She didn't know what had happened to him in the past thirty-four years, and why he was aging so fast?

Although his shoulders were still broad, his back was a little heavy.

Time has left deep marks on his face, and he was so thin and old that she almost didn't recognize him at first glance.

The man opposite seemed to be irritated by her words. He covered his mouth with a handkerchief and coughed twice.

As soon as he coughed, footsteps approached outside the cabin, and a low and questioning voice came in: "Master?"

Qi Huan raised his hand.

The figure outside the cabin retreated.

Qi Huan also stopped coughing, put down his handkerchief and looked straight at Tuoba Xian in front of him.

"There is something wrong with my health, but, Xian'er, you are still the same as when we first met."

"Still so young and beautiful..."

Tuoba Xian shook his head gently, "I am already a grandmother, and my youth and beauty have long been missed by me."

But Qi Huan insisted: "No, in my heart, you will always be the glorious Princess of Liao Dynasty. She is the woman I love most and the only woman I have ever loved."

Tuoba Xian turned her head and didn't want to listen.

"You have been hiding from me for more than thirty years and suddenly brought me here tonight just to say these love words?"

Tuoba Xian smiled, with a part of self-deprecation and a part of ridicule on the corner of her lips.

"Those love words of yours could have deceived me when I was eighteen years old. This year, I am already fifty-two."

"In eight years' time, my son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren will celebrate my sixtieth birthday."

Qi Huan knew he was in the wrong, but he could do nothing but apologize.

"Xian'er, I have owed you thirty-four years. I have committed a heinous crime. If there is an afterlife, I will compensate you again."

The sarcasm on Tuoba Xian's lips became more profound.

compensate?

Afterlife?

As a person who has served in front of the Buddha for more than ten years, she actually does not dare to hope that there will be an afterlife.

"Xian'er, it's been a long time since we met again. Tonight I just want to pick you up and catch up on old times."

Qi Huan glanced at the furnishings in the cabin: "Does everything here look familiar to you?"

"I arranged it based on the first time we met in the Jiangnan Water Town."

There was no need for Qi Huan's flattering reminder. Tuoba Xian understood his intentions at the first sight as soon as he entered the cabin.

"And this bowl of cold skin. I remember you said you wanted to eat it before, so I brought it to you. Can you try it?"

Tuoba Xian stared at the bowl of cold skin in front of her that lost its flavor after being heated, and felt a little funny in her heart.

This man is still the noble son of the man who only knew how to fight on horseback, King Wu of Qi.

He is still a layman when it comes to things like food, clothing, housing, and transportation, but he still wants to use this layman's matter to express his concern, but doesn't he know that it will be self-defeating?

I saw Tuoba Xian staring at the bowl of cold skin, but refused to lift his chopsticks.

Qi Huan was a little uneasy and asked cautiously: "Is it cold? I'll order someone to heat it up..."

Tuoba Xian raised his hand to block it.

"No need."

"Qi Huan, I appreciate your kindness, but people's appetites can change."

"Xian'er..."

From the inn to the cabin, Qi Huan kept laughing, observing, and carefully trying to please.

But at this moment, he couldn't laugh anymore, and his eyes darkened little by little.

"Xian'er, I'm sorry for you. In fact, I have been very ashamed these years."

Tuoba Xian looked at him quietly, waiting for him to give the answer she had always wanted.

However, Qi Huan was just telling his thoughts about her and his regret.

There was the sound of a watch on the shore.

Bang, bang, bang.

A sound came into the cabin.

Other boats nearby have found suitable places to berth one after another. Before, it was quiet amid the commotion, but now it is truly quiet.

It was quiet all around, with occasional water birds flitting across the water.

In the cabin, Qi Huan has been talking.

It can be seen that his health is really not as good as before. He speaks very slowly, coughs several times and takes two sips of tea after speaking a few words.

Tuoba Xian was listening patiently, but she couldn't wait for the words she wanted to hear most.

"Qi Huan, I didn't come with you tonight because I wanted to hear your confession and thoughts."

"I am already fifty-two years old. Most of my life has passed and my youth is long gone."

"I have no desire to reconnect with you again."

Every time Tuoba Xian said another word, Qi Huan's face became paler.

"Qi Huan, I have only one obsession for the rest of my life,"

"Then I want you to tell me personally why you abandoned me back then?"

"Why haven't you come to me for so many years?"

"When you knew my whereabouts, why did you keep your head hidden but refused to meet me?"

Qi Huan was sitting there, and the light from the lights seemed not to shine through his body. His back was slumped a little, and his whole body seemed like an old man shrinking into the darkness.

He is also like an eminent monk who has entered trance.

The cabin suddenly fell into silence.

After a while, just when Tuoba Xian was about to despair again, Qi Huan finally spoke again.

"It was not my intention to abandon you back then."

"At that time, the war between the two countries was tense and the two countries were incompatible with each other. As the prince of Da Qi, I had no choice!"

"Xian'er, I'm sorry for you!"

Tuoba Xian frowned, this answer was just as she guessed.

It's nothing more than a man and a woman falling in love. At the last moment, the man's rationality prevails, but the woman plunges headlong into it.

In the words of the simple village women in Changping Village, I was a stupid woman back then.

"The reason why you didn't come to see me for so many years after that was also because of the opposition between the two countries and our embarrassing status, right?" she asked.

Qi Huan nodded.

Tuoba Xian laughed to himself.

What should I do if I have to ask so clearly?

Isn't it good to stay in the stomach and be a happy confused person? Do you have to be a sad and sober person?

Qi Huan saw Tuoba Xian's lonely look in his eyes, and felt a twinge in his heart, as if ten thousand ants were gnawing at him.

He almost couldn't help but want to tell her the truth, but at the last moment, he held it back.

Tuoba Xian raised his drooping eyes again, and the persistence in his eyes made Qi Huan secretly frightened.

"The last question, you have to answer it truthfully."

"Why have you been so reluctant to show up in recent years even though you have known each other for a long time? What are you afraid of?"

This is what she wants to know most.

Knowing this answer, she will be completely liberated. For the rest of her life, she will devote herself to accompanying the ancient Buddha with the green lantern, and there will be no more troubles.

However, Qi Huan fell into silence again.

"Why do not you say it?"

"We have reached the twilight years of our lives, what secrets do you want to keep?"

The current emperor of Da Qi is his nephew, and the war between the two countries is no longer as tense as it used to be, and business contacts are common.

What on earth is he still insisting on?
Chapter completed!