After the palace banquet, the foreign women left the palace one after another.

Li and the others didn't want to stay in the palace longer, so they also retired.

Not far from Changkun Palace, there was a little eunuch waiting on the side of the road, and when he saw Lin Yan and Li and others, he came forward to salute and said, "I have seen Mrs. Wuguo, Mrs. Wuguo, Mrs. Lin, and Miss Lin. After speaking, he looked at Lin Yan and said respectfully: "Miss Lin Si, the emperor wants to see you, let the servant take you over." ”

The Li family and the Qi family Zhuang glanced at each other.

This is indeed the eunuch of the Qianqing Palace, but the Li family still feels strange. With the emperor's actions, it is unlikely that Lin Yan will be summoned alone at such a time.

Although Lin Yan's marriage to the emperor is already an ironclad matter, and she has already passed the two ceremonies of Nacai and asking for names, but seeing each other alone before marriage is hindered by etiquette after all, the emperor is not an unruly person, on the contrary, his observance of the rules is even stricter than ordinary people.

What's more, even if the emperor wanted to summon him, why did he not come to Wan Gonggong, but a eunuch with an unknown name. But she is also a little unsure, a little eunuch in the Qianqing Palace really dares to fake the holy decree.

The Li family was a little unsure, and he didn't know whether to let Lin Yan go, so he said to the little eunuch: "It just so happens that the old body may not have seen the emperor for a long time, and the old body is trying to kowtow to the emperor, so let the old body accompany his granddaughter on this trip." ”

The little eunuch was a little embarrassed: "Duchess Wuguo, the emperor only said to let the servants invite the fourth lady over." ”

Li wanted to speak again, but the little eunuch interrupted her first, and said, "Please don't embarrass the slave." ”

Li Shi had a hard time deciding, and stood there without speaking.

Lin Yan looked at the Li family, and then said, "Grandmother, I'll go." As he spoke, he shook the hands of Li and Zhuang, and said, "I will see the opportunity to act, believe me." ”

The little eunuch smiled and flattered: "It's still the fourth lady who understands things." As he spoke, he said to the Li family and the others: "Mrs. Tai and the two ladies might as well go out of the palace first, and when the emperor finishes seeing the fourth miss, he will order someone to send the fourth miss back." ”

Zhuang looked at his daughter worriedly, thought about it, and said to her: "We are waiting for you at the gate of the palace, you ...... Be careful. ”

Lin Yan nodded, and then followed the little eunuch away.

In the past few days, it has snowed in the capital, and the palace has accumulated a layer of white, but fortunately, there is a palace maid to clean it, and there is not much snow on the road.

The plum blossoms on both sides of the road are blooming, and there is a dark fragrance coming in.

Lin Yan stepped on the floor with her head down, paying attention to the movements around her. It wasn't until she reached a rockery in the Imperial Garden that she finally stopped.

This is not like the road to the Qianqing Palace, nor is it like the road to the Qinzheng Palace, but it is like the road to some remote abandoned palaces in the palace.

The little eunuch saw Lin Yan stop, turned around and asked, "Fourth Miss, why don't you leave?" ”

Lin Yan asked with a smile, "Father-in-law, where is the emperor waiting for me?" ”

The little eunuch said, "The fourth lady just follow the slave." ”

Lin Yan said with a smile: "Father-in-law doesn't say, I don't dare to go with you, what if you take me not to find the emperor's place, but Huangquan Road?" ”

The little eunuch smiled a little uncomfortably: "Fourth Miss is really good at joking. As he spoke, he turned his head and looked at the palace in front of him, and then turned back to Lin Yan with some anxiety and said, "It's here, the emperor is waiting for the fourth lady in front." ”

Lin Yan said again: "Where is the front, my father-in-law has to explain it clearly." ”

The little eunuch paused for a moment and did not speak, as if he was still looking for an explanation.

And Lin Yan stared at her again, her voice was a little colder, and said, "Father-in-law, I'm afraid it's not the emperor who sees me, right?" My father-in-law made it clear who wanted to see me. ”

The little eunuch was about to speak, but at this time a voice suddenly came out: "It's me, it's me who wants to see you." ”

Saying that a teenager walked out of the rockery, at the age of thirteen or fourteen, the young man's face was still childish, but at this time, his eyes were staring at her, his expression was black, with a stingy anger, as if he was very resentful of her, and as if he was wronged.

The boy was half a head taller than Lin Yan, and Lin Yan could only see his shoulders.

The clothes are embroidered with nine chapters, the two chapters of the mountain fire are on the shoulders, the leather belt is a gold hook jacket, a false belt, Yuyu is only worn, the square heart, the fen, the golden thread is sac, the pure length is six feet four inches, the width is two inches and four minutes, and the color is like a big ribbon.

It was the crown prince's costume.

After the little eunuch saw the prince, he had already saluted and flashed down.

Lin Yan thought distractedly for a moment when she last saw this prince's cousin, it seemed to be three or four years ago. She was about to go to the northwest with her parents, but he secretly ran out of the palace, took her hand and asked her not to go.

She remembered that he was not as tall as her at that time, and in a blink of an eye he was already half a head taller than her, which really had to make people sigh the passage of time.

Xiao Tai stared at Lin Yan in front of him, and said hatefully: "Seeing that it is not my father but me, are you very disappointed?" ”

Lin Yan curtsied at him and saluted, "I've seen His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Xiao Tai's eyes spewed out a fire of hatred, he took a few steps closer to her, and said hatefully: "I haven't seen each other for a few years, and my cousin has become so estranged from me like this, I remember that when we were young, we were so close that we slept in the same bed." ”

Lin Yan said: "I am less ignorant, but now that I have grown up, I naturally understand the difference between monarchs and ministers." ”

Xiao Tai looked at her, kept looking at her, as if he wanted to see a flower from her, and after a long while, he said hatefully: "You want to marry your father?" Why? ”

Lin Yan raised her head, looked at the prince and smiled, and asked meaningfully, "What did you say it was for, prince?" ”

Of course he knew what it was for, but he didn't want to hear it, he didn't want to know anything for the Lin family and him, he only knew that she couldn't marry her father.

He jumped up a little irritably, and said angrily: "He is your uncle, he is sixteen years older than you, are you also like those women who are greedy for power, because you are the emperor and you want to marry him?" If so, I'll ······ in the future."

Lin Yan's expression turned cold, and she scolded: "Your Highness, please be careful!" ”

The prince calmed down, looking at her with watery eyes, and with grievances, like an abandoned child.

Lin Yan sighed, in the end, it was her younger brother who grew up holding hands since childhood, she was a little unbearable, and her voice softened: "Marriage is a good marriage with two surnames, and under the weighing of pros and cons, status, age and even generation can be ignored." ”

The prince said again: "Do you like him?" You've loved to follow him since you were a child. ”

Lin Yan glanced at him and said very seriously: "Of course." He will be my future husband, even if he doesn't now, he will be in the future. ”

Xiao Tai only felt that his heart at this moment seemed to be pierced by ten thousand arrows, as if the prisoner had finally been sentenced to death, and his despair seemed to have fallen into a bottomless abyss.

His throat seemed to be choked by something, looking at Lin Yan, but he couldn't say anything. moved his mouth, and it took a long time before he made a low voice, "I don't believe it." ”

Lin Yan didn't hear anything to do, curtsied to Xiao Tai, and said, "If Your Highness has nothing to do, the courtiers will retire first." After saying that, he turned around and wanted to leave.