Clear and Muddy Loss of Love

Chapter 263

Wood carvings that have been silent for many years

Chengchao Palace, a large number of guards and palace people came in and out.

Some carried boxes and walked out, while others held seals to seal the palace.

The owner of the palace has been reduced to a prisoner, and this most luxurious palace in the inner court is about to lose its splendor.

It's clearly spring, but the scene in front of me makes people feel desolate. The servants are taking account books to check the items in Chengchao Palace. All of them are recorded in the record, and they need to be counted and sealed one by one and stored in the inner court treasure pavilion, waiting for the emperor to give him a favor in the future, and use it to reward others.

Nangong Jingnv didn't have any special instructions on the matter of closing the palace to check the accounts, so the inner court followed the rules.

It seems... after decree to depose the imperial husband, everything about Qi Yan really has nothing to do with the Empress.

At first, many courtiers were worried that Nangong Jingnv would "settle accounts after autumn". After all, they were indeed pressing this matter a little harder, but the courtiers had nothing to do with the general trend...

After the dust settled, the two leaders: Xing Jingfu and Lu Boyan, one went home to continue Ding You.

The other said that Lu Quan, the Duke of Zhen, had a relapse of his old illness and was seriously ill... He had to go to Duke Zhen's fief to attend to his illness.

After all, there is only this young master left in the Zhen Guogong's mansion, and the other is a hero who protects the country and died for the country. Lu Boyan naturally avoided the edge.

But it was hard for the others, who had been cautious for several days, and had to arrange the appearance two or three times before entering the court, for fear that His Majesty would catch some mistakes....

But these people were wrong. Nangong Jingnu didn't mean "revenge". The imperial decree was issued, and it seemed as if this incident had never happened. Everything was as usual.

But many careful people will find that His Majesty has lost some weight, and his temperament is more stable than before.

Especially when she sat behind the imperial case without saying a word, just quietly looking at the courtiers, she looked very much like the late emperor in his heyday.

As long as he sat there like a needle that stabilized the sea, even if he didn't say a word, the courtiers didn't dare to show any scruples.

In three days, hundreds of people divided and counted, and there were also a lot of imperial gifts from Chengchao Palace.

As for Qi Yan's personal belongings, there is only one box...

Three pieces of folk clothes for traveling outside the palace, and a wooden box next to the chair in the study.

Who would believe it?

Once a son-in-law, and later an extremely personable minister, who was crowned the emperor's husband, her personal belongings can't even fit an ordinary-sized wooden box...

To put it bluntly, the inner court randomly picked up a slightly favored palace man, and his family was probably richer than the emperor's husband.

The servants put away the account books and sent the imperial gifts to the Zhenbao Pavilion, while the guards pasted the seals one by one, and the former palace servants of Chengchao Palace were sent to the Clothes Bureau to do rough work.

The eunuch, the director of the inner court, ordered someone to carry the box to Ganquan Palace. It was just in the afternoon when Nangong Jingnv went back to the palace to rest after leaving court.

Director eunuch: "Slave Inner Court Director Huang Youcai sees Your Majesty."

Nangong Jingnu: "Get up."

Director eunuch: "Thank you, Your Majesty. I would like to report to Your Majesty... This is a private property that was seized from the Chengchao Palace. I am here to ask Your Majesty to have a look and make a decision."

Nangong Jingnv frowned slightly, and swallowed the harsh words back on her lips.

She was a little annoyed that these palace people had sealed the Chengchao Palace without permission, but after thinking about it, the rules of the inner court had always been the same, since she didn't give special instructions, there was nothing wrong with what they did.

Moreover, the matter about Qi Yan... It was like a dark wound in her heart, Nangong Jingnv didn't dare to touch it, let alone think about it.

She looked at the unremarkable box in front of her, and wanted to let the people from the inner court department carry it away, but in the end she just waved her hand.

Director eunuch: "Yes."

It contains all of Qi Yan's inner court possessions for so many years.

Nangong Jingnv knows that Qi Yan's private property is definitely not limited to these, she also has an incomparably rich Quartet Bank under her name, but she has assisted the imperial court twice, probably there is not much left, right?

Nangong Jingnv sat alone for a long time before she got up and came to the front of the box. She opened it, and there was a bundle on the top. When she opened it, she saw that there were only three sets of ordinary clothes, and below that were two sets of calligraphy, paintings, three books and some inconspicuous small items. A relatively exquisite wooden box in the corner attracted Nangong Jingnv's attention. She took out the wooden box, which was a bit heavy, held it in front of her and lifted the lid with one hand. After a short period of shock, Nangong Jingnv's eyes were wet.

The wooden boxes are filled with wood carvings, each of which is an image of a naive little pig, chubby, festive and honest.

Isn't this exactly my zodiac sign?

Nangong Jingnv put her hand into the wooden box, but her fingers trembled slightly, but she couldn't touch the wooden carving, as if there was an invisible obstacle stopping her.

Nangong Jingnv crouched down slowly holding the wooden box in this way. There was a carving knife on one side of the wooden box. The handle of the knife was tightly entangled with white cloth. Only by holding the handle of the knife with one hand and rubbing it countless times can the fabric become so old.

Tears overflowed from the eyes, and the teardrops slid down, but the dense water vapor reflected Qi Yan's stubborn appearance after being whipped by him, and a heartbroken voice came from Nangong Jingnv's chest.

Too late……

Many things, I know too late.

Killing people is nothing more than a nod, if Qi Yan is really as cruel and vicious as he scolded her... why would she come back?

She can take advantage of the opportunity to go to Huainan and go far away, relying on the Sifang Bank, the world is big, enough for her life to be happy!

Moreover, she is still the orphan of the grassland royal family, and she can also sneak back to Luobei directly while Luochuan is frozen, and use the money from the Sifang Bank to buy armaments and fight against the imperial court...

But she didn't have any, instead, she took out her painstakingly managed family property to save the court from fire and water, and she didn't even want to let herself know who the owner of Sifang Bank was.

Without her good strategy, half of the country of Wei would be in danger, and it would be impossible to take back Huainan so easily.

Even if I gave her a cart of gold to let her go, she didn't leave...

It's not what I said at all: I want to see the pain of the enemy's daughter.

But...the one who came back to pay off the debt, the debt between Qi Yuanjun and Nangong Zhenzhen!

Qi Yan put her life in his hands, but what he got in return... was torture and humiliation.

I shouldn't have beaten her, she didn't even want to kill her, how could she bear such humiliation and torture again?

Nangong Jingnv hugged the wooden box tightly in her arms, and flashed a little bit of the past with Qi Yan, their first meeting, the moment she lifted her hijab... Whenever she made trouble for no reason, her helplessness and doting smile...

Also, when she sent out the old ink on her birthday after the cold war with her, the hesitation that he had ignored by him stopped talking.

Nangong Jingnv clasped the wooden box on her chest with one hand, and grabbed the side of the box with the other hand, her fingertips turned white, and a suppressed cry followed.

……

Playing in the cold palace!

Nangong Jingnv sat leaning on the sedan chair, with a wooden box on her lap: "Putting you in the cold palace!"

The servant looked at Nangong Jingnv in embarrassment, but did not deliver the order for a long time.

Nangong Jingnv: "Show me the cold palace!"

The waiter: "Your Majesty... that is a bad place. Even if you want to go, let the servants clean up the house first. If something bumps into your majesty, the servants have a hundred heads and they are not enough. Chopped."

Nangong Jingnv: "Show me the cold palace!"

Internal servant: "...obey the order. Let's drive...Lenggong."

……

After getting off the sedan chair, Nangong Jingnv ordered: "You all wait outside, I just go in by myself."

Nangong Jingnv didn't know which palace Qi Yan was imprisoned in. Fortunately, it rained a few days ago, and she found the footprints on the mud to find a palace in a corner.

The hem of the luxurious imperial dress was stained with mud, but Nangong Jingnv didn't care as she walked all the way, and when she approached the palace where Qi Yan was, she slowed down instead.

When it came to the door, the previous impulsiveness was replaced by shame and fear, Nangong Jingnv didn't know how to face Qi Yan...

Gu Ruolan: "Take the medicine!"

On this side, Gu Ruolan came out with a medicine bowl from the side hall that she converted into a decoction hall, and was stunned when she saw Nangong Jingnu.

Nangong Jingnv also showed surprise in her eyes, she didn't expect that there would be other people in this cold palace, but she quickly recognized Gu Ruolan, instantly put away her fragility and raised her chin with a cold face.

Gu Ruolan exclaimed, and knelt down on the ground: "Ministers see Your Majesty."

Qi Yan, who was taking a nap in the room, opened his eyes suddenly, turned his head and looked straight at the direction of the window.

Nangong Jingnu: "How is she?"

Gu Ruolan: "Return to Your Majesty, Emperor... Qi Yuanjun is already much better, and I... Caomin is preparing to deliver medicine in."

Nangong Jingnv was not used to hearing her name called by a strange woman, and said coldly, "Let's go together."

Gu Ruolan: "Yes."

With a sound of "creak", the door of the palace was pushed open, and a musty smell came blowing in. Even though Gu Ruolan would burn some wormwood to fumigate the house every day, but the cold palace was in disrepair and lacked popularity. The musty smell from the bones cannot be dispelled in a short time.

Fortunately, Gu Ruolan was diligent and cleaned the dormitory spotlessly, showing an old elegance instead.

Nangong Jingnv breathed a sigh of relief, she was most afraid that when she came here, she would hate herself even more if she saw Qi Yan curled up in a dirty corner with her whole body covered in injuries.

Gu Ruolan put the medicine on the small table next to Qi Yan's bed: "Drink...the medicine."

... Gu Ruolan's smile froze, after all these time together, she had never seen Qi Yan like this.

Although there was a bit of sickness in his face, there was brilliance in those beautiful amber eyes, and they were no longer as dead and silent as before.

An indescribable feeling surged in Gu Ruolan's heart, like bitterness, like sour...

Gu Ruolan: If she... could look at me like this, how great would it be?

Qi Yan didn't notice Gu Ruolan, but Nangong Jingnv looked at it completely, looking at Gu Ruolan as if her acupuncture points had been tapped, her eyes were unblinkingly looking at Qi Yan, a woman's intuition told her: Things are not simple.

Although the shame in her heart was not lacking at all, Nangong Jingnv's gaze also changed...