It's better to fall in love than seize the heir

Two days later.

Shen Jinghe had already arranged everything before leaving.He didn't take Cheng Mo with him, but left him in the mansion to look after the servants who were in charge of the mansion.After packing up his parcels and bringing dry food that was not susceptible to moisture, he came to the city gate in light clothes early in the morning.

After a short farewell, the convoy heading to Jiangnan finally set off. Shen Jinghe sat alone in the firm and spacious carriage, lifted the curtain and watched the city gate gradually shrink away from sight, until it disappeared into a blurred black dot .Liang Yan rode a steed and stood guard on the left side of the carriage. Together with the accompanying guards and attendants, there were about 20 people in the team.

When the convoy drove out of the outskirts of Beijing, Shen Jinghe suddenly tapped on the wall of the car to signal the driver to stop.After the car came to a complete stop, ignoring the driver's unclear face, he jumped off the shaft with a short body.

Seeing him get off the car, Liang Yan immediately tugged on the rein to make the horse step beside him, leaned slightly and asked, "What's wrong?"

Shen Jinghe waved his hand, did not answer him, but told everyone in the motorcade, "Everyone, follow the itinerary that was originally planned, and you also have your majesty's handbook, if you encounter a post station government office along the way, if you need help Just ask them for help, don't worry too much."

The coachman was a little surprised, "The Sixth Highness means..."

Liang Yan looked down at him, and raised an eyebrow thoughtfully.Shen Jinghe blinked, smiled at him, and said loudly: "I'm afraid I'm going to borrow a fast horse from General Liang's guards."

After leaving the convoy carrying heavy loads, the speed of the two Qingqi riders increased a lot, and it took less than an hour to completely drive out of the scope of Gyeonggi.

The weather has been mixed for the past two days.With a faint thunder, the sky that was still clear just now began to rain again, pattering and wetting the loess road.

In the distance, a small tea shed seems to be visible beside the official road.Shen Jinghe and Liang Yan glanced at each other, and they hurried over together.After tying the horse to the wooden post, the two of them sat together in the tea shed to shelter from the rain, and took a breath by the way.

"Two bowls of tea, thank you."

Shen Jinghe put a few copper coins on the table, and the lady at the tea stall took the money and brought two bowls of tea enthusiastically, "Okay! You can just sit and rest, and you can leave when the rain stops. Not too late!"

Shen Jinghe nodded to her to thank her, and when he turned around, he saw Liang Yan looking at him leisurely, as if he was waiting for him to explain something.

"Do you want to ask me why I did that?" Shen Jinghe took a sip of the tea in the bowl, the taste of the tea was a bit astringent, but he still swallowed it without changing his face.

"I can probably guess a little bit."

Shen Jinghe suddenly became interested, "Oh? Then tell me?"

Liang Yan saw him sitting and looking at himself calmly, as if he was very happy to test himself, and couldn't help being angry and happy in his heart.He suddenly felt itchy to say something stupid again - such as "You really want to swim with the two of us", and then take the time to watch how Shen Jinghe blushed with annoyance.

He coughed lightly, suppressed the thoughts in his mind, his face straightened, and he returned to seriousness, "The local forces in the south of the Yangtze River are intricate and complicated. If we go forward in an open and honest way, I'm afraid they will make everything wrong before we can find out anything in the future." Everything we know has disappeared. And now we ride lightly and hide our identities first, maybe we can get some useful information.”

Shen Jinghe didn't know anything about what flashed through Cai Liang Yan's mind, he heard Liang Yan's answer, nodded with a "teachable" face, and bowed his eyebrows approvingly.

After suppressing the smile, his eyes were also stained with a trace of solemnity.

"You are right. However, there is another reason why I am so anxious to act alone..."

Facing Liang Yan's inquiring gaze, he sighed and put down the teacup in his hand, "Did I tell you that my intuition for danger has always been accurate? Before I set off this time, I always felt faintly uneasy .Although it may be that I am worrying too much, and it may not necessarily happen, but I don't want to gamble my life on that possibility."

"Of course, and yours." He glanced at Liang Yan and added.

Liang Yan's face was already serious because of his words, but when he heard the last few words Shen Jinghe said, he was suddenly stunned, and his cold eyes followed his slightly moving mind just now. , softened a little so easily.He held Shen Jinghe's hand on the table with one hand, stared deeply at him, and said in a deep voice with an oath-like determination, "With me here, I will not put you in the slightest danger. "

Shen Jinghe held him back, tapped his wrist twice with his fingertips, and also clenched his hand tightly.The silent tacit understanding and trust are transmitted between the touching skins with the beating of the pulse, dissolve in the rushing blood, and spread all the way up to the heart.

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During the more than ten-day journey from the capital to the south of the Yangtze River, they deliberately put away all the objects that could show their identities carefully. Wearing coir raincoats and hats on their heads, they looked like two ordinary travelers.When encountering cloudy and rainy weather, they no longer stopped because of it, and traveled all the way in the stars and moon, which shortened the originally planned schedule by half.

Jiangcheng is the most prosperous city in Su County. It is far away from the river and has the highest terrain. There are underground drains in the city to divert the rainwater, so the impact of the flood is not too great.

After paying the city fee to the guards at the city gate, Shen Jinghe lowered his bamboo hat, and walked side by side with Liang Yan into this city in the south of the Yangtze River, which was praised by the people at that time as "the city is full of pearls, the households are full of Luoqi, and there are 10 households". Names.The government office of the prefect of Su County is also located in Jiangcheng, and the majestic mansion with double towers and towering towers can be seen from a distance.

Shen Jinghe and Liang Yan looked at each other, feeling an unspeakable strangeness towards this city.

Jiangcheng was really too prosperous—or, to put it another way, it was so prosperous that it didn't look like a city that had experienced a flood.

On the bluestone avenue extending in all directions, jade chariots, green cattle and white horses, and seven-scented treasured chariots pass by, and the continuous stream of pedestrians all look decent and tidy.Neighborhood shops on both sides of the market are still bustling open as usual. If there is not a thin layer of rainwater accumulated on the street that will not be drained in the future, it is almost impossible to imagine that this is the capital of Su County, which is ravaged by floods.

However, if you insist on explaining it, you can use the fact that Jiangcheng itself has not been greatly affected.only……

Shen Jinghe looked around, and the strange feeling in his heart didn't decrease with the stepping deeper in the streets, but it became more and more intense, almost making people shout loudly that something was wrong in the next second.

He stopped, looked around at the seemingly peaceful market scene, and frowned.

Where is the weirdness?

He glanced aimlessly across the street vendors who were busy doing business on both sides of the street, across the ladies leaning against the door chatting with each other, and across the toddlers stumbling down the street with windmills, and suddenly froze.

"Liang Yan." Shen Jinghe suddenly turned his head to look at him, his eyes were piercing, "Have you noticed...there are not even a single refugee in the streets and alleys of Jiangcheng?"

He finally understood what was wrong, it was the refugees!

A capital city that is not affected much, and is extremely wealthy, it is reasonable to support the displaced people in the surrounding states and counties.However, along the way, not to mention exhausted refugees who left their homes and dragged their families, even a person in rags was rarely seen.How strange is it to be placed in a capital city where most of the surrounding area is submerged by a river that burst its embankment?

Liang Yan's pupils shrank, and his eyes suddenly became serious, "Indeed, the water network in the counties and counties next to Jiangcheng is dense, and it should have suffered heavy losses. It stands to reason that the first place the refugees chose to go to should be the place not far away and Jiangcheng, which has abundant grain reserves, is the right place, why is there such an ordinary scene in the city now?"

Shen Jinghe pondered for a moment, "It's useless for us to think about it here, how about this, let's split up and ask the neighbors on the left and right, and meet up in front of the wonton stall at the street corner after a cup of tea."

"Okay." Liang Yan nodded, and before he left, he didn't forget to turn his head and take a deep look at him, "Be careful yourself."

After separating from Liang Yan, Shen Jinghe chose the road on the right, pretending to be a passing traveler, asking the neighbors for news about Jiangcheng.Whether it was the people on the street or the street vendors, they all enthusiastically introduced the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River to him. When they mentioned Chen Zhongquan, the prefect of Jiangcheng, they were full of praise, and praised him as a rare parent official.

Shen Jinghe chatted with them for a few words, and seemingly unintentionally mentioned the flood in the south of the Yangtze River and the surrounding refugees, but the people who were still very attentive just now either changed the topic lightly, or directly pushed three obstacles and four obstacles to make it unclear.After hitting a wall like this several times, the doubts in Shen Jinghe's heart became deeper and deeper.

The time for a cup of tea passed quickly, and Shen Jinghe walked to the wonton stand at the entrance of the street in deep thought, frowning.Liang Yan had already been standing in front of the booth waiting for him, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that he had returned as scheduled.

"How is it?" Liang Yan strode towards him, deliberately lowering his voice, "I didn't find any useful information. What's interesting is that all the neighbors, without exception, are saying good things about the local magistrate, but asking And the refugee issue, but they all avoided talking about it.”

"It's the same on my side." Shen Jinghe sighed, looked at the wonton stall, and simply pulled Liang Yan over to sit down, and ordered two bowls of fresh meat wontons to fill his stomach, "There must be something weird here."

The stall owner with a big shoulder and round waist quickly brought up two bowls of fragrant wontons. Shen Jinghe watched him skillfully arrange the bowls and chopsticks, and asked again without giving up, "From the accent of the shopkeeper, he should be a native of Jiangcheng?"

"Exactly." Now there are no other customers besides them, and the stall owner doesn't mind chatting with them, "My family's grandparents all lived in Jiangcheng. It’s been passed down decades ago.”

Liang Yan had already poured the rice vinegar into the bowl for him, pushed it lightly with one hand, and moved it to his porcelain bowl.

Shen Jinghe evened some rice vinegar into a bowl, scooped up a spoonful of wontons, blew on the hot air, and put them in his mouth—it was fragrant, fresh, tender, smooth and delicious.He swallowed the soup in his mouth, smiled and took the stall owner's words, "I have never eaten such delicious fresh meat wontons anywhere else. You have such a rare skill, shopkeeper, you must have a good business in the future." It can be prosperous."

The stall owner smiled smugly, rubbed his hands, and said modestly, "Shang Ke Shang Ke".

Glancing at Liang Yan, Shen Jinghe finally tentatively changed the topic, "I heard that the local prefect Chen has only been in office for more than two years? To manage such a huge city like Jiangcheng in such an orderly manner, I think it must be a A good and honest official, right?"

The stall owner's smile froze, his eyes flickered, but soon he smiled wider, "That's right, that's right! Prefect Chen is dedicated to the people and has a clean hand in his sleeves. Who doesn't know the elders in Jiangcheng, who doesn't know? "

Shen Jinghe didn't miss his momentary stiffness and unreasonably blunt tone, and immediately struck while the iron was hot, "Then I don't know how the prefect Chen dealt with the flood in the south of the Yangtze River? I think this Jiangcheng is still bustling. Yes, it seems that he really manages well."

Throwing the white cloth towel for wiping the table to his shoulders, the stall owner's smile faded a little, and his expression was a little absent-minded, "How can we ordinary people know about the affairs of the government?"

He seemed to be starting to get a little restless.Shen Jinghe gave Liang Yan a look secretly, Liang Yan answered the words understandingly, and looked around the long street casually, "Speaking of which, we have traveled all the way, and it seems that we haven't seen any refugees..."

As if stung by some word, the stall owner shook his whole body, hurriedly turned around and wiped up a few square tables not far away, prevaricating with a little impatience, "I haven't seen it, I haven't seen it." Yes! I don't know what you're asking."

After saying that, he suddenly felt a little vigilant, raised his head and looked at them cautiously, "You two... don't you come from the capital?"

"Of course not." Shen Jinghe pretended to look at him in surprise, "Why would the store suddenly ask such a question?"

The stall owner glanced at them cautiously, then glanced back and forth a few times, then continued to lower his head and wipe the table sullenly, "It's okay... No matter where you come from, I advise you to keep a low profile , don’t ask questions.”

As he spoke, he looked around, and whispered to himself seemingly unintentionally, "It's useless... I can't find out anything."

Watching him return to his busy figure in front of the cauldron, Shen Jinghe knew that this time he would not be able to ask any more questions.Sighing, leaving the money on the table, he got up and left with Liang Yan.

"Looking at the sky, it might rain again in a while. Let's go rest for one night and continue to investigate slowly in the next few days." Shen Jinghe raised his head to look at the sky, and whispered to Liang Yan.

Liang Yan naturally followed him, nodded at the moment, and walked forward at a faster pace.

When they entered the city, they had already taken a fancy to an inn at the end of the long street. It was not big, but there were many people from all walks of life coming and going, and the passenger flow was very large.Being in the middle of it is also a way to hide in the city.

"Shopkeeper, come to the upper room." Liang Yan slapped the silver on the table and said calmly.

The pot-bellied shopkeeper, who was fiddling with the abacus, smiled apologetically, and said with a bitter face, "I'm really sorry, customer! Most of the rooms in the shop were flooded a few days ago, and most of them are still being repaired now. One upper room is vacant."

Liang Yan was taken aback, and just about to ask Shen Jinghe to change to another inn, but Shen Jinghe already took half of the money on the table, and pushed the rest to the shopkeeper, "Then please give us an inn." Let’s go to the room, prepare some hot water and hot tea, and bring them up together.”

"Okay, I won't tell you to wait any longer! Tianzi No. [-] room!" The shopkeeper looked at the silver tael, which was much richer than the rent, and immediately smiled, calling the waiter to lead the two of them upstairs.

Until the waiter bent down and they stood in the empty room, Liang Yan's expression was still a little complicated.He tilted his head to look at Shen Jinghe who was looking at the furniture in the room calmly, his eyes flashed subtly, "You, just now...why don't you stay in another inn?"

"That's so troublesome." Shen Jinghe heard his voice, turned his head, and said confidently, "It's going to rain soon, don't you still want to wear a coir raincoat to survive the cold in the streets and alleys? What's more There is no defense between men and women, so what if we live in the same room?"

Liang Yan looked at him speechlessly, and remained silent for a while, but was still defeated by Shen Jinghe's still clear eyes.

All right, although there is only one quilt on this bed, but he covered his body with his coat to make do for the night, so he shouldn't get sick from the cold.

Liang Yan silently let Shen Jinghe pull him to sit at the table, watching him briskly pour tea into the cups of the two of them, and rubbed between his brows with some headaches.

He was indeed extremely happy to be able to share a room with Shen Jinghe, and he never thought of hiding his desire to be closer to him.But now they have such a relationship...

He lowered his eyes and turned his head to quietly stare at Shen Jinghe.The wind and dust that traveled day and night did not damage his handsome face in the slightest. At this moment, his hands that were whiter than porcelain were holding the teapot firmly, pouring green tea into the cup.The mist of mist made his face feel unreal, and the splashed water almost landed in front of his eyes, so he tilted his head slightly, his trembling eyelashes looked like a butterfly that was about to flap its wings and fly away at any time .

Liang Yan's eyes darkened a little, his fingers curled up tightly, and his knuckles turned white due to the force.

He could almost imagine what a long and sweet torture tonight would be.

The door of the room was knocked lightly, and after receiving the order to come in, the waiter pushed open the door, struggled to move a bucket of steaming hot water and put it in the center of the room, and set up a few clean slats on the wooden poles. Cloth.

"The hot water has been delivered, guests, after taking a bath, call downstairs, and I will come up and remove the wooden bucket for you." The waiter scratched his head and said honestly.

"Thank you." Shen Jinghe nodded at him.The shop clerk bent over again, and carefully closed the door for them when he left.

Liang Yan looked at the big bucket of hot water stiffly, then slowly raised his neck, and looked around the room.

There are no screens.

He was still in a daze on the spot, but Shen Jinghe had already taken off the jade crown on his head with one hand, and all the black hair on his head was scattered like a waterfall in an instant, and fell down naturally.The narrow corners of his eyes were covered by hair, he tilted his head slightly, and the ends of his hair brushed gently over his shoulders, "Shall I take a bath first?"

Liang Yan didn't answer, his dark eyes couldn't move away from Shen Jinghe's face, his Adam's apple rolled up and down uncontrollably.

As if being drawn by something, he held his breath and slowly stepped up to him, stretched out his hand to lightly hold a bundle of soft black hair that was scattered, and rubbed it lovingly in the palm of his hand.

Shen Jinghe paused for a moment with his hand on the front of his shirt, and he pondered for a moment, then gently touched Liang Yan's hand with the tip of his chin, with a sly look in his eyes, "Actually... this wooden barrel may Is it big enough for two people?"

Liang Yan's breath was severely choked, and the hand holding Wufa shook, and even his whole soul trembled unsteadily for a moment.He closed his eyes deeply, and when he opened them again, he gritted his teeth for no reason.

"you--"

Liang Yan lowered his head and moved closer, wanting to warn the person in front of him who didn't care about the consequences of his words.However, facing Shen Jinghe's eyes with a clear smile, he once again resigned to his fate and found that his breath was almost taken away, so he could only stare at him blankly for a moment, exhausting his last She tried her best to resist the urge to kiss her.

"I... what?"

The hot air rising from the water made Shen Jinghe's cheeks a little red. He supported the edge of the tub with one hand, and his tail was slightly raised, but it fell into Liang Yan's ears, but it was inexplicably more attractive.

Liang Yan took a deep breath, clenched his fists hard, and turned around suddenly. The back that left in a hurry could almost be called fleeing.

"You... take a bath first, I'll go outside to enjoy the rain for a while."

With a bang, the door was slammed shut.Shen Jinghe originally wanted to tease him again and teach him to find a less clumsy excuse.However, looking at the swinging eaves lamp on the door, and fiddled with the clear hot water twice with his fingertips, he still couldn't help leaning on the wooden barrel, covering his slightly hot face with one hand, and slightly pursed one lip. horn.

Silly.

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Knock on the head!How did you learn to bully Liang Yan, little He'er!

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