"Where is this going?" After walking for a while, Zhu Jingyan realized that this was not the direction of entering the palace, so he frowned and asked.

Gonggong Xu replied with a smile, "Your Highness is not in the palace today. ”

Zhu Jingyan's eyebrows tightened, and he knew that he wouldn't say much when he saw Father-in-law Xu's demeanor, so he didn't ask more, and just drove forward in silence.

After a while, the group turned out of the bustling street market and entered a quiet alley.

When Gonggong Xu, who arrived at the front, asked people to stop, they had already stopped in front of a house.

There were faint flowers and trees in the courtyard stretching out from behind the towering blue brick wall, and several regular guards in front of the door hugged their fists to salute them.

Of course, with Grandpa Xu here, it is impossible for anyone else to see him except for his father.

But...... Standing on horseback, Zhu Jingyan looked at the courtyard gate in front of him, but he still frowned, and his eyes turned dark.

"Childe?" Gonggong Xu had already dismounted, and when he saw that Zhu Jingyan did not move, he stopped in front of the door, turned his head to look over, and asked with a smile on his face.

Zhu Jingyan turned over and got off the horse with a calm face, and entered the courtyard gate first.

It doesn't look obvious from the outside, but when I enter the courtyard gate, I go around the shadow wall, and the more I go inside, the more I feel that this courtyard is very exquisite. According to the style of the Jiangnan garden, five steps and a pavilion, ten steps and a pavilion, carved beams and painted buildings, curved bridge corridors. In the garden this season, there are still clusters of flowers, the flower stream is around, the rockery is lined up, one of the lotus ponds, although there is only the residual lotus left, but in the reeds, a few cranes are flying when they hear the sound, they are smart, and they do not feel half a point of decadence.

The mandarin duck vine on the other side, green, facing the wind, the gold and silver flowers trembled lightly, and there was a person sitting under the tree.

Dressed in regular clothes, light robe and slow belt, half lying on the Taishi chair, there is a pot of tea on the table at hand, a few refreshments, very leisurely appearance.

It's not King Ning, which one is it?

It's just that the scene in front of him made Zhu Jingyan feel uncomfortable, his father was really carried away by the good news and the words in the court, and now at this time, he is so leisurely? No! In fact, he had never seen this side of his father in his memory.

He was there for a moment, not daring to come closer.

King Ning noticed his arrival, raised his head and saw him on the side like a wooden pestle, and couldn't help laughing, "Jing Yan is here?" How is the pestle there? Come, come and sit! As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed to the brocade on the side.

Zhu Jingyu lowered his eyes and stepped forward to salute. Seeing that King Ning was pleasant, he sat next to him on the brocade, but his back was still straight.

King Ning smiled and gossiped to him, let him drink tea and eat snacks, what he said, and what he did was like an ordinary father.

But Zhu Jingyan's responses were all restrained words such as "yes" or "okay", compared to the ordinary hush and warmth now, he was more accustomed to only talking about business with his father, that was the ordinary between their father and son. Those shh Even his conversations with his father were really more when he participated in his father's "business", so he really didn't know what else to say to his father besides those things.

King Ning obviously noticed it too, and after saying it for a while, the smile on his face faded. At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps behind him, and before Zhu Jingyan could turn back, he saw King Ning standing up and passing him to greet him, with a sincere and gentle smile on his face, "I said that it is good to let the cook do it, and you have to do it yourself, this kitchen is smoky, don't be tired for a while." ”

These words made the speculation that had been lingering in Zhu Jingyu's heart come out when he came to this courtyard, and he stood up silently and turned his head in silence.

As far as the eye could see, King Ning was holding the hand of a beautiful woman. The beautiful woman was dressed in homely makeup, not as good as the hairpin rings she had seen in her memory, and her gorgeous brocade clothes were as fresh and elegant as if she had washed away the lead, and she raised a pair of Yingying Danfeng eyes and looked at King Ning, and Furong smiled with satisfaction on her face, "I'm not tired." I haven't cooked by myself for many years, and today your father and son are here, and I have to cook two dishes for you myself to feel at ease. ”

As he spoke, a pair of beautiful eyes looked in the direction of Zhu Jingyan with two points of apprehension.

Zhu Jingyan stood with his hands tied, the corners of his lips pursed into a straight line, and his posture was as straight as a bamboo, but between his eyebrows and eyes, he was full of indifference.

There was a coldness that rejected people thousands of miles away, and the smile on the face of the beautiful woman, that is, Mrs. Geng, couldn't help but fade by two points.

King Ning noticed it, so he also looked at Zhu Jingyan, and naturally saw the coldness on his face. He groaned slightly, but he curled the corners of his lips and smiled, "Jing Yan, today is your birthday, and in a blink of an eye, you are so old." In the past, that couldn't, but now, we can finally reunite as a family and celebrate your birthday together. Your mother also cooked two dishes for you personally, and today, we will not get drunk or go home! ”

Zhu Jingyan frowned, "Father, there are still many military affairs to be disposed of in the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division, I'm afraid I won't be able to have dinner with you." Since my father is in high spirits, let me drink to my heart's content, child...... I took my leave first. When he said this, he didn't even look at Mrs. Geng, and naturally he didn't see Mrs. Geng's pale face and King Ning's angry face, bowed his hand, and turned around to leave.

"Stop for this king!" Fang just held an amiable one in front of his son, and when he was in a hurry, this "king" also came out.

And Zhu Jingyan naturally had to stop.

Mrs. Geng smiled again, but she was much more reluctant, and raised her hand to pull King Ning's sleeve, with two points of pleading on her face.

King Ning patted the back of her hand to appease, and then took a step forward and approached Zhu Jingyan, staring at him with scorching eyes, "What military affairs are so important, you don't even have time to have a dinner?" If you are so busy, why don't you ask the second child to help you? ”

Zhu Jingyan raised his eyes and glanced at King Ning very quickly, then lowered his head again. The deep meaning of these words, their father and son naturally know it.

Zhu Jingyan stopped talking, so naturally he didn't leave. King Ning was satisfied, and turned his head to Mrs. Geng, who looked at Zhu Jingyu with a somewhat uneasy expression, and said with a smile, "It's not early, I'm a little hungry, can't I set the meal?" ”

Mrs. Geng glanced at Zhu Jingyan again, and then pulled the corners of her mouth and said, "I'll take a look." With that, he walked back and forth.

Zhu Jingyan was the same as when he came, the pestle became a wooden stake on the side, as if he didn't notice Mrs. Geng's gaze at all, and didn't glance at her.

As soon as Mrs. Geng left, the smile on King Ning's face disappeared, and he turned his head to stare at Zhu Jingyan and said, "Third child! You must know that the reason why this king values you is not only because you are the son of this king, but also because you are the blood and bone of the king's favorite woman for this king, and the truth of loving the house and Wu, I don't think this king needs to tell you anymore. ”