Your Majesty, the Emperor is playing your cards again!

Chapter 797: Sunrise and sunset, dusk and white hair

He turned and went into the room, pretending to pack his things.

There's really nothing to clean up.

They came here to escape, with only tattered clothes of their own.

Minister Lu stood at the door, looking at the thin figure inside, the deep emotions in his eyes almost overwhelmed him.

After a long time, he walked in gently.

As if summoning up all the courage in his life, he whispered, "Jiang Zhu, are you willing to stay?"

The virtuous concubine turned her head suddenly, with a look of surprise on her face.

For a moment I couldn't understand what he meant.

Minister Lu took a step closer, his tall figure almost covering her slender figure.

"Stay, and let's live in this village forever."

Concubine Xian's mind was in a mess. She murmured, "But, didn't they say someone would come to pick us up tomorrow?"

“They don’t have to come.”

He was willing to live here with her, hiding his identity and staying together for the rest of his life.

As for those in the capital, just treat them as if they are dead.

After all, they had been washed away by the flood for more than half a month, so it was normal for them to die.

The virtuous concubine's heart was beating wildly, her hands were tightly grasping the corners of her clothes, and her whole body was shaking.

His proposal was too unorthodox. In the past, she would not have accepted it even if it was exposed to the world.

But now, she was actually moved for a moment by these words.

She put away her brocade and hairpins and rings, and wore only a straw hairpin and a cloth skirt. They will stay together through wind and rain, and live together for a hundred years.

Two people in one house, three meals a day, four seasons, morning sun and evening glow, evening snow and white hair.

Many images flashed through her mind in an instant, many images that she had never dared to imagine before.

The scenes were so beautiful that she wanted to cry.

But how could she!
She is the virtuous concubine!
Behind her is the Jiang family.

How could she only care about their three meals a day and four seasons and ignore her responsibilities and morals!

She suppressed the throbbing in her heart and smiled at the man in front of her: "What are you talking about, Minister Lu? We have been gone for so long, I think the mansion must be in turmoil."

That gentle and dignified smile seemed to contain heartbreaking sorrow.

Minister Lu's heart was in a knot, but he tried his best to calm himself.

He smiled faintly and said, "Your Majesty is right. After disappearing for so long, it's time to go back."

After saying this, he turned around and left the room. His tall and unkempt figure seemed shrouded in a thick, indissoluble loneliness.

Suddenly, there was a void in my heart.

The virtuous concubine raised her hand and grasped her heart.

The next day, someone really came to pick them up, and they returned to the capital city they had not seen for a long time.

The capital city is still the same capital city, prosperous and bustling.

It’s just that the sky is so blue that it makes people want to cry.

They also returned to their past ways, getting along with each other indifferently and distantly.

But after all, they disappeared together for more than half a month, and there were always some unusual sounds around them.

The virtuous concubine didn't care about these voices.

But for some reason, the two of them were getting along distantly, and she couldn't control the bitterness in her heart and wanted to cry.

She had never been so weak before.

Such weakness made her angry, and she felt unusually depressed and sad.

Minister Lu is careful and attentive.

Naturally, they noticed her abnormality and thought she was sad because of the rumors.

In order to quell these rumors, he went to propose marriage.

Marrying a wife can not only quell the rumors, but also curb the wildly growing desires in one's heart.

It seemed as if things could never go back to the way they were before, and he was increasingly unable to control himself.

He wanted to possess her madly.

He couldn't let this crazy thought grow, he had to do something to curb himself.

Soon the matchmaker introduced a girl to him.