Li Yi walked over slowly. The palace maids and eunuchs guarding Princess Yong Ning looked up and bowed slightly to him. They didn't stop him.
In this world, among all the people the little princess had met, only this young county magistrate wouldn't make her feel repulsed.
Li Yi sat down next to her. Princess Yong Ning looked back and then turned back to look at the lights in front of her. There was no expression on her little face.
Li Yi looked at her eyes carefully. Even in the dark, there was light in them, but there was no life in them. He had seen closed and depressed eyes before, and they seemed to be different from the eyes in front of him. This made Li Yi feel that the situation wasn't that bad. It seemed that she just didn't want to talk to people.
Of course, this was something to be happy about. Li Yi sat for a while, then stood up and walked into the hall.
The little girl's face was slightly tilted at an unnoticeable angle. The light in her eyes dimmed slightly. She grabbed the hem of her robe a little harder, then quickly loosened it.
After a while, she stood up and prepared to walk to the palace in the distance. It was dark and quiet there. She wouldn't go there unless she was sleeping.
"Are you leaving?"
A familiar voice suddenly came from behind. She stopped in her tracks and slowly turned around.
Li Yi had a chicken leg in his mouth and two plates in his hands. He put them on the well-lit steps.
"Hurry up, hurry up." He waved at Li Xuan, who was also holding something in his hands. Although Li Xuan's eyes were puzzled, he still put the things on the steps.
"Okay, put the things down and you can go back. Oh right, see if there's any grape wine on the table. If … forget it, wine is still wine. I don't need it." Li Yi waved his hand and said to him.
Li Xuan didn't care about Li Yi's behavior. Instead, he was surprised by the way Li Yi acted. He looked at Princess Yong Ning in surprise and turned to leave.
"Do you want some?" Li Yi handed a pair of chopsticks to the little girl.
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When he was sitting inside, he actually didn't have much appetite. He wasn't interested in even the most exquisite dishes. Instead, he felt that eating on the steps outside was more atmosphere, mainly because it was quiet.
There wouldn't be Li Xuan nagging by his ear, and there wouldn't be those old generals bothering him. Princess Yong Ning didn't speak. Until now, Li Yi hadn't heard her say even a word.
"I have to leave for a while." Li Yi said as he ate.
"So, we might not see each other for a long time. When I come back, I'll treat you to a good meal."
Yong Ning only lowered her head to eat and did not respond to Li Yi's words.
Li Yi was already used to this kind of silence. Seeing that she liked to eat the dish next to him, he switched the dish next to her. Then he put down his chopsticks and quietly looked at the palace wall in the distance.
From time to time, there would be some noise coming from inside the palace. In the distance, there was a tall palace wall that stretched as far as the eye could see. It was like a cage, causing people to involuntarily have a suffocating feeling.
At this time, Li Yi thought of something he hadn't thought of for a long time. He had been here for half a year. What was the other world like?
Forgetting was human nature. Except for a few people, no one remembered who he was.
When he first came to this world, he would think about how to go back almost every day. It had been a long time since he had thought about this. At this moment, he did not immerse himself in such emotions for long, because people started coming out of the palace behind him.
The banquet was over.
Li Yi stood up and waved to the little girl. "See you next time."
When he walked outside, a middle-aged palace maid came over and begged, "I hope you can come to the palace often to see the little princess. It's not easy for the little princess."
Li Yi looked at her and nodded. He looked back at the little girl sitting on the steps and walked to Li Xuan who was waving at him.
Just as he disappeared behind a wall, Princess Yong Ning stood up. Several eunuchs and palace maids hurried over and led her to the depths of the palace.
As if it had been planned, the banquet of the old emperor and empress ended at the same time. When Li Yi and Li Xuan walked to the front of the Phoenix Cry Palace, they saw the women coming out of the palace.
There were quite a few people waiting outside the hall like them. After all, many of the people who came to the imperial palace tonight were husband and wife. Li Yi and Li Xuan waited until almost everyone had left before the figures of the Crown Princess and Ruyi appeared in their line of sight.
To be more accurate, it was not two people, but three.
When Li Yi saw the woman and Ruyi walking side by side, his body shook. Surprise and astonishment flashed across his face. Then, his expression became extremely complicated.
How could it be her?
Although she was about the same age as his aunt, the last time he saw her, she had only been in her early twenties. Now, she was so haggard, particularly from the white hair occasionally peeking out from her temples. It was difficult to imagine what she had experienced during this period of time.
If there were people in Jingdou that Li Yi did not want to face, Qin Yu would not be in the top 10, and the old emperor would not be first. This young lady of the Chen family was the one he did not want to see the most.
Since he had accepted Li Yi's identity, when he met this young lady of the Chen family, he could not help but feel guilty.
Normal people would not be able to understand this kind of feeling. Even if the original owner of this body was still alive, he would not be able to understand the conflicting and complicated feelings in his heart.
"It was nothing, don't worry about it." When Ruyi walked over, she was still smiling and talking to the woman.
The woman only smiled. When she saw a certain figure standing not too far away, her body trembled slightly, and a hint of excitement flashed in her eyes. Soon after, she seemed to have thought of something, and that hint of excitement quickly disappeared, replaced by a hint of pain.
"My husband and Li Xianzi are already waiting for us there." The Crown Princess smiled and looked at the woman. "I don't know if your family has come. We will be leaving first."
The woman nodded and then raised her head to look at Li Yi. She said, "Your wife is very good."
"You know my husband?" Ruyi looked at her with some surprise and asked.
This time, the woman did not reply. She walked forward on her own and quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.
"Husband, this …" Ruyi looked at the woman's departing figure and then looked at Li Yi. Her heart was filled with confusion.
"It's a long story. We will talk about it when we get back …" Li Yi sighed and felt inexplicably suffocated in his heart.
Seeing such a story in an opera would not be able to move people much. However, when it really happened in front of his eyes and he saw the change of the woman in just a few days, from her beautiful face to her old face, from her fine black hair to her white hair, Li Yi could only sigh in his heart and curse his sins.
"Li Minghan, you are a motherf * cking bastard!" In the end, he could not help but curse in a low voice.
"Who, who is a bastard?" Li Xuan turned his head to look at Li Yi in confusion. He thought that even Qin Yu had not been scolded like this. It seemed that the person he cursed just now must have offended him greatly.
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