The world's ambitions are unparalleled

Chapter 51
Su Li, who was originally planning to leave for Qingyue immediately, got the promise, so he was not willing to let it go easily, and insisted on personally sending Jinse back to Biancheng, the capital of Zhongli.

All the way back, although the two of them didn't seem to be very close along the way, the inconspicuous change was still noticed by everyone.

However, everyone remained silent, including Lu He and Song Heng. Their attitude towards them was still the same now.

Jinse felt a little apprehensive about this situation, but Su Li didn't take it seriously, he still put on airs like a prince in front of others, but when he stayed with Jinse in private, except for the occasional stubborn pride, most of the time, he still regarded it as Thousands of obedience.

Fortunately, Jinse is not as tricky as before, and rarely asks him difficult questions.

On the day of returning to the capital, Jinghao brought someone to greet her at the gate of the city.

When Jinse learned of the situation ahead, she was only one mile away from the city gate, and she could already see the princess' guard of honor from a distance.In fact, she didn't mind much, but Su Li suddenly rode to the side of the carriage and knocked on the small window.

Jinse raised the curtain and saw his frowning, and chuckled lightly: "What's wrong?"

Su Li looked at her, the corners of his mouth moved, and he said after a long while: "I didn't ask her to come here."

Jinse couldn't help but laughed out loud: "I know, but everyone knows that she is here for you."

Su Li could see the narrowness in her eyes at a glance, suddenly he had no intention of explaining anymore, he snorted and ran away.

Putting down the curtain, Jinse still couldn't stop laughing, Lu He glanced at her lightly, and licked the corners of her lips: "It's really happy, huh?"

Jinse seemed to be slightly taken aback, and then smiled again: "Of course I'm happy."

Turning his head again, he looked outside again through the sparse curtain, and could vaguely see Su Li's slightly stiff back.Jinse could almost imagine his expression at the moment, but she still couldn't stop laughing.

Judging from the expressions of some people in the princess guard of honor, Jing Hao seems to have been waiting here for a long time, but when she appeared in front of everyone, she was still radiant and smiling, and greeted Song Heng first: "Fourth brother is back, It’s been a lot of hard work, isn’t it?”

Song Heng just smiled slightly: "It's okay. But you, have you been waiting here for a long time?"

Jinghao lowered her eyes and smiled, and when she raised her eyelids again, she had already cast her gaze on Su Li: "My lord has been exhausted all the way, Jinghao has already prepared a dust-cleaning banquet in the palace, why don't you enter the palace first?"

"No need." Su Li stood with his hands behind his back, listening to the sound of Jinse's approaching footsteps behind him, he said calmly, "This time I'm coming back again, but it's actually just a private matter, so I don't want to disturb you in the palace."

After listening quietly, his eyes became slightly anxious: "The prince is a distinguished guest, and it is too late for me to wait for the hospitality, so how can we talk about the word disturb?"

"I really don't dare to bother the princess." Su Li cupped his hands lightly, and turned to Song Heng, "In the next few days, I'm afraid I will disturb you in the other courtyard of the Fourth Highness."

Song Heng glanced at Jinse, who was standing two steps behind Su Li, and saw that Jinse's expression was natural, so he smiled and said, "Flourishing and shining."

"In this case, then I'll let someone set up the dust-cleaning banquet in the four other courtyards." Jing Hao bowed slightly, and without waiting for Su Li's answer, she turned around and ordered someone to arrange it.

Su Li frowned slightly, turned his head to look at Jinse, Jinse just smiled at him, and he felt a little restless for a moment, he hummed slightly and stopped looking at her.

Jinse sighed silently.

When the group returned to the other courtyard, the dust-cleaning banquet arranged by Jing had already been prepared early in the morning.

After Song Heng and Su Li tidied up a bit, they came to the flower hall, but they didn't see Jinse for a long time.

After a while, Lu He came slowly and said, "Fourth Highness, my lady is too tired to come, please Fourth Highness, the prince and princess will use it first."

Upon hearing this, Su Li frowned again.

Seeing this, Jinghao still smiled and replied: "I'm tired, so I need to eat. Since Jinse can't come, I have some cakes I made by myself. You can take some back and let Jinse eat some." , as part of my heart."

Lu He's brows moved slightly, and when she was about to blurt out some unpleasant words, she suddenly saw Song Hengchao shook his head lightly.She paused, and after taking a deep breath, Fang took the food box handed over by Jing Hao's maid, thanked her lukewarmly, turned and left.

The three people in the hall just started to eat, and after eating a few bites in a hurry, Su Li put down the jade chopsticks: "Use it slowly, both of you."

"Your lord, is this ready?" Jing Hao just held the jug and was about to add more wine for him, but she didn't expect that Su Li had already stood up, and she couldn't help but also stood up.

"Having been on the road for several days, I have no appetite." Su Li said lightly, "Thank you princess for your kindness."

After finishing speaking, he cupped his hands towards Song Heng, turned around and walked out of the flower hall.

Jinghao's hand holding the jug suddenly felt a little stiff, and after a long time, she slowly dripped the spout into her wine glass, and after filling a glass, she raised her head and drank it down in one gulp.

Song Heng was calm from the beginning to the end, and finally said when he saw this: "Be quiet, forget it."

"Forget it?" Jinghao opened her eyes slightly and looked at him, as if she had heard something funny, but her voice was still calm and decent, "Fourth brother said it easily. But he is my lifelong happiness, how can I Can it count?"

"Since his heart is not on you, how can there be happiness?" Song Hengsu knew the nature of this younger sister, but as an elder brother, he still had to persuade him.

"As long as I feel happy, isn't that enough?" Jinghao smiled slightly, "He is a smart person. In the end, he will always know what he wants and how to choose. He will naturally have a sense of proportion."

When Su Li found the Jinse courtyard, he saw a figure sitting leisurely in front of the clump of unknown flowers, holding a food box in his arms, admiring the flowers, while shaking his head to his mouth Reese dim sum.

He strode over and sat down beside her unceremoniously.

Jinse was slightly startled, turned to see him, but laughed again: "You're here."

Su Li raised his eyebrows slightly: "It seems that you are waiting for me?"

"Uh..." Jinse was at a loss for words and didn't know how to answer. When she looked down at the food box in her arms, she took out a piece of snack and brought it to him, "Have you tried it? Lu He said yes Princess Jinghao made it herself, and it tastes really good."

Hearing this, Su Li grabbed the food box in her hand, raised her hand and threw it out.

The food box fell in the distance, and the snacks inside spilled all over the floor.

"Why are you so reckless?" Jinse exclaimed suddenly.

Su Li stared, then looked at the only piece of pastry she was holding in her hand.

Jinse caught his gaze, with quick eyes and quick hands, and before he had time to move, he had already stuffed the pastry into his mouth.

"You—" Su Li felt a headache and stroked his forehead.

"It tastes really good." Jinse looked at the cakes scattered all over the place in the distance with some pity, then turned her gaze to his face again, and suddenly chuckled, "Are you afraid she will poison me to death? If it is true It’s poisonous, I’ve eaten a lot just now, and I’ve been poisoned to death long ago.”

Su Li sneered suddenly: "You really don't take your own life seriously!"

"That's not true." Jinse tilted her head slightly and said, "If she really wanted to harm me, how dare she be so blatant? Besides, she doesn't seem like someone who would do such a thing."

"From now on, you don't touch anything she sends you." Su Li said with deep eyes, paused, and then said again, "Forget it, I'm really worried about leaving you alone in Zhongli. Why don't I find another place to settle you down."

Jinse shook her head: "Song Heng is here to take care of me, don't worry, besides, after a while, I want to go out for a walk."

Upon hearing this, Su Li frowned again: "Where are you going?"

Jinse looked at him and hesitated for a moment, then said, "I think, let's go to the place where the Yi people used to live."

"Nayi tribe?" Su Li frowned suddenly, "It's just an abandoned barren hill, what are you going to do there?"

"It's an abandoned barren hill now, but more than 20 years ago, my mother grew up there." Jinse said seriously, "I have a very faint impression of my mother, so I want to go there and find out who my mother is. What kind of environment did you grow up in?"

Su Li looked at her, his mind seemed a little ethereal.

Jinse looked at him, and suddenly remembered something: "Maybe, I can find the legendary 'Tianxia Zhi' for you!"

"Who wants you to find some 'World Records' for me?" Su Li bluntly turned cold, "I never believed there was such a thing in the world."

Jinse curled her lips: "It's up to you whether you believe it or not, anyway, I'm going there to have a look."

Su Li finally couldn't help sighing: "Come on, I won't stop you if you really want to go. When I go back to Qingyue, I will send a few people to protect you, so I can feel more at ease."

Jinse thought for a while, then nodded obediently.As soon as he changed his mind, he suddenly wanted to ask him when he would go back. Just as he was about to ask, he remembered his temper, so he swallowed back the words that came to his lips, and said instead: "You spilled my snacks, pay me first and then talk about it." .”

Su Li took a deep look at her, quite helpless: "If you want to eat, I'll send a few cooks from Qingyue to cook for you with different patterns every day."

"Then I want to eat it now." Jinse said obsessively, "You came here after eating abalone's wing belly, and my stomach is still empty!"

Su Li looked at her, then suddenly raised his eyes to look into the room, and called out: "Lu He!"

Lu He responded: "What is the order of the prince?"

Su Li raised his finger and pointed to the cakes scattered on the ground, and said, "Your lady wants to eat, you go pick it up, wash it, and bring it to her!"

"Su Li!" Jinse was so angry that she threw her hand at him.

But Su Li squeezed his fist, pulled her into his arms, lowered his head and kissed her gently on the face, and said in a deep voice: "You're not here, abalone's wing belly is nothing to eat."

Jinse blushed suddenly, a little anxiously went to look for Luhe, but found that the girl had gone back to the house sometime later, she was slightly relieved, and pushed Su Li away: "You are so stingy." A person would not even pay me a few dimes."

"Stingy?" He chuckled, "In two days, I will pay you a big gift."

Jinse suddenly became interested again: "What is it?"

"You will know when the time comes." Su Li played tricks.

Two days later, Jinse had almost forgotten about this incident, but was suddenly notified to go to the gate of the other courtyard to receive gifts.

She hurried away, and when she got out of the door, she suddenly froze.

At the gate of the other courtyard, Su Li was standing there with his back to her, and his men were stroking a snow-white horse.

Jinse stood at the door blankly, until Su Li looked back, then she suddenly came back to her senses, and stepped forward in a daze.

This horse, she remembered, she had seen in old man Mei's yard.

Jin Se stretched out her hand to caress the horse, and finally couldn't help but chuckled: "It's Jixue."

Su Li was slightly taken aback: "How do you know it's called Jixue?"

Jinse didn't answer, but happily stroked Jixue's snow-white and neat mane: "You specially asked someone to bring it to me from Qingyue?"

"It was originally yours." Su Li looked at her, and whispered with a smile, "Would a horse of Jixue be worth that box of dim sum?"

Jinse was overjoyed, but still just smiled lightly: "It's just worth it."

Su Li raised his hand to pinch her face, but Jinse laughed and avoided her.

On the day Jixue sent her over, Su Li invited Jinse to ride a horse.

Jixue is a rare good horse with a gentle temperament. Jinse thinks it is very rare, so she likes it even more, and only wants to go out for a ride the next day.

Unexpectedly, the next day, just as she arrived at the courtyard where Su Li lived, she bumped into a stranger rushing towards her head-on, she glanced at him and saw the token hanging on his waist, and she knew it was Qingyue who sent her.

The man seemed to recognize her, and when he saw her, although he couldn't hide his astonishment in his eyes, he still bowed his head and bowed, then hurriedly walked into Su Li's garden with his head bowed.

Jinse thought for a while, but still walked in behind him.

When she came to the entrance of the hall, Su Li was already sitting inside, carefully reading a letter that looked like an official letter.

Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted Jinse, and then he slowly put away the official letter, turned to Jinse and said, "It's so early? Do you still want to go riding a horse today?"

The guard who delivered the letter immediately retreated consciously.

Jinse stepped forward slowly, and said with a smile: "I want to ride a horse, but I'm afraid that you, Lord Ning, won't be free."

Su Li frowned slightly, and said, "I can ride with you again today."

"No need." Jinse pouted slightly, and said, "If you accompany me, you will divide today's mileage into the future mileage, and run so many miles every day, won't you be tired? ?”

Su Li looked at her, paused for a moment, and suddenly laughed: "Would you like to send me out of the city?"

Jinse frowned and looked at him for a long time, then shook her head: "I don't like seeing you off, so find someone else to take you there."

Su Li looked at her, still smiling, squeezed her palm and said, "Then you are cute to write letters?"

Jinse thought for a while, but still shook her head: "I don't like it either."

"Then what should I do?" He frowned slightly again, "From this point of view, I won't be able to leave today."

The dignified prince has degenerated into a rascal.

Jinse glared at him, and finally compromised: "Then, I will write you a letter every month."

"Early, middle and late every month."

"Two."

Jinse raised two fingers and refused to back down.

Su Li pinched her fingers resentfully, and at the end, he was worried: "What happened, you must tell me."

Jinse thought for a while and said, "Eat, drink, and sleep?"

Su Li's face turned blue, but he finally calmed down, and said viciously: "Yes, you have to tell me everything about eating, drinking... and sleeping!"

Jinse didn't like seeing him off, so she really didn't send him out of the city, and only waved goodbye to him at the gate of the other courtyard.

Su Li rode his horse and ran a long way, but finally looked back again, only to see that Jinse was still looking at him from the previous position, his heart warmed up, and he felt a lingering feeling of reluctance. The speed can't help but slow down.

"My lord." The messenger guard seemed to see something, and hurriedly said, "The matter is urgent, so we can't help but delay it."

Su Li's heart froze, he glanced at Jinse from a distance, and finally galloped away quickly.

It wasn't until he was out of the city that he spoke again: "The emperor suddenly decided to go on tour in micro-clothes this time, where exactly is he going?"

"The villain doesn't know. I only know that the emperor did not bring many people with him on this tour, and no one in the palace knows where the emperor is going. Although King Qin has woken up, he is still recuperating in Minshan, so the only thing in the court is to rely on the prince to preside over the overall situation." .It was ordered by the Empress Dowager to return the prince as soon as possible."

"King Qin is awake?" Su Li suddenly asked, "How long have you been awake?"

"About one month. It's about when the prince just arrived in Zhongli."

"Understood." Su Li responded lightly, and suddenly whipped his horse and went straight to Zhongli's direction.

Traveling day and night, regardless of the weather, Su Li finally returned to Qingzhou, the imperial capital, after half a month.

At this time, the emperor had already left Beijing for more than a month.Fortunately, the government was jointly managed by the cabinet and the new prime minister Lu Zhao, so there was not much shock. However, some memorials where the cabinet and Lu Zhao had different opinions were pending, and the accumulation of more than a month was not a small amount.

As soon as Su Li returned to Beijing, he rushed into the palace, stayed in the cabinet for several days and nights, and finally dealt with all the pending memorials.

And he returned to Beijing for a few days before he finally had the time to pay his respects to the Queen Mother.

Although the mother and son had a quarrel before, it was the biological mother and son, and the empress dowager hadn't seen him for nearly two months. When I saw him today, I saw that he had lost weight due to the day and night rush and the busy work after returning to the palace. The Empress Dowager felt distressed suddenly, and pulled Su Li to talk for a while, and the mother and son became as close as ever.

It's just that the queen mother has doubts about Qingchu returning to the palace first, but he was nearly a month late.Su Li reached an agreement with Qing Chu earlier, he begged for Qing Chu, but Qing Chu was not allowed to disclose the news of Jin Se in Zhongli to anyone, now it seems that the girl has done it.Therefore, Su Li casually told a lie about the kindness of King Zhongli to explain his late return.

Unexpectedly, the Empress Dowager suddenly thought of Jinghao again: "Since he treated you well, I'm afraid he didn't blame you for refusing the marriage before, but now, there is still hope for you and Princess Jinghao to have a good relationship. "

"Mother." Su Li frowned suddenly, "I don't want to mention these things for the time being."

Because the mother and son fell out for a long time because of this matter, now there is a thorn in the heart of the two of them, and neither of them is willing to touch it again in a short time, so the Queen Mother also followed him: "Let's go, let's pass Let's talk about it in a day."

As soon as the words fell, a communication suddenly sounded outside the hall: "King Qin has arrived——"

Su Li was faintly startled: "Second brother has recovered?"

Although the Queen Mother reconciled with Su Li's mother and son deeply, the grievance between Su Mo and Su Mo has not been resolved, so her face was a little dark when she heard the words, and she sneered slightly: "You are young after all, and you are so hurt. When you wake up, but It will be fine in just over a month. And it happened to catch up with the day when the emperor left Beijing, the Ai family really doesn't know whether he intends to or not!"

Hearing the queen mother's words, Su Li couldn't help being slightly startled, then raised his eyes and looked at the figure who was slowly walking in from the door.

Since Su Mo was seriously injured, Su Li only went to visit twice in the early stage, so counting back and forth, he hadn't seen Su Mo for almost four months.

He only expected that Su Mo's appearance would change after recovering from a serious injury, but he didn't expect Su Mo to slowly enter from the entrance of the palace, except that his body had lost a little weight, his appearance was the same as before, and his face was not weak at all. When she looked at her with a smile, her appearance was the same as before.

Su Li was slightly stunned, thinking of what the queen mother said earlier, his eyes darkened.

The queen mother's face was obviously not very good-looking, but Su Mo acted as if he didn't care, and went forward to salute: "I send my respects to the queen mother."

"You've just recovered, so you don't need to be too polite." The queen mother said lightly, "Why do you think of entering the palace today?"

"I've been resting for a long time, and my bones are a little lazy. I just feel better today, so I went out for a walk, and greeted my mother by the way." Su Mo then turned to Su Li, and said with a smile, "But I don't know that the third brother also came back gone."

"I've only been back for a few days." Su Li looked at him and said calmly, "These days I've been dealing with paperwork at the cabinet, and today I just took time to visit my mother, but I haven't had time to visit my second brother, please invite me Don't blame me."

Su Mo waved his hand and said, "I don't have any serious problems now, it's not worth looking into, don't take it to heart."

"That's true." Su Li smiled faintly, "Looking at Second Brother's expression, it doesn't seem like he just got seriously ill."

The three of them talked for a while in the hall, and suddenly the cabinet sent someone to pass the word, saying that there was an important document that Su Li needed to decide immediately.

Su Li looked at Su Mo and said, "Since the matter is of great importance, I invite my second brother to go with me, so that you and I can discuss and make a decision."

Su Mo waved his hand and said with a smile: "I don't know what the court looks like now, even if I want to share the burden for you, I can't do anything."

(End of this chapter)