Chapter 15 A Five-Year Covenant
Lan Wang never thought that her father's secret words before his death, this Longxian princess, also knew a thing or two, how much power she had and how far she had expanded!
"Get up and sit down." He hung his head slightly, and sat in the guest seat with the elegance and luxury inherent in the royal family.
"Lan Gongzi doesn't have to be so restrained, it's better to be his own home." The girl behind the bookcase finally put away the scroll she had just made and looked up at him. Lan Wang retracted his eyes and smiled self-deprecatingly, and inadvertently caught a glimpse of the dress embroidered with blue butterfly flowers and butterflies, but the appearance of this little girl was really unfamiliar, only the pair of delicate Danfeng eyes had a vague memory.
When Ling Huxian looked at him again, she was busy staggering her flustered look, and suddenly remembered the owner of these eyes. "Lan Gongzi has something to say?" Ling Huxian asked with a smile, and ordered the maid to serve good tea. "Ahh Your Highness," Lan Wang was quite nervous, and his plain and even somewhat vulgar face really couldn't remind him of the girl in front of him. "Dare to ask, is Qingying... Seen you? "What do you think?" She chuckled and said Tai Chi.
"It's... I heard that the new emperor Canglan ascended the throne this time, and His Royal Highness also sent envoys, dare to ask His Royal Highness if he has this new monarch? ”
"Of course."
"Then ......," he really didn't know how to ask.
"Then you and.... And Canglan Huang is..... ”
Ling Huxian chuckled and generously admitted: "We are husband and wife." ”
"I see...."Lan Wang, who had been nervous, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief for some reason, and he was not as restrained as before. When you came to the dynasty, did you ever think about what to do? Ling Huxian waited for him to adjust his state, sat down and stared at him with a smile, as if he was staring at his prey. Lan Wang is willing to live in seclusion, not for the family dispute, before his father died, warned Lan, saying that the situation in the world has been decided, and he can no longer indulge in the struggle for power. ”
"It's a pity that Lan withered without this heart,"
Lan Wang naturally knew his brother's ambitions, so he left Lan Du desperately.
"However, you are going to come to the dynasty to live in seclusion?"
Before he could answer, the little girl chattered to herself: "Living in seclusion in our dynasty, but you have to pay land tax." ”
The housekeeper who had been waiting at the door heard this, and silently lowered his sense of existence, he really had enough knowledge of Princess Longxian's tricks of abduction.
Lan Wang froze for a moment.
"Also, if in the future, the dynasty rules the world, you will have to pay land tax wherever you live in seclusion."
"Dare... Dare to ask the princess, this land tax... Yes..."
"Oh, this world is not the king's land, where you live in seclusion and build a house, you will occupy the country's land, and naturally you have to pay taxes~"
What the hell is the land tax, he hasn't seen this thing in all the years he's lived in the dynasty... The housekeeper slandered....
"Besides, how can you high-ranking laymen take advantage of this good mountain and water."
"That.... Your Highness.."
"This hall sees that you are poor and white, and you have suffered from the cynicism of the group of snobs in the Ouyang family, so it is better for you to follow this hall and ensure that you have no worries about food and clothing."
"But... Your Highness..."Lan Wang hesitated, he knew very well what the olive branch thrown by Long Xian was, Long Xian recruited talents and recruited wise men, not for the sake of the world, but this world also included the territory of his Lan Capital....
"Five years, follow the main hall for five years, and after five years, the main hall will set you free." Ling Huxian, who was not in a proper shape just now, finally became serious, and her extremely sincere appearance made Lan Wang a little uncomfortable.
Five years later, her deadline was approaching, and no matter what the world was, he was free.
"Your Highness, how can Lan Qingying be able to be retained by His Highness like this..."He didn't understand, Long Xian had many capable people, and now that the situation was more in front of Long Xian, what kind of ability did he have to get into her eyes?
"In the future, there will be a personal expedition to the Japanese Palace, and Longxian County will lack a housekeeper."
He looked up suddenly, trying to see the expression on her face, but it was unusually serious. This Longxian County can be said to be the largest state and county in the dynasty, so just give it to him? No matter how obedient he is, he will be the prince of Landu after all.
"Your Highness, I'm originally from Landu... You..."
"There is no suspicion in employing people, and no suspicion is used." The girl took a sip of the teacup and looked at him with a smile.
He was silent, although he admired, but he also had his own considerations: "Princess Longxian, I know that I am a foreigner, and I shouldn't be so greedy because of my love, but Your Highness, please forgive Qingying for being greedy, Qingying wants to put forward three conditions." ”
"You say yes."
"First, Qingying will not participate in any war about Landu." He is a native of Landu, and he does not betray his homeland or cause trouble to his subjects.
"Exactly." Ling Huxian understands and will not let him do these rebellious things.
"Second, as His Highness said, after five years, the British will be freed."
"Of course, it will not only let you go free, but also ensure that you will live in seclusion without worrying about food and clothing in the future."
"Thirdly...," he stopped.
"This palace promises the Landu royal family a way to live, as long as they can live in the lives of ordinary people as you wish, otherwise, this palace doesn't want to bury future troubles for itself, and there is one more point, Lan Wei must die."
The girl's tone was cold, and what she said was indeed what he was thinking.
"Thank you for your kindness, Lan Wang should serve His Highness as a dog and horse!" He was overjoyed and quickly got up and bowed again. "Okay, from now on, you will be the staff of Princess Longxian's mansion, Uncle Li, please take him to familiarize yourself with the princess's mansion, and Prince Lan will temporarily ask you for guidance in the future."
This staff made Lan Qingying never expect that the staff was different from those ministers, although they did not have official ranks, they were freer than the imperial court, and it was more convenient to express their loyalty, and the staff of the princess's mansion added a layer of protection to him, and only the princess had the right to dispose of him.
This is the greatest freedom and dignity that Ling Huxian can give him.
"It's time to come out to see the excitement." Ling Hu Xian watched Lan Wang obediently follow Steward Li and retreated, and suddenly said something out of thin air. After playing the four-sided screen, a man leisurely walked out, with a jade crown in a black robe, and his bangs were strung into a bunch of agate beads to the side. "Why just let him be Lieber's assistant? Won't he be unwilling? Zuo Xi was quite puzzled. If it is him, no, when he enters the mansion, I am afraid that he will be able to see the status of Li Bo in the entire princess's mansion, if he can be unwilling, it will be the palace to look away. ”
Zuo Xi really didn't want to think about these brain-consuming questions, so Ma Yu'er changed the topic: "You have been hanging out of the Ouyang family for almost an hour, and this Ma Wei is almost the same." ”
"Hmph, who asked me to look at that Ouyang Yue so unpleasantly..."
In the living room, the Ouyang people slowly became restless, and an hour had passed, but they didn't see a master come to entertain them.
Ouyang Yi understood very well in his heart that since the Ouyang family entered Longxian County, Long Xian was afraid that he knew everything about it, and if he was waiting for them, he was just a dismount.
"Princess Longxian has arrived!" Outside the hall, the guards made a loud announcement, attracting everyone's attention, and the gate shrouded in eyes calmly and elegantly walked into a girl, dressed in a blue autumn dress embroidered with butterflies, plain face and three thousand ink hair, and the nobility of the clan was natural.
"Your Highness, Haifu Jin'an!" The guards on duty in the hall saluted one by one, but the people of the Ouyang family were stunned one by one, not knowing what to do.
"I was so busy with affairs that I neglected the guests who came from afar." Ling Hu Xian dismissed the guards with a wave of her hand, and said with a slight smile without changing her face.
"Vulgar people, I have never seen the world, such rudeness, I hope His Royal Highness will forgive..."The people of the family didn't know what to do, Ouyang Yi was really dying, and hurriedly stepped forward to make amends.
"It's all a family, how can we say forgiveness? However, the temple has lost the friendship of the landlord, quickly, give the seat tea! ”
Ever since this Longxian princess entered the hall, Ouyang Yue had always felt that this blue dress was very familiar, and after sitting down, she kept staring at Ling Huxian's face, who sensed her gaze and said with a smile: "Miss Ouyang, what is on the face of this hall that makes Miss so curious to stare at?" "Ah, what?" Hearing someone call her, Ouyang Yue was stunned and lost her temper.
"Your Highness, Yi's discipline is not strict, if there is something that offends my sister, I will definitely discipline it strictly when I go back." Ling Huxian was very sympathetic to Ouyang Yi who wiped her ass for this family again and again, this was the first time she had seen anyone other than the Ouyang family except for the two brothers and sisters, and she had just reported to the guards, but she didn't expect it to be a family trouble.
"Miss Ben just thinks... The princess is so familiar. "In the past, Miss Ouyang really forgot about the main hall, or did Miss Ouyang have seen the main hall elsewhere?" Linghu Xian smiled slightly, laughing extremely dangerously, enticing her memory little by little. Ouyang Yue did not shy away from staring at her directly, even the people of the Ouyang family gasped for her rude behavior.
She shook her head, she had no more memories of that face, but when she swept the butterfly orchid on Ling Huxian's skirt, she suddenly realized and stood up suddenly: "Canglan.. Princess Cangxue? She exclaimed, as if the humiliation she had suffered because of this Cangxue princess in the past, and pointed at her with trembling fingers: "Yes, you are Ye Xian, you are the slut who humiliated Miss Ben at the Canglan New Year Banquet!" It's you, right! "Back then, when she danced the lotus spirit, she could see that her eyes had been staring at the Cangxue King, but it was this woman, and the Cangxue King had never looked at her! After the banquet, how many young ladies of the family mocked her wishful thinking behind her back.... It's all because of her!
Ling Huxian seemed to have known that this would happen, and sat on the seat very indifferently and drank tea, waiting for her to speak wildly again. "Qingli!" Ouyang Yi was frightened, he never thought that she would suddenly be so rude, and hurriedly went over and knocked her hand off, "Brother, what are you doing!" She's Ye Xian's slut! How could it be a princess! She's just a shitty and vulgar village girl! ...”
"Smack!" The sound of the tea cup falling on the table was extremely deafening, and I saw that the little girl stood up with a smile, and her body was cold: "The surname of this palace is Linghu Mingxian, and the mother's surname is Ye, it is the princess of Longxian who is crowned by the dynasty, why is this palace waiting for others, why is Miss Ouyang so criticized?!" ”
Ouyang Yue wholeheartedly decided that she was Princess Cangxue, and for a while forgot that she was also Princess Longxian, and when she heard such a cruel sentence, her face suddenly turned like ashes.
"Come on, Miss Ouyang Qingli insulted the hall with insulting words, scolded twenty boards, and executed in the front yard!" She flicked her sleeves and returned to the main position, and this momentum finally made all the Ouyang people who were still dreaming wake up, this is the dynasty, this girl is Princess Longxian, here, they can't help but act recklessly!