The New Year passed like this, and the sixth day of the first month of the Pavilion Department also spread the word, and the palace maid Wanying of Rongshou Palace went out of the palace from Zhenshun Gate on the fifteenth day of the first month.

The most relieving thing for Wanying is that on the eighth day of the first month, the emperor decreed that the noble Wanyun was promoted to Ronghua, which was one level higher than the previously rumored concubine, and moved out of the Yingchun Palace and moved into the east hall of Weiyang Palace. Being promoted two levels in a row without pregnancy is really rare in the harem of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and for a while, Wanyun became the hottest upstart in the Ziwei Divine Palace.

When Wanying heard the news, she sat by the fire, playing with a string of hand beads given by Prince Rong, and thought to herself: Wanyun was able to be crowned, which was naturally indispensable to Prince Rong's great help, and the queen's mother's help. Can have today, Wanyun's previous anger can be regarded as dissipating, and Tong Zhaoyi's nose is estimated to be crooked

Wanying's year was full of happy events, and she naturally lived a satisfactory life. However, Prince Rong, when he mentioned the war in the south, he was always worried and worried. On the sixth day of the first lunar month, he received a letter from He Youan from the Yellow River pontoon bridge to Beijing, and he rejoiced for a day.

Wan Ying counted with her fingers, leaving the palace is in front of her, and when she leaves the palace, if she wants to see Prince Rong again, she has to wait until the wedding day. On the tenth day of the first lunar month, snowflakes fell in the sky again, and the good news of the recovery of Jinling City, along with the first snow after the New Year, was sent to the East Warm Pavilion of Zichen Palace.

Towards evening, Prince Rong still did not come to see Wanying, Wanying sat by the fire hotly and greasyly, not thinking to read, but pinching an ivory feather fan, dissipating the heat in her heart at an inopportune time.

At dinnertime, the familiar footsteps came from outside the door, and as soon as Prince Rong entered the door, he asked with a happy face: "It's snowing today, I don't know if Qing'er has been able to warm up the good poems of Lotte Layman recently?" ”

Wan Ying looked at Prince Rong with a happy brow, it must be good news from the south, and said unhurriedly: "Green ant new brew wine, red clay small stove." If you want snow in the evening, can you drink a glass of nothing? But this one? ”

Prince Rong was very happy when he heard Wanying explain the meaning in his heart, and said in a tone of a small student in the play: "The Star Picking Building has prepared a fine wine, I don't know if the beauty is willing to move?" ”

Seeing this, Wanying also replied in Tsing Yi's singing voice: "The road to picking up the star building is far away, not to mention the snow road is difficult to travel, the thin wine and mussels in the Rongshou Palace, I don't know if Lang Jun is willing to appreciate the light?" ”

"The guest is as he pleases, and it is better to be respectful than to obey his fate."

A cup of tea, a few refined wine and dishes in front of him, three cups of warm wine in the stomach, a mixture of hot air surged up between the eyebrows, unconsciously Wanying spring love was burning, and his eyes said slightly: "But where did General He come from the good news?" ”

"Yes and no, it's not good news, but it's good news."

Wanying poured herself a cup, covered her sleeves and drank it all, and said, "There is better news than good news." ”

"At noon today, Jinling's five hundred miles were rushed to the palace, about ten days ago."

"Five hundred miles expedited, ten days ago, it was Chinese New Year's Eve?" Wan Ying calculated the time herself.

Prince Rong poured himself a cup, drank it all, and said happily: "Eight hundred miles and follow the heavy snow in an emergency, and it will become five hundred miles." Heavy snow in the north takes a little more time. ”

"I see...... The horse stepped on the snow, and the daily journey was five hundred, and the good news made Liulang wait for the past few days...... "After a few glasses of wine, Wanying was a little dazed, and I didn't know what I was talking about.

Prince Rong was obviously still immersed in the joy of Jinling's victory, and the joy on his face that could not be dissipated was in full view. Holding the feather fan, covering his half-drunk and half-awake face. Drunken eyes looked at Prince Rong slightly.

"This He You'an was born to be a war ghost, and Fang Songding really poured blood mold for eight lifetimes when he met him." Prince Rong's eyebrows were filled with indescribable joy.

"Could it really be a great victory in Jinling?" Wan Ying hadn't seen the content of the afternoon's victory, she only thought it was a victory in a small battle, but looking at Prince Rong's degree of happiness, it was definitely not a victory in a small battle. I also felt incredible in my heart, Jinling City was a battleground for soldiers in all dynasties, and it was really unbelievable that it was recovered in just half a moon.

"Win without a fight, without spending a single soldier, without a fight. Qing'er said that he was not a genius. Prince Rong said three words in a row.

Wan Ying's hand holding the fan suddenly trembled, fortunately the feather fan covered her panicked face, and after sorting out her thoughts in her heart, Wan Ying slowly put down the feather fan in her hand, and said, "General He won't use any beauty tricks on the other side of Songding, right?" ”

Wanying said it delicately, Prince Rong couldn't help laughing, shook his head, stretched out his hand to open Wanying's feather fan, and said dotingly: "It's thirty-six schemes, it's not a beauty trick but a discordant scheme." ”

Prince Rong deliberately opened Wanying's feather fan to cover her face, and said the three words 'beauty plan' to Wanying. Wanying understood that Prince Rong was a little confused by the strength of wine.

Wan Ying put down the feather fan, picked up a teapot from the stove, and offered a cup of hangover tea to Prince Rong, and then Ying Ying said, "Can you tell Qing'er how General He separated the enemy army?" ”

When it came to marching and fighting, Prince Rong was really more interested, took a few sips of hangover tea, and said heroically: "The siege of the overlord of Western Chu back then, the allusion to the embattled plan of the Han ancestor Liu Bang, Qing'er has heard of it?" ”

"When Qing'er was a child, she flipped through the "Historical Records" on her brother's bookshelf, read a few articles randomly, and happened to read this allusion, wouldn't General He also give Fang Songding a big drama of Fujian songs on all sides, right?" Wanying shook the goose feather fan, trying to fade the flush on her face.

When Prince Rong heard Wanying's allusion to knowing that he was embattled, he was more excited than he had won the battle, patting his thighs and shaking his head, happy like a child who had won jelly bean cookies: "Exactly, you say that he is not bad, bad or not?" With that, he picked up the glass and drank it all.

A cold wind squeezed into the house, and it just blew on Wanying's back, Wanying's wine fever gradually dissipated, and the sobriety after being slightly drunk was more clear than ever. His face also echoed Prince Rong and smiled: "General He is brave and strategic, Liulang has such a brother, Qing'er is also happy for Liulang, Qing'er has another drink." Congratulations to the emperor on the victory of Jinling, congratulations to Liulang. ”

Prince Rong was obviously simply immersed in his brother's good news, and did not notice the change in Wan Ying's face at all, and still said eloquently: "Fang Songding is from the Central Plains, but his soldiers are all Fujian natives, Jinling City is closed for self-defense, has been out of food for many days, on Chinese New Year's Eve, when ten thousand families are reunited, these soldiers hear the native voice of their hometown, do you say that they can not abandon the city and surrender?" ”

Wan Ying thought that she missed her family very much on Chinese New Year's Eve, and said lightly: "No matter how tough a man is, he can't get through the hurdle of missing his relatives every festive season." ”

Prince Rong nodded in agreement, but he still took the trouble to praise He You'an, and said: "The soldiers who surrender without a fight are the highest level of leading troops to fight." ”

Wan Ying bit her lip and plucked up the courage to ask tentatively: "He is already a general at a young age, what did Liulang ask the emperor for his brother this time?" ”

Prince Rong said heartily: "In his private letter to me, he said that he had found the woman who haunted his dreams, and if he returned from the great victory of the Southern Expedition, let me ask the Empress Dowager for a marriage letter with him." ”

Prince Rong's words revealed his blessings for his brother to find happiness, but Wanying became even more frightened when she heard this. Thinking that my father also instructed himself, Prince Herong should explain this matter clearly, and it should not be delayed, and the sooner he explained it clearly, the better.

But where do you start? Prince Rong opened the conversation box and recalled to Wanying that the friendship between himself and He Youan from childhood to adulthood, Wanying couldn't listen to half a word. The only few meetings between Wanying and He You'an kept spinning in his mind.

If you really want to make it clear, you have to start with my father's birthday last summer. Wanying exhaled deeply, and said to herself in her heart: "You have to face it, not to mention that you have never done anything wrong." Simply make it clear and save yourself embarrassment in the future. Thinking of this, his cold hands pressed his cheeks, which were a little red, and interrupted Prince Rong's chatterbox, saying, "Liulang, Qing'er wants to make one thing clear to you. ”

"What's the matter? Qing'er just said......"

"Do you remember when Qing'er's father had his birthday last year?"

Prince Rong struggled to recall the things he had almost forgotten, and finally found a attachment point in his thoughts, and suddenly said, "I remember, it was the emperor's decree, right?" ”

Prince Rong was talking about it vigorously, Wan Ying suddenly interjected such a topic, Prince Rong tried his best to cooperate with Wan Ying, and kept thinking about all the things about Master Shi's birthday. But I don't know why that time? The Queen Mother privately asked herself not to congratulate the teacher on his birthday. Therefore, as soon as Wanying mentioned this matter, Prince Rong was a little dazed at first, but after thinking clearly, he felt a little guilty, although it was in the past, but after all, he was his father-in-law who came to Japan, and he felt a little sorry in his heart.

"Yes, what Qing'er wants to say is......" Wanying is gathering all the courage to say He You'an. Unfortunately, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and then a female voice sounded: "Is Wanying there?" It was Qi Qiuli who shouted Wanying.

When the words came to her mouth, she swallowed them vigorously. Thinking in her heart: This topic can only be explained slowly little by little when she and Prince Rong are alone, and suddenly Qi Qiuli comes, and this matter must not be talked about anymore. Let's find another time......

Qi Qiuli held two small jars in her hands, and when she saw that Prince Rong was also in the house, her face was crimson, and she buried her face deep in the scarf in panic, knelt on the ground and said, "Prince Rong is blessed with Jin'an." Qi Qiuli was rescued by the prince and the princess, and she will definitely repay her in this life. ”

Prince Rong was a little disappointed at first, and his good drinking and snow appreciation was interrupted, so he was naturally a little reluctant. But Qi Qiuli called Wanying the princess, which made Prince Rong very happy, reminiscent of the old one, and said loudly: "Get up, don't be polite." Was the medicine that the imperial doctor gave you okay last time? If not, the king will let them change to a better one. ”

Qi Qiuli picked up the two small jars on the ground, lowered her head and said, "Thank you for your kindness, the imperial doctor gave you the best burn medicine, it's very good." Thank you, Lord Wang, for your concern. ”

Prince Rong smiled calmly, waved his hand and said, "It's okay, you don't have to always talk about Xie on your lips." Is there something wrong with you coming here so late? ”

Prince Rong's words obviously wanted to send this uninvited guest away quickly. Wan Ying heard Prince Rong's voiceover, put away the unfinished words just now, and looked at Qiu Li carefully, she was wearing a huge big wool scarf, the dense fluff almost covered half of her face, and the side where the plaster was applied was almost completely covered in the scarf, she lowered her head vigorously, trying to cover all her scars with the scarf around her neck.

"Dinner ready?" Wanying knew that she must have something to find herself when she came so late.

Qi Qiuli also heard the expulsion in Prince Rong's words, and said hesitantly: "I heard that you will leave the palace in a few days, and today I have picked a lot of plum blossoms, washed them, and steamed two jars of rouge." A jar of thick one, you use it as rouge paste; A can of thin, you should use the lips with ......" After speaking, he buried his head deep in the scarf again.