The courtyard is deep in spring

Chapter 98

There were less than two hours left before dawn.

The Ningguo Hou's Mansion, which had been bustling for most of the night, finally calmed down. The fire was extinguished, everyone retreated, and all the masters also returned to their respective courtyards to sleep peacefully.

The ruins can only be cleaned up tomorrow.

Li Yu personally sent Ye Zhaoqing back to the courtyard where she used to live. When he saw the simple appearance of the courtyard, he couldn't help but sneered: "If Marquis Ning Guo hadn't rushed into the fire scene to look for you tonight, I would have decided to leave the palace today. I won't let him go!"

"Okay, don't say a few words." Ye Zhaoqing didn't care about it at all, and she said softly: "Your Highness, go back and rest soon! If you burn yourself out, Concubine Rong will feel distressed."

By the way, there will be no good days for me.

"Don't you feel distressed?" Li Yu raised his eyebrows upon hearing this.

"My heart hurts." As Ye Zhaoqing said, he stretched out his hand and pushed Li Yu: "Because of this, you should go back to sleep, go!"

Li Yu lowered his head and took a look. The girl's slender fingers touched his arm, which caused a tingling sensation. His heart fluttered, and he said without thinking: "Okay, let's go back."

He said so, but the man stood still.

At that time, the night was as cool as water, and the night was as dark as ink. A lantern in the northwest corner of the porch flickered and swayed in the night wind, as if the thin rope was about to break in the wind in an instant, and it was extremely shy.

Liu'er held the lantern and stood behind the two of them. Seeing this scene with her lips pursed into a silent smile, she quietly stepped back a bit, giving the place to the two of them.

As soon as she left, the light dimmed.

But Li Yu's eyes became brighter and brighter. He stood quietly in the night, his eyes were as blurred as the stars in the night sky, and with the smile on his lips, even Ye Zhaoqing was absent-minded for a quarter of an hour.

"What are you looking at?" she asked.

Li Yu smiled and said: "It's nothing, I just feel that you are standing in front of me alive like this. This is really a happy thing."

"Yes, I think so too." Ye Zhaoqing nodded and said.

She was still alive, and someone hiding in the dark should be unhappy.

……

After everyone dispersed, Ye Xiangwan did not go back to her Wanqiu Pavilion, but came to Shangliyuan.

She spent more than half of her life here, eating and lodging with Mrs. Ye. After so many years, the people in the Hou Mansion have already gotten used to it, no one is surprised.

Ye Chen was busy investigating the truth of the matter, but he didn't realize that the grandparent and grandson who disturbed him had gathered together again.

After such a big event happened, Mrs. Ye was the least affected person. She went back to her courtyard, took a good bath first, went to remove the dust from her body, and then went to sleep peacefully.

But in the inner house of Shangliyuan, it was brightly lit all night.

In the inner room, Mrs. Ye was sitting on the imperial concubine couch she used to sit like a wooden sculpture of clay, her old wrinkled face was expressionless.

Ye Xiangwan sat blankly on the ground in front of her, with a small futon under her buttocks. This appearance was very similar to visiting the gods and worshiping the Buddha in a Buddhist hall, but Ye Zhaoqing was the one who talked and taught the Buddha the most in the Hou Mansion. , This has to be said to be another kind of irony.

"Old Madam, Eldest Miss, please have some tea." Nanny Li came in with a tea tray, carefully placed a cup of tea by the hands of the two people in the room, and then slowly turned and retreated.

When she walked to the door, she suddenly heard Mrs. Ye speak in the room.

"Ah Wan, you can't hesitate any longer."

Nanny Li was shaken all over, but she didn't stop walking. When she reached the door, she closed the door of the room very considerately.

Then, went to the courtyard.

In the room, Ye Xiangwan finally spoke: "Grandmother, I have always felt that women who are sent to the door automatically are self-sufficient. Can you let me retain the last bit of self-esteem and decency?"

"You have nothing, what self-respect do you need?" Mrs. Ye suddenly laughed loudly in the room, her voice was high-pitched and shrill. Standing so far away, Nanny Li felt her ears throbbing and hurting.It is conceivable what kind of situation Ye Xiangwan will face when he is still in the house.

"Grandmother!" Ye Xiangwan was a little annoyed: "I can't learn my sister's tricks! Please don't force me!"

"I'm forcing you?" Mrs. Ye suddenly had a sneer on her face when she heard this, and said in a cool tone, "Ah Wan, don't you keep your eyes open to take a closer look at the situation now! Didn't you notice it? Then Sangmenxing has already controlled His Royal Highness, she hasn't had a good day in the mansion all these years, and now we are plotting against her again and again, she is going to take revenge on us!"

"She won't let you go! Of course she won't let me go either." Mrs. Ye murmured, "If you don't find a way to destroy her prestige, neither of us will have a good life in the future!"

Ye Xiangwan probably thought so in his heart, and when he heard that he didn't refute, a trace of pain appeared on his face.

Mrs. Ye also stopped yelling. She had already said what she had to say, and Ye Xiangwan had to figure out the rest.

The room suddenly fell into a deathly silence.

Nanny Li stood in the middle of the courtyard, holding her breath tightly, not daring to let out a breath, her heart was beating wildly, she thought, she might hear a shocking secret tonight.

I don't know how long it took before Ye Xiangwan slowly opened his mouth: "Grandma, is there really only one way to seduce in the middle of the night?"

"What do you think? As soon as tomorrow is over, they will get married. By then, Ye Zhaoqing's position as the princess will be like a mountain. What are you going to use to compete with her?" Mrs. Ye said sharply: "You can't take the opportunity by force. You are at a disadvantage again, and you will be the only one who will suffer at that time!"

When Ye Xiangwan heard the words, he fell silent immediately.

"I observed that Ye Xiangwan has been hypocritically rejecting the prince. This is a great opportunity!" Seeing that her expression had softened, Mrs. Ye continued to persuade her: "How can any man in the world not steal?" What's more, His Majesty is young and energetic. At this time, women are very attractive to him. He doesn't have a concubine in his house, and he doesn't like to see real concubines. As long as you sneak in, If you take him down tonight, then your concubine position is absolutely guaranteed!"

After Ye Xiangwan heard the 'Chunchun teaching', he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed: "But grandmother, the last time Concubine Rong told her face to face that she would not agree to let me marry his son..."

"You are stupid! When the raw rice is cooked, Concubine Rong has to admit it even if she refuses!" Mrs. Ye said with a look of hatred for iron and steel: "Is it easy to bully her when she treats us as the Marquis of Ningguo? Moreover, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince stayed overnight in Ningguohou's Mansion, leaving the real Princess alone, but sleeping with the Crown Princess's younger sister, so where is Ye Zhaoqing's face going when rumors spread?"

Nanny Li hid outside, vaguely hearing something like 'cook raw rice into mature rice'. The words of 'sleeping together' made her whole body tremble, she couldn't listen anymore, turned around and retreated quietly.

In the room, Ye Xiangwan said with a face of reluctance: "Grandmother, if you do this, I will be ashamed, okay? Everyone will think that I am a lowly person, and I will seduce my future brother-in-law while he is at the house. Everyone's saliva can drown me!"

"What are you afraid of?" Mrs. Ye said indifferently: "When you become the crown prince's side concubine, those people will not have time to curry favor with you. Who dares to say a word? At that time, you will not be an ordinary side concubine, because You also have a sister of the crown princess, as long as you treat the mourning star with a more pleasant face, won't the crown prince's harem still belong to you alone?"

Ye Xiangwan listened to these words in silence, and after a while, she said, "Then what if I can't be His Highness's side concubine?"

"How is it possible!" Mrs. Ye immediately raised her brows when she heard the words, as if her dignity had been greatly challenged: "With the lintel of our Ningguohou Mansion, she has to recognize Concubine Rong even if she doesn't!"

Ye Xiangwan fell silent immediately.

"Good, Awan." Mrs. Ye slowed down her voice, stood up and walked over to pull Ye Xiangwan up, saying: "Success or failure depends on one move. If you miss this village, this shop will disappear. You have to think clearly. If you don't go tonight, you will never have the chance to be with His Royal Highness the First Prince for the rest of your life! From now on, you will only be able to sleep in the arms of other men..."

"Stop talking!" Ye Xiangwan shook off Mrs. Ye's hand violently, and said coldly, "I'll go! Don't say any more!"

"Really?" Mrs. Ye suddenly had a hint of surprise on her face when she heard the words, and she didn't care at all about Ye Xiangwan throwing her hand away.

"Yes! Seriously!" Ye Xiangwan nodded vigorously, took a deep breath, looked up at Mrs. Ye, and said calmly, "Grandma, I'm going back first."

Mrs. Ye stared at her deeply, then suddenly reached out to pick up the teacup on the table and handed it to her, "After talking for a long time, you must be thirsty, drink it before leaving."

"What is this?" Ye Xiangwan didn't reach out to pick it up, but raised his eyes to look at Mrs. Ye with a guarded look.

Seeing this, Mrs. Ye sighed immediately: "Ah Wan, you are starting to doubt even your grandmother now. No matter what your grandmother does, she always starts with your interests. When did she ever hurt you?"

"Grandmother is serious, I don't doubt you." Ye Xiangwan shook his head and said, "I'm just not thirsty."

"Forget it then." Mrs. Ye said, she put the tea cup in her hand on the table, and said nonchalantly, "Okay, you can go back and tidy up! Time is running out, hurry up."

Ye Xiangwan's expression froze when he heard this.

She glanced back at the teacup on the table, and a sneer suddenly appeared on her face: "Is there an aphrodisiac in it? Grandma is afraid that I won't let go, and I will mess up the matter, right? Then why don't you give it to me?" I will prepare some medicinal powder, and I will give it to His Highness to eat!"

Mrs. Ye never expected that Ye Xiangwan would be able to guess what was added in it, her face couldn't help changing, but she quickly regained her composure: "You are wrong, grandma is afraid that you have no chance to prescribe the medicine to His Highness." , He is the kind of person who has lived in a dangerous palace since he was a child, and is very wary of drugs themselves."

"Then grandma isn't worried about my granddaughter, so she won't have a chance to go to His Highness's bedroom?" Ye Xiangwan said in a cool tone.

Mrs. Ye said indifferently when she heard the words: "You don't have to worry about this, grandma is ready." Saying that, she called out the door in a low voice: "Ru Shuang."

"I've met the old lady, the second young lady." A maidservant with a skirt and skirt came in in response, bowed her head and blessed her body.

Mrs. Ye took a look at Ye Xiangwan, and said: "This girl is good at changing your appearance. She can change your appearance into that of the mourner. You and her are sisters, and your body and facial features are very similar. , and now it's night again, as long as you use her name, it will be unimpeded."

"You want me to pretend to be her?" This time it was Ye Xiangwan's turn to be surprised, a feeling of nausea suddenly surged in her heart, and she subconsciously wanted to resist: "No!"

"Be good, be obedient." Mrs. Ye lowered her voice and said, "If you don't do this, you will never have a chance, you know?"

Ye Xiangwan still shook his head: "Grandmother, this is a disgrace to me! Am I really inferior to Ye Zhaoqing?"

"It's not that you are inferior to her, but His Highness is blind." Mrs. Ye shook her head and sighed, "I don't know what ecstasy soup that funeral star poured into His Highness to make him fall in love with her like this!"

"Then I'm not as good as her." Ye Xiangwan bit his lip and said, "Otherwise he wouldn't have taken a fancy to Ye Zhaoqing."

Mrs. Ye immediately frowned when she heard the words: "Ah Wan, you are deliberately delaying time, right? You don't want to go?"

"Yes!" Ye Xiangwan nodded generously, and said, "I don't want to act like Ye Zhaoqing! That makes me sick!"

"Then you can't blame grandma." Mrs. Ye said, and suddenly gave Rushuang a look.

Before Ye Xiangwan could react, Rushuang leaned forward, bent her elbow hard, and hit her on the neck.

Ye Xiangwan's eyes went dark, and he didn't know anything.

……

"Is what you said true?"

In the silent room, Ye Zhaoqing took a look at Nanny Li and said.

"Yes, Miss!" Nanny Li nodded, and said softly: "This servant feels that the matter is very important, so I came here to tell Miss you."

"Thank you, Mammy." Ye Zhaoqing said with a slight smile, "You go back first, I already know about this."

Nanny Li couldn't help being taken aback when she heard the words: "Miss, are you going to ignore it?"

"Then what should I do?" Ye Zhaoqing asked back: "Stay up in the middle of the night and secretly watch how my sister seduces my husband? It's better to go back to sleep..."

"Miss!" Nanny Li became anxious when she heard the words: "You are going to get married soon! If such an embarrassing incident happened before then, it would affect you! No matter how bad it is, you should send Personally tell His Royal Highness the First Prince!"

Ye Zhaoqing laughed immediately when he heard the words: "Tell Li Yu? If he likes the beauty who came to the door, I will remind him that it will be bad. Otherwise, it will be useless."

Nanny Li was stunned when she heard this, it was the first time she saw a woman ignore her husband being seduced by another woman, it really is a wonder!

Seeing that Ye Zhaoqing was about to turn around and go to take a rest, Nanny Li stretched out her hand to grab her: "Miss! No matter what, you should send someone to tell His Highness!"

"Okay! For the sake of your persistence, I'll send someone there." Ye Zhaoqing said, walked over slowly, and woke Liu'er, who was sleeping on the bed, "Go to the next door, Tell His Royal Highness, there is a beauty on the way to sleep with him."

"What, what?" As soon as Liu'er opened her sleepy eyes, when she heard such an explosive sentence, her startled eyes widened in an instant.

"Why are you so surprised?" Ye Zhaoqing said impatiently, "Go and tell him what I said!"

"Okay, okay!" Liu'er put away her surprised chin, tidied her temple hair a little, and went out.

Nanny Li stared at this scene dumbfounded, unable to recover for a long time.

Ye Zhaoqing turned his head and glanced at her with a smile, and said, "Okay, Nanny Li, you've been busy all night, and you still told me such useful news. It's hard work, go back and rest! Rewards or something, just Let's talk about it tomorrow!"

After hearing this, Nanny Li put away her shocked expression, hesitated and said, "Then, miss, I'm leaving."

She always felt that Ye Zhaoqing drove her away in such a hurry to sleep.

This girl has a big heart!
On the way back, Nanny Li sighed, then smiled.

She really felt that it was unnecessary to make this trip tonight.

……

Ye Zhaoqing was sleeping soundly on the bed, when suddenly she felt a huge body covering her body, and she couldn't even breathe under the pressure.

She opened her eyes at once, and what imprinted on her eyes was a pair of watery peach blossom eyes.

That look is very familiar, who else is it if it's not Li Yu?
Although only two eyeballs were visible from a short distance, Ye Zhaoqing recognized him in an instant, and immediately screamed: "Li Yu! Why are you crazy!"

Li Yu giggled and laughed: "Didn't you send someone to come and sleep with me? I waited for a long time, but I didn't see you coming, so you came to look for you!" Saying that, she smiled shyly and lowered her head Going to kiss Ye Zhaoqing's mouth.

"Stop!" Ye Zhaoqing quickly reached out his hand to cover Li Yu's big mouth, broke free from him, rolled off the bed, and crawled far away to a safe distance, then said angrily: "For that, you are Do you understand that?!"

"Otherwise?" Li Yu raised his eyebrows and said, "In my eyes, besides you, who else can be called a beauty?"

These words are proud enough and proud enough.

Ye Zhaoqing looked at his smug face, and instantly felt that thunder was coming!
God!If she knew that Li Yu understood the word 'beauty' in this way, she would definitely not let Liu Er spread the word...

Ye Zhaoqing felt a burst of regret.

"I can't believe it when I heard Liu'er say that, yes, that's it, that's the expression!" Li Yu looked at Ye Zhaoqing and said with a smile: "You have always been so serious, and suddenly there is such a boring sentence If you say that, Bengong's blood boiled all of a sudden, and I came here non-stop, how can you bear to reject me?" As he said, he was about to get closer.

"Don't come over!" Ye Zhaoqing shouted immediately.

As expected, Li Yu was obedient and stood there without moving.

Looking at his face that was so handsome that he had no friends, Ye Zhaoqing gritted his teeth and said, "Li Yu! I want to send someone to tell you that my good sister will attack you tonight! Do you understand?"

"I know that?" Li Yu nodded when he heard the words, and said as a matter of course: "I guessed it when Liu'er passed the message, so I sent someone to stay there to replace me to deal with Ye Xiangwan, how about it? , Is Satoshi Bengong smart?"

When Ye Zhaoqing heard this, he immediately became angry: "Li Yu! You were kidding me just now, weren't you?"

"Yeah!" Li Yu answered with a look of naturalness: "Don't you think this is fun?"

hello sister!
Ye Zhaoqing thought angrily, but said angrily: "Ye Xiangwan, what are you going to do? You can fool her by leaving someone alone? I don't believe it."

Li Yu immediately smiled mysteriously when he heard the words, he walked over and grabbed Ye Zhaoqing's hand and said, "Come on, I'll take you to a good show."

"What's the fun? Don't talk about it!" Ye Zhaoqing broke away from Li Yu's hand, and said angrily, "I don't say anything in front of people, do you think I'm easy to bully?"

"Hey, I didn't think about it that much." Li Yu smiled slightly, and went up to the attic instead of holding Ye Zhaoqing's hand.

After such a trouble, Ye Zhaoqing's drowsiness had long since disappeared without a trace. She sighed and walked over.

Liu'er stayed in the flower hall to prepare tea and supper, but did not follow.

Ye Zhaoqing went up to the attic, saw Li Yu was standing in front of the window, she also walked over.

When she got closer, she realized that she could see the situation in the next courtyard from here.Li Yu's courtyard was brightly lit, so he could see everything clearly.

At this time, Ye Zhaoqing saw a beautiful woman, accompanied by several maids, slowly walking in from the next door.

She originally thought that the beauty was Ye Xiangwan, but when she got closer, Ye Zhaoqing was shocked: "What, what? How could it be?" She turned her head and glanced at Li Yu.

Li Yu was very pleased with this kind of gaze. Hearing this, he nodded with a smile and said, "This is a trick your grandmother came up with. I know that I don't want to see your coquettish younger sister, so I asked her to pretend to be you." Fortunately, Bengong got the news in advance and hid with you first, seeing the deity, this counterfeit is nothing more than mediocrity."

"Oh, so that's the case." Ye Zhaoqing suddenly realized, she finally knew why Li Yu came to her place in the middle of the night.

She was about to ask again when Li Yu hissed suddenly and said with a low smile, "Look quickly! That's my palace guard!"

When Ye Zhaoqing heard the words, he immediately raised his eyes and looked downstairs, and he saw a man who looked exactly like Li Yu's in the courtyard next door, wearing Li Yu's clothes, and ostentatiously greeted Ye Xiangwan.

Looking at this scene, Ye Zhaoqing felt an indescribable feeling in her heart. She and Li Yu were standing here, but there was a 'she' not far away, chatting and laughing with a guard pretending to be Li Yu, It's a bad feeling.

The next moment, she turned her gaze away.

Li Yu held her hand, smiled lightly, and said, "Qing'er, the show I'm talking about is about to begin!"

"But you must be a good show?" Ye Zhaoqing laughed immediately when he heard the words: "Your Highness, are you too naive, people have accidents with you, tomorrow my grandmother will definitely do everything possible to put everything on you on..."

"That depends on whether she has the opportunity!"

(End of this chapter)