Dressed as a tyrant and kissing the little queen

Chapter 484 No need to say sorry when we meet again
Pucheng is a small city, but it has a strong atmosphere of fireworks.

On both sides of the long street, there are a variety of shops, and the shopkeepers spare no effort to greet the guests.

Ling Jian walked through the busy streets and stopped in front of a dilapidated small courtyard.

The wooden door has been weathered and decayed for a long time, and an iron lock has long been rusted into disrepair. There are a few tufts of weeds growing on the eaves of the small courtyard, and the wind blows, shaking to and fro.

It was evident that no one had lived here for a long time.

"Your Majesty, this is the place where Concubine Jing lived when she was young."

Wen Qin said in a low voice, held the door lock, and twisted it lightly, and the lock fell into Wen Qin's palm like rotten.

The wooden door was pushed open with a screeching sound, which made one's heart tremble. I was afraid that with a little more force, the door might be torn into pieces.

Ling Jian walked in slowly, looking at the furnishings in the small courtyard bit by bit.

A laurel tree in the courtyard has long since died, and there is a bamboo chair under the tree, which is covered with heavy dust, and its true color has long been lost.

The room was not much better, with dust on the table and cobwebs in the corners.

Ling Jian stood for a long time in the room where Xiao Li lived.

*
Five years ago, when Xiao Li left Night City, she did not return to Pucheng.

Ling Jian hated her determination and never let anyone follow her.

When he felt remorseful and sent someone to find her whereabouts, they had already disappeared.

She seemed to have disappeared from this world without a trace.

Ling Jian searched for her for two years, but failed to find her. He was so disheartened that he had no choice but to give up.

He was his emperor calmly, tried his best to rule the world, and respected Queen Fang Qingyi as a guest.

Even the concubines in the harem were exposed to rain and dew, and they never had the slightest preference for anyone.

However, in the face of several memorials from the Ministry of Rites asking for re-selection of concubines, Ling Jian refused.

Five years have passed, not many people in the palace still remember Xiao Li, no one remembers that there was once a Concubine Jing in the palace.

Those who still remember only said that Concubine Jing angered the emperor, and that's why she was demoted as a commoner and expelled from the palace.

But no one knew that when the night was quiet, there would always be someone standing silently in the empty Yueli Palace.

The queen mother scolded him for being heartless and cold-blooded, scolding him for not knowing how to write the word love.

He really didn't seem to know how to love Xiao Li.

He didn't even love her very much.

He never really got to know Xiao Li, her past.

When Xiao Li married him, he only regarded her as an ordinary concubine.

When he finally realized that Xiao Li was different from him and tried hard to treat her well, she refused to even call her cousin.

He responded to Xiao Li's indifference in an angry and fierce way, but in the end, he and Xiao Li came to the point of a complete break.

Xiao Li, how are you doing now?
After so many years, there should be no more nightmares, and no more crying in the dreams.

*
In Liyang Palace, when Qin Luoyu saw Ling Jian, he felt both sad and unbearable.

The last time I saw him was a year ago, when Qin Luoyu and Lord Ling returned to Night City to hold a wedding for Ling Ruo.

A year has passed, and the gloomy and cold aura on this son has increased a bit.

However, people in their twenties rarely have a smile on their faces. In the past few years, they have devoted all their attention to governing the country, and they are full of workaholics.

Yes, it's hard for him.

When Qin Luoyu learned about Xiao Li back then, he was so angry that he was dying, the first thing he did was to rush back to Night City and scold Ling Jian severely.

The second thing is to hide Ling Jian and go around looking for Xiao Li's whereabouts.

There is a reason why Ling Jian couldn't find Xiao Li in the past few years.

This person was found by Ling Junxing a long time ago, and was hidden. He still wants to find it?

Fighting with his own father, Ling Jian was still a bit close.

Qin Luoyu didn't want to tell him about Xiao Li's whereabouts because of the immoral things this son did.

However, his silly son didn't mind Xiao Li at all on the surface, and he never mentioned a word about Xiao Li.

Secretly, I heard that in the middle of the night, I often go to Yueli Palace to sit withered, and I sit for a whole night.

Now he has a serious sleep problem, and he can't sleep almost every night. The imperial physician in the palace had no choice but to invite Xue Yuheng.

After Xue Yuheng's diagnosis, he didn't say anything, and turned around to write a letter to Qin Luoyu: "Heart disease requires heart medicine."

After reading the letter, Qin Luoyu sighed. After all, he decided to let Ling Jian come to Liyang.

Of course, the reason was that she wanted to see Ling Jian and Ling Ruo.

Ling Ruo had already married Wei Wuji's eldest son, Wei Zun, and had just been diagnosed with pregnancy, so it was inconvenient to come.

Ever since, Ling Jian came to Liyang City in disguise.

"I heard that you went to Pucheng on your way to Liyang?"

Qin Luoyu signaled Ling Jian to sit down, and said intentionally, "Do you still remember Xiao Li?"

Ling Jian remained silent, apparently acquiescing.

"You said you, now that you know you miss Xiao Li, why didn't you do anything about personnel when he was by your side?"

Qin Luoyu really hates iron but not steel, "Let me tell you that if I hadn't been pregnant and gave birth to you in October, and watched you grow so big with my own eyes, I really doubt that you are not your father's son."

How can there be such a big difference.

At the beginning, Ling Junxing tolerated her in every possible way, following her everywhere, for fear of wronging her.

When I came to Lingjian, I was a different person, who only knew toughness.

No one can stand it, let alone Xiao Li.

Originally, Xiao Li had an extremely serious psychological shadow on intimacy when she was a child.

For this kind of child, there is no other way except to love her and spoil her.

Only love is the best cure, can truly change her perception of the past, and be willing to take the initiative to build a new intimate relationship.

When Xiao Li said that he liked Ling Jian and was willing to marry Ling Jian, Qin Luoyu was quite happy.

In this way, Xiao Li doesn't have to move out of the palace, doesn't have to run in with her husband anymore, and has been with Ling Jian for many years, and they are very familiar with each other, Xiao Li should have a very smooth life.

Who would have thought that Ling Jian would just stop Xiao Li from having a child, and put Xiao Li under house arrest in Yueli Palace, not allowing her to go out for half a step, and in the end, regardless of Xiao Li's pleading, he insisted on killing the maid Chaoyun.

Xiao Li didn't have any special relatives in the palace except Qin Luoyu. Chaoyun had been with her since she entered the palace, and treated her like a relative.

It's a shame that Ling Jian only cares about fighting against Xiao Li, and never understands Xiao Li's state of mind.

So finally, Chao Yun's death became the last straw that crushed Xiao Li, and from then on, Xiao Li's love for him turned into hatred.

Qin Luoyu thought to herself, if it wasn't for the fact that he was my son, or because he couldn't sleep all day long, and the symptoms of insomnia were almost terminally ill, she wouldn't want to tell him Xiao Li's whereabouts.

Qin Luoyu walked to the desk, picked up a pen and wrote an address, took the gift box next to it, and handed it to Ling Jian together with the note.

"Tomorrow, your father and I will go to Xishan to enjoy the flowers. You go here for me and give me something."

Qin Luoyu sighed silently. As a mother, this is the only way she can help Ling Jian.

*
Ling Jian took Wen Qin, and carrying the gift box, when he found the address Qin Luoyu had mentioned.

The crisp laughter of children came from the alley, and several children were playing the game of eagle and chicken.

A four or five-year-old girl with a double bun is acting as an eagle.

The little girl has porcelain white skin, a round face, big eyes, like black grapes, and she is lively and cute.

With her short legs, she chased after those children who were hiding in all directions.

One didn't pay attention, she was tripped to the ground and hit her chin. She felt the pain very much, and couldn't help but burst into tears.

The little girl was crying pitifully, her eyebrows and eyes were strangely familiar.

Ling Jian's heart softened, he helped the little girl up, and helped her check the wound on her chin.

The skin was broken, but the injury was not serious.

"Where does your family live? Do you want me to take you back?"

With tears in her eyes, the little girl tilted her head and looked at the uncle. She felt that this uncle didn't look like a bad person, so she choked and said, "Okay."

Ling Jian knelt down and hugged the little girl in his arms. The little girl stretched out her little hand to show him the way: "That's where my home is."

The door of the small courtyard was open, and the little girl shouted childishly: "Mother, mother, I fell!"

A woman in the room came out in a hurry, "Where did you fall? Come in quickly and let my mother take a look."

Hearing this voice, Ling Jian's face changed suddenly, his eyes fell on the woman, and the bottom of his dark eyes seemed to be on fire instantly.

It's Xiao Li!
On the other side, Xiao Li strode over and saw Ling Jian who was holding the child standing at the door, as if his acupuncture points had been tapped, he stood there stunned.

"Mother, it was my uncle who sent me back."

The child rubbed his chin aggrievedly, "It hurts so much here, my uncle said it was broken."

Xiao Li was brought back to her senses by the child's voice, and nodded calmly at Ling Jian: "Thank you."

She took the child from Ling Jian, "Be good, Yue'er, mother will take you to apply the medicine."

Ling Jian grabbed her wrist, "Xiao Li."

Xiao Li frowned: "Cousin, what do you have to say, can you talk about it after I finish treating the child's wound?"

This call of cousin brought a little clarity and inexplicable hope to Ling Jian's chaotic mind.

She is willing to call him cousin.

She was finally willing to call him cousin.

Ling Jian subconsciously let go of his hand, with mixed feelings in his heart: "Okay."

Yue'er looked at Ling Jian and said curiously, "Mother, do you know this uncle?"

Xiao Li nodded, "It's your Aunt Ruo's brother."

After Ling Ruo got married last year, he traveled all the way to Liyang with Qin Luoyu, and met Xiao Li and the child.

So Yue'er knew that she had Aunt Ruo.

Yue'er blinked: "Then what should I call this uncle?"

Xiao Li looked slightly uncomfortable, but soon returned to normal: "Call me Uncle Biao."

Yue'er shouted crisply: "Uncle Cousin."

Ling Jian touched the child's little head: "Good boy."

Xiao Li took the child into the house.

Wen Qin glanced at Qin Luoyu's address and lowered his voice: "Your Majesty, this is the place we are looking for."

Ling Jian nodded, "Wait for me outside."

Yesterday, the empress mother only gave him the address and asked him to come here to deliver something to her, but she didn't say who the person lived here, only said that it was an old friend.

Ling Jian thought it was an old friend of his mother's, and thought that she didn't want to say anything, and there were reasons for her unwillingness to say it, but he didn't expect that the person living here was Xiao Li.

It seems that the queen mother wanted him to come here on purpose.

Ling Jian stood in the yard waiting with the gift box in his hand.

This small courtyard is elegant and quiet, only women's and children's clothes are left to dry in the courtyard, but no men.

Is it just her and the child living here?

It took a long time for Xiao Li to come out, "Sorry, Yue'er takes a nap every day, I just coaxed her to sleep."

"It's okay."

Thinking of the child's appearance, Ling Jian suddenly had a bold guess, "This child"

"This child has nothing to do with my cousin, it's my husband's child."

Xiao Li seemed to guess what Ling Jian was thinking, "Didn't my aunt tell you? I've been married a long time ago, and my husband is a doctor. I've gone out to gather medicine these days."

Ling Jian suppressed the ambivalence in his heart, and handed the gift box to Xiao Li, "My mother asked me to bring it to you."

"Auntie is bothering you, please help me to thank Auntie."

Xiao Li's attitude was polite and alienated, "Tell auntie not to keep preparing dresses for Yue'er in the future, Yue'er is young, and there are too many dresses to wear, just a few sets are enough."

Qin Luoyu loves Yue'er so much, she wants to give her the best in everything, for fear that something will be short.

Every now and then she would order someone to deliver things. A few days ago when she came to see the child, she saw that the dress was a little short, so she said that she would prepare a few more sets of clothes for the child when she returned to the palace.

In fact, many of the suits I gave before have not been worn yet.

Ling Jian: "It doesn't matter if you send more sets."

Xiao Li: "."

The two were relatively speechless for a while.

Ling Jian was silent for a while, "How have you been doing these past few years?"

Xiao Li smiled, "Of course. My aunt takes good care of me, and my husband is also very kind to me."

Ling Jian was a little dazed.

In memory, it has been a long time since I saw Xiao Li's bright smile.

It seems that she is really having a good time.

Ling Jian couldn't tell what it was like in his heart, some were gratified and some were disappointed.

"Xiao Li." After a long silence, Ling Jian finally whispered: "I'm sorry about what happened back then."

This sorry was what he wanted to say to Xiao Li a long time ago.

He still owes her an apology.

"I've forgotten what happened back then. You don't have to say sorry to me."

Xiao Li said lightly, "Cousin, I left the palace only to realize that I was the one who got into a dead end. Auntie is right, the world is vast, and those unhappy pasts are just a fleeting moment, so there is no need to go too far." persistent."

Xiao Li really thanked Qin Luoyu, she treated her so well and taught her a lot.

In the past few years, she took care of the children alone, but she never followed the path of her mother, Qin Suhan.

The nightmares and overly pessimistic and depressive moods that tormented her in the past are all gone now.

Both she and the children had a great time.

At least, now that she sees Ling Jian again, she can deal with him calmly and call him cousin, but there will be no more turmoil in her heart.

There is no hate, and perhaps, no love.

Cousin, just a cousin.

"Cousin, I won't let you drink tea today."

Xiao Li smiled slightly, "It's really inconvenient that my husband is not at home. My cousin will come over to play when my husband comes back another day. At that time, I will also let my cousin see my husband."

This is clearly a eviction order.

Ling Jian's throat seemed to be choked, and his voice was stagnant: "Okay."

The words fell, and he left like this.

Xiao Li closed the courtyard door, leaned against the door panel, and let out a light breath.

When he meets her "husband", he will be able to let go of it completely.

(End of this chapter)