"The little prince will return to China tomorrow, do you need me to send someone to escort him?"

Yanran nodded: "That's the best." Just escort to the territory of Yuezhao Country. ”

The two returned to the house. Minglang stood in front of the door of Yanran's bedroom with his hands behind his back, "You go in, I'll look at you." ”

Seeing that his sunken eyes were full of loneliness, Yanran couldn't help but feel sour in her heart, turned around and stepped back to her room.

Minglang stood for a moment, then turned to leave.

When Xie Dingran saw Yanran coming back, he pestered her to tell her stories. Yanran washed him, carried him to bed, and coaxed him to sleep while telling stories. The little one was obviously tired of playing, and fell asleep halfway through the story.

Yanran sat in front of the window in her cloak and looked at the full moon in the west for a long time. Until the moon slipped out of the window and could no longer be seen, she still did not feel sleepy. He opened the door and walked softly into the small garden. There was someone in the pavilion dressed in blue, drinking while watching the moon.

Yan Ran snatched the wine jar from his hand, and there was only a small half left. He was usually a shallow drinker, and he should have been drunk by this time. She tried to help him to sleep on the couch in the house.

Minglang was very strong, but hugged her: "The people of the Xuanyuan clan are all clean when it comes to feelings. While I'm still pure, let me hug you more. ”

Yan Ran was struggling, but when she heard him say this, she gradually stopped moving and fell on his chest.

A satisfied sigh came out of Minglang's throat, locked her tightly in his arms, and murmured, "I can't sleep, and I don't dare to disturb you, so I have to drink here." It's good you're here! You are my lucky star, and you will always appear every time my life is in a dark time. Girl, in fact, you were born for me, but I hate God for playing a big joke on me, let me meet you, but I can't get you. ”

When he said the last word, his words were so entangled, he could barely make out what he was saying. After a while, there was a snoring sound on her shoulder.

She waited a moment before gently freeing himself from his arm and slowly laying him down on his back on a marble bench. The faces of the four maids appeared in the darkness, and Yan Ran softly instructed them to go back to the house and get the quilt and pillow, and cover him tightly. Afraid that he would fall down, he curled up on the stone bench, turned his back against him, and slowly closed his eyelids.

Four maids stood silently outside the pavilion.

It wasn't until the sound of birdsong woke Yan Ran up that he found that his side was empty, and the quilt was all over him.

Qinglian told her that the emperor woke up at the beginning of the year, stayed for a while before leaving, and told her not to wake her up......

Yanran got up and went back to the house to see Xie Dingran. Seeing that he was still asleep, he went to wash up by himself, and woke Xie Dingran up after three minutes.

When he was packed up and taken out of the house, a chamberlain led a pair of men and horses to the gate of Fangfei Garden, and the chamberlain said that the official had ordered that these twelve people were to escort the little prince of Yuezhao Country back, and this carriage was for the county lord.

Yanran asked Qinglian and the other four women to make up for sleep, and she took Xie Dingran into the carriage, left the palace, and came to the post house where the foreign envoys lived. Shiguan and Lan Changhai were already waiting.

Xie Dingran reluctantly took Yanran's hand and said, "Sister, when are you going home?" ”

Yan Ran's heart was sour, and she said softly: "Go back and tell your father that I will go home." ”

Xie Dingran nodded. Shi Guan carried him into the carriage, and there were more than a dozen guards with him, plus the twelve guards brought by Yan Ran, and the carriage and horses set off in a mighty manner.

Yan Ran watched it for a long time before getting into the carriage and returning to the palace.

When he arrived at Fangfei Garden, his heart suddenly moved, and he ordered the attendant to go and summon the sword to pick up the book.

After Yanran moved to Fangfei Garden, because of the small place, the sword picked up books and took Xiao Wow to still live in the side hall of Zhongcui Palace.

As soon as the sword picked up the book and entered Fangfei Garden, he knelt down at her and cried, "Please save Your Highness, princess!" ”

Yan Ran remained silent: "What's wrong with Your Highness?" ”

The sword said, "We pass a message to His Highness every five days, but His Highness rarely sends any information. At the end of February, His Royal Highness learned about Shi Wenyuan's rebellion, and sent a message, saying that he was very worried about the princess, but he couldn't get out, let us protect you well, and made a special mention that if he has no news in the future, don't give him any more information. ”

He continued: "At that time, we guessed that His Highness was so concerned about the princess, why didn't he want information? Unless something happens to him. Later, we sent back a few more messages, and the carrier pigeons brought the information back intact, and we knew that something had happened to His Highness. But at that time, the queen had just been born, and then it was the emperor's enthronement ceremony, and we never had a chance to tell you. Princess, something must have happened to Your Highness, go back and save him! ”

Yanran thought that these two children deliberately kept Tairan's affairs from her, but now it seems that she misunderstood them.

She pulled the two of them together and said, "I plan to go to the moon twenty times this month." In the past few days, you have repaired the carriage in which we came, and prepared all the necessary items for the journey. ”

The sword picked up the book and immediately rejoiced, and agreed to go.

After the two left, Yanran squinted on the bed for a while, and when she woke up, she called Qinglian and asked, "Is Your Majesty's concubine ceremony over?" ”

Qinglian said, it seems that there is no yet. The attendants outside all went to see the excitement, and none of them came back.

Yan Ran got up, combed her hair and walked towards Longxuan Palace, Qinglian Momei wanted to follow, Yan Ran waved her hand. She just wanted to sneak a peek.

In the front hall of Longxuan Palace, Minglang was sitting in a tall wheelchair and was receiving the worship of four concubines. A group of attendants looked out in the corner in front of the hall, and Yan Ran quietly hid behind them, and saw that the four concubines who had been enshrined were each wearing different colors of dress, all of them were good-looking, either Zhuang or Yan, each with its own merits.

After the visit, a clear and calm voice sounded: "Now that you have been sealed, let's go back to the palace." ”

Yan Ran was a little puzzled, shouldn't there be drum music? Shouldn't there be a big red wedding word and a big red wedding dress? Isn't there supposed to be congratulations and blessings from everyone? And that's the end of it?

She tried to look at the man in the dragon chair, but couldn't see his eyes. After staring at her for a while, he sensed it, and his gaze swept several times towards the corner where she was hiding.

Yanran shrank her head and didn't dare to look at it again. Anyway, the ceremony was over, and it slipped back quietly.

Qinglian and Momei have already prepared their lunch. After eating tastelessly, he was worried about calmness in his mind, and he thought about which concubine Minglang would go to spend the night first tonight, and he couldn't help but be stunned. Qinglian saw that she was emotionless, so she came over to talk to her: "County Lord, do you know which four concubines Your Majesty has sealed today?" ”

Yanran shook her head. She didn't know, and she didn't really want to know. She is reluctant to insert herself into the circle of bright life, she always treats herself as an outsider.

Qinglian said: "The little Dezi outside said that Your Majesty is ingenious this time, different from the ancestral system, and the four concubines of "virtuous, good, lady, and virtuous" are sealed, with equal status and virtuous first. That is to say, Concubine Xian can manage all the concubines, but their tastes are the same.

Yanran nodded. Minglang likes to be ingenious, and everyone in the world knows it.

"Concubine Xian is Li Xinwan, the daughter of Li Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, Concubine Liang is Rong Yue, the second granddaughter of Rongxi of Dali Temple, Concubine Shu is Lan Xin'er, the niece of Lord Shen, the auxiliary minister, and Concubine De is Lu Wan'er, the third daughter of Lu Shenyuan, Taishi Ling." Qinglian is like a treasure.

Saying this, Yan Ran remembered that Li Xinwan was one of the three good ladies designated by the queen to Minglang, and the other two, Shi Xiaohan followed Ah Huda to the Gula clan in Yuezhao Kingdom, and Rong Rong left the palace to go home, preparing to marry Feng Zhan, the head of the imperial guard. Concubine Rongyue is Rongrong's younger sister. And that Concubine De also has a relationship with her. When Minglang was chased and fled everywhere on the street, she once asked her to "take care of herself".