Willing to be hired by Jiangshan

Guilty

In less than half an hour, countless pairs of eyes appeared around the Hall of Peace.Half out of curiosity, half out to see a joke.Yan Xi didn't intend to save face either, she was watched from head to toe countless times along the way.As long as the emperor can calm down and not settle accounts with him, even if he is allowed to parade, he will be happy.

Seeing those maids who poked their heads out timidly, Yan Xi smiled back and winked along the way, a red cloud immediately flew over the maid's face, and she left shyly.Of course, there are also those who hide behind the pillars and are unwilling to leave.

A dark cloud shrouded the head, and Lin Rongchen's magnified face looked up, and then a three-foot-frozen cold air rushed towards his face, "Master Yan never forgets to make eye contact with the court lady. The spring day has just passed, and you are so yearning for spring." Late or too early?"

"..." Yan Xi laughed dryly, "Your Majesty, there was a wind just now, and I just lost my eyes..."

"Oh?" Lin Rongchen bent down, "If you bully the emperor, you will be beheaded." He raised Yan Xi's face with one hand, opened his eyelids with the other, looked around, and blew a sigh of relief.

"..." Yan Xi trembled all over.

Lin Rongchen straightened his waist and said with his hands behind his back: "If you don't kneel for three hours, don't get up!"

"Isn't it two hours?" Yan Xi wanted to cry but had no tears.

"I am the emperor, as long as I am happy, I can make you kneel for the rest of my life." If you are so inattentive, who will you punish?

"Even if the emperor is unhappy, I will kneel down on you for the rest of my life." Yan Xi drooped her face, thinking: You are the biggest in this world, if you are unhappy, I will have to kneel when we meet.

Lin Rongchen's face softened, and a faint smile appeared on his lips.

Eunuch Zhou was used to the strange relationship between these two people, and he followed Lin Rongchen with his arms raised, "Your Majesty, Qin Tianjian said that it will rain today."

Lin Rongchen turned a deaf ear and took out a volume of literature and history to read.At this moment, the sun is in full bloom, and rain is also a thing in the afternoon.

"In case it rains..."

"So what if it's raining? Didn't you forget that Du Jun knelt in the rain for three hours last time?" Lin Rongchen replied without raising his head.

Eunuch Zhou thought for a while, then shook his head, "That's different."

"How is it different?" Lin Rongchen put down the scroll, "You tell me about it."

"The emperor treats Lord Yan closer than Lord Du..."

"I'm looking at the face of the former Grand Tutor!" Lin Rongchen raised his voice and couldn't wait to explain, "But if he makes a mistake, I will never tolerate it!"

"Yes! Your Majesty has always distinguished between public and private."

Lin Rongchen nodded in satisfaction.

After a stick of incense, a cloudy wind suddenly rose outside the hall.Not long after, it began to rain patter, and then it became heavier and heavier, forming a continuous line.Unexpectedly, Eunuch Zhou waited by Lin Rongchen's side and did not speak again.

The raindrops splashed on the roof tiles, on the steps, and outside the window... Lin Rongchen felt that the literature and history in his hands were more and more difficult to understand, and he couldn't read a single word.Since Eunuch Zhou was still at the side, he couldn't bear to look at the scene outside, feeling as uncomfortable as scratching his heart and lungs.

I don't know how long it took, but he heard a "boom" outside, and he couldn't sit still any longer. He jumped up like he couldn't wait to go straight to the door. The heavy rain washed away the little lion on the stone railing in front of the door. Rolling beside Yan Xi's legs.

The rain was pouring heavily, and Yan Xi couldn't open his eyes because of the pouring, he was kneeling with his eyes closed.

Wearing official uniforms on weekdays, his body looks solid, but now that the clothes are soaked and sticking to his body, he looks thinner by more than a circle.As if feeling a bunch of gazes on her body, Yan Xi put her hand on her forehead to block the rain, opened her eyes and looked at Lin Rongchen eagerly, like a homeless puppy on the side of the road.

Lin Rongchen really wanted to turn around and go back, but that leg seemed to be nailed to the ground, and he didn't listen to him.He felt depressed for a moment, not knowing whether he was angry with himself or Yan Xi, he shouted: "Bring that stone lion in!"

"?" It was raining heavily, Yan Xi didn't hear clearly.

Lin Rongchen became even angrier, pointed at the stone lion, and roared, "I told you to bring the lion in!"

This time I heard it, but cuddling a lion... What's the saying?Yan Xi looked blankly at the drowned lion beside him, feeling sorry for him.Immediately, for no apparent reason, he picked up the cub and sent it into the hall, then turned around and wanted to go out to continue pleading guilty.

"where to!"

Lin Rongchen yelled abruptly, which startled him, "Wei Chen went out and continued to kneel."

Lin Rongchen's brows almost turned into a mountain, "This little lion is my favorite...you go and wipe it dry!"

"..."

Eunuch Zhou handed over a hand towel in due course.

Yan Xi wiped the lion step by step with water marks, Lin Rongchen frowned again looking at the water stains on the ground.

"Master Yan, follow this old slave to change clothes! You'll be fine if you catch the wind and cold." Eunuch Zhou finally came out to smooth things over, he was really afraid that Lin Rongchen would wrinkle his eyebrows and change his appearance.

Yan Xi asked blankly, "Aren't you going to kneel?"

This Lord Yan is good everywhere, why can't he speculate on the holy will?The emperor let you in, but he didn't let you kneel, and you still asked!Eunuch Zhou was very anxious, and kept winking at him: Don't ask, if you keep asking, the emperor will be angry again.

When it comes to changing clothes, Eunuch Zhou is in trouble.The rain was too heavy, and the clothes that the little eunuch sent just now were soaked through.In the Anhe Palace, there is only Lin Rongchen's regular clothes... After thinking about it, he boldly gave the clothes to Yan Xi.

Lin Rongchen saw at a glance that the extremely ill-fitting uniform on Yan Xi's body was the one he had just worn a few days ago.

Eunuch Zhou was very good at observing words and expressions, and was about to make an apology, but Lin Rongchen had already looked away, and said in a brisk voice: "Grind!"

Before noon, it was already dark outside.Eunuch Zhou ordered ambergris, brewed a pot of Biluochun, and set up the chessboard and refreshments, "Your Majesty, you have been busy all morning, why don't you take a break and play chess with Master Yan?"

Lin Rongchen nodded, put on the black toga presented by Eunuch Zhou, and sat down on the couch by the window, Yan Xi followed behind him step by step.

Halfway through the game, Yan Xi said: "What was the emperor upset about just now?"

Lin Rongchen: "?"

Yan Xi said: "Seeing that the emperor left the book case, my minister's eyebrows eased a little. I think it must be some colleague who played a tricky job."

"No." Lin Rongchen didn't want to waste his time on this question, so he hesitated, and pushed the tea at hand to him, "This is the new golden osmanthus hibiscus cake from the imperial dining room."

Yan Xi was not polite, and even ate two yuan, full of praise.

"Eat all you like, don't waste it." Afraid he might misunderstand, he added, "I don't want to eat sweets today."

Eunuch Zhou immediately sent someone to prepare some salty snacks, and when he came back, he saw that a plate of hibiscus cakes had bottomed out, "If Master Yan likes it, this old slave will order the imperial dining room to make more."

Yan Xi took a sip of tea very satisfied, "Thank you, father-in-law. It's fine to taste delicious food once in a while, how can you be insatiable?"

Eunuch Zhou removed the plate with a smile and brought some fruit.Maybe Yan Xitian has a pleasing face, and the more Eunuch Zhou looks at it, the more he likes it, "Master Yan wants to come to An Dian to have a heart-to-heart talk with the emperor when he has nothing to do. After Mr. Gu left, the emperor has not been so relaxed for a long time. Talk to people."

"Gu Tingzhi?" Yan Xi had heard this name countless times, "Does the Emperor like Master Gu very much?"

Eunuch Zhou looked at Lin Rongchen, not knowing how to answer this question.

Yan Xiwu said to himself: "If it were me, I would like him too."

Lin Rongchen raised his eyes, "Why?"

"You can share the emperor's worries! I am a dull-tempered minister, without the law of governing the country inside, and without the power of diplomatic relations outside, so naturally I can't take care of your lord."

Lin Rongchen glanced at him with a gloomy expression, "I don't like that kind of liking for him."

"Which kind do you like?" Yan Xi is puzzled, isn't it the favorite of the monarch and his ministers?

Lin Rongchen was too lazy to answer his words, and asked again: "You haven't found your seal yet?"

"Huh?" The topic changed too quickly.

Lin Rongchen got up and fetched the pair of "Looking at the Snow at the Pavilion in the Heart of the Lake", unfolded it in front of Yan Xi, "There is one seal missing here."

"This one! I was in a hurry this morning, so I forgot to bring it." He took out the seal with a corner missing from his pocket, "I just went back and took it on purpose, and I will fill it up right now." After covering it, he obediently presented the seal to Lin Rongchen .

Lin Rongchen looked at the stamp with a missing corner in his hand, and his world turned for a while - this was given to a little beggar when he went to Suzhou, how could it be in Yan Xi's hands?

Could it be that little beggar... the person in front of him?

Lin Rongchen quickly took a few sips of tea to calm down.Before he could ask further, he heard Yan Xi say: "This seal is a relic left by my father to my minister..."

"Pfft..." A sip of tea was sprayed on the board, "cough cough...cough...what did you say? Your father's relic?"

"En." Yan Xi nodded, not understanding how Lin Rongchen could be so surprised.

Lin Rongchen covered his face, how big of a misunderstanding is this? "You see clearly, this is really left to you by your father?"

"Yes!" He has carried this seal with him for many years, and he can recognize it even if he touches it with his eyes closed.

Lin Rongchen pondered for a moment, and said, "What did you do before?"

"Once upon a time? The emperor asked before he knew his grandfather?" Yan Xi was very puzzled by this nonsensical sentence. It was difficult for him to speak about his previous identity!

"Before you met Taifu, were you in Suzhou?"

Yan Xi was rather embarrassed to tell the truth: "At that time, I was begging for food in Suzhou..."

Beggar, Yinxin... These two points alone are enough to prove that the little beggar back then was Yan Xi.But why did he say the seal was a relic?

Lin Rongchen said: "I ask you, did your father hand over the seal to you?"

Yan Xi hesitated, "That's not true. Weichen was injured when he was 14 years old, and he lost his memory after waking up. He didn't have a penny on him, only a tassel and a seal. My brother said that the tassel belonged to my mother. relics, but he doesn’t know where the seal came from, I guess the seal should be left by my father.”

It turned out that after he left Gusu, Yan Xi still had such a tortuous experience.

Lin Rongchen took a sip of his tea, and said lightly, "In the summer of Jianning 35, I was ordered by the late emperor to send the Taifu to Gusu. I met a beggar by chance and gave him hundreds of taels of silver notes." So far, he looked up at Yan Yan. Xi continued, "The beggar asked my name, and wanted to pay back the money in the future. I made an agreement with him that in the future, if he won the top prize in high school, he would return double the silver ticket...and give him a seal as a token of encouragement."

Yan Xi pointed at Lin Rongchen, tongue-tied, "Could it be...it shouldn't be, shouldn't it be..."