Chapter Twenty-Seven—The Daughter of King Pingchuan
Early the next morning, Lin Yuan woke up from the bed in a daze. At three o'clock in the morning, he made an appointment with the old man.
Dragging his still somewhat tired body to sit on the edge of the bed, Lin Yuan hung his head and slapped his face, trying to wake up quickly.
"Well, wipe your face with a handkerchief."
A nice and playful female voice sounded, Lin Yuan habitually reached forward with his hand, and a wet handkerchief with just the right temperature was sent to his palm. With his eyes closed, he opened the handkerchief and put it on his face, and the warm touch gradually took away the drowsiness in Lin Yuan's mind.
Slowly wiping his cheeks, Lin Yuan's mind began to clear, and he finally realized one thing.
Didn't he sleep in Lin San's room last night? Even if his sister had something, she wouldn't come over so early to urge him to wash?
As soon as he took off the handkerchief on his face, Lin Yuan saw Mo Qingcheng standing in front of him with a red face.
Ignoring Lin Yuan's stunned, Mo Qingcheng naturally took the cold handkerchief in his hand and handed him another cup of warm water.
"Rinse your mouth and eat quickly, breakfast is on the table." Between words, Mo Chengcheng walked to the side and washed the handkerchief that Lin Yuan had used.
For Lin Yuan, this morning was really inexplicable.
He stared at the girl's bent and busy back for a long time, and then walked up to her with a cup and asked tentatively, "Miss Mo, where are you singing this morning?" After Lin Yuan finished speaking, he poured the water in the cup into his mouth.
"Didn't you say it yourself yesterday, the fake show is really done, of course I listened to the eldest young master." Mo Chengcheng didn't get up and replied.
Lin Yuan rinsed his mouth, he thought about "fake drama is really done". Suddenly, a phrase from yesterday came to mind.
"Didn't you say that it was my personal maid in the morning, or if you really did the fake show...... these words kept echoing in Lin Yuan's head, and he asked in a hurry, and he actually swallowed the warm water that rinsed his mouth directly into his stomach.
The corners of his mouth twitched as he looked at the girl's busy figure, and stammered, "Are you ...... Just kidding, right? ”
Who knows, after Mo Qingcheng wrung out the handkerchief, she turned around with one hand, she pouted and looked at Lin Yuan, shook the thing in her hand and said, "Young Master, if I am joking, do I need to get up early in the morning to serve you?" ”
As he spoke, Mo Qingcheng unfolded the handkerchief in his hand and stood on tiptoe to wipe Lin Yuan's face in person.
With such treatment, Lin Yuan was really flattered. He hurriedly dodged to the side, and after taking the handkerchief, he stared at Mo Qingcheng strangely, he was still a shy lady in the boudoir before, why did his personality change so much today?
Carefully leaning his hand against Mo Qingcheng's forehead, Lin Yuan said strangely: "This is not a fever either......
As everyone knows, Mo Qingcheng is staying here at the moment with the idea of snatching the door, her heart is already shy and unbearable, and her heart is also pounding for a long time. But since he was determined to take care of Lin Yuan's daily life yesterday, he always had to try to change it from himself first.
Pretending to be fine, she suddenly opened Lin Yuan's arm as a demon and scolded, "You just have a fever!" Hurry up and eat, if you don't eat again, it will be cold! ”
With such a pungent tone, Lin Yuan really doubted whether the person in front of him was Mo Chengcheng.
With the attitude of trying the real and fake, Lin Yuan took advantage of the girl's inattention, and directly pinched her face with his two hands.
Fortunately, Mo Tingcheng was accustomed to Lin Yuan's unreasonable disposition, and his face was painful, Mo Tingcheng stomped his feet angrily, closed his eyes, and shouted: "Lin Yuan! If you look like this again, I'm going to tell Sister Weiyang! ”
Okay, the Lord of the Lin Mansion has become Sister Weiyang, and it seems that his unscrupulous sister has contributed a lot in this matter.
His hands were shaken apart by Mo Chengcheng's shouts, Lin Yuan confirmed that it was Mo Chengcheng in front of him, but he pinched the face of the girl, how could Lin Yuan dare to stay in front of her anymore?
So there was a wind under his feet, and he hurriedly slipped to the table and began to eat, and when he picked up the white porridge, he stuffed his mouth to show that he could not reply.
Mo Qingcheng, who was standing in place, looked at Lin Yuan's scoundrel appearance angrily, she walked over and took back the handkerchief that Lin Yuan had placed on the table, and then took the basin and walked out of the door.
With a bang, the door slammed shut.
Lin Yuan was so frightened that he almost didn't catch his breath, coughing again and again, pounding his chest.
When he came to his senses, he covered his eyes and sighed, and then slapped the corners of his mouth, repeating in his mouth: "Cheap mouth!" ”
Outside the door, Mo Chengcheng didn't go far, and when she walked to the courtyard, her legs were weak, and she put down the basin and squatted on the ground.
I saw that her face was red, and a red glow was dyed to the root of her ears. Mo Qingcheng touched his hot cheeks, where there seemed to be still the temperature of Lin Yuan's fingers. There are only four words in the girl's heart now: Shame on the dead!
On the roof, Lin Weiyang sat there leisurely, she looked at the white shadow squatting on the ground in the courtyard, and then looked at the roof under her, couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckled, and then left here.
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The time soon came to three o'clock, and the old man in the black robe had just arrived at the door of the Lin Mansion, he climbed the steps, and was about to bother the servant in front of the door to report, when Lin Yuan's voice came out.
"I said Miss Mo, Miss Mo! You've really been following me! Lin Yuan's voice was full of helplessness, he walked to the door quickly, and saw the old man in front of his eyes.
Speeding up and trotting in front of him, Lin Yuan didn't give him a chance to say hello, so he said to the old man: "Old man, you came just in time, you are commenting, does this person behind me look like a maid?" ”
It was rare to see Lin Yuan so helpless, the old man tilted his neck and looked behind him, and saw the girl in Tsing Yi hurriedly chasing after him with the hem of his clothes.
Mo Qingcheng jumped out of the gate and landed behind Lin Yuan, she first saluted the old man, and then put her hands on her waist and said bluntly: "What's wrong?" I didn't wear any precious jewelry, my hair wasn't coiled, my dress was changed, and I was still the most modest shirt you'd ever bought. ”
Turning around with a headache, Lin Yuan held his forehead and said, "Miss Mo, it's not your clothes, it's ...... Oh, I can't tell, old man, do you look at her like a maid? ”
After looking at the two of them a few times, the old man said with a strange face: "I think this little girl looks like a big lady, you, you are more like an attendant." ”
"That is to say...... Hey! Old man, are you hurting me, aren't you! Lin Yuan didn't even hear the meaning of the old man's words at first, and only after Ying He did he react that something was wrong.
But Mo Chengcheng ignored these, she approached Lin Yuan aggressively, if it weren't for Lin Yuan also retreating, I was afraid that the faces of the two of them would have a close contact.
"I don't care! The husband does what he says! From Today...... No, I've been your personal maid since yesterday, and I'll follow you wherever you go! Mo Qingcheng suddenly grabbed the sides of Lin Yuan's coat, and his big beautiful eyes seemed to say, "You can't escape."
Just when Lin Yuan was at a loss, the old man came to his aid, grabbed him by the collar and pulled him over.
"Little girl, I'll talk to the wild boy first." The old man put down these words, and dragged Lin Yuan to the bottom of the steps.
Dragged him to the side of the street, the old man asked with shock in his eyes, "Listen to that little girl, you have taken people into the house?" ”
Lin Yuan was still tidying up his messy clothes, and when he heard this, he almost didn't spurt blood, he glared at the old man viciously, scolded and said, "Don't fucking talk nonsense, I'm joking!" Do you understand the joke! Who knew this stupid girl was real! ”
Listening to Lin Yuan's low roar, although the old man wanted to laugh, this matter made him unable to laugh at all.
His slightly old face was full of worry, he leaned closer to Lin Yuan and whispered, "Joking or not, do you know what this girl's identity is?" Do you dare to treat her as a personal maid? ”
The meaning of the words seemed to be that the old man had guessed the identity of Mo Chengcheng.
Lin Yuan squinted at the old man beside him, and he pretended to be completely unaware and asked, "What identity?" I don't know. ”
The fox squinted at Lin Yuan suspiciously, the old man didn't believe his nonsense, he was such a chicken thief on weekdays, how could he not guess it now!
But there are priorities, and the old man didn't have time to worry about him, so he said directly: "The youngest daughter of the King of Pingchuan, who holds 150,000 iron horses, will be your personal maid, do you have a lot of life or a hard neck?" If 150,000 iron horsemen are horses stepping on Beiliang, can you stop them? Or can your sister stop it? ”
"Yo? Do you know this? But isn't King Pingchuan half dead......"
Seeing that Lin Yuan was still in the mood to joke, the old man unceremoniously slapped him on the shoulder.
"What are you kidding?" The old man lectured.
Spreading his hands indifferently, Lin Yuan said with a smile: "First of all, it's not that I want her to be a personal maid." Secondly, you can't let her, a little girl who has never been in the world, run around outside, just escaped from the horse bandits and then entered the tiger's mouth? That's dangerous. ”
"You know I didn't mean that, and that's not the point." The old man gave Lin Yuan a blank look.
Patting the old man on the shoulder stupidly, Lin Yuan smiled and said, "I know, you want to remind me of the hidden risks behind this girl." I also have a general understanding of what happened in the Pingchuan Palace, according to the current situation, the King of Pingchuan was seriously injured at the border and could not wake up for a long time, and the so-called prince was in a hurry to ascend to the throne, so he wanted to use the marriage of this stupid girl to win over a suitable party for himself in the court, so as to stabilize his position, so that as long as the King of Pingchuan did not wake up, the 150,000 iron horsemen would be handed over to the prince of Pingchuan. ”
"But since his sister has escaped from marriage and is still missing, then he can use other means to win over the alliance, why bother with a Mo Cheng city. If I, gold and silver treasures, calligraphy, calligraphy and paintings, as long as I do what I like, then wouldn't the DPRK and China compatriots grab a lot of them? Lin Yuan crossed his arms and smiled.
Faced with Lin Yuan's thoughts, the old man didn't have anything to refute, but his expression became extremely serious, and he asked, "Do you know who the prince of Pingchuan wants to woo?" ”
"It's nothing more than an important minister of the court." Lin Yuan smiled indifferently.
But a rough breath came out of the old man's nose, and he said, "You also underestimate the ambition of this prince. ”
Then, the old man leaned over to Lin Yuan's ear, and he said something in a very small voice that made Lin Yuan's face change greatly.
"What he wants to win over is to be the crown prince!"
At this moment, Lin Yuan couldn't laugh anymore, he looked at the old man with an ugly face, and asked, "Are you sure?" ”
The old man nodded affirmatively, and he said, "So you know, why do you have to be in the city?" ”
Lin Yuan's face sank like water, and after thinking about it for a while, he said, "He doesn't want to hand over the military power of 150,000 iron cavalry? ”
The old man nodded again and said: "If you don't hand over the military power, and you want the prince to support you, then you can only use your sister as a bargaining chip, to put it bluntly, Mo Qingcheng is the only hostage in the hands of the prince of Pingchuan!" ”
Lin Yuan's brows tightened, now, things have indeed become a lot more troublesome. He originally thought that the target of the prince of Pingchuan was at most an important minister in the court, but now that the heir of the royal family was directly implicated, Lin Yuan didn't know what to do for a while.
After thinking about it for a while, Lin Yuan was simply a head or two, he simply didn't think about it, after all, no outsiders knew Mo Qingcheng's identity yet, which meant that there was still time for him to prepare.
Then, Lin Yuan looked at the old man strangely, he had never guessed the identity of this person, with his brain and strength, he could have done a good job in the rivers and lakes, besides, he was in such a remote place in Beiliang, and he could know such a confidential matter in the court, which really hooked Lin Yuan's curiosity, so he asked: "Old man, what are you from?" I've known you for so long, and all I know is your last name. ”
Unexpectedly, the topic would be led to himself, the old man shook his head and said, "Instead of having this kung fu to entangle my identity, you better think about how to deal with this girl's stay." ”
Lin Yuan spread his hands helplessly, and he said: "There is no way for the time being, my sister and I can't let this little girl run out by herself, meeting is fate, she was rescued by my sister, so there is no reason to watch her go into danger again." ”
Hearing Lin Yuan's meaning, it seemed that he was going to break the jar, the old man looked at him meaningfully, pinched the beard on his chin with his right hand, and said, "Is there really no way?" ”
Shaking his head with a wry smile, Lin Yuan said, "That's the crown prince!" It is very likely that the country of the Northern Jin Dynasty will be handed over to him in the future, and he will be dealt with? Unless there is a ......"
In Lin Yuan's mind, a figure suddenly flashed.
Seeing that Lin Yuan's voice was getting smaller and smaller, it wasn't until he frowned and looked at himself that the old man opened his mouth and chuckled, "Unless what? Finish talking. ”
Lin Yuan's eyes became more and more strange, he finally reacted, this old man was not reminding him of the danger that Mo Qingcheng would bring, from the very beginning, he was just to guide himself to find a countermeasure.
Lin Yuan chose to avoid this question, his face was serious, and he took a step forward.
"Old Mr. Qin, you ...... Who is it? ”
It was rare to see Lin Yuan with such a serious attitude, and he even brought an honorific title. But the old man didn't buy it, he smiled lightly, put his hands in his sleeves, and said, "It's still the same sentence, wait until you guess it." ”
Lin Yuan was speechless, he had to roll his eyes.
However, Lin Yuan was really grateful to this year-old friend in his heart, if it weren't for him, maybe he really couldn't think of a breakthrough in this matter. The mood suddenly improved a lot, Lin Yuan patted the old man's shoulder, he laughed loudly: "Let's go, let's eat, I'll treat you today!" ”
Hearing Lin Yuan's shouting, Mo Qingcheng hurriedly trotted down and chased after him, as if he was afraid that Lin Yuan would abandon him and run away.
Seeing Mo Tingcheng running to his side, Lin Yuan knew that it was impossible to get rid of this girl, but helplessly, Lin Yuan had to compromise, he said to Mo Tingcheng: "Say okay first, follow me, don't keep saying what kind of maid you are." ”
Blinking his innocent big eyes, Mo Qingcheng nodded obediently in agreement.
Looking at the delicate face in front of him, Lin Yuan suddenly became playful, and reached out and pinched Mo Qingcheng's face again.
This time, Mo Qingcheng didn't dodge or scream, she just puffed out her cheeks and hit Lin Yuan's body dissatisfied.
While the two were playing, the old man interrupted them with a light cough, and he pointed to the sun and said, "The hour is not early, and today is not just eating, there are other things." ”
After being reminded by the old man, Lin Yuan clapped his hands and pulled the two of them to run into the distance.