Chapter 23
Chapter 23
Zhao Ying said: "Feng Ming, this matter is really difficult. You know how much I love you. If you want to follow me, it will not be difficult for me to make you a concubine or even a concubine. Which civil servant or general do you like? I will definitely let that man carry a big sedan chair to marry you home. Even if that man has a wife, I will let him divorce his original wife. I will definitely make you feel good. But you just fell in love with him, I don’t care. Mind, let him marry you, but he may not be willing to listen to me."
Feng Ming said: "Don't ask him to marry me, otherwise it will only embarrass me even more. I am fine now. You two are finally together without any knots. I am really happy for you and for him. Sanlang , he is the only person in this world who can deserve you."
Zhao Ying said with a smile, "I'm afraid I'm not good enough for him in your heart."
While the two were talking, they heard footsteps outside the door, then Yan Luan walked in and said, "Haven't you finished washing, the water is cold?"
Zhao Ying said: "It's finished washing." She got up and stepped out of the tub.
Feng Ming took a large soft cloth towel and wiped off Zhao Ying's body, then took out a set of Yan Luan's pajamas, and put them on for Zhao Ying.Said: "The emperor and the master should go to bed early, the slaves are leaving." He also told the other girls that they don't need to go to bed today.
Zhao Ying and Yan Luan were lying on the bed, Zhao Ying stretched out her hand to hold Yan Luan in her arms, and said, "You seem to have gained some flesh recently."
Yan Luan smiled and said: "Do you think I'm fat? It's not you who sent Fengming to me, I don't know where she put so much thought into it, just breakfast has so many tricks, and at noon I let the cook in the mansion cook it. Well, let someone take the food box and send it to the official department. Dinner with you at night is always my favorite dish, can I not get fat?"
Zhao Ying said: "So Feng Ming took good care of you?" He looked at the pajamas on his body, the pajamas were white, but there were a few pieces of lotus embroidered on the front and cuffs with silver thread leaf.Said: "This embroiderer looks like it was made by Feng Ming."
Yan Luan nodded and said: "She made the clothes by herself. I said that I don't need to dress so finely, but she just didn't listen. This girl is not only ingenious, but also very shrewd. Since he came to me, she has taken care of my daily necessities. It's all very appropriate. I just now know how wronged you are to live with me in Wuchang Mansion. You can let go of someone who takes care of you so thoughtfully in your mansion. "
Zhao Ying said with a smile: "I have been in the battlefield for many years since I was a child, and I have never paid much attention to food and clothing, you know. Besides, the food you cook is very suitable for my taste."
Yan Luan said: "I still want to ask you, what do you mean by putting Feng Ming by my side?"
Zhao Ying paused and said, "You like Chi'er so much, I think you might want a child of your own."
Yan Luan was taken aback: "Why do you have such an idea? You know, I... can't."
Zhao Ying said: "If you think about it, it's not impossible at all. Do you want it?"
Yan Luan shook his head and said: "I don't want to, Chi'er, Wei'er, Tao'er, Lie'er, and Can'er are enough. Besides, I don't want to delay a girl like Fengming who is so energetic."
Zhao Ying said: "Forget it. I think you are tired today, go to sleep."
Early the next morning, Zhao Ying and Yan Luan packed up and prepared to go to court together, but they saw many carriages parked at the side door, and many horses tied to them.Many people also walked to a courtyard where the housekeeper Lu Tong usually handled things.
Yan Luan asked a servant, "Who are these people?"
Then said humanely: "Master Hui, they are all the heads of the village in our mansion."
Yan Luan thought to himself, these village bosses are very cunning, they usually hide from them when they collect rent, so it is really strange that they came to the door early in the morning today.Then he said to Zhao Ying: "Your Majesty, let's go back to the palace first, and I will take care of some family affairs."
Zhao Ying said: "It's still early, I'll go and have a look with you."
The two entered the main room of the small courtyard, Lu Tong sat in the front seat, surrounded by the first Zhuangtou, unexpectedly did not see Zhao Ying and Yan Luan standing at the door.
I saw those village chiefs scrambling to put the banknotes into Lu Tong's hands, but Lu Tong slowly took the money from one of them, handed it to the accountant next to him, and said: "All the village chiefs, come one by one. Wouldn’t it have been better if I had done this earlier? Why wait until today to rush to come?”
Zhuangtou, who handed over the silver ticket, laughed and said: "What Uncle Lu said is that the villain has paid up the rent for four years today, please tell Uncle Lu and Eunuch Yan, please don't let me do it again." The military master from Dongchang has come to visit the villain." Everyone also echoed, saying that today they have made up the land rent for four years.
Lu Tong said again: "It's not that I was in a hurry to collect rent from you just after returning to Beijing. It's just that the Master's Mansion is not as good as it used to be, and you have also seen that most of the servants in the Wang's Mansion have come to Yan's Mansion before. These people Who do you want if you don't want to eat horses? Could it be that the master and the emperor said that the money is not enough?"
The Zhuangtou hurriedly said: "What Uncle Lu said is, but you don't need to alarm Eunuch Yan after these things, right?"
Lu Tong sneered and said, "You didn't say that? You have already given Eunuch Yan the rent for the year the master returned to his hometown, so I had no choice but to take advantage of his busy schedule to ask, but Eunuch Yan said he didn't receive it. The two of you said something different, and I didn't deal with it at the time, so I naturally asked you to confront each other. Mr. Yan was busy with business, so he sent a few military masters from the East Factory to discuss with you. In this way?"
Those village bosses said anxiously that they had misremembered and indeed owed four years' rent.Yan Luan glanced at Yan Shuang, Yan Shuang quickly lowered her head, not daring to tell the difference.Yan Luan motioned for a young man beside him to report, and the young man said loudly, "Master Lu, the master is here." Zhao Ying and several eunuchs were all dressed in casual clothes, so the young man dared not say that the emperor had come too.
Lu Tong hurriedly stood up, greeted Zhao Ying first, and naturally did not call the emperor.He saluted Yan Luan again, and said, "Master, it's the heads of the village who have come to pay the rent. When I have collected them all, I will send them in to Miss Feng." Then he said to the heads of the village: "Several Zhuangtou still come to kowtow to the master?"
The first Zhuangtou rushed over to kowtow to Yan Luan, saying some auspicious words, some said: "I haven't seen the master for a few years, the master looks younger than before", and some said: " All these years, thanks to the master who has taken care of the land in the Yan Mansion, I have something to eat." Yan Luan heard what they said was nonsense, and didn't bother to listen any more, so he said, "Go to the courtyard and wait for a while, and I will talk to Steward Lu. words."
☆、Healed from trauma and returned home
When Yan Luan opened his eyes, he met Zhao Xuan's worried gaze.He opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't speak at all.But I heard Zhao Xuan's joyful voice: "Mister is awake? Doctor Li, please show him quickly."
Li Wangchuan walked to the bed, gave Yan Luan his pulse, and bowed to Zhao Xuan, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, Lord Yan is fine, Caomin will go and cook some healing soup for Lord Yan now."
After Li Wangchuan went out, Zhao Xuan took Yan Luan's hand lightly with his hand, and said softly: "Sir, you can rest at ease and heal your wounds. After you recover from your injuries, you can go wherever you want, and be with whoever you want to be with." Together, I will never force you to stay again." Speaking of this, tears welled up in his eyes.
Yan Luan couldn't speak, but she heard Zhao Xuan's words clearly, her heart settled down, and she fell into a deep sleep again.
Three months later, Yan Luan's injury has almost completely healed under the meticulous care of Li Wangchuan and Yan Shuang.After Zhao Xuan came down to court this day, he went to see Yan Luan again in the side hall where Yan Luan lived.The two chatted for a while, and Yan Luan said a few words that had been thinking in his heart for the past few days: "Your Majesty, the minister's injury has healed, and I think I will resign with Your Majesty in the past few days."
Zhao Xuan's originally smiling face froze, knowing that what should come would always come, so he said, "Sir, are you going back to your hometown?"
Yan Luan smiled and said, "Yes, where else can I go?"
Zhao Xuan said: "Mr. Wuchang, his hometown, is also his feudal state. Naturally, Mister is going to look for him?"
Yan Luan didn't say a word, and now he didn't want to hide anything from Zhao Xuan.
Zhao Xuan suddenly said worriedly: "Sir, that man's heart is very bad. He used to be quite contemptuous of Mr., and since Mr. has no position and no power, I'm afraid he will be bullied by him every day."
Yan Luan didn't know how to answer these words, so he could only continue to remain silent.
As if thinking of something, Zhao Xuan said to Yan Shuang who was beside him: "Yan Shuang, go to the House of Internal Affairs and ask them to bring the iron coupon of the alchemy book "As if I'm here in person" copied from Lan Yu's house."
After the iron scroll was brought, Zhao Xuan said: "Sir, this was given to Lan Yu back then. Later, when Lan Yu was convicted and ransacked his home, the iron scroll was taken back to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. I know what I said, that man has always Don't take it seriously. But □□ is my grandfather, and also his uncle. □□I don't dare to despise the iron certificate of Dan Shu written by □□, sir, please take this with you."
Yan Luan said with a smile: "Only meritorious officials can receive the iron certificate of Dan Shu. Now that I have lost my official position and returned to my hometown, I definitely dare not accept such a generous favor from Your Majesty. Don't worry, Your Majesty, that person will not do anything to me."
Zhao Xuan hurriedly said: "Sir, Wuchang Mansion is far away from the capital. If he really speaks sarcasticly or frequently with ridicule to Mr., I will not know. Mr. Take this iron coupon of the Dan book, so that he will always be able to do so." I will be a little apprehensive, but I am also relieved."
Seeing that Zhao Xuan was determined to do so, Yan Luan had no choice but to agree to accept it.A few days later, Yan Luan took only an old servant and Ah Fu, drove a carriage, and left Beijing for Wuchang Mansion.
After walking for almost two months, the carriage finally arrived in Wuchang. Yan Luan was thinking all the way, what should he say when he saw Zhao Ying?Will Zhao Ying still care about the past?If he refused to forgive, how would I coax him back?After much deliberation, he still had no idea, so he decided to go back to his old house first, and stay here.
The Yan family's ancestral house has been unoccupied for a long time, and it took Yan Luan a lot of effort to clean it out.After staying, Yan Luan had the idea of looking for Zhao Ying several times, and twice even went to the gate of the palace, but finally retreated.
One day Zhao Ying was flipping through some idle books in the mansion, when the guard Hong Bai came to report: "My lord, Dr. Li Wangchuan has returned to Wuchang, and now he is outside the mansion, saying that he wants to see the lord."
Zhao Ying was taken aback for a moment, and some bad thoughts came to her mind, and she hurriedly said, "Come in, please."
Li Wangchuan walked in, and just about to greet Zhao Ying, Zhao Ying hurriedly asked, "Didn't you be asked to accompany Master Yan? Why are you back? But what happened to Master Yan?"
Li Wangchuan was taken aback, and forgot to meet the ceremony, he just said: "Master Yan's injury has healed already? He left Beijing two months earlier than me, so he should have arrived earlier, why didn't he come to see the prince?"
Zhao Ying frowned and said, "What injury? Tell me carefully."
Li Wangchuan told Zhao Ying how Yan Luan was injured and how he healed him.He said again: "Master Yan left Beijing four months ago. Because I have too many family members, I wasted time packing up and selling the house."
Zhao Ying was silent for a while, and said to Li Wangchuan: "Old Li, go to the tent to pay some money in a while, and settle down well at home." Then he said to Hong Bai: "Go out with me."
Zhao Ying and Hong Bai rode to the gate of Yan's house, although General Tie was guarding the gate, but looking into the courtyard from the gap in the gate, it looked like someone lived there.Suddenly Zhao Ying's heartbeat increased, and she thought that the man had returned.After getting off the horse, he only sat on the big bluestone in front of the door for a while, and then saw Yan Luan walking over with a vegetable basket from a distance.
The author has something to say: Another version of the two meeting each other.
☆, back to the countryside after recovering from trauma
Yan Luan had seen Zhao Ying a long time ago, her heart was beating violently, and she wondered how this person would know that she had returned to her hometown.When he got closer, Yan Luan smiled and said: "You came just in time, I bought some vegetables, you can have lunch at my place later."
Zhao Ying nodded, but her face was expressionless, she just stared at Yan Luan.After a while, Fang said to Hong Bai: "You go back to the residence first."
Yan Luan opened the door and said to Zhao Ying, "Your Majesty, please come in." The two of them entered the courtyard together, and then entered the main room.Yan Luan poured a cup of tea for Zhao Ying, and said: "You sit down first, there are books on the bookcase, you can read as you like, I will go to the kitchen to cook."
Zhao Ying grabbed Yan Luan and said, "Don't be busy cooking, I have something to ask you."
Yan Luan had no choice but to stand still, but Zhao Ying immediately came to unbutton his coat. Yan Luan hid a few times, but was dragged back by Zhao Ying.He tried to block it with his hands, but was easily captured by Zhao Ying.Only helplessly said: "You and I haven't seen each other for half a year, but you just saw me today, are you only thinking about this?"
Zhao Ying didn't speak, took off Yan Luan's coat, and then went to untie Yan Luan's small coat.Yan Luan knew that struggling was futile, so she just turned her face away and let Zhao Ying strip off his upper body.
Zhao Ying stared at the scar on Yan Luan's chest for a while, then stretched out her hand to rub it lightly, and said, "Why do you do such a stupid thing?"
Yan Luan said lightly: "I was a bit biased for a while, but now everything is fine."
Zhao Ying said: "You never thought about it, if you really... how will I live the rest of my life?"
Yan Luan looked at Zhao Ying and said softly, "I'm sorry."
Zhao Ying looked at the scar under Yan Luan's ribs again, and suddenly hugged Yan Luan tightly, saying: "Don't be stupid in the future, otherwise, if you go to the poor and fall to the underworld, I will find you back."
Yan Luan was in pain from being strangled by Zhao Ying's arms, but her heart was hot, and she said in a muffled voice: "Yes, it will never happen again."
Zhao Ying let go of her arms, supported the back of Yan Luan's head, and kissed her deeply.Yan Luan panted to respond to Zhao Ying, and their tongues became entangled.
Just like that, they hugged and kissed on the bed, Zhao Ying casually pulled a belt of someone's clothes, then raised Yan Luan's hands above his head, and tied them together.
Yan Luan didn't move, but said: "Why bother, I can't run away?"
Zhao Ying said: "You have run away too many times, I don't believe you anymore." Then she kissed Yan Luan.
After the cloud and rain passed, Zhao Ying released Yan Luan's hands.The two rested for a while, Zhao Ying said: "Why are you back, where is your official position?"
Yan Luan said: "I am an official returning to my hometown. How can I still have an official position?"
Zhao Ying frowned and said, "Why?"
Yan Luan laughed and said, "I'm just a useless person."
Zhao Ying said: "What crime?"
Yan Luan said: "Collude with the vassals."
Zhao Ying snorted coldly and said, "You said you colluded with me, thanks to that little wolf cub who figured it out. Now that you're back, why don't you come to me?"
Yan Luan said with a smile: "Now that I have no job, no power, and no money, I thought of going to you, afraid that you would not take me in."
Zhao Ying was taken aback for a moment, and then sweetness filled her heart, knowing that with Yan Luan's temperament, these words were tantamount to confessing.Holding Yan Luan's hand under the quilt, he said: "I have been thinking about you for more than ten years, and today I finally got you."
Yan Luan laughed and said: "What you said, isn't it already yours?"
Zhao Ying said: "If you get people, you can't get hearts."
Yan Luan laughed and said, "It's enough to have this person for you to play with on the bed, what else do you want to do?"
Zhao Ying looked at Yan Luan, and said bitterly: "Say these words to insult me again, aren't you afraid that I will make you suffer at night?"
Yan Luan said softly: "I came back from all the way to find you, and I just met today, so you want me to suffer?"
Zhao Ying snorted coldly: "In the past, I spoiled you too much and left everything to you. In the end, I didn't even take my own life seriously. From now on, I won't indulge you anymore."
Yan Luan said softly: "Yes, I will listen to you in everything from now on."
It was rare for Zhao Ying to see Yan Luan so obedient, so pity filled her heart, she hugged Yan Luan and said, "Are you tired, go to sleep for a while."
When Zhao Ying woke up, it was completely dark, and when she turned her head to look, there was no Yan Luan by her side.My heart sank, and I remembered some ghost novels.If a person dies and there are people and things that he can't let go of in his heart, the ghost of that person will secretly return to the world to have a tryst with his sweetheart.Thinking about it this way, I feel that Yan Luan's submissiveness is abnormal today, and I feel a little panicked.Hurry up and get out of bed.
Zhao Ying walked into the kitchen and saw that Yan Luan was busy inside, so she settled down.He didn't speak, but quietly watched Yan Luan busy with the chopping board and the kitchen.
After a while, Yan Luan saw Zhao Ying, and said with a smile: "You go back to the house and wait, the meal will be ready in a while."
Zhao Ying said, "I'll help you."
Yan Luan said: "It's almost healed, you don't need to do anything."
Zhao Ying said: "Then I will bring the bowls and chopsticks into the house."
By the time the food was ready, it was already dark.Yan Luan lit a few candles, and by candlelight, Zhao Ying watched Yan Luan make a steamed pork with Huangpi sugar, a three-fresh bean curd, and a pork ribs and lotus root soup.
Yan Luan smiled and said: "I didn't know you were coming today, I didn't prepare anything, I will cook some dishes when you come back next time."
Zhao Ying took a sip of each of them and thought they were all delicious, so she said, "When will I come next time?"
Yan Luan said, "You can come whenever you want."
Zhao Ying looked at Yan Luan and said, "I want to see you every day when I wake up."
Yan Luan froze for a moment, and said: "Shihuan, don't you bring me into the palace? You have a concubine, a side concubine, and a few young masters in your mansion. If I live in... I..."
Zhao Ying interrupted: "When did I say I want you to live in the palace?"
Yan Luan was taken aback for another moment, and said with a wry smile: "I'm just pretending to be sentimental."
Zhao Ying smiled and said, "I mean, I'll move here to live with you, okay?"
Yan Luan was moved, and said: "Don't make things difficult for me, anyway, I'm here every day, and you can see me whenever you come."
Zhao Ying said: "There is nothing to embarrass, I have nothing to do in the mansion."
Yan Luan said with a smile: "Of course I can't ask for it, but I'm afraid that you will be wronged too much."
Zhao Ying looked at Yan Luan, the man looked more handsome in the candlelight than in the daytime, and said: "With you, how can you say I am wronged." Suddenly saw a Dan Shutie enshrined in the middle of the north wall On the voucher, there were four words "as I come in person" written on it, so I walked over and found that it was Taizu's imperial pen, so I asked Yan Luan: "Taizu's Danshu iron voucher was only given to a few heroes who founded the country. Why do you have a piece here?"
Yan Luan smiled and said: "This is the one given to Lan Yu. Lan Yu was convicted of confiscating his home, and this was taken back by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Xuan'er said... I was afraid that you would bully me, so I gave it to me."
Zhao Ying snorted coldly, and said: "It's a good thing he can figure it out. Your room is small, and offering here is also disrespectful to Taizu. I'll take it back to the palace and find a room for offering."
Yan Luan nodded and said "Okay", but he only felt it was funny in his heart. Could it be that he would really use this to pressure him?
Zhao Ying took two teacups from the tea table, poured tea, put it on the dining table, and said, "Today, we will replace the wine with tea, how about having a cup with each other?"
Yan Luan's heart warmed up, picked up a teacup, and said with a smile: "After the cup is handed in, you will be a good companion. Don't regret it, my lord."
Zhao Ying said with a smile: "I have fallen in love with you more than ten years ago, you know. You have been half-hearted and not sure about it." Then they took Yan Luan's arm, and the two drank the tea together, and then Gently caressing Yan Luan's lips, he said, "I'm not afraid that you will laugh at me when I say it. I have always been afraid of you. That year in Tianlu Pavilion, I wanted to kiss you, but you avoided it. Since then, I have never dared to kiss you." Kiss you."
Yan Luan laughed and said, "Don't say such cheap words. I have said many times not to use all kinds of tricks you use in bed, but you still follow suit. How can you be afraid of me?" Already a little red.
Zhao Ying said with a smile: "What's the same? Every time I hold the purpose of treating you. Besides, you always say no while moaning. It's not a refusal, it's clearly an invitation." Then she moved closer to Yan Luan He said, "From now on, this lip belongs to me, right?"
Yan Luan said in his heart, the person and heart are given to you, and of course the lips are also yours.Thinking in her heart, she took the initiative to kiss Zhao Ying.
The flickering candlelight reflected the extra warmth in the late spring night.
Meet and meet, and cherish with your son;
Death and life are broad, and Zicheng said.
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