10 Chapter 10
Since she met Sun Jingchu that day, Shen Ruolian has been hiding in her palace and not coming out.
She suddenly didn't bother to apologize to Yan Wen, and she didn't think about how to see him, anyway, that orchid was beautiful, and he was now adding fragrance to his red sleeves, and there was no shortage of her.
If he really thinks that she did something wrong when he went to the Qinglou that day and wants to teach her a lesson, then let him come to her himself.
Who is there to rush to be trained?
The little girl has a temper, she is going to give up on him anyway, what is she afraid of, she doesn't want to go to the gate of the East Palace to be embarrassed again.
However, since that day she came back from outside the palace, three days have passed, and Yan Wen has not come to her.
The days were calm like a prelude to an approaching storm.
Shen Ruolian's hard anger at the beginning slowly became lacking in confidence, and she even began to think, he wouldn't be really angry, wouldn't he even bother to come to educate her?
Isn't he planning to ignore her in the future?
She began to hesitate in her heart, or ...... Will she go to the East Palace again?
Shen Ruolian thought unexpectedly, if she didn't know the day, she would better go and find him, just probe the wind, and never entangle again.
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Yan Wen has been really busy these days.
On the one hand, the assassin's matter has been secretly interrogated, and on the other hand, those old ministers have come to him again and again to discuss the matter of releasing grain, but the disaster relief money sent by the imperial court before has been found to be greedy for ink.
He was so busy for a while that he couldn't take a break, let alone think about Shen Ruolian.
Only occasionally when I came back from the front hall in the evening, I would ask more, "She didn't come today?" β
After receiving Li Fuan's negative reply, he didn't say anything anymore, returned to the dormitory as usual, and continued to sit on the desk in front of the bookcase outside to read the excerpts.
On this day, Yan Wen finally solved the matter of disaster relief food, blocked the mouths of those old ministers, and made progress in the assassination of Loulan Pavilion that day.
He rarely returned to the dormitory before dinner.
The weather is getting warmer, the heavy cotton curtain on the door has been removed as early as two days ago, the door is ajar, the faint fragrance of magnolia flowers wafts from afar, and there is a faint smell of spring in the wind.
Yan Wen finished dinner, bathed, and still sat back in front of the desk.
The indigo satin bedgown was worn loosely on the body, and under the slightly open neckline, the orange light was on the slightly damp white skin, and the water droplets flowed along the man's sharp Adam's apple, slowly sliding into the depths of the indigo collar.
Yan Wen sat idlely, calmly turning the pages, and his body unconsciously exuded nobility and elegance.
It's like being in the royal family since childhood, being pampered and being carved into the blood and bones, and the relaxation shown by being a superior person based on absolute control.
The man flipped unhurriedly, his slender fingertips slicing over each page of fine rice paper.
Suddenly, there was a very light sound of footsteps from far and near outside the house, Yan Wen made a movement in his hand, and subconsciously glanced at the "Clear Heart Formula" in the corner of the bookcase.
He continued to flip through the book quietly, and heard the soft and glutinous voice of the little girl outside the door, "Gonggong Li, is His Royal Highness in the room?" β
Xu heard either the noisy arguments of the ministers or the wails of the prisoners in the dungeon, and at this moment Yan Wen suddenly heard the delicate voice of the little girl, and felt a little unexpectedly pleasant.
However, that didn't make him let her go.
He didn't go to her in the past few days, just thinking that now that she has grown up in a girl's family, it is inconvenient for him as a brother to talk to her about going to the Qinglou.
Yan Wen thought that she would take the initiative to admit her mistakes as before, and then he would not blame her in the past, but only punish her for copying the pure heart recipe a thousand times.
First, let her take care of it, and second, she won't have so much thought to spend on him every day.
After a thousand copies are completed, it will be a month at the earliest, and at that time, the matter between her and Pei Ci'an will almost be settled.
Yan Wen turned a page of the book unhurriedly, waiting for her to come in and admit her mistake, and then she heard Li Fu'an "ouch" and said:
"It's really unfortunate that the princess is still in the study and hasn't come back yet, and it's dark this day, if you don't go back first, what will I tell Your Highness for you?"
Yan Wen: ......
Shen Ruolian glanced into the room, Xu had been rejected by him many times a few days ago, but this time he didn't feel much sadness.
She bit her lower lip lightly, nodded, and said simply, "Don't bother Gonggong Li, since His Highness is not here, then I will go back first." β
With that, he didn't stay for a moment, turned around and left without looking back.
Li Fuan didn't expect the princess to leave so simply this time, and he didn't have time to finish what he was going to persuade him to say, so he couldn't help but be stunned in place for a moment.
On that day, His Royal Highness sent Xue Nian to pick up the princess, but the princess did not appreciate it, and His Royal Highness looked a little unhappy, and asked Xiao Shunzi to go back to the East Palace in advance to investigate, just to see the princess's face.
In the past few days, His Royal Highness occasionally asks if the princess has been here, Li Fuan thought, His Royal Highness didn't want to see her, so he asked.
When Shen Ruolian's figure disappeared completely, Li Fuan knocked lightly on the door and walked in to return, "Your Highness, Princess Jianing has just arrived, but rest assured, Your Highness, the slave has already blocked back for you." β
Yan Wen: ......
Did he think the door was open so big that he couldn't hear it?
Yan Wen turned the page with the book in his hand, his eyelids lifted slightly and glanced at Li Fuan, his thin lips opened lightly, and his tone was gentle, "Gonggong Li really has a heart." β
Without waiting for Li Fu'an to react, he threw the book in his hand on the desk, closed his eyes, and looked tired, "Go down." β
None of them are worry-free.
Li Fuan was still reminiscing about the prince's words, and he always felt that something was wrong with his tone, and before he could figure it out, the prince asked him to step down.
When he heard this, he bowed and retreated, and was about to close the door, when he turned around and saw the figure of the prince reflected in the window.
Li Fuan's footsteps stopped: "......"
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After Shen Ruolian went back, she probably knew that Yan Wen was reluctant to see her again, there was such a big figure in the window, and Li Fuan also said that the person was not there.
But she didn't seem so uncomfortable since that night.
Unlike in the past, when she thought about him from morning to night, Shen Ruolian began to gradually draw out her energy this time to look at the embroidery of books and embroideries.
Before I knew it, half a month had passed since I went to the Qinglou that day.
On this day, the weather was fine and the sun was warm, so Shen Ruolian thought about going to the imperial garden to draw a pattern and come back to embroider on the newly made sachet.
She asked Qiu Rong to hold the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and found a place in the pavilion in the imperial garden.
As soon as the rice paper was laid out, and only a few strokes were drawn, there was a sound of footsteps behind him.
Shen Ruolian turned around and saw Pei Ci'an standing outside the pavilion in court clothes.
The young man stood in the sun, and his court clothes outlined his tall and muscular figure.
Shen Ruolian let out a "yes" and said with a smile, "What a coincidence." β
Pei Ci'an greeted her with a smile, "The princess is so elegant." β
Shen Ruolian's face flushed slightly, and she said ashamedly, "I don't paint well, I just want to paint a pattern and go back." β
After a pause, she said again, "Why don't Pei Gongzi help me take a look, how should I paint this painting?" β
Shen Ruolian has a simple temperament, if it weren't for Yan Wen, she would actually be a very laughing and adorable little girl.
Pei Ci'an looked at her bright smile, and his eyes unconsciously smudged a little smile, and he walked into the pavilion.
"Then Weichen was bold."
There was a faint scent of green bamboo on the man's body, and as soon as he walked to her side, she smelled it.
The tip of the pink little nose twitched lightly a few times, and Shen Ruolian felt that the taste was a little similar to that of the prince's brother, so he couldn't help but pull the hem of his sleeve, and his voice was glutinous, "You come closer." β
She used to be so coquettish with Yan Wen, and after she got acquainted with Pei Ci'an that day, she didn't see him as a strange man, because she didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this.
However, what she didn't notice was that when she pulled Pei Ci'an's sleeve, in the distance between the trees, two eyes looked at her with a cold look.
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The sunlight was cut by the branches of the trees and mottled afterimages, sprinkled on the bluestone paved palace road.
The man's golden python black boots stepped up unhurriedly, and his steps were steady.
"Your Highness, the county order of Naye City confessed yesterday that it was a man about forty years old who threatened him to covet those silver taels, and the lower official thoughtββ"
Zhang Chunlin, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was stopped by the prince in the early dynasty and asked about the greed for disaster relief grain.
He followed the prince, talking about the progress of the interrogation as he went, and the prince answered with a sideways glance from time to time.
When the two passed by the Imperial Garden, the prince who was walking in front suddenly stopped, and Zhang Chunlin didn't notice it and almost bumped into it.
He took a step back in fear, thinking that he had said something wrong, and when he looked up, he saw that His Highness's eyes were staring at a certain place for a moment, and there was a cold look in his eyes that he had never seen before.
The people around him had almost gone, and there was an eerie silence around him for a moment.
Before he could follow that line of sight, the prince's footsteps suddenly moved again, and his tone was still humble and peaceful, unchanged.
"Master Zhang continued, what do you think?"
Zhang Chunlin's expression was awe-inspiring, and he hurriedly followed and said his thoughts.
The prince listened patiently, and from time to time he gently nodded a few words, as if the little episode did not exist.
When he was separated from the prince, Zhang Chunlin couldn't help but glance at him again, and saw that the prince's thin lips were slightly upturned, and his eyebrows were calm and peaceful.
Seeing him look at him, he also showed a gentle smile to him.
Zhang Chunlin felt guilty for a while, and secretly said that he must have seen it wrong, how could the prince of their Great Yan Dynasty be gentle and dignified, how could he show such a look.
After separating from Zhang Chunlin, Yan Wen's face was still gentle.
He used his thumb to grind the rosewood bracelet a few times, and explained to Li Fuan, "Before dinner, ask Pei Boli to send Pei Ci'an's Geng Ti to the East Palace." β
"Also, Lone's meeting with Lord Han tonight was postponed."
A sense of annoyance rose in Yan Wen's heart, and he laughed angrily.
He said why didn't she take the initiative to admit her mistake with him this time, she was busy cultivating a relationship with the little son of the Pei family.
That being the case, it would be the best of course, and it would save him from having to talk to her any more.
Li Fuan bowed down, and before leaving, he couldn't help but ask more, "Then Your Highness has any arrangements tonight?" Do you need a minion to prepare in advance? β
Yan Wen lowered his eyelids and glanced at him, "No need."