My lord, your plan is too obvious

Ruohua received an invitation from Lin Lang very early on, saying that he was invited to visit Lin Mansion.The two families are also old friends. On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Ruohua brought some pastries made by He's family and a gift that was not too expensive but commensurate with his present silver and went there.

Lin Lang had been waiting for Ruohua at the gate of the mansion for a long time. When he saw Ruohua get off the carriage, he greeted him with some joy and said:

"Ah Hua, you are here."

Ruohua smiled and said, "I just came back to the capital yesterday, and I came to see you today."

Hearing what he said, Lin Lang felt a little guilty and said, "Actually, you don't need to come here in such a hurry. The road is bumpy. You should rest more."

"My mother doesn't let me do anything at home. If I go back to the capital and don't let me move around, I'm afraid I will gain weight a few times in the new year," said Lin Lang, who brought the things that Ruohua had brought. She flickered before her eyes, "Look, I also brought pastries made by my mother."

"It's better if you're fatter, but you're too thin now." Ruohua is actually only a little shorter than Lin Lang, but maybe it's because his body was not very good before, and he was already thin, so he looks even smaller.

"Brother Lang, don't laugh at me. Where is Uncle Lin? I even brought a present."

"Father went out today." Lin Lang looked at a piece of stone inkstone in Ruohua's hand, which was exquisite in workmanship, but it was indeed not very expensive, so he took it without hesitation, "I will pass it on to my father."

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The two sat in the room, Ruohua took off his robe and put it aside, looking at the furnishings in the room.

Thinking of the scene he saw in the Ministry of Industry before, Ruo Hua still wondered if it was the same situation in Lin Fuzhong.But the room is very tidy, Ruohua sat on the chair and said jokingly:

"I thought Lange's house would be the same as the Ministry of Industry."

Lin Lang coughed a little embarrassedly: "The house was cleaned a few years ago."

"But speaking of it, I haven't thanked Brother Lang properly yet."

"What?" Lin Lang didn't know what Ruohua had to thank him for.

"Last time, Nan Zhi's envoy was finally received by Brother Lang." Ruohua thought about the letter he saw in Si Nian's study before, and asked inquiringly.

Lin Lang frowned slightly when he heard this, Nan Zhi...

"Ah Hua, did the Ministry of Rites receive the letter from Nan Zhi's envoy later?"

"No."

"Nan Zhi..." Lin Lang felt a little annoyed when he thought of the letter he had received not long ago.

Ruohua saw Lin Lang's hesitant to speak, and knew that he must know something:

"What's wrong with Nan Zhi? Brother Lang is so caring."

"No...it's nothing." Lin Lang lowered his head and drank his tea, wanting to divert the topic elsewhere, so he said, "Ruohua, your new headband is really pretty."

Ruohua saw that Lin Lang deliberately changed the topic, so he didn't continue to ask. He heard him mention his hairband, touched it with his hand subconsciously, and then smiled lightly:

"I went to the monastery yesterday to ask for it, and said it was for safety."

"Is it a temple in the capital?" Lin Lang became interested, "I will also ask for it some other day."

"It's outside the capital city, but it's not very far away," Ruohua joked. "There are a lot of women and girls there. I felt a little embarrassed when I went there yesterday. Is Brother Lang really planning to go?"

"You still went because you felt embarrassed. It seems that it is really effective."

"It's not what I want to go," Ruohua hurriedly said, "Yesterday, the prince invited me to go with him, so I can't refute."

Lin Lang heard Ruohua say this, and suddenly a thought flashed across him, so he asked with some uncertainty:

"Is that temple to the west outside the city?"

"Brother Lang knows?" Ruohua was slightly surprised.

Lin Lang didn't know what to say or not... Of course he knew about that temple... His mother went there two days ago, saying it was to seek marriage for him.But King Yan actually invited Ruohua to go with him, which is very strange when you think about it.

Ruohua looked at Lin Lang's hesitant expression and thought to himself, what happened to him today, why is it inconvenient to talk about so many things?Could it be that the temple also hides some secrets?

Lin Lang hesitated for a moment, and finally said:

"Ah Hua, the prince hasn't accepted his concubine yet, right?"

"Brother Lang is actually curious about this, but everyone knows about it," Ruohua said with a smile, "There is indeed a concubine in the prince's mansion."

Lin Lang thought, King Yan has indeed reached the age of accepting concubines, and no one knows the reason why he has never married.There are different opinions in the capital, but due to the identity of King Yan, no one has ever put it in the open.It sounds nice to guess that King Yan has someone he likes, but it may be because of various reasons that he can’t marry back, so he has been unwilling to accept a concubine; some people guess that King Yan is unable to do things in the men’s and women’s rooms, so Only then refused to marry.Of course, there are also some people who speculate whether King Yan is a good man.

Lin Lang didn't pay much attention to these before, but since Ruohua lived in Yanwang's mansion, he has paid attention to these statements intentionally or unintentionally.

From Ruohua's tone and attitude, Lin Lang also felt that Ruohua treated King Yan as a close person.Xu is like that to his brother.King Yan may just treat Ruohua as a younger brother.

Seeing that Lin Lang didn't speak for a long time, Ruohua was also puzzled:

"Brother Lang, what's the matter?"

Lin Lang finally decided to speak from the side, so he pretended to be relaxed: "It seems that King Yan wants to accept a concubine."

"Why did you say that suddenly?"

"That temple is said to be very effective in seeking marriage. King Yan Xu was embarrassed to go by himself, so he dragged you away."

Although Lin Lang's tone was pretending to be relaxed, his expression really betrayed him all at once.

Ruohua looked at Lin Lang, who never concealed his interest, and what he said, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment—is there actually a marriage seeker?

The word "marriage" kept magnifying in Ruohua's mind, and he had never thought about it before.But suddenly, it seemed that a door that had been hidden for a long time was opened.Ruohua touched the hairband on his head subconsciously - does this mean something else?

If Si Nian's protection and care for him in the past were all attributed to the word "like", it seemed that everything he couldn't figure out before made him feel unbearable, like being licked by the tongue of a cat with burrs , Those expressions seem to have a reasonable explanation.

But this was too far-fetched, even more unreal than the feeling he felt when he woke up after being reborn.Si Nian, how could it be possible that he liked him?

Although Ruohua couldn't say why, he just denied this possibility in his heart.Si Nian, it's impossible to like herself.

But after denying this idea, I felt a little bored and uncomfortable in my heart.Why?

"Ah Hua?" Seeing Ruohua pursing his lips, Lin Lang thought it was his slip of the tongue that made him angry.

When Ruohua heard Lin Lang calling him, he came back to his senses, suppressed the restlessness in his heart, twitched the corner of his mouth and said:

"Well...the lord is probably going to get married."

Lin Lang touched his nose in embarrassment, not knowing what to say.He simply gave a vague "hmm" and picked up the pastry brought by Ruohua and ate it:

"I really miss my aunt's craftsmanship. The last time I ate it was before you returned to Tingzhou." Lin Lang ate a piece of dim sum in a few mouthfuls, "Say Zhenzhen should be as virtuous as my aunt now."

Ruohua couldn't help laughing when she thought of her sister's horribly made dumplings: "Brother Lang, I'd better stop joking. I'm afraid that with Zhenzhen's personality, even if he gets married, he might not be able to do these things well."

"How can you talk about your sister like that?" Lin Lang knew that although Ruohua and Xiang Zhenzhen were not half-brothers, they had a very good relationship since childhood. "If I saw her, I would sue you." .”

"Brother Lang, please forgive me. If Zhenzhen gets angry, my father and mother may tell me how to reprimand me." Ruohua begged for mercy with a smile.

"Master Xiang has a gentle temperament, and your mother is delicate and delicate. I used to think that only Zhenzhen in your family was particularly outstanding, but you are very much like your parents. But now, it seems that you are becoming more and more unforgiving. Already." Lin Lang thought of Ruohua's timid look when he was a child, but felt that it seemed to be a very distant memory, "I used to always want to protect you from being bullied when I was young, but now you and I Standing on the court together, it is still so outstanding..."

Lin Lang stood obliquely behind Ruohua in terms of his official position, and he couldn't help but want to look in that direction in the court hall.It's like when I was a child, I always followed him for fear that he would be bullied.

But later Lin Lang discovered that the boy who always followed him in his memory had grown so big.He is not in the place where Ben Nuo is no longer timid, but is standing at the head of the officials in a calm and generous manner, with a calm and composed smile on his face.Lin Lang felt a little relieved, but also a little lost...

This person has really grown up...

Afterwards, the two talked about the family affairs, and it was evening in a flash.Lin Lang intends to stay with Ruohua for dinner, but Ruohua thinks that he will go to court tomorrow, and the Ministry of Rites may have some things to do, so he shirks it.

When Ruohua returned home, he happened to meet Si Nian who was about to go out riding a horse.

"You're back." Si Nian said to Ruohua, holding the rein of the horse.

"Well," Ruohua nodded, "Where are you going?"

Si Nian frowned slightly: "The situation at the border seems to be not good. My informant came back with news. I'll go see him."

In fact, Ruohua was just asking casually, but he didn't expect Si Nian to explain it so seriously, and it was about border matters, so he just told himself that.Thinking of what Lin Lang said during the day, Ruohua's emotions that he wanted to temporarily forget emerged again.

Ruohua wanted to say something, but she opened her mouth but didn’t know where to start—why did you want me to go to the Marriage Temple?Is the hair tie you gave me just for safety?Why do you take such care of me... Do you like me...

Ruohua couldn't even ask these words, and always felt that no matter how they asked, the two of them would be very embarrassed.So he finally swallowed all the emotions in his stomach, and just said:

"You...be careful."

Si Nian saw Ruohua's hesitant expression on his face, and the fact that he choked out such a sentence at the end, he couldn't help but smile, put his hand on Ruohua's head and said:

"I'll be fine. You have dinner and rest early." Then he rode away.

Ruohua stood there, only regaining consciousness when Si Nian's back was completely out of sight.There seemed to be a warm temperature and a slight pressure from the palms on the head.He had never thought about this before, but once he paid attention to it, it seemed that every movement of Si Nian would make him feel slightly numb.

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"Boss, come to get a double happiness." A man knocked on the glass and threw ten yuan on the table outside the window.Then he quickly put his hands back into his pockets, and cursed in a low voice: Hiss...the weather is so bad, why does it feel colder than when we went out.

After a while, the small glass window was pulled open from the inside.He stretched out a hand with distinct but too white bones, and pushed out a box of Double Happiness, with three coins neatly stacked on it.As if feeling the chill outside, the hand trembled a little, then quickly pulled the crumpled ten yuan in, and closed the glass window.

The man outside put the coins in his pocket, took out a lighter, lit up a cigarette while trembling, took two quick sips, rubbed his hands and walked out of the alley.

After leaving the alley, the man suddenly felt much warmer.So he broadened his shoulders and looked back subconsciously. The convenience store where he bought cigarettes just now opened alone in a deep alley, and there was a somewhat worn-out sign beside him.

The man narrowed his eyes: "—there is a convenience room? Tsk, what the hell name."

But the man didn't stop any longer, turned around and threw the torn cigarette paper, strode away with the cigarette in his hand, thinking to himself: Sure enough, smoking a cigarette will make you feel much warmer.

However, he didn't see that the moment he turned around, the glass window of the convenience store was opened again, and the pale hand pushed out a cup of hot tea, and then the hot tea disappeared in the air little by little.The last hand took the glass in and closed the glass window.

And if the man looked at the sign carefully, he would find a row of small characters next to it:

——"Welcome to see a convenience house, please don't come again if you have nothing to do."