Walking into the Wanxin Palace, a verdant bamboo forest is like a natural screen, blocking the scenery behind the bamboo forest. There is a stone path leading to the small building on both sides of the bamboo forest, the one on the left leads to the small building where Zhou Chengkuan lives, and the one on the right leads to the small building where Lin Wan lives.

Behind the bamboo forest is an artificial lake, separating the two small buildings, and there is also a small building on the opposite side of the artificial lake, which is now empty, but there are also people who clean it every day, and if there are guests, you can stay at any time.

Father-in-law Hua sent twenty rough palace maids to Wanxin Palace, all of which were in charge of Nuanxin. Nuan Xin only arranged some yard cleaning work for her, and the small building where Lin Wan and Zhou Chengkuan lived was all cleaned and sorted out by Nuan Xin, Nuan Yi, Nuan Sleeve and Nuan Xiang.

After Xiao Wu and Xiao Liu settled the accompanying envoys and guards, they also entered the palace and were sorting out their belongings in the small building where Zhou Chengkuan lived.

Lin Wan went back to the room to change his clothes, and then walked out of the small building with Shangguan Yun and came to the water pavilion by the lake. The water pavilion is very large, and the environment is quiet, so Lin Wan instructed Nuan Xiang to arrange today's dinner here.

Zhou Chengkuan had already changed into civilian clothes, and was sitting alone in the water pavilion drinking tea, holding a thick book in his hand, a teapot and four white jade cups on the table.

Lin Wan walked to the opposite side of Zhou Chengkuan and sat down, pulling Shangguan Yun to sit beside him. Bing'er offered Lin Wan's favorite flower tea, Lin Wan poured herself a cup, looked at Shangguan Yun again, and asked lightly, "Yun'er, do you like wolfberry chrysanthemum tea?"

Shangguan Yun frowned slightly, he didn't seem to like Lin Wan's flower tea, but turned his head to look at the white jade cup in Zhou Chengkuan's hand, the tea in the cup was turquoise, the color was clear, very attractive, and he couldn't help frowning and asked, "His Royal Highness King Ping, what kind of tea are you drinking, can I ask for a cup to drink?"

Zhou Chengkuan looked at Shangguan Yun's innocent and straightforward and somewhat shy appearance, couldn't help but hook his lips slightly, nodded, didn't say anything, poured a cup for Shangguan Yun with his own hands, and put it in front of her.

"Thank you, Your Highness King Ping. Shangguan Yun was overjoyed, thanked him, picked up the cup in front of him, first sniffed it, then took a sip gently, then slowly put it down, nodded and said: "Sure enough, it is Biluochun in the south of the Yangtze River, which is still rare in our Xiling Kingdom." My cousin brought me a box before, and I always remember this refreshing aroma. ”

Zhou Chengkuan frowned and looked at Shangguan Yun, and then looked at Lin Wan suspiciously, as if he was a little confused about the "cousin" in Shangguan Yun's mouth.

Lin Wan hooked his lips slightly, thinking secretly, no wonder Zhou Chengkuan couldn't understand it, he didn't introduce them to them, he must have thought that Shangguan Yun was just an ordinary palace maid. And with Lin Wan's temperament, there is nothing unusual about sitting with the palace maid. Therefore, Zhou Chengkuan would never have thought that Shangguan Yun would be Ximen Yuqing's cousin.

Before Lin Wan could explain to Zhou Chengkuan, Shangguan Yun had already spoken by herself, she smiled "hee-hee", and said in a lively and brisk tone: "His Royal Highness King Ping must not have thought of it, in fact, my cousin is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." When I was very young, my parents and relatives left me. At that time, it was still the bad queen who was in charge, and my aunt, who was my cousin's mother, was killed by the bad queen, and my father also committed a great crime in order to avenge my aunt. I grew up incognito in the countryside with my nurse, and it was only later that my cousin brought me back. However, my father really made a mistake and was beheaded all over the house, so I can't recover my identity, so I can only be a palace maid next to the prince's cousin. ”

When Zhou Chengkuan heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, and looked at Shangguan Yun in a daze, he was stupid for a while, and his eyes were deeply painful and pitying.

Lin Wan understood the reason why Zhou Chengkuan was so out of shape, because Shangguan Yun's experience was too similar to Zhou Chengkuan's experience when he was a child. Moreover, Shangguan Yun is still such a lively and cheerful girl, and telling her tragic past in such a relaxed and happy way makes Zhou Chengkuan's heart extremely shocked.

Shangguan Yun thought that Zhou Chengkuan was moved by her story, so he sympathized with himself so much, and hurriedly shook his head and explained: "His Royal Highness King Ping doesn't need to feel sorry for me, in fact, I think my life in the countryside is very good, the nurse is very good to me, and I haven't suffered anything." The saddest thing for me is that my parents have left me, and my nurse has also left me, and I am now left with a cousin. When I was lonely, I would miss my nurse very much, and I would like to cry when I thought about it, but I told myself that I couldn't cry, otherwise the nurse would be sad for me in heaven. ”

Zhou Chengkuan still looked at Shangguan Yun quietly, looking at the sadness and loneliness that quietly disappeared in her eyes, and his heart felt sour.

Lin Wan sighed lightly, reached out to hold Shangguan Yun's hand, and persuaded softly: "Yun'er, you have me, you have a warm heart, a warm heart, a warm sleeve, a warm fragrance, and His Royal Highness King Ping, we are all your friends, you have so many good friends, how can you be lonely?"

Shangguan Yun smiled, nodded and said: "Yes, I am not alone at all now, anyway, you have promised me, you will take me wherever you go in the future, I will follow you, you are not allowed to regret it." ”

Lin Wan smiled and nodded, and said jokingly: "Of course I won't regret it, I'm also very happy to be with you." Moreover, you also said that you want to teach me piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but you haven't started teaching it yet!"

Shangguan Yunqiao's face turned red, and she was about to hit Lin Wan, but Lin Wan hurriedly dodged, grabbed Shangguan Yun's little hand, and begged for mercy softly.

Zhou Chengkuan saw it, laughed, he was full of sorrow just now, but at this moment, the dark clouds have dispersed and the sun is shining.

After laughing for a while, Shangguan Yun let Lin Wan go, and while drinking tea, he picked up Zhou Chengkuan's book and read it. It turned out to be an old book on the art of war, without a name, but Lin Wan guessed that it must be the Feng family's art of war book that Zhou Tianqi showed Zhou Chengkuan.

Shangguan Yun was not interested in the book of soldiers, handed it back to Zhou Chengkuan, pouted and said, "This kind of book is not interesting at all, only you men like to read it." ”

Zhou Chengkuan smiled faintly, took the book in Shangguan Yun's hand, and carefully put it away. picked up the teapot very naturally and refilled a cup of tea for Shangguan Yun and himself.

Shangguan Yun looked at Zhou Chengkuan with some surprise, and secretly thought in his heart, why does His Royal Highness King Ping not have a prince's frame at all, so amiable and gentle? Then, he frowned and looked at Lin Wan, she was also like this, not at all like a princess, just like the young lady next door. Could it be that the royal family of their great feudal kingdom is like this?

After a while, Bing'er, Qingtong, Nuan Xin, and Nuan Xiang walked in with a food box, took out the food in the food box, and put it on the table, along with three pairs of dishes and chopsticks.