Those Years In Quest Of Honor Mine

"After the Longevity Festival, you will return to Qian'an with me."

About to enter the city, Zhong Wan told Lin Si: "If there is anything unfinished, you should deal with it early."

Lin Si was startled, and gestured: I can't leave, I have to stay in Beijing to help you.

"No need." Zhong Wan shook his head, "After seeing Xuanrui and Xuanyu, the emperor should be completely relieved. It's no use for you to stay here. Why don't you go back with us. In the future, the sky will be high and the sea will be wide, and you will be safe with me life."

Without waiting for Lin Si to refute, Zhong Wan said again: "You also said that Yu She doesn't miss the old relationship. He turned a blind eye to let you go last time. What about next time? And the fourth and fifth princes I'm afraid there will be more fights, the fifth prince has the support of Prince Yu's mansion, the fourth prince may not be able to bear it, you are not safe in his mansion, I can't keep you here."

Lin thought for a while, but didn't insist anymore, and nodded hesitantly.

Zhong Wan patted him on the shoulder, "Go."

Lin Si kowtowed to Zhong Wan, the same as when she came, and went away quietly, Zhong Wan lifted the curtain of the car, looked at the city gate not far away, and straightened her clothes.

Zhong Wan was worried about being interrogated, so he didn't get out of the car. Outside, Yan Pingshan went to hand over the documents to the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the officials guarding the city. They had received the news that the Qian'an Palace was coming to Beijing half a month ago. He greeted Xuanrui's car driver, asked the number of accompanying servants, and led them into the city.

The former Prince Ning's Mansion was taken back by Jinshang long ago. After repairs, it is now the residence of the Fifth Prince Xuanxin. When passing by Prince Ning's Mansion, Zhong Wan lifted the curtain of the car.

When he first succeeded to the throne, at least on the face of it, he was very generous to his younger brother. He granted the mansion to the king and personally chose a noble daughter from a high family to marry him.

At that time, King Ning’s natal Zhong’s family had committed crimes. There were many girls and boys in the Zhong family, and there were two imperial concubines, but there were not many males in the family. There was a boy who barely got involved because he was too young, and was later taken into the mansion by King Ning, who recognized him as his adopted son and blocked Yushitai's mouth.

With King Ning's protection, Zhong Wan grew up carefree.

Having received such great kindness from King Ning, but she almost failed to keep Xuan Rui when the incident happened, Zhong Wan had no face to look at the place where she grew up, took a deep breath, and put down the car curtain.

Everyone was taken to another mansion. The place was not big, but it was quite exquisite.

Yan Pingshan was not used to dealing with these small officials, so Zhong Wan took a few purses and put them in his sleeves, jumped out of the car, walked over to greet them familiarly, and coaxed several small officials from the Ministry of Rites to smile .

"My lord, please have a good rest here. It's best to freshen up a little bit." A small official smiled and said, "The palace will probably invite people around the time of application."

Zhong Wan handed the lotus up, "Thank you."

After sending the people from the Ministry of Rituals away, Zhong Wan had no time to rest, rubbed his sore neck, and went to the inner courtyard to greet everyone to clean up the lady's room first. Zhong Wan stood in the courtyard and asked through the curtain: "The layout of the lady's boudoir Is it okay?"

Xuan Congxin was seen by him since he was a child, and he didn't avoid suspicion. He walked out with a fox fur cloak by himself, "I made it all the way, and finally sewed it up. You can see if it fits."

Zhong Wan hurriedly took it over and said with a smile, "So it was made for me these days? I thought it was for your elder brother..."

"You are more afraid of the cold." Compared with her naive and stubborn younger brother, Xuan Congxin is much more intelligent. She has a cold temper, and her tone of caring for others is also light. Don’t get sick again when you come back.”

"I know, I know." Zhong Wan smiled and wrapped the cloak around her, and agreed, "Let's go now."

Xuan Congxin looked around, took note of the size silently, and said, "It's too late to change it, you wear it first, and when someone brings it to you in the evening, I'll close the neckline."

Zhong Wan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I'll just kill you."

Xuan Congxin didn't have much to say, turned around and entered the room after speaking.

Zhong Wan didn't have time to rest, so she turned around and went to Xuanrui Courtyard.

Xuan Rui's expression was very bad.

Half of it was because he returned to Beijing and remembered the old things, and the other half was because he was frightened by Zhong Wan.

Zhong Wan didn't expect that the boss Xuanrui was so old that he couldn't help being frightened, a little ashamed, leaning against the door and smiling: "If the prince goes to meet the saint like this, the saint will be able to help us Qian'an so poor that even the prince can't have enough to eat."

Xuanrui knew that Zhong Wan was teasing him, but he still couldn't smile, he pursed his dry lips, his eyes full of anxiety, "I've been flustered since I entered the city, and my mind is full of the scene of me being trapped in the palace alone seven years ago , Father is gone, and you have been taken away, I..."

Zhong Wan sighed.

Zhong Wan said in a low voice: "It's my fault. I wanted to find you at the time, but there was no information from Prince Yu's Mansion. I... Forget it, it's all over."

Xuan Rui worried: "If he asks me, ask me..."

"He won't ask you embarrassing things, old things, he doesn't want to mention them even more than you." Zhong Wan said seriously, "He just wants to make him feel at ease, you just want to make him feel at ease, if you really want to end you, then go Qian An sent a pot of poisoned wine, why did you come here on purpose? Do you think the history books are not enough?"

Xuanrui looked a little better when he heard this, Zhong Wan said softly: "It's all over, come back... I'll take you there."

"Really?" Xuan Rui's eyes lit up, "You accompany me into the palace?"

"Of course it's fake." Zhong Wan smiled, "I'm thinking, can I get in? I'm guarding outside the palace."

Xuan Rui smiled helplessly, but finally felt relieved.

At the time of application, there were indeed people from the palace, and only two people, Xuan Rui and Xuan Yu, were passed on.

Zhong Wan pretended to be a servant and followed, but was stopped before he even reached the gate of the palace. Xuanrui and Xuanyu got out of the carriage and followed the people in the palace.

The two followed the eunuchs, being careful all the way, walking around for an unknown amount of time, and finally saw the emperor and kowtowed.

Xuan Rui didn't dare to raise his head at all, he asked and answered, his voice was not much louder than a mosquito, and he had to rely on the help of the old eunuch to deliver the message loudly.

In contrast, Xiao Xuanyu responded more appropriately. He was only two or three years old when the King Ning incident happened, and he didn't remember anything. He grew up carefree all these years, and he was much more courageous than his elder brother. When he was questioned by the emperor , and looked up at the emperor, secretly surprised.

This "uncle emperor" is a bit too old, he looks to be in his sixties, and Xuan Yu's grandfather is old enough.

Emperor Chong'an had grown old in the past few years, and his words were a little lacking in breath. He looked at Xiao Xuanyu carefully, smiled kindly, and asked him about his homework.

Before Xuan Yu could speak, Xuan Rui secretly broke out in a cold sweat.

Back then, Emperor Chong'an also asked Xuan Rui the same question, and the next day, he and Zhong Wan were sent to the palace.

Emperor Chong'an...will he use this excuse to keep Xuan Yu in Beijing?

While Xuanrui was feeling uneasy, Emperor Chong'an had already quizzed Xiao Xuanyu a few words, and Xuanyu answered them one by one.

Emperor Chong'an nodded in satisfaction, and said in a gentle voice: "Very promising, how is the gentleman your brother hired for you? How is his knowledge, is he strict?"

Xuan Yu lowered his head and replied, "I didn't extend my teacher, I just followed..."

Although Xuan Yu was young, she instinctively felt that she couldn't say Zhong Wan's name, so she paused and said, "I learned from a literate butler at home."

Emperor Chong'an was silent for a moment, and asked, "Is Gui Yuan teaching you?"

Zhong Wan, the word Guiyuan.

Xuan Yu frowned in confusion, how did he know this?

Emperor Chong'an said slowly, "With him teaching you, you can't go wrong."

Emperor Chong'an spoke very slowly, as if he was in a trance, and after a while he said, "If he had entered the palace examination back then..."

Xiao Xuanyu listened quietly, not daring to answer. After waiting for a long time, Emperor Chong'an didn't say anything. He waved his hand and didn't ask about their homework. Xuan Rui secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

After talking about the family life for a while, it was getting late, and Emperor Chong'an seemed to be a little bit out of spirits, so he gave the two of them a table of imperial meals, and asked the old eunuch to take the two of them there.

Xuanrui and Xuanyu were taken to the Xiaonuange, without anyone else, Xuanyu asked in a low voice: "Why did the emperor..." when he heard about Zhong Wan?

The old eunuch who was serving the emperor came in with the messenger, Xuan Yu immediately shut up, the corner of the old eunuch's mouth slightly bent, pretending not to hear, and served the two of them himself.

"I just heard about it." The old eunuch said with a smile, "Your Highness's lessons were taught by Master Zhong himself?"

Xuan Yu Nahan: "Your father-in-law also knows about Zhong Wan?"

A servant behind the old eunuch covered his mouth and laughed silently.

Who doesn't know about Zhong Wan, whose love affair is spread all over the world?

Xiao Xuanyu naturally heard about those things, and realized that they were making fun of Zhong Wan, her face turned pale with anger.

Xuan Rui gave Xuan Yu a sideways look: The eunuchs around Emperor Chong'an are not something they can offend.

Xuan Yu lowered her head, and slapped the rice hard.

The old eunuch turned his head and glanced at the little waiter, and said unhurriedly while laying vegetables: "Of course I know, the youngest master in this dynasty, who doesn't know?"

Xuan Yu looked up, he didn't know that Zhong Wan was so powerful, he was stunned for a moment: "Huh?"

The old eunuch smiled and said slowly, "Although the Zhong family has fallen, Prince Ning raised him like a son. With such a noble family, such background, and such talent, which yamen in the three provinces and six departments will not be able to go in the future? Why? Young Master Zhong is proud and arrogant, he wants to take the imperial examinations, and he has made great progress... Jie Yuan of Chun Wei, Hui Yuan of Qiu Wei, if it wasn't for..."

The old eunuch concealed what he couldn't say, "I heard that the youngest number one scholar in the previous dynasty was, if Master Zhong could enter the palace test..."

"I'm afraid he's the youngest number one scholar in the past few dynasties." The old eunuch pulled out the dust from his waist, turned around and beat the ignorant little eunuch, "You idiot who doesn't know the heights of heaven and earth, get out!"

Outside the palace, Zhong Caizi, who was almost in the third grade, stood in the cold wind and sneezed.

"Really cold……"

Zhong Wan had been waiting for two hours, and the charcoal in the hand stove had burned out. He was afraid that his legs would become numb from the cold, so he simply got out of the car and walked back and forth to exercise his hands and feet.

It was Wushi, it was already dark, Zhong Wan glanced at the gate of the palace from afar, not in a hurry.

In the worst case, the emperor will keep Xuan Yu as a proton, but this possibility is also very small.

It makes sense to keep the son of the vassal prince who holds military power in Beijing for education, but what is it to keep Xuan Yu?Against what?Is it to prevent Xuanrui from gathering dozens of people to rebel in Qian'an?

Qian'an is sparsely populated and barren, and every now and then he asks the imperial court for disaster relief. Zhong Wan is the emperor, and when he heard that there was a rebellion in Qian'an, he was the first to agree. He wished that these poor ghosts would go to another mountain and save years of relief work. .

Zhong Wan rubbed his hands stiffly, his hands were so cold that he couldn't feel it, and now he was all supported by the heat in his chest.

Suddenly there was the sound of carriages and horses in the distance, Zhong Wan raised his spirits and looked over.

The driver gradually approached, the lights hanging on the carriage flickered, and the word "Yu" was impressively printed on the lights.

Zhong Wan's heart skipped a beat.

As the chariots and horses of Prince Yu's Mansion gradually approached, Zhong Wan's mind was full of thoughts.

Princess An has her own car, it won't be her.

It is absolutely impossible for the idle side branches of Prince Yu's mansion to come out of the palace at this time.

The only ones sitting in the car were Lord Yu and that one.

Zhong Wan breathed a sigh of relief, thinking silently, Prince Yu, Prince Yu, Prince Yu...

The carriage beside Zhong Wan is hung with the lantern of Prince Qian'an's Mansion, so it is impossible for the other party not to see it, if it is Prince Yu on the carriage, he will ignore it and leave naturally, but if Yu She...

No matter how favored Yu She was, he hadn't become a prince after all, and when he saw King Qian An's carriage, he still had to stop to avoid it.

The carriage of Prince Yu's Mansion got closer and closer, and in the cold wind, a layer of hot sweat broke out on Zhong Wan's back.

After a while, the carriage stopped.

Zhong Wan closed her eyes, it was fucking over.

Yu She's carriage and horses slowly stopped at the side of the road, and a steward got out of the carriage, saluted far away, then got up and trotted over.

Zhong Wan was overjoyed, Yu She would not be willing to get out of the car in the cold weather, he should have sent the steward to ask, knowing that there was no one in the car, he naturally left.

The steward came up to meet him, and when he raised his head, he was stunned.

The steward recognized Zhong Wan immediately, and said loudly, "Zhong...Master Zhong?!"

Zhong Wan collapsed, can you keep your voice down? ! !

Zhong Wan clenched his frozen hands, took a deep breath, and said with a faint smile: "It's me, the prince has entered the palace and hasn't come out yet, so I invite young prince Yu to go first."

"I guessed it." The steward looked at Zhong Wan up and down, his tone excited, "I'll tell the master first, you are here!"

"No no no..." Zhong Wan choked on the cold wind and coughed, "No no..."

The steward had already run back like a hot wheel.

Zhong Wan grabbed his collar and coughed until he couldn't breathe, wishing to eat that steward raw.

He watched from a distance that the steward ran to Yu She's carriage, bowed his body and whispered something.

it's over, it's over...

It's over this time...

Zhong Wan's heart beat fast, thinking about how to deal with Yu She for a while.

The steward stood in front of Yu She's car for a long time, so long that Zhong Wan wondered if Yu She had already arranged for the Imperial Forest Army to shoot him.

"What is this for...?"

Zhong Wandong couldn't speak clearly, he squinted his eyes and looked at Yu She's car.

After half a cup of tea, the steward gave a greeting, and the chariots and horses of Prince Yu's Mansion started to move, and left slowly.

Is this gone?

Zhong Wan quietly watched the car of Prince Yu's Mansion drive away, it might as well be suddenly blown into the lungs by the cold wind, and coughed again earth-shatteringly.

The servant following the carriage hurried over to help Zhong Wan, and said eagerly, "Would you like to go back first? This... this..."

"No...it's nothing." Zhong Wan helped the servant to relax for a while, then laughed at himself, "I was the one who frightened myself, thinking, thinking too much."

Zhong Wan watched Yu She's chariot and horses drift away, and smiled.

Whether Yu She's temperament has changed or not has nothing to do with him.

Even if you know you are here, so what?

Get out of the car and catch up with yourself?

Then tomorrow, everyone in the capital will know that they met him at the gate of the palace.

Zhong Wan couldn't help laughing, then he really couldn't wash it off.

Zhong Wan took a few breaths of the cold wind, his chest was icy cold, and his body seemed to be a little hot again. At the critical moment, Zhong Wan didn't dare to make fun of his body. If he collapsed at this critical moment, those children would really lose their minds.

Zhong Wan didn't dare to hold on, she listened to the servant's words and asked him to call her a sedan chair.

Zhong Wan didn't let anyone follow her, and got into the sedan chair by herself.

Zhong Wanyi let out a light breath in the sedan chair.

It has been seven years, and the romantic young man who was so talented back then has become a broken sleeve in the storybook.

There is nothing left to see.

Zhong Wan's body was hot and cold, as if he was asleep or not, he was in a daze, dreaming.

In the dream, the man was in his teens and he didn't like to talk. He sat under the window and wrote quietly. Outside the window was full of peach blossoms, and some fallen flowers were sprinkled on his shoulders.

The bearer carried him wobbly for an unknown amount of time, and finally got off the sedan chair.

Zhong Wan was shocked and woke up.

Zhong Wan rubbed his eyes, dazed in a daze, how could such a taciturn and well-behaved person do what Lin Si said?

Zhong Wan was stiff from the cold, and when he was about to stand up with difficulty, the car curtain was lifted.

Outside the sedan chair, Yu Ziyou, who was tall and dressed in black fox fur, raised the curtain of the sedan chair expressionlessly, and said word by word: "Zhong, Gui, Yuan."