Spring apricots around the palace wall

Chapter 245 Xuanjing
During the spring banquet, Xuan Su and I were leaning on the wooden railing on the second floor, watching a group of ladies from aristocratic families chatting and laughing in the garden below.

I found that Xuan Su's eyes were not among the group of people, he was looking at other places, as if he was waiting for someone.

Until Ah Yan came out from the side path, his eyes were tightly locked on that.

Sure enough, it was her again.

I asked: "Who will be the queen, has the emperor thought about it?"

Xuan Su hummed, and said with certainty: "Think about it, the queen must be her, and I will give her a surprise when the time comes."

He turned to me and asked, "Where are you, brother, do you have a favorite girl?"

I raised the corners of my lips and said, "Tomorrow, I'll ask her out in the Qingyuan tea room, and you, the emperor, can have a cup of tea together."

"Okay, I want to see which girl my sister-in-law will be."

Xuan Su seemed quite happy for me.

At this time, Ah Yan raised his head to look at us, and smiled sweetly. This smile was not pure, but a little affectionate and a little ambiguous.

Xuan Su thought he was smiling at him, feeling very satisfied.
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Since he was a child, Xuan Su liked playing with Ah Yan very much. He liked it so much that he brought her to me and let us play together.

I can't play cuju he is good at, and I can't even run and jump, but I can play pot throwing, paper cutting, and flying flower order with them.

I have never lost to Feihua Ling, and I am also very accurate in throwing pots. Ah Yan looks at me very appreciatively, which is completely different from how she looks at Xuan Su.

Xuan Su saw that Ah Yan and I were getting closer and closer, but he still didn't have any thoughts. Ah Yan looked at me and smiled, and he was happy when he saw that Ah Yan was happy.

I would also say some suggestive words, making Xuan Su mistakenly think that Ah Yan is interested in him. This kind of misunderstanding made Xuan Su think that he was ambiguous every time he got along with her, so he got deeper and deeper.

But he asked me to pass it on to Ah Yan, but I didn't pass it on.

Ah Yan and I were together on a winter day. It was very cold that day. I caught a cold and became seriously ill. It is understandable that she came to visit me as a playmate.

I couldn't help expressing my heart: "Maybe I'm going to die, but I still want you to know that there is someone like me who liked you in this world."

Tears were about to fall from her eyes, she hugged me and said: "I like you too. If you get better, we will be together. If you are not well, I will accompany you to the underground."

I am good at observing words and expressions, and I know that Ah Yan is interested in me.

But obviously my confession all depends on acting, but for some reason, my heart suddenly boiled hot.
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Xuansu came to Qingyuan as promised, and when I saw Xuansu coming, I held Ah Yan in my arms, pressed against her face, and whispered in her ear intimately.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Xuan Su's expression was particularly ugly. He looked at it for a while, then turned around and left without walking towards us.

That night, I went to the palace to meet Xuansu.

He drinks and I drink tea.

He said, "Brother Huang, then you have to treat her well."

"Yes." I said.
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Therefore, Xuan Su did not choose Ah Yan as his queen, he chose Ah Yan's best sister, Ning Yu.

During the days when the concubine was elected to enrich the Six Palaces, when I was having dinner with the two empresses and the emperor, I said: "General Jiang's daughter, Jiang Jingwan, I want to marry as a side concubine."

Before the queen mother could express her opinion, Xuan Su said: "Jiang Jingwan, don't even think about it, she is in the draft list, and I decided to admit her into the palace two days ago."

What he was probably thinking was that Jiang Jingwan and Ah Yan had been fighting against each other for a long time, if they were both in the palace, what would they look like?Now that Mrs. Jiang has become a concubine, she will no longer pester me, and will no longer affect the relationship between A Yan and me.

As expected, he was really thinking about Ah Yan.

I asked in front of the queen mother: "The emperor likes Jiang Jingwan?"

"like."

He deliberately said it sincerely, and the queen mother was skeptical when she heard it.

No matter how you look at it in the eyes of others, it's because Xuansu doesn't like me, it's rare that I have a crush on a woman, but he wants to snatch her away.

I smiled, "Your Majesty, please treat her well."

Xuan Su said solemnly, "Of course."

Next, after Ning Yu was conferred, Jiang Jingwan entered the palace as a concubine, and I quickly fell ill. When I was ill, I entrusted Ah Yan to Xuan Su sincerely.

"The imperial doctor said that if I practiced humane things, it would affect my lifespan. I wouldn't live long, so I really shouldn't harm Ah Yan. Your Majesty, I don't worry about other people. You should marry Ah Yan."

Xuan Su glared at me, he was very angry when I said such a thing.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Brother Huang is going to live a long time, you take care of the woman yourself, don't give it to me."

I was furious: "Your Majesty, just ask the imperial doctor and you will know that my body is really not growing..."

I accepted this fact many years ago.

The imperial doctor wouldn't say it in front of me, but once the maidservants thought I was unconscious and talked about a lot of things, that's how I knew I wouldn't live long.

Xuan Su went to ask the imperial physician, and then came to me and said: "What if there is a panacea? There are no definite events in the world. Didn't the mother come back from the dead back then? Brother Huang, you will be fine."

I said, "No matter what, you promise to take care of Ah Yan, so that I can recover from my illness with peace of mind."

Xuan Su experienced a lot of inner struggles, and finally nodded.

"Okay, I will marry her."

After that, Qi Yanyan became the only concubine who was not on the draft list but was handpicked into the palace.
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The night before Ah Yan entered the palace, she came to look for me in the palace. She was very anxious, almost begging me: "You go to the queen mother, the queen mother can take back the emperor's will, since the queen mother loves you the most, it is useful for you to go and say it. "

I touched her face and said: "I can't fight against the emperor, the queen mother will not refute the emperor's face for me."

Ah Yan was very persistent: "No, the Empress Dowager Yu loves you very much. If you say that we are in love, she will not fail to fulfill it."

I did not speak.

Ah Yan was about to cry: "Just go and try, won't it work?"

"I know the news earlier than you. I begged my mother," I said in a hoarse voice, excruciating pain. "My mother refused. My mother said that my body...can't bear the things between men and women."

"I'm going to ask the emperor..."

"It's useless, Ah Yan."

My despair infected her, she looked at me for a long time, her eyes became cold little by little.

Finally, she said: "How old are you, do you only now know whether you can bear the affairs of men and women? When we were together, I didn't know how poor your body was? Now you tell me that it is useless. "

She wiped the corners of her eyes and wiped away her tears, "The fact is that you don't want to fight the emperor for me, and you don't want to beg the queen mother for me. Since you gave up on me, I will break with you. From now on, I will be my concubine." Concubine, you will be your Prince Heng, and we will never have anything to do with each other."

Ah Yan spoke very decisively, but she was not decisive when she walked out. Her body stopped there, as if she was waiting for me to persuade her to stay.

I was surprised to find that I was a little bit reluctant and soft-hearted.

I will still look for her, and she will come back to me, but now she must enter the palace, and I must be ruthless.

(End of this chapter)