Lin Manliu did not agree to Jiang Yanlin's proposal, and the latter's face was faintly displeased, and the two parted unhappily.

Jiang Yanlin closed the bookshelf again, and then retreated to the back of the table and sat down on his own.

He just stretched out his hand and grabbed it, and there was an extra North-tailed Wolf Pen in his hand, and after playing for a long time, Jiang Yanlin's expression gradually returned to normal.

Jiang Yanlin quickly threw it out casually, and the wolf fell straight to the scroll on the bookcase, and the ink that had not yet dried was drawn from the tip of the book, from this end of the scroll to the paperweight position at that end.

Lin Manliu's familiar smile reappeared on his face, as if Jiang Yanlin, who had a lot of tricks in his mouth just now, didn't exist at all.

Jiang Yanlin said: "Since Brother Liu is unwilling, then Yan Lin will listen to Brother Liu, just now those are Yan Lin's casual nonsense!" ”

Lin Manliu nodded, and at the same time suppressed his desire to persuade him.

"Well, but today I still have to thank Yanlin for letting me know that there is still a cure for the old liar's old disease..."

Jiang Yanlin hurriedly got up and waved at Lin Manliu.

"Brother Liu's words, if Yan Lin finds that dangerous ancient medicine in the future, he will definitely send someone to Yijian Villa as soon as possible!"

As he spoke, he welcomed Lin Manliu in the direction of the exit of the imperial study, obviously to send off guests.

Lin Manliu didn't have a reason to stay any longer, and when the two of them walked out together, he and Jiang Yanlin just casually mentioned some trivial things to pay attention to on weekdays.

At the time of parting, Jiang Yanlin stopped in the imperial study, because of the eaves of the corridors on both sides, the winter sun could not illuminate his figure.

Lin Manliu stopped ten steps away from the imperial study, and coincidentally, the sunlight with a slight warmth had been flooding the top of the young man's head, bathing his whole body in the sun.

Jiang Yanlin stood with his hands on his chest, just like when he met in the bamboo forest in the past, he was similar to the scene when he married Jin Lan.

Lin Manliu exhaled slowly, and the white mist he exhaled made his vision blurry.

In this way, the figure standing in the shadows is even more unreal.

By the time the white mist dissipated, Jiang Yanlin, who was saluting, had already turned around, and disappeared into the shadows of the imperial study after a while.

Ye Chengzhu looked at Lin Manliu, who was standing still and speechless for a long time, and took a step forward and walked to his side.

"Negotiated with it? The result? ”

Lin Manliu shook his head and read softly.

"Let's go..."

Ye Chengzhu didn't have much interest in Lin Manliu and Jiang Yanlin's conversation.

Because from the moment he learned about entering the palace, he had a certain conjecture about the meeting between the two.

Judging from Lin Manliu's reaction, it was not far from what he expected, and it was most likely that His Royal Highness the King of Chu was unwilling to leave his comfort zone.

After re-entering the carriage, Lin Manliu talked even less, even if Ye Chengzhu introduced to him the layout of the houses in the imperial city, or some old things and past secrets, he couldn't open his conversation box again.

After the carriage left the imperial city, seeing that Lin Manliu was still unchanged, Ye Chengzhu had to twist his two fingers and rub them at the center of his eyebrows.

He said aloud: "Lin Manliu... Everyone has their own aspirations, since the day you took him to the south of Xinjiang, have you really asked once, what does he think? ”

Lin Manliu muttered: "The intrigues and calculations in this imperial city, the intrigues... It will only be more dangerous than the outside, and if he stays in this whirlpool of power, he will only be torn to pieces by those people..."

Ye Chengzhu raised his hand and pressed the young man's shoulder, and his tone became serious.

"That's what he chose, why did you intervene? I really think that after that assassination in the bamboo forest, you should help him for the rest of your life! ”

Seeing that Lin Manliu fell silent again, Ye Chengzhu reached out and lifted the curtain, asking the evil disciple who was driving to speed up the return journey.

He added: "Lin Manliu... There is still a lot of things you have to learn, if you think about it and give up early, return all the blades to Dang, and I will send someone to send you back to southern Xinjiang, and your father and mother will also send them back..."

For entering the Imperial City this time, he was both disappointed and expected by Lin Manliu.

......

Inside the Imperial Study.

At this moment, in the room, in addition to Jiang Yanlin, who was sitting quietly behind the table, there was also the father-in-law who went and returned.

Jiang Yanlin raised his hand to pick up a small seal in the four directions, which was different from the ordinary seals in the imperial city, this seal was a little too simple, and it was carved from the most inferior quality Shoushan stone.

On the stone seal, the yang is engraved with the words "Imperial Power Heavenly Grant".

This seal that violated the etiquette system appeared in the hands of Jiang Yanlin, who was not a direct member of the Xia family, and there was an unexpected suitability.

After Jiang Yanlin submerged the stone seal into the ink, he immediately poked under the footfoot of the letter page in front of him.

He handed the letter to his father-in-law, who quickly tucked it into his sleeve with a flattering expression on his face.

Jiang Yanlin asked curiously: "There is this seal... Can you really let those night riders listen to me? ”

The father-in-law in front of the emperor bowed his hand, and his expression looked radiant.

"Returning to His Highness, whether it is His Majesty the Emperor or the Empress Mother, they all use this seal to order the Dark Night Ride, and then they will be sent by His Highness..."

Jiang Yanlin snorted, and slowly pulled out the scroll that had been smashed by him with the North-tailed Wolf from under the paperweight.

"Then send this paper order to the military department to be stamped, it doesn't hurt to move a little slower, it's best to let the one who died on the Great Zhen Hall come..."

The father-in-law of the imperial front immediately answered and spoke: "Zhang Shilang of the military department, Lord Zhang Quanling..."

Zhang Quanling, the former squire of the military department, secretly colluded with Xiao Baoli, the Marquis of Taxue, and took the initiative to invite the army to lead his own soldiers to help Jinzhou, and was killed by his father-in-law in front of the palace himself.

But in just a few days, in the deepest part of Xijing's secluded prison, there was a strange Zhang Quanling with a self-destructive face.

Jiang Yanlin nodded, folded the scroll, and put it in the hands of the father-in-law in front of the emperor.

"In the future, it will be handed over to my father-in-law, and Xia Huan will need to be a carefree and useless person for a while longer..."

After the father-in-law of the imperial front received the order, he pushed towards Jiang Yanlin behind the table.

"The old slave will definitely live up to His Highness's expectations!"

With that, the father-in-law turned around and walked towards the exit of the imperial study.

Just as he was about to step out of the imperial study, Jiang Yanlin suddenly asked.

"Xia Huan has also been in the palace for a while, and he hasn't asked his father-in-law for his name, and he asks his father-in-law not to blame..."

The father-in-law stopped, raised his hand to cover the half-open door, and then turned and walked back inside.

Without waiting for Jiang Yanlin to react, the great eunuch, who was not afraid of Ye Chengzhu at all, actually knelt on the ground in the direction of the table.

"Although the old slave is cheaply named Lu Gong, in the past, His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress would call the old slave... Xiao Luzi, if His Royal Highness doesn't dislike it, he can call like this! ”

Jiang Yanlin bypassed the table and helped the eunuch who was over half a hundred years old to help him up.

"Hmm... I don't dare to shout like that, let's call Grandpa Lu, don't shirk! ”

Hearing this "Grandpa Lu", although Lu Gong, whose temples were snow-white, couldn't help but tremble, his vision looking at Jiang Yanlin began to blur.

"Your Highness, the old slave can't be..."

Jiang Yanlin shook his head and said loudly: "At first, before leaving Beijing, the queen mother mentioned the three of you to me, Zhu and Li's father-in-law have been running around all year round, and the one who has been with the queen for the longest time is Grandpa Lu... How not! ”

Although Lu Gong heard this, he could no longer suppress the emotions in his heart, and in an instant, he was already crying bitterly.

Jiang Yanlin persuaded and said: "Now that the traitor has not been eliminated, the only one Xia Huan can trust is Grandpa Lu, so he can only trouble Grandpa Lu..."

Although Lu Gong stabilized his mind, he was about to bow down to Jiang Yan again, but the latter immediately held his hands.

"The old slave will definitely get things done, Your Highness can wait!"

Jiang Yanlin nodded hurriedly, and sent Lu Gongzhi all the way to the exit of the imperial study.

Although Lu Gong stood in front of the door, he looked at Jiang Yanlin on the side.

He reminded and said: "Your Highness only needs to endure until King Hanchuan leaves the capital, and the hands of the rest of the people are not so long... If they want to turn the clouds and rain in the imperial city, they are not qualified enough! ”

After Jiang Yanlin snorted, he immediately grinned and turned back into the carefree, useless and powerless Chu King Xia Huan.

Although Lu Gong walked for a long time, he walked a long distance, and finally stood firm under a withered yellow peach tree.

As he raised his head to the sky, he raised his hand to shield his face from the sunlight.

Or the queen's mother taught well, I thought that His Royal Highness would need to rise and fall for a year or two before his mind would open up slightly.

Now it seems that the old slave wants more...

Even if the "Grandpa Lu" was intentional by His Royal Highness and not from his heart, so what?

can use some small means and tricks, and you can make these old bones of our family smear their livers and brains, isn't it just their talent?

The old slave congratulated Niangniang in advance and taught a good Mingjun!

At this moment, it is not only him Lu Gong who has thoughts in his heart, but also Jiang Yanlin in the imperial study.

Jiang Yanlin's eyes narrowed slightly, his lips moved slightly, and he actually started talking to himself to the place where Lin Manliu had just sat down.

"Brother Liu, you don't want to fight again... It's okay, then leave it to Yanlin to do it! ”

"Yan Lin will be cautious, since there is a lesson from the past, Yan Lin will always reflect on himself, and will definitely not repeat the mistakes of the past!"

"Let Zhang Shilang, who is desperate for his wife and children's lives and conspire with Xiao Baoli, give an order, even if Li Yanhe and they don't go, some of them hate the people and horses of the dark night to go..."

"At that time, no matter what happens in the Imperial Tomb, Yanlin will bring out the dangerous ancient medicine and send it to you intact..."

"That's the only way... Only in this way can Yanlin be worthy of the brotherhood between you and me! ”

......

After Lin Manliu and the others returned to the mansion where Yijian Villa was located, due to the arrival of Yun Yichen, Ye Chengzhu needed to go to the main hall with them, and the two separated.

After Lin Manliu first said goodbye to Yue Hanzhi, he went directly to Mo Wuyan's residence.

Later, under Lin Manliu's narration, the conversation between him and Jiang Yanlin in the imperial study was all told to Mo Wuyan.

After listening to this, the purple-robed and big-sleeved scribe opened his mouth and Ye Chengzhu said the same words.

"Everyone has his own ambitions, but he can't stop them... There's no need to stop it. ”

Lin Manliu sighed secretly, he also understood and understood these truths, but he just couldn't figure out why Jiang Yanlin chose to stay in the imperial city in the end.

In the days when he fled for his life in southern Xinjiang, Jiang Yanlin, who was about the same age as him, but when he thought of the past in the imperial city, he was so frightened that he couldn't sleep, and he was stiff and didn't dare to move...

Ning Ke, who was originally studying his schoolwork on the side, peeked at Lin Manliu's back.

She said in a flat tone: "What's wrong with this, there are too many embarrassing days of fleeing, one day you can stay comfortably in the imperial city, who doesn't want to?" ”

Mo Wuyan didn't even look at Ning Ke, and with a wave of the big sleeves of the purple robe, a chess piece flew out of his cuffs.

In the blink of an eye, the chess pieces crashed into the bookshelf not far from Ning Ke's side, and when Ning Ke looked at it, there were already two books that had slipped down from the bookshelf, and finally landed in front of her by a very coincidental coincidence.

"Annotate these two volumes, and if you can't finish them in three days, you will return to the school palace and be grounded for a year..."

Ning Ke looked at the book in front of him with a look of annoyance, and muttered quietly.

"My mouth... It's really a curse from the mouth... I knew I was going to watch the show..."

Mo Wuyan spoke again: "One day! ”

Ning Ke's whole person fell directly on the bookcase and began to play a scoundrel.

"How can I finish the annotation in one day, Uncle Shi might as well send me back to the school palace today, why make it so difficult for me!"

Mo Wuyan smiled helplessly, and raised his eyes to look at Lin Manliu in front of him.

As a result, seeing that the young man in front of him was still frowning, it was Mo Wuyan's turn to make a mistake.

Yue Hanzhi said loudly: "Mr. Mo, don't dismiss him.... He's just that, screwed! ”

Mo Wuyan looked at the woman in blue who was helping him clean up the chessboard, and then looked at the young man who stopped in front of him.

The corners of Yue Hanzhi's mouth suddenly crooked, and then he stood up and walked in the direction of Lin Manliu.

The next moment, under the gaze of Ning Ke and Mo Wuyan, this woman, who was always stronger than Lin Manliu on weekdays, hugged the head of the young man in front of her with both hands and pressed it to her chest.

The voice of the moon cold branch is soft and delicate.

"Everyone has their own way to go, and no one can intervene with full authority, just like you Lin Manliu, didn't you go all the way here?"

"From the beginning of Yijian Villa's determination to participate in it, from the beginning of that old liar's conspiracy with the evil spirit, have you ever asked yourself, why did you choose such a path?"

"So what he thinks, it's not up to you, and it's not up to me to think what you think..."

Lin Manliu's eyes finally changed, and he wanted to look up at the person he liked in front of him, but he was hugged tighter by Yue Hanzhi.

"Along the way, I haven't complained at all, you can choose me to do whatever you want, but I'm already very tired and tired... I'm so afraid that if I have the slightest complaint in my heart, I won't be able to catch up with you again..."