The Indifferent Prince's Substitute

"My lord, change your clothes quickly. I'll go to the kitchen to make ginger soup." Uncle Zhang put the clean clothes he found on the bed, and hurriedly took them out the door.

The guards at the gate of the study yard refused to let Lin Yan in. Lin Yan was anxious to climb over the wall when he saw Uncle Zhang come out.

"How is your lord?" Lin Yan asked quickly.That concubine, how did you treat your benefactor?

"My lord was drenched in the rain for an hour outside the hall. I'm going to the kitchen to cook ginger soup for my lord." Uncle Zhang was getting old, and he was a little unsteady when he walked under his umbrella. Next, reach out to take it and help him support it.The two walked to the kitchen together.

It was not meal time, it was raining heavily outside, and there was only a little maid dozing on a stool in the kitchen.Uncle Zhang waved her to play. He skillfully took slices of ginger, sat down in front of the stove and started a fire.

"Princess, you sit here." Taking a small stool, let Lin Yan sit next to him, and Uncle Zhang chattered to him.

"The prince was fostered by the concubine at the age of 12, joined the army in the Northwest at the age of 14, and stayed with the concubine for two years. People's hearts are always biased. The concubine has her own son, His Royal Highness Prince Yu, so how can she love the prince? The prince is not talkative, so he can't talk sweetly to please people, let alone the concubine. After the prince joined the army and became famous, the concubine has a better attitude towards the prince, but as long as the prince doesn't follow her heart, she will I will think of various ways to torment the prince."

Lin Yan was furious when she heard this, "It's not my own mother, my lord don't bother with her!"

Uncle Zhang sighed, "They are mother and son in name, how can we just ignore it? It is rumored that the prince is not filial. Fortunately, the prince now has this mansion outside the palace, so he can find an excuse to avoid entering the palace."

Lin Yan was secretly angry for a while on behalf of her benefactor, and asked Uncle Zhang, "Uncle Zhang, have you always been by the prince's side?"

Uncle Zhang stuffed a few sticks of firewood into the stove, shook his head and said, "This was originally the residence of a great general in the previous dynasty, and was later given to the prince as a residence by the late emperor. I am the servant who guards this residence. When he moved in, I was the only one in the palace to serve him."

As he spoke, Uncle Zhang laughed, "Every time my lord gets caught in the rain, I cook ginger soup myself, and he only likes to drink my cooking."

"The ginger soup made by Uncle Zhang must be delicious." Lin Yan put his hands on his chin and said with a smile.

"It's ready, serve a bowl for the concubine too." Uncle Zhang was delighted by his praise, looked at him with a smile and sighed, "My lord suffered a lot in the palace when he was young, and then went to the bitter cold place in the northwest." Place. The prince has a tough character, strong ability, and is not a thing in the pool. Therefore, he has attracted the envy of others, poisoned him, and spread rumors. These years, everyone feared him, and he kept silent and never explained. The princess is the first Don't be afraid of him, and go to his side to gather people who are good to him."

"My lord is a good man, those people are blind." Lin Yan puffed up his face and argued for Rong Yuan, remembering the time at Tianxiang Tea House, he was angry.

The benefactor is such a good person, why do those people slander him?

"With the princess protecting the prince, it doesn't matter whether those people are blind or not." Uncle Zhang smiled happily, lifted the lid and looked at the ginger soup in the pot, picked up a bowl and said, "The ginger soup is ready, I will give it to the princess. Serve a bowl first."

Lin Yan hadn't had ginger soup yet, so he waited by the stove holding a spoon.

Zhang Bosheng put it on the stove, and only had time to remind him "be careful of burning", when he saw Lin Yan had already scooped up a spoonful and couldn't wait to feed it into his mouth.

"It's so spicy!" After taking a spoonful, Lin Yan wrinkled her face.

Zhang Bo was amused by his expression, "Ginger soup tastes like this, not sugar water."

"It's so spicy, how can the prince drink it?" Lin Yan put down the spoon, muttered, suddenly his eyes lit up, and said to Zhang Bo, "Don't take it to the prince, I'll be right back."

After finishing speaking, he picked up the umbrella and hurried into the rain.

Behind a big banyan tree outside the kitchen window, Rong Yuan held a black umbrella and watched him run away quietly.He had something to do with Uncle Zhang, so he came to the kitchen to look for him, and overheard their conversation.

It was the first time he had heard anyone say he was a good man.It was also the first time someone defended him.

Seeing Lin Yan's back running away in the rain, Rong Yuan stood for a while before turning around and leaving.

Lin Yan came back quickly, took out a handkerchief from her pocket and opened it, inside was a piece of chestnut cake and a piece of osmanthus candy.

"My lord, eat this after drinking the ginger soup. It won't be spicy anymore." He put the chestnut cake and sweet-scented osmanthus sugar on the tray filled with ginger soup, and said with a smile.

Looking at it, Zhang Bo was heartwarming and wanted to sigh. He blamed him and lied that the prince loves chestnut cakes.The prince did not move the previous two times, and this time he would not eat it even if he thought about it.

Unable to bear to tell the truth, Uncle Zhang picked up the tray and said with a smile: "The princess is still thoughtful, I will send it to the prince. The princess should go back and rest soon."

"En." Lin Yan nodded, held an umbrella and sent Uncle Zhang to the door of the study, then turned and went back to his yard.

"My lord, ginger soup is here." Uncle Zhang pushed open the door of the study to enter, and said to Rong Yuan who was standing at the window.

Putting down the ginger soup bowl on the desk, looking at the chestnut cake and sweet-scented osmanthus candy, Zhang Bo thought he wouldn't eat it either, and was about to take it away, when Rong Yuan said, "Who put this?"

Zhang Bo said: "Wangfei put it. She said ginger soup is spicy, let you finish drinking it."

"Leave it alone." Rong Yuan said lightly.

Uncle Zhang was taken aback, looked up at him, and Rong Yuan ordered: "The archery target in the training room is broken, you can find someone to make a new one."

"Understood." Uncle Zhang nodded and turned to leave.

The door of the study room was closed, Rong Yuan looked down at the chestnut cakes and sweet-scented osmanthus candies on the tray, after a while, he reached out to pick up the sweet-scented osmanthus candies and peeled them into his mouth.The tip of the tongue sips slightly, and the sweet taste spreads in the mouth.

It rained for two days in a row.Lin Yan braved the rain to visit Shen's again, with the ginseng sent by Rong Yuan, Shen's health was slightly better than before.

On the third day, the sun cleared and the sun was very strong, so Zhang Bo asked people to move all the books in Rong Yuan's study to the yard to dry.

"Uncle Zhang!" He was instructing his servants to spread out the books, when Uncle Zhang heard Lin Yan's voice behind him, turned his head quickly, and saw him lying on the wall, waving hello.

"Princess, why did you climb onto the wall!" Uncle Zhang was startled, and quickly waved to him, "Come down quickly."

Lin Yan leaned against the wall and pouted, "My lord won't let me in, Uncle Zhang, I'm so bored, I want to help you post your books."

Uncle Zhang glanced at the gate of the courtyard, the guards at the gate were under Rong Yuan's subordinates, he only listened to what Rong Yuan said, and he couldn't do it well.

"You wait." Uncle Zhang thought for a while, said to Lin Yan, and called a servant to run out. After a while, he came over with a ladder.

Put it firmly under the wall in front of Lin Yan, Zhang Bo raised his head and said to Lin Yan: "Sit on the ladder, be careful not to fall."

Lin Yan followed good example and sat down on the ladder carefully.

"Bring a plate of snacks and a pot of tea to the princess." Uncle Zhang ordered his servants.

The servants brought snacks and tea, climbed up the ladder and handed them to Lin Yan.Lin Yan asked Uncle Zhang while eating: "Uncle Zhang, when can I enter the palace again?"

Zhang Bo bent down and spread out a book, and asked curiously: "Why did the princess think of entering the palace?"

Lin Yan took a bite of the plum cake and said vaguely, "Well, the palace is big and beautiful, I want to go in and have a look again."

Zhang Bo laughed, "The Emperor will hold a banquet in the palace during the Dragon Boat Festival, and then you and the prince can go in."

Dragon Boat Festival?Lin Yan tilted her head, not quite understanding what Dragon Boat Festival is, so she heard Uncle Zhang continue to say, "It will be here in ten days, and then let the prince take you around the palace."

Last ten days!Lin Yan is relieved, he will be able to enter the palace to find fruits soon!

When Rong Yuan walked to the door, he heard voices coming from the yard.The voice was very familiar, it belonged to Lin Yan.

Who let him into the yard?He looked up at the guard at the door, and the guard said helplessly: "The princess didn't go in, he climbed the fence, Uncle Zhang brought him a ladder, and he sat on the ladder."

Climb the wall again?Rong Yuan raised his eyebrows, turned around and walked towards the wall where the voice came from.

Walked a few steps under the wall and stood still, Rong Yuan looked up and saw Lin Yan sitting on the ladder, holding a snack in one hand and taking two bites, then bent down to put it down, and took a sip of tea, it seemed that there was a special snack below. His servants are serving.

"Come down." He was enjoying himself, he said.

Lin Yanzheng was talking happily with Zhang Bo, when he heard his voice, his body froze, he turned around and looked down at him, and gulped down the snack in his mouth.

Rong Yuan looked up at him and repeated, "Come down."

"...The lord is back?" Uncle Zhang's question came from the courtyard.

Lin Yan turned around with a mournful face and nodded, then wiped the fingers that had just eaten snacks on her body, slowly got up from the ladder, climbed to the wall, and squatted there mournfully looking at Rong Yuan.

"Come down." Rong Yuan repeated in a calm voice.

Lin Yan had no choice but to climb down the ladder made of vines.Rong Yuan frowned and looked at the twisted vines in front of him, he was a little puzzled, did the vines on the wall look like this before?

The wall was two or three meters long, and the vines were dangling and unstable.Lin Yan was halfway down, stepped on the ground, and fell backwards.