Chapter 17: Bamboo Horse Friendship
Night-Qinhua Palace, since the incident in the morning, Emperor Yan has never been out of the door of the Qinhua Palace, and Gonggong Yan has been guarding the door of the palace and has never left.
"Father-in-law, it's dinner time, do you want to pass the meal?" It was Yan's father-in-law's apprentice Huai'an who spoke, and when Huai'an first entered the palace, he was wrongfully accused by his father-in-law of stealing property in the palace and selling it out of the palace privately in order to make a profit.
When arguing with the father-in-law in charge, he was seen by Father-in-law Yan, who happened to be passing by, and when Father-in-law Yan saw this kid, he had a clear mind, and he spoke reasonably, neither humble nor arrogant.
But the father-in-law in charge had the intention to frame him, and he insisted on pushing the blame on him, and wanted to drive him out of the palace with eighty blames, just when Huai'an could not escape the doom, Gonggong Yan helped him and punished the father-in-law who framed him.
Since then, Huai'an has been following Yan Gonggong to repay the rescue, and Yan Gonggong also thought that he was old after all, and the emperor needed a person who knew cold and hot, seeing that he was careful, had backbone, and most importantly, knew how to be grateful, so he took him by his side, taught carefully, and took over his burden in the future and took care of the emperor.
"Hey", Gonggong Yan looked at Huai'an and sighed, and said: "This emperor has lunch in the morning, I haven't eaten, how can I be good now", "Master, why don't you go in and have a look!" "Hmm", Gonggong Yan nodded, and he hadn't gone in since he went in at noon to ask if he had a meal.
Gonggong Yan gently pushed the door open, and walked in cautiously and lightly, the candles in the dormitory had not yet been lit, and the whole hall only relied on a bright moon outside the window, bringing such a ray of clarity.
The moonlight of early spring, clear and cold, faint and soft, quietly basking in the dormitory through the window. There seemed to be a trace of sorrow hidden in the moonlight, which was imprinted on the face of the Flame Emperor, looking so tired and heavy.
Seeing that the Flame Emperor still maintained the same posture and remained motionless, at this time, Gonggong Yan suddenly lost the courage to ask, and turned around and left silently, as if he had never come.
"Master, how's it going? Does the emperor have a meal? Father-in-law Yan shook his head and did not speak. Is the emperor still like that? Huai'an looked at Grandpa Yan as if he was waiting for his promise, and Grandpa Yan nodded.
"How's that good?" , Yan Gonggong's tone was full of worry. "Master, why don't we invite General Mo and them, and let them accompany the emperor, maybe it will be fine", "That's the only way, maybe they will have some way", "Master, I'll go".
In less than half an hour, Mo Chengbei and Gu Yanting quickly appeared outside Qinhua Palace, "Father-in-law Yan, what's going on inside", after seeing Father-in-law Yan, he asked eagerly. "The emperor has been sitting in it for a day, and the grain of rice is not exhausted", "What should I do? Mo Chengbei looked at Gu Yanting and asked.
Gu Yanting thought for a moment and then said, "There is Lao Yan's father-in-law to prepare some wine and food, and I will go in with Chengbei to have a look." "Okay, the old slave will arrange it", Gonggong Yan turned to Huai'an and said: "Go and prepare immediately, pack it in a food box, and bring it in to General Gu", "Yes, Master", Huai'an didn't dare to delay for a moment.
After a while, Huai'an came back with two food boxes, "Master, it's ready", "Give it to me", Gu Yanting took the food box in Huai'an's hand, and said to Mo Chengbei: "Go", Mo Chengbei nodded, "Father-in-law Yan, you should go and take a rest, presumably you haven't eaten all day, hurry up and eat some."
Gu Yanting was indifferent and cold, but his heart was very fine, thinking that Father-in-law Yan must have been with him all day: "Thank you, Commander Gu cares, the old slave is fine", "You go and rest, there is me and Chengbei here, it's okay, I'll look for you again if I have something", "Master, just listen to the two adults, you go to rest, I'm here to guard".
Father-in-law Yan was indeed a little unbearable, so he responded. "Then the emperor will trouble the two, and the old slave will go down first", "Father-in-law Yan rest assured, the emperor will hand it over to us, if there is something, I will let Huai'an call you", Father-in-law Yan returned to his bedroom, and before leaving, he did not forget to tell Huai'an, and he must come to inform himself if there is something.
"After going in for a while, if you don't speak, don't talk", "What's wrong with me?" Mo Chengbei asked with some grievances, "Don't you know that you always don't open the pot?"
"I have that",
"One of them will always stop you talking, just stay honest",
"Got it, got it, let's get in, talk a lot",
Gu Yanting didn't answer, glanced at Mo Chengbei, and walked in. In the dormitory, it was as silent as just now, and Emperor Yan was still sitting there. Gu Yanting and Mo Chengbei looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief.
Gu Yanting pointed to a few candlesticks near the table and motioned to Mo Chengbei to light candles. Mo Chengbei lit the candlestick, took out the fire fold from his waist, lit the candles on the candlestick, and the dim dormitory had a little light.
Gu Yanting took out the wine and food from the food box that he brought in, gently placed them on the table next to Emperor Yan, and sat down with Mo Chengbei, looking at Emperor Flame quietly, without making a sound.
After a while, Mo Chengbei opened his eyes at Gu Yanting, and the two tacitly picked up the chopsticks on the table and began to eat by themselves.
"Is it delicious?" A faint voice sounded,
"Aren't you eating? You can't taste it yourself, huh? ”,
"It's not me talking",
"Ah, what is that",
"What's the sound that can't stop you from eating?" ,
"Have fun eating?" ,
The faint voice sounded again, and the two people who were eating stopped their chopsticks at the same time and looked at each other with a successful look.
"Yan Ting, it seems to be really sound!" ,
"It seems to be true!" ,
"Do you still want to pretend?"
Mo Chengbei and Gu Yanting looked at the Flame Emperor in unison, and the Flame Emperor was also looking at the two of them. "Did you two come to me to eat and drink?" , Mo Chengbei and Gu Yanting glanced at each other, and Mo Chengbei smiled angrily.
"Your Majesty, you have wronged us, we are here to see you, don't you bring wine and food, but you are busy with government affairs, and you are still concerned at such a late hour."
"It's inconvenient for us to bother, it's just that in the face of this table of food, we are really hungry, so we ask the emperor to forgive the last general's sin", these two you said word by word.
"Father-in-law Yan called you here?" , "Your Majesty, Father-in-law Yan also cares about you", Gu Yanting said for Father-in-law Yan. "I didn't mean to blame him."
"Your Majesty, since you don't mean to blame all of us, then don't you want to be kind and eat some more", Mo Chengbei struck while the iron was hot and persuaded Emperor Yan to eat.
"No appetite", "If you don't have an appetite, drink some soup, this chicken soup is delicious" Mo Chengbei said as he started serving a bowl for Emperor Yan and put it in front of him.
"You can just drink something, it's all about making us feel at ease," Mo Chengbei rubbed the Flame Emperor's arm and said. Emperor Yan glanced at Mo Chengbei angrily.
"Drink some", Mo Chengbei continued to hug without fear of death, Emperor Yan sighed lightly, and finally picked up the bowl and drank the chicken soup that Mo Chengbei served him, seeing Emperor Yan like this, Mo Chengbei and Gu Yanting looked at each other and smiled.
A bowl of chicken soup quickly bottomed out, and Emperor Yan, who had not eaten for a day, was indeed hungry. Gu Yanting silently served a bowl for Emperor Flame and put it next to him.
"You two are here, acting like this, I'm afraid you already know what happened this morning", Emperor Yan put down the bowl in his hand, gently rubbed the edge of the bowl with his fingertips, lowered his head and said in a calm voice: "Gonggong Yan told the two of us" Gu Yanting said truthfully. "Am I really wrong?" , "As the emperor, you are right," Gu Yanting replied directly.
"What about as a son?" ,
"Wrong, but the one who was the son never made his mother angry", Emperor Yan raised his head and looked at Gu Yanting.
"Is that so? Does every son make his mother angry? ”,
"Yes, it's a pity that I don't, I'm envious",
When Emperor Yan heard such a promise, he pulled the corners of his mouth slightly, patted Gu Yanting casually, and said softly: "I may really not be a good son."
"But you are a good emperor", "Can't you have both loyalty and filial piety in ancient times!" ”,
Gu Yanting and the Flame Emperor looked at Mo Chengbei in unison.