Chapter 100: Mother
After Su Chenyu pulled Jiang Luoan to leave the scene, Wei Mian got the news and left.
Wei Ning had been thinking about waiting until the auction was over to find trouble with the two of them. But she waited at the door for a long time and did not see the two people come out, and when she asked the waiter, she realized that they had already left.
Princess Wei Ning's purchase of a bottle of elixir soon reached the emperor's ears. After knowing the specific amount of the pill under the auction, the emperor called several "ridiculous" in a row.
He is quite spoiled to Wei Ning on weekdays, but he can't get used to her profligacy. After Wei Ning was injured, he didn't want to get used to her behavior.
As soon as Wei Ning returned to the palace, he was called by the emperor and reprimanded before being put back.
She was also extremely aggrieved in her heart. If the emperor could have cared more about her, she wouldn't have been unhealed for so long.
Thinking of this, her hatred for Jiang Luoan deepened a little.
After leaving the auction hall, Su Chenyu took Jiang Luoan to listen to the most popular scripts of the moment.
The two of them sat in the box on the second floor of the teahouse, listening to the ups and downs of the storyteller downstairs through the curtain.
"This Wei Yan's words are really different from Long Chen's, and he prefers to talk about some palace secrets. But where did they learn about these things, most of them are just nonsense. Jiang Luoan commented a few words while drinking tea.
She lifted the curtain a little and looked down, and several people downstairs had been looking in the direction of their box, consciously or unconsciously. Every time Jiang Luoan lifted the curtain, they would immediately turn their heads and pretend to be obedient to the book.
"These people are still watching us down there, and it seems that your guess is correct." Jiang Luoan lowered the curtain.
When they had just gone upstairs, Su Chenyu's footsteps paused for a moment. When he got upstairs, he told Jiang Luoan that there were several people sitting below who had followed them all the way.
After observing for a while, Jiang Luoan found that this was indeed the case.
However, the tracking technology of these people is inevitably a little inadequate, and they always want to look at them. This is probably for fear that they will run away, but it also increases the risk of exposure.
"What, are you scared?" Su Chenyu looked at Jiang Luoan with a smile.
Jiang Luo'an pinched the snacks on the table with his hand, and took a beautiful bite, "Don't be afraid, the soldiers will block it, and the water will cover it." β
After the two of them listened to the script, it was already night, and the night market under the teahouse was also opened.
The small stalls and vendors are arranged in two rows on the street, and a red lantern is hung in the middle of the stalls every few steps, and the red fire lights up the street, and there is an endless stream of people coming and going.
After the two of them left the teahouse, they watched and played all the way. Now in the street, the people who are following will not do it easily.
A few steps forward, Jiang Luoan was attracted by a vendor selling sugar paintings.
A large pot of sticky maltose syrup was still boiling in the cauldron next to the stall owner, who scooped out a spoonful of maltose from the cauldron and laid it on the cold bluestone slab while it was hot.
The hot syrup solidifies immediately when it gets cold. The stall owner shook his wrist and controlled the syrup in the iron spoon to flow evenly. With a wave of his wrist, a lively dragon appeared on the bluestone slab.
Finally, take a bamboo skewer and dip it in some syrup and press it on the dragon, and the cold sugar painting dragon was picked up by the stall owner and handed to the child waiting on the side.
It's not that Jiang Luoan hasn't seen these things, it's just that exotic things make her more curious.
Su Chenyu saw that she liked it, and took the initiative to buy a little rabbit to make Jiang Luoan happy.
There were a lot of people in the night market, Jiang Luoan was jumping in front of him with a little rabbit in one hand, and his other hand was suddenly held by Su Chenyu.
She looked back and saw Su Chenyu smiling lightly at her, "There are a lot of people here, I'm afraid you're lost." β
Looking at his smile, Jiang Luoan was a little moved.
After the two people who bought the candy paintings left, the stall owner quietly glanced at the person who was following them behind him.
The two men deliberately wanted to lure the stalkers out, so they pretended to be unconscious and walked into a small alley.
As if waiting for someone, the two men whispered in the alley. This small alley isolates the noise of the night market from the outside, and the lights are much dimest.
The man who followed them thought they had found a good time and stepped into the alley without hesitation.
Seeing that those people couldn't wait to walk into the alley, Jiang Luoan stuffed the sugar painting in his hand into Su Chenyu's hand, and flew towards those people.
Her methods are unpredictable, making these people unguardable. When the bustling crowd on the street hadn't noticed the movement in this small alley, Jiang Luoan had already neatly killed these stalkers.
The two of them walked around the night market again before going back.
Wei Mian walked around Su Chenyu's mansion because he was on the way. Jiang Luoan left earlier than him, but the others had already arrived here, and the two had not returned.
He waited here, and felt that the two of them should have gone elsewhere, so he went back to his mansion first.
But until he came over again in the evening, Jiang Luoan and the others still didn't come back.
Jiang Aotian did not attend the auction. He couldn't help but feel a little worried when he saw that Wei Mian, who had gone with him, had come back early, but his daughter was nowhere to be seen.
Wei Mian also simply sat down in Su Chenyu's mansion and waited for them.
finally saw Su Chenyu and Jiang Luoan holding hands and coming in happily, Wei Mian was inexplicably a little angry.
He walked in front of the two of them, and before Jiang Luoan could be surprised how he could be here, he listened to Wei Mian and said, "I don't know if I went out to play, do you know that Uncle Jiang is worried that something happened to you, and you haven't even eaten yet?" β
Jiang Luoan didn't expect this to happen at all, she went to see her father in person, which made him settle down.
Since Jiang Luo'an and his party entered the city, they seemed to have evaporated from the world, and it was difficult for anyone to find out about them.
Unable to get the specific movements of these people, Emperor Wei Yan was anxious and kept sending people out to investigate. But these people either went and never returned, or they were suddenly intercepted when they were about to hear the news.
They had not been heard for many days, and the Emperor became even more irritable.
Soon it was time for the emperor's birthday banquet. For the sake of safety, Wen Zhao also went with them. But he said that he had to put a strange mask on his face, and he was unwilling to show his true face.
Jiang Luoan guessed that his identity might be unusual and didn't want to expose it in front of others.
When the group arrived, they happened to meet Zhehuai, who also came to participate in the birthday banquet. When Zhehuai saw Jiang Luo'an, he also came up to say hello.
After everyone else was seated, the belated emperor and empress took their seats under the gaze of everyone.
There was still a vacant seat left in the upper seat, Jiang Luoan glanced to the side a few times, and there was no one still standing.
The emperor saw the vacant seat, but did not ask out loud, and the great eunuch beside him did not announce the beginning of the birthday feast.
Is this still waiting for someone? Jiang Luoan thought, who has such a big face and dares to let the emperor and empress sit here and wait for him?
"The Holy Maiden has arrivedβ" In the silence of the room, the eunuch's shrill voice became even more harsh.
With his voice, Wei Yan's holy maiden Wei Luoyin slowly came under his leadership.
Jiang Luoan turned his head to look at the holy woman, is the status of the holy woman so high in this country, even the emperor can ignore it.
But there seems to be something unsound about this holy woman's mind. It's been a short walk, and she's always been stupid.
It was only after she had sat in the vacant seat that the great eunuch announced the beginning of the birthday feast.
Jiang Luo'an felt that Jiang Aotian, who was sitting next to him, was a little excited when he saw the Holy Maiden. She turned her head to look at her father, "Father, is there anything special about this holy woman?" β
Jiang Aotian grabbed her hand, and the strength was so great that Jiang Luoan felt a little pain.
"This is your mother, An An, this is your mother." Jiang Aotian forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart, approached Jiang Luoan, and said in a low voice.
"What-" Jiang Luo'an's eyes widened, this is the mother he has never seen?
At the beginning, His Royal Highness King Rui seemed to have told her that his mother's identity was not ordinary, but Jiang Luoan never thought that he would see his mother on such an occasion.
But something was wrong with the mother, her eyes were scattered, and she seemed to be looking around aimlessly.
Jiang Luo'an used his ability to observe for a while, and found that Wei Luoyin was poisoned to become like this.
The emperor sitting on the throne watched the movements of the Jiang family's father and daughter below. Seeing Jiang Luoan's shocked look, he hooked the corners of his lips a little proudly.
Since there is no way to send someone to get rid of Jiang Luoan, it is completely possible to try to win her over. As long as Wei Luoyin is in his hands, he will have the opportunity to use his family affection to let Jiang Luoan stay.
He coughed lightly and called out intimately, "Luo'an, this holy woman is your mother, you should never have seen your mother." β
Jiang Luo'an was screamed goosebumps by his name, and she held back the discomfort in her heart and replied: "Yes, the little girl has been separated from her mother since she was a child, and today is the first time she has seen her mother's true face." β
Hearing her say this, the emperor smiled, "Since you mother and daughter have met, there is no need to disperse from now on." Why don't you stay in Weiyan in the future? β
Jiang Luoan didn't expect him to have such an idea, so he immediately refused.
The emperor still did not give up, "The child of the saint has the same status as the princess, if you stay here, it is equivalent to a princess, but the status is much higher than if you stay in Longchen as the daughter of a minister." Why, why don't you consider giving me an answer again? β
Seeing that the emperor was so unrelenting, Jiang Luoan simply picked out the words in his heart and said it clearly, "Your Majesty, please forgive me for being blunt, I don't want to stay in Wei Yan is just unwilling to be with Wei Ning and these people, please Your Majesty don't force me anymore." β
Her words were a slap in the face of Wei Ning, and Wei Ning was naturally angry, so she immediately stood up and asked for a fight with Jiang Luoan.
Jiang Luoan looked at her with a little disdain, "Your injury shouldn't be okay yet, in order not to let others say that I am a bully, you and your brother will go together." β
Wei Ning glanced at Wei Zheng, who was sitting next to him, and Wei Zheng also felt that he had been provoked by Jiang Luo'an, and then stood up.
The two brothers and sisters have relaxed a lot since they returned to China, and although the speed of cultivation is not slow, they are not very diligent. So much so that more than half a year has passed, and they have been left far behind by Jiang Luoan.
The two of them worked together, but they still couldn't prevent Jiang Luoan's attack.
Seeing that a pair of beloved children had been defeated, the emperor's face was already as black as the bottom of a pot.
If the prince and the princess are not as good as the daughter of a minister in a neighboring country, where will his face go?
The emperor searched below with his gaze, and suddenly saw Wei Mian sitting in the corner doing nothing.
Wei Mian was not favored by the emperor himself, otherwise the emperor would not have sent him out alone to find the jade seal. He didn't have much interest in attending this birthday party, so he sat in the corner all the time to eat and drink.
When the emperor saw him, he pointed at him as if he had grasped a life-saving straw and said, "Wei Mian, you go up and have a competition with Miss Jiang." β
He remembered that Wei Mian had studied in the Futu Palace for a while, and if he could enter there, his cultivation would definitely not be bad.
Wei Mian was called inexplicably, so he could only swallow the contents of his mouth in a hurry, and got up and responded: "Got it, father." β