tears rolled down silently, every drop was bright red.

The wood carving that was not given away in time has become an eternal obsession.

He originally planned to marry Aya into the family and then take her to the north.The grasslands in the northern border are vast and the sky is very blue. Every year in May, the green grass sways like the sea, and even the air is filled with a faint fragrance of flowers.

He thought that Aya would definitely like it.

But, he came late.
In all the fantasies about the beautiful future, Ji Shuyu could no longer restrain the grief in his heart, bent down and cried bitterly.

Pei Ce sat on the ground and silently moved towards him for a few minutes. His raised hand froze in the air for a long while before landing on his shoulder.

"Brother Ji, I didn't go to Chongguo Temple that day. I don't know what happened. I only heard that after His Majesty returned to Beijing, he named Miss Cai as Concubine Yu. Counting the days, she has been in the palace for two months. gone."

Ji Shuyu's throat was filled with soreness, and he couldn't make a sound, letting his tears fall and wet his blue robe.

Two months
A person who longed for freedom was trapped in that cage for two full months!

During countless long dark nights, how can Cai Fuya survive alone in the deep palace?When she was most helpless, he was thousands of miles away. How desperate should she be at that time?
Ji Shuyu hated Cai Yuan, hated the ninety-five supreme emperor, but hated himself even more.

If he had come back earlier, if he hadn't gone to the north, would all this have been different?
The wind in the evening is very light, covering the whole city like the afterglow of the curtain, but such a gentle twilight cannot heal the cracks in my heart...

Pei Ce was afraid that he would do something stupid on the spur of the moment, so he kept grabbing his robe without letting go, talking nonsense to comfort him.

Ji Shuyu sat paralyzed on the ground and cried bitterly. When the alcohol was completely overwhelmed, he suddenly broke free from Pei Ce's hand, stood up staggeringly, and was about to jump off the building when he stepped out of the window.

Pei Ce was shocked by him, and it took a lot of effort to drag him back.

Unable to jump off the building, Ji Shuyu was suffocating, and dragged Pei Ce to drink all night.He laughed and cried, cried and laughed, until the end, he was still chanting Cai Fuya's name.

Unfortunately, no one responded to him anymore...

(End of this chapter)