Lin Li stopped Lin Yan with a smile: "Yuan Yuan." ”

Lin Yan stepped forward to salute her and called, "Third aunt." ”

Lin Li glanced at her up and down with a smile, and then said, "It seems that your body is very good, and your complexion is much better than some time ago." ”

Lin Yan said: "Yes, it's all my fault that the elders worry about me." ”

Lin Li said: "Family, shouldn't you care about you?" ”

Saying that, he stepped forward in a few steps, took Lin Yan's hand, and said with a smile: "Let's go, go to my yard and talk." You went to the northwest for three years, and after you came back, you have been sick all the time, and you haven't been able to find a chance to talk to you. In the past three years, I have thought badly about my aunt. After speaking, she couldn't help but say anything, and Lin Yan refused, and then led Lin Yan to her yard half-pulled and half-dragged.

Lin Li's courtyard is in the northeast corner of the Wuguo Mansion, the environment is elegant, the door is a bush of bamboo, the house furnishings are also elegant, the wall is hung with famous paintings, there are all kinds of pianos on the desk, there is also a game of Go that has not been played on the kang table, and the books are placed on the bookshelf and the desk in a staggered manner······ Looking at the furnishings, people feel that the owner of this house must be a versatile and talented woman.

Lin Li asked people to move the Go on the kang table, invited Lin Yan to sit down on the kang, and let the maid serve tea, and then picked up the tea bowl and handed it to Lin Yan, saying: "Taste it, the dragon well left before the rain this spring." ”

Lin Yan thanked her, took the tea bowl and took a sip, and when she put down the tea bowl, she found that Lin Li had been staring at her with a smile.

Lin Yan couldn't help but say, "Third aunt, why do you keep looking at me?" ”

Lin Li said: "Naturally, it's because you're good-looking." I haven't seen you for three years, Yuan Yuan, I found that you are getting more and more beautiful, and even my aunt can't help but be fascinated by you. ”

Lin Yan smiled lightly: "My aunt loves to laugh, if you want to say that she is beautiful, in the entire Lin family, who can compare to her aunt." ”

Lin Yan's words are not polite or flattering. When it comes to appearance, Lin Li is indeed very outstanding. Lin Yan remembered that four or five years ago, there was a selection of noble girls in the capital, and a group of sons and sons came to vote, and Lin Li was among the top three. However, at that time, the Li family was very unhappy with such a selection, in Li's words, it was a group of sons and brothers who were full of food and had nothing to do to take women to lust, and did not take women in their eyes, they had this idle thought, why not go to the imperial examination or go to the field to kill the enemy, and serve the country. But no matter what, Lin Li's beauty has been recognized by most people.

The beauty of Lin Lai is aggressively glamorous, like a rose in the dark night, with a fatal attraction. Although Lin Yan is also beautiful, she is more peaceful, she is more like a orchid growing on the rocks of the valley, resolute, but gentle.

Lin Ling tapped her forehead with her finger and said with a smile: "You little mouth, you are really good at flattering people." Well, whether you're telling the truth or not, but I love to hear it. After speaking, he paused, and after a while, he took Lin Yan's hand again, and said: "Actually, Yuan Yuan, although I am your aunt in terms of seniority, we are not a few years apart, but I feel more like you as a sister in my heart, and since I was a child, I have felt that you make me feel the closest in the whole house." ”

Lin Yan smiled and did not speak.

In fact, Lin Yan and Lin Lai have really not been close since they were young, when they were young, they played together in the house, and Lin Lai loved to teach them a lesson from the elders, so Lin Yan and Lin Yan never liked to play with her, but Lin Lai would listen to her, so the two became closer. Now Lin Li said that Lin Yan made her feel closest to her, and she was really a little blind to talk.

Lin Li propped his hands on the kang table, kept holding his chin with his hands, frowned slightly, and looked like he was worried. After a while, she looked at Lin Yan again and asked, "Yuan Yuan, do you know why your mother wrote to you to come back?" ”

Lin Yan naturally knows that Lin Ying and Zhuang's way of educating their children is that they will no longer treat them as children from the age of ten, and they will be told all the big and small things in the family. Since they received the letter from the Li family, they have never hidden it from Lin Yan.

But now Lin Yan deliberately pretended to be stupid and said: "Because my grandmother misses me, I wrote a letter to ask someone to pick me up." ”

Lin Li looked at Lin Yan, Lin Yan's expression was calm, Lin Li couldn't tell if she was pretending to be stupid or if Zhuang really didn't tell her. She didn't believe that Lin Ying and the Zhuang family would deliberately hide such a big thing from her, so they deliberately deceived her and said, "Yuan Yuan, I found that you are not honest." ”

Lin Yan said: "Auntie, what do you say, is there any other reason why my grandmother asked me to come back, but my aunt told me, lest I be kept in the dark by the elders." ”

Lin Li said: "You really don't know? ”

Lin Yan said: "Auntie, tell me quickly, grandmother, what are they hiding from me." ”

Lin Yi said: "Forget it, it's okay." ”

After she finished speaking, she continued to hold her chin and looked at the kang table, and the other hand was on the kang table, and her fingers kept turning in circles on the table. After a while, she sighed quietly again, and said: "The second sister in the palace has been gone for almost two years, and the new queen has not yet been established. ”

Lin Yan said: "The emperor and the second aunt have a deep relationship, and the emperor may still miss the second aunt in his heart, so he is not willing to set up a new queen." ”

Lin Lai said: "How can it be so simple, the country cannot be without a king for a day, and in the same way, the country cannot be without a mother for a day." How important is the position of the queen, without the queen, who will control the concubines in the palace and the women outside the palace, and the emperor also understands that the new queen always has to be established. After she finished speaking, she pretended to come to Lin Yan's ear mysteriously and whispered: "I heard that the family is also interested in choosing the girl from the clan to enter the palace." ”

Lin Yan pretended to be puzzled, and looked at Lin Li waiting for her to continue.

Sure enough, Lin Li then said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is still young, and the second sister died early, if there is no one in the harem to help His Royal Highness, where will His Highness's position as the crown prince sit firmly." Don't say anything else, let's just say that Wu Guifei in the palace, in terms of family lineage and merit, Wu Guifei's maiden Xuanguo Mansion is no worse than our family, and the second prince born to Wu Guifei is only one year younger than His Royal Highness the Prince. I heard that many people in the court and the central government have proposed that Wu Guifei should be appointed as the queen, think about it, if Wu Guifei becomes the queen, the second prince will become the prince, how can the mother and the second brother not consider His Royal Highness the crown prince. ”

Lin Yan smiled and said: "So what, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the eldest son." ”

Lin Li sighed and said, "Why don't you understand, what about the eldest son, is there still less eldest son and prince who have been deposed in previous dynasties?" Especially the eldest son who is not protected by his mother. She sighed and said, "Forget it, I can't understand it when I tell you." But speaking of the emperor, Yuan Yuan, have you ever met the emperor? ”

Lin Yan has naturally seen it, at a very young age. At that time, he was only the prince of the hidden mansion, and Lin Xian, who was only a princess at that time, loved her very much and often took her to the palace as a companion. Later, when he ascended the throne, he never saw him again because of the difference between the monarch and the minister. It's been too long, Lin Yan has long forgotten what he looks like, but I remember that he was a very gentle person in my impression, wearing a cyan brocade dress, and wearing a jade pendant with excellent jade quality on his waist, and would tease her with pastries to let him hug.

Lin Yan was stunned for a moment, but quickly came back to her senses and answered Lin Li's question: "I haven't seen it." ”

Lin Li's cheeks suddenly turned red, her face was as red as a flower, with a hint of shyness of a woman, and said shyly: "I've seen ······" She put her hand on her cheek, as if she wanted to cover the shyness on her face: "Last time, last time during the Mid-Autumn Festival, my mother took me into the palace together, and I accidentally met the emperor in the imperial garden······ Moreover, and the emperor also talked to me, she asked me which girl I was, and he also said that I looked very similar to my sister······ He's, he'······" She giggled, buried her cheeks in the palms of her hands, as if embarrassed to show her face, and continued, "He also broke a branch of osmanthus into my hair······"

Lin Yan smiled and did not speak.