When Liu Chen walked through the atrium of Huanfu to the Moon Cave Gate in the West Courtyard, it was early in the morning. Xiao Yin was about to set off, and the yard was in a mess, and a few small servants were holding hemp ropes to tie a few Nanmu boxes that had just been carried out. Cai Ping was standing there with his hands crossed, telling the little servants not to knock the box down, and when he raised his eyes to see Liu Chen coming in, he was about to salute, but he saw a woman in plain clothes behind Liu Chen, he was startled, and then he was overjoyed, and shouted to the inner room: "Lord Weng, Sister Rongyue is here!" ”

Xiao Yin heard the sound and ran out of the back room. When Rong Yue saw it, she was busy kneeling down and saluting. Xiao Yin hurriedly took her hand and helped her up: "I sent someone to Wanjue Temple, but the other side replied that I had to wait until the autumn and release the person." I thought I could only pick you up later, but I didn't expect you to come to Luoyang. ”

However, after a few months of not seeing each other, Rongyue became extremely restrained. She lowered her head and replied in a low voice: "It was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who sent someone to Wanjue Temple to pick up the slave and maid back, and later heard that His Royal Highness and the master Weng were in Luoyang, so he sent someone to send the slave and maid. ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he," Xiao Yin was a little surprised, "is he okay?" ”

"Your Highness contracted a cold a few days ago, and his health has not been very good. But fortunately, Xue Gongzi took care of the medicine and took care of it. Rongyue replied with her head down.

Is he sick? Xiao Yin was a little stunned. Liu Chen looked like he wanted to speak and stopped. Cai Ping looked at the situation between the two of them, and said to Rong Yue with a smile: "My sister must be tired all the way, and now we are going to set off again, so it is better to go with my sister to rest and rectify it first." With that, he pulled Rongyue and retreated, and went to the inverted room in the west courtyard.

There were only two people left in the court, Xiao Yin and Liu Chen.

Liu Chen straightened the placket of his clothes, sat down at the small stone table next to the fish pond, picked one out of the bunch of grapes in the crystal jar on the table, threw it into his mouth, smiled casually, and said, "If you have anything or anything, you can give it to me, and I will transfer it to the imperial brother for you." ”

Xiao Yin came back to his senses and sat opposite Liu Chen with a smile: "His Royal Highness King Xin said that I have nothing to worry about." ”

Liu Chen threw the grape seeds in his hand into the fish pond, a beautiful arc. He turned around: "I really don't understand, you obviously care about the royal brother, but why do you ......?"

Xiao Yin Zhengse: "Of course I care about His Royal Highness the Prince." Although I have always disliked the way of a moral gentleman, I will always remember how well others treat me. Besides, although I haven't been able to find out what happened back then, I'm afraid that after all, my Xiao family is sorry for His Highness. But my concern is not the same as the friendship you mentioned. ”

Liu Chen looked at Xiao Yin's stubbornness, and finally couldn't help but say: "Do you really think that your own family affairs in the future can fulfill your wishes?" ”

Xiao Yin smiled, reached out and climbed down a lotus leaf by the pool, gently stirring the pond water, and teasing the swimming carp in the pool. She watched them swim between the remnants of the lotus, and did not turn her head to look at Liu Chen: "If I stay in Chang'an, I may not be able to." But now that I'm back to Qilan, I'm just an ordinary feudal princess, and I can't get my wish. ”

Liu Chen was about to speak, but he finally held back. In the fifteenth year of Qianyuan, or earlier, he faintly found that his crown prince and brother liked Xiao Yin very much. The East Palace is full of treachery, and the imperial brother has been living a life of walking on thin ice since the twelfth year, and he has never shown even half of his joy and anger. Only Xiao Yin can make him laugh really freely, and can bring him some real and ordinary emotions.

Although it is autumn, in the end, the autumn tiger in the eastern capital is powerful. The sun rose and shone on the whole atrium. The locust tree under the porch, the branches and leaves cast some mottled shadows, reflecting the water in the pool more and more sparkling. There was no cover around the stone table, and the sun was spreading straight down, and the halo was a little dazzling.

Liu Chen looked at Xiao Yin's back teasing the swimming fish, and finally thought to himself, like herself, she didn't like the honorable but ruthless days of the heavenly family in her bones, if she could really go back to Qilan, it would be a good thing to live so peacefully.

There was a sparse sound of footsteps.

Several servants of the Huan Mansion surrounded an inner servant and entered the west courtyard. The waiter passed the doorway, raised his eyes and saw Liu Chen, so he smiled and said, "Sure enough, His Highness is really here." The waiter said, glanced at Xiao Yin again, and laughed more and more meaningfully.

Liu Chen saw that it was the most useful chamberlain by the emperor's side, and he hurriedly said: "I heard that the envoy of Chang'an would come to Luoyang today, but I didn't expect that it would be Ah Weng who came in person, and Xiao Wang was sluggish." ”

The chamberlain smiled: "Your Highness has tormented our family." Master Wu Qing is a messenger appointed by the Holy Lord, and our family is just accompanying and taking care of it. Please go down to the front hall to receive the order. As he spoke, he walked up to Xiao Yin and just stretched out his hand and gestured, "The Holy Lord also has a gift for Lord Qinghe." ”

Xiao Yin was taken by several servants to the guest hall in the east wing of the front hall. was supposed to set off for the south, but was delayed by this inexplicable messenger, and he felt a little uneasy, but he couldn't do anything except look at the empty courtyard outside the corridor.

Not long after, news came from the front hall, saying that the emperor rewarded the meritorious ministers who quelled the thieves in Jiaozhou. The Huan family has its own rewards, and His Royal Highness the King of the United Kingdom has newly obtained the eleven counties around the eastern capital as food, and Lord Deng has been named the general of Wuwei Zhonglang and leads the black armor guard.

Deng Yao received the will, passed under the corridor of the guest hall, and was taking a face with Xiao Yin, but his expression was a little elusive. Xiao Yin suddenly had a bad premonition.

The foreign officials in the front hall were all dispersed, and two small chamberlains came to lure Xiao Yin over.

The person sitting at the head of the front hall, Xiao Yin recognized, was the disciple of Heavenly Master Xuanshouzi, the doctor Wu Qing. Wu Qing had come to the Prince's Mansion to see Xiao Qiyun, and at that time, Xiao Yin didn't like this skinny Taoist priest for no reason. However, it is obvious that he, like his master, is very good at pleasing Emperor Zhou, but he has not seen him for a few months, but he is already a hot celebrity.

There is a gold-painted lacquer plate on the case, and a pair of fine dragons and phoenixes are auspicious and jasper, blooming with a faint clear light.

"The meaning of the poor road is to spread the saint, and now Zhang Xiu and the rest of the rebel party have fled south, and the way south may not be smooth. The emperor's decree allowed the crown princess to suspend Wanjue Temple, and the lord of Qinghe temporarily lived in Fengyi Palace, and waited for the rebels to be cleared, and then made plans. Wu Qing paused slightly, squeezed her eyebrows, and smiled a little ambiguously, "This pair of Kodama Ruyi is Kunlun's tribute." The meaning of the saint and the is given to His Royal Highness King Xin and Lord Qinghe. ”

, I should be talking about Liu Chen's mother, Concubine Xu Shu. This jade Ruyi is clearly a pair of dragons and phoenixes, and as soon as Wu Qing's words fell, the people in the hall were a little embarrassed and stunned.

"Son-in-law, thank your father and mother." Liu Chen knelt in the middle and took the handle carved with the dragon pattern.

Wu Qing squinted at Xiao Yin: "Lord Qinghe, aren't you still grateful?" ”

Xiao Yin seemed to come back to his senses, walked to the middle in a daze, knelt down, and said in a low voice: "Xiao Yin thanks the emperor and his mother for their kindness." ”