Only this green, not disappointing the spring

The prince was immediately interested when he heard this.

"But the girl that my third brother rescued and brought back to the mansion during the winter hunt? I remember that she seemed to be Shangguan Siye's youngest daughter, named, called..."

"Shangguan Qingyue. Big brother is right, it is that Miss Shangguan."

Emperor Mingde immediately thought of something and asked:

"Yan'er, you can't be..."

He looked at the other person meaningfully halfway through his words, the meaning of which was self-evident.

Xuanyuan Yan denied it without hesitation.

“It’s not what your father thinks. In fact, I met Miss Shangguan when I was recuperating outside with Uncle Nanrong last year.

Since then, I have had feelings for her, but the girl is still young and has never been able to open her mind. I had no choice but to use my leg injury as an excuse to get the opportunity to spend time with her. "

A blush appeared on his cheeks and he quickly lowered his head to cover it.

But how could this escape the eyes of Emperor Mingde? The young man admired Ai, and he and the queen were also like this in the past. Unexpectedly, the one who looked most like him was his third son.

Emperor Mingde looked at his son kneeling on the ground with a complicated expression, feeling mixed emotions. He even felt regretful because his third son had a lame leg.

As for why he felt regretful, he stopped thinking about it in time.

"Okay, it's not good to keep kneeling on the ground. Hurry up and get up so we can talk in detail."

Perhaps because he had been kneeling for too long, Xuanyuan Yan's feet were a little unstable when he stood up. He fell to the ground again in embarrassment just when he was halfway up.

However, there was no sign of embarrassment on his face. Instead, he reached out to hold on to a chair beside him and slowly stood up.

Crown Prince Xuanyuan Yu stretched out his hands in the air and wanted to help several times but was worried about hurting his third brother's self-esteem, so he gave up in the end.

As for Emperor Mingde, his eyes were filled with heartache. His outstanding son would have to spend the rest of his life dragging his crippled leg. The thought of this made him so heartbroken!

He couldn't help but doubt the so-called sweetheart his son mentioned.

"Yan'er, you must be extremely careful about marriage.

Now that you have injured your leg, it is natural for you to want to marry Miss Shangguan because she has never left you. But who can guarantee that she is not coveting your power and status?

There is no rush to grant the marriage. Bring it to the palace for me to see some other day and I will check it for you."

Xuanyuan Yan was not discouraged by Emperor Mingde's determination. He nodded obediently:

"I will obey my father. I wonder if I can choose the place where I will be enfeoffed?"

Emperor Mingde immediately became alert. He had just secretly planned in his heart to choose a rich land for his son as compensation, but there was a world of difference between choosing by himself and letting the other party choose.

He looked at the other person steadily and asked with some displeasure:

"Oh? My prince, have you already thought of a place to go? Tell me about it." As for whether he would agree, that's hard to say.

Xuanyuan Yan stood up and walked to the east side of the imperial study.

There was a wall-sized map hanging there. He stood on tiptoe and pointed his slender finger at a spot on the left side of the middle piece, smiling and saying:

"I want to live here forever."

Emperor Mingde and the Crown Prince could not help but move closer to take a closer look and saw that the place he was pointing to was a very ordinary place - Dengzhou.

The two thought hard, but they couldn't figure out why Xuanyuan Yan had chosen this place.

"I wonder what is so special about Dengzhou that makes Third Brother so fond of it?"

"The scenery of Dengyun Mountain here is extremely beautiful. I once climbed it with my uncle and was deeply impressed. And then there is..."

His ears turned red, and he continued a little embarrassedly:

"The place where my brother and Miss Shangguan first met is in Shancang County, Dengzhou. If she can be enfeoffed here, she won't feel depressed even if she can't leave without being summoned in the future."

Emperor Mingde stared at his son without blinking, trying to judge the credibility of his words from the subtle changes in his expression.

After a while, he chuckled:

"It seems that Yan'er, you are really interested in that Miss Shangguan. Well, there is no rush for this matter. I will keep it in mind and give you a clear answer later."

Xuanyuan Yan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Although his father was wise and hardworking, he was also suspicious and hardly trusted anyone.

It was not easy to get a real promise from him today, and it was worth it for him to blush and pretend to be thin-skinned.

Emperor Mingde felt sorry for his son's unsteady legs and feet, so he simply ordered a sedan chair to carry him out of the palace, accompanied by the chief eunuch Wang Fu.

The eunuchs and palace maids, who had originally been disdainful of the third prince for walking with a limp, immediately put away their contempt and knelt respectfully on the ground until the sedan chair disappeared from their sight.

Only after he finally walked out of the palace and sat in the familiar carriage did Xuanyuan Yan breathe a sigh of relief, and the feeling of suffocation in his heart gradually dissipated.

He raised the corner of his lips and shook his head with a sneer. It was hard to imagine that he had tried to squeeze into such a suffocating place at any cost.

Simply incredible!

At this moment, a figure of Qing-Chao appeared in his mind. He missed her deeply after not seeing her for just a few days. So he tapped the wall of the carriage and said:

"Go to Shuiyunjian."

The driver was Qing Yi. After hearing this, he grinned silently, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. He knew that his master would not be able to bear it!

But unexpectedly, the master and servant came up empty-handed.

It turned out that Shangguan Qingyue was neither in Shuiyunjian nor in Babaozhai. She had gone to the outskirts of Beijing.

In order to ensure the supply of vegetables for Babaozhai, she bought inferior fields in the suburbs of Beijing and planted many common and uncommon vegetables. Today, she was accompanied by Shuying and Bingling as she inspected the land.

After knowing her whereabouts, Qing Yi drove to the outskirts of Beijing again, but things just didn't happen to be so coincidental.

When the two finally arrived at the outskirts of Beijing, they found nothing. Even more infuriating was that the manager of the field didn't know where the owner had gone.

Xuanyuan Yan's face was extremely ugly at this time. He secretly swore in his heart that after they got engaged, he would never let the little girl stay away from him!

Sweat was already breaking out on Qing Yi's forehead, and he could imagine with his toes how stinky his master's face must be.

After thinking it over again and again, he asked cautiously through the car curtain:

"Master, where are we going next?"

The sun was already setting, and the master and servant had not yet had lunch. Qing Yi was really afraid that his master would persist in looking for her.

He rubbed his hungry stomach and waited for about a cup of tea before he heard a low, cold voice coming from the carriage:

"Go back home."

So, Qing Yi, the most steady and upright of the four brothers, drove back home dejectedly and listlessly.

Zheng Bo went out to buy things and happened to meet the two men coming back. Seeing that Qing Yi looked like he had lost his purse, he asked curiously:

"Qing Yi, what bad things have happened to you? Why are you so depressed? Did His Highness scold you for not driving the carriage properly?

I told you guys that you are unreliable. It is safest for an old man like me to drive the car for the master. I guarantee that not a single stone will be hit."

Qing Yi quickly interrupted Zheng Bo's chattering. He didn't know what was going on, but Zheng Bo had been talking a lot lately. No matter who he caught, he would talk to them for at least a quarter of an hour.

He covered his rumbling stomach and said miserably:

"Mr. Zheng, please go to the kitchen and ask the cook to prepare more food. Your Highness and I haven't had lunch yet!"

Xuanyuan Yan went to find Shangguan Qingyue this time to relieve his lovesickness, and another reason was to remind her that she might be summoned to the palace to meet the emperor in the near future.

At least telling her in advance will help her be mentally prepared and not get too panicked.

But I never thought that the two of them would have a chase game today, and in the end no one was able to catch up with the person.

The depressed Third Prince had no appetite at all, and all the delicious food on the table went into Qing Yi's stomach.

However, it was such a coincidence that Emperor Mingde, out of curiosity, went on a secret visit the next day, taking the eunuch with him and disguising himself as an ordinary person to Shuiyunjian!

The estrangement from his son over the years, and the fact that his good son became lame during a winter hunt, and the reason for the lameness was most likely because he wanted to perform well in order to gain his attention...

When Emperor Mingde thought of this, he couldn't sleep or eat, and always wanted to do something to make up for it.

Now that his son has a lover and is determined to marry her, if he summons her to the palace, he might not be able to see anything.

After much thought, I decided to go out of the palace and meet my future daughter-in-law in person!

Wang Fu had a bitter face from beginning to end. Even when they were less than two feet away from Shuiyunjian, he still tried to persuade him:

"Your Highness, why don't you take a look outside? If you go in, I'm afraid the secret guards won't be able to protect your safety in the first place!

Your life is worth a million dollars and is related to the country of Da'an. You cannot afford to make any mistakes! I beg you!"