Yuezhaoyingan

Chapter 10

Two years have passed since the case of the Ministry of Industry, and Ling Yu has gradually gained momentum in the court. He is already a noble man, but he is valued by the Emperor Cheng, and the real power is gradually in his hands. Irritable, Qin Xiang also saw the advantages and disadvantages of it, and Ling Yu was gentle and humble, seemingly uncontroversial but the most popular.

In the Palace of Yuyi, Concubine Qin frowned. Although she was over [-] years old, she was well-maintained. Her gorgeous costumes and exquisite makeup all showed that she was the highest-ranking woman in the Yuanhe Dynasty, but The news I heard was not so comforting: "Your Majesty really said that?"

The little eunuch on the side looked around nervously, although there were only the two of them in the room, he still seemed very cautious: "Yes, ma'am, for the personal tour to Lanben County at the end of the year, His Majesty has intentionally let the third prince go down." .The decree has not yet been issued, but the master hastily asked the servant to tell you, so that you can make plans early."

Lanben County is one of the most important cities and counties in Yuanhe. Its area is not as large as other large counties but it is rich in resources. It has always been routine inspections that Emperor Cheng personally goes to, which shows that he attaches great importance to it, but now Ling Yu is going to go.

What does it mean?If the decree goes ahead, the whole court will probably look sideways at it.

If one day Ling Yu holds great power, wouldn't the Qin family's management these years be like a dream come true?What a headache.

After dismissing the little eunuch, he asked his cronies to pass the news to his father.Concubine Qin rubbed her brows, and the maid next to her hurriedly went over to gently pinch her shoulders, Concubine Qin sighed lightly, and asked, "Where's Xu'er?"

"Go back to your mother, the fifth prince is hardworking. He went to school in the morning, and after the lunch break, he went to the school's martial arts field to practice riding and shooting." The maid replied.

Concubine Qin's brows relaxed a little after hearing this: "Also let him pay more attention to his body and pay more respects to his father."

After all, the grand lady followed from the Qin family all the time, she spoke with a hint of self-consciousness, and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, Your Majesty only dotes on Your Majesty, and His Fifth Highness is both civil and military. His Majesty has always valued it very much, and often praises her very much." .”

Qin Guifei closed her eyes and snorted coldly: "Has Your Majesty ever praised Ling Xu as he was back then?"

The palace lady was stunned, thinking that the third prince's success over the years had offended her, and she comforted her: "Master, don't worry, the master was highly valued in the previous court, next year our fifth prince will enter the court soon, His Highness Ling Xu is smart, Are you afraid that you can't compare with the third prince?"

After hearing this, Concubine Qin frowned even tighter. Others couldn't understand, but Concubine Qin could clearly see that she was by Emperor Cheng's side all the time. It was too easy for a thoughtful person like Ling Yu to please Emperor Cheng. She didn't do it before because she didn't want to. Ling Yu has been too popular these days, and now she is so kind and filial, so she has to be vigilant.

Thinking of Ling Yu's gentle but noble gesture at yesterday's family banquet, it reminded her of Ling Yu's mother, the noble and beautiful Queen Ye, they were equally gentle, but equally affectionate, and more importantly, they were equally unyielding.

Concubine Qin opened her eyes, but there was a trace of mockery in her eyes.

Zhaoan is already ten years old, and has reached a more active age. Recently, reading those poems and literature has become more and more boring. It has been more than half a year since Qu He came to the palace last time, and he seldom bets with him when he comes. In view of these things, he also felt that he was getting old before he got old.

There are not many people in Ling Yu's house, Ji Qing has always followed Ling Yu, and in the house, only the housekeeper and Xiang Bing can say a few words, and the other servants are very disciplined and rarely bother him.His Highness has become more and more busy recently. He is taught by his housekeeper to learn Chinese and read.Zhao'an would be in a daze when he was free, and would wonder what kind of existence he was. Xiang Bing always told others that he was his cousin, but he knew that he was just an abandoned child picked up by His Highness, and he should have He must be a servant, but he seldom leaves the house, and the housekeeper never asks him to do any work, and His Highness treats him especially well.

Zhao'an lowered his head and thought, maybe it's because he is still young...

However, he secretly comforted himself that maybe he was a special existence to His Highness, although he didn't know why, but he also liked this specialness and the idea very much.

He came out of the warm study room, put on his cloak by himself, stood under the corridor and saw that the drowsy sky had begun to snow, fearing that it would be heavy before nightfall, he hurried back He took an umbrella and ran towards the gate of the Prince's Mansion, but before he reached the gate, he saw Ling Yu and his party walking in from a distance. The tall body was wrapped in silver fox fur, and there was still a gentle smile.

Zhao'an shouted happily: "Your Highness."

The next moment, after seeing the people behind Ling Yu, his complexion was like an eggplant beaten by frost, and suddenly became a little subtle.

Seeing that Ling Yu was still wearing pink clothes behind her, she wrapped herself tightly with a felt cloak, and the fluffy lining made her even more cute and delicate, Qu He said bluntly, "Oh, son Come to deliver an umbrella. Quickly, put it on for your mother."

Zhao'an blushed immediately, a girl who had not left the court spoke like this, Zhao'an was a little ashamed for her, but she was Qu He, not any other ordinary girl, and then Zhao'an had only one kind of being occupied. A sense of powerlessness that cannot be resisted after being cheap.

The origin of the incident was that a year ago Qu He stayed at the Third Prince's Mansion again, and one morning he suddenly wanted to make breakfast for Ling Yu, and used this as an excuse to let Ji Qing eat the breakfast he made himself several times. Miss Qu finally realized that she still had to bring breakfast to Brother Yu when she remembered, but as soon as she entered the room, she saw Zhao'an who was obediently folding the quilt, and Qu He was surprised: "You are still sleeping in Brother Yu's room ..." At that time, Qu He pinched his fingers and counted, it must have been three years.

Zhao'an ignored her, and his peace of mind almost made Qu He think that he had asked a superfluous question. Qu He turned his head and said to Ling Yu: "Brother Yu, didn't you just pick up someone that no one wanted? Picked up a cheap son and came back..."

Hearing that Ling Yu choked on a sip of hot tea, Ling Yu was afraid that Zhao An would not sleep well at first, but after Zhao An got used to living here, Ling Yu didn't take it seriously, so he let him go: "Don't talk nonsense. "

Qu He looked at Zhao'an who seemed to be very familiar with this room, thought for a while, and suddenly said with joy: "Then I am going to be his mother."

Zhao'an was taken aback. At that time, it was widely rumored in central Beijing that the third son of the emperor, Ling Yu, and Miss Qu's family were in love with each other. number.For example, he didn't see the so-called matchmaking, so he didn't take it seriously at that time, but it was the first time that he felt that Qu He was really not ashamed.

At that time, Ling Yu saw that she was talking further and further away, so he frowned and said, "Nonsense."

Seeing that he didn't want to talk much, Qu He smiled, and turned the topic to the breakfast she made by herself, but Qu He often teased the matter of "being a mother", which often made Zhao'an angry .

Right now, he would be ridiculed for giving an umbrella, thinking in his heart that Qu He would only dare to say this when Ji Qing was not around, Zhao An saw that Ji Qing was not behind him, because if Ji Qing was present, this " The young lady who is pure and weak would not say such shocking words, then she held her umbrella and gritted her teeth unmoved: "A person who eats and drinks is not qualified to order people around."

Qu He also laughed, jumped out and pinched his fair little face at that time, and said, "Those who eat for nothing get angry instead."

Zhao'an only felt that Qu He was worse than before, relying on his height advantage to properly bully himself to the point where he couldn't fight back, he quickly got rid of the hand that was playing tricks on his face, and threw himself at Ling Yu body.

Ling Yu stopped Qu He's teasing with a light cough, and then touched Zhao'an's head with a smile to comfort him. Zhao'an has grown taller these years, and it's not like when he was young, he could hug him when he was fine. , Said: "Don't listen to her nonsense." After speaking, he took Zhao'an's hand and walked inside.

Just now, Zhao'an's hand holding the umbrella became a little cold, but now he only feels that the hand holding his own is very warm, and he doesn't want to let go at all, but thinking of Qu He, the young man's mind suddenly tightens.His Highness also dotes on Qu He very much, Qu He never treats himself as an outsider in the prince's mansion.And every time she comes here, she likes to toss herself, pulling herself up and down, picking fruits and fishing, and pushing herself on herself when she gets into trouble.But His Highness never cared about her, and never even said a serious word, so Qu He should be special to His Highness.Thinking of what she said about being a mother before, Zhao'an felt an inexplicable uneasiness in his heart.

Until the end of the meal, Zhao'an was still a little depressed, and he didn't really want to see Qu He, so he went to wash up after dinner, and even Qu He called him several times, so he didn't hear him in a daze.

After dinner, Ling Yu was dealing with some things in the study. Qu He brought sweet soup over and asked, "Brother Yu, does Zhaoan still sleep with you?"

Without raising his head, Ling Yu said, "Yes."

Qu He stirred the sweet soup and said, "It's not an option to go on like this..."

"What's wrong?" Ling Yu stopped writing.

Qu He said unhappily: "He is so old, he still needs someone to sleep with him, he is always clinging to you, and he reads poems all day long, he is not manly at all." Spits out her paws, and now when she is teased, she burrows into Ling Yu's arms. Do you think you won't be teased if you can read a few lines of poetry? Hmph, too naive.

Hearing Qu He's words, Ling Yu felt that Zhao'an's temper was a bit softer now, he had never raised children, and always indulged blindly, this was true for Qu He, and the same for An, but he didn't know whether it was good or not. good.

"He will always grow up. You will have other people in the room in the future. You can't let him live forever." Qu He rushed to the desk, blinked his eyes, and felt that what he said was very cryptic and awkward. Sincerely.

"Is this something you, a little girl, should think about?" The thoughts in Qu He's head are always novel and bold. Maybe he was born in the Qu family, which is mainly engaged in business. With Qu He's no-nonsense character, Ling Yu tapped her head lightly and said, "I know what to do. It's late at night, why don't you go to sleep?"

Speaking of this, Qu Hebian smacked his lips, with a look of grievance, his face was full of words "why don't I go to sleep, don't you know?"Suddenly her ears moved, and her face was filled with joy, and even her eyebrows and eyes became lively: "He's back!"

Ling Yu's martial arts were not as good as Qu He's, and he couldn't hear any movement. It was only when Ji Qing approached and heard footsteps that he knew someone had come back. He turned his head to look at Qu He, who was blushing, and didn't understand why she was breathing deeply. He took several breaths.

With his back to the study door, Qu He heard someone open the door, as if mustering up his courage, taking advantage of the visitor's unpreparedness, he immediately hugged him, and then gently rubbed against the visitor's heart Well, she really misses him, she has been detained by her father at home for the past year, counting the flowers, birds, insects and fish every day, and what she thinks of most is the cold him.

Just now Ji Qing came back from outside feeling chilly, and he froze in Qu He's arms, not knowing where to put his hands and feet.Qu He suddenly let go of his hand again, looked at each other, his face turned red all of a sudden, the boldness just now dissipated like a cloud of smoke, he couldn't even speak, put the sachet in Ji Qing's arms, He stammered and said, "Well... I made sweet...sweet soup for you, drink it while it's hot..."

While watching Tiantang, out of the corner of his eye, he saw Ling Yu who was smiling meaningfully, and his face became even redder. As soon as he finished speaking, he ran out like a gust of wind.

Ling Yu shook his head, thinking that it was girlish after all, no matter how loud his mouth was, he was as shy as other girls.

Ji Qing didn't seem to have reacted yet, and was still frozen at the door, holding the small sachet that almost fell to the ground in his hand.Ling Yu took a sip of his own sweet soup, coughed lightly, pointed to the remaining cup of sweet soup on the table, and said, "Here, sweet soup."

"Your Highness..." Ji Qing's rare blush also appeared on his face, but the light was dim, and he was not as fair as Qu He, so he couldn't tell, but the words he said were not very satisfactory: " That's against the rules."

Ling Yu smiled lightly, put the spoon in his bowl, got up and stuffed another cup of sweet soup into the hands of Ji Qing, who seemed to be calm, and sighed: "You always treat her like this thousands of miles away. , have you ever thought that maybe one day, she really won't come back." After speaking, he patted Ji Qing on the shoulder, then turned and left the study, hoping that he could figure it out for himself.

The warm touch from the bowl made Ji Qing reluctant to let go. After a long time, he took a sip lightly. With the other hand, he gently held the sachet, which was not a good embroidery workmanship. He couldn't help but let out a smile.