Wen Xiangyanyu

In September, the Crown Prince Canonization Ceremony is held, offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, ancestral temples, and the country.

Two days later, the imperial decree of marriage came to the East Palace, and the candidate for the crown princess was the one that Wen Ying had personally drawn before.

The uncle of the Crown Princess-to-be is a minister in the cabinet, but he ranks low and has not been in the cabinet for a long time. He is not very eye-catching in the court. Wen Ying's choice makes the emperor quite satisfied. He feels that this son has a sense of proportion. He doesn't blindly covet those nobles with powerful families, he is a stable mind, so he looks up to him even more.

The wedding date is set for next summer, after the little lady and Ji.

Although there is more than half a year left, but the marriage has been decided, the dowry has to be given first.

The dowry list was sent to the East Palace within a few days.

The Yun family was in charge of palace affairs, and even the emperor entrusted her with the care of the crown prince's wedding, and she personally drew up the dowry list.

Wen Ying didn't look at it, and only asked the officials of the East Palace to check it, but Ling Qiyan called him back: "Why don't you look at it, show me what good things the Concubine Shu has prepared for His Highness, and will send it to the Prince-to-be Hired by the concubine's family."

Wen Ying glanced at him and said nothing.

The official of the East Palace was clever, and when he saw this, he hurriedly presented the gift list to Ling Qiyan with both hands.

A betrothal gift sheet was full of hundreds of pages, and Ling Qiyan was stunned: "So many? Last time a dog married a princess, you never gave so many things, did you?"

"Your Majesty said that this time the wedding will be more beautiful and lively than last time." The East Palace official said happily.

"Really?" Ling Qiyan dragged out his voice, and his expression became more meaningful.

Wen Ying took the booklet out of his hand, threw it back, and said softly: "Go on, follow the procedure."

After the person left, Ling Qiyan looked at him with a smile that was not a smile: "Your Highness, at least you are putting on a show, isn't it good for you to be so perfunctory?"

Wen Ying ignored him.

"Tsk, that little lady hasn't reached the age of hair yet, so it would be a loss if I promised you. You are so embarrassed to choose such a young girl."

"You chose." Wen Ying reminded him coldly.

Ling Qiyan refused to admit it: "What does it have to do with me, it's not that I married a wife."

Wen Ying rolled his eyes indifferently.

Ling Qiyan was amused by his reaction.

He wasn't angry at all. How embarrassed is this person to get into trouble with him over this matter?

Half a month later, it will be the Empress Dowager's birthday.

On that day, Ling Qiyan went to Ningshou Palace early in the morning, and specially went to present a birthday gift, which was a string of Buddhist beads that he begged from the temple a few days ago.

Today, wives from various families outside the palace will come to the palace to treat An to a birthday banquet, Ling Qi couldn't stay longer, and after a few words with the Queen Mother, he said goodbye and left.

The queen mother reminded him: "Yan'er, come to the family banquet tonight."

Ling Qiyan said with embarrassment: "Grandmother, this is not good, His Majesty definitely doesn't want to see me, and there are so many other clansmen around..."

Wouldn't it be controversial for a "dead man" like him to suddenly appear in front of people carelessly?Even causing trouble to Wen Ying, I don't want it anymore.

The queen mother naturally knew this truth, but she felt very uncomfortable, especially after losing two grandchildren in a row, even though Ling Qiyan was not her own grandson, she was reluctant to let this child suffer half a grievance.

"Qi Xiao will also come, so do you want to stay alone in the East Palace?"

Speaking of this, the Empress Dowager felt even worse. She persuaded her several times, but Ling Qiyan refused to listen to her and insisted on continuing to hang out with Wen Ying. If he said more, he would not dare to come to Ningshou Palace. Her old man can only give up for the time being.

"It's okay, just be alone," Ling Qiyan comforted her with a smile, "I'll have dinner with grandma again tomorrow."

Going back to the East Palace, Wen Ying was really not there, guessing that he wouldn't be back until the family banquet was over in the evening, Ling Qiyan curled his lips, he didn't feel that way when he was in Ningshou Palace, but now he was really unhappy.

It seemed that he was really that shameful person.

He fell down on the couch, stared blankly for a while, then closed his eyes again, too lazy to think.

At the end of Xu Dynasty, Wen Ying finally came back.

After entering the door, he took off his cloak and ordered someone to pass the meal by the way.

Ling Qiyan, who had slept all day, sat up from the couch, rubbed his eyes and looked at him in a daze: "Didn't you have a family banquet? Why are you passing on the meal?"

Wen Ying walked over, stretched out his hand to pinch his chin, and looked at the expression on his face: "What did you eat today?"

Ling Qiyan let out a "huh" and his stomach growled in cooperation.

He didn't have lunch, took a few bites of snacks in the afternoon, and didn't eat dinner. He spent most of the time sleeping and dazed. Now Wen Ying asked him, and he felt too hungry.

Thinking of this, he was a little embarrassed to say that his eyeballs rolled around a few times indiscriminately.

"I don't have dinner either, so come with me." Wen Ying dropped these words, let go of his hand, and sat down on the couch.

He asked someone to bring up a mutton pot, added a few side dishes, and ate it.

Eating the steaming pot, Ling Qiyan's spleen and stomach, which had been empty for a whole day, gradually warmed up, and he asked casually, "Didn't you eat a family banquet? It's already this hour, why did you come back hungry?"

Wen Ying raised his eyes and looked at him: "If I don't come back, are you going to stop eating?"

Ling Qiyan didn't want to admit that he was really awkward: "You're talking nonsense, I don't have it."

"Do you know in your own heart?" Wen Ying put a piece of the most tender mutton into his bowl, "Eat it, don't be hungry."

"You haven't answered me yet, why don't you have a family banquet?"

"It didn't work," Wen Yingdan said, "I was smashed."

Ling Qiyan choked: "...The queen mother's birthday, the Tianjia family banquet, was smashed?"

"Ah."

"Who did it?"

"Queen."

Ling Qiyan was stunned: "Isn't she locked up in Fengyi Palace and can't go anywhere?"

Wen Ying said, "Aren't you hungry? Eat first."

Tired of talking to Wen Ying, a boring gourd, Ling Qiyan directly asked the servant who followed him to talk, and quickly figured out the cause and effect of the matter.

In the evening, the Ningshou Palace family banquet had just started, and when it was bustling, the embarrassed queen suddenly appeared, broke in, cried and made noises, shouted for the lives of her two sons, and went crazy Throwing things on the ground, in front of all the clan relatives, revealed the real cause of death of Ling Qiyu and Ling Qining, which the emperor painstakingly concealed, and made the emperor so angry that one Buddha was born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven, and he passed out directly.

The family banquet was completely ruined.

Later, Wen Ying sent the emperor back to Xingqing Palace, and waited until the emperor drank the medicine and fell asleep before returning to the East Palace hungry.

Ling Qiyan was stunned when he heard this: "Isn't the empress grounded? How did you get to Ningshou Palace?"

"The servant was negligent and let her run out from the side door of Fengyi Palace."

strange.

Ling Qiyan vaguely felt that something was wrong. Because of the negligence of the palace staff, the embarrassed queen ran out from the side door of Fengyi Palace, and happened to run to Ningshou Palace, and smashed the royal family banquet. Is it such a coincidence?

But seeing Wen Ying's expression was flat, he thought about it and forgot, smacked his lips, and only asked: "The emperor is really dizzy with anger? Are you really so angry?"

"Well, I'm dizzy, I woke up again after strangling someone, I drank the medicine, I'm afraid I won't be able to go to court in the next few days."

Ling Qiyan was speechless, thinking about how angry the emperor used to be when he scolded him every time, but now he was fainted by the empress?

"...The emperor is really going to abolish the empress this time? What will the empress do without you, the crown prince?"

"Follow him." Wen Ying threw out these two words without paying attention.

Ling Qiyan was immediately happy: "That's right, you didn't come to the position of the crown prince through the empress, so don't care about her."

After dinner, Ling Qiyan went to take a bath, and Wen Ying listened to the report.

"Releasing the Empress from Fengyi Palace and guiding her to Ningshou Palace was all arranged by Concubine Shu. The Empress Dowager seemed suspicious and sent someone to investigate. The traces that were wiped clean were wiped away for Concubine Shu, and a member of Fengyi Palace who discovered the clue and wanted to report it was caught."

"Kill it," Wen Yingdan said, "this matter ends here."

The other side responded.

Two quarters of an hour later, Ling Qiyan came back, climbed onto the couch, hugged Wen Ying's shoulders from behind who was reading a book on the couch, and blew into his ear: "Poor scholar, what did you do just now? I'm going to take a bath. If you don’t follow me, you must have done bad things without telling me again.”

Wen Ying looked back at him, "Guess."

He learned badly and let him guess.

"Too lazy to guess, it must not be a good thing, let alone forget it."

"Then you still ask?"

"Is it okay to ask?" Ling Qiyan snorted softly.

"It's nothing, the people below are here to report something related to what happened at the family banquet just now."

Wen Ying didn't go into details, Ling Qiyan kissed him on the face: "Don't say anything, I don't care what bad things you do, as long as you don't bully me."

Wen Ying asked in a deep voice, "When did I bully you?"

"You're so embarrassed to say, when did you not bully me?"

Wen Ying stretched out his hand, pulled the person behind him to his front, and embraced him.

Ling Qiyan squinted his eyes and smiled in his arms, Wen Ying sniffed the fresh fragrance on his neck, and kissed him obsessively.

The next day, an imperial edict was issued from the Xingqing Palace, and the Shen family moved out of the Fengyi Palace and moved into the most remote and deserted Qi'en Palace in the northwest corner of the palace.

Half a month later, the emperor suddenly issued an order to move to the Tangquan palace at the foot of Dongshan Mountain to recuperate, leaving the crown prince to sit in the palace.

In the past half month, the emperor had been seriously ill. First, he was fainted by Shen's anger, and then he contracted a cold. His spirit was much worse. At Yun's suggestion, he decided to go to another palace to recuperate for a period of time.

Early in the morning of the day when he left, Wen Ying sent Yu Jia all the way out of the city gate. Ling Qiyan had nothing to do, so he pretended to be his bodyguard and followed him. He planned to stay at the Zhuangzi outside the city for two days after seeing off the emperor.

On the way, someone suddenly came up ahead and sent a message to Ling Qiyan, saying that Concubine Shu wanted to see him.

Ling Qiyan was eating snacks in the crown prince's carriage, and when he heard this, he slowly bit off a piece of pastry, and said with a smile: "I am a guard of the Eastern Palace, and it is not appropriate for me to see Concubine Shu, right? "

"Your Majesty said, I just want to say a few words to you, and I have already asked His Majesty for instructions."

Ling Qiyan hesitated for a while, and looked at Wen Ying, who ignored him and said, "You decide."

irritating.

Ling Qiyan jumped out of the car and rode to the front.

Arriving at the side of Yun's car, through a car window, he asked: "Ms. Concubine Shu called me, what's the matter?"

After a moment of silence, Yun's low voice came from inside: "Your Majesty granted you a noble residence, why didn't you move in, but stayed in the East Palace?"

Ling Qiyan said indifferently: "Concubine Lao Shu cares, you can treat me as the bodyguard of His Royal Highness, or the official of the East Palace, if His Highness needs me, I will stay in the East Palace."

"Really?" Yun's voice was a little more indescribable, and it was still unhurried, "What if the Crown Princess enters the door?"

"That's His Majesty's business, what does it have to do with me?"

Yunshi opened half of the window and looked at him.

Ling Qiyan looked back calmly.

This is the first time the mother and son have met alone in more than 20 years, and they stared at each other in silence through the distance of a car window.

After a long while, Yun said quietly: "I don't believe that you are a fool, and I don't believe that you are willing to compromise and be a lowly servant. Since you choose to stay in the East Palace, the crown prince must have given you some promise, no matter whether such a promise can be realized in the end. At least for now, he looks good."

Ling Qiyan didn't answer, and looked at her indifferently.

Yun didn't care, and continued: "I told him before that you are luckier than me, maybe, but you can't be lucky for a longer time. Look down on me, but in the end, you came out of my stomach, you don’t need to remember this, I just remember it, that’s all for now, in the future you can just do it yourself, don’t live like me.”

Ling Qiyan said coldly: "No."

No matter what, he would not allow himself to live as the second Yun's.

Yun's nodded: "Forget it, you are lucky after all, maybe you can live your life in style."

Before closing the window, she said one last sentence: "Go back and pay homage to your father next time, and put incense on him for me, just say that I am sorry for him in this life, and if I have the opportunity in the next life, I will repay him like a cow and a horse."

Ling Qiyan rode back absentmindedly, secretly thinking about the meaning of Yun's sentence "You don't need to remember, I just remember", feeling inexplicably uncomfortable.

Back in the car, he repeated Yun's words to Wen Ying, and hesitated, "What do you think she meant?"

Wen Ying asked, "Do you care what she thinks?"

Ling Qiyan was dumbfounded immediately, also, no matter what Yun is thinking, what does it have to do with him?

Wen Ying patted the back of his hand, poured a cup of hot tea and handed it over.

Holding the teacup in both hands, Ling Qiyan looked at the steam rising from the cup, lightly pursed the corners of his lips, and the turmoil in his heart dissipated.

After leaving the city gate, Wen Ying was called to go to the front of the imperial car. The emperor was resting in the car with his eyes closed, his head was still tied and his forehead was tied.

"I'm going back to the other palace. I'm afraid I won't be back until next summer when the weather is hot. You have also learned a lot from me about government affairs. You are smart and you can understand everything. You don't need anyone else." Teaching more is not the most important thing, so just discuss with a few ministers in the cabinet to make up your mind. They all know the affairs of the court well. If you don’t understand anything, just ask them. Someone report it to me."

The emperor's voice was hoarse, and his words were full of exhaustion.

Wen Ying took the order and responded: "Your minister will save you."

The emperor let out a sigh of relief: "Go, let me see your skills."

After getting off from Yujia, Wen Ying paused and stood by the car for a while, watching the car drive away, and then went back to the car.

Ling Qiyan supported his head with his hands, smiled and looked at Wen Ying who sat in the car again: "Your Highness, Your Majesty has gone back to the other palace, can you come back?"

Wen Ying didn't answer, and ordered people to go to the villa.

Ling Qiyan stretched her waist, feeling extremely happy. There was no emperor in the palace, and the empress was thrown into limbo. They could do whatever they wanted.

Throwing a candy into his mouth, he leaned on Wen Ying's lap: "My lord, my cheap mother is jealous of me, saying that I have a better life and luck than her, what are you looking at?"

Wen Ying patted his face, and said calmly: "You don't have to test me, you are not a woman, you don't need to depend on me to live, your life is good, you have to ask yourself."

That's right, Ling Qiyan said in his heart, if Wen Ying really becomes a romantic stallion like his emperor Lao Tzu, he will go as far as he can, even if he becomes the emperor and wins the whole country, he will achieve great success There is still a vast world in the dynasty.

So he raised the corners of his lips and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Your Highness, I will never abandon you forever."

Wen Ying didn't bother to talk to him about these nonsensical nonsense anymore, so he pressed him into his arms, stroked his back, and closed his eyes to rest.