Fengmou in troubled times

In July, there is fire, and in August, it is not young.

When the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus was wafting across the city in the imperial capital, Feng Yinran suddenly remembered that when she was in school in her previous life, she often used words such as Baiju Guocha when writing essays. At that time, she lamented how time flies, but it was just to show how flexible she was in using idioms , obviously longing to grow up, but imitating the adults' sigh that time does not wait for me, and time is hard to catch up.But when I really understand the helplessness of not being able to stay in the past, I can only murmur in a non-literary way, how fast the days go by.

Unknowingly, envoys from Cangjue and other countries have been staying in Rongshao for more than a month. After the alliance of the four countries, Cangjue and Langfu, in order to exchange the previously occupied towns from Rongshao, bargained like a seesaw long time.However, it seems that beauties and gold and silver are far less attractive than the land that can expand Rongshao's territory. At least Fang Zhuer, the princess who has the same appearance and name as Fengzhu, has not yet had the ability to change Emperor Yin's mind, so it has been discussed for so long Afterwards, Cangjue Kingdom was just exchanged for a less important town.

But these episodes did not affect the superficial harmony and friendship of the four countries.When the alliance of the four countries and the follow-up matters are gradually settled, and the envoys of the three countries are about to leave home with satisfaction or regret, the birthday of Emperor Yin's most beloved daughter, Princess Pan'er, happens to be the time when the three countries express their respect and honor to Rong Shao. It was an opportune time for Shao to express his farewell to the Three Kingdoms.As a result, Princess Pan'er's sixth birthday banquet changed from a previous family banquet to a grand feast for the four kingdoms.

The little princess Shuyan Pan'er, who is only six years old, naturally cannot understand the political factors.Seeing that the whole palace was up and down, and several uncles who were guests came to celebrate her birthday, the little girl was all happy from the bottom of her heart, and her laughter like silver bells could be heard from afar.Picking and choosing among the piles of gifts she received, what Pan'er likes the most is a set of lifelike wood carvings from her uncle.Not only the joints of the small animals can move, but they are also polished very smooth, so you won’t worry about getting your hands pricked by wooden thorns, and they are also painted with beautiful colors. exquisite.Shuyan Pan'er was playing with one of the little tigers, and the nurses and maidservants around the side saw her happy, so they chimed in and said some festive words, but they didn't see the little princess looking at the pile of presents with a slight smile. distracted.

"Princess, happy birthday." Su Qianqian came in with a bowl of longevity noodles with poached eggs on top. Everyone in the palace knew that she and Wang Shuhou were close, and the empress was very polite and affectionate to her, so The other court ladies respected her as if they were half masters.Seeing that it was her who came, Pan'er, who had played very well with Su Qianqian these days, hurriedly called her to come and sit down, eager to share with her how she felt about receiving the gift, "I'm talking to sister Qianqian, you all go down Just wait."

The servants in the room dispersed immediately. Su Qianqian gently pinched Pan'er's little nose, and said with a smile, "Didn't you say that you can call me auntie? If you call me sister, why don't you call me too?" Is your little uncle called uncle?"

Unable to avoid being tickled by Su Qianqian, Shuyan Pan'er twisted her body and begged for mercy while smiling, "Good Aunt Su, you are so young, Pan'er is afraid to call you old."

"Little devil head!" Seeing that she smiled so cutely, Su Qianqian finally withdrew her "devil's claws" and pushed the longevity noodles to Pan'er's eyes, "You will be the protagonist at the banquet later, and you want to greet everyone, and how about you?" Pay attention to your manners, you will definitely not be full. I told the queen sister that I have ordered a bowl of longevity noodles for you, and Pan'er will come and help Auntie taste it."

Although the world of children is simple, they are particularly sensitive to whether the people around them really treat them.Pan'er was growing up, and after playing for a while, she smelled the aroma of longevity noodles, and she was indeed a little hungry. After hearing what Su Qianqian said, she immediately smiled embarrassedly, and picked up chopsticks to eat.

Su Qianqian, who was watching from the side, sometimes helped her pick up some side dishes, and sometimes wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, as if Pan'er was her own daughter.Su Qianqian didn't know what to think of and felt a little dazed. Su Qianqian was stunned for a while before she came back to her senses. When she looked up and saw a lot of gifts on the table, she casually flipped through them.

Su Qianqian looked at the group of small animals and couldn't help laughing. This set of miniature zoos was given by Ran Ran without even thinking about it. With this momentum, I'm afraid he will send a whole set of Barbie dolls next time.She smiled and shook her head, but suddenly found a ruby ​​the size of a quail egg in a pile of gifts, inlaid on a silver bracelet with a novel and unique style, which was particularly eye-catching.

"Aunt Su also thinks it's very beautiful, doesn't she?" Pan'er, who put the bowl down, bit her chopsticks and said, "Aunt Su, I saw this at Father Emperor's place a few days ago, it seems to be sent from some country, and it's still there. There is a very nice story." The child was obviously not concerned about what kind of story she heard at the time, she tilted her head and asked Su Qianqian in puzzlement: "Aunt Su, in the past, whatever fun things my father had, I would give them away. Come to the Queen Mother. But this time, why did he give this bracelet to Concubine Yu?"

Concubine Yu?Su Qianqian was stunned, she had only seen this newly promoted concubine from a distance, even though she was covered with a veil, she still vaguely felt that something was wrong.But what Pan'er asked should be regarded as the emperor's family affairs, and I, an outsider, said it badly.She thought about it, but she hadn't finished her words yet, but Pan'er, who was puzzled, continued to say: "Father gave the bracelet to Concubine Yu, does it mean that Father likes her a little more? But Aunt Su, why is Yu Concubine?" The empress is going to give Pan'er what my father gave her? Doesn't she like what my father gave her?"

"Pan'er," Su Qianqian looked at her puzzled look, but felt a little sore in her heart. They said that the most ruthless emperor's family stayed in this deep palace that ate people and didn't spit out bones, even if there was a queen like Pan'er. The little princess who loves and protects is unexpectedly so precocious.Probably even Pan'er herself didn't know that her unintentional childish words would expose Fang Zhu'er's illusion of deep love for Emperor Yin.However, Su Qianqian has no right or position to care about these matters. "Maybe Concubine Yu just likes Pan'er very much, so she can't help but leave such a beautiful bracelet for Pan'er to look at. She also wants to be like Auntie and be good friends with Pan'er."

She blinked her eyes half-understood, "Really..." Shu Yan Pan'er nodded, reluctantly accepting the answer. "Okay, when we meet Concubine Yu, Pan'er will tell her that Pan'er agrees to be friends with her. The queen mother said that she came from Uncle Fang's hometown, so it must be far away. What is she doing in the palace? I don't know anyone, so I must be very lonely. Pan'er wants to be friends with her."

"Pan'er is such a good boy." Su Qianqian wanted to tell her not to trust strangers too much, and not to get too close to Concubine Yu.But looking at Pan'er's pure and kind eyes, he didn't know how to deal with her questions.No matter how long Pan'er's innocence can be preserved in this palace, the queen sister and Ranran will work hard to protect it...

"Okay, Pan'er, the banquet is about to start. Auntie will take you to change into beautiful clothes, okay?" Su Qianqian suppressed the inexplicable unhappiness in her heart, and called the subordinates waiting outside People, prepare for the palace banquet with hope.

……Dividing line……

If it weren't for the fact that this banquet was held for Pan'er, Feng Yinran would definitely not have come to the palace, watching this seemingly incongruous drama of the Four Kingdoms patiently.

"Linyuan, look." He poured out the contents of the bag in front of Fang Linyuan's eyes as if offering a treasure, because he was sitting far away from the ministers, Feng Yinran was not afraid that the intimacy between the two of them would be seen by others go. "Have you seen it before?"

Supported by his plain white hands are nine shiny red beans.Like small hearts, even the lines on them are the word "heart", as if a big heart is surrounded by a small heart, and the hearts are connected. "Linyuan, it is said that this kind of real lovesickness beans are as hard as diamonds and as bright as blood. They are neither moth nor rot nor fade. It is really amazing."

Looking at the lovesickness beans in his hand, Fang Linyuan's expression was a little subtle, "Acacia beans are mostly born in Cangjue country, and they are extremely rare in Rongshao. Where did you get them, Yin Ran?"

"Isn't there any in Rongshao?" Feng Yinran, who had been instilled too much love for red beans in her previous life, didn't think so much, but she didn't expect to see the real thing in another world, it was mostly curiosity. "Feng Ruo said that they bought them at the market." Feng Yinran carefully looked at these beans, smiled and said to Linyuan, "Linyuan, we have a poem there, 'Red beans grow in the southern country, and a few branches come out in spring. May you pick more, this thing is the most lovesick.', it is this kind of lovesickness beans."

Feng Yao... Hearing the name, Fang Linyuan immediately understood, "In the Cangjue Kingdom, there are also many legends about Acacia beans. It is nothing more than saying that a man and a woman who love each other are forced to separate from each other, and the tears of deep lovesickness fall under the tree and condense. Become this kind of red bean, hoping to stay together for a lifetime in the next life and never separate again."

Obviously it is an ornament that only the youngest daughter likes, but because of the implication contained in it, I can't help but want to come to Lin Yuan to present the treasure.Feng Yinran was a little embarrassed, and said in a low voice: "It is said that people who love each other eat the lovesickness beans that they made a wish together, and they can live happily ever after. I don't know if it is true..."

"Feng Ruo told you this too?" Seeing Feng Yinran nodding with blushing cheeks, Fang Linyuan's heart was full of murderous intent, but he didn't show the slightest bit in front of Feng Yinran, still gentle, "I think she heard it from others I remembered wrongly. Although this acacia bean looks beautiful, it is more poisonous than arsenic. This kind of seed is swallowed whole, but if it is chewed, it will cause poisoning. It can take a few hours at a time, and it can take three days if it is slow. It can make people faint and die." He laughed as he said, and stretched out his hand to pick up a bright red bean from Feng Yinran's palm, "Beautiful and highly poisonous, it can be regarded as the most suitable annotation of love."

Unexpectedly, the red beans, which represent the pain of lovesickness, are actually poisonous. Feng Yinran folded them back into the bag in embarrassment, "I didn't know before..." Fortunately, Linyuan is familiar with medical books and pharmacopoeias, otherwise if it is true Because of my silly expectations, I ate these lovesickness beans, but it was a disaster for no reason. "When I go back later, I have to tell Feng Yao and the others quickly, so as not to accidentally eat it."

"Okay." Fang Linyuan responded casually, and lowered his head to press a kiss on Feng Yinran's cheek as if comforting.There was a vague fragrance coming from the back of Feng Yinran's neck. If Fang Linyuan hadn't often dealt with medicinal materials, he would not have noticed it so quickly. "Yin Ran, did you use any spices?"

Breaking away from the negative emotions of the red bean incident, Feng Yinran was taken aback by his question, shook her head and said, "I'm not a woman, so I don't have the habit of using fragrance powder. Perhaps it was Feng Yao who accidentally touched it when he was combing my hair. Yes. What's the matter?"

He had already learned about the relationship between Feng Yao and Fang Tingwu from Ling Ye. Originally, Fang Linyuan planned to spare her life because this woman had served Yin Ran for many years, but now it seemed that he could no longer keep her. "It's just that you're not used to smelling like someone else." Not wanting Feng Yinran to know about these dirty things, Fang Linyuan carefully wiped off the powder on his neck, and said lightly: "I remember this rumor this year It's going to be 25 years old, women in the palace can leave the palace to marry at the age of 25, you won't be reluctant to let her go out of the palace, will you?"

This seemed to be the first time that Fang Linyuan cared about the servants around him.Feng Yinran, who completely misunderstood Fang Linyuan's intentions, thought that he was taking pleasure, and couldn't help laughing: "Feng Yao is not my maid, why are you rushing her out like the mistress who is about to marry into my house? ?”

Angry and funny, he bit Feng Yinran's small earlobe, and seeing Feng Yinran's face flushed, Fang Linyuan's mood improved, "If you want to marry, you will marry into my Fang family."

"I don't want it." Feng Yinran shook her head quickly, and laughed with Fang Linyuan.The two went crazy for a while, because today's protagonist, Princess Pan'er, wanted to see her uncle Feng Yinran, the queen sent palace servants to look for him, which interrupted their "two-person world".If it wasn't for the two of them's good ears, the little eunuch who delivered the message would probably catch them making out.Feng Yinran cleared her throat in a concealed manner, got up and followed the little eunuch to the queen's side, "Linyuan, I'll be back soon."

Smiling and watching him leave, Fang Linyuan stood up when Feng Yinran turned around the corridor and couldn't see what was going on here. After calculating that the time was almost up, he turned and walked towards an abandoned side hall in the palace.

"Is the big emperor waiting for someone?"

Fang Tingwu, who was wandering anxiously, turned around when he heard the sound, and it was Fang Linyuan who came, his expression changed suddenly, and he pretended to be calm after a long while and said: "I'm just too weak to drink, come here to rest for a while That's all. Why, Brother Seventh, do you think your brother and I have someone to wait for?"

Fang Linyuan only smiled in a low voice, followed by a long silence.From the angle of the backlight, Fang Tingwu, who was standing in the room, couldn't see the expression on the other's face, but such silence, and the long-standing fear and fear of him, the Seventh Emperor's younger brother, made him feel uneasy. jealousy grew stronger. "Fang Linyuan," Fang Tingwu couldn't help but shouted loudly, "This is in Rongshao's palace. What are you trying to do? If something happens to me, you must be the first to be suspected." Object!"

"Oh?" The corner of his mouth curved into a mocking arc, Fang Linyuan slowly pulled out the silk strings wrapped around his left wrist, not missing the slightest chance to appreciate Fang Tingwu's fear, "How can I be disrespectful to the eldest brother? Brother Huang's power is gradually growing, and even the emperor's will is ignored, so why should you be afraid of me, the younger brother who was sent to Rongshao as a proton?"

Hearing his father Fang Hua, Fang Tingwu stabilized his mind and argued, "Did the Seventh Brother hear some gossip and misunderstood Brother Huang?" Brother Seventh Emperor, go back to Cang Jue. I have already handed the letter of credence and credence to Emperor Yin of Rongshao."

"Really?" Nodding his head indifferently, Fang Linyuan only took half a step forward, and Fang Tingwu was so startled that he almost fell to the ground backwards, "Brother, don't you know? Hand over that letter of credence, and I won't stay here anymore." He laughed, still calm and elegant, but in Fang Tingwu's eyes, there was a piercing killing intent, " Let Feng Ruo use Yin Ran to poison me, Brother Da Huang's tricks are endless."

Hearing Feng Yao's name, Fang Tingwu's heart shuddered, and he was about to deny it, when suddenly he realized that Fang Linyuan's seven silk strings were already wrapped around his neck. "You dare to kill me?!" Fang Tingwu yelled with red eyes, but he didn't dare to move the strings that could make him decapitate in an instant, "Just try it! Father knows , your mother and son will also be buried with me!"

Not paying attention to his threat at all, Fang Linyuan raised his hand and plucked a meaningless syllable on the strings, and said with a cruel smile: "As the son that my father has relied on the most in recent years, you should understand, brother, that my father hates you the most. Yes, the one who outshone him in the limelight. Based on what you have done these years, do you think your father still loves you?" Looking at Fang Tingwu who suddenly realized his pale face with great sympathy, Fang Linyuan's Sweeping the strings with his fingertips, "Didn't Brother Dahuang always covet my Helian Sacred Sect? Today, let me tell you the true power of my magic piano."

"No..." The painful wailing stopped abruptly after the sound of the piano, and the palace that had been vacant for many years fell silent again, as if nothing had happened...