The Indifferent Prince's Substitute

"Princess!" Uncle Zhang rushed to meet her, "Where have you been? Why are you only here now?"

"Uncle Zhang." Seeing him smiling, Lin Yan handed him the snack box he was carrying, bent over and rubbed his knees.

Uncle Zhang glanced at the snack box, wondering, "This is..."

"This is chestnut cake, for the prince. Didn't you say that he likes to eat it?" Lin Yan said as he continued to walk towards the palace.

Uncle Zhang hesitated to speak, sighed in his heart and asked, "Why did the princess only buy one box? I gave it to the prince, what will the princess eat?"

Lin Yan pursed her lips, and said a little embarrassedly: "The money I brought is only enough to buy a box of chestnut cakes."

He forgot to ask Qiuyun for money in the morning, and he only had what he had spent yesterday.

Uncle Zhang was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly realized: "The princess walked all the way back from the West Market?"

He didn't go out in a carriage, and bought chestnut cakes with all his money.The distance from West Market to Wangfu is not short, and it takes a long time to ride in a carriage.It takes at least half an hour to walk with legs.

"En." Lin Yan nodded.But no, his legs are sore.

Zhang Bo felt distressed immediately, and the snack box in his hand suddenly became heavy.

Going back to the palace, let someone send Lin Yan back to the backyard to rest, Zhang Bo went to the study with the snack box in his hand.

Rong Yuan had a hearty fight with several guards, and as soon as he entered the study after taking a shower, he saw Uncle Zhang waiting by the desk.

"What's the matter?" Rong Yuan walked to the desk, remembered and asked: "...He hasn't come back yet?"

"Princess is back." Uncle Zhang pushed the neat chestnut cakes on the table towards him, "He bought them specially for you."

Rong Yuan glanced at Chestnut Crisp and frowned, he hated these sweets the most, why did Lin Yan buy him again?

"Also..." Rong Yuan just opened his mouth, but Uncle Zhang quickly interrupted him, "My lord, I told the princess that you like the chestnut cake he sent yesterday, so he will continue to buy it for you today."

Without waiting for Rong Yuan's reaction, Uncle Zhang continued: "The concubine spent all her money to buy this. He didn't even have the money to take a carriage and walked back from the West Market."

Rong Yuan opened his mouth, and saw Uncle Zhang looking at him without blinking, as if he would immediately condemn him if he dared to say no again.

"...He is poor?" Rong Yuan's throat moved and he changed the subject.

Zhang Bodao: "I'm not sure. But according to the situation of their mother and son in the palace, it's enough that they don't have too much money."

"Since he has become our princess, shouldn't the mansion give him a sum of money every month for expenses?" Uncle Zhang thought for a while and said.

"You can figure it out." Rong Yuan took a military book from the bookshelf behind him and sat down. He never cared about these trivial matters in the house.

"The old slave will go to do it." Uncle Zhang pushed the chestnut cake to his hand, "My lord should give it a try anyway, after all, the princess bought it out of her own will."

After Zhang Bo left, Rong Yuan read the art of war for a while, then his eyes moved to the chestnut cake in hand.Thinking of Zhang Bo's words, he put down the military book in his hand, reached out and picked up a piece of chestnut cake and looked at it for a while.Thinking of Lin Yan's light kiss on his cheek that day in the bridal chamber, and Lin Yan's eyes were shining and he ran towards him when everyone in Tianxiang Tea House was afraid of him.He accidentally squeezed the chestnut cake to his mouth, and his bent fingers touched the cold mask on his left face. He woke up and threw away the chestnut cake in his hand like a fire.

His fingers tapped on the desk, the window slammed softly, and a black figure appeared beside the desk.

"Take this plate away." Rong Yuan said in a deep voice.

Hei Ying picked up the chestnut cake, and the window slammed again, and the study quickly fell silent.

The crispy and sweet smell of chestnuts remained in the air, Rong Yuan picked up the book of war with a cold face, and continued to read from the part he hadn't finished reading just now.

Lin Yan ran out alone for nearly a day, and both Zhao Momo and Qiu Yun were in a hurry.Mother Zhao scolded him and asked him not to go out alone again, Lin Yan nodded her head repeatedly.

Thinking of going to see Yueniang, Lin Yan woke up early.After breakfast, I took Qiuyun to Tonghua Lane.

The carriage stopped on the narrow bluestone road in Tonghua Lane. When Qiuyun got off the carriage, he looked curiously at the low houses around.Why does the young master have friends living here?

Lin Yan knocked on the door of Yueniang's house, and Tu Er quickly came to open the door. He was very happy to see Lin Yan. The rabbit ears were about to pop out. Lin Yan blinked at him quickly, indicating that there was someone behind him.

Seeing Qiu Yun behind Lin Yan, Tu Er hurriedly hid his rabbit ears and opened the door to let them in.

"How is Yue Niang?" Lin Yan asked.

Tu Er took him into the house to see Yue Niang, "The antidote is very effective, I just asked the doctor to see it, and said that sister Yue should wake up soon."

Lin Yan glanced at the woman on the bed who still had her eyes closed, the black air lingering on her face dissipated, it seemed that she was really all right.

"Go and sit in the yard, and I'll call you when Sister Yue wakes up." Tu Er invited them to the yard and served tea and snacks.

After a while, when he heard movement in the room, Tu Er rushed out excitedly and said to Lin Yan, "Sister Yue is awake."

Lin Yan hurriedly said to Qiu Yun: "We haven't brought any presents to see the patients yet, so go and buy some boxes of snacks."

After sending Qiuyun away, Lin Yan hurried into the back room.

Yueniang was leaning on the bed, looking in good spirits, saw Lin Yan, smiled at him and said, "I heard from Tu Er that you are his friend, do you want to find me?"

Lin Yan nodded, took out the purse from his arms, walked to the bed and handed it to him, expecting to ask: "Do you still remember who sold this purse to? What does that person look like?"

Yueniang took the purse, looked at the exquisite embroidery on it, thought for a moment, and said, "This purse, the embroidery on it is customized by the customer."

Lin Yan's eyes lit up, and he remembered the customization!

"However, I don't know the appearance of that guest." Yueniang continued, "He is wearing a veiled hat, and his body is wrapped tightly, so we can't see his appearance."

Overjoyed and overjoyed.Lin Yan was frustrated and took the purse back from her hand. It seemed that the last clue was also broken.

"However," Yueniang paused, as if thinking of something, "he should be from the palace."

"In the palace?" Lin Yan moved her ears and looked at her quickly.

Yueniang smiled, "I have been in Yuexiu Zhai for seven years, and I am very familiar with all kinds of embroiderers. The pattern on the man's purse uses a very special embroiderer, which is only available in the palace."

"The man is tall and has a broad frame. He should be a man. And when the man paid the deposit, I saw a crescent-shaped scar on his wrist." After thinking about it, Yue Niang added.

The clues were there again.Lin Yan happily thanked Yue Niang, waited for Qiu Yun to come back, boarded the carriage and left.

It turned out that the people who picked his fruit were from the palace.On the carriage back, Lin Yan propped his chin in thought, remembering the evil spirit he felt when he entered the palace last time.It is difficult for ordinary people to enter the hinterland of Longyuan Mountain. Could it be that monster who picked his fruit?

This is strange, that person can transform, so why pick his fruit?His fruit has no other use besides transforming form.

I don't understand, so never mind, find the monster first.

Lin Yan's search for someone quickly changed from looking for someone to looking for a demon in the palace.

Back at the palace, Lin Yan asked Qiuyun to go back to the courtyard, he asked the servants, and ran to find Uncle Zhang.

Uncle Zhang was busy in the flowerbed in the garden, holding a pair of scissors, cutting off some branches, leaves and blooming flowers, and handing them to the servants next to him.

"Uncle Zhang." Lin Yan went over to greet him.

"The concubine is here." Zhang Bo raised his head to see him, and said with a smile, "What does the concubine want from me?"

"It's okay, come here for a stroll." Lin Yan stepped into the flowers, walked up to him, and asked suspiciously, "What are you doing?"

"Many of these flowers have failed to bloom. Let me trim them." Zhang Bo said, "Princess, go sit in the pavilion. I will finish trimming soon."

"Let me help you." Lin Yan excitedly rolled up his sleeves and took the scissors from Uncle Zhang.

There was no sun today, so Uncle Zhang didn't stop him.He waved his hand to let the servants on the side leave, and he taught Lin Yan beside him, "Be careful with your fingers, cut them off from here."

"Uncle Zhang, where is your lord?" Lin Yan asked after learning a few times, while cutting the blooming flowers.

"The lord has gone to the palace." Uncle Zhang said with a sigh, "The concubine is sick, so he went to see her."

Lin Yan paused with her fingers holding the scissors, remembering what Uncle Zhang had said before, that the relationship between the benefactor and the concubine was not very good.

"I don't think the concubine is ill. She is clearly annoyed that the lord did not agree to help Prince Yu." Uncle Zhang looked at the sky worriedly, "I don't know what method the concubine has thought of to punish the lord this time."

After lunch, the already gloomy sky began to rain. It was getting heavier and pouring, and the whole land was completely white.

Rong Yuan never returned to the mansion, Lin Yan ordered a little maid in the yard to guard the door, and when Rong Yuan came back, she would come and tell him.

Listening to the crackling rain outside, Lin Yan leaned on the soft couch and fell asleep.Suddenly there was the sound of hurried footsteps outside the house, and the little servant girl came in with her skirt wet and said, "The lord is back."

Lin Yan quickly woke up, put on her shoes and put on an umbrella, and ran to the study regardless of the yells from Zhao Nanny and Qiu Yun behind her.

In the bedroom next to the study, the floor was wet with a large puddle of water. Uncle Zhang rummaged through the closet for clean clothes and complained displeasedly: "The concubine is too much this time, the rain is so heavy that the lord is not here Standing outside the hall for an hour. His Royal Highness King Yu is just watching in the hall? Obviously they are begging the prince to do something, why are they still doing this to the prince. "

Rong Yuan was standing at the window with his whole body wet, dripping water from the corner of his cuffs and clothes, his wet hair stuck to his forehead, and the drops of water slid along his forehead, crossed his sharp side face, and sank into his collar.He looked down the window, silent.