Queen's New Clothes

Chapter 145
Jinju is incomparable to the capital, which is prosperous, with wide streets, and the roads are surrounded by bustling people.

Wei Yan has not been back for five years since he left Beijing at the age of 12.

This time Emperor Zhao Yuan suddenly summoned the vassals back to Beijing, the purpose of which was clearly known to Wei Feng in the letter.Today there is only one heir of Wei Jichang, but Wei Jichang is physically defective and has no chance of being on the throne. Now that he is in poor health, he has to choose the crown prince from among the nephews below.

Cousin Wei Yuan must have known the news a long time ago, he rushed back to the capital from Yuzhou a month ago, and showed great hospitality in front of Jinshang.

Wei Yan was not in a hurry, he came back from Jinzhou leisurely, and the timing was just right.He walked ahead on horseback, his eyes slightly lowered, thinking about entering the palace with his father tomorrow, when suddenly, an elegantly folded silk flower was thrown and hit his chest.

Wei Feng picked up the silk flower, raised his eyes, and looked across.The girl who threw the silk flowers had flushed cheeks and spring eyes, and smiled shyly at him.

Wei Yan's face remained calm, he nodded slightly, looked away and continued on.Seeing that he was not angry, the girls around became more courageous and threw silk flowers, handkerchiefs, and sachets at him one after another. After a while, Prince Wei was overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the girls. The reins left the crowd, and then stopped.

The mansion of King Jin's Mansion is still there, but it has been unoccupied all year round, and a layer of dust has accumulated everywhere.After cleaning, Wei Yan moved into Yunjinzhai, the furnishings inside were still the same as before, Xueqing and Xuezhu led the maidservants to make arrangements and salute, and he entered the palace with his father, Wei Liankun.

Emperor Zhaoyuan's body was not as good as before. He was wearing a bright yellow crown suit and looked quite energetic, sitting on the dragon chair behind him.

Emperor Zhaoyuan called Wei Liankun, King of Jin, to him, and asked some questions about Jinzhou's water, soil, human conditions, taxes and food, and Wei Liankun answered them one by one.

"In the blink of an eye, Tingzhou has grown so tall, even taller than your father." The topic suddenly fell on Wei Wei, and Emperor Zhaoyuan looked at him with emotion, and said with a smile, "I heard that you are very talented in Jinzhou The name has spread to the capital. I will definitely call you to test if I have the opportunity some other day, to see if those people are exaggerating."

Wei Yan bowed his head, "I am waiting for you at any time."

It was clearly a respectful and courteous tone, which forced people to hear the incomparable self-confidence.Emperor Zhao Yuan looked at him, chuckled suddenly, waved his hand and did not continue the topic, "Since you are back, let's go to the Queen's place to see. You and Ji Chang have not seen each other for many years, and there must be a lot to say, so I won't go there , you go over."

After leaving the imperial study, Wei Feng went to Zhaoyang Hall where Empress Liu lived.

It was already evening when I left the palace, the twilight was deep, a smear of darkness crushed the last halo in the west, and the sun had set.

Wei Yan got on his horse and walked for a while, just in time to meet Su Zhen, the eldest son of the governor's mansion.

When Wei Yan didn't go to Jinzhou, he studied at Sansong Academy with Su Zhen. They were classmates for two years, and they were friends of gentlemen.In addition, Su Zhen's mother and Wei Yan's mother are sisters, and the relationship is even closer.The two hadn't seen each other for many years, and after talking a few words on the way, Su Zhen invited him to the Governor's Mansion for a sit down.Seeing that it was getting late, Wei Yan politely refused, and only said to go back next time.

Su Zhen didn't force it, said goodbye to Wei Yan at the intersection, and went back to their homes.

The governor's mansion happened to be when the school was over.Su Zhen led the horse and stopped at the door, and saw a few little girls walking out, the two in front were talking and laughing, wearing one pink and one blue horse-face skirts, they were the fifth and sixth cousins ​​of the General's Mansion.The girl in the back was a little smaller, wearing a smoky pink embroidered gold blouse, and a double-knee horse skirt underneath, with a round apple face, chubby, a pair of black and bright eyes, and the whole person looked soft and obedient.When she saw him, she walked up to him with a smile on her skirt, and said crisply, "Brother Datang."

Su Zhen got off the horse and said with a smile, "Youyou, why are you leaving school so late?"

Su Xi said: "Master Qiu asked us to draw a picture today, and it took some time."

Su Zhen nodded, seeing that it was getting dark, although the General Su's Mansion was not far from the Governor's Mansion, but for the sake of safety, he said, "I'll take you back."

Su Lingrong, the fifth girl over there, got into the carriage, raised the curtain and giggled, "Brother Hall, you don't know... Miss Xi's painting was severely criticized by Master Qiu today, saying that the bamboo she painted resembled wheat seedlings, The master is very angry."

Su Xi blushed and called out "Fifth Sister".

Su Zhen smiled, and said indifferently: "Everyone has their own strengths. I heard from Mr. Chu that Ninth Sister's Chu Ci is very good."

Su Lingrong pursed her lips, disapproving.Master, those are polite words, how did Sister Xi learn Chu Ci well?It's not as good as she learned, she learned the content that the master didn't teach early on.I didn't say anything more.

Later, Su Zhen and Wei Yan met several times.

In order to understand the current affairs in the capital, Wei Yan often walks with Su Zhen.On this day, Su Zhen invited Wei Yan to the governor's mansion again, but he did not refuse, and came to visit.

After seeing the Second Grandpa Su and Mrs. Yu, Su Zhen took Wei Yan to his yard.Not far away, I heard intermittent cat meowing coming from the front, thin and sharp, as if calling for help.Su Zhen turned around and walked over there, and saw a snow-white cat lying on a plum tree not far in front, and a little girl standing under the plum tree, standing on tiptoe, stretching her arms, trying to put the cat on her back. The cat was hugged down from the tree.

It's a pity that the branch is too high, and she is too short, and she can't reach it after a long time.

"Tang Xueqiu, you jump down, I'll follow you..." The crunchy and wet voice was full of anxiety and nervousness.

Seeing this, Su Zhen smiled and said, "This is my ninth sister. The cat must have been playful and climbed up the tree by itself."

As he was speaking, he was about to rescue him, but as soon as he took a step, the cat named "Sugar Snowball" suddenly bent its body, jumped down from the tree, and threw itself on Su Xi's head.Su Xi was caught off guard, and was taken two steps back by the cat, fell to the ground with a plop, and let out a mournful cry.

Su Zhen hurried forward, Wei Yan paused, and followed.

When she came to the front, Su Xi had already pulled Tang Xueqiu off her head, hugged her in her arms, and looked up at the person coming.The round face, the eyes are like black grapes soaked in water, white and tender, like the Lantern Festival dumplings eaten on the Lantern Festival, once bitten open, the sweet and glutinous sesame filling flows out of it.Wei Yan got in touch with the person in front of him for no reason.

Su Xi was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly stood up from the ground with Tang Xueqiu in her arms, and shouted, "Big Brother..."

Seeing that she was not injured, Su Zhen introduced to her, "Youyou, this is Wei Yan, Wei Tingzhou, the eldest son of the Jin Palace."

Su Xi lowered her head, a trace of unease flashed across her face, but she still called out obediently: "Wei Shizi."

Wei Feng looked at her, and after a while he said politely: "Miss Su."

Immediately afterwards, Su Lingyin, the fourth girl, and Su Lingran, the eighth girl, came to find them. Su Xi hurriedly said goodbye to them, turned around and ran away.

Wei Yan didn't stay long, seeing that it was getting late, he bid farewell to Su Zhen and left.

Later, when Wei Yan came to the governor's mansion, he met Su Xi several times.Or when the ethnographic studies were over, or when the master led them to draw in the courtyard, Su Xi was always at the back, with a sweet temper and a smile that looked a bit like sweet sesame glutinous rice balls.

Until one day, Wei Shizi finally remembered where that familiar feeling came from.

Su Xi, Su Lingyin, and Su Lingran were sitting in the pavilion eating snacks together, their eyes were crooked and satisfied.

Back then in Mingjue Temple, there was a little girl holding a piece of pastry in her hand, and she had the same look. While eating the pastry, she bent her eyes and jumped up and down in contentment. She accidentally knocked over a favorite of Abbot Mingkong. Pot Jianlan.The little girl was frightened, she stood there blankly, looked up and saw him, she was stunned for a while, she knew how to bribe people at such a young age, she held up a half-eaten pastry full of saliva and brought it to him, nervous, fawning Yes, the baby's voice said softly: "Brother, don't say it, isn't it good?"

Wei Yan frowned slightly. Firstly, he didn't like sweets, secondly, he didn't eat other people's leftover snacks, and thirdly, he didn't intend to make a small report.

So Wei Yan only glanced at the little girl in front of him, and strode away, ignoring her expectant eyes.

Later, Su Xi's grandfather suffered a stroke, and Su Xi stayed at home to take care of the old man, and rarely went out except for family studies.

Wei Yan also went to the governor's mansion less often, so he never met her again.

He didn't pay much attention to the little episode of Jade Bean Cake.

We met again, two years later.Old Mrs. Su celebrated his birthday, and Wei Feng also came. Halfway through the birthday party, he went to the backyard to change, and when he came back, he was stopped by someone on the porch.Yin Qiqi handed him the sachet embroidered with bamboo rhyme and evergreen patterns, lowered her eyebrows and closed her eyes, and said shyly: "Wei Shizi, this is the sachet embroidered by me, if you don't mind it, please accept it... ..."

Wei Feng stood quietly without saying anything.

Yin Qiqi raised her hand in the air, looked up at him, a little flustered, "I heard that it was your birthday a few days ago, I have no other intentions, just want to..."

"Miss Yin." Wei Yan interrupted her with a clear voice without any emotion. "Do you often give other people such personal things?"

Yin Qiqi's complexion changed, and immediately realized the irony in his words, she was ashamed and ashamed, her eyes were red, she turned around and ran away quickly.

Without changing his face, Wei Yan raised his eyes to look at the ginkgo tree opposite.A corner of the lake-blue clothes was exposed from behind the tree. After a while, Su Xi came out from behind slowly. Before he could speak, she immediately raised her hands and covered her eyes, "I didn't see anything."

Wei Feng looked at her without saying a word. For some reason, he suddenly wanted to call her to him.It's a pity that before he could speak, someone called her name from behind, and she breathed a sigh of relief indiscriminately, without even saying hello to him, just like a mouse seeing a cat, she turned around and ran away with her skirt in hand.

Wei Yan paused for a moment, then walked back to the front yard with the same expression as before.

At the birthday banquet, Wei Feng met Fu Shaoyun, the eldest son of Duke Qing's mansion, who was the one who stopped Su Xi just now.

Fu Shaoyun and Su's mansion walked around diligently, the old master Su seemed to like this person quite a bit in his words.I heard that he has a good relationship with Miss Su Jiu. They are childhood sweethearts and childhood sweethearts.

Once when Wei Yan came back from work outside, at night, he saw him coming out of the Jade Building with Su Xi, who was disguised as a man.The mutton soup pot in the Emerald Building is very famous. Wei Yan rode past them, and heard Fu Shaoyun say: "Next time I will bring you to eat..."

They didn't see Wei Feng.Su Xi nodded again and again, her eyes were bright and bright under the light of the lanterns on the eaves, "Okay."

Wei Yan originally thought that the Su family would marry the Duke of Qing's mansion, but what he didn't expect was that Su Xi finally got engaged to Li Yan of Luyang Hou's mansion.

(End of this chapter)