Yan Wen knew that since he had already decided to marry Sun Jingchu as a concubine, under the pain of bereavement, he should agree to her request, which was not too much.

But—

He opened his mouth, and the words came around to his mouth, but it became "Yu Li is not compatible, Miss Sun mourns." ”

Seeing her pale face for a moment, he finally couldn't bear it, and added softly, "I'm alone with you." ”

Sun Jingchu's face was better, and she lowered her head and felt slightly ashamed and guilty.

"It's the courtiers who have overdistanced."

Yan Wen tapped his fingers on his knee twice, let out a "hmm" in his nose, closed his eyes and didn't speak again.

-

The previous head of the family was in mourning, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was able to come in person, which gave the Chu family enough face, especially since he stayed in the Chu family until it was dark before leaving.

"Your Highness, I'll send you."

Seeing that Yan Wen got up to leave, Sun Jingchu naturally got up with him, looking like a husband and a woman, and went out with him.

Walking out of the Chu Mansion, the two stood beside the carriage, and Sun Jingchu still had tears in the corners of her eyes.

Yan Wen looked at her for a while and said calmly, "You still have to take care of yourself." ”

As soon as the words fell, Sun Jingchu suddenly cried quietly, looking really sad.

She wept and asked again what she had said in the carriage today, "Your Highness, can I hold you?" ”

Yan Wen looked up at the moonlight, his eyes were dark and deep, this time, he did not refuse, but let out a faint "um".

In the next moment, Sun Jingchu threw herself into his arms.

Yan Wen shook his head for a moment, and the image of another little girl throwing herself into his arms came to mind.

After a while, he slowly raised the arm hanging by his side, patted Sun Jingchu twice on the back, and said in a low voice, "Don't cry, as soon as the draft is over, Gu will canonize you as the crown princess." ”

When Sun Jing first heard this, she couldn't help but hook her lips slightly, afraid that he would see it, so she had to bury her head lower.

Ben wanted to take this opportunity to stay with him for a while, but he continued, "You go back and get busy, I'm going back to the palace." ”

Although Sun Jingchu was reluctant, this time she had heard what she wanted to hear, and knew that she would accept it when she saw it, so she took the initiative to withdraw from his embrace, squatted down and saluted, and said softly, "The courtiers send your highness to you." ”

Yan Wen's gaze didn't linger on her too much, turned around and went straight to the carriage.

As soon as the carriage entered the palace gate, the queen sent someone to call him directly.

Yan Wen naturally knew why.

The queen didn't go around the bend with him, and when she saw him coming, she asked him directly, "Why did Jianing go to Hanshan Temple alone?" ”

The queen didn't see that there were some problems between the prince and Jianing that day, but she thought that maybe the two children were making trouble, so she didn't care too much.

Unexpectedly, only half a month has passed, and the child actually ran to the temple alone.

In addition to worrying, the queen also faintly felt a touch of dissatisfaction in her heart, a princess, she didn't say hello, she just said to leave, what kind of system.

Sure enough, it is not the blood of the Yan family that flows in his bones.

Yan Wen's gaze stopped on the queen's face for a moment, and moved to the courtyard, under the moonlight, a small yellow spring flower trembled and stood on the branches, and the wind blew and fell flutteringly.

Now that the capital has passed early spring, Hanshan Temple is still cold.

Yan Wen was silent for a while, and said lightly, "It was Erchen who asked her to go." ”

The queen was slightly stunned, "You let her go?" ”

"Hmm."

Yan Wen retracted his gaze and looked at the queen again, his face was gentle and calm:

"Erchen saw that Jianing had a good impression of Pei Ci'an, and planned to marry the two next month, Jianing's temperament jumped out, and Erchen first let her go to the temple to meditate."

When the queen heard this, her frowning eyebrows loosened suddenly, she nodded, and said with a smile:

"It's okay, it's still the prince's thoughtfulness, it's just that the younger sister is going to be married, and the prince's own family affairs must also be grasped, even if he falls in love with Miss Sun, it is also good to make a verbal decision before canonization."

Yan Wen's fingers tightened a little, and after a while, he said softly, "Erchen can save it." ”

Back in the East Palace, Yan Wen thought about it for a while, and asked Xiao Shunzi to go to the warehouse to pick out a silver-inlaid jade plain peony hairpin, and send it to Sun Jingchu early in the morning.

The Great Yan Kingdom needs a noble girl like Sun Jingchu who knows advance and retreat and understands etiquette to be the crown princess.

The imperial court also needed the Sun family and the Chu family.

Now that Chu Laoxian has passed away, the new head of the Chu family has no affection for him, only a relationship between monarchs and ministers.

Before going to bed, Yan Wen pondered whether in addition to marrying Sun Jingchu as the crown princess, should he really accept another daughter of the Chu family as a side concubine.

-

In the middle of the night, Yan Wen woke up again.

The moonlight poured in, and he shook his head slightly, remembering the dream of Shicai.

In his dream, he seemed to go back to the ten days when he fell into the trap nine years ago.

It was the longest ten days of his life, despair struck overwhelmingly, how could a blind and disabled man afford the position of prince, he had no desire to survive at all.

In a trance, he heard the little girl calling him, "Brother, don't sleep."

Later, when he felt cold, the little girl took off her coat and draped it over him, and her body was close to him, and the warm feeling pulled him back from the darkness little by little.

Then, the dream turned, and the sound of "brother" turned into a little girl's sobbing moan.

"Your Highness."

"Brother Prince."

And the body that was close to him also became soft and seductive.

Then he woke up.

The night breeze is gentle, the moonlight is cold, the shadows are sparse and slanted, and the dark fragrance is surging.

Yan Wen stared at the gently swaying shadows of the trees on the screen window, his expression unusually calm.

After meditating for half an hour, he put the bead bracelet back to his pillow and entered the room with a calm face.

-

Hanshan Temple.

After the abbot arranged a place for Shen Ruolian during the day, she first had a fast meal, and then lay on the bed and slept beautifully.

I cried so hard last night, my eyes were crying uncomfortably, and I took advantage of the carriage before dawn to get there, and she was so sleepy that she could barely open her eyes when she was eating, if it weren't for the delicious food in Hanshan Temple, she might have fallen asleep directly.

Shen Ruolian slept directly from noon to midnight.

When she opened her eyes again, it was already pitch black, except for the cold moonlight outside the window casting a faint blue light through the screen.

It was a little cold at night, Shen Ruolian didn't wake up Qiu Rong outside, she sat on the head of the bed and gathered the quilt.

Not far from the window, insects chirped, and the sound was especially noticeable in the secluded temple.

Shen Ruolian looked at the moonlight cast on the ground, it was cold and cold, and she suddenly felt lonely like never before.

In fact, nine years ago, before she was rescued by Yan Wen, she had a period of displacement and was sold several times.

Yan Wen rescued her after she escaped from the traffickers.

It was also that period of displacement that made her mind feel inferior and sensitive, although she was pampered by Yan Wen for so many years, she still developed the habit of looking at people's faces.

She knew that in that palace, they were all good to her, but she could see that their kindness to her was conditional because she was the "prince's sister", and no one was because she was her.

Even sometimes, when she accidentally showed shallow ignorance, she would see a flash of disdain in the queen's eyes.

Although she knew that that look was just a knee-jerk reaction of the queen to vulgar people and things, she would still feel sad in her heart, and then she would be more careful to please her.

And in the entire palace, the only thing she needs to do is Yan Wen to think hard and flatter.

originally thought that he was really treating her well.

But now, especially after he had said those cold words to himself last night, she was suddenly unsure again.

I'm not sure if his kindness to her in the past was just to repay her "kindness", and now that the "grace" has been repaid, he finally began to be impatient with her, whether he was the same as those of them, in fact, he looked down on her from the bottom of his heart.

After Yan Wen rescued her that year, he was originally going to let her go.

But she didn't know where she could go, and although he drove her away, she quietly followed them.

Then one day, she saw that he was ambushed by the Xijon people, and fell into a trap, and before he fell into the trap, she rushed over to catch him, but she did not expect to be taken by him and fell in.

After the two fell into the trap together, Shen Ruolian found that Yan Wen was seriously injured, one leg was broken and stabbed out of the skin, and his eyes seemed to be injured by poisonous gas, and he couldn't see anything.

At that time, it was winter, and the surroundings were full of heavy snow, and the weather was freezing, and the temperature on Yan Wen's body quickly lost.

Shen Ruolian took off her clothes and covered him, while encouraging him in his ear not to fall asleep.

She later tried to carry him up, but she was too young and had no strength, so she fell down after several attempts, and even took him with him a few times, and later in order to avoid the aggravation of his leg injury, Shen Ruolian had to give up this idea.

After a few days, after a long period of not eating and wound infection, Yan Wen's condition became worse and worse, in order to keep him alive, Shen Ruolian cut his wrist every day and fed him his own blood.

The wound froze, and she opened it again, as if she only wanted him to live, and it seemed that she didn't feel any more pain.

It took him another five days to survive until his subordinates came down to save him.

And she couldn't afford to fall ill because of blood loss for a long time, so she was taken back to the palace by him.

In fact, what Shen Ruolian didn't know was that her blood loss and illness were not the reason why Yan Wen took her back to the East Palace.

Later, Yan Wen's eyes were healed and he went back to check the trap, and on the edge of the trap, Yan Wen suddenly found a rope that could climb out of the trap.

At that time, he was blind, and she could have climbed up and left on her own, but she didn't.

If she had the slightest thought of abandoning him, he would probably stay in that pit forever.

This is the reason why Yan Wen later decided to take her back to the palace and recognize her as her sister.

The sky gradually began to whiten, Shen Ruolian drew her mind from her memories, and the sound of insects returned to her ears.

She sucked the tip of her nose, which was red from the cold, and knew in her heart that she was not the same kind of person as them after all.

Such a scorching and dazzling and high-flying immortal, only a noble girl like Miss Shen is worthy of him.

It was getting a little brighter again, and the sound of brooms rubbing against the ground began to be heard in the silent courtyard, and the door in the distance was opened with a "squeak", and a basin of water was splashed on the ground with a "bang" sound.

Shen Ruolian took a deep breath, and she suddenly didn't want to go back to the palace.

It's not her home anyway.

-

Shen Ruolian stayed in Hanshan Temple for half a month.

In the past, she had a detached temperament, and she had never set foot in the temple except for following the royal rituals and other activities.

She thought that this time she would be the same as before, and she would not be able to stand the loneliness after not being out for two days.

However, what she didn't expect was that in the past half a month, she really sank down and devoted herself to worshipping the Buddha.

During the day, they followed the abbot to chant and pray for blessings, and at night they copied the scriptures.

When she came, she also brought some fabrics, and by the way, she also brought the paintings painted by Pei Ci'an that day.

Occasionally, when she doesn't copy scriptures, she embroiders incense sachets, and recently Pei Ci'an often comes to the temple to accompany her, takes her to the back mountains to pick wild flowers, and recently taught her to roll dice.

The days in Hanshan Temple were accompanied by him, and it was pleasant to live slowly.

When she saw Yan Wen again outside the door half a month later, Shen Ruolian suddenly thought in a trance that she didn't seem to have thought much about him for a long time.