When she left the palace, Wan Jinlan had already had lunch in Ci'an Palace, and the Empress Dowager's attitude towards her was the same as always, as if the last fight had not happened, and her previous worries had disappeared.

On the carriage was the food that Wan Guifei entrusted her to send to Anyang, and for a while, she was not in a hurry to return to Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing, but walked around the streets of Waiguo City.

I bought some rouge gouache and snacks, used bowls of wontons at the stall, and bought a chic candy figure and a beautiful little lantern.

When she got into the carriage and returned to the outskirts of Beijing, no one noticed that the style of the silver hairpin on her head had changed, and even the spring peach who was most familiar with her did not notice it.

My aunt had told her in her ear that she had given away the silver hairpin, and it had already been done in the jewelry shop.

My aunt said that she wanted to avoid people's eyes and ears, so she was naturally cautious.

When the carriage set off to return to the suburbs of Beijing, she saw that the coachman Ma Liu's expression was different, and she asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Ma Liu frowned and said: "Xu is a slave is dazzled, as if he saw the person who stopped at the mouth of the alley last year to deliver a letter to the girl, but in the blink of an eye, the person disappeared again." ”

Wan Jinlan looked around the surrounding bazaar and found nothing unusual.

Even after a few months, she would be instantly recognizable if she saw the messenger again, mainly because of the large mole on the lower right side of the man's face.

When I returned to the suburbs of Beijing, the red sunset reflected half of the sky, the breeze blew, the rustling sound in the woods, and the insects and birds on both sides of the road were much more active.

The carriage went directly to the Huangzhuang on the outskirts of Beijing.

After the housekeeper of Huangzhuang went in to report, Wan Jinlan waited for nearly a pillar of incense in the living room before coming to Anyang.

When Anyang came, her face was in a trance, and she couldn't tell whether she was happy or sad for a while.

"My aunt brought you some food, and I brought it to you." Wan Jinlan put down the herbal tea in his hand and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong with you?" ”

An Yang waved his hand and waved the maids away, leaving only the two of them.

An Yang sat beside Wan Jinlan and held her wrist, "I was still a little skeptical about what the third brother said before, but I didn't expect my father to really have the intention of making me and kissing." ”

Although Concubine Wan was worried in her heart before, and wanted to set up a family affair for her as soon as possible, in order to have peace of mind, An Yang was not the same thing, and felt that with her father's love for her, how could she let her go to kiss? But today, the third brother came, and said that the mother concubine begged her father several times to set her marriage with Zhou Shi'an, but was pushed by her father and dragged to Beirong to enter Beijing.

"Who's here today?" Wan Jinlan asked.

The eighth princess is worried that her mother has returned to the palace, and there is a master in Anyang for the time being, so who told her?

A red glow appeared on An Yang's face, "The third brother has been here in the morning." Just now, Chen Gongzi pretended to be the third brother's servant and sent me something, he said that if I don't want to kiss, he will escort me anywhere, and he is willing to protect me incognito for the rest of my life. ”

Wan Jinlan was dumbfounded, "Gongzi Chen? Chen Congbai? He wants to elope with you? ”

She was a little surprised.

On the day of listening to the play, it was clear that Chen Congbai had completely ignored Princess Anyang from beginning to end, and the two had no communication, why would Chen Congbai rashly make such a proposal. For the sake of Anyang, he doesn't want his family in Kyoto? This person has a deep love for Princess Anyang to the point where he can give up the lives of his clansmen!

But Chen Congbai didn't participate in the fight that day, even Zhou Shi'an knew that he got up and protected Anyang, obviously he was indifferent. Is there something wrong with this?

Princess Anyang's expression was in a trance, and there was also disbelief, and there were some feelings in her eyes that she had not even noticed, "Sister Jinlan, I only know that if someone is willing to give up everything for you, it is this kind of mood." ”

Wan Jinlan had nothing to say for a while.

was shocked by what Chen Congbai did, and there was a weirdness in his heart that could not be ignored.

"You answered him?"

An Yang shook his head, "How can I respond, if I leave, the mother concubine will definitely be punished if she stays in the palace alone." ”

Wan Jinlan said: "My aunt and father will not let you be with you. Then she told her what her father had done, and what she had heard from her grandfather and grandmother.

Wan Jinlan still had some guesses in her heart that her aunt's behavior of letting her send the hairpin out of the palace today should be related to the matter of Anyang.

Compared with the indifferent Chen Gongzi, she believes in Fuzhong and her aunt more.

And Chen Congbai didn't come early or late, but when her father expressed his tough attitude and even the relationship with the emperor became tense, he came to Anyang to say that there were some of them.

After returning to Beizhuang, she summoned Ma Liu's son Ma Xing and asked him to find someone to keep an eye on Chen Congbai.

Ma Liu was an errand boy in the public mansion and acted smartly, and her father would sometimes give her some errands, all because Ma Xing and some of the beggars and poor people in Guocheng outside Kyoto knew each other.

As long as he teaches Ma Xing about staring at people, he doesn't need to watch it personally, and someone will do his best to do it for him.

Wan Jinlan gave Ma Liu the money for the errand, and then informed him of the facial features of the person who sent her the letter at the mouth of the alley, and asked him to find this person.

Ma Xing got the order and went to do things in a hurry.

On the other side, in Xiao Minghuan's Zhuangzi, Chen Congbai was talking to Xiao Minghuan in the study.

"Brother Chen don't have to worry, Princess Anyang won't agree to elope with you, and she won't be sent to kiss, you just need to care for her during this time, and things will be settled." Xiao Ming said in his chest.

He was so sure that Princess Anyang would not get along, and it was also because Wan Qiuyu told him that Princess Anyang finally went to Beirong as a second marriage.

Chen Congbai understood the situation of the family since he was a child, the Chen family, starting from his generation, even the title of earl is gone, his father is obsessed with business, the house is only rich and not expensive, his mother wants him to marry a daughter of a high family to change the status quo of the family, he already has a beloved, but he can't give her a name.

There are some things he doesn't want to do, but he can't help himself.

Removing the thoughts in his eyes, Chen Congbai said with a little gratitude: "Thank you Your Highness for your support, if you become a princess one day, the Chen family will definitely smear Your Highness's liver and brain." ”

"The ginseng that His Highness rewarded last time was quite curative of my mother's illness, and my mother asked me to thank Your Highness for having a good life."

Chen Congbai was originally a heroic appearance, and he was not flattering when he spoke obediently, and he was a little stiff, and he was obviously not very skilled in doing such things.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Congbai offered 10,000 taels of silver tickets, and the two refused back and forth, but Xiao Minghuan finally accepted the silver tickets.

After Chen Congbai left, Wan Qiuyu entered the study.

"Recently, Chen Congbai has learned a lot." Xiao Minghuan chuckled at the silver ticket.

Wan Qiuyu said with a smile: "With the situation of the Chen family, he doesn't look for a backer, and he is not even qualified to enter the palace gate in the future. ”