Nan Yan said: "Where did he go?"
Concubine Ning asked without answering, "Didn't the emperor tell you?"
"..."
Nan Yan's heart trembled slightly.
But she immediately took a deep breath, and said with a normal expression: "The emperor doesn't need it, tell me everything."
Qin Ruolan said calmly, "That's right."
After finishing speaking, she turned around and walked out. Nan Yan frowned and caught up a few steps: "Where are you going?"
"..."
Qin Ruolan stopped, looked back at her, with a faint, seemingly deserted look on her face, and said: "Even the concubine's whereabouts, should the imperial concubine ask about it?"
"..."
"However, it's okay to tell you this."
"..."
"The concubine went in a hurry that day, and didn't bring enough things for the memorial service."
"..."
"So today, I want to visit the graves of my father and my aunt again."
Nan Yan thought for a while, then suddenly said, "Can I go with you?"
"...?"
Qin Ruolan looked at her in surprise, and was noncommittal for a while, but Ran Xiaoyu frowned slightly, stepped forward and said softly, "Your Majesty?"
Nan Yan raised her hand to signal her not to speak.
Qin Ruolan thought for a while, then said lightly: "If my lady wants to go, I will not wish for it."
So, Nanyan followed her out of the imperial mausoleum temple.
After going down the mountain, he saw a bamboo raft waiting at the foot of the mountain, but it was not a Taoist priest who punted the boat. There were not a few Taoist priests from the imperial mausoleum temple, but people brought by Qin Ruolan himself.
Come to think of it, if she came here to visit the grave every year, then the people around her should be familiar with it.
Nan Yan took Ran Xiaoyu onto the bamboo raft.
The bamboo raft opened up the quiet lake, and a few ripples slowly rippled away. After making a circle in the lake, they circled to the back of the island and saw the island of the Mausoleum of the Emperor.
There, it was still shrouded in clouds and mist.
It's like a fairy mountain.
And the one next to him is like a fairy practicing on the mountain. When the bamboo raft landed on the shore, Qin Ruolan slowly went up to the shore with the bamboo basket in her arms. mountain road.
The punters did not follow.
Nan Yan thought for a while, then said to Xiao Yu: "You wait below, if I call you, you come up again."
"yes."
Then, Nan Yan followed behind Qin Ruolan and also went up the mountain.
The mountain road was narrow, and the wind blew from time to time, wrapping the milky white mist around them. Looking at Qin Ruolan in front of her, Nan Yan felt more and more that such a beauty was about to become a fairy.
After a while, the two of them finally reached the top of the mountain.
On the top of the mountain, there is nothing but those steles.
Nan Yan sighed softly.
Qin Ruolan turned her head and glanced at her, she said softly: "The emperor is not here."
"Do you think the emperor is here?"
Qin Ruolan glanced at her, shook her head with a dumb smile, and walked forward.
She came to worship, of course, not the ancestors of the Zhu family, and walked straight to the stone monuments of Qin Zhengqi and that noble concubine Qin Xixi.
In the bamboo basket, there are more sacrifices and incense candles than that day.
Come to think of it, when she just arrived here that day, she probably heard that she and Zhu Feng were coming, so she hurried over, so she didn't have everything ready.
Today, it is considered alive.
Nan Yan stood beside her, watching her place the sacrifices in front of the tombstone one by one, and then lit the joss stick. Nan Yan thought for a while, stepped forward and said: "I—"
Qin Ruolan didn't turn her head back, and said coldly: "Is there any order from the imperial concubine, can't you wait for the concubine to pay homage to the ancestors?"
"..."
Nan Yan didn't speak any more.
After three prostrations and nine kowtows, he turned around and said, "Imperial Concubine, what's the matter?"
Nan Yan said calmly: "I just want to say, can I offer a stick of incense to them too?"
"..."
Qin Ruolan looked at her in surprise.
After a moment of silence, she lit three incense sticks and put them in her hands.
Nanyan placed the incense in front of the stele of that Concubine Qin.
Then he stood up and bowed three times.
The two faced each other, not knowing what to say for a while.
After being silent for a while, Nan Yan said: "I never knew that Concubine Ning came from a famous family with a prominent family background."
"Born in a famous family? A distinguished family?"
Qin Ruolan repeated these words with a hint of sarcasm in her tone.
"The words of the imperial concubine are really full of irony to the concubine."
Nan Yan frowned: "How could it be?"
"..."
"I have absolutely no intention of that."
Qin Ruolan glanced at her again, and then said calmly: "The imperial concubine knows that my father is a former Dongge University scholar and the prince's junior teacher, and I also know that my aunt is a noble concubine."
"Yes."
"Then do you know where the two of them came from?"
"..."
Nan Yan frowned.
Fortunately, Qin Ruolan didn't really want her to answer, but turned around slowly and looked at the misty Xingluo Lake.
"They were born here."
"..."
Nan Yan was stunned for a while, and suddenly seemed to understand something, and took a breath: "You, you mean, they—"
Qin Ruolan said calmly: "The person who fought against Emperor Gao and took over the world."
"..."
"My father was originally to assist him."
"..."
"But later, due to some accidents, it was brought under Emperor Gao's command."
"..."
"After the founding of the country, Emperor Gao appointed a prince."
"..."
"My father also became a scholar of Dongge University."
"..."
"But not long after, an uprising broke out against Emperor Gao on Xingluo Lake."
"..."
It turned out to be like this.
At that time, no matter how much you trust someone, there will inevitably be some suspicions in your heart.
Come to think of it, at that time, Qin Zhengqi was probably subjected to a lot of suspicion and fear.
But she thought for a while, and then said: "However, with the imperial concubine here, if she can comfort Emperor Gao more, nothing major will happen."
"..."
Qin Ruolan didn't speak.
She just looked at Qin Xixi's tombstone, was silent for a long time, and said lightly: "My aunt, she left very early."
"..."
"Father has walked on thin ice all his life."
"..."
"As for me, as the daughter of the Qin family, my identity doesn't bring me any more benefits."
"..."
"Instead let me and him—"
At this point, her words suddenly stopped.
As if cut off by a knife, Nan Yan looked at her, only to see a light flash in Qin Ruolan's eyes, as if she had been stabbed badly, she clenched her teeth.
Nan Yan understood a little bit.
Sure enough.
Sometimes, love is not so pure.
Although this is just a matter between two people, the background, family, and even the forces behind it often add some shadows that shouldn't exist to this beautiful relationship.