When was this letter written, and under what circumstances was it deposited in the box and given to Fan Zhou? Sui Heng could guess the entire truth with just a little thought.
He didn’t even know that he had come out of that meeting downstairs at the city gates that day with such a thought in mind. No wonder he was so afraid that he would see it.
Sui Heng’s heart choked with pain.
The original box was already broken. Jiang Yun picked up the remaining brocade sachets, opened them one by one, and threw them into the brazier, continuing the unfinished task. The firelight reflected his clear and moist black eyes and clean face.
The young Crown Prince sat on the ground, his green wide sleeves naturally falling to the ground, a layer of fused flame shining on his eyelashes, and his jade headband falling on his neck due to the recent turmoil.
“I’ll do it.”
Under a shadow, Sui Heng walked over and sat down beside him. He took the brocade sachets from Jiang Yun’s hand, opened them, and threw the paper into the brazier without even looking at them.
The yellow rice paper immediately ignited a flame when it touched the red carbon.
Jiang Yun turned his head to look at him and asked, “You won’t read what’s in there anymore?”
“Won’t read anymore.”
Sui Heng said in an unsympathetic manner, but there was no special expression on his face. His hands moved faster and faster, and in the blink of an eye, he had dismantled about ten of them.
He was dismantling it, but then he stopped abruptly.
Jiang Yun picked up one for himself and wanted to dismantle it, but he pressed it down as well.
“Don’t burn anymore.”
“Keep it.”
Sui Heng said.
His eyebrows were usually sharp, but now they added a touch of softness, and he said, “You have written so many, you’ve probably put in a lot of effort. It’s a pity to burn them.”
“Don’t worry, Gu won’t peek.”
Jiang Yun shakes his head.
He said, “It’s just old things, it’s no longer useful.”
After speaking, he insisted on opening the brocade sachet in his hand, took out the note inside, and threw it into the brazier.
However, just as the edge of the note ignited, Sui Heng suddenly reached into the brazier and took out the narrow note that had been quickly engulfed by the flames. He rubbed out the remaining flames with the tip of his boot.
Jiang Yun was shocked: “You’re crazy!”
Sui Heng stood up, and without saying a word, he picked the person up and placed him directly on the long table at the back.
The brushes, ink, papers, and inkstone were scattered everywhere on the table, and Jiang Yun pressed hard against his shoulders and asked, “What are you doing? I said I wouldn’t let you see it, but you insisted on seeing it yourself.”
“Don’t worry, Gu won’t do anything.”
“Gu just wanted to get a good look at you.”
Sui Heng’s voice remained calm.
He reached out and gently brushed the side of Jiang Yun’s neck headband towards the back.
Jiang Yun knows this person too well, knowing that the calmer he appears on the surface, the more he harbors an uncontrollable emotional state.
“If you want to ask anything, just ask directly.”
Jiang Yun said.
As early as the moment Sui Heng snatched away the letter, he knew that there was no way to make things right tonight.
Sui Heng paused for a moment and said, “Gu has nothing to ask.”
“You’re lying.”
“Who said?”
“You look at your face in the mirror, look at how ugly it was.”
Sui Heng finally grimaced down.
After a while, he asked, “If it weren’t for Chen Qi kidnapping that little thing, would you still have taken the initiative to leave the city and meet Gu that day?”
Jiang Yun fell silent.
He said, “You knowingly ask.”
“Gu doesn’t know, Gu just wants to hear your answer.”
Sui Heng stubbornly said.
“The truth.”
He specifically added.
Jiang Yun tilted his head and didn’t look at his face. He said truthfully, “I won’t.”
The air remained silent for a while.
Then, Jiang Yun felt that Sui Heng was pushing forward forcefully. Jiang Yun reluctantly sat on the edge of the table, without any support behind him, and could only grab his shoulders to avoid a too awkward posture.
Seeing this, he said, “You, get up a bit.”
Sui Heng’s eyes were hidden in the darkness, motionless.
He persistently pushed him, and he advanced even further.
Jiang Yun could only reluctantly stop and bite his lips to look at him. Sui Heng continued to ask, “If we don’t meet, what are you going to do with Gu? Fight to death?”
Just saying this sentence made Sui Heng feel extremely uncomfortable.
“Didn’t you have any hope for our relationship at that time?”
Jiang Yun was forced to feel uncomfortable by him, and a hint of anger rose in his heart. He asked back, “What about you?”
“What about me?”
“Have you not felt any anger or resentment since you learned that I lied to you?”
Sui Heng stopped for a moment and said without changing his expression, “Of course not. Is Gu such a stingy person?”
Jiang Yun said, “Hypocritical.”
Sui Heng couldn’t believe it. “Who are you calling hypocritical?”
“You.”
“What gives you the right to do so?”
“Because you must have been angry and resentful. In the wrath of a king, millions of corpses will be laid to waste and thousands of miles of blood will be shed in the face of an ambitious enemy Commander with a 300,000 strong army. Sui Jichu, if you were me, would you risk the safety of a nation for a temporary relationship?”
“Temporary relationship? You called that relationship of ours a temporary relationship?!”
“We encountered each other by chance and never knew each other, isn’t it a temporary relationship?”
Sui Heng couldn’t come up with a counter for a moment.
Looking into the clear eyes of the person under him, he gritted his teeth and said, “Jiang Rongyu, how come Gu didn’t realize that you were so cruel before?”
“You’d rather see Gu and that little thing fight each other as father and son than let Gu have a good time, right?”
Jiang Yun said, “How would I know whether the little one was a son or a sin in your eyes at that time?”
Sui Heng froze.
Suddenly, he thought of Emperor Jiang and Marquis Duan.
He immediately understands where Jiang Yun’s pessimistic attitude towards their relationship comes from.
It is normal for Jiang Yun to not hold any hope, as he witnessed the scenes of his parents tormenting each other with his own eyes based on what he knew and felt during his childhood.
He wouldn’t really do anything to him originally.
He was just heartbroken, fearful, and angry. Angry that he would rather fight to death with him with determination than have trust and hope in him.
“Did it hurt?”
He loosened some force.
Jiang Yun looked at him steadily.
“You are not asking anymore? You are not showing your majesty anymore?”
“Not showing anymore. When did Gu ever has the majesty in front of you? Gu was just a Sui Heng.” He suppressed all the emotions that surged in his chest and let Jiang Yun sit down while he went to tidy up the brocade sachets on the ground and put them in another box. Then he folded the half-sheet of the letter, which he had already nearly crumpled by him, and put it in his bosom properly.
Jiang Yun didn’t move either, he sat on the table and watched him being busy.
After a moment, Sui Heng walked over and stuffed the box back into Jiang Yun’s hands. He then turned around and let Jiang Yun lie on his back, carrying him out directly.
Jiang Yun asked, “What are you still keeping that letter for?”
Sui Heng said, “Keep it as a warning.”
“Warning?”
“That’s right, to remind himself that Gu must treat you better. No matter how kind you are, Gu won’t let you have such thoughts again in this life.”
The two of them left the council hall and walked through the corridor.
The candlelight fell on the two of them.
Although these words were spoken in his usual casual tone, Jiang Yun was somewhat moved when he heard them. After freezing for a moment, he smiled and directly lowered his gaze, gently kissing him on the side of his neck.
“Actually, in the year and a half when we parted ways, I was looking forward to meeting you every day and night.”
“I want you to see how our little boy grows up day by day, how he fusses in my belly, and how he is as agile and vigorous as you are.”
“Divine Physician Meng said that the little boy is the strongest baby he has ever seen. I knew he must have inherited it from his other father.”
Jiang Yun leaned on Sui Heng’s shoulder and said with a light smile.
Sui Heng’s eyes gradually became moist.
The next day, Meng Hui and two witch physicians from Dongzhou came to the capital of Sui, one was to routinely check Jiang Yun’s pulse, and the other was for the two red cranes in the backyard of the Crown Prince’s mansion.
In order to help Tonghe lay better eggs, Meng Hui and his two companions developed a strong and nutritious crane food for the two ancestors. The crane food was very suitable for their taste, but the two Tonghe cranes, one female and one male, continued to fight and refused to reconcile, which made everyone worried. After all, this is not something that can be solved by improving food and advanced medical skills.
The turning point of the situation occurred in the winter that year, when Luo Fengjun came from Jiangnan to attend the meeting in the Crown Prince’s mansion with his father, Luo Changqing. Due to boredom, he came to the backyard and casually played a lingering love song. The two Tonghe, one female and one male, turned spears into jade and silk1To turn hostilities into happiness. the next day and cuddled up to watch the snow together.
This matter has been rumored to be a strange tale.
As soon as the first snow fell, the plum blossoms in Meiyuan also bloomed. In order to thanks Luo Fengjun for his great public service, Sui Heng specially had people set up an iron rack in the plum garden and roast meats for a banquet to entertain everyone.
Jiang Yun and Xiao Jiang Nuo went to the study to find several rare music scores collected by Sui Heng in the past, hoping to give them to Luo Fengjun.
The two of them were searching between the bookshelves when Xiao Jiang Nuo suddenly pulled out a box from the bookshelf. The little troublemaker was as if he had found a treasure, and ‘dadada’ ran to Jiang Yun to take credit.
“What is this?”
Jiang Yun opened it and saw a broken plum branch lying inside the box, with burnt marks on the edge of the branch.
