Lin Yiwan couldn't help but sneer: "Are you afraid or guilty? Zhan Yan, you are really capable. You can even make the Qin family girl miss you just by looking at your paintings!"
Zhan Yan was stunned. "Isn't Miss Qin a Taoist nun? Has she returned to secular life? Besides, she should be quite old, almost as old as our mother!"
Lin Yiwan reached out and pinched him: "Not the old one, but the younger one, Qin Jinjin. Do you have any impression of her?"
Zhan Yan shook his head decisively: "No, who is she? I don't even know her!"
Lin Yiwan pinched his waist again: "Don't you know her? How did she get a portrait of you? And it's of you as a teenager, a handsome young man in fine clothes, riding a horse, so alluring!"
Zhan Yan quickly grasped her hand. "I really can't remember any connection with her. Wanwan, I'm your husband. Don't you understand my personality? I'm so obsessed with you, how could I be flirting with other women? Is it my fault that someone else loves me?"
This sentence pleased Lin Yiwan, and the turbidity in her heart dissipated a lot.
She threw herself into his arms and murmured, "It was Old Madam Qin who said Qin Jinjin was going to marry you, and she even took out the portrait of your back. I felt so wronged!"
Zhan Yan lowered his head and kissed her lips: "If you don't feel wronged, I won't marry her. You are the only mistress of the Zhan Yihou Mansion, and no one can change that!"
After hearing Zhan Yan's personal assurance, Lin Yiwan still did not relax her brows.
She said, "I heard from my father that the Qin family has made great contributions to the Xiao family by guarding the Suchuan Imperial Mausoleum. I'm afraid they will use this as a threat. If that happens, both my father and the new emperor will be in trouble!"
Zhan Yan laughed: "If Old Master Qin is willing to let his daughter be his concubine, then we will let him do so!"
"Okay!" Lin Yiwan agreed readily.
At this time, the old doctor Qin in the imperial study of the palace was sitting on a chair with a cold and ugly expression.
He asked in a deep voice, "Prince Li, don't you feel any guilt towards the new emperor?"
Xiao Ling said in panic, "Great-grandfather, please don't say that about my great-uncle. He was sadder than anyone else when our father passed away. He took care of me personally, and I am truly heartbroken!"
Old Master Qin sneered, "Your Majesty, you are young, how could you understand his intentions? He wants to control you to satisfy his ambition to control the entire Sheng Dynasty!"
Prince Li retorted with a cold expression: "Old Master Qin, be careful with your words!"
Old Master Qin raised his hand and smashed the tea bowl in front of him to the ground. "If you really have no ambition, then why don't you try every possible way to treat Emperor Sheng An? Aren't your daughter and your father-in-law the most powerful doctors in the world?"
Prince Li's expression was cold and complicated. He had long guessed that Old Master Qin would make trouble, so he had already thought of his response.
He calmly replied, "The Emperor's health is severely damaged. He was first severely injured, and then given strong drugs. Even the most skilled doctors are helpless against his condition!"
Old Master Qin interrupted without hesitation: "What's the real purpose behind this excuse? I'm sure no one knows it better than you!"
Xiao Ling immediately walked up to him and said, "Great-grandfather, can you please listen to what I have to say?"
Old Master Qin could scold Prince Li without restraint, but he still felt very distressed when facing the young new emperor.
He said in a hoarse voice: "Your Majesty, speak!"
Xiao Ling spoke softly, "When my father was alive, he often told me that our Sheng Dynasty was founded by my great-uncle, who risked his life to win it. He had been fighting on the frontiers since he was young, leading an army of hundreds of thousands to protect our territory from foreign invasion!"
Old Master Qin said in a deep voice, "This old minister has not erased his contributions to the prosperous dynasty. He truly served the country and the people in the first half of his life. But now that he has children from the king, he may not be without selfish motives. Your Majesty, you are young and do not yet understand the treacherous nature of human nature!"
Xiao Ling's face showed impatience. He said in a serious tone, "I don't understand the treacherous nature of human nature, but I do understand that my life was on the verge of death several times, and it was my great-uncle's daughter, Aunt Wan, who saved me. Where was my great-grandfather at that time?"
Old Master Qin's expression suddenly froze. He subconsciously argued, "Your Majesty, how can you say that? Not to mention that I'm in Suchuan guarding the imperial mausoleum, even if I were by your side, I wouldn't have the medical skills to save you!"
Xiao Ling interrupted, "Then what right do you have to blame my great-uncle? I've seen how much he's sacrificed for my father and the entire Xiao royal family!"
Old Master Qin subconsciously opened his mouth to refute, but when he saw Xiao Ling's dissatisfied expression, he swallowed his words back.
Prince Li then said, "Old Qin has been exhausted from the journey, so I doubt you will be able to attend the banquet. I will have someone send you back to the posthouse so you can wait to attend the coronation ceremony for the new emperor!"
Old Master Qin didn't want to be driven away like this, he still had something to say.
He spoke quickly, "Your Majesty, I have returned this time hoping you can decide on the marriage of my granddaughter, Qin Jinjin!"
Xiao Ling looked at him in surprise: "Aunt Qin, do you have a boy you like?"
Old Master Qin nodded and said, "Yes, when your father was alive, he once promised the Qin family that he would grant any request of mine in consideration of our contributions in protecting the imperial mausoleum. I didn't think of it at the time, so I said I would bring it up when I returned. I never imagined that we would be separated forever now!"
Xiao Ling said: "As long as the request made by great-grandfather is reasonable, I will agree to it!"
Old Master Qin bowed gratefully and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty. I am now old and my health is declining, but I am worried about my granddaughter Jinjin. I hope she can find a good husband and have a smooth future!"
Xiao Ling asked curiously, "I wonder which family in the Sheng Dynasty did Aunt Jin have her eyes on?"
Old Master Qin cast a gloomy glance at Prince Li, then uttered five words: "Fight the Marquis Yi, Fight Yan!"
The imperial study fell into silence in an instant, with only the light and heavy breathing sounds of the three people remaining.
After a moment, Xiao Ling slowly spoke: "If it was a boy from an ordinary family, I would be able to make the decision for my great-grandfather. Unfortunately, Marquis Zhan Yi already has a wife, so he is not a good match for Aunt Jin!"
Old Master Qin said anxiously, "Your Majesty, do you know how your Aunt Jin's parents died? When the remnants of the previous dynasty attempted to steal the body of the Xiao family's ancestor, it was they who resisted with their own flesh and blood. Even though their bodies were stabbed with countless bloody holes, they refused to give way until reinforcements arrived!"
Xiao Ling couldn't help but tear up, and he choked up, "I have never forgotten the Qin family's contribution to the royal family. I sympathize with Aunt Jin, but it is precisely because of my sympathy for her that I cannot let her bear the stigma of stealing someone else's husband!"
Just one sentence shut up Old Master Qin!
He never expected that the young emperor would be so scheming.
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