Chapter 10: Lianyi
Xinwangfu
"Brother Chen, Brother Chen...... Where are you going? Wait for me. A woman with willow eyebrows, slender eyes, oval face, combing a star-chasing and moon-chasing bun, wearing a plain white gauze skirt, about eighteen or nineteen years old, ran angrily to Xuanyuan Chen, who was about to walk out of the palace of King Xin. This daughter is the daughter of Du Heng, a scholar of Hanlin - Du Lianyi, and also the niece of his eldest brother Princess Eniangxin, who came to the palace because of the funeral of his eldest brother.
"Lianyi, what's the matter?" Xuanyuan Chen said impatiently. He was going to see her in Qingshui Village, he hadn't seen her for more than half a month since he left Qingshui Village, was she okay? Do you think of him? He misses her so much! I don't want to see her all the time! However, this half-month is riddled with trivial matters, and he must deal with it personally. Now that the dust has finally settled, he has become the prince of the king's mansion. Everything came so smoothly, thanks to the fact that at the 50th birthday banquet of my father ten days ago, the second brother specially prepared a cup of colorless and tasteless poisonous tea for him, which was mistakenly drunk by the eldest brother under his silent arrangement, and the eldest brother was poisoned to death, and the second brother was imprisoned in the dungeon of Xinwangfu, and he became the prince of Xinwangfu. It's not that he doesn't care about his brotherhood, but his two brothers can't tolerate him from beginning to end! I want to kill him again and again, why can't he fight back! He became the son of the world and was entangled in trivial matters for the next ten days, and today he finally solved all his worries, and he desperately wanted to see her! He was stopped before he walked out of the door, and he couldn't be annoyed.
"Brother Chen, where are you going? Will you take me with you? Lian Yi stared at Xuanyuan Chen with blazing eyes and pleaded.
"Lianyi, Brother Chen has something important to do when he goes out, don't follow. It's okay to spend more time with your aunt, your eldest cousin has just left, and she is sad. Xuanyuan Chen refused. He went to see Awan, how could he take her there. He was very annoyed by this cousin who always stuck to her every time he came to the palace.
"Oh...... Brother Chen, when are you coming back? I finally came to the palace, I want you to accompany me more......" Du Lianyi saw Xuanyuan Chen, who was still a teenager, when she was eight years old, she fell in love with him deeply, and made up her mind to marry him! Before I knew it, I had been waiting for him silently for eleven years. Seeing that the eldest cousin and the second cousin are both married to the princess of the county, but he is still twenty-five years old, and he doesn't even have a concubine by his side. And she is already nineteen years old, and she is considered an old girl if she is not married at the age of a woman in the Xuanyuan Dynasty. After eleven years of waiting, as well as several implicit confessions halfway, he has not been able to get a promise from him to marry, or even a word of liking her.
In fact, she also knows that this is called wishful thinking, but she firmly believes that one day, her deep affection will definitely move him! She loves hard and waits hard, but she never wants to give up! This time I came for the funeral of my eldest cousin, but I was secretly happy to see Brother Chen again, who had not seen him for more than a year.
However, since she came to Wangfu Brother Chen this time, she has been very busy, and she has never had a chance to get together with Brother Chen. Seeing that he didn't seem to be so busy, she thought she could stay with him for a while and talk, but she didn't know that he was in a hurry to leave the house, and she wanted to go with him! She wanted to stay with him!
Suddenly, Lian Yi seemed to remember something pleasant, and the corners of her mouth curled unconsciously. She thought to herself, "Could Brother Chen be going to buy her a gift?" Because since she came to the Xinwang Mansion, she went to the fish pond in the palace early every morning to enjoy the fish, just to have a 'coincidence' with Brother Chen, and Brother Chen would pass by this fish pond from the 'Chenfeng Garden' where he lived to the palace hall. This morning, just like a few days ago, she waited for the 'coincidence' with Brother Chen, so she walked quickly to him and accosted him. When she asked, "Brother Chen, what have you been busy with these days?" I can't see you all the time...... 'Who knew that Brother Chen didn't answer, but asked her a question that was not related: 'Lianyi, what do you women like?' She knotted her brain, and then reacted and thought: 'Could it be that Brother Chen wants to give her a gift'?" Thinking like this, my heart was ecstatic, and I said: "Of course, what women like is rouge gouache, gold and silver jewelry!" But I thought in my heart, as long as it was given to me by Brother Chen, I liked everything! ”
"I'll be back when I'm done. Go and see your aunt. After Xuanyuan Chen finished speaking, he turned around and walked out of the palace quickly.
Shi Qing has followed Xuanyuan Chen for ten years, and he has seen this Miss Lianyi's friendship with the prince, and he hopes that the prince and this beautiful and well-born Miss Lianyi will become a couple. However, the ambitious son has been busy running his own industry and cultivating secret guards, and he doesn't seem to take his children's love seriously at all, and he ignores Miss Lianyi's love. "Alas, what a pity for the infatuated Miss Lianyi!" Shi Qing sighed secretly in his heart, and followed his son out of the palace.
After two hours of fast horses, Xuanyuan Chen and Shi Qing finally rushed from Zhoushan Xinwangfu to Qingshui Village, a small courtyard of wooden houses. I'm about to see her, and I'm a little excited to think about it! I haven't seen her for more than half a month, and I miss her very much! I didn't see her in the courtyard, so I thought she was in the house. Xuanyuan Chen quickly turned over and dismounted, and walked towards the wooden house, as soon as he approached the wooden house, he heard the sobbing sound of the eldest mother, he quickened his steps to the open wooden door, and saw the eldest mother sitting on the wooden table in front of the stove and crying sadly. "What happened to Awan?" When I thought about it, I chuckled in my heart, and suddenly I felt very uneasy. He hurriedly walked up to the eldest lady and asked, "Auntie, why are you sitting here alone crying?" ”
"Childe? Why are you here? The eldest lady who heard the voice raised her head and saw that it was the two sons who had come to her house half a month ago, standing in front of her one after the other. remembered that Xiaowan said that it was this son who saved her last time, and seeing that they have an extraordinary bearing, they must be the sons of a big family. The eldest lady suddenly got up and knelt in front of Xuanyuan Chen and said, "Ask the son to save my family...... Xiaowan"
"Auntie, what's wrong with Awan? Get up and talk. Xuanyuan Chen asked nervously, and helped the kneeling lady.
"Yesterday, Xiao Wan and I went to the town to sell fish, and we met the second son of the prefect to collect the stall protection fee, but they actually kidnapped Xiao Wan...... " The eldest mother said, thinking that she was too useless to watch Xiao Wan being taken away, and she became sad again; Thinking that Ah Niu, who came back from fishing, didn't see Xiao Wan, and learned from her that Xiao Wan was taken away by the second son of the prefect, he ignored her dissuasion, and went to the town in the middle of the afternoon yesterday, and he hasn't come back yet...... Thinking of these aunts, she was even more anxious, and she didn't know what to do, so she had to cry......
"How can this be true? In broad daylight, he robbed the people's daughters! Xuanyuan Chen listened to the eldest mother talk about yesterday's incident, and thought that the person he was thinking about had encountered such a thing, it was simply infuriating! Awan, who dares to hurt him, he must let him know what "regret" is! The angry Xuanyuan Chen thought that it was important to save Ah Wan, so he said to the eldest mother: "Auntie, I will go and bring Ah Wan back!" With that, he walked out of the wooden door quickly.
"Shi Qing, you immediately arrange for the secret guard to find someone, and tell me if there is news. I'm going to the prefect's mansion now. Xuanyuan Chen walked to the small courtyard and immediately instructed Shi Qing.
"Yes, Shizi." After Shi Qing finished speaking, he got on the horse's back and rode away first.
"Don't worry, Auntie, I will bring Awan back! Auntie farewell! Xuanyuan Chen turned around and said this to the eldest lady who had just sent them to the courtyard, and also turned over and left.