Clear and Muddy Loss of Love

sobbing

No matter how long the journey is, there will be an end.

After an absence of more than half a year, the capital is still here.

Before entering the city, Qi Yan gave Xiaodie an Anshen Pill, which was given by Ding You to restrain her nightmares, and it has a certain sleeping effect.

Qi Yan was still worried, and apologized to Xiaodie several times, enduring her heartache and guilt, and found hemp rope to tie Xiaodie up carefully.

At that time, the efficacy of Anshen Pill had not yet come up. It was not a Mongolian perspiration medicine, and the content of sleeping pills was very low.Today's Xiaodie is the most well-behaved and most sane in the past few days. Recently, Xiaodie is very well-behaved. Perhaps her reunion with Qi Yan has made her condition improve, and the frequency of troubles has dropped sharply. Perhaps it is because of her health. Sleep mostly.

Xiaodie stared at Qi Yan without blinking, those black eyes were full of dependence.She even thought about it seriously for a while, and asked Qi Yan in blunt official Wei language: "Brother, what are you doing?"

Qi Yan squatted beside Xiaodie without raising her head, but her hand holding the rope trembled unconsciously, and said softly in the same trembling voice: "We are about to enter the city, I am sorry for you. After the settlement is settled, brother will untie it for you." ..."

Xiaodie nodded obediently, and replied obediently: "Brother, I don't run around."

Thousands of arrows pierced through the heart, but that was the case, the rope was tied to Xiaodie's body, the knife was inserted into Qi Yan's heart, one knife after another, blood gurgling.

When approaching the border of the capital, Xiaodie had already fallen asleep.

But Qi Yan was still worried, and took out a silk cloth to cover Xiaodie's mouth.

It has only been a few days since we agreed not to let my sister be wronged again?Then he broke his promise.

Qi Yan clenched her fists tightly, her eyes were a little red with tyranny that was about to burst out...

Qi Yan feels that there is no one who has failed more than herself, but she has to do this, she has no choice; there is really no way.

The disaster relief has been a great success, and the imperial court will send hundreds of officials out of the city to meet them.

What if Xiaodie gets sick in full view and speaks her mother tongue uncontrollably... Ren Qiyan can't keep her even if she has all-powerful abilities.

Xiaodie slept peacefully on the seat of the carriage, covered with a thin blanket, and underneath was her body that was tied into a rice dumpling.

Qi Yan sat beside her and didn't look at her, her amber eyes were dead silent, no one could see through her mind.

As Qi Yan expected: the imperial court sent officials of the third rank and above out of the city thirty miles to meet them.

Nangong Dayi was inconvenient due to his legs and feet, so he was led by the nominal eldest son Nangong Wei, and also came with the fourth prince Nangong Zhen. This pair of brothers had been inseparable from Meng since childhood.

The two princes were refreshed and stood in front of the officials with just right smiles on their faces. Compared to them, Nangong Wang looked a little sloppy, but the radiance in his eyes was incomparable to these two.

He "reaped" quite a lot this time, and even though the status of the mothers of the two princes remained unchanged, there was an extra noble concubine in the harem. In fact, some powers were divided, and one went up and down.

"Woo!" Nan Gongwang pulled the reins with one hand while raising the other palm, and the long line stopped.

He looked at the officials who greeted him in front of him, raised his chin first, let go of the reins and jumped off the horse.

The second prince and the fourth prince both went up to greet him, and called affectionately: "Third brother!"

"Third Brother!"

Nangongwang clasped his fists together: "Second brother, fourth brother, please come here."

Nangong Wei patted Nangong Wang on the shoulder: "After half a year's absence, the third brother has worked hard on this trip. The emperor has a decree: the palace banquet has been prepared and will be presided over by the fifth brother. The emperor's heirs will all attend, and after the team rests for a while, they will follow me." Let's go back to the palace."

A servant had already laid out seats by the side of the road, and the three princes sat on the ground, chatting affectionately.

Hundreds of officials also dispersed one after another, looking for their acquaintances to greet each other.

A young figure flashed across the crowd, parting the crowd and hurriedly looking for someone.

"Where is the car of Mr. Qi, the servant of the Ministry of Industry?"

The guard pointed back, and the young man in crimson mansion walked towards the carriage...

As soon as Qi Yan got off the carriage, he heard a familiar voice: "Tie Zhu!"

Looking at the person in the entire capital who can call him that, he already knows who it is.

For more than half a year, Gong Yanghuai missed Qi Yan very much, and excitedly called Qi Yan's ugly "baby name".

Sure enough, the people around became quiet for a while, and they were all secretly searching who this "Tie Zhu" was...

Qi Yan came to Gongyanghuai and asked for a salute, and said with a smile: "Baishi, don't come here without any problems."

A big smile appeared on Gong Yanghuai's face, and he held Qi Yan's arm and looked at it for a while: "It's darker, thinner, and stronger than before! It seems that the past six months have been quite rewarding?"

Qi Yan: "Baishi has won the award, but it is because of His Majesty's great blessing, and because of the proper command of His Majesty, the disaster relief has begun to show results."

Gong Yanghuai punched Qi Yan on the shoulder: "A while ago, His Highness the Fifth Highness just commended your achievements at the court meeting, and I heard that His Majesty personally approved the award, and I personally handled the list of imperial gifts. Sent back to your mansion." Gong Yanghuai moved closer to Qi Yan, poked Qi Yan with his elbow, and continued in a low voice: "You don't know yet, do you? His Majesty's dragon body is gradually recovering. I won the Zhu Zhu, let alone other rewards, but in the list there is a pair of jade ruyis, a double fish bag, and an ivory wat..." After finishing speaking, she winked at Qi Yan.

Qi Yan pursed her lips. These three rewards have profound meanings for every court official: firstly, the jade ruyi is a noble reward, while the double fish bag and the ivory wat have great meanings.

In the state of Wei, the court clothes of officials of the third rank and above are all crimson, with slightly different embroidered patches on the chest, and the accessories on the waist are also particular: third rank officials wear fish bags, second rank officials wear double fish bags, and first rank officials wear double fish bags. Add another jade ornament.

"Wat" is an object held by civil and military officials in the court. First-rank officials in the court hold jade wats. Only the wats in the hands of emperor's heirs, princes with different surnames, dukes, and military lords are made of ivory.

Qi Yan is only the third-rank minister of the Ministry of Industry, this kind of reward exceeds her rank--I am afraid that she will be promoted soon.

The team rested outside the city for half an hour, and the officials exchanged greetings with each other, and the three princes also had a good chat, and each stepped on a tall horse and entered the capital first.

The team was driving on the stone road, but Nangongda did not order to clear the street.Knowing that the imperial court had done another great deed for the people, the common people spontaneously appeared on both sides of the street to welcome them.

Nangong Wang rode on the horse and maintained a smile, frequently nodding to the people on both sides, until the expression of the second prince Nangong Wei became gloomy...

The palace banquet was scheduled for two hours later, and there was still a period of time for the officials to go home to freshen up.

Nangong Jingnv looked at the mountain of memorials in front of her. The disaster relief team returned to Beijing, and memorials from all walks of life came. Those who asked for credit, those who showed loyalty, and those who reported the gains of the trip, the list goes on and on.

She looked at the sky outside and sighed softly.

The imperial brush dipped into the inkstone for a bit, then bent down at the desk again.

The speed of writing and writing has obviously accelerated, and the mind has become loose...

Will Qi Yan go back to the Consort's Mansion or the Princess Mansion first?Speaking of which, I haven't had a chance to tell him the news of my moving back to the palace. If he rushes back to the princess mansion in a hurry, will he be disappointed?

A trace of guilt flashed in Nangong Jingnv's heart, she should have asked her father for leave...

After all, she knew that Qi Yan was returning to Beijing today, and she originally thought that she could finish approving the daily memorials before the team entered Beijing, but she didn't expect that today's workload was several times the normal one.

I haven't seen him for more than half a year, and I miss him very much.

Nangong Jingnv accelerated the speed of reviewing again, looking forward to the scene of reuniting with Qi Yan at the palace banquet in her heart.

Will he still smile warmly, raise his arms to perform a standard palace ceremony, and then ask himself if he is okay?

If he was greedy for drinking, would he, as usual, with doting and helplessness in his amber eyes, quietly lean over and hold his hand holding the cup, and say softly: "Your Highness, the three cups have passed, don't you?" Want a drink?"

Thinking about it, Nangong Jingnu laughed silently, her eyes were as gentle as water.

Tonight... let's go back to the mansion and order Qiu Ju to hold the red light in his palm. Even though the emperor has the order, I can't reveal too much to Qi Yan, but I can still ask him how he has gained in the past half a year.

Hearing what the folks look like in Qi Yan's eyes, he might even let out a long sigh, showing his pity for the people's misery.

The team dispersed at the central axis of the capital, and all the adults went home.

The coachman jumped on the shaft to replace the original guards, pulled the reins and asked, "Lord Qi, do you want to go back to the Prince Consort's Mansion or to the Princess Mansion?"

"Consort House."

Driver: "Yes."

The carriage arrived at the son-in-law's mansion, and all the servants in the mansion knelt in front of the door to pay their respects, but Qi Yan did not get out of the carriage, she asked Xia He to send the coachman back to the palace, and then let another family member drive straight to the private house.

The servants of the son-in-law's mansion knelt in front of the door and looked at each other. The son-in-law who hadn't seen him for half a year returned to the mansion without even getting out of the carriage, and went straight back to the private house?

Xia He, the female officer in charge, was the first to react, stood in front of the crowd, said a few polite words, and dismissed all the servants.

The carriage stopped at the entrance of the private house, Qi Yan asked the servant to go back to the son-in-law's mansion by himself, and asked Qian Yuan to lead the carriage by the bridle to the most secret small courtyard of the private house.

Qian Yuan: "Master, we're here."

It took a while for Qi Yan to get out of the carriage, holding a sleeping girl in her arms.

Qian Yuan showed astonishment, but he understood the stakes in an instant, and looked around to see that no one followed him, so he was relieved.

Qian Yuan: "Master, hand over this girl to the villain."

Qi Yan shook her head: "Go and help me open the bedroom door, and find a reliable doctor. I don't want a third person to know about this."

Qian Yuan: "Master, please rest assured, I understand."

Half an hour later, the doctor came.

Qian Yuan personally negotiated a price with Lang Zhong, and Xiao Yi and Lang Zhong voluntarily put on a black hood and rode in a carriage to the private house.

Qian Yuan brought the doctor to the front of the wing: "Master, the doctor is here."

Qi Yan pulled the quilt for Xiaodie, put down the curtain and dodged behind the screen, after thinking about it, she took off her shoes and went to bed, and sat beside Xiaodie.

Qi Yan: "Come in."

The doctor didn't expect the owner of this deep house to be so young, and his voice sounded indistinguishable.He didn't dare to think too much, he raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, bent his eyes and only looked at the place under his feet.

Qian Yuan generously gave him two pieces of gold, and after seeing his illness this time, he can settle down in his life, but if he doesn't look well... With this posture, he may die.

With a "squeak", the door of the wing room was pushed open, and Qi Yan stretched out Xiaodie's hand along the gap in the curtain: "You go down first."

Qian Yuan: "Yes."

Qi Yan: "Sit."

Where does the doctor dare to sit?Putting down the medicine box, took out the pulse pillow and put it under Xiaodie's wrist, squatted down in front of the bed and turned her head over to get the pulse.

Qi Yan could roughly see Langzhong's expression and movements through the curtain, seeing that he was quite sensible, she felt a little more at ease.

The doctor cut his pulse for a while, his expression relaxed, and he said joyfully: "Congratulations, sir, your wife has had a pulse for two months!"

……

Nangong Jingnv finished reviewing the last memorial before the palace banquet started, and now she has experienced the difficulty of her father. She has only been approving for a few months, and she is often tired and her appetite has greatly decreased.

Father has been sitting in this position for more than ten years...

She stacked up the memorials and covered them with yellow silk, indicating that these memorials have been reviewed, and they can be collected and sent to Zhongshu, sorted and typed back one by one.

Nangong Jingnv got on the sedan chair and returned to Weiming Palace to take a bath, carefully selected a red palace dress, and put on the golden step that Qi Yan once praised, and then boarded the sedan chair again to go to the palace banquet .

The banquet is about to begin, and officials from all walks of life have arrived.

Although Nan Gongrang was unable to come due to illness, he asked the fifth prince Nan Gongda who was in charge of supervising the country to sit on the throne.

With a chorus, Nangong Jingnv stepped into the main hall, and after crossing the threshold, the four maids in skirts lowered their long skirts in palace attire.

Everyone: "See Your Highness Zhen Zhen."

Nangong Jingnv hooked the corners of her lips, and her beautiful eyes turned around, looking for the figure that she had missed for half a year.

The search was fruitless, Nangong Jingnv frowned: According to Qi Yan's usual temperament, he should have arrived long ago.

Nangong Jingnv remained calm, she dragged her skirt and sat down on her seat. As soon as she raised her hand, a maidservant knelt down beside her: "What are your orders, Your Highness?"

Nangong Jingnu pondered for a while, and said, "Go and call the officials from the Ministry of Rites who are in charge of the palace banquet."

Palace maid: "Yes."

After a while, Gong Yanghuai, Minister of Rituals, strode over, stopped in front of Nangong Jingnv's case and bowed: "Minister Gong Yanghuai, Minister of Rites, see Your Highness Zhen Zhen."

Nangong Jingnu: "Did the son-in-law go to the banquet?"

Gong Yanghuai replied clearly: "Returning to Your Highness, Tie Zhu sent someone to send a sick note, saying that he could not attend the palace banquet due to physical discomfort."

Seeing Nangong Jingnv's beautiful eyebrows slightly frowned, her eyes deep, Fang felt that he had slipped his words... hurriedly changed his words: "My son-in-law... the servant of the Ministry of Industry has really worked hard on this trip, I have seen him in the daytime, and the whole person is better than before leaving Beijing. Hei lost more than a circle, looking tired. It seems that he has rested in the mansion, His Highness doesn't need to worry too much, the son-in-law may recover after a night's rest."

Nangong Jingnv was not displeased because Qi Yan was called "Iron Zhu", she knew about the friendship between the two of them as classmates.

Just hearing that Qi Yan was ill, my heart sank.

Recalling that at the beginning of the marriage, that person fell ill every now and then, and thought that the past two years were getting better, but then heard the news of Qi Yan falling ill again.

Hearing that Qi Yan has lost more than a circle, it hurts even more... I wish I could quit this palace banquet immediately and go see how that person is.

The servant's chorus came: "His Royal Highness is here..." interrupted Nangong Jingnv's thoughts.