His Rui

Chapter 643 Xi Ling Also Wants To Go

Xi Ying heard his wife’s low shout and immediately turned around to check on her.

”Where did you hit yourself?”

He said as he tried to remove her hand from her nose. Her nose was completely red and her eyes were filled with tears.

”Can’t you be a little patient, Rui? You should not walk so close to anyone. Did you hit yourself anywhere else?”

He asked as he reprimanded as well as rubbed her nose at the same. 

”No”

Li Rui whispered calmly as she wiped the corner of her eyes. However, Xi Ying moved away her fingers and did it for her. His forehead was constantly marred with a frown as he wiped the corner of her eyes gently.

Li Rui looked at him silently.

”I am alright.”

She whispered.

How could he get so worried over such a small thing! She thought inside her heart helplessly.

She held his hand and said honestly.

”You worry too much.”     

Xi Ying looked at Li Rui with narrowed eyes as he spoke

”Very daring of you to say this after whatever has happened in the past few days.”

He finished and then looked away from her as if displeased with her words. She doesn’t understand anything. She thinks about everyone except for him.

Li Rui’s eyes softened instantly and she held his hand making him look at her.

”Ying…you are worried that I would get hurt if I went with Senior Brother, right? Why don’t you go with me?”

Xi Ying looked at Li Rui silently after her suggestion until he shook his head and let out a helpless sigh. She smiled at him softly as she blinked her eyes at him.

He had never known that she could behave like this. 

Suddenly he didn’t know if falling in love was a good idea because he no longer had any power to resist these clean black eyes. He was weak…very weak in front of them.

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When a quarter of shichen later, Li Rui came back to the dining room with Xi Ying, Gu Li knew that it would final this time whether she would leave with him or not.

He had already told them everything. If she still couldn’t go with him, then he would never disturb her life again. He would just continue to collect the ten million gold taels and then take his master to Yantun valley.

Though his hopes were little in that aspect.

Li Rui walked to Gu Li calmly. Her face didn’t give away anything until she stopped in front of him and asked suddenly

”So when are we leaving?”

And Gu Li smiled for the first time in the past few years.

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They had to make many arrangements if they wanted to leave.

Xi Ying had to send a letter to the Imperial Palace asking for leave for a few days. After that, he was worried to leave Xi Ling alone in Xi Manor.

He called his son to the living room where everyone was present.

Xi Ying didn’t show it but a large part of his heart wished that Li Rui would refuse if she would see Xi Ling. She would also not want to leave him alone for so many days.

He could give all the money Gu Li needed if it was really about his master getting treated but somehow he had an inkling that his wife would not appreciate his move so he didn’t speak his thoughts aloud.

”Mother”

When Xi Ling came to the living room with Li Hua, he first ran toward his mother.

Li Rui smiled and instantly opened her arms. She was sitting on the couch with Xi Ying while Gu Li and his shadow guards were sitting on the other.

Xi Ling noticed many other people but he didn’t care about them. He just ran towards his mother but slowed down when he was in front of her. His father had told him that he could not behave rashly in front of his mother because it could harm his sibling inside his mother’s belly.

”Xiao Ling.”

Li Rui move a little and patted the space between her and her husband so that Xi Ling could sit there. Xi Ling obliged happily.       

  “Xi Ling.”

After he was seated, Xi Ying called out his son who had not even glanced at him all this while. He would have surely taught him a lesson but right now other things were more important.

”Father”

Xi Ling greeted his father politely but was quick to move his turn his face to her mother.

Xi Ying’s lips twitched. He suddenly picked him from the couch like a sack and then made him sit on his lap.

Xi Ling looked at his father with wide eyes after being picked suddenly.

”Father…”

He whispered incredulously. However, before he could express his shock clearly, his father dropped another bomb on him.

”We are leaving tomorrow. You need to behave yourself for the next few days. If I heard any complaint from anyone, then I will deal with you after coming back.”

Finishing his words, Xi Ying waited for his son to speak.

However, Xi Ling looked at his father with blank eyes as he asked

”We? Who is leaving with you, Father?”

Xi Ying looked at his son suddenly wondering how this silliness came to him despite having such intelligent parents.

Who could he leave with! For who else, he would ever use the word ‘we’?

Still very generously, he told him

”I and your mother…”

”Waah…”

Xi Ling’s sorrowful cry interrupted Xi Ying and surprised everyone present in the living room.

”Xiao Ling…”

Li Rui called out his name in a worried voice and he turned his small head to look at his mother lowering down his sound and seeing her frown.

However, he still sobbed and his eyes were filled with big fat tears as he blinked at his mother and spoke in a trembling voice.

”Mother…can you not leave Xiao Ling? Xiao Ling doesn’t want Mother to leave. Waah…”

Li Rui looked very conflicted. She couldn’t bear the sight of her crying son. She moved toward him as she tried to comfort him but Xi Ling didn’t stop crying at all.

His words pinched Li Rui’s heart.

”Mother….Xiao Ling is alone in Manor. Xiao Ling doesn’t know what he should do. Xiao Ling will feel very alone without Mother…”

Xi Ying was looking at Li Rui all this while silently wondering if she would change her decision.

Even Gu Li looked a little worried now.

However, the young prime minister’s body stiffened when he heard his son’s next words.

”Mother…take Xiao Ling with you as well…Xiao Ling doesn’t want to stay alone…waah…Xiao Ling is so scared.”