nucmednet Chapter 502: Past and present life, only he prays
Chapter 502: Past and present life, only he prays
"Mr. Rong, you are too polite. No one could have predicted this kind of accident. Fortunately, Miss Rong is fine."
"Yes, yes, Miss Rong is so kind-hearted. If she hadn't pushed the young lady from Prime Minister Qin's residence away just now, who knows what danger the young lady from Prime Minister Qin's residence would have been in."
"Miss Qin is so brave."
People always sympathize with the weak.
They had just witnessed that scene with their own eyes and felt a little sorry for Rong Qingqing.
"Thank you for your concern. My daughter is fine." Rong Yuchuan turned around and ordered, "Send the young lady back home first."
Rong Qingqing was helped towards the Rong Mansion's carriage.
Ji Chuhe was already waiting for her in the carriage.
"Are you scared?" Ji Chuhe asked immediately.
"I'm not afraid. Besides, my sister-in-law said that even though the bamboo tower looks like it's burning fiercely, it's actually not dangerous. Now I can finally cancel the engagement!"
Ji Chuhe raised his hand and wiped away the black dust on Rong Qingqing's cheek.
"Starting tomorrow, you can start looking for someone who loves you wholeheartedly."
"No, no, I feel repulsive when marriage is mentioned now." Rong Qingqing waved her hands quickly.
Ji Chuhe couldn't help laughing again, "Let's go, let's go back home."
Suddenly, there were knocks outside the carriage.
"Madam." Xiao Yan'an called out.
Ji Chuhe lifted the car curtain and looked at him, "Why don't you help your uncle over there? What are you doing here?"
"All the people in Prime Minister Qin's residence have withdrawn. My uncle can handle it alone. Qingqing, go back by yourself. Your sister-in-law and I have some things to deal with."
Ji Chuhe really thought that Xiao Yanan wanted to see her for something.
"Qingqing, you go back home first."
"Okay." Rong Qingqing nodded obediently.
Ji Chuhe got off the carriage.
Xiao Yan'an took her to the river.
The place they came to was the upper reaches of the river bank, which had been empty the previous week.
However, there are all kinds of lights placed along the riverbank.
The lights were all on, and the scene was very beautiful and warm.
"Your Majesty, what does this mean?"
"Today is the Qiqiao Festival. We are husband and wife, so we should light lanterns and pray for blessings together, right?"
"You prepared these secretly?" Ji Chuhe looked surprised.
"Yes, dealing with the Third Prince's affairs will not affect my arrangements. Anyway, I know that Madam has a plan for everything." Xiao Yan'an smiled confidently and strode towards the pile of lanterns.
"Since you are going to light lanterns and pray, you must be sincere in your heart. You light so many lanterns at once and ask for so many things. How can the gods know how sincere you are?"
"Madam, are you saying I'm greedy? I think that since we are praying for the gods' blessings, the more the better. What if a lantern gets lost and doesn't float to the gods? I can release a hundred lanterns, and it's enough for the gods to see one."
After Xiao Yanan finished speaking, he held up a lamp with words written on it.
Ji Chuhe saw it through the candlelight.
It reads: "May my wife have more joy, long peace, no worries, and long-lasting health."
Look at another one and you will see the same words written on it.
"It's time to light the lanterns." Xiao Yan'an reverently picked up a lantern, walked to the river and released it.
The lanterns float on the water and drift downstream.
"Prince, you wrote so many wishes, didn't you leave a few for me?" Ji Chuhe asked softly.
"Yes!" Xiao Yan'an immediately picked up a lantern and handed it to Ji Chuhe, then took out a pen and ink from the side.
Ji Chuhe picked up the pen and wrote a few words on it: "God favors me, everything goes as I wish."
Xiao Yan'an looked at these words, somewhat puzzled.
This sentence doesn't sound like a prayer to the gods, but rather like trying to tell the gods that everything is fine.
This is what Ji Chuhe meant.
She was reborn, and the path she took in this life was exactly what she wanted.
She was thanking God for giving her this chance to be reborn.
Ji Chuhe held the lantern and put it into the river.
Xiao Yan'an also quickly put his lantern into the river.
There were so many lights that it took me half a day to work on them.
Ji Chuhe sat on a big rock and watched him put the flowers in one by one, and didn't feel bored.
In this world, Xiao Yan'an was the first person to light lanterns and pray for her.
Moreover, there were so many of them.
"Oh! It's finally over." Xiao Yan'an clapped his hands and sat next to Ji Chuhe, half leaning forward and looking up at the starry sky.
"Madam, how do you know that this bamboo tower can be easily ignited by fire and burn very quickly? And it is not easy to hurt people?" Xiao Yan'an suddenly asked.
"I heard from Chunsheng that there is a troupe of performing arts that travels around the country. They are very good at kung fu. Their best performance is the sea of fire and mountains of swords. This kind of bamboo is specially made by them. The fire looks fierce, but in fact, the temperature is not high. People can walk through the flames with bare skin without getting burned."
"Then how did the lady find them so accurately?"
"When the prince asked me whether I would come to participate in this year's Qiqiao Festival, I already had such a plan, which left me with plenty of time to prepare."
"Madam, every time Chunsheng comes back or when Manager Xue comes, you always ask them about things outside. At that time, I was wondering if you don't want to be trapped in this house, and want to travel around the vast sky and sea, visit mountains, rivers and lakes, and see if the places described in the books are really like that."
"No." Ji Chuhe shook his head. "I just like to listen to some strange stories. Compared with the colorful world outside, I prefer to guard my own little world."
Xiao Yan'an secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that Ji Chuhe yearned for freedom, yearning for the things he could not give her.
He is no longer the same Xiao Yanan as before.
He knows his responsibility.
His father, his mother, his relatives in the Duke’s Mansion, and his children.
These are all his responsibilities.
Ji Chuhe is different. If she wants freedom, he can really let her go at any time.
But, if that happened, he would lose her completely.
"Prince, don't have any wild thoughts. I'm not the kind of person who is willing to put myself in a difficult position. What I'm doing now is what I want." Ji Chuhe gave Xiao Yan'an a reassurance.
Xiao Yan'an was happy. He lay on the stone and crossed his legs. "Madam, I guess the news has already spread to the palace. How will the emperor deal with this matter?"
"Since the emperor's new policy was implemented, Prime Minister Qin has been silent and rarely expressed his opinions in the court. However, I know that he does not agree with the implementation of the new policy. He likes power to be in the hands of a few people, that is, in the hands of powerful people like them."
"Although their Qin family is not considered as the aristocratic family that the emperor wants to eliminate, it has no impact on him, and he also wants to stop it."
"If Madam hadn't said that, I really wouldn't have realized that he wanted to stop the implementation of the new policy." Xiao Yan'an sat up and listened carefully.