A glance at the spring breeze

Qiao Aiqing took the broken jade hairpin and remained silent for a long time, staring at the jade hairpin in a daze for a while, and then raised her eyes to Ruan Lan.His lips trembled twice, as if he was about to speak, but he didn't hear him. He opened his lips slightly, but quickly closed them again.

Ruan Lan was silent for a while, and said: "Brother Qiao, there is one more thing. I have received conclusive news that Meng Qishan was killed many days ago——"

"What? He's dead?" Qiao Aiqing's finger bones trembling while holding the jade hairpin, his eyes were a little more surprised than before, and suddenly turned into a haze, and he looked down at the jade hairpin in his hand again , "Ah Shan, he...is dead? I, I..." He raised his voice for a moment, but he seemed to be afraid of being heard by Qiao Aifen in the room, so he softened his voice.

Followed by a long sigh of grief and indignation.

Ruan Lan didn't know how to comfort her, so she could only say: "We will do our best to hunt down the murderer, and we will never tolerate it." He looked at Qiao Aiqing, looked through the door, and saw a fiery red candle standing in the corner, emitting a flickering light. In the flickering candlelight, he saw Qiao Aiqing's side face fluctuating red and white against the candlelight, with a dignified and sad expression.

Ruan Lan said: "It's getting late, so I'm leaving now. Brother Qiao, I'm sorry, and I'll come to see you again. As for Doctor Meng..."

Qiao Aiqing put the jade hairpin in her arms into her bosom, slowly closed her eyes and then opened them again, with deep eyes: "When Dr. Meng recovers in a few days, I will tell him the news."

Ruan Lan patted him on the shoulder: "Take care, I'm leaving."

Meng Qishan bowed to him dumbly: "My lord, please go."

Ruan Lan turned and left, walked a few steps, looked back, and found that Qiao Aiqing was still standing under the moon, staring blankly at one place, but she didn't know where he was looking, as if she had lost her soul.

"Brother, is your lord gone?" He heard Qiao Aifen in the room say, "Brother, what are you doing here so late? Did he know about Ah Shan..."

Qiao Aiqing finally came back to his senses, looked at Ruan Lan who was not far away, and then at his sister in the room, he closed and locked the door, and after that, Ruan Lan could no longer hear anything else.

The night wind mixed with the heat of summer came blowing, but Ruan Lan's heart couldn't be warmed up no matter what.

Ruan Lan walked out of the residential houses along the way she came here, walked through a small path, and saw Li Quanfeng waiting by the side of the road in a blink of an eye.Ruan Lan said: "Lord Li, I've been waiting for a long time. Let's go."

But Li Quanfeng said: "Just now, His Majesty Fei Ge sent a letter to the next person to report back. It's already late at night, so you don't have to go."

Ruan Lan quickly shook her head: "How is that possible? Naturally, I want to go with Mr. Li. There is no reason to bother others with my own affairs."

"Your Majesty said that tomorrow morning, you will go to the academy in the palace to take office, so it is better to rest early tonight."

"Appointment?" Ruan Lan remembered after finishing speaking that he was appointed by Yin Jian as the prince's teacher before, thinking that he would have to wait at least a few days before entering the palace to take up his post, but unexpectedly, it was faster than he expected.

I heard that the gentleman who taught the prince before could not stand the eldest prince's naughtiness, so he had already resigned and returned home for some time.But who doesn't know that Yin Zhan has been on the throne for many years, and such a prince was born in the harem, no matter how naughty he is, he is extremely noble, and he will probably be a prince in the future. How can he not be taught by his husband?

"Exactly. Your Majesty asked you to wait in the Imperial Study Room after His Majesty came down to court."

"In this case, I understand." Ruan Lan bowed to Li Quanfeng, "greetings to His Majesty for me."

Li Quanfeng nodded: "I will take my leave."

Ruan Lan walked home alone, and as soon as he entered the door, Eunuch Yu rushed forward.

"My lord! This servant ordered the kitchen to make you chicken soup!" Eunuch Yu thanked Ruan Lan happily, "Are you hungry, my lord? Sit down for a while, and this servant will order the servants to serve you."

"Thanks a lot."

When the two walked into the house, Ruan Lan sat down, took a sip of the tea that Eunuch Yu handed over, and then asked: "Speaking of which, how are the two children I brought back yesterday? How are they doing today? What have you been doing all day?"

Eunuch Yu replied: "They, they are very diligent. They helped the servants in the mansion to do rough work for a day, cleaning the house, chopping firewood and carrying water. They didn't complain about hardship or tiredness."

Ruan Lan was surprised, but she didn't expect that this pair of brothers who looked frail could still have some skills. Ruan Lan secretly admired them, and then asked: "Then where are they now? Call them over, I want to ask something."

Originally, Ruan Lan wanted to ask the brothers what they needed, so she asked, but she heard Eunuch Yu say, "They said they wanted to take a bath as soon as the adults came back, and they are probably taking a bath now."

"Bath?" Ruan Lan took another sip of tea before she could react for a while.

"They say they have to wait on your lord at night."

Ruan Lan almost spit out the tea in her mouth, and finally swallowed it after a lot of effort, and then immediately said: "Go and tell them, let them rest after washing up, I'm tired today too .”

"Good sir." After saying that, Eunuch Yu ran out, and came back not long after, and said as he ran, "By the way, sir, His Majesty ordered someone to send you the official uniform you will use later. After eating, you can try it."

"Yeah." Ruan Lan nodded.

"My lord, do you smell the fragrance?" Eunuch Yu twitched his nose, "I smell the eight-treasure duck and hen soup!"

Soon the food was served, probably because he was really tired during the day, and he drank some hot rice wine given to him by Eunuch Yu. Yin Xian didn't even have time to try it when he was sent to the official uniform.

A night without dreams.

Day two.

Ruan Lan got up early, and under the service of Eunuch Yu, put on the official uniform that Yin Jian had sent yesterday.The Yugong doll looked carefully inside and out for a while, and suddenly called out: "Ah, my lord, the pattern embroidered on your official uniform looks a little different."

"What's different?" Ruan Lan lowered her head after hearing the words, but she didn't find anything unusual. The pattern on the purple robe was beautiful, embroidered with a fairy-like white crane. Its feet touched the ground, and its slender and graceful neck was raised , It seems to be absorbing the rain and dew falling from the sky, and it looks lifelike.Although Ruan Lan said that she had been away from the court for many years, she still remembered that this was indeed an embroidery pattern on civil servants' uniforms, and there was nothing wrong with it.

"My lord, take it off, take it off and look again." Eunuch Yu reminded.

Ruan Lan did so, and when he took it off, he finally realized that the back of the crane embroidery was another scene.

This "crane" has somehow been dyed red, yellow, blue, purple four colors, plus white, a total of five colors, and the shape of this bird has also changed, bigger than the crane body, wings embroidered It has distinct layers, plump and glossy, and the tail is inlaid with round patterns similar to the peacock's covert feathers. The colors are staggered, gorgeous and moving.Even a person like Ruan Lan who doesn't understand women can tell that it takes a lot of effort to embroider this pattern.

Phoenix, five colors and text.

He didn't pay attention to it before wearing it just now, thinking that he just needs to look at the pattern on the outside, but who knows that the embroidery pattern on the inside is far from the outside - the rare bird inside is clearly a phoenix!

Even street children who haven't gone to school know that in the palace, only the emperor's concubines can use the phoenix pattern.And this official uniform looks like it is embroidered with ordinary civil servant patterns on the surface, but it shows a phoenix on the inside!

"My lord—" Eunuch Yu tremblingly said, "I have never seen this design worn by other concubines in recent years. It is clearly, clearly only used by queens in the palace—"

"Okay, father-in-law, don't talk about it. I can't wear the suit sent by your majesty." Ruan Lan interrupted Eunuch Yu's words, took off her official uniform, and took off all the accessories. Then he said: "Help me find a proper dress in the closet, I want to change into the palace."

"Yes, yes, the slave will go now."

*****

When Ruan Lan finally arrived at the Imperial Study Room as scheduled, Yin Jian hadn't gone to court yet.

He thought he would have to wait outside the imperial study for a while, but the palace officials put him in and brought him a bowl of herbal tea to cool off the heat.

"My lord, please use it." The palace man was respectful and not in a hurry, as if he had prepared it long ago.

Ruan Lan casually put the herbal tea aside, closed her eyes and sat quietly on the armchair and waited. As a result, she waited left and right for Yin Jian to see Yin Rolling over. She couldn't help feeling bored, so she got up and took two steps in the imperial study.

He tilted his forehead and turned his eyes, and a familiar painting fell into his eyes.

Um?Why is this Spring Wind Scroll here?

Jiagong's beautiful scenery.Ordinary people will feel like a spring breeze when they look at it.

Ruan Lan took a closer look.

That's right, it's really real.

At that time, the high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital did not know who they were, and Ruan Shangshu, the official department, had a collection of pictures made by immortals in ancient times.

But he also remembered that the Ruan Mansion had lost the scroll of immortality long ago, and he sent people to search for it for several days, but he couldn't find it anywhere.It stands to reason that Yin Jian would not be able to get it even if he copied the Ruan Mansion, so why is it hanging on the wall in the imperial study so well?

"My love."

Ruan Lan heard someone calling him.

He glanced back and found that Yin Xian had entered at some point.Yin Jian was wearing a well-mannered golden dragon robe, and Manager Zhang next to him was helping him remove the crown from his head.

A pair of handsome eyebrows with a smile, looking straight into his eyes.

Ruan Lan hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "Minister Ruan Lan, I bow to Your Majesty."

"Excuse me, excuse me." Yin Jian pulled Ruan Lan up, glanced at him twice, saw that Ruan Lan was not wearing the suit he sent yesterday, but was not annoyed, "I came to you today, except Apart from letting you meet Xuan'er, I have some things to discuss with you."

Xuan'er is Yin Xuan, the only dragon heir in the palace.

Ruan Lan was not as intimate as Yin Jian's attitude towards him, she still unilaterally maintained the etiquette of a monarch and minister, and said with a half-respectful waist: "Please speak, Your Majesty."

Yin Jian gently tapped the table with his index finger, and slowly restrained his smile.

He lowered his head, looked down at Ruan Lan's arm, and turned half of his face to hide in the shadow outside the window where the sunlight couldn't reach.

At this time, Yin Jian's face was neither happy nor angry, he could only see half of his face under the sun, no one knew what was going on in his heart.

From the inside out, his whole body began to exude a supreme and undeniable aura.

The unknown can cause fear in everyone.

Yin Jian continued to stagger the table with his fingertips, and said calmly: "First, according to the records of the Ministry of Household Affairs, there is no such place name as Wu County in the world, and the name was given to Ai Qing. The person who received the news that the prefect of Linzhou was in collusion with him has now disappeared. "

Halfway through Yin Jian's speech, his eyes flashed, and he looked behind Ruan Lan——

"Secondly, your father seemed to have... contacts with the Northern Kingdom. The picture of the spring wind scroll in the Northern Kingdom is the evidence."