Xiao Yiran's soul accompanied his mother Sun to talk, and Sun was worried that his daughter's soul would be bad for her health if she had been away from her body for a long time, so she persuaded Xiao Yiran to go back quickly.

"Ran'er go back to the body quickly, will it be bad for the body after a long time?"

"Mother, it's okay. At the longest time, her daughter's soul could be separated from her body for a whole night without causing any harm to her body. ”

After waiting for a while, Xiao Yiran's spirit entered his body again through the fontanelle and stepped out of bed. Sun looked at his daughter who sat down at the table again, and hesitated to guess:

"Is Ran'er trying to cheat to death?"

Xiao Yiran nodded vigorously.

"I didn't want to sue my mother and my father, but I was afraid that my daughter would scare my father and mother by cheating her death, so I said it."

"It's better to wait for your father to come back, and we'll discuss it again to see if there's any other good way."

In the evening, after Xiao Guoliang came back, Sun told his daughter's plan.

"Ran'er, can you really escape from the Yin God?"

Xiao Yiran did not go to bed again this time, but directly appeared on the seat, and after Xiao Guoliang was sure, he said with concern:

"Ran'er, since then, I'm afraid that I won't be able to marry again in this life."

"Father, mother, everything has advantages and disadvantages, if you don't marry, don't marry. Since she has no relationship with Lin Chen's brother, Ran'er doesn't want to marry someone else. ”

Xiao Guoliang and Sun didn't know whether to approve or oppose their daughter's plan for a while. After being silent for a while, Xiao Guoliang persuaded:

"Ran'er, in fact, if you really marry Zhao Heng, it may not be bad."

Xiao Yiran also knew that Zhao Heng was still a wise man in the Northern Song Dynasty, although he was a little cowardly. It's just that Xiao Yiran already has a place in his heart, so it is impossible to force himself anymore.

"Dad, mother, don't persuade Ran'er anymore."

A family of three went to sleep that night. At this point, Xiao Yiran has no worries, since he has told his father and mother about his own strategy, and told him the secret of cultivating his soul, he only waits for the spring to implement the plan of cheating death, so as to ask Zhao Heng to entangle.

The New Year passed quickly, and in order not to distract Lin Chen, Xiao Yiran did not say a word about the holy decree in his reply to Lin Chen. Lin Chen also had been serving his sick mother in the palace of the king, and the whole palace had hidden it from Lin Chen, so Lin Chen did not hear that the emperor had given Xiao Yiran to Zhao Heng as a concubine.

Seeing his mother Lin's body, getting better day by day, Lin Chen's heart was happy, and he studied his books more diligently to prepare for the upcoming Spring Festival.

In the blink of an eye, in the middle of February, Lin Chen entered the examination room with confidence. At the entrance, Lin Chen also deliberately looked around, but he didn't see anyone he knew, nor did he see Xiao Yiran's second cousin Sun Xun. In fact, Sun Xun was not far away, and he had already seen Lin Chen, who was full of confidence. The reason why Sun Xun didn't come over to greet Lin Chen was because his cousin had already written to tell him not to reveal the emperor's marriage to Lin Chen, unless Lin Chen took the initiative to ask, so Sun Xun chose to dodge.

The three-day exam passed quickly, and Lin Chen, who was relaxed, immediately took the palace exam again. When the list came out, Lin Chen didn't look at it, with his aunt Wang Shilang here, he could always know the exam results as soon as possible. When the earth-shattering gongs and drums rang in front of Wang Shilang's mansion, Lin Chen said to his mother, who was already able to move freely and was basically fully recovered:

"Mother, the annunciation is coming, the child goes out to meet."

Sun looked at his son's thin back, and his heart was sour. The emperor gave Xiao Yiran and Zhao Heng a marriage, and the Lin family had already known about it. His body had almost recovered a few years ago, just to support Lin Chen and not let his son go out, so as not to hear about the emperor's marriage, so as not to be sad, and unanimously affected Lin Chen to participate in the spring and palace examinations, and the Lin family pretended to be sick for more than two months.

"Alas, son, no wonder it's a mother, every qiē is fate."

After Lin Chen went out, he sighed while shedding tears.

After a short time, Lin Chen returned, holding the good news in his hand, and handed it to his mother Lin. Lin took it and saw that it was written:

Lin Chen, Xiabang County, the third place in the high school hall exam, Tanhualang, special report.

Lin's hands trembled, tears rolled down his eyes, and he couldn't stop muttering:

"Good boy, good boy, my mother has something to rely on for the rest of her life."

Lin Chen only thought that his mother was crying with joy, and he couldn't imagine that his mother's tears were also mixed with sad tears for his lack of union with Xiao Yiran.

"Don't worry, my son will honor his mother."

"My mother knows, my mother knows."

"The mother sat down and rested, and the child had to go to the front to send the messengers who reported the good news. I have to write a letter to Ran'er's sister to report the good news. ”

After speaking, he turned around and walked out, and the tears of the Lin family behind him couldn't stop flowing.

After Lin Chen sent away the messenger who reported the good news, he hurriedly took the time to write a letter to Xiao Yiran, telling Xiao Yiran the good news of the third place in his high school hall exam. After that, he received a group of people who came to congratulate him in the house, including Lord Wang, who was in the Ministry of Rites, and Lin Chen's classmates and friends. Originally, the Lin family and Mrs. Wang were worried that someone would mention the emperor's marriage to Xiao Yiran and Zhao Heng, but fortunately, nothing happened in the past few days. The two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, the people who came to congratulate him basically knew about the emperor's marriage to the third prince and Miss Xiaofu. It's just that people who know the relationship between Lin Chen and Xiao Yiran don't want to mention that matter to spoil the scenery, and those who don't know the relationship between Lin Chen and Xiao Yiran naturally don't talk about those irrelevant things.

Time passed day by day, and in the busy entertainment, Lin Chen counted the days, looking forward to Xiao Yiran's reply. Lin Chen remembered Xiao Yiran's words in his heart, "The cave room spends candle night, and the gold list is inscribed", and he also remembered his promise that after the palace test, he would beg his mother to go to Yanshan Mansion to propose marriage.

The reason why he hasn't mentioned it to his mother Lin Shi yet, Lin Chen wants to see what Xiao Yiran says after receiving Xiao Yiran's reply. In the letter, Lin Chen asked Xiao Yiran's opinion, and wanted to ask Xiao Yiran when it would be appropriate to send someone, but the key was that Lin Chen hadn't seen Xiao Yiran for so long, and he missed it very much, and wanted to ask Xiao Yiran if he could go with him when he sent someone to propose marriage.

While Lin Chen was waiting happily and anxiously in Bianliang, Xiao Yiran, who was far away in Yanshan Mansion, was sitting at his desk, holding Lin Chen's letter in his hand, crying and reading at the same time. Xiao Yiran didn't know how many times he had read it, and since he received Lin Chen's letter, Xiao Yiran had been reading it over and over again. If you don't read a side, you'll cry once. Let Xiaoxing, Qingwen, Musk Yue, and Sun also shed a lot of tears together. But I can't think of how to persuade him.

"Sister Ran'er, live up to expectations, my brother won the third place in the middle temple test to explore flowers, although he failed to be the top student in high school, but his brother is not as good as others, just because Long Live Lord likes old people, and he thinks his brother is too young."

This is the first time Lin Chen has called himself an elder brother.

"Does my sister still remember what she said at the beginning, 'The cave room spends candle night, when the gold list is inscribed'? Now my brother has fulfilled his promise, just waiting for my sister's approval.

It has been more than two years since the ten-mile long pavilion was parted, and my brother misses his sister all the time. I haven't seen her for more than two years, and my sister must be more beautiful and refined. Last time, I said that after the title of the gold list, I begged my mother to send someone to my sister to propose marriage, and my brother wanted to go to Yanshan Mansion with the person who proposed marriage. I hope to see my sister as soon as possible and comfort the heart of longing that I haven't seen for two years. I wonder if my sister thinks it's appropriate?

As soon as the person who reported the good news left, my brother picked up the pen and wrote a letter to my sister, and the time was in a hurry, and it was inevitable that he would be incoherent. The Holy Lord gave the temple a ten-day vacation to meet relatives and friends, and then went to the Jinluan Hall to be enshrined ten days later. If he is lucky enough to go to Yanshan Mansion as an official, my brother will have nothing else to ask for. ”

Lin Chen babbled a lot in the letter, and finally wrote:

"I hope that after my sister gets the letter, she will reply to the letter quickly, and my brother will ask my mother to send someone to Yanshan Mansion."

Xiao Yiran washed his face with tears, and after two days, he finally cleaned up his mood, sorted out the letters written by Lin Chen in the past two years, put them away properly, discussed with his parents, and started his own plan to cheat death.

Lin Chen **** looked forward to Xiao Yiran's letter every night, waited and waited, but what he waited for was Xiao Qing who stayed in Xiao Mansion in Bianliang City.

Lin Chen saw Xiao Qing in filial piety clothes at first glance, and his heart chuckled. However, Lin Chen didn't think about Xiao Yiran, thinking that there was something wrong with Xiao Guoliang and his wife. Let Xiao Qing go to the living room, Xiao Qing didn't sit down, bowed deeply to Lin Chen, and then said sadly:

"Old lady, I specially asked the villain to report to Mr. Lin that Miss was buried ten days ago."

"What?! What did you say? ”

As soon as Lin Chen heard Xiao Qing say that it was "Miss Funeral", he couldn't help but step forward, grabbed Xiao Qing's sleeve and shook it violently. Listening to Xiao Qing repeat what he had just said, Lin Chen suddenly let go of his hand and fell backwards. Xiao Qing's eyes were quick, and he hurriedly grabbed Lin Chen. At this time, the Lin family and Mrs. Wang, who were hiding behind the tent, came out one after another. They never expected that Xiao Qing would come here to report the funeral, and it was the funeral of Xiao Yiran, the daughter of the Xiao Mansion.

It happened so suddenly.

Not only did Wang Shilang's family not expect it, but even Xiao Qing and other people who stayed in the Xiao Mansion in the capital did not expect it. Sun Xun, who was not admitted to the exam, couldn't go back to Jiangning Mansion, so he hurriedly wrote a letter and sent his subordinates to report back to Jiangning Mansion as soon as possible, and he went straight to Yanshan Mansion as soon as possible.

Xiaoxi, who was accompanying his son Xiao Yuesheng, who was more than a year old and almost two years old, heard the news at first glance, and didn't believe it anyway, if it weren't for Xiao Qing and Xiuniang's desperate persuasion, I am afraid that I would have to go to Yanshan Mansion with Sun Xun to find out.

Lin Chen, who was stimulated by Xiao Yiran's death, and passed out, did not wake up until midnight. called Xiao Yiran's name in his mouth, and asked his mother Lin who was waiting by the bedside over and over again:

"Mother, you sue the child, but the younger sister is not dead, but the child has a nightmare. Mother, huh? ”

Looking at his tearful son, Lin really couldn't find the right words to persuade. The two children have gotten along very well since they met. In the eyes of the adults of the two families, they have long regarded the two as a young couple in the future. What is really unexpected is that the emperor first decreed that Xiao Yiran would be married to Zhao Heng, the third prince of King Han.