It was rare to see Emperor Taishang's sad face, Chu Qingyan couldn't help but walk over.
"Grandpa, what's wrong with you? Are today's pastries unpalatable?" She could only think of this reason at this time.
"No." The Emperor Taishang shook his head.
"That's it?" Chu Qingyan was curious.
The Emperor Taishang glanced at her and shook his head gently, "Yan girl, it's time for you to leave."
Chu Qingyan was stunned, "Grandpa, where are you going? Are you not with us?"
"No, I'm going to go to other places for a walk, and I won't go with you." Although the Emperor Taishang had a bit of reluctance in his words, his tone was still very firm.
Chu Qingyan knew that once he made a decision, it would be difficult to change, and nodded, "Did you tell His Highness?"
"Wait a minute!" The Emperor Taishang smiled, then said to her as if he had remembered something, "Yan girl, this journey is more difficult than you imagined, if you don't want to go, just tell Xu'er, He will take you home."
Chu Qingyan laughed out loud, "Grandpa, you underestimate me too, I'm not the kind of person who retreats in spite of difficulties."
"That's good, that's good, go to Xu'er to chat." The Emperor Taishang turned and walked towards the person standing under the tree.
Chu Qingyan touched his head and looked at the back of the Emperor Taishang, feeling a little strange, it didn't seem like the temperament of the Emperor Taishang. However, he had been an emperor for decades before, and he always had a side he didn't understand. With her small head, he couldn't think of it, so she gave up.
And Xiao Xu, who felt someone behind him, turned around and saw that it was the Emperor Taishang, his expression did not fluctuate too much, as if he had expected it.
"Grandpa, are you leaving?" he asked.
The Emperor Taishang did not deny it, "Xu'er, grandpa actually didn't leave so soon, it's just that what happened in Pingyang City, still can't make grandpa feel free."
"That's the crime committed by the Liu family, and it has nothing to do with you." Xiao Xu frowned slightly and persuaded him.
The Emperor Taishang shook his head and smiled lightly, "In the final analysis, Gutai indulges Liu's lineage. If Gutai didn't give them so much convenience, how could they become Xixuan's cancer, freezing three feet is not a day's work. It's cold."
"Then where does Grandpa Huang intend to go after leaving here?" Xiao Xu asked.
"Go to Zhongnan Temple, find old friends, recite sutras, recite Buddhist sutras for Xixuan, and wash away the sins of so many years!" The Emperor Taishang laughed, and his laughter was more open-minded and open-minded.
Feeling that Grandpa Huang had decided to leave, Xiao Xu could only express his support.
"When are you leaving then?"
"It's better to hit the sun than to choose a day, just today!"
"Okay, I wish Grandpa Huang a safe journey. If you need anything, just send a letter to your grandson." Those indifferent eyes still couldn't hide their concern.
The Emperor Taishang was about to lift his foot but stopped because of his words. He turned his eyes and looked at his most satisfied grandson in front of him with pity, "Xu'er, if you can't hold on one day, just let it go, no one will blame you."
"Grandson, remember the teachings of Grandpa Huang." Xiao Xu bowed slightly in response.
The Emperor Taishang moved his lips, but in the end he didn't say anything, but waved at him, walked to the carriage prepared for him by the guards, looked back at everyone, and got on the carriage without turning his head back, the smoke billowed, and the road was absolutely dead. Dust away.
Chu Qingyan looked at the direction in which the Emperor Taishang was leaving, and felt a little emotional in her heart. When they met at the British Palace, he pretended to be an old beggar and tried every means to make things difficult for her, just to test her. Later, she realized that it was not a disguise, but to catch her. Come to the rescue, the Emperor Taishang has suffered too much.
She remembered that when she was in the inn, the big ice cube told her why the Emperor Taishang was so obsessed with the cakes she made. She only said a few words, and she already felt the infatuation and remorse of the Emperor Taishang for the late Empress Dowager.
Perhaps because of his love for the Empress Dowager, Aiwujiwu favored the Liu family, but as everyone knows, such a move has buried a tumor in the entire Xixuan.
When Liu Ying was arrested and the Liu family lost power, the Emperor Taishang felt ashamed of the entire royal family. Also, he guessed that the Liu family might be uprooted by Emperor Xixuan in the coming days. I will think about leaving to go to the temple to pray for Xixuan and spend my old age in peace.
In fact, aside from everything else, Emperor Taishang was still a very loving elder, at least in the tragic childhood of Da Bingcui, he played a loving character, at least more lovable and respectable than Emperor Xixuan later.
Chu Qingyan looked under the tree, with her back to her, a person with a lonely figure couldn't help but walk over.
Hearing the footsteps behind him, Xiao Xu did not turn his head, but spoke at a very slow speed.
"When I was first born, the first person who hugged me, except for the mother who delivered the birth, was the emperor's grandfather."
Chu Qingyan stopped and listened.
"The second is the queen mother. At that time, the father, the emperor, was in charge of the day and had no time to take care of it. When the moon was full, it was the emperor's grandfather who gave me this name. He hoped that I could be a prudent and broad-minded person."
The light and light tone, as if telling someone else's story.
In early winter, at noon, the wind is not so cold, on the contrary, it is warm with some sunshine.
Just blowing on Chu Qingyan's cheek, she felt a tingling cold, and the cold seemed to turn to her chest.
"What happened later?" Chu Qingyan asked.
She was stunned as soon as she opened her mouth. She never thought that her voice could be so hoarse one day. She sighed lowly, what should I do? Before I listened to it, I was so distressed.
Xiao Xu didn't seem to feel the difference in her voice, and continued to speak.
"I don't remember exactly what happened after that, but the only thing I remember is that when the high fever persisted several times, it was Grandpa Huang who came from elsewhere to stay by my side until my fever subsided."
"Grandpa Huang treats you so well." Chu Qingyan sighed softly.
"Yeah, Grandpa Huang treats me so well." Xiao Xu smiled lowly, but no one could hear the faint disappointment in that voice, "It's a pity that I uprooted the Liu family he was protecting with all his heart."
Chu Qingyan didn't think that he was blaming himself, and immediately stepped forward and walked in front of him, wanting to hug him to give him strength, and finally hesitated, but only held his sleeve, raised his head, and used firmness. Unswervingly said, "Big Ice Cube, you are wrong, I think Grandpa Huang can't bear to do it, and you helped him solve this problem that made him hesitate, you didn't do anything wrong, wrong It's people's hearts, greed can't stop the snake swallowing the elephant, this is Liu Jia's fault."
Xiao Xu's body paused slightly, and he looked down at the person in front of him, looking into her firm eyes, and then his lips curled slightly, "This king finds that you seem to have grown a lot."
Seeing that he went from calling himself me to restoring the king, Chu Qingyan knew that he had recovered from his self-blame.
"That is, time is passing, trees are growing taller, and I am making progress!" Chu Qingyan sighed in relief, then raised his head and boasted.
Xiao Xu smiled lowly, Chu Qingyan was stunned, she seemed to hear the big ice cube smiling.
Before I could see it clearly, I was already hugged into an embrace that smelled neither grass nor flower.