The Indifferent Prince's Substitute

I thought I would fall to the ground, but I didn't expect my back to hit a familiar chest, and I was wrapped around my waist by a strong and slender arm.

As soon as Lin Yan came back to his senses, he was let go.

At this moment, Uncle Zhang also ran out of the yard.Seeing Rong Yuan, he coughed lightly, "Cough, my lord."

"You are not allowed to climb the wall again." Rong Yuan dropped a sentence and went into the courtyard.

Lin Yan went back to the yard in frustration, where Nanny Zhang and Qiu Yun were busy drying clothes and quilts with a few maidservants.Lin Yan entered the room alone, propping his chin in boredom, when suddenly there was a knocking sound from the window.

Lin Yan went to open the window, and the little squirrel rushed in flapping its wings.

"You're back!" Lin Yan was very happy to see him, quickly closed the window, ran to close the door, and then sat back on the soft couch, and took the small cloth bag from the little oriole.

"Huh, I'm exhausted." The little squirrel stood on Lin Yan's teacup, lowered her head and drank water vigorously.

"Are you hungry?" Lin Yan crushed the snacks, sprinkled them on the tray for him to eat, and asked anxiously, "Did you find Xuanyun ginseng?"

After drinking the water, the little squirrel wiped its beak on its feathers, and then said: "No. The little ginseng asked his ancestors, and said that when they fought for territory, their old ancestors drove away other ginsengs. There are only ginsengs from their family in Yuanshan."

Lin Yan was very disappointed. Is his mother really hopeless?

"However," Xiao Huangque quickly added, "Little Ginseng pulled out a lot of beards from his ancestors and asked me to bring them back. His ancestors are five hundred years old. Everyone is ginseng. I should treat your mother Is it useful?"

Talk is better than nothing, better than nothing.Lin Yan took the small cloth bag from him, lowered his head and poured out a small handful of ginseng roots, carefully put it away, and prepared to send it to Mrs. Shen.

"Little squirrel, I found the whereabouts of the fruit." Putting away the ginseng roots, Lin Yan told little squirrel about meeting Tu Er, the spider spirit, and the monster in the palace.

"The monster in the palace can transform into form, so why does it still want to steal your fruit?" The little squirrel also had the same question as Lin Yan, "Does your fruit have other uses?"

"...I don't know." Lin Yan scratched his head depressedly, why didn't he know what other uses his own fruit had.

One person and one bird couldn't figure it out, so I had to give up and wait until Duanwu entered the palace to find the monster.

After lunch, Lin Yan took the ginseng roots and went to Zhuangzi in the suburbs.At that time, Shen just woke up and was taking medicine.

"Yan'er." Seeing Lin Yan coming, Shen picked up the handkerchief and wiped the corners of her mouth, a smile appeared on her pale face.

"Mother!" Lin Yan sat on the side of the bed, seeing that Shen's complexion was better than before, she was a little relieved and asked, "Mother, are you used to living here?"

"It's a habit." Chen nodded with a smile and asked him, "Are you used to living in the palace? Didn't you make the prince angry?"

"No." Lin Yan smiled and shook her head, complaining intimately in her tone, "Uncle Zhang is very kind to me, even the prince, he doesn't pay much attention to me."

"If you don't talk to me, you don't talk to me, just live your own life." Shen patted his hand, paused, and said with some hesitation, "Now...you don't resist the prince?"

Lin Yan blinked, and there was still a little memory in his mind that the original owner was unwilling to marry the benefactor. He shook his head and said, "No. Mother, I have actually met the prince before, and he even saved me. But I didn't know him at the time. It is the prince."

"Really?" Shen asked in surprise, "When did it happen? Why doesn't Mother know?"

Through the remaining memories, Lin Yan made nonsense: "When I was a child, when I was eight years old, I sneaked out alone without telling you."

Shen remembered that when Lin Yan was eight years old, he ran away alone once. At that time, he was young and didn't understand why his father and grandmother preferred Lin Yao and Lin Xuan.Once he felt aggrieved and sneaked out of the house without taking anyone with him.

Shen shi completely dispelled her doubts, she smiled relieved, it turned out that this was the case, she was worrying in vain, her family banquet and the prince had such a fate.

"Where's Sister Biyue?" Lin Yan asked without seeing Biyue beside Shen.

Shen said: "She is making ginseng soup for me in the kitchen."

Zhuangzi had few servants, the maid who was in charge of the kitchen took leave of absence yesterday, and the job of making ginseng soup fell to Biyue.

"I'll go to the kitchen to have a look." Thinking of the ginseng roots he brought, Lin Yan told Shen, and ran to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, Biyue was putting the sliced ​​ginseng into the pot, and a little maid was in charge of lighting the fire by the stove.Lin Yan went in and called, "Sister Biyue."

"Master, why did you come to the kitchen?" Bi Yue stirred the ginseng soup and said hastily, "Get out, there is smoke in the kitchen."

"Sister Biyue, the prince gave it to me." Lin Yan took out a ginseng root wrapped in a handkerchief from her bosom, and said, "This is 500-year-old wild ginseng, and I will make ginseng soup for my mother every time in the future." Time to add a few."

Although it's just roots, but the ancestor of the small ginseng has become a fine man, the roots should be more useful than ordinary ginseng.

"Okay." When Bi Yue heard that it was 500-year-old wild ginseng, she hurriedly and carefully took it from Lin Yan's hand.The ginseng sold outside are all decades old, such as good-quality ginseng hundreds of years old, which are rarely sold, and the price is astonishing.

"Don't worry about it, just use it for my mother, tell me when it's almost used up, there are more." Lin Yan thought of it and said quickly.

"Understood, young master, the 200-year-old ginseng sent by the prince last time was only used a little, and it won't be used up so soon." Bi Yue laughed.

"Then you can use it together." Lin Yan was relieved, turned and went out of the kitchen.

After staying in Zhuangzi all day, Lin Yan returned to the palace after dinner.

It was already late when we arrived at the entrance of the Wangfu, and another carriage was already parked at the entrance of the Wangfu.

Lin Yan jumped out of the carriage, and saw Rong Yuan get out of another carriage, Gu Zhiming, whom he had seen last time, cupped his hands at him: "My lord, thank you."

Seeing Lin Yan, Gu Zhiming smiled and bowed to him, "Princess."

Rong Yuan slightly nodded at Gu Zhiming, then turned and walked towards the palace.

Lin Yan also hurriedly nodded to Gu Zhiming, and quickly followed Rong Yuan.

It was already dark, the lanterns on both sides of the promenade were far apart, the candlelight was dim, Lin Yan didn't notice the steps under his feet, stumbled, and exclaimed, the figure who had been striding forward in front of him paused slightly, then slowed down Some.

Lin Yan didn't pay attention, hurriedly caught up with Rong Yuan, and followed behind him without saying a word.

Walking through the garden, Rong Yuan walked to the left and stopped suddenly.Lin Yan followed him unpreparedly and was about to bump into his back again, Rong Yuan moved a step to the side as if he had eyes behind him, and stretched out his hand to grab Lin Yan's arm.

"I'm going back to the study, what are you still following me for?" Seeing that he was standing still, Rong Yuan let go of his hand and asked softly.

"...Oh, then I'll go that way." Lin Yan and his habits were forgotten, he scratched his head, turned around and led Qiu Yun to the right.

Rong Yuan stood where he was, and the voices of Lin Yan and the maid beside him could be heard in the wind.

"Master, this palace is so dark at night, be careful, there are steps in front."

"Oh, I hit my foot. When you come back at night, remember to ask the porter for a lantern."

Going back to the study, Uncle Zhang brought dinner and was about to go out when Rong Yuan stopped him.

"Uncle Zhang." He picked up his chopsticks and said with downcast eyes, "Starting tomorrow, a few more lanterns will be lit in the corridors and gardens of the mansion at night."

"...My lord thinks the palace is too dark at night?" Uncle Zhang was a little surprised. There are not many servants in the palace, and Rong Yuan doesn't want servants to serve him at night, so at night, the servants all stay in their rooms, and there is no order in the mansion. Lots of lanterns.In the past, the prince never said anything when he came back at night, why did he suddenly say it today?

"En." Rong Yuan responded lightly.

"Well, I'll ask someone to order a few more lamps tomorrow night." Although Zhang Bo was puzzled, he agreed.

The little oriole went back and forth for many days and was exhausted. When Lin Yan got up the next day, he was still sleeping.Lin Yan didn't disturb him, and didn't let his servants disturb him, so she closed the door and ran to find Uncle Zhang.

In the study, Uncle Zhang was packing Rong Yuan's clothes when he heard Lin Yan's familiar shout from outside.He asked his servants to pack the clothes, and when he went out and looked up, he saw Lin Yan lying on the wall again.

"My lord just said the day before yesterday that you are here to climb the wall again, princess." Uncle Zhang looked at him dumbfounded, beckoned a servant to come over, and ordered to move the ladder.

"He's not here again. Besides, who told him not to let me in." Lin Yan curled her lips, saw the ladder coming, and sat on the ladder familiarly.

The guard at the door twitched the corner of his mouth when he saw it, and then turned around, pretending he didn't see it.

Seeing that the guards at the door didn't care, Lin Yan made an inch of it, and moved a few steps down the ladder to sit down. Seeing a servant busy in Rong Yuan's room, he asked, "Uncle Zhang, what are you busy with?"

Zhang Bodao: "My lord is going to Linghua Temple to pick up the queen and the little prince back to the palace. I'm packing his luggage."

Your benefactor is going out?Lin Yan hurriedly asked: "When are you leaving? How many days are you going?"

Zhang Bo said: "Leave tomorrow, it will take six or seven days to go back and forth, and come back before the Dragon Boat Festival."

To go out for so long.Lin Yan pursed her lips and thought for a while, then got up suddenly, leaned on the ladder and climbed out from the wall.

"Hey, Wangfei..." Uncle Zhang wanted to stop him in surprise, but he ran away early.

It was not until lunch time that Lin Yan came to look for Uncle Zhang again, carrying several bags of things in his hand.

"This is chestnut cake, this is sweet-scented osmanthus candy, and this is Poria cocos cake..." Lin Yan pointed things out to Uncle Zhang in the same way, and then said, "The prince will take these to eat on the road."

Uncle Zhang couldn't help laughing after hearing this, "The concubine ran away just now, did she go to the street to buy these for the prince?"

"That's right." Lin Yan nodded, with a serious face, "It's six or seven days, I'm on the road, what should I do if I'm hungry?"

Uncle Zhang wanted to say that he would not be hungry on the road, but seeing Lin Yan's serious face, he swallowed his words, smiled and took the things in his hand, and said, "I will bring them to the prince."

Lin Yan's eyes bent into crescents.