On this day, many officials came to toast Lin Hongyi, Xu Qingqing was not good at dealing with these courtiers, so he found an excuse to take Zilu to the Imperial Garden.

The winter snow has long since melted, the plums have withered, new leaves have grown on the flower branches, and the wind blowing in the face has also brought a hint of spring.

After walking a few steps, a young man suddenly came to face in the corridor.

The young man was dressed in a lake green robe, his age was similar to Xu Qingqing, and his eyes under the sword eyebrows were surprisingly clear, and there was a tear mole in the corner of his eye.

That face is full of heaven and has a well-defined jaw, which is quite magnificent.

Xu Qingqing didn't recognize which family this was, and when she saw the young man staring at her, she didn't look away for a long time, so she couldn't help but look at him a few more times.

His eyes fell on the tear mole in the corner of his eye, and his eyes couldn't help but condense slightly.

"This son, you are blocking the way of my princess." Zilu couldn't help but sigh.

"It turned out to be the princess Niangniang...... the young man came back to his senses and saluted respectfully, "Chen Yan Chengque, there are many rudenesses, please Niangniang Haihan." ”

Yan Chengque?

When did he change his name to Yan Chengque?

Xu Qingqing's heart was pounding, but there were many guests coming and going, and there were some words that she really couldn't ask in front of everyone.

This man, she's seen before.

At that time, the father posted the imperial list to recruit a teacher for the prince, and a talented son surnamed Yan was on the list and became the prince's concubine, and his eldest son Yan Gang also entered the palace and became the prince's accompaniment.

Xu Qingqing met Yan Gang at that time, he was much taller than his peers, with a dark complexion, and a face that was not amazing, because he didn't understand the rules when he entered the palace for the first time, he walked around the palace, and somehow came to the outside of the cold palace.

The first time Xu Qingqing saw him, he was sitting on the high wall of the cold palace, teasing a kitten with a dog's tail grass.

"You...... Who are you? She looked at the boy on the wall in amazement.

"My name is Yan Gang, what about you?" The boy jumped down, patted the dust off his body, and looked around curiously, "Don't they all say that the palace is magnificent, how can there be such a dilapidated and desolate place?" ”

"My name is Xu Qingqing. This is a cold palace, how can there be any magnificence to speak of? ”

"Cold Palace? Isn't the cold palace a place to hold unfavored concubines, who are you, is it possible...... You're also a concubine? ”

"Fool, have you ever seen a concubine as big as me? I'm Concubine Xu's daughter......"

"Concubine Xu? Oh, the concubine that the emperor snatched from a neighboring country? ”

"You know my mother?"

"Of course I know, who in this world doesn't know that Concubine Xu Niangniang is the first beauty. But why do you look so dry and thin, it's not beautiful at all......"

Memories flashed in front of her eyes one by one, and Xu Qingqing was stunned for a long time.

A few years have passed, and although the appearance of Yan Gang in his memory has changed a lot compared with the person in front of him, Xu Qingqing has always remembered those eyes clearly.

Looking at each other, Yan Chengque blurted out unconsciously: "The princess is very similar to one of my old people......

"What old man?" Zilu was suspicious.

Yan Chengque glanced at the maid and didn't mention the name of the "old man".

He remembered that the "old man" had never been officially canonized as a princess, and he didn't know whether he was still under house arrest in the cold palace, or whether he had escaped from the imperial city on the day of the battle between the two armies.

Such a girl who lives in the cold palace, even if she escapes, no one should pay attention to it.

If he rashly mentioned it and aroused the alarm of others, she did not know whether it was a blessing or a curse......

"I have never known the general in my life, and I may have a good relationship." Xu Qingqing said.

Yan Chengque looked at the face in front of him carefully, he couldn't believe that there were people in the world who were so similar, if it weren't for the fact that this person was the princess of Hong who was appointed by the emperor to marry, he would probably suspect that she was Xu Qingqing......

The eunuch behind him coughed, and he came back to his senses slightly.

"General Yan, the emperor is still waiting for you in the Heart Cultivation Palace." The eunuch reminded.

Yan Chengque nodded, bowed his head slightly to Xu Qingqing, and said goodbye.

The moment the two of them staggered, Zilu seemed to see a little light in Xu Qingqing's eyes that was rare on weekdays.

"Niangniang, this General Yan, are you an old acquaintance?" She asked softly.

"Nothing." Xu Qingqing shook her head.

After all, Zilu is Lin Huai'an's person, and there are some things, so it's better not to let her know......

came to the hall and held the banquet for a long time, Xu Qingqing was still a little uneasy.

This Yan Gang was her benefactor with her mother.

My mother was weak and sickly, and once contracted a high fever, because it was very contagious, the eunuch not only refused to ask for a doctor, but also did not even send food here.

After Yan Gang learned about this, he quickly came up with an idea - he deliberately contracted a high fever, so he asked his father Yan Taifu to take several pairs of symptomatic medicines from Tai Hospital, and quietly threw two of the packets into the cold palace.

Yan Gang has done similar things many times.

He was afraid that Xu Qingqing would starve, so he hid the pastries rewarded by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in his sleeve and quietly brought them into the cold palace for Xu Qingqing to eat.

In addition to pastries, there are also books, pen and ink, and a stove......

Whatever Xu Qingqing wanted, he tried to bring, and once personally drew a kite for her.

It's a pity that the kite is wireless, even if it is wired, it can't be put in the palace walls of the cold palace, once it is seen by the palace maids and eunuchs, it will definitely be punished together with the mother......

During that time, Yan Chengque came very diligently, and he would come over almost every three or five days, but then he suddenly never appeared again.

I heard from the people in the palace that the queen was pregnant in September and gave birth to a son-in-law, and the emperor was so happy that he immediately abolished the prince and renamed the baby who was less than a month old as the prince.

The abolished prince was the eldest son of the emperor, but he was not born to the queen, but to a concubine, and died violently not long after being deposed.

After investigation, it was found that someone had poisoned the books, and the waste prince had been exposed to those books for a long time, and the poison slowly invaded the body, which was why it was so sudden.

Yan Taifu was the prince's master, and he handled all those books, and soon, he was escorted into the Shen Punishment Division.

Xu Qingqing didn't know what this person had experienced in the Shen Criminal Division, but he knew that the Yan family was raided overnight, the three clans were all killed, and all the family members were exiled.

She always thought that Yan Gang was also among the people who were killed, but she never thought that she would meet him again in the palace after many years......

Now that she has become the princess of Prince Hong, he has become the general of Zhenbei, and the two people of the year gathered together in a palace banquet.

Xu Qingqing tried her best not to look in the direction where Yan Chengque was sitting, she was afraid that she would be seen by others.

Whatever is terrible, Yan Chengque's eyes repeatedly cast themselves here, Xu Qingqing didn't say anything, but Lin Hongyi's face beside him changed slightly. "Third brother, I think this General Yan seems to be very curious about your concubine." The eldest prince Lin Xiuyuan said seemingly casually.

Lin Xiuyuan and Lin Hongyi's appearance is completely different, not as starry and sword eyebrows as Lin Hongyi, and there seems to be a trace of gloom in his eyes, which is somewhat similar to that Xu Shuhuai.