bastard returns

Huyan Yuanchen didn't expect that Ning Yuan could sleep so simply, as if he didn't want to say a word to him, his face froze for a while, he opened his mouth, but finally shook his head and didn't say a word.

Isn't Ning Yuan just like this, he thought, anyway, he should have known Ning Yuan's intentions, so that's enough.

Thinking of this, he rubbed his nose and smiled lightly, then extinguished the candle, and then lay down on the bed.The room was very quiet, only the breathing of the two could be heard, and after an unknown amount of time, Huyan Yuanchen suddenly said softly: "A Yuan, are you asleep?"

The only response to him was Ning Yuan's steady breathing.

Huyan Yuanchen turned his face to the side, propped himself up, his pupils had adapted to the light, and he just quietly looked at Ning Yuan's profile.Ning Yuan has also gotten rid of the childish face of a young man a few years ago, but even when he fell asleep, his brows were still frowning slightly. He stretched out his hand to caress the center of Ning Yuan's eyebrows, then suddenly lowered his head, gently Kissed Ning Yuan's earlobe.

Ning Yuan put on a cold expression most of the time on weekdays, but his earlobes were soft. Huyan Yuanchen seemed to have a hint of playfulness, and the warm and moist tip of his tongue slid across Ning Yuan's earlobes, and then to the ear sockets, He got closer and closer, and almost his entire upper body was lying on Ning Yuan's body, but Ning Yuan was still motionless, and his breathing was steady, as if he was in a deep sleep.

Huyan Yuanchen has no experience in this area, and he doesn't know what to do next, but he seems to be driven by some kind of instinct. When his lips are printed on Ning Yuan's cheek, his rough palm also quietly It stretched in from the hem of Ning Yuan's nightgown, and stuck to his smooth and flat belly.

But that's about it.Seeing that Ning Yuan seemed to have no signs of waking up, he shook his head mockingly, lightly rearranged Ning Yuan's clothes, covered him with a quilt, and adjusted his sleeping position so that Ning Yuan could sleep on his pillow. Holding his left arm, the other hand went around and hugged his chest, closing his eyes and falling asleep with a temperature that made the other party not feel restrained and could feel each other's body temperature.

Only then did Ning Yuan open his eyes.

"Coward." He muttered these three words in a low voice to himself, and then looked at the arm wrapped around his chest. He couldn't help raising his hand, and gently held Huyan Yuanchen's palm until the five fingers They were all tightly stuck into his fingers, and then he closed his eyes again.

Have a good night's sleep.

The next morning, when Huyan Yuanchen woke up, Ning Yuan was sitting at the desk next to the bed, concentrating on writing something.

He also seemed to have just gotten up, only wearing a long gown over his nightgown, his hair was not bundled, and was loosely scattered on his cheeks and back, making his whole person much softer from the side.

Huyan Yuanchen rubbed his eyes to make sure that he was not dreaming. He looked at Ning Yuan carefully for a while, and suddenly said: "It would be wonderful if I could see such a beautiful scene every morning when I woke up."

"If you wake up, wash up quickly. The hot water is ready, and Bai Tan will bring you breakfast later." Ning Yuan was not in the mood to flirt with Huyan Yuanchen, and the brush in his hand was still writing smoothly Huyan Yuanchen touched a soft nail, but he was not annoyed, and got up cheerfully, washed his face happily with the hot water prepared in the copper basin, after changing his nightgown, Ning Yuan seemed to be After finishing writing what was in his hand, he sealed the whole piece of rice paper into an inconspicuous envelope, and said to Huyan Yuanchen: "I will trouble you to hand over this letter to Teacher Gao Yu, after all, only you know that he is here now." where."

"Naturally no problem." Huyan Yuanchen put the envelope into his arms, couldn't help hugging Ning Yuan again, and said: "I'll go back while it's still early, I'm afraid that boy Yan Fei won't be able to take it if it's too late." live."

Ning Yuan was taken aback, "Skipping breakfast?"

"This way, it can be regarded as eating." Taking advantage of Ning Yuan's unpreparedness, Huyan Yuanchen suddenly raised his chin and kissed him on the lips, "A Yuan, I'm so happy."

Ning Yuan blushed a little again at his frivolous behavior, and waved his hands, making people go away as if to chase away flies. Huyan Yuanchen got the advantage, but he didn't behave well, and walked out the door obediently, just going out Before that, he turned around again, straightened his expression in a rare way, and said: "I saw you and Ning Zhongkun together yesterday... Although I don't know what you are planning, you must be careful in everything, of course .” Having said that, he hooked the corner of his mouth again, “If there is any danger, I will protect you too.”

After finishing speaking, he strode out under Ning Yuan's dazed gaze.

Until Huyan Yuanchen left for a long time, Ning Yuan was still standing there with the same posture. At this time, Bai Tan came in with the freshly cooked glutinous rice balls. Seeing Ning Yuan's appearance, he couldn't help saying: "Young Master, what's wrong with you? Brother Huyan Well, have you left yet?"

"It's okay." Ning Yuan lowered his eyes and collected himself.

"If there is any danger, I will protect you." Once upon a time, another person said exactly the same thing to him. Huyan Yuanchen's seemingly inadvertent words made Ning Yuan sink into short memories. He thought that he would never believe such empty white wolf nonsense again, but when he heard this sentence coming out of Huyan Yuanchen's mouth, he had the illusion that he could trust him, and he was very sure.

****

The sorceress "He Xiangu" won the trust of the queen mother with a decoction to eradicate heat and poison. When Ning Yuan got the news, she had been left in the queen mother's hall by the queen mother, and was responsible for recuperating the queen mother's body. Divination and fortune-telling help the queen mother to seek good luck and avoid bad luck.And Sikong Yue, who introduced the sorceress, naturally took the lead, swept away the previous decline, and became a powerful prince again, so angry that Sikong Xu and his party almost gritted their teeth.

It's just that compared with Sikong Yue's elation, Ning Zhongkun, who was supposed to ascend to heaven together because of this incident, was not happy at all.

When Ning Yuan was driven to Ningguo's mansion, he happened to bump into Ning Zhongkun beating a maidservant. The whip used to drive horses was made of rattan. It was not only rough but also had barbs. Ning Zhongkun was full of energy, and the whip danced vigorously to greet the maidservant. The maidservant looked not very old, but her voice was already hoarse. They were all bloody, lying on the ground with only convulsions left.

"Trash!" Ning Zhongkun also knew that if he continued like this, he would kill someone, so he stopped consciously, and sent someone to drag the maid down, washing his hands in the copper basin brought by the servants, and sweeping the standing Ning Yuan at the side glanced, "You are here."

"My cousin came to me so eagerly, but there is something important." After Ning Yuan finished speaking, he glanced at the pool of blood on the ground, "I don't know what that girl did just now to make my cousin so angry. .”

"That girl is stupid. I always only drink eight cents of hot tea, but he forced it to seven cents. I really want to be beaten." Ning Zhongkun shook the water drops on his hands, as if he didn't care about the life and death of the maid. Like not caring, he just looked at Ning Yuan and said, "Since you are here, come up with a way to play tricks on my concubine uncle, otherwise they will be really proud!"

"This..." Ning Yuan deliberately dragged on a long tone, showing a puzzled expression, "Why did it suddenly happen? Could something have happened?"

Ning Zhongkun spat heavily, and then said: "Hmph, that shameless guy, who comes from a humble background but covets the position of the son of the world, it's just that he's still making fun of his grandmother, how annoying!"

It turned out that earlier today, Mrs. Wu, the duke's wife, entered the palace to pay her respects to the queen mother, thinking that she had presented such a precious luminous cup, and the queen mother should be happy with her, but things backfired. Ning Zhongkun drank so much last night. Too much, and went to sleep when they returned home, and didn't mention what happened at the banquet to Mrs. Wu, and Ning Huayang didn't say anything for some reason. Mrs. Wu wanted to enter the palace to please her. However, she got a bad nose and was ridiculed by the Queen Mother for a long time. She was inexplicably kicked out without even giving her tea. Wu was inexplicable and could only ask the palace people in the Queen Mother's Hall to find out what happened at the banquet last night. After something happened, he immediately returned to the mansion in shame and anger, and rushed into Ning Huayang's courtyard. Ning Huayang and his two sons were not in the mansion because they were on official business. Only Mrs. Rong was accompanied by two maidservants. Sitting in the courtyard, drinking tea and enjoying the coolness, when Wu Shi appeared so suddenly, before Rong could get up to say hello, Wu Shi grabbed her and slapped her across the face.

Mrs. Wu has a rough personality, and her body is strong enough to be pampered and swollen on both sides of Mrs. Rong's face. Although there are many servants watching, Mrs. Wu, as the mistress and an elder, no matter what the reason is, she will teach Rong It's a matter of course, no one dared to go up and stop him. In the end, the butler saw something wrong and invited Ning Guogong, who was resting, to end this absurd farce.

Ning Guogong felt very incredible about Wu's behavior. Before he could ask why, Wu had already explained what he had heard from the palace. I was so ashamed in the Empress Dowager's Palace today, but at this time Ning Huayang and his two sons also came back. Seeing his wife being beaten up like this, although Ning Huayang was full of resentment, he did not feel guilty about the things Wu accused. But he didn't make any excuses, he just said that he was not strict in teaching his wife, and his two sons Ning Lie and Ning Yi also had tears in their eyes and didn't say a word. Seeing the aggrieved appearance, Duke Ning was very puzzled. In the end, the last servant who cleaned up the warehouse confessed that he accidentally knocked over the brocade box containing the luminous cup when cleaning the warehouse, but seeing that the luminous cup was not damaged, he was afraid of being punished, so he kept silent .

After Ning Guogong heard this, he immediately reprimanded Mrs. Wu for labeling others indiscriminately without asking the matter clearly. What Ning Huayang and his wife did was to make her, the aunt, feel ashamed in front of the queen mother, but it was fine if she didn't say anything, but when she said it, Ning Huayang's tears fell down, saying that although he is not Wu's His own, but he has always been respectful to her, and he also understands his status as a concubine, and has never argued with his first brother since he was a child. Even after his first brother passed away, he treated the pair of children left by him as if they were his own, and lived diligently. After so many years, in the end he still has to be so misunderstood by Mrs. Wu. If Mrs. Wu really can't understand them so much, he would rather move out of Duke Ning's mansion with his son and daughter than to be accused of being unfilial.

After finishing speaking, the family of four burst into tears, which made Ning Guogong even more angry at Wu's actions. He knew that Wu couldn't understand Ning Huayang, and Ning Huayang had always lived an honest and honest life. What he saw was that at such an age, Mrs. Wu was still so aggressive, and she beat Mrs. Rong like this. If it got out, it would not be him, Ning Guogong, who would lose face!Immediately, she ignored Wu Shi's spiel, and asked the housekeeper to lock Wu Shi back into the room to meditate behind closed doors, and was not allowed to go out.

"Grandfather really doesn't know right from wrong. That luminous cup must have been manipulated by my uncle, but my grandfather just believed in him, and put my grandmother under house arrest to think about her faults. In order to show compassion for them, the big and small affairs of the family during this period Leave it to my uncle and aunt to take care of it, isn't it obvious that I want those bastards to ride on my head and dominate me!" After Ning Zhongkun finished speaking, he shook his fist twice in righteous indignation.

Ning Yuan looked expressionless, but in fact he was holding back a smile all the time. On the night of the banquet, he vaguely saw some clues, but he was not sure. Now, after listening to Ning Zhongkun, he was more than half convinced. Huayang must be putting on airs, but the Duke's wife Wu has a temperament that can't be restrained. When this pair fights, it's really unreasonable if they don't win the game of bitterness.

But Ning Yuan didn't want to meddle in this nosy business. The grievances in Duke Ning's mansion had nothing to do with him at all. Even though Ning Huayang was calculating power and position, Ning Zhongkun was not a good thing, let alone Ning Shanshan. His enemy in the previous life, he helped Ning Zhongkun gain face in front of Sikong Yue. Now that Sikong Yue has gained power, he is also getting closer to Ning Zhongkun. For Ning Yuan, it is equivalent to repaying the previous request for Ning Zhongkun's help. It's a favor, now that the sorceress has been sent to the palace, the next step is to let Mrs. Shu go back to the palace. With so many things to do, Ning Yuan has no interest in getting involved in the power struggle in Ningguo Duke's Mansion.

So Ning Yuan said: "Cousin, you are really worrying too much. Maybe it is indeed the Duke's wife who misunderstood. Naturally, I will briefly mention the matter, to be honest, some time ago you were praised by the Duke for your contribution to the flood, and now there is really no need to offend the old man."

When Ning Zhongkun thought about it, it was true, but in the former Duke's mansion, it was Wu who took care of them the most. He was just worried that Wu would be locked up and think about his mistakes, and someone would do them harm.

"You really worry too much." Ning Yuan continued to comfort him: "Cousin, you are the eldest grandson, and your identity is there. If someone disrespects you, just lift your identity to suppress them. Why worry about these, and The Duke's wife has a noble status, so there's no reason why the Duke and his old man always hold him back."

"That's right." Ning Zhongkun shook his shoulders, and put on a haughty expression on his face again, "I'm getting close to His Royal Highness, I'm afraid of what those clowns will do, crows are crows after all, flying No matter how tall you are, you can't turn into a phoenix, and when grandma comes out, they will look good to them."

While the two of them were talking, Rong Shi happened to bring a fleet of maids and attendants to the garden near Ning Zhongkun's courtyard.

Both of Rong's cheeks were still swollen and shiny, which shows that Wu's hands were really cruel. Even though he invited a doctor to apply the medicine, the two black plasters were very indecent when applied to his face. As a lady, at least she has to lie in her room until her injuries are healed before daring to come out to see others, but Rong is not "other lady", or in other words, she cannot even be called a "lady".

The daughter of the hotel owner's family, born in a commoner merchant, is doomed to be informal at best, or vulgar at worst. She has lived submissively with Ning Huayang for so many years. He didn't dare to let out the air, and he walked cautiously looking at the ground, as if he was as useless as he could be.But now it’s different, Duke Ning needs to cultivate, and his wife has been placed under house arrest. Not only that, Duke Ning also handed over the family affairs to him. It can be said that in the entire Duke’s mansion, except for his own Her husband is her oldest, so she immediately wants to come out to get some air, regardless of her appearance.

Seeing the crowd of attendants behind him, seeing the passing servants saluting to him, seeing the lush gardens and exquisite carved beams and painted buildings, Rong has never felt that he was so elated, and even couldn't help but start lusting. After Ning Huayang inherited the title of Duke Ning, he became the official wife of the Duke, the real mistress of the Duke's mansion!

She would even be granted a royal order, which was something that a hotel daughter could never have imagined before.

By then, she should be the same as other ladies and noble ladies in Huajing, with endless jewels and endless postings every day, dressed in colorful clothes every day, shuttled to all kinds of resplendent occasions, and today accompanied the Queen Listening to the play, drinking tea with the queen mother tomorrow, my two promising sons will definitely follow him into the ranks, and maybe they can marry the noble daughter of the royal family, and then I will not be a relative of the emperor ?

Thinking of this, Rong couldn't help showing a pretty smile, but unfortunately it didn't go well with the two black ointments on her cheeks, which made the followers around her break out in cold sweat.

At this moment, she saw Ning Yuan talking to Ning Zhongkun from a distance.

"Who is the person talking to Master Kun?" Rong asked the butler beside him as she had never seen Ning Yuan.

The housekeeper said: "Going back to Madam, that is Young Master Yuan, who can be regarded as the young cousin of our mansion, but he has no contact with him. It is only Young Master Kun who has been getting closer to him recently."

Rong was taken aback, "Is he from Jiangzhou?"

The butler nodded, "Yes."

The original smile on Rong's face froze immediately.

He remembered what Ning Huayang had said to her in the carriage before entering the palace, saying that the boy was a bit clever, but since he was close to Ning Zhongkun, he must be at odds with them.

Seeing that he and Ning Zhongkun were talking mysteriously, they didn't know what they were trying to figure out, and her husband seemed to dislike that kid very much. For those whom her husband didn't like, since she has taken the responsibility of being the head of the family, she will Can't have him here.

"Where is our Ningguo mansion, we can even let such inexplicable guys in." Rong Shi pointed at Ning Yuan from afar and said: "Housekeeper, this kind of guest is not welcome in our mansion, let him be kicked out. "

"But...the guest of Master Kun at that time." The butler was a little confused.

"If you tell you to bang, you can bang, there's so much nonsense." Rong's eyebrows raised, "I also think about Zhongkun, as Zhongkun, I shouldn't associate with such a guy at all, that kind of person wants to curry favor with us The young master of Duke Ning’s mansion doesn’t know what he’s planning, so what if he was tricked!”

"Yes, yes." The butler hurriedly replied, and immediately brought two servants over.

Seeing what the housekeeper bowed to Ning Zhongkun, Rong seemed to be angry, but Ning Yuan waved his hand again to indicate that it's okay, and followed the housekeeper calmly.Seeing them heading straight for the gate, Mrs. Rong thought about it for a while, but she still couldn't get enough of it, so she recruited her second son Ning Lie who accompanied her for a walk, and whispered a few words to Ning Lie.

Ning Lie is now the commander of the imperial guards, and he is also very powerful. He nodded after listening to Rong's words, and immediately turned around and left.

"Some people have a little bit of cleverness, but it's limited to cleverness. They want to flatter, but they don't know what kind of tree it is. When the tree falls and the monkeys disperse, they will crush themselves to death, and they can't blame others. " Rong sneered, "Such a person should be taught a lesson, and let him know that some things are beyond their status."

Pretentiously repeating what Ning Huayang had said, Rong felt that she was really becoming more and more like a mistress, so she flicked her skirt and continued to wander around the garden flauntingly with her attendants.

Ning Yuan was "sent" into the carriage outside the house by the housekeeper with a good voice all the way, and was about to go back to the house, but just after a while, he suddenly heard the driver scream. Before Ning Yuan could react, there was already a The man in night clothes rushed into the carriage, grabbed Ning Yuan by the shoulders and pushed him out of the carriage.

Outside the carriage, the coachman was already lying unconscious on the side, apparently knocked out, and besides the man in black who restrained Ning Yuan, there were four or five guys in the same dress outside. The leader was the leader, surrounded Ning Yuan in an arc, and didn't speak, just staring with big eyes.

Ning Yuan didn't do anything else, because he had already guessed the origin of these people, but before fighting back, he still wanted to see what these people were planning to do. Sure enough, after a while, perhaps tired of staring, the leader The man in black spoke, and said: "Boy, we were entrusted by others to teach you a lesson, to let you know that there are some things you can't get involved in, and some people you can't offend. Be sensible!"