The courtyard is deep in spring

Chapter 76 Fake marriage

Ye Zhaoqing was stunned when she heard the words, and then her heart beat faster. She couldn't help asking: "Mr. Murong, why are you asking these questions? It doesn't seem to have anything to do with you, does it?"

"Why not?" Murong Shen raised his eyebrows, taking advantage of his height, looked down at Ye Zhaoqing and said, "If you want me to help you, you have to agree, do you think about it? I'm short on time."

Ye Zhaoqing had no choice but to say: "Okay, I promise to tell you when I have a chance in the future, okay?"

"I want to listen to the truth, you must not hide anything." Murong Shen stared at Ye Zhaoqing and said word by word. At this moment, his eyes were very deep, like a bottomless ancient well, which seemed to be able to swallow everything go in.

Ye Zhaoqing suddenly felt a sense of oppression.

"Okay." She took a deep breath and said, "Don't delay, you can go in quickly! Your Highness is not feeling well right now!"

As if to match her words, a low growl suddenly came from the inner room.

Li Yu began to feel uncomfortable.

Murong Shen stared deeply at Ye Zhaoqing, said in a deep voice, "Remember what you promised me." After saying that, he walked into the room.

Ye Zhaoqing's scalp was a little numb, she stared blankly at Murong Shen's back, feeling a little uneasy.

The jade pendant was something she owned when she was the princess of Anning, the Fenji sword belonged to her father, and Huahua was raised by her.Ye Zhaoqing thought that since she had been dead for so many years, no one would have remembered everything back then, so she quietly took back these things so that no one would notice them.

But unexpectedly, Murong Shen remembered!He also got to the bottom of it, asking why all this happened.

Damn it, is it possible that she can tell him that she is An Ning?

Maybe Murong Shen would regard himself as a lunatic.

But if she didn't tell him, how would she explain why, as the eldest lady of Ningguohou's mansion, she went to great lengths to collect these things that didn't belong to her?
Because I like it?fart!

No wonder he can believe it!
Ye Zhaoqing frowned involuntarily, this Murong Shen is really difficult, how can she deal with it?

In the back room, Li Yu's groans continued, and he didn't know what Murong Shen had done, so the voice became much quieter.

Ye Zhaoqing didn't go in, and after Lianhong cleaned the outside room, she sat down on the chair.

Time passed little by little.

After more than half an hour, Murong Shen suddenly came out from the inside, his face sinking like water: "He passed out."

"In a coma?" Ye Zhaoqing stood up all of a sudden, and said: "Then please Mr. Taifu, take him out! No need to soak anymore."

Murong Shen glanced at her, and said curiously: "The eldest prince didn't persist for an hour, don't you blame him?"

"Why are you blaming?" Ye Zhaoqing shook his head when he heard this, "Taking a medicinal bath itself is as painful as ten thousand swords piercing through the body. The eldest prince has persisted for so long, which is enough to show that his endurance is very strong, let alone his Already in a coma, there is no need to persist."

Murong Shen tilted his head and looked at Ye Zhaoqing for a few times, then suddenly smiled: "This boy, he can endure so much suffering, but he is always pushy after taking medicine. I really don't know if he is really bold or fake! That's fine. I'll go back first if there's nothing else, don't forget what you promised me."

"I know." Ye Zhaoqing nodded and said.

Murong Shen turned his head and glanced at the inner room again, then turned around and strode away.

Ye Zhaoqing hurriedly called Lianhong into the room together, fished Li Yu out of the tub, wiped it clean and changed into clothes.

Two hours later, Li Yu woke up.

There was a candle on the bedside wall cabinet, and the flickering of the candle made the atmosphere in the room very quiet. Li Yu opened his eyes, and was instantly startled by the strange furnishings in the room.

He moved his hands and feet, and found that the bone-piercing pain before he passed out had long since disappeared. He was overjoyed, and immediately turned over and sat up.

The next moment, he saw Ye Zhaoqing sitting on the brocade bench next to the bed, resting his head on one hand, sleeping soundly.

This is keeping vigil for yourself!
A trace of gratitude surged in Li Yu's heart, he didn't dare to move again, for fear of waking up Ye Zhaoqing who was sleeping.Just sitting on the bed in a daze, staring at Ye Zhaoqing with obsessive eyes, the more he stared, the more fascinated he became.

If she woke up, she would be so docile and well-behaved...

"Your Highness, are you awake?" At this moment, a woman's voice suddenly sounded in the room.

Ye Zhaoqing nodded his head, then raised his head the next moment, looked at Li Yu sleepily, with a hint of surprise in his eyes: "I woke up quite early."

Damn it!Who spoke?Interrupted his good business!

Li Yu looked back with a gloomy face, and immediately saw Lian Hong standing at the door holding a tray.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, this servant is only here to deliver meals. You have been asleep for a long time..." Lian Hong was startled by the stern look in Li Yu's eyes, and even her hands began to tremble.

Ye Zhaoqing stood up and greeted her, "It's Lianhong! Come in quickly! Your Highness must be starving after sleeping for so long."

"I'm not hungry!" Li Yu said with a gloomy face, from his hair to the soles of his feet exuded a resentful breath.

"Nonsense!" Ye Zhaoqing smiled slightly, and said, "You just woke up, why are you so angry, hurry up and eat!"

While talking, Lian Hong had already placed the congee and dishes on the tray on the table one by one, Li Yu's eyes were like knives, Li Yu didn't dare to stay in the room at all, and hurriedly left after putting down the things down.

Ye Zhaoqing wondered for a while: "What happened to her?"

"Never mind her!" Li Yu turned over and got off the bed, and said to Ye Zhaoqing while putting on his shoes, "You haven't eaten yet, have you? Eat with me."

"No, I specially asked Lianhong to cook these meals for you in order to cooperate with detoxification." Ye Zhaoqing shook his head and said, "You can only eat them alone. Besides, I have eaten them too."

Li Yu's eyes lit up immediately after hearing this: "It's specially made? You have a heart."

"The most caring one is Lianhong. The little girl threw herself on the side of the stove and kept watching for several hours, lest you wake up and not be able to eat hot food." Ye Zhaoqing said while laying out vegetables.

Li Yu was not moved when he heard the words: "Isn't there someone from the imperial dining room? Why is she doing so many things?"

"You are about to become a prince. Everything about you is the focus of other people. These are medicinal meals. As long as you investigate them carefully, someone who cares will always notice something, so you can't let the people in the imperial dining room do it." Ye Zhaoqing said at the same time. , put down the jade chopsticks in his hand, and said: "Come and eat! You must be very hungry."

She was right. Li Yu was indeed very hungry. He didn't feel it when he spoke just now, but now he saw the delicate dishes on the table and the carefully cooked thick soup, especially when these were the dishes Ye Zhaoqing gave him. Li Yu felt very hungry.

Without saying much, he sat down at the table and immediately began to feast.

Seeing that his food was delicious, Ye Zhaoqing got up and said, "Eat slowly, let Lianhong clean up after eating, I'm sleepy, I'm going to sleep first." Then she turned and walked outside.

"Wait!" Li Yu immediately put down his chopsticks: "This is your room, where are you going if you don't sleep here?"

"Your Highness, let's sleep here tonight!" Ye Zhaoqing said: "The night is already deep, and the palace gate is closed. If you go out rashly, you may be found out. I will rest in the ear room next door. If you have anything to do, can you call me?" .”

Hearing this, Li Yu frowned, put down his chopsticks, and refused to eat, "This is your room, how can I occupy the magpie's nest? You sleep here, I'll sleep next door!" "

"Your Highness is joking, this is the dormitory of Concubine Rong, you are more qualified to live here than I am." Ye Zhaoqing smiled slightly, and said: "Don't argue with me, if the empress hears that I let you live in the ear room tomorrow, why don't you live here?" Aren't you going to be angry?"

"I can make the mother and concubine not angry." Li Yu said.

Ye Zhaoqing shook his head with a smile when he heard the words, and said: "Your Highness, don't argue with me anymore, it's very late, you should rest early after eating!" After saying that, he bowed and turned around to leave.

Li Yu watched her leave blankly, and took a long time before picking up the chopsticks again.

But looking at the table full of dishes, he lost his appetite in an instant.

The ancients said: beautiful food can be eaten.Today he really understood the meaning of this sentence.

Lianhong asked cautiously from the side: "Your Highness, let's eat!"

Li Yu put the chopsticks on the table, stood up and said, "I don't want to eat, you can take these away!"

"Ah?" Lian Hong was a little surprised when she heard this: "Your Highness, this congee has been boiled for a long time, and you only took a few sips! You didn't eat much..."

"Is it up to you to decide how much I eat?"

Li Yu turned his head and stared at him, and immediately made the little girl tremble with fright, and hurriedly cleaned up the dishes on the table.

Li Yu asked him to back down, and sat at the table by himself, looking at the empty room.

Obviously this is an ordinary room in the palace, but he feels it is extraordinarily warm, this is where Zhaoqing lived!

This chair was used by Zhaoqing, and this bed was used by her...

Li Yu went to the bed and sat down, stretched out his hand and slowly touched the brocade quilt on the bed, thinking of that person's watery skin and eyes in his heart, his heart was full of fire, and he didn't feel sleepy at all.

In the end, he lay down, the soft silk all over his body pressed against his skin, reminding him of Ye Zhaoqing's hands.

But at this moment, there was a knock on the door outside the house.

Li Yu, who was immersed in fantasies, woke up instantly. He turned his head suddenly and said in a deep voice, "Who? What are you doing?"

"Your Highness, it's time to turn off the lights and rest." Ye Zhaoqing said at the door: "Otherwise we won't be able to sleep."

Then come in and talk to me!

Li Yu was thinking in his heart, but he didn't say it out. He knew that Ye Zhaoqing had been concentrating on detoxifying him for the past few days, and even reduced his rest time.Since he loves her, how can he bear to embarrass her?

"Okay, I'll turn off the lights now." Li Yu answered, got up and went to the table and blew out the oil lamp in one go.

There were footsteps outside the house, and soon it was silent.

Knowing that Ye Zhaoqing had left, Li Yu walked back to the bed and lay down slowly.

He was sleeping on her bed, and still fantasizing about her, is it right for her to detoxify?Li Yu felt a little guilty in his heart, and wanted to restrain himself from thinking about Ye Zhaoqing, but he found that he couldn't do it.

In this entanglement and struggle, he slowly closed his eyes.

……

Early in the morning of the second day, Ye Zhaoqing was having breakfast in the room when he saw Li Yu walking out of the back room with sleepy eyes.

"Are you up? Go wash up, you have to go to court after breakfast." Ye Zhaoqing put down the spoon, stood up and said.

Li Yu didn't say anything, just nodded.

So Lianhong who was serving Ye Zhaoqing hurriedly followed to fetch water and handed towels.

"I remember that there is a girl beside you, right?" Li Yu glanced at Ye Zhaoqing, turned her head and said, "Ling'er seems to be her name, right? Why haven't I seen her these days?"

"It's Liu'er, she stayed in the Jokhang Temple and didn't follow." Ye Zhaoqing said calmly.

Li Yu frowned immediately: "It's better to take her into the palace! I don't worry about not having a personal servant girl to serve you."

"It's really nothing." Ye Zhaoqing took a sip of the porridge with a jade spoon, and said calmly: "After all, Liu Er has been living with me outside the palace, and I don't know much about the rules and etiquette in the palace. If something goes wrong, I'd be more at ease staying outside."

Hearing this, Li Yu reached out and took the hand towel from Lianhong, wiped his face, walked to the table and sat down, looked straight at Ye Zhaoqing and said, "Isn't it your first time entering the palace? But I It feels like you have lived in this palace for a lifetime. No matter what the etiquette is, what you have done is better than the sixth princess and Princess Changning who have been living in this palace. Yesterday, the mother concubine even told me secretly Secretly complimenting you!"

"Your Majesty's absurd praise." Ye Zhaoqing said with a humble face when he heard the words: "Actually, I have learned these etiquettes from Nanny Qi recently..."

"Stop lying!" Li Yu said sharply: "Some things can't be learned in a few days, they are deeply rooted in your bones! Zhaoqing, this is how you feel to me, as if you don't belong to the Ningguo Hou Mansion, you belong to this palace..."

"Enough!" Ye Zhaoqing said with a cold face, "What exactly does Your Highness want to say?"

Seeing her suddenly getting angry, Li Yu was a little dazed. He murmured: "I just want to say, you are so familiar with the etiquette in the palace, you must have learned that Liu'er very quickly, why don't you take her into the palace?" Come with you!"

"That's all?" Ye Zhaoqing was a little suspicious.

"Of course that's all!" Li Yu nodded his head.

Ye Zhaoqing raised his eyes and looked at him for a while, then suddenly smiled: "If Your Highness is really willing to think about me, why don't you tell your mother to let me go to the Jokhang Temple! I will ask Liu Er personally, if she is willing to go with me If I enter the palace, then let her come in."

"A girl, you still have to ask her for her own opinion?" Li Yu was very puzzled after hearing this, "Why waste all this effort?"

"You don't understand." Ye Zhaoqing shook his head, and suddenly smiled: "Your Highness, have you forgotten that you once promised me to visit Huahua in the Jokhang Temple in Fengyang Tower? When do you plan to go?" Fulfill his promise?"

As soon as Li Yu heard this, he immediately remembered that Fang Zhilin pestered him to compete with Ye Zhaoqing in throwing pots, and he used this condition to get Ye Zhaoqing to agree to the competition.

"So that's why you went to Jokhang Temple?" He looked Ye Zhaoqing up and down, sneered and said, "Since that's the case, why do you need to talk about Liu'er?"

"I have to do both." Ye Zhaoqing said solemnly: "As for how to ask the empress for instructions, that's up to you, Your Highness. You won't renege on your debt, will you?"

"Of course not! Is Bengong that kind of person?" Li Yu said, took a soup dumpling with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth, and said vaguely: "I'll go find my concubine after dinner!"

"Thanks for your hard work, Your Highness." Ye Zhaoqing smiled slightly, and lowered his head to drink the porridge.

After breakfast, Li Yu really went to look for Concubine Rong in person, and I don't know how he asked Concubine Rong for instructions. In short, two hours later, Ye Zhaoqing got on the carriage leaving the palace.

I thought it would be difficult to get out of the palace this time, so when the carriage passed through the palace gate, Ye Zhaoqing breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Yu, who was sitting opposite her, couldn't help but feel moved when he saw this scene.

At this moment, he seemed to understand that Ye Zhaoqing didn't like the imperial palace.

Although the woman appeared to be very familiar with court etiquette, he could still feel her resistance to it all.

what to do?Because of her own reasons, she might not be able to leave the palace in this life.

Thinking of this, Li Yu felt a sense of guilt in his heart.

But this actually strengthened his determination to marry Ye Zhaoqing.

Even though Ye Zhaoqing kept saying that this was just a pretend marriage, in Li Yu's view, all of this would become real one day.

After the carriage left the palace gate, it went directly to Murong Mansion.

Ye Zhaoqing knew that Li Yu and Murong Jin never left the scale, so it was not surprising at all.

"You stay inside, I'll go." When they arrived at Murong Mansion, Li Yu explained to Ye Zhaoqing, then opened the curtain and jumped off the carriage.

The moment the car curtain was raised, Ye Zhaoqing saw two Murong Shen brothers standing on the stone steps in front of the Murong Mansion, one on the left and one on the right, with the same tall and straight figures, Zhilan Yushu, I am afraid that they will never be seen again in this capital. There is no family like the Murong family that has two outstanding sons at the same time.

I don't know if it's because they just met yesterday, when Ye Zhaoqing glanced over, the first thing she saw was not Murong Jin, but Murong Shen, those calm but majestic eyes instantly made her heart Trembling violently.

This person seems to have been secretly investigating the affairs of Prince Huai's Mansion!I'm afraid that's why he suspected her.

Ye Zhaoqing did not forget what he promised to explain to Murong Shen.When the carriage returned to calm, she silently thought about how to deal with this matter.

Before he could think of a way, the curtain of the carriage was suddenly lifted from the outside.

The sudden bright light in front of him made Ye Zhaoqing raise his head subconsciously, and met Murong Shen's eyes.

"Are you here?" Murong Shen narrowed his eyes when he saw Ye Zhaoqing.

"Yes! Master! I'll take Zhaoqing to visit the Jokhang Temple!" Li Yu's voice came from behind.

Murong Shen's eyes flickered, staring at Ye Zhaoqing and said: "Didn't you live in the Jokhang Temple for a long time before? You must be tired of it, why do you want to go?"

"I'm going to visit Huahua." Ye Zhaoqing said.

"Oh? Who gave permission?" Murong Shen immediately turned to look at Li Yu when he heard this.

Li Yu was terrified immediately, and hurriedly dodged behind Murong Shen: "Master, I made a bet with someone that day, and I promised to take Zhaoqing to see Huahua, just take a look! You can help me!"

The dignified eldest prince even used the word "disciple".

But Murong Shen didn't buy it, he gave Ye Zhaoqing a cold look and said, "Do you know that Huahua is raised by me?"

"I know." Ye Zhaoqing nodded, and said, "Huahua is so brave and mighty, even the eldest prince is not in his eyes. Except for Taifu, I am afraid that there is no one in the world who can support her."

Murong Jin smiled wryly and said, "Miss Ye, do you know that you encouraged Huahua to scare His Highness, and almost made Concubine Rong order Huahua to shoot Huahua to death with random arrows? If it wasn't for our Murong family's efforts to stop it, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to see it today." gone."

"What?" Ye Zhaoqing was startled when she heard the words: "Your Highness is not injured, how could your empress..." Halfway through speaking, she noticed Li Yu's face, which was ashamed and blamed herself.

Ye Zhaoqing immediately understood, with Concubine Rong's jealous nature, how could she let Huahua go?

She was careless, thinking that the man would not do such a vicious trick by eating vegetarian food and reciting Buddha's name, but it turned out he was not at all.

"It seems that this matter is true." Ye Zhaoqing said regretfully, "I'm sorry, I didn't think that my prank on the spur of the moment would cause Huahua to almost die, I'm sorry!"

Murong Shen didn't expect her to admit her mistake so simply, a trace of doubt could not help but look at Ye Zhaoqing with complicated eyes.

"Miss Ye, you're being polite." Murong Jin said with a smile, "You did it unintentionally, but luckily Huahua was not hurt, let the past go!"

"Let's go, what are you talking about?" Murong Shen rolled his eyes at his younger brother, then suddenly turned and walked to the carriage behind.

Murong Jin shrugged helplessly at Ye Zhaoqing, turned around and chased after him.

Li Yu jumped onto the carriage, and then lowered the curtain: "Zhaoqing, I was wrong that day, I shouldn't have released flowers to scare you, I'm sorry!"

"Second Master Murong is right, let the matter pass!" Ye Zhaoqing smiled wryly after hearing the words: "I didn't worry about it, please let your Highness let it go."

"Okay! Listen to you." Li Yu said, and sat down beside Ye Zhaoqing.

Ye Zhaoqing immediately stood up like an electric shock, and hastily moved to the other side of the carriage: "Your Highness, don't get too close to me."

Li Yu's outstretched hand fell through the air. He looked at the place around him which became empty for a moment, and there was a trace of hurt expression in his eyes, but he hid it for a moment: "Why?"

Ye Zhaoqing knew what he didn't say, but she chose to ignore it: "Your Highness, what we said before is just a fake marriage. I will choose to leave when you recover, so, You better not get too close to me."

Ye Zhaoqing had said this sentence once before, and Li Yu was on guard, but he was not very sad, but very discouraged.

"Okay." After a long time, he glanced at Ye Zhaoqing and said, "As you wish, I will let you go when I recover from my injury."

Ye Zhaoqing nodded as a response.

There was a sudden silence in the carriage.

But in the carriage behind, Murong Shen frowned slightly.

What is a fake marriage?

(End of this chapter)