Song Heng opened his eyes, his expression was as usual, although there was black green at the moment, his spirit was excellent, and his voice sounded in a good mood.

Shen Nanyan looked at Song Heng dressed in white, and couldn't help but think of the man in white in his dream, warm as jade and handsome.

Although she didn't see her face clearly, in her intuition, it reminded her of Mu Zhao.

"The emperor didn't sleep well last night?" Shen Nanyan got up, sat opposite Song Heng, and asked lightly.

"Nothing."

Speechless, the two of them were silent for a while.

"Do you know why I chose to enjoy the scenery here?" The man on the other side suddenly spoke.

"The courtiers are dull, and it is difficult to figure out the emperor's sacred heart."

Shen Nanyan has always been a person who speaks little, and even if he knows, he won't speak easily, so it's better to make it clear from the beginning that he doesn't know.

Song Heng didn't ask, and gave the answer: "Everyone in the world loves peony in the wind and attracts people's attention, it is better to be that orchid flower in the deep mountains and valleys, growing in inaccessible places, but the flowers bloom and fall every year, and the fragrance is still the same, not competing for beauty, not captivating, and has its own arrogance." ”

Shen Nanyan nodded in agreement: "So the emperor chose this place because the flowers and trees and green branches here have their own arrogance?" ”

Song Heng saw that she didn't understand what she meant, and was about to open her mouth to explain, when a eunuch hurriedly walked over from a distance: "Your Majesty, Master Mu, Lord Shen asks to see you." ”

Song Heng glanced at the little eunuch lightly, "What's the matter?" ”

"Lord Shen said that there is a government affairs notice."

"Got it, you go down."

Song Heng instructed lightly, knowing that this was not a good time to speak, he looked at Shen Nanyan: "Miss Shen, let's enjoy the flowers here, I have something to deal with." ”

"Yes." Shen Nanyan was troublesome, so he replied respectfully.

After Song Heng left, only she and Ah Ci were left in the imperial garden, and the rest of the palace maids and eunuchs were staying in the distance.

There have always been many eyes and ears in the palace, although Ah Zi is simple, he is not stupid, he only picks interesting trivial things to tell Shen Nanyan.

In the bazaar, the hawker walked away, and although the jokes in the teahouse were scattered and boring, they also relieved the boredom, and the two of them poured down in the imperial garden for a few hours of tea.

And just now, if Song Heng meant something, Shen Nanyan only felt familiar when he heard it, but after some things, he didn't have time to think about it.

The orchid grass flowers in the deep mountains and valleys grow in inaccessible places, but the flowers bloom and fall every year, and the fragrance is still the same, not competing for beauty, not captivating the city, and has its own arrogance.

This seems familiar.

"Ah Jin, what are you looking for me?"

Song Heng returned to the imperial study, and when he saw Shen Jin, who had come to see him in the early dynasty, he was not annoyed, and lightly ordered Zheng Fuhai to pay a new tribute this year's Longjing tea before the rain.

Seeing that Song Heng was covered with a faint joy, Shen Jin's hanging heart finally fell, and he organized a language to speak: "Your Majesty, Weichen's sister has been in the palace for so long, and Weichen wants to take her sister back." ”

"For a long time?" Song Heng's slightly puzzled voice sounded, appearing very calm.

From yesterday evening to this morning, it is indeed not a long time, but the palace has never had the practice of the minister's daughter living in a small house, and occasionally, it was also invited by the queen's mother, although the emperor's move was to balance General Shen, but one night was enough time for General Shen to sort out the ins and outs and make a choice, and there was absolutely no reason to let Shen Nanyan live in the palace for a long time.

Seeing that Shen Jin was silent, Song Heng waved his hand at Mu Zhao, who had never made a sound: "When you return, you go to the palace first, and I will send someone to invite you later and let you do something." ”

"Wechen obeys." Even though Song Heng was commensurate with "I", Mu Zhao still retired as usual and bowed respectfully.

After Mu Zhao left, Song Heng didn't go around in circles with Shen Jin, and got straight to the point: "What is General Shen thinking about?" ”

Shen Jin understood the meaning of these words, he entered the palace today for last night's plan.

He knelt on the ground, clasped his hands into fists, and pleaded.

"Your Majesty, my Shen family is loyal and patriotic, and I have never had it, and I dare not have any heart to rebel, and I ask the emperor to learn about it."

Seeing that Shen Jin said so movingly, Song Heng was not good at inaction, personally helped him up, and patted Shen Jin's hand: "Ah Jin, I naturally understand the sincere people of the Shen family, but the world doesn't understand it, and the courtiers naturally don't understand it, so I can't understand it either." ”

In just a few words, it shows Song Heng's attitude, he himself believes in the Shen family, but it is impossible for the courtiers to let General Shen, who has military power, return to Beijing, and if he wants to stay in the capital, he has to hand over his military power.

As the emperor, Song Heng naturally has no choice but to weigh the pros and cons, balance the rights, and hold the monarch's power.

"With the emperor's words, the Shen family swears allegiance to the emperor alone."

"I know your Shen family's thoughts, sit down and come and have a few drinks with me."

Then, Zheng Fuhai was summoned and ordered to send him a bottle of aged wine that had been brewed.

He personally poured wine for Shen Jin, but Shen Jin was so frightened that he didn't dare to say anything.

Song Heng looked at Shen Jin's frightened expression, a little helpless: "Ah Jin, you and I have grown up together since childhood, and we are like brothers and sisters, when do you think I have put on a shelf in front of you and overdosed my identity?" ”

Rao is Song Heng said this, Shen Jin still didn't dare to be too presumptuous: "Your Majesty, since ancient times, there is a difference between monarchs and ministers, and Weichen does not dare to be presumptuous. ”

Song Heng drank a glass of wine and filled it again: "I still remember when I was a teenager, I was bloated and cowardly, and there were many people in the palace who bullied me and insulted me. ”

The two of them went back and forth, but they also drank a lot of wine, and Shen Jin also felt a lot more relaxed in Song Heng's words.

Maybe it's talking about the past, maybe it's the intoxicating smell of the wine, Shen Jin's lively and jumping temperament has also been stimulated, and he laughed: "The emperor's temperament has changed a lot." ”

In another place, after Mu Zhao left the imperial study, he refused his father-in-law who came to guide him with good intentions, and walked around the palace alone.

"Miss Shen is fine."

The man's gentle voice came, like a breeze across the water level, a ripple.

Just like the voice that Shen Nanyan heard in her dream, it was so gentle and moving.

She turned around and saw the person she expected, and the feeling in her heart was a little inexplicable: "Why did Mu Gongzi come to the Imperial Garden?" ”

Mu Zhao couldn't tell for a while, as if he was guided by God, he really wanted to come to this imperial garden unconsciously and see the spring color of the garden.

"The emperor wants to talk to Brother Shen about things, so let me go out for a walk."

"Is my brother here too?"

The voice was clear and cold, like a chilling cicada, making people unable to hear the emotion, but he felt her joy and excitement at the moment: "Yes, Miss Shen may be able to go home today." ”

"What about Mu Gongzi? Did you accompany my brother to the palace? ”

"Brother Shen, he is a simple person and has a simple mind, so it is better for me to be with him." He patiently explained to her.

The man in front of him was dressed in an indigo robe, his gestures were inexhaustibly gentle, and a ray of sunlight shone on his jade-like face, and Shen Nanyan suddenly remembered the poem "When Nanyan returns, it will be even more lonely".

"Mu Gongzi, do you remember the first time we met?" Shen Nanyan suddenly wanted to know.

Mu Zhao replied seriously: "I naturally remember that Miss Shen was dressed in blue, and her temperament was dusty, which amazed everyone. ”

Somehow, she was suddenly a little disappointed, and she couldn't tell the sense of loss, he and her officially met, it was indeed yesterday in the main hall, but wasn't the first time she and him met in the Shen Mansion that day?

Only a few days later, it turned out that he had long forgotten.

Seeing Shen Nanyan's drooping eyes, Mu Zhao pursed his lips, walked to her side, and said softly: "The crowd looked for him thousands of times, and suddenly looked back, but that person was in the dim light." ”

Shen Nanyan was stunned, a little stunned, raised her eyes to look at him, emotions surged like a tide, indescribable feelings, I don't know whether to be a little more happy or a little more surprised.

It turned out that he still remembered, remembered the first meeting in the Shen Mansion that day.

He used the poem to hint at their first acquaintance, and suddenly looking back, she stood behind the curtain.

The sun slowly rose, the sun shone on them, and the shadows on the ground were intertwined, warm and beautiful.

Ah Ci came over from a distance: "Miss, the emperor has sent someone to deliver the decree, we can go back to the house with the young master in a while." ”

After listening to it, she didn't say anything, but smiled: "Mu Gongzi also likes poetry, let's discuss it together in the future." I'm going to take my leave today. ”

She was dressed in a blue gauze dress, cold and stunning, demure and cold, her goose-egg face, through the curved thin eyebrows, leaving a cold smile, although alienated but born from within, from the heart.

"Okay."

The two faced each other silently, silently looking at each other, but they had a tacit understanding, as if they had found a soulmate, and the relationship seemed to be different all of a sudden, but they didn't know where the difference was.

Back at the Shen Mansion, it was already two o'clock in the morning, and the two of them were freshening up and taking care of themselves, so it was naturally time for dinner.

At dinner, it was also calm, she saw things clearly, and guessed most of the results, but she didn't ask, and Father Shen naturally wouldn't tell her, which would cause her trouble.

"The wolf hair and rice paper brought from outside the gate, you will personally send it to Mu Gongzi in a few days, and it is rare that he will accompany you into the palace today." Father Shen commanded Shen Jin.

"Got it." Shen Jinzhi responded.

"Mu Gongzi treats people gently and politely, this kind of friend, you should make more friends."

Listening to Shen's father's words, Shen Jin nodded, for this close friend, Shen Jin also had a sincere relationship with him, and naturally he would not refute Shen's father's words.

Shen's mother has also seen Mu Zhao, and she is full of praise for him: "Mu Gongzi is a talent, a person who is safe and prudent, and the most important thing is to treat people gently and politely, and Zhang Chi is moderate." If she hadn't been worried that Shen Nanyan wouldn't like it, she would have wanted to match them into a pair.

"Mother, is your own son sitting here?" Shen Jin opened his mouth and muttered.

Shen's mother ignored him: "If someone is half stable with Mu Gongzi, your father and I don't have to worry about you, and you can protect your sister a little more." ”

Shen Jin has always been very afraid of Shen's father, and when he saw Shen's father sitting here, he didn't dare to make a mistake, so he laughed.