Chapter XVIII
On this night, the king of Zhennan rested in Shulan Pavilion, and the concubine Jiang was simply flattered, but the Zhang family gritted her teeth with hatred.
At three o'clock in the morning of the second day, Nanling Mo woke up as usual. She put on her cloak and opened the window to look out, and the heavy snow of the night had bent the branches of the trees in the courtyard. With such a heavy snowfall, it seems impossible to practice martial arts today. When she was about to close the window and go back to sleep, there was a sound of "ding", and Nanling Mo instinctively avoided it. Look closely at a black hidden weapon standing in front of the desk, and there is a note on it. Nanling Mo closed the window, walked to the desk, opened the note, and read: "I saw Luo Yuyuan at the moment." β
'Luo Yuyuan? 'Somewhere, it sounds like a jewellery seller. No matter what, it's rare not to get up early, it's better to sleep warmly. Nanling Mo happily lay back again.
"County Lord, County Lord, wake up ......"
"Well, what time is it?" Nanling Mo hid in the quilt and said lazily,
"County Lord, it's two o'clock now!" Mei Xi said helplessly.
"What !!!" Nanling Mo immediately sat up, "Hurry up Meixi, hurry up and dress me up, I'm going out!" β
Mei Xi twitched the corners of her mouth helplessly, her subordinates danced quickly, Nan Lingmo took the hot face towel handed over by Mei Qian, and said, "If you want a simple bun, you can just comb a single hair." β
Mei Qian saw her in such a hurry, thinking that the county lord had something urgent to deal with, so she hurriedly trotted all the way to the small kitchen to bring in the prepared breakfast. Nan Lingmo casually picked out a simple crescent-colored warm satin dress, and then carefully glanced at the birthmark with her own special rouge, and complained: "Meixi, do you have a way to get me a kind of rouge that I can paint once I don't need to paint for seven days, or five days." β
Mei Xi twitched the corner of her eyes, and said helplessly: "County master, the slave and maid try their best." β
Nanling swept the breakfast like a whirlwind, took a handkerchief and casually wiped the corner of his mouth, grabbed the cloak and ran out.
Mei Qian was stunned to watch Nan Lingmo disappear into the courtyard, and when she reacted, she shouted loudly: "County Lord, where are you going, it's time soon, there are a lot of things that haven't been prepared yet...... Only the sound of the maids in the courtyard sweeping the floor answered her.
Nanling Mo hurried all the way and finally arrived at Luo Yuyuan.
Nanling Mo raised his head and looked at the three seals of "Luo Yuyuan" in the book, which looked antique, and the door of the store was also a good nanmu, showing that the boss behind the store was extraordinary. It's still early, and there aren't many customers in the store.
The second child in the store is making preparations. Seeing Nan Lingmo coming in, he beckoned, "This young lady is free to take a look." Nan Lingmo nodded, casually looking at the furnishings in the store, the jade ornaments on several Bogu shelves were crystal clear, and the lines were clear and extraordinary. She picked up one of the jade bottles and looked at it carefully.
"The county lord has good eyesight," Nan Lingmo heard the voice, only to see a middle-aged man behind him and said respectfully, "County lord, the master is waiting for you on the third floor." Nanling Mo put down the jade bottle in his hand and followed the shopkeeper upstairs.
"His Royal Highness the Cloud King, it's really you." Nan Lingmo saw the purple-robed man in a wheelchair drinking tea, and said with a smile.
"The county lord is really smart." Yun Tianhong nodded, put down the teacup and praised.
"I don't know why His Royal Highness King Yun called Ren'an to come this time?"
"The county lord is so smart, how can he not guess?"
"King Yun might as well have something to say."
"This king has been holding this marriage for three years, and I have been secretly observing you for three years, and I found that you have completely changed since you came back from Shouxiao, although you have good martial arts in the past, and you are a person with a simple mind and developed limbs, otherwise you are obedient to the county lord, how did you get the title of 'Jade Face Luosha'?"
"His Royal Highness the Cloud King, everyone is just with each other." Not to be outdone, Nanling Mo said sarcastically.
"Hehe, what a temper tantrum." Yun Tianhong chuckled, "But in the past month or so, I have found that you have suddenly become smart, good at calculating people's hearts, and able to make people suffer a lot in a few words; And after going to Huaqi Tower twice in just one month, someone who originally belonged to the Shadow Pavilion came to inquire about the news of this king, and you seem to be very concerned about the Li family of the former Zhenguo Mansion...... Don't say that you have any intersection with Queen Wushuang's mother's family, it seems that you have never had an intersection with the Zhenguo Mansion. β
Nanling Mo was horrified, and secretly pulled out the golden needle from his sleeve, wanting to take the opportunity to stab the top of the Cloud King's head in order to make him faint and lose his memory for a short time. Yun Tianhong saw her intentions, and said with a smile: "You don't have to be nervous, this king is not going to do anything to you when he says this today, this king is just curious, you care so much about the Li family of the Zhenguo Mansion, and you know the Shadow Pavilion, who are you?!" β
"What Shadow Pavilion, this county lord doesn't know what the prince will say." Nanling Mo bit the stone and refused to admit it, thinking quickly in her mind, she made it up blindly, "A year ago, the county lord gave his mother and concubine filial piety in the nunnery, and unexpectedly saw a man in black covered in injuries in the back mountain of the nunnery. The doctor is benevolent, I learned a lot of medical skills from my mother, so naturally I can't see death without help. So I saved him......" To be honest, this excuse is really lame, and even Nan Lingmo himself can't convince himself......
"As for the Zhenguo Mansion, who said that the county lord has no contact with the sister of the Li family in the Zhenguo Mansion?" Nanling Mo said with little confidence, "The mother and concubine of the county lord once saved the lives of the Duchess of Zhenguo and the sister of the Li family, and the sister of the Li family treats the lord of the county very well, why is there no contact?!" β
"Huh, huh?" Yun Tianhong didn't tear her down, and suddenly changed the topic and asked, "Can you wear the purple jade pendant that you left for you before?" β
Nanling Mo was stunned for a moment, reached out and touched the bottom of her neck, and said in surprise: "It turns out? But you're not ......" Later, when I remembered the same bed that day, my face turned red.
Yun Tianhong looked at Nanling Mo fixedly, and said with the corners of his mouth slightly raised: "This king is indeed a forcible exercise, but he can only support the time of a pillar of incense......
Out of the instinct of a healer, Nanling Mo walked up to King Yun and squatted down, pinched and rubbed his knees, frowned, and said hesitantly: "I can cure your disease, but I still have to go back and look at the codex left by my grandfather to find out." β
"Is what the county lord said true?" Luoqiu, who had been in the background on the side, suddenly asked excitedly.
"Naturally, it's true, but the county lord's consultation fee is not cheap."
Luo Qiu knelt down on one leg excitedly and said: "County Lord, as long as you can heal the prince's leg, your subordinates will not hesitate to go up the sword mountain and go down to the sea of fire......"
Nan Lingmo couldn't stand this sensational thing the most, and waved her hand unnaturally: "Okay, okay...... Since the lord of this county said that he can cure it, he will naturally work hard to cure it, but it will take some time to prepare. β
"But Lord Wang, this county lord has a request," Nanling Mo smiled mysteriously, "This county lord wants to know why he entered and left Zuo Xiang's Mansion in the middle of the night when he healed you, how about it?" β
"It's a deal. At that time, as long as you ask, this king will naturally know everything, and say everything. Yun Tianhong said firmly, "This Luo Yuyuan is a shop under the name of this king, dealing in jade and jewelry, as long as you hold the purple jade pendant, the shopkeeper Uncle Zhong will naturally receive you." β
Nan Lingmo suddenly smiled and asked, "Lord Wang, then I can buy things here in the future, can I not pay?" β
"It's natural. You are the fiancΓ©e of this king, and this king is naturally yours. Yun Tianhong also said with a smile.
When Nanling Mo was leaving, Uncle Zhong handed her a box and opened it to see that it was a warm jade hairpin. Nanling Mo thought about it and took it with a smile.
"By the way, there are too few people around you, tomorrow you will ask Yaxing to send people on the grounds that there are not enough people around you to do the ceremony, and you need to add more people, and this king will send two people to you. Naturally, they follow you, and you are their master. Nanling Mo thought for a moment, nodded and agreed.
Here, Nanling Mo had just returned to his yard, hungry with Venus in his eyes, and was eating lunch in the yard, and someone over there said that Yong'an Hou and Shizi had come to pick up Nanling Mei's eight characters.
To say that Sima Jie, the son of the Hou of Yong'an, is really as good as his name, Yushu is in the wind, and his literary quality is courteous. It is said that this knowledge is also quite profound, and now he is a specially appointed teacher of the famous Yunlu Academy in Beijing. When the new semester begins after the year, he will officially take office.
There are two academies in Dayan State, one is the Yunlu Academy in Beijing, and its mountain chief Ye family is the emperor of the past dynasties, and the current mountain chief Ye Rong is the emperor of the first emperor. The other is the mother family of the former queen, the Qiao family of Xinzhou Academy in Xinzhou. The two academies, one in the south and one in the north, have sent a lot of talents to the Great Yan Kingdom, and the top three new civil and military champions over the years are all from these two academies.
Therefore, this kind of noble family is the object of competition among the major families of Dayan Kingdom. Being hired by the academy as a teacher is also praised by everyone, so Yong'an Hou also attaches great importance to his son, and he is also very proud that he can be hired as a teacher by Yunlu Academy at the age of a weak crown.
Yong'an Hou Sima Xu thought that his son was married to the lord of Ren'an, but he didn't expect the emperor to play a word game, and he said that the original meaning of the eldest daughter was the eldest daughter. Fortunately, the eldest daughter in this house is also well-read, and she also has the nickname of "the first talented woman in the capital", and now she is named the county lord of Linlang from Sanpin, which is not an insult to the lintel of his Yong'an Hou.
It is not the first time that Nanling Mei has seen the prince of Yong'an, and she has also seen it several times during the Penglai Pavilion poetry meeting and palace banquet. It's just that after she met the fourth prince once at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet the year before, one of her hearts was on the body of His Royal Highness the fourth prince, King Yun Tiancheng Li, and no one could enter her eyes again.
She was very reluctant to marry Yong'an Hou, but she couldn't resist her parents' wishes, and this marriage was likely to be given by His Majesty, so she couldn't shirk it even if she wanted to. Fortunately, the person she wants to marry is not so bad, which makes her feel a little better.