Chapter 163: I'm Back
Zhao Chengde looked at the bright yellow carriage that was getting farther and farther away, and he had mixed feelings in his heart, he suddenly couldn't find the motivation he had been driving for so many years.
After Xu Xiao killed the eldest brother and the third brother, the queen mother was grief-stricken, she saw it in her eyes, anxious in her heart, and mixed with a trace of chagrin and self-blame. For so many years, he has been burdened with a reputation for greed for money and lust, but when he went to Xishu, he learned that the eldest brother and the third brother not only wanted to kill Xu Xiao and Xiahou, but also killed the imperial brother, which is not counted, the queen mother, himself and the imperial sister-in-law are not spared, and in the end, Liang Re will earn a life and death for that throne.
And the source of this before was the Suzaku Gate Incident, the imperial brother was burdened with things that should not be carried, Xu Xiao was burdened with things that should not be carried, and even the queen mother and herself were struggling in this whirlpool.
He returned to the palace and sat alone in the palatial hall, the tea around him was cold and hot, hot and cold, and finally his thoughts returned to the two children, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously showed a little smile, relieved and relieved.
Yan'er is like a budding flower, not yet polluted, innocent and kind, her innocence and kindness are different from Roujia's innocence and kindness, there is a touch of rationality and maturity, which has been cultivated by years of learning piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Recently, I heard that Yan'er and Lin Qianyi of the Lin family are very close, and the two often go shopping together, Zhao Chengde feels very relieved, no matter what the final result is, Yan'er can meet such a man at such an age, it is her luck, of course, it is also the luck of Lin Qianyi.
The first time I saw Lin Qianyi was when I invited Lin Wan'er into the house as a guest, and the seemingly honest and upright third child of the Lin family saw Yan'er's face again. actually stood up and hugged Yan'er with tears streaming down his face.
Zhao Chengde was extremely annoyed at the time, but he was attracted by Lin Waner's song "Will Enter the Wine". Let his kid get cheap.
He had heard that the current prime minister, Pan Chunwei, was also in tears when he saw his wife for the first time, and he couldn't cry silently, and thought that it was someone else's false rumor, which was made up, and it was untrue.
Until he saw Lin Qianyi hugging Yan'er into his arms with a handful of snot and tears, Zhao Chengde felt a sigh in his heart, maybe ...... Probably...... Maybe there really is love at first sight in this world. Holding hands and looking at each other with teary eyes, he was speechless and choked, there is really Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu when they met in "The Story of Stones", "This brother (sister) is so familiar." Seems to have seen it somewhere".
King Jing'an once sent someone to check on Lin Qianyi in private, and the young man behaved well, had no bad habits, and didn't know anything about things like flowers and snow, drinking and having fun. Regular work and rest time. Treat people sincerely, but sometimes the brain seems to be missing a tendon, which makes people anxious.
Zhao Chengde is very satisfied, but not satisfied, a person who is too dull should always be boring, but it is this dullness that sometimes makes Yan'er feel funny and smiles like a flower.
He once followed Lin Qianyi and Yan'er in private, ahem. Speaking out, it may not be in line with the priest of King Jing'an. But the concern for his daughter made the prince of the rich world uneasy.
Zhao Chengde ordered someone to take off the sign of the carriage palace, put on the clothes of ordinary families, put on a straw hat, covered his body and appearance, and personally drove the carriage to carry Yan'er to the appointment.
Lin Qianyi's kid was holding a bouquet of flowers in his hand, and handed it to Yan'er a little stiffly and unnaturally, and said, "This is the ...... I got up early in the morning and specially picked for you."
Before he finished speaking, he stopped, he sighed faintly, scratched his head, and changed his words: "This is what the eldest sister stuffed into me in the morning, saying that after seeing you, I must say that I got up early in the morning and picked it up myself, and I also broke my hand for this." After saying that, he raised his right hand, and it was indeed wrapped in a gauze ribbon.
"Your hands?" Yan'er looked at the flowers in her hand, her eyes were focused on the flowers, but the afterglow fell on the corners of Lin Qianyi's somewhat pale clothes, and it could be seen from the corners of her clothes that this was a man who loved cleanliness.
"Oh, my hand is fine, I was pricked by the eldest sister with a needle, saying that it was 'reluctant to have children, and I can't trap the wolf'." Lin Qianyi said honestly, he didn't even change his tone, it was completely Lin Wan'er's earnest teachings, you have to study hard to hate iron and steel.
Lin Waner has a strong sense of curiosity and positivity about matchmaking, blending and other people's feelings, and she is never tired of it.
When she was in Lanzhou, Zhao Qian had seen that that kind of enthusiasm and passion could make her forget about eating, sleeping and tired. This is true for Lin Qianyi and Yan'er, and the same is true for Lin Hanlin and Roujia, Yang Erxi and Qingzhu Niang.
And Lin Wan'er has no position and principle at all, it is completely a state of grasping who is who, for example, today I ate a good grilled fish in the west of Shangjing City, and I will give Lin Han Lin Jian yΓ¬ in the evening: "Fourth, tomorrow I will take the little princess Roujia to the west of the city to eat grilled fish, the fish there is good, and it will definitely please the girls." β
Lin Hanlin acted according to the eldest sister Jianyì, and when Princess Roujia came to the Lin family's courtyard in a few days, Lin Wan'er would hold the little princess's hand and say, "Did the fourth child take you to the west of the city to eat grilled fish?" Hmph, I know this, men are desperate to please girls, men don't have a good thing, phew! She had completely forgotten that eating grilled fish was her own thing.
Lin Hanlin was dumbfounded, he could only suffer this dumb loss, even if you reasoned with the eldest sister, you could only end up being a thief with a weak heart and trying his best to quibble.
Lin Wan'er's affairs with others are always in a state of disorder and chaos, as if they are just mixing for the sake of mixing.
For example, Zhao Chengde, who was sitting in the carriage at this time and heard "I can't give up the child, I can't trap the wolf", was annoyed, can this Lin Wan'er speak, what does it mean to "can't bear the child, can't hold the wolf", is the little princess of my prince's family a wolf? Angry, rough and angry, the beard that he had worked so hard to stick to his face fluttered in the wind.
Lin Qianyi seemed to have noticed the abnormality of the coachman on the carriage, and asked with some confusion: "It seems that this horseman in the palace seems to be?" β
Zhao Chengde immediately coughed twice: "This king...... Ahem, the little one has been feeling unwell recently, and the prince and the county lord continued, just don't save the small one. β
The two men continued on foot, reaching out to follow a carriage with a prince with his ears pricked up.
Lin Qianyi is a silent person, he thinks that as long as he can walk quietly like this, it will be good. Looking up at the surrounding streets, it was bustling with activity, and those sugar people seemed to be really alive. The little rabbit was thumping, the little bird was about to fly away with its wings, and his heart was about to jump out.
He wasn't good at expressing his emotions, so he was silent, silent, and continued to be silent, only occasionally turning his head to look at Yan'er. Then quickly retract your eyes and stare at your feet.
It was Yan'er who was talking all the time, and he just nodded and shook his head or said "um". Sort of an answer.
This made Zhao Chengde sigh, could it be that Yan'er would have to live with this stuffy gourd in the future, the picture was too boring to imagine.
Finally. Lin Qianyi plucked up his courage. His lips trembled a little and he said, "I'll tell you a joke!" β
The little princess of Yan'er smiled and nodded, feeling extremely interesting.
Lin Qianyi coughed twice, his brows furrowed, as if he was thinking about something, and said in a steady tone: "Once upon a time, there was a farmer, and the farmer family had three daughters, and these three daughters were all very beautiful......
The corners of Zhao Chengde's mouth twitched in the carriage, but it wasn't that there was anything wrong with Lin Qianyi's joke itself. It's that his tone is too steady, too flat. It's so annoying, like a child reading a text, babbling, chattering, without the slightest twist and turn.
As he spoke, Lin Qianyi was stunned, stopped, frowned even more, his face was slightly red, he scratched his head a little abruptly, and took out a piece of paper from his arms: "Eh, this joke was told by the eldest sister to me, I can't catch the joke, and it is very difficult to remember, so I wrote it on paper, but I still didn't remember it." β
He didn't dare to look at Yan'er's face, just looked down at the paper, and continued to tell the joke of "the farmer's three daughters" in a flat and steady voice.
After the joke was over, he still didn't dare to look up, but he pricked up his ears to listen to Yan'er's reaction.
After a while, the little lord of Yan'er finally couldn't help it, and laughed, not because of jokes, but because of Lin Qianyi's appearance, dull, flat, silly, and stunned, so it was more fun and funny.
The little county lord of Yan'er laughed and hurt her stomach, laughed so hard that she couldn't straighten her waist, and laughed so much that she helped Lin Qianyi.
Zhao Chengde couldn't help but shake his head, sighed secretly, and turned his head to think that this stupid boy was indeed funny, he was much funnier than this joke.
Lin Qianyi asked with some uncertainty: "This joke is funny?" β
"It's funny." Yan'er said shallowly, and then asked, "You just listen to Sister Wan'er's words like this?" β
Lin Qianyi was a little helpless, sighed long, and said, "If you don't listen, you can't do it, the eldest sister will do it." However, I don't like the phrase 'I can't give up the child, I can't hold the wolf', I feel that it should be 'Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the river island.'" My Fair Lady, Gentleman'. But it's what the eldest sister said, and you have to listen to the younger brother. β
Zhao Chengde nodded, couldn't help but brush his beard, and said "good poetry", very satisfied with Lin Qianyi's sentence "Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the river island." My Fair Lady, Gentleman. β
But this sound caused Lin Qianyi to be puzzled, and he turned his head to look at King Mafu Jing'an.
Zhao Chengde coughed twice in a low voice again and explained: "There are performers in front, it seems to be very exciting, and the small ones can't help but applaud." β
The little lord of Yan'er, who was holding flowers, turned crimson, like the red sun that had just risen in the morning: "I think this sentence was also said by Sister Wan'er, right?" β
"Eldest sister, I did mention a sentence or two, but I think it makes a lot of sense, and I also express my heart." Lin Qianyi said sincerely, the first time he heard the eldest sister chattering these two words, he was like being struck by lightning, and felt that the weakest part of his heart was hit gently but fiercely, and at this time he also said his heart.
If Lin Wan'er and Zhao Gan, or Lin Hanlin, even children like Baoyu and Yubao were present, they couldn't help but raise their mother's fingers and exclaimed, "Well said", except for Li Mubai, Dabao and Da Zhuang.
At this time, Zhao Chengde, the king of Jing'an, who was sitting in the palace hall, also showed a heartfelt smile on his face, and turned to think of his other child, His Royal Highness Zhao Feng, the prince of Jing'an.
For Zhao Feng's return to Beijing this time, Zhao Chengde was both relieved and a little worried, Zhao Feng, who was in Shangjing, used pretended maturity to cover up his naivety, but now he is using pretending to be a hanger to cover up his maturity.
After Zhao Feng came to Shangjing, Ouyang Xiaolan went to greet him in person, but he asked Ouyang Xiaolan to go back to the palace, while he went to the Lin family's courtyard.
In this regard, Zhao Chengde was sad and annoyed, and ordered someone to go to the Lin family's courtyard to "arrest Zhao Feng back", but when he arrived at the Lin family's courtyard, he knew that Zhao Feng had entered the palace.
King Jing'an sighed, his anger was even greater, and he drove to the palace.
Zhao Feng seemed to be playing hide and seek with his grandfather's father, Zhao Chengde went to Zhao Gan's place, and Zhao Feng had already left and went to Princess Roujia's bedroom. Zhao Chengde went to Princess Roujia's residence, Zhao Feng went to the Queen Mother's bedroom, and then went to Her Majesty's Bedroom and asked the queen to say goodbye.
In the end, King Jing'an returned to the palace out of breath, Zhao Feng was making tea for his sister Yan'er and the little county lord with his own hands, Ouyang Xiaolan sat cautiously on the side, with a smile on her face, happy from her heart, rushing to help.
Zhao Chengde is very satisfied with Ouyang Xiaolan, not only because this girl can do business and has a bright head, but also because of her personality.
Zhao Chengde knew that Ouyang Xiaolan and Lin Wan'er had contradictions, and they had fought back and forth, although Ouyang Xiaolan suffered a little loss, but he was not discouraged at all. The two provoked each other in front of the imperial study: "You wait for me." β
Despite this, Ouyang Xiaolan has never blocked the interaction between Yan'er and Lin Qianyi, and has always been regarded as an outsider, and sometimes when Yan'er goes out to an appointment, she will give some advice on her clothes.
The construction is very pertinent, not Lin Wan'er's kind of heavenly horse starry sky, which makes people shake their heads, and can't help but laugh unreliable Jian yì.
But women are a little cautious, because they don't understand Zhao Feng's feelings about Lin Wan'er, she feels more and more that Lin Wan'er is very annoying.
In addition, Ouyang Xiaolan is very confident, the most significant embodiment of this self-confidence is in the attitude towards Lin Wan'er and Chen Nuonuo, "South Lin and North Chen" are the two most talented women in the Great Wei Kingdom, many men will be ashamed of themselves in front of the two, Lin Wan'er is powerful, and she does things without considering the consequences, on the one hand, it is because of her personality, and on the other hand, because she has this right and capital. Chen Nuonuo's strength is even more from the inside out, and Pan Meimei, the princess and prime minister's daughter, is a little timid towards Chen Nuonuo.
But Ouyang Xiaolan's momentum in front of the two was not weak at all, not only did she form a bond with Lin Wan'er, but she also dared to say to her face that Chen Nuonuo was a "poor person".
Only for Zhao Feng, Ouyang Xiaolan always has a little cowardice and a sense of flattery.
Looking at Zhao Feng, who was making tea and drinking water, and was complacent, Zhao Chengde, who was angry, was ready to teach this unfilial son a good lesson, but when he saw his dark-skinned and rough son, his eyes turned red, and the reproachful words were swallowed again when he reached his mouth, and he rubbed his throat: "I'm back." (To be continued......)