A life of ups and downs is pure joy

Dayan's Tokyo City.

Gong Heyu looked at Miss Fang, who looked quite similar to Lin Qinghuan. All that appeared in his mind was the little girl who had been pestering him and acting like a spoiled child. The corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously.

Lady Fang looked at the Lord, who was considered the most handsome man in Dayan, with some confusion. It seemed that he was smiling at her, but it also seemed that he was not smiling at her.

"Your Majesty, is it Duoduo who played the music wrong?" Fang Duoduo looked at Gong Heyu and asked in a soft voice.

"No, you play very well, keep going." Gong Heyu's thoughts were interrupted by the woman's pause in playing the piano.

Now he, the king, is feeling very comfortable. In the previous dynasty, his biological father Gong Zheshan was in charge of government. The funny thing is that the Sixth Prince, who had never been an emperor, was regarded as the emperor by all officials. However, Gong Zheshan refused and said that he would always be the Sixth Prince of Dayan.

"Can you draw?" Gong Heyu asked.

"I am not talented, but I can paint a few strokes. I wonder if Your Majesty would like to see me perform?" Fang Duoduo stopped playing the zither in her hand and said shyly. She never thought that a little beauty like her could make the king come to listen to her playing every day.

"Draw it." Gong Heyu said, looking at Fang Duoduo's dimples and the twin eyes that were exactly the same as Lin Qinghuan's.

The maid next to her hurried to the table to prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone, waiting for Fang Duoduo to come and draw.

Gong Heyu sat on the soft couch, picked up the new tea that the maid had just changed and took a sip. Then he looked at the woman who was working hard on painting. What came to his mind was the silly girl who said she wanted to travel around the world with him and draw pictures of medicinal herbs for him.

In the time it took to drink a cup of tea, Fang Duoduo personally brought out a carefully drawn painting and spread it in front of Gong Heyu.

"The painting is nice. Do you know the phoenix-eye flower?" Gong Heyu asked while looking at the peony in the painting.

"I don't know what this phoenix-eye flower is?" Fang Duoduo took a look at the peony she had carefully painted and looked at Gong Heyu in confusion.

"If it were a phoenix eye, it would be a masterpiece." Gong Heyu said.

Qi Ye has now followed Gong Heyu and become an imperial guard. He is currently guarding Concubine Fang's outer courtyard, waiting for his master.

"Your Majesty, aren't you staying at Concubine Fang's place today?" Qi Ye asked when he saw Gong Heyu coming out.

"Go back to the Imperial Library." Gong Heyu said.

Lady Fang sat alone and dejectedly on the soft couch where Gong Heyu had just sat, frowning as she looked at her own painting.

"Is my drawing not good?" Fang Duoduo muttered to herself.

"The beauty is painted very well, and the king praised her." said the maid.

"But the king has left." Fang Duoduo looked at the maid in confusion.

"The King is busy with government affairs. The only place he sets foot in now is the palace of the Queen and the Beauty."

"What is Phoenix Eye Flower?"

The maid also shook her head helplessly.

"Go ask someone to check and find me a pattern of flowers, or go and ask someone to find me this kind of flowers. Maybe His Majesty will like it." Fang Duoduo ordered. Since it was His Majesty who mentioned it, she naturally had to draw the most beautiful one.

"Yes." The maid responded and went down.

Gong Heyu returned to the Imperial Library, and the young eunuch serving beside him hurried forward.

"Your Majesty, Her Royal Highness the Princess has sent over a batch of portraits of beautiful women. Would you like to take a look at them now?"

"Is Shi'er free every day?" Gong Heyu asked with a frown.

"This..." The young eunuch didn't dare to say more. He glanced at Qi Ye and then lowered his head.

"You can go down." Gong Heyu never liked to make things difficult for his servants.

Qi Ye glanced at the scrolls of picture albums on the desk, then looked at Gong Heyu.

"Your Majesty, what should we do with these scrolls?" Qi Ye asked.

"Put it away first. I don't feel like reading it." Gong Heyu said casually and walked towards the couch.

Qi Ye went forward to tidy up the desk and table, holding a pile of scrolls and walked towards the large vase next to him. Unexpectedly, one of the scrolls slipped from his arms. He slowly pushed it open and spread it flat on the ground. Qi Ye put down the scroll in his hand and walked over to pick it up.

"This... Your Majesty, do you want to come and take a look?" Qi Ye looked at the appearance of the woman in the painting and was a little stunned for a moment, then said to Gong Heyu.

"What's wrong?" Gong Heyu had just finished setting up the chessboard and turned to look at Qi Ye who was squatting on the ground and asked.

"The woman in this painting looks like Miss Lin." Qiye looked at it carefully again and said, "Although she is not as pretty as Miss Lin, she looks very similar."

Gong Heyu put down the chess piece in his hand, stood up and walked over. Qi Ye picked up the scroll and placed it on the table.

Gong Heyu looked at it for a while, then looked at the pile of scrolls in the large vase, "Open them all and let me see them."

Qiye spread all the portraits of beauties flat on the ground, what a beautiful scene.

"Is Shi'er using Huan'er's portrait to find these women?" Gong Heyu couldn't help laughing. His sister really had good intentions.

"Your Majesty, the princess treats you very attentively." Qi Ye was also a little surprised when he looked at the pictures of beauties who looked like Lin Qinghuan.

Gong Heyu shook his head helplessly and said, "It's not her. What's the point of these women looking like her? There's already one in the harem. Let's all go back."

Qi Ye nodded, and carefully rolled up the portraits again, tied the straps one by one, then called the eunuch at the door and gave him a few instructions. He then watched the young eunuch hurriedly call a few people to carry the scrolls out.

"What did the people in Jinhan City say in response?" Gong Heyu asked as he sat back on the couch.

"The eldest son of the Xiao family went to Yinan County. Miss Lin stays in the Xiao Mansion every day, and occasionally goes to the Lin Mansion and the Jia Mansion. There is no other contact. The sixth prince Ning Sijue has also returned to Jinhan City." Qi Ye stepped forward and said.

"Okay, I got it." Gong Heyu's face showed no emotion and he nodded indifferently.

"Master, it is said that Miss Lin goes to your former courtyard alone every month and stays there for a whole day, not allowing anyone to serve her." Qi Ye didn't want to talk about this at first, but looking at Gong Heyu's lonely eyes, he still said it, at least the king would be happier.

"Really? Huan'er goes to Chenyuyuan every month?" Gong Heyu's handsome smile appeared on his face again, and he looked at Qiye happily and asked.

"Well, this is how she delivered the message. Old Ancestor Xiao has become increasingly confused over the past year, often mistaking several of the Xiao family's sons for their sovereigns."

"My grandmother used to treat me the best. Now she is old and I can't visit her. She still misses me all the time." Gong Heyu thought of the kind old lady, feeling a little sad in his heart and tears in his eyes.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. Old Ancestor Xiao is in good health except for being confused. Miss Lin goes to serve him every now and then." Qi Ye said. Old Ancestor Xiao was a good person. She had followed Your Majesty since she was a child and had eaten and drunk a lot of food in her yard.

"Ask someone to continue protecting her secretly. Qiye, do you think I will be able to see her again in this life?" Gong Heyu's voice sounded very lonely and sad.

"You are the king. In fact, if you are a little selfish, just like what the Sixth Prince said, Miss Lin will..." Qiye said.

"Should I listen to him and ask Huan'er to be my concubine? I promised her that we would be together for the rest of our lives, but I couldn't do it, so how could I ask her to come to Dayan?" Gong Heyu murmured to himself.

Qi Ye also sighed helplessly. He really couldn't bear to tell the Lord that the relationship between Miss Lin and Xiao Yi seemed to be much closer than before.

Xiao Mansion in Jinhan City.

Lin Qinghuan closed his eyes, beads of sweat covered his forehead and nose, and his head kept shaking with an expression of great pain.

“Don’t… don’t… don’t leave me… Brother Yu… my husband… ahhhhh!” Lin Qinghuan’s heart-wrenching voice woke up the maids in the outer courtyard. Yun Xiang and Chu Xia pushed the door open with their hair loose.

"Young Madam." Yun Xiang lifted the curtain beside the bed and looked at Lin Qinghuan anxiously.

"Girl, what's wrong with you? Did you have a nightmare?" Chu Xia knelt beside the bed and gently shook Lin Qinghuan, who was frowning in pain.

The beauty opened her eyes with fear, then her eyes slowly focused and she saw two anxious faces looking at her.

Yun Xiang took a handkerchief and gently wiped Lin Qinghuan's forehead, and Chu Xia also helped her sit up.

"It turned out to be a dream. I was scared to death." Lin Qinghuan sighed and calmed down. The dream just now was too scary. Thinking about it now made him feel anxious.

"Young Madam, dreams and reality are opposites. Bad things in your dreams are good in reality." Yun Xiang saw that Lin Qinghuan wanted to get up, so he took her shoes and socks and comforted her softly.

Lin Qinghuan smiled awkwardly and then nodded, hoping that everything was really the opposite as she said.

"Did you dream about the duel between your senior brother and brother-in-law?" Lin Mo and Lin Qinghuan were sitting in the yard basking in the sun. Today, Lin Qinghuan came to find Lin Mo, but Xiao Qiannan did not follow. She went to the shooting range with Lin Qingyi to practice archery.

"Well, I couldn't stop them. I saw them fighting so fiercely that I could even smell the blood." Lin Qinghuan covered his chest and frowned as he looked at Lin Mo and said.

"Huan'er, you still have your senior brother in your heart, right?" Lin Mo asked Lin Qinghuan with some heartache.

"Sister Mo, he is Brother Yu. Even if we will never meet again, how can Huan'er forget him? It's just... it's just that now I have begun to care about my husband, and I want to live a good life with him, and I will no longer think about Brother Yu. But last night's dream really made me feel embarrassed. I wanted to travel around the world with Brother Yu, but I couldn't bear to leave my husband behind. Am I too much?" Lin Qinghuan said self-reproachfully.

"Huan'er, I don't blame you. You've done very well." Lin Mo looked at the well-behaved Lin Qinghuan and said, "I thought you would threaten to die to stop your father from marrying Xiao Yi, but you were so obedient and got into the bridal sedan. I remember your wedding was really lively, it felt like the whole Jinhan City was celebrating, but I know you didn't shed a single tear. You were extremely desperate inside."

"Sister Mo, father and mother are not wrong, and the Lin family is not wrong either. I have always been loved, so how could I make things difficult for father and the Lin family? Now it's all in the past. The Xiao family treated me so well, and my husband has only doted on me since we became a real couple. Why should I be dissatisfied? It was just a dream anyway. Brother Yu is now the emperor of Dayan, and we will never meet again in this life. In a few years, maybe I will slowly forget about him. This is good for everyone." Lin Qinghuan looked up at Lin Mo with a faint smile, "The most important thing is that I have you by my side."

"We are a family. No matter what happens, I will always be by your side." After Lin Mo finished speaking, Lin Qinghuan hugged her coquettishly again.

Jia Xu stood at the door and looked at the two sisters who were deeply in love. He couldn't help but smile, but then he frowned and looked melancholy.

"Brother-in-law, what are you doing standing there like an idiot?" Lin Qinghuan turned around and saw Jia Xu standing at the door, stunned and preoccupied, and shouted.

"I'm just afraid of disturbing you two sisters' whispers!" Jia Xu walked in with a smile, and when he met Lin Mo's gentle eyes, a wry smile appeared on his face again.

"Why do you have this expression that's neither crying nor laughing?" The attentive Lin Mo noticed something strange about her husband and asked.

"If it's inconvenient for me to stay here, then Huan'er will go back first. My sister and brother-in-law have something to talk about." Lin Qinghuan stood up and said when he saw this.

"It's okay, it's okay." Jia Xu said, "Actually, my boss was just bored and said that he has a distant cousin who is now sixteen years old. Thinking... thinking..." Jia Xu looked at Lin Mo and didn't dare to speak, his voice getting smaller and smaller.

"Thinking of sending her to your courtyard to be a concubine, right?" Lin Mo was smart and knew what she meant as soon as he heard it.

"Ah! Madam, I don't want to! I don't have any ulterior motives, but he is a higher official than me after all. Now you tell me what to do, and I will listen to you." Jia Xu was afraid that Lin Mo would be unhappy, so he hurriedly walked to her side, squatted on the ground, and looked at her aggrievedly.

Lin Qinghuan looked at her brother-in-law acting coquettishly with her sister Mo and felt like laughing, but she couldn't be so rude in such a serious situation, so she quickly picked up the teacup and drank her tea attentively.

"Then just take it in!" Lin Mo said calmly.

"Puff..." Lin Qinghuan sprayed out the tea, then quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe her mouth, looking at her sister and brother-in-law with an embarrassed expression.

"Look at what you said, even Huan'er was scared. I dare not take it in, and I don't have that idea." Jia Xu glanced at the panicked and blushing Lin Qinghuan and continued to shake Lin Mo's dress and said.

"You just want to insert a spy. Why not let her stay under my nose? I want to see what tricks you, the boss, want to play." Lin Mo said. Jia Xu's immediate boss has always been dissatisfied with the fact that he was born in the family of the Imperial Censor and married the daughter of a duke, so he often made things difficult for Jia Xu in secret. Her husband was confused and had no scheming, so he was always frustrated.

"Madam, aren't you joking?" Jia Xu looked at Lin Mo nervously.

"Husband, just take that woman in. I'll take care of what happens next. But if you... hum... then you can go sleep in the study." Lin Mo said to Jia Xu.

"I will never have any second thoughts. I sent them away voluntarily." Jia Xu swore quickly.

Lin Qinghuan looked at the two of them, her eyes narrowed with laughter. Ever since Lin Mo became pregnant with Ran'er, Jia Xu had dismissed all the prostitutes in the courtyard and sent away those who should be raised on the farm. However, Lin Mo had never mentioned a word about not wanting him to have concubines or a maid. This was what Lin Qinghuan admired about her sister. Looking at Jia Xu who was always flirting with Lin Mo, Lin Qinghuan's thoughts began to wander. When would she be as smart as Sister Mo? It wasn't that Xiao Yi called her a stupid woman every day.

"Huan'er?"