The Indifferent Prince's Substitute

Lin Yan looked to the side, and the surrounding area was filled with thick fog. He remembered that when he came last time, the surrounding area was also surrounded by such thick white fog.After a while, the fog cleared, revealing the familiar palace walls and corridors.

He stepped up and walked into the corridor.

According to the memory of the last visit, Lin Yan walked all the way to a secluded and desolate bedroom.The bedroom was very quiet, and no one in the palace saw it.

"Ahem..." A woman's cough came from a dilapidated window not far away.

Lin Yan walked out of the window and looked in through the half-open window. A woman in a light-colored dress was sitting on a chair by the window, with her head bowed and a needle and thread mending a dress.She seemed to be sick, she stopped from time to time, reached for the handkerchief on the table, and coughed twice against the corner of her lips.

Lin Yan remembered this woman, she had heard from those two eunuchs last time, this woman seemed to be some kind of concubine Jing, she did not know what mistakes she had made, and was thrown into limbo by the emperor.

"Da da da" came the sound of footsteps behind, Lin Yan turned her head, and saw a court lady rushing over, pushed open the door, saw the woman mending clothes, hurried forward to take it from her hand, and said: "Madam, How can you do this kind of work of mending clothes, just let the servants come."

The woman raised her head and said with a slight smile, "I'm still idle when I'm idle, and I can pass the time by doing these things."

As the two were talking, Lin Yan remembered that the woman's eyes seemed to have fallen on him the last time she came here, as if she could see him.He looked at the woman nervously, could she be the monster who sealed Rong Yuan?

Just as she was thinking about it, the palace maid went to the window, stretched out her hand and pushed the window open a little more, and said, "Your Majesty, the weather is fine outside, and this servant will help you out for a walk?"

The woman looked out the window, her eyes calmly passed over Lin Yan, covered her mouth and coughed twice, nodded and said: "Okay."

The palace maid helped her stand up from the chair, and the two walked out the door.

Lin Yan looked at the woman wonderingly, but the woman's reaction today didn't seem like she could see him.Could it be that he read it wrong last time?

He paused, followed behind the two, and walked slowly into the garden.

The sleeping hall is desolate and dilapidated, and the garden is not much better, with a few flowers and plants growing here and there.However, it was cleaned up fairly neatly, with no dead branches or leaves, and a few small plots of land were opened up in the corner, where a few kinds of green vegetables were planted.

"Your Majesty, look, the vegetables we planted last month have grown a bit, and they will be ready to eat in a few days." The maid said happily to the woman.

The woman looked up and saw a few vegetable fields in the corner, and smiled in relief.

Lin Yan sighed, this concubine Jing is too miserable, not to mention being thrown into limbo, and she has to grow her own vegetables to eat.

The two walked around in the garden, and the woman asked the maid to take her back to her room.As soon as he reached the door of the room, a teenager ran in from outside.

The boy's body was covered with dust and mud, his collar was ripped open, and his hair was a little messy. It looked like he had just fought with someone else.Lin Yan's gaze fell on the immature but familiar face of the young man, and his eyes widened.

"Yuaner!" Seeing the boy, the woman exclaimed, quickly walked over and knelt down, reached out to stroke the boy's hair, and pulled him to check his body: "Who did you fight with again? Are you injured?"

"I'm not injured, they can't beat me." The boy reached out and touched his nose, saying indifferently.

After checking the boy's body, the woman breathed a sigh of relief, got up and led him into the room, saying, "The clothes are all dirty, go and change."

Lin Yan hurriedly followed behind the two of them, his eyes fell on the young man Rong Yuan without blinking, and he sighed in his heart, this is the prince when he was a child, and it was the first time he saw him.

Rong Yuan was changing clothes in the room, while Lin Yan sat on the chair beside her with her chin in her hands to watch.The boy was tall and tall, with a large bruise mark on his bare white shoulder blades.He also said that he was not injured, which turned out to be a lie.

Lin Yan looked a little distressed. He had only heard Zhang Bo talk about Rong Yuan and his concubine mother living in the cold palace for a while, but he didn't have any real feelings. Now that he saw it with his own eyes, he knew that Rong Yuan lived in the palace when he was young. what day.The majestic prince would be beaten like this.

After changing his clothes, Rong Yuan went to talk to his mother and concubine.Lin Yan followed him step by step, sat beside the two of them and listened for a while, all about trivial matters in the palace.Lin Yan was thinking about finding the big monster that sealed Rong Yuan, seeing nothing in the cold palace, so she reluctantly came out and prepared to look elsewhere.

Before leaving, he saw a bunch of dull hairs sticking out of Rong Yuan's head, he couldn't hold it back, and stretched out his hand to gently press it down for him.Then he turned around and went out, accidentally knocking on the door.

Rong Yuan paused, looked up, and said to the woman next to him in doubt: "Concubine Mu, it seems that someone patted my head just now."

The woman looked up at the slightly shaking door, and smiled faintly, "It should be the wind."

Lin Yan walked along the palace road, he had been to the palace quite a few times, and he was already very familiar with the roads in the palace.After walking around, there was no trace of the big monster.

Lin Yan squatted in the corner, stretched out her hands to rub her legs, and complained in her heart that Xinghe didn't know where she went, and she never saw anyone.The palace is too big, if he were to search it all by himself, a few sticks of incense would not be enough to burn it.

Searching aimlessly like this is a waste of time, we must know the time and place when Rong Yuan was sealed.

Lin Yan decided to go back to Lin Yunhe to find a solution, but the incense has not been burned yet, so he can't go back yet.Just as he was about to go back to the cold palace and look at the young man Rong Yuan again, he saw two young eunuchs walking towards him with food boxes in their hands, whispering.

"What does the emperor think about Concubine Jing? Even though he is in the cold palace, he still visits her from time to time. He also allows the second prince to live with her, and even allows the second prince to come and go freely in the cold palace. The prince fights, and never punishes. The emperor seems to care about Concubine Jing, but why hasn't he picked her up from the cold palace? Speaking of which, why did the emperor put Concubine Jing in the cold palace?"

"You're new here, so it's understandable that you don't know. Three months ago, the emperor's birthday, all the tribes in the northwest sent envoys to the capital to celebrate the emperor's birthday. Among them was the dog Rong tribe, who were slaughtered that year. Concubine Jing's tribe, only Concubine Jing is left. The tribes in the northwest have developed rapidly in recent years, and have posed a big threat to our border, especially the Quanrong tribe, which has annexed several tribes. The most threatening one. This time, it was the third prince who brought the eldest son of the Dog Rong tribe. On the day of the birthday banquet, the third prince’s eldest son provoked the second prince in the imperial garden, and the second prince beat the third prince’s eldest son severely. The emperor asked the second prince to The prince apologized, but Concubine Jing protected the second prince from letting him apologize. The emperor was furious, and cast Concubine Jing into limbo. In fact, as long as Concubine Jing bowed her head and admitted her mistake, the emperor would pick her up, but, Concubine Jing hated the Quanrong clan's genocide in her heart, and she was always unwilling to bow to the emperor."

The two whispered all the way, walked all the way in the direction of the cold palace, and when they reached the corner, a father-in-law holding a whisk followed by several young eunuchs came towards him.

"Is this going to Lenggong to deliver food?" the father-in-law stopped the two of them and asked condescendingly.

The two recognized that this was the Grand Duke Shouan who was beside the queen, and hurriedly saluted respectfully, "Report to Grand Duke Shou, yes."

Eunuch Shou said slowly, "Open it and let me see."

The two eunuchs looked at each other, and quickly opened the food box as promised.

The meals in the food box are very simple, but there are only three dishes and a can of soup.The dishes were ordinary dishes, not comparable to those used by the concubines in the palace, and similar to what their servants ate, but the can of soup. Eunuch Shou lifted the lid and took a look, and it turned out to be steaming hot old duck bamboo shoots and ginseng soup.

"The emperor ordered this to be sent to Concubine Jing's body." The two eunuchs accompanied him and said cautiously.

Eunuch Shou didn't say anything, but just turned his head and glanced at the little eunuch behind him. The little eunuch understood, walked to the corner, grabbed a handful of soil from the ground, and sprinkled it into the earthen pot of soup.

The eunuch who delivered food on the left opened his eyes wide in surprise, and was about to speak, but was pinched by the eunuch on the right, pretending that he hadn't seen anything, and respectfully sent Eunuch Shou to take the people away.

"What did you stop me for just now? If Concubine Jing finds out about this and tells the emperor, we'll all be overwhelmed!" When they left, the eunuch on the left complained anxiously.

"Hey, do you think the emperor doesn't know about these little tricks? If the emperor didn't connive, how could the people around the empress dare to be so unscrupulous. The emperor wants to use this method to force the concubine Jing to bow to him."

The two continued to walk towards the cold palace.

When they arrived at the Leng Palace, the two eunuchs handed the food box to the maid Ziyuan and left.Ziyuan carried the food box into the room, took out the food, and put it on the table.

"Your Majesty, Your Highness, we have ginseng soup today." Zi Yuan was pleasantly surprised when she opened the earthen pot and saw the steaming and fragrant soup inside.

She quickly put a bowl in front of Concubine Jing, and another bowl in front of Rong Yuan.

Rong Yuan scooped up a spoonful and was about to feed it into his mouth, when the spoon trembled suddenly, and all the soup inside spilled on the table.

Rong Yuan's eyes widened in surprise, as if someone was pushing his spoon just now!

It's really strange today, it's like seeing a ghost in the daytime.

Unwilling to give up, he scooped up another spoonful and wanted to feed it to his mouth, but Concubine Jing suddenly reached out her hand to stop him, "Yuan'er, stop drinking."

"Why?" Rong Yuan looked at his mother and concubine in confusion.

"You're young, it's not good to drink too much ginseng." Concubine Jing took the spoon from his hand and told Zi Yuan, "Take this can of soup down."

Neither of them took a sip of the whole can of soup.

Lin Yan breathed a sigh of relief at the side, he was worried, if Rong Yuan insisted on drinking, how would he stop him.

After eating, Rong Yuan went for a stroll in the garden, watered a few vegetable fields in the corner, and went back to his room to take a nap.Lin Yan sat on the edge of his bed, propped his chin and waited for him to fall asleep on the bed, took off his underwear with great effort, and examined the bruises on his shoulder blades.

Vines grew from his fingertips, and he took vine juice and applied it to his scars. Lin Yan groaned and groaned to help him massage and heal the wounds.

This tossing was not small, Rong Yuan was drowsy in his sleep, he felt his shoulders were cold and painful, and a soft hand was gently rubbing his shoulders.

He woke up in a jerk, and found that his clothes had been ripped off, and the room was empty, so he jumped up from the bed and yelled loudly, "Ghost... ghost ghost..."

He was so frightened to death that he jumped off the bed without wearing shoes, ran out the door in a panic with his clothes disheveled, and called his mother at the top of his voice, "Mother, mother! There is a ghost in my room!"

When did Lin Yan see Rong Yuan in such a mess, kneeling on the bed, he couldn't help giggling.

Before he finished laughing, his eyes suddenly went dark, and when he woke up again, he had already returned, and Rong Yuan was lying unconscious on the bed in front of him.

"Senior brother!" Seeing that he woke up, Xinghe hurried over, scratching his head embarrassedly, "I didn't fall asleep just now, did you go back and find the big monster who sealed the prince?"

"No." Lin Yan shook his head, reached out to touch Rong Yuan's cheek, got up and said to Lin Yunhe, "Master, it's hard to find, can you know the time and place when the prince was sealed?"

Lin Yunhe frowned and thought for a while, "Only the housekeeper may know something about what happened back then, so ask him."

Soon Uncle Zhang was invited in, and Lin Yan asked: "Uncle Zhang, do you know what happened in the palace when the prince was about ten years old?"

"My lord was around ten years old, ouch, I wasn't in the palace at that time, maybe I don't know much about it." Uncle Zhang frowned and thought for a moment, then shook his head.

It's over, no more clues.Lin Yan showed disappointment, Zhang Bo suddenly thought of it and said: "But I remember, when the prince was 11 years old, there was a witchcraft case in the palace, which involved many people, and the prince seemed to be sick and comatose for a period of time. Not long after, the prince's mother and concubine, Concubine Jing, passed away."

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