(5) Lifelong regret [Fu Chen and Li Xiangjun]

"There is rain before spring, and the flowers bloom early, and the leaves fall late after autumn."

A season of Cangling, a season of Su Shang. As the eyes lift and fall, time passes. The ancient city of Nanyang has also spent its most difficult decade in the long-lost hustle and bustle.

However, after ten years of wasted, the scene here has long been very different from before.

Ning Nanyou and Jiang Chengjia took a detour here on their way back to Linhe.

The years of war in Jiuzhou made Nanyang seem to be in trouble and it took ten years to turn around and gradually showed signs of improvement.

Jiang Chengjia looked at the ancient city in front of her, and the scene of her coming here many years ago looking for Ning Nanyou appeared in her mind. She sighed and said, "You are indeed heartless. After you deceived Li Xiangjun, you borrowed a large number of troops and left, and you have never been here again. Now you have brought me here. Is it because you are kind and want to apologize to Li Xiangjun?"

Ning Nanyou shook his head and said, "I have long been disappointed with her. What she did to me in the past is even with my use and deception of her later. What should I apologize to her?"

Jiang Chengjia said strangely: "Then why are you insisting on coming here?"

Ning Nanyou looked at the red velvet gun on the ancient city wall of Nanyang that was inserted at the highest point of the roof and was eye-catching, and raised his head and said, "Fu Chen is here."

Jiang Chengjia said in surprise: "When did Fu Chen come here?"

"At that time, he failed to escape from Luoyang in time. After the Cheng family case, he finally found an opportunity and came here with great difficulty, just for the child who shouldn't have come to the world."

"You mean his and Li Xiangjun's child?"

"Yes. Fu Chen doesn't want his children to be protected by their parents as much as he did. Even though he hates Li Xiangjun as much as I do, he still comes here."

Jiang Chengjia nodded and said, "What about it later? Do you have any contact?"

Ning Nanyou lowered his head and smiled bitterly, saying guiltily: "In the years of the turmoil in Jiuzhou, he often sent me letters, but I ran around and didn't have the opportunity to write a reply to him seriously. I often hurriedly and sent a few greetings, and there was no further text. The year when the Chinese and Koreans and Zhan Po attacked the territory of the Great Wei Dynasty, I completely lost contact with him.

Later, I learned from Master Chen that in order to protect the people of Nanyang from the suffering of trampling on the enemy, Fu Chen died in battle at the city with a weak and weak body, waiting for reinforcements to exchange for peace in Nanyang."

Jiang Chengjia was surprised and said, "Is Fu Chen dead?"

Ning Nanyou replied: "Yes. He is dead. The red velvet gun on the top of the city is his relic. It was the heirloom of his father's death. In order to commemorate him, the local residents of Nanyang inserted this gun on the roof of the city wall forever as the guardian saint here."

Jiang Chengjia listened silently, and his heart was filled with waves. He stared at the red color floating on the top of the city, feeling sad and desolate.

Ning Nanyou pondered: "Aluo, I want to go and see his child. It's a little girl as beautiful as our Nuannuan. I don't know what happened to her being with Li Xiangjun?"

Jiang Chengjia hesitated: "It's just... Li Xiangjun always thought that you were fighting outside and would return to marry her after pacifying the world. However, later you and I disappeared, missing the whole ten years of the mortal world, and the new emperor had already ascended the throne. She should have understood that what you said in the past was all deceived her, and may have hated you to the core, so how could we take a look at Fu Chen's child as we wish?"

Ning Nanyou held her hands tightly and said firmly: "That child is Fu Chen's last contact in the world. Should I always go and see if she has achieved her life?"

He looked forward to it, and Jiang Chengjia was unwilling to let him down, so he nodded and agreed, "Since that's the case, it's okay for us to go and explore. At worst... he was driven out by the people from the Princess's Mansion. With the Fengfeng and others following him, I guess Li Xiangjun can't do anything to us. Besides, I haven't done such a thing with you."

Ning Nanyou smiled, hugged her in his arms, and whispered gently: "Thank you for your hard work."

After saying that, the couple walked around, entered the city gate, and followed the main road in the city to the princess's mansion.

The spring rain and the weather was still a little cold. Ning Nanyou took off the velvet robe on his shoulder and wrapped it on Jiang Chengjia's body. The two walked to the princess's mansion, stepped onto the steps together, and buckled the closed door.

They originally thought that the one who came out to open the door should be the guardian of the princess's mansion, but they didn't expect that it was a young lady wearing a Guangxiu Liuxian skirt who came to open the door. The materials used for her clothes were definitely not something that ordinary maids could afford.

Jiang Chengjia was a little surprised. She had never seen the girl in front of Li Xiangjun at all. Moreover, the young lady seemed to be young, and she seemed to be only fifteen or sixteen years old. She was so beautiful that she was close to the moon and was very delicate and beautiful.

Ning Nanyou asked carefully: "This girl, dare you ask... Can Princess Nanyang be in the mansion?"

The young lady held her dark eyes and looked at a man and a woman in front of the door. She looked up and down several times, and asked with confusion: "Who are you? What are you looking for my mother?"

"Mother?" Jiang Chengjia shouted in surprise and asked, "Your mother...is Princess Nanyang?"

The little lady nodded obediently and said, "That's right."

Ning Nanyou was stunned for deep eyes, looked at the girl's appearance, and saw some traces of old friends from her eyebrows. He moved slightly, and said hoarsely: "I'm sorry to take the liberty... I dare to ask the girl's surname?"

The little lady frowned slightly, only to find the two people in front of her strange, but she still whispered: "My last name is Fu."

She asked impatiently: "Who are you?"

Ning Nanyou and Jiang Chengjia looked at her intently, unable to say anything for a moment.

Until another girl's inquiry came from the princess's mansion: "Miaomei? Who is outside the mansion?"

The little girl with half body appeared in front of the mansion when she heard this sound, she immediately turned her head and replied loudly: "Sister... are two strangers I don't know. It seems that she is here to find her mother."

Another confusion came from the mansion: "Stranger? Or come to find my mother?"

After the voice fell, a girl who was more than ten years older than the girl in front of the mansion walked towards her with a light and slow pace. The girl was very similar to Wei Cao, with a beautiful and sweet appearance. She had a little more calmness and peace and harmony than the charm of the little lady next to her.

Ning Nanyou recognized her, and this was Wei Wei, the only daughter of Wei Cao and Li Xiangjun.

Wei Wei raised his eyes and looked at the boy in front of him, and said in surprise: "Sixth Emperor Uncle?"

Ning Nanyou smiled and nodded to her and said, "It's me."

Wei Wei was surprised and said: "You have disappeared for so many years. I thought... I really didn't expect that I can see you again now."

Ning Nanyou said silently, his eyes turned around on the two girls in front of him, and he thought of Wei Cao and Fu Chen's life, and felt relieved in his heart.

Just as he was thinking about the past, Wei Wei hesitated and said, "Uncle Emperor is here today...Is he going to find his mother? Mother no longer lives in the princess's house."

Hearing this, Jiang Chengjia looked surprised: "She is not in the Princess's Mansion? Could it be... back to Wei?"

Wei Wei turned his head and looked at the girl, politely, and called respectfully: "Aunt Sixth Emperor."

Immediately afterwards, she shook her head and said, "Mother... she lives in a house outside Nanyang City."

Ning Nanyou said strangely: "Why is she... the good princess's mansion cannot live, and she wants to move to live outside the city?"

The boy's eyes then swept from them to the princess's mansion. Seeing that the mansion was empty, with almost no servants walking around, and the uninhabited atmosphere made him feel even more strange.

Wei Wei saw his doubts and answered carefully: "Because of his mother... after his uncle left, he gradually became mentally ill, and sometimes he became crazy and crazy. After the new emperor ascended the throne, she asked to move out of the princess's mansion and went to the suburbs and never came back. The servants and maids and subordinates of the princess' mansion have also been dispersed... Now only I and my sister are left in this mansion."

Jiang Chengjia said in surprise: "She's crazy?"

Wei Wei pulled the corners of his lips and nodded with a faint smile.

Jiang Chengjia sighed silently for a moment, opened her lips in a low voice and asked, "Can you... take me to see her?"

She asked this question, and Ning Nanyou, who was beside her, glanced at her in surprise, as if she had not expected that she would make such a request.

Wei Wei was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a while, and finally nodded and said, "Okay."

The two sisters closed the door of the mansion, got on a carriage, and left the city with their husband and wife.

In the suburbs of Nanyang, they rode a carriage to a clean and simple house. They each entered the house with different thoughts under the leadership of Wei Wei.

Before several people could fully walk into the courtyard, they heard a noise of smashing dishes and bowls coming from inside through the screen wall.

"Fu Chen, you bastards! You are all bastards!!" Li Xiangjun's cursing voice sounded.

Jiang Chengjia couldn't help but frown when she heard this.

They walked in and stood under the willow tree next to the screen wall. They saw two maids in the yard washing and cleaning, ignoring the movements in the room.

Years have passed, Minghua and Peiling are still following Li Xiangjun unyieldingly, and have not abandoned her and lived here alone.

Soon, the two girls caught a glimpse of the four people standing in the corner, looked over, and asked, "Is it... Madam Wei?"

Wei Wei stepped forward and said, "It's me, Aunt Minghua, I'll take a look at my mother."

Minghua subconsciously looked into the room, shook his head and said, "The princess is sick again now. It would be better for Mrs. Wei to not go in."

Wei Wei's face froze, and he turned his head awkwardly to look at the people behind him. Finally, he stopped at Jiang Chengjia and said softly: "Aunt Sixth Emperor... It seems that we can't see our mother anymore."

Minghua, who was beside him, noticed the two people following Wei Wei. She stared at the couple, surprised and surprised. Finally, this surprise gradually turned into hatred and hatred: "It turns out... the famous Prince Rui has not disappeared in recent years... but has lived in seclusion with the Jiang girl?"

Minghua looked hatred and saw Jiang's belly thrusting up again, as if she was pregnant, she became even more angry: "I wonder what the two of you followed our Wei wife to do in contempt? Are you going to see our princess jokes?"

Jiang Chengjia kept silent, listening quietly to the sarcasm of the girl in front of her, with a calm expression.

In front of Minghua, Ning Nanyou put his arms around Jiang Chengjia's shoulders and hugged her in his arms, deliberately asking her to know that the relationship between them and their wife is indestructible.

Minghua stared at him gritting his teeth.

At this moment, Jiang Chengjia gently swept away the hand that the husband had placed on his shoulder and said gently: "Your husband is worse than... take the two girls out to wait first? I want to go inside and take a look at Li Xiangjun."

Ning Nanyou lowered his head and stared at her in surprise. He glanced at the temptation of begging in her eyes. He hesitated for a moment and nodded and said, "Okay. Then you... be careful alone."

Jiang Chengjia patted the back of his hand and comforted him: "Don't worry, the people in this room dare not touch me. Besides, even if I am pregnant, they can't beat me."

Ning Nanyou listened to her confident tone, curled her lips and smiled slightly, and said nothing more. He turned around and took the two girls beside him to go out of the screen wall and waited outside the house.

Minghua saw this scene and felt endless sarcastic: "Mr. Jiang, what are you doing?"

Jiang Chengjia said calmly and calmly: "After all, I am the legitimate Princess Rui. Is it a bit too presumptuous to call my surname like this?"

Minghua snorted coldly: "If it weren't for you, the position of Princess Rui should have belonged to my princess!!"

Jiang Chengjia smiled faintly and lowered her eyes and said, "I really didn't expect that... a person like Li Xiangjun could have a loyal and sincere slave like you?"

Minghua stared at her tightly, with a blue-white expression. Jiang Chengjia ignored it and walked into the house with her skirt. Minghua and Peiling rushed forward, trying to stop her.

Jiang Chengjia stopped and did not continue to move forward. Seeing Minghua and Peiling both looking at him with anger, she said frankly: "You don't have to look at me like this. Li Xiangjun... She is all her own fault now."

Minghua said angrily: "What are you talking about?"

Jiang Chengjia raised his eyebrows and said, "You should know what your princess did to His Royal Highness Rui when she was a teenager? Do you think...who will forgive her again with her character?"

Minghua turned his eyes down, and when he remembered the past, he felt guilty. She yelled with a thorn in her mouth: "Even if that's the case... King Rui shouldn't use our princess like this! Later... the princess didn't do anything to sorry for him."

"Really?" Jiang Chengjia sneered, "We have investigated clearly what she has done. Do you think... there is really an airtight wall in this world? She almost killed Your Highness. Do you want to let Your Highness repay you with warmth?"
To be continued...