Mu Yunshu sat in the yard, eyes have been peeping out of the door, cold wind blowing, can not help sneezing.
Chu Huan put on his cloak, "it's cool at night. You'd better go back to the house earlier."
Mu Yunshu grabbed her hand and stuffed it into his neck. "How can your hand be so cold? I don't know how to get a soup lady. "
"Are you waiting for the emperor?" Chu Huan asked tentatively. Seeing mu Yunshu nodding, she leaned close to Mu Yunshu and whispered, "why do you have to fight against the emperor many times? I think he is still very good to you."
Since mu Yunshu came back to the capital, he has been hostile to the emperor everywhere. The emperor never gives the emperor a good face when he is summoned. Sometimes the emperor has lowered his status and tolerated him in every way. He still goes his own way and never stops angering the emperor.
Chu Huan was not loved by her parents since childhood, but she still has a kind of yearning from the heart for her parents.
Maybe the emperor did miss something, but she believed that the emperor did all this for the sake of Mu Yunshu.
Mu Yunshu did not answer her question, saying, "yes, it's good for me."
The words are more insincere.
"You and me, no matter what choice you make, I will support you unconditionally." Chu Huan reached out to touch his head, soft words, like the warm wind in the cold winter, making people feel warm and at ease.
After midnight, there was still no movement outside the door. The cold wind was piercing in the middle of the night. Chu Huan was holding Mrs. Tang in his hand, and the fire basin beside him was still unable to resist the chilling wind.
Chu Huan wrapped his cloak and couldn't help saying, "the Emperor may not come. Let's go back first."
"Wait a minute." Mu Yunshu's voice has no temperature, but his eyes can't help glancing at the door, vaguely expecting something.
Chu Huan didn't understand what he was stubborn about. It was clear that as long as mu Yunshu bowed his head to the emperor, the matter would be over. However, mu Yunshu bumped into the muzzle of the gun and picked out the words the Emperor didn't like. If it wasn't for the emperor's preference for mu Yunshu, his attitude would be considered polite not to be sent to prison.
Chu Huan was patient with him and continued to wait in the yard. Several times he tried to persuade him to be soft, and every time the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them back.
Approaching the ugly time, the sound of footsteps came from outside, especially loud in the silent night.
Chu Huan noticed that when the voice sounded, mu Yunshu's dark eyes suddenly lit up, and there was a trace of joy in the bottom of his eyes.
"You wait here. I'll go and have a look."
Chu Huan whispered that she was not sure whether mu Yunshu would make an extreme move or say something excessive when he saw the emperor, so that mu Yunshu could wait here to ease his mood.
The moment the door opened, the emperor stood at the door in Xuanyi. He was dignified, with a long body and the back of his hand. His temperament was noble. He felt oppressive.
The Emperor didn't even look at her. He opened the door and walked inside. The father-in-law followed him. When he passed by Chu Huan, he winked at her and indicated that she would stop mu Yunshu for a while and stop talking nonsense.
Chu Huan closed the door again, leaning against the door, staring at their side, forced to suppress the tension in his heart, took a deep breath, recovered some mood, and then walked toward them.
The emperor sat down next to Mu Yunshu. The two of them turned red in the light of the fire, and they were particularly conspicuous in the cold wind.
The atmosphere became strange.
Chu Huan knows the current affairs to find a reason to let her father-in-law accompany her to leave the yard, leaving this space for their father and son.
Chu Huan in the kitchen prepared some food, are some sweets, I hope they two after eating, the mood will become better.
When she came out with the food, she found that the father and son still maintained the posture of leaving, as if the time was frozen at this moment.
Standing not far away, I can't bear to disturb this quiet moment.
After a standoff for half an hour, Chu Huan couldn't help but put the dessert in his hand on the table, "hungry, have some supper."
The pastry was still puffing when it was made, and now it's just cool. When you take it, you freeze your hands.
The emperor did not mind to pick up a piece and put it in his mouth. Chu Huan raised his voice and said, "bang", and the cake bit off a piece. Chu Huan stared at the emperor's mouth with the rest of his light, for fear that the stiff cake would break the emperor's teeth.
The emperor slowly "chewed" the food in his mouth. His face was calm and his movements were slow.
"What do you think of this pastry?"
Chu Huan tentatively said, waiting for the emperor to speak, she continued: "this cake must be hot to taste good. If you don't feel good, I'll redo it immediately."
"If you don't have any food in the palace, don't play tricks in this class." Mu Yunshu replied first.
The emperor deliberately opposed him and said to Chu Huan, "it's a bit cold. You can do something hot."
"Like to eat or not to eat." Mu Yunshu took the cake to his hand, baked it on the fire and handed it to Chu Huan, "you didn't eat much at night. Eat quickly. Don't be hungry."
The Emperor didn't have a common sense with him. He took out a piece of Zhu Chai from his sleeve and handed it to Mu Yunshu, "this is what your mother asked me to give you before she died. There has been no chance."Mu Yunshu's face suddenly changed, his eyes fixed on Zhu Chai, and he didn't mean to reach for it.
"Believe it or not, the most worthy people in my life are you and your mother." The emperor handed Zhu Chai to Mu Yunshu and said, "my body is getting worse every day. You have to go your own way in the future. Remember not to trust anyone. Sometimes the more you trust someone, the more likely you are to stab you when you relax your guard. "
Chu Huan frowned. When the emperor said this, he didn't look at her. The person in the words was not her.
That's the prince.
Zhang Yi also warned her that the prince had ulterior motives for mu Yunshu, but she didn't care.
"You came here today to sow dissension. I advise you not to waste your breath. It is meaningless." Mu Yunshu clenched Zhu Chai in his hand. "If you are really good for me, give me freedom and let me leave the capital and live the life I want."
His expression condenses a bit, "emperor I was not rare before, now also not rare."
The emperor's mouth slightly raised, dark wise eyes can not afford any waves, "whether you are rare or not, the throne is yours. Only when you ascend to the throne can you protect the people you care about. "
"You are a noble man of ninety-five years old. The lives of thousands of people in your hands are still unable to protect the people you love." Mu Yunshu's calm words stabbed the emperor's heart like a silver needle.
The emperor's brows wrinkled into the shape of Chuan, and a touch of sadness appeared in his wise eyes.
Mu Yunshu stood up, patted the dust on his body and said casually: "the ugly time has passed. If the emperor does not want to return to the palace, he can stay in the prince's house. I'm tired. I won't be with you. "