11 Annexation of states
Lin Ningsu already regretted not refusing Ruan Qing's worship post last time, because since this person was a guest in the Lin Mansion that time, he handed over the worship post from time to time.
It's not that Lin Mansion sent Ruan Qing that little tea and silver, but Ruan Qing himself is very eye-catching. The nobles are willing to get close to her, the sons admire her, where Ruan Qing is, the eyes in the capital are staring.
Even Lin Ningsu was exposed to these gazes and became the talk of these idlers after dinner.
is even more excessive, because of her previous actions, she speculated:
This eldest girl of the Lin family must have some kind of ghost idea to harm Miss Ruan!
If it were according to Lin Ningsu's teenage temper, she would have carried her father's jade dragon sword to the ancestral grave of the rumor-monger, but now she just smiled on the surface and held her anger in her heart.
And tell yourself that business matters, business matters...
These Lin Ningsu can bear it, but the only thing that makes her unbearable is Meng Huan.
At this moment, Lin Ningsu was reclining in front of the window, the smoke and rain were hazy, and the wind and rain were picturesque. Listening to the rain is an elegant place that the literati and ink writers of the capital city often visit, and this Tianzi number guest sitting is even more rare, if it encounters such weather, it can be regarded as living up to the name of "listening to the rain".
But Lin Ningsu was in no mood to enjoy the scene in front of her, she was full of resentment and didn't know where to go.
Meng Huan had better find her to have something to do.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sent a palace person to report three days ago and invited Lin Ningsu to go to the teahouse for a small gathering.
What can the two of them get together? In the last life, every time I discussed with this person about the plan related to breaking up Lin Yan and Ruan Qing, I was listening to Yulou.
But now the signs between Lin Yan and Ruan Qing sometimes can't even be seen by her, who is in the know, Lin Ningsu doesn't believe that Meng Huan can know.
If this is ruled out, then there is only one other possibility.
"I heard that Miss Lin and Miss Ruan have been getting close recently, so I want to ask for advice." Meng Huan smiled kindly, and poured tea for Lin Ningsu without any shelf, "What are her preferences, or what taboos does she have?" ”
Lin Ningsu held his forehead, and his heart was really like this. For a moment, she felt as if she had returned to her previous life.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who is not so good at government affairs, may have been messing with literati and inkmen for a long time, and has a unique sour atmosphere in dealing with feelings.
You say that this man is cowardly, but he secretly destroys other people's marriages. But if he said that he was hearty, he would not be ashamed to say a few words when he saw Ruan Qing, but he called Lin Ningsu to Tingyu Lou for five or six days a month to listen to the love poems he wrote to Ruan Qing.
Moreover, as far as Lin Ningsu later knew, Ruan Qing never received a letter of these sour poems.
Meng Huan didn't send it out.
How can one be more cowardly than the other? I'm afraid there is some kind of hypothesis.
Lin Ningsu clenched his back teeth and stared at Meng Huan with hatred.
"Miss Lin, why do you look at Lone like this?" Meng Huan asked curiously.
Lin Ningsu retracted his gaze and knew that he had lost his manners: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, I suddenly remembered some annoying past." ”
Anyway, the more cowardly, the better. In this life, no one would want to sabotage the marriage between Lin Yan and Ruan Qing.
"Why is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asking?" Lin Ningsu asked, "Is it because... Do you love Miss Ruan? ”
When Meng Huan heard this, his mind turned slightly, and he replied, "Not bad." Lone may have to leave the capital for two or three months in the near future, and he can't see anyone for such a long time, so he wants to choose a gift for Miss Ruan. ”
Leaving Shangdu?
As the crown prince, Meng Huan sat in the East Palace most of the time, assisting the emperor in handling political affairs, and never left the capital several times.
It's the twenty-fifth year of Jingyuan... Could it be that the Huangmei Army in the state of Merge Rebellion.
Lin Ningsu devoted himself to Lin Yan in his previous life, either he was wandering around the scenery and making trouble in the pile of fat powder, and he never paid attention to this major event of the court and politics.
But during that time, there was a lot of chaos in the state, and it was her father, Prime Minister Lin Cheng, who personally led the troops to quell the chaos.
Lin Yan was also taken by his father to Bingzhou, saying that he was going out to practice. Meng Huan did accompany his father, but the rebel army was extremely brave, and the little soldiers and horses left in the Shangdu camp were not enough at all.
So later, His Majesty summoned Xu Rong back from the northwest, which quelled the war...
In the previous life, she cared about Lin Yan and clamored to go with her father and brother, but of course she was refuted, and even copied the family rules for three days.
However, in those months, Ruan Qing stayed with these people. At that time, Ruan Qing's grandmother was critically ill in Cangzhou, and she wanted to hand over the family medical genealogy to her, so she called everyone from above.
Cangzhou and Bingzhou border, but the boundary between the two places is large, and no one expected that the rebel army could make such a big fuss. Among them, the small team that had been wanting to take refuge in the Huangmei Army happened to encounter Ruan Qing's carriage and horses, and intercepted them.
After all, she is the daughter of the general of the Zhu Kingdom, and if she kills the sacrificial flag, it will boost her morale even more.
But they didn't succeed, and this small army met Xu Rong, who came to support Bingzhou, and naturally saved Ruan Qing.
Lin Ningsu didn't know the specific thing, she only knew that she heard the news at that time, and she was half angry at home.
Ruan Qing is a medicine doctor and prescribes many effective prescriptions to the soldiers in the army. Moreover, at that time, Lin Yan was plotted in the army due to the attack of cold poison, and his life hung by a thread, and it was Ruan Qing's timely arrival that saved him from worrying about his life.
Even so, Lin Yan also fell into a heart attack because of this incident, and he had attacks from time to time for many years.
If Ruan Qing had gone earlier, maybe he wouldn't have had to suffer from this heart disease.
That being the case, why not let Ruan Qing and everyone go with them at the beginning, so that both sides will have advantages.
Lin Ningsu retracted his thoughts and said to Meng Huan: "His Royal Highness the Prince, why buy any gifts? ”
"What do you say..."
"Miss Ruan told me a few days ago that she would leave Cangzhou to visit her grandmother in a few days." Lin Ningsu said seriously, "Now that there is a famine in the two places, it is not peaceful, and now there are more Huangmei troops who don't know their strength, and it is more reassuring to be with you." ”
Meng Huan was silent for a moment when he heard this.
"You have a point." He nodded and replied, "This matter will be left to Lone." ”
After saying goodbye to Meng Huan, Lin Ningsu got on the carriage back home.
This rebellion was far more than "one or two months" as Meng Huan said, but it took nearly four months to end.
Not being able to see Lin Yan and his father for four months is equivalent to delaying Lin Yan's cold poison for nearly half a year... How can this work.
Moreover, she couldn't stare at Meng Huan and make trouble for the two of them, she was not at ease after all.
So this trip to merge states, she also had to follow.
After swaying for nearly half an hour, the carriage finally stopped in front of the Lin Mansion, but the sky did not mean to be clear, but became more and more cloudy because the hour was getting late.
Before she could enter the door, she saw the little maid in her room and said with a smile, "Why did the girl come back so late?" Shen Shizi is waiting for you for a while. ”
"Jing'an is here?"
"Exactly, girl, let's go into the main hall to eat, and the lord and lady are also waiting."
Oh no, my father wouldn't blame her for coming back too late.
Lin Ningsu hurried towards the main hall. Walking through the verandah and passing by the door of the Lin family's ancestral hall, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure kneeling in the hall.
Although it is kneeling, its back is as tall as a pine, and there is no weakness at all.
Lin Yan?
She put away the paper umbrella and went to the ancestral hall. The humidity is particularly heavy on a rainy day, and at the end of the month, how can this person suffer from the cold poison on his body....
"Brother, why are you here, hurry up...."Lin Ningsu didn't care about going to the main hall to eat, and directly reached out to help the person up from the ground.
Lin Yan's clothes were thin, and her touch seemed to be directly grabbing this person's lean arm. Her strength was not small among women, but the people on the ground stood still.
"Is it the father?" Lin Ningsu saw that he really couldn't drag this person, so he gave up.
But since he was a child, Lin Yan has never disobeyed his father openly, how can this time...
Lin Yan looked sideways, looked at the girl with a worried face, and said gently: "Let's go to dinner." ”
She sighed softly until she couldn't figure out why, so she took her umbrella and went to the main hall.
In the main hall of the Lin Mansion, Shen Jing'an, an outsider, did not have the slightest restraint, but made frequent witty remarks, which eased the patience of the second elder of the Lin family to wait for his daughter to return home. At the banquet, there was laughter and laughter.
"Father, father!"
The girl's crisp voice came from outside the corridor, and all three looked at the door.
"Father, why is my brother kneeling in the ancestral hall?" She trotted all the way, panting.
Hearing this, Lin Sheng restrained his smile and put down the bamboo chopsticks in his hand.
Mother Lin didn't dare to speak, and when she saw her daughter proposing it first, she also asked: "What mistake did Yan'er make, on such a rainy day, she had to kneel on the cold ground of the ancestral hall..."
"Why don't you let him get up first." Lin Mu said tentatively.
Xu was Shen Jing'an, an outsider, Lin Lin Sheng didn't explain too much, and after a moment of silence, he whispered to his subordinates: "Call the eldest prince to eat." ”
Seeing this, Lin Ningsu sat down in the seat.
"Asu, come and sit!" Shen Jingan bent his eyebrows and said eagerly.
Lin Ningsu couldn't help but shake his head, who is the Lin family...
As soon as she picked up the dishes and chopsticks, her father and mother's counts poured into her ears word by word, as if she wanted to compare them with the dishes on the table.
Most of them are some, don't walk around your daughter's house and so on. However, Lin Ningsu didn't listen to a word, because Lin Yan's punishment had never happened in his previous life.
Why has it changed?
Before she could think about it, a faint fragrance of pine and cedar swooped over on its own. She turned her head and saw Lin Yan sitting beside her at some point.
The humidity of the rain mixed with the cold pine after the alcohol made the surrounding air feel a little cool.
"Father, mother." Lin Yan greeted indifferently.
Lin Sheng didn't answer, and the entire table was silent. About a stick of incense, he spoke: "You are now weak and have your own ideas, but the affairs of the government and the opposition still have to be discussed with your father before making a decision." ”
This was said to Lin Yan, what did he do to make his father unhappy, Lin Ningsu was puzzled.
"Yes, father."
"Since Your Majesty has seen the table and allowed you to go to the state to quell the calamity, do it well, and you must not live up to the holy will."
The watch was handed over by Lin Yan himself?
Lin Ningsu's heart instantly cooled by half, how could it be different. In the previous life, it was clearly his father who took Lin Yan over. Could it be because her change has affected the development of things....
It doesn't matter, as long as it doesn't go to the point of the previous life, you can do anything.
She put down her chopsticks and said, "Father, I want to go with you to Bingzhou..."
Lin Ningsu's eyes were firm.
"Nonsense!" Lin Sheng was already in a bad mood today because of Lin Yan, a bastard boy. Now Lin Ningsu, a small enemy, is also going to come and join in.
None of them are worry-free.
"The daughter is not messing around, she just wants to see the world with her father and brother." She fought hard.
"Do you know what the state is? Rebels and villains are rampant, this is not the time to be willful! ”
Seeing that Father Lin was in a hurry, Shen Jingan hurriedly took Lin Ningsu's hand and persuaded: "Ah Su, Bingzhou is bare, there is nothing." It's the Qixi Festival soon, stay in Shangdu City and I'll take you to the Lantern Festival, okay? ”
Lin Yan glanced at the hands of the two of them, and turned to look at Lin Sheng: "Father, there are heavy soldiers to follow here, so you don't have to worry about your safety, and you can also place Ning Su in the state capital." ”
"It's a rare opportunity to see more and know more."
Lin Ningsu: ?