Fortunate Young Gentleman

Today's lotus root obviously had too much vinegar in it. Tang Ning and the other two did not touch it much. The whole plate of lotus root was eaten up by Princess Anyang.

Ugly people should eat more lotus root. Although Princess Anyang was not ugly, she also needed to eat more.

Lotus root is cold in nature and has the effect of clearing heat and relieving irritability. It is obvious that Princess Anyang needs to relieve her heat. She may not be so angry next time she sees him.

After dinner, Tang Shui and Princess Anyang stayed for a while and then left. Tang Ning thought of something and looked at Tang Yu and asked, "Mom, there is a rumor that Prince Fu was a famous handsome man in the capital when he was young. Is it true?"

"This is not a rumor." Tang Yu shook her head and said, "When Prince Fu was young, he was known as the "most beautiful man in the capital". At that time, even if he was a playboy, many women from wealthy families wanted to marry him."

Tang Ning was surprised and said, "Prince Fu, a playboy?"

Compared to the fact that Prince Fu was the most beautiful man in the capital, Tang Ning felt that the latter was more unbelievable.

After all, time feeds pigs. The dream man of the young girl in the past also got fat in middle age.

Prince Fu is not the only one who regards appearance as dirt. Thousands of years later, there is another man named Li on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

However, appearance can change easily, but nature cannot.

Tang Ning has seen honest people who have fallen, but rarely seen a prodigal who has turned back.

Everyone in the capital knows that Marquis Dingguo and Prince Huai love their wives, and Prince Fu is afraid of his wife. Tang Ning thought that Prince Fu's character was innate, but he didn't expect that he had such a past.

What did the prodigal who used to be romantic experience to become a henpecked husband who only loves one person.

Why did Prince Fu turn back later, and why did he change from the most beautiful man in the capital to a greasy uncle like today, Tang Yu didn't know, and Tang Ning had no way of knowing.

The reason why he was curious about Prince Fu was certainly not because of Princess Anyang or any other reason, but Prince Fu gave him a very strange feeling.

On the day when Prince Kang rebelled, the powerful officials were in a panic, Prince Duan was scared to death, and even Emperor Chen was scared to death. Only Prince Fu remained calm from beginning to end, as if he was not worried at all that Prince Kang would kill him if he succeeded in the rebellion.

Either he was not afraid of death at all, or he knew that Prince Kang would not succeed. As for which reason, Tang Ning did not know.

If it was the former, Tang Ning respected him as a fat man with backbone. If it was the latter, where did his confidence come from?

His curiosity about Prince Fu ended here, because apart from that, he had to be busy with other things.

Only one day later, Song Yi, the Minister of Justice, sent a bag of files about what happened that year.

There was a wanted order in the file, and the picture was of Tang Yu when she was young.

This was enough to prove that Emperor Chen was involved in the events of that year. Without his permission, the Tang family would not have the ability to post wanted orders all over the Chen Kingdom.

There should be two wanted orders, but the Ministry of Justice only kept one. I don't know if it was due to the negligence of the Ministry of Justice or other reasons, which made Tang Ning a little disappointed.

He actually wanted to see what his father in this world looked like.

Coincidence may happen once, and it may happen again. This is something he has been looking forward to for a long time. He hopes that the regrets and deficiencies of another world can be fulfilled in this world.

However, it only wrote the mother, but there was no information about that person. This is obviously abnormal. The Tang family deliberately did it to cover up the shame.

In addition, the other details are written in detail on this file.

After the two of them eloped, the court issued a sea arrest warrant. It took a long time to find them in Lingzhou and bring the young lady of the Tang family back, but the Jiangnan scholar was not mentioned.

Tang Shui was brought back at that time. When Tang Ning checked the file, he also found something he didn't know before.

They didn't elope with two people, but with the help of some people, they could escape all the way from the capital to Lingzhou.

The identities of those people were also revealed. They were the envoys sent by Xiaowan to the State of Chen. At that time, the relationship between Xiaowan and the State of Chen was not so tense. To be precise, the Western Regions were subject to the State of Chen.

It was not mentioned why the Western Regions envoys helped them, and Tang Ning could not guess it, but from the words between the lines of these files, the Xiaowan envoys at that time must have had a very unpleasant thing with the Chen government or the Tang family.

After that, Xiaowan continued to pay tribute to the State of Chen every year, but two or three years ago, it suddenly expanded its power and incorporated one-third of the Western Regions into its territory. At the same time, it completely turned against the State of Chen and has now become the number one enemy of the State of Chen.

Tang Ning did not know whether the current situation between the State of Chen and Xiaowan was related to this incident, but one thing was certain, Tang Shui did have Western Regions ancestry. Judging from her appearance, one of her parents should be Han Chinese and the other from Xiaowan.

This matter can be answered from his mother, but Tang Ning rarely asks her about what happened in the past, in order to prevent her from thinking about those not-so-good memories.

Emperor Chen was also involved in the past. Tang Ning could understand his actions from his perspective, but he still felt uncomfortable.

It was not until he thought of Zhao Man that he suppressed some of his emotions.

…

In the palace, Emperor Chen did not read the memorials in the imperial study, but returned to the bedroom.

It was extremely difficult for him to fall asleep at night, and he was haunted by nightmares every night, so he would take naps during the day to replenish his energy.

When he slept, he had to light soothing incense. A palace maid slowly walked in and lit the incense burner.

No one noticed that when she lit the incense burner, a pinch of white powder between her fingers fell gently into the incense burner.

…

The capital, above the streets.

Tang Shui and Princess Anyang did not ride in the carriage, but walked side by side.

Princess Anyang looked thoughtful. After a moment, she turned to look at Tang Shui and asked, "Did he just call me ugly?"

Tang Shui asked: "When?"

"He asked me to eat lotus root." Princess Anyang said, "Eat lotus root, eat lotus root. Eating lotus root together means being ugly. Was he just hinting that I was ugly?"

"How is it possible..." Tang Shui shook his head and said, "Stop thinking nonsense."

"This must be what he means!" Princess Anyang gritted her teeth and said, "He'd better pray that he doesn't fall into my hands, otherwise I will make him know how powerful I, Anyang..."

Tang Shui shook his head helplessly and changed the subject: "I plan to go to the Western Regions next year."

Princess Anyang looked at her and asked in surprise: "Why are you going to the Western Regions?"

Tang Shuidao: "Let's take a walk and take a look. My sister-in-law said that my hometown is in the Western Regions. I want to see what it's like there."

Princess Anyang said: "I heard that the climate there is hot and the wind and sand are strong. Do you really want to go?"

Tang Shui looked at her and asked, "Do you want to go with me? What's the point of always being in the capital?"

"I'm not going." Princess Anyang shook her head decisively and said, "I don't want to be turned into a yellow-faced woman by the wind and sand there..."

While the two were walking down the street chatting, an angry shout came from the front.

"Speak, are you mute? If you don't speak, how will the guests know if you are mute?"

"You dare to stare at me. If you still can't sell it today, I will dig out your eyes and make you beggar on the street!"

…

Tang Shui and Princess Anyang looked up and saw more than ten figures somewhere on the street corner.

One of them was holding a whip and was beating the others.

Those squatting on the ground and being whipped had tall noses and deep facial features, which looked different from those of Chen Guoren.

The man cursed, raised his whip, and was about to whip it when he noticed a resistance coming from behind.

He turned his head and found that the head of the whip was held in the hand of a young woman.