After dressing as a substitute princess

After Chen Nuo returned to the courtyard, she asked Jin Chan to help her find the jade pendant, but she couldn't find it after searching.He remembered that both Cuiping and Cuizhu had seen the jade pendant with their own eyes when they got the jade pendant. Could it be that they put it away?

Chen Nuo carefully recalled the scenes at that time, but after all, more than two years have passed, and he really can't remember who kept those things at that time.

He remembered that besides the jade pendant, his father also gave him some very precious jewelry, which he put into a locked box.

"Jinchan, find a wooden box with a lock and carved patterns on it." Chen Nuo said.

Jin Chan nodded, and after a while, she found seven or eight boxes with locks, and she put all those boxes on the table for Chen Nuo to check.

Chen Nuo recognized the nanmu box at a glance, and saw a gleaming silver lock hanging on it, "Jin Chan, do you know where the keys to these boxes are kept?"

Jin Chan scratched her head, "Young master, sister Cuiping used to be in charge of these things, and the slaves don't know where the keys are."

"Okay, let's put everything in the cabinet first." Chen Nuo planned to find a craftsman to pick all the locks in another day.

After dinner, the little parrot Feng'er flew into the room again with Li Ci's letter. It landed lightly on the table and said, "Ting'er, Feng'er is hungry, Feng'er wants to eat melon seeds!"

Chen Nuo poked Feng'er's little head amusedly, and scolded with a smile: "You are a snack, you just beg for food when you come here."

Chen Nuo put the melon seeds that had been peeled long ago in front of Feng'er, Feng'er flapped her wings twice, and immediately buried her head in her mouth and started to eat happily.

Chen Nuo took the small note from Feng'er's foot, opened it, and read, "Ting'er, I heard what you talked in your sleep when you fell asleep" on the note.

Chen Nuo was speechless for a while, since when did he have the habit of talking in his sleep, it must be Li Ci's nonsense!

Chen Nuo didn't want to pay attention to it at first, but he was very concerned about whether Li Ci had heard some secret hidden in his heart. After a long while, he still couldn't help writing a reply, "What did I say?"

After Feng'er ate half a cup of melon seeds, she flew away contentedly with Chen Nuo's note. This time, she flew back after a quarter of an hour, and the reply from Li Ci was: "You said you missed me .”

Chen Nuo suddenly had the urge to rush to Prince Yu's mansion to beat him up. This man was so boring that Feng'er flew around to pass on such unnutritious nonsense to him.

Chen Nuo lightly touched Feng'er's bright red face, the silly bird tilted its head and stared at him, its small black bean-like eyes rolled around, Chen Nuo looked amused, "You little idiot, always like this Aren't you tired of flying around?"

"Ting'er, Feng'er is hungry!"

"Hmph, snack food."

Chen Nuo suddenly thought, why does it take Feng'er to go back and forth every time?Li Ci said that Feng Er handed over the letter to the person who was in charge of delivering the letter outside, but it would take at least half an hour for that person to ride a horse back and forth from Prince Yu's Mansion to Qu Mansion. How could it be so fast just now?

Chen Nuo called Jin Chan and instructed in a low voice: "Later, follow this parrot to see who took the letter and where."

"Yes, sir."

Jin Chan has always carried out 100% of Chen Nuo's orders. She saw Feng'er flying out after eating and drinking, and immediately followed her out.

About 10 minutes later, Jin Chan came back, and said with a panicked look on his face, "Master, yes, it is His Royal Highness Yu Wang who is in the alley behind him, he, he asked someone to set up a big umbrella, set up tables and chairs in the alley Let's drink tea."

Chen Nuo couldn't help rolling his eyes, he said how could it be so fast, it turned out that the deity was nearby, but a majestic prince really gave up his face in order to please his sweetheart.

If Li Ci did this for him, Chen Nuo would be so happy, but as long as he thinks that Li Ci did it for Qu Moting, he will not be happy at all. He even feels a little jealous of that little Bailian. Qu Mo Ting.

Chen Nuo sighed helplessly in his heart, and he told Jin Chan: "You ask someone to pass the message, let King Yu go back earlier, if outsiders see it, it will be bad for his reputation."

"Yes...young master, why don't you go see His Royal Highness King Yu?"

"No, it's not advisable to meet before marriage."

In Dazhao, there is a custom that men and women should not meet before marriage, but there is no saying that men and brothers should not meet each other, but Chen Nuo said so, and Jin Chan would not refute him.

Jin Chan blessed her body and closed the door for Chen Nuo when she went out.

Chen Nuo took a book and sat by the window, but couldn't read a word. He couldn't tell what was going on in his heart. He was going to marry Li Ci soon, but such a marriage was full of lies. Is it really what he wants?

Based on Li Ci's understanding of Qu Moting, he must soon find out that he is not Qu Moting. Although he has lost his memory and his memory is obviously confused, but the day the lie will be exposed, what will he do then? What to do?

It was another sleepless night. Chen Nuo often suffered from insomnia these days. When he woke up carefully, the night when Li Ci came was the night he slept the most.

There is a Lantern Festival in Zhaoye City tonight, Li Ci asked him to meet, but did not say the specific time and place.

Chen Nuo thought, what Li Ci was talking about was the secret meeting place between him and Qu Moting, Han^0^Ge^0^II^0^Zheng^0^Li... It's impossible to think, Qu Mo It is impossible to meet Li Ci secretly if one does not leave the court gate.

Qu Enliang didn't have to go to court this day, so it was rare for father and son to have breakfast together.

Looking at the rich food on the table, Chen Nuo didn't have any appetite, and just sipped the porridge in a daze.

Qu Enliang asked all the servants to retreat outside. Seeing that Chen Nuo was not energetic, he asked with a smile, "What's the matter, didn't you sleep well last night?"

"Father, is the Ministry of Rites coming to hire you soon?"

Qu Enliang immediately suppressed his smile, and looked at Chen Nuo seriously, "Son, you should think about it, once you marry King Yu, there will be no chance to regret it."

"Father, I don't have a chance to regret it now." Chen Nuo smiled wryly.

Qu Enliang was silent, Chen Nuo looked at him, and said, "Father, after I get married, you will be the only one in the family, why don't you let Aunt Zhang help manage the household affairs, and help father share a little bit."

"Why her?"

"Well, I think that although Aunt Zhang doesn't say a word, she understands the world and takes good care of Zhen'er. She is also very kind to her little brother Mo Hong. I think she is not a partial person." In fact, there are other reasons. Aunt Zhang has no backing, and Qu Enliang likes it, so if she wants to come to Qu Enliang, she can rest assured that she will take care of it.

Of course, there is still a little selfishness in Chen Nuo's mind. He doesn't want Aunt Wei, who gave birth to a son, to have too high a status. It's fine as it is now. As long as the Wang family is still there, he won't let other women have more rights than the Wang family.

It's not that Chen Nuo sympathizes with the Wang family, but that the more important other women's status in Qu Enliang's heart, the less conducive to his importance in Qu Enliang's heart. Now Chen Nuo doesn't want to lose the support of Qu Mansion.

Qu Enliang also somewhat guessed what Chen Nuo was thinking, but instead of feeling angry, he was quite happy. He patted Chen Nuo's shoulder lightly, squinted his eyes and smiled, "Okay, Dad will listen to you, okay My child, although your grandmother is not at home, you still have the dowry prepared for you, and your father will also give you another share, plus half of what your mother left is for you, and the other half is for your brother , with these things, it is enough for you to marry into Prince Yu's residence."

"Thank you, Dad...Father... hurry up and eat." Chen Nuo hesitated to say anything, but he didn't say anything. He thought it's better to tell Lao Qu after the wedding was successfully concluded.

After breakfast, Chen Nuo went back to Chenyuan to read paintings and calligraphy, and fell asleep after eating casually at noon. He was really exhausted, so he lay down to catch up on sleep when he was a little tired, but he only slept Less than an hour.

After dinner, Qu Enliang took Aunt Zhang, Qu Mohong and Qu Zhen'er to Dongshi to enjoy the lanterns, but Chen Nuo didn't want to go out and chose to stay at home.

Chen Nuo looked at the darkness outside the room, and felt a cold loneliness in his heart. Li Ci asked him out, but he couldn't see him yet.

Chen Nuo gently touched his leg. In order to prevent the toxin from spreading, the master sealed several important acupuncture points for him. He pricked several acupuncture points every day. Over the years, the toxin did not continue to spread, but his legs also lost perception.

Chen Nuo has thought countless times whether it is worth it or not, but every time the answer is that there is no value, only willingness or not.

And in that situation at that time, no matter how many times he had to do it again, he was willing. What's wrong with saving the person he likes regardless of his own life?

The only thing Chen Nuo regrets is that he was moved before he saw Li Ci clearly. It really is a long time to see people's hearts, and it is so stupid to just look at a skin.

While Chen Nuo was sitting by the window in a daze, the stupid bird Feng'er flew over again, "Ting'er, Feng'er is here! Ting'er, Feng'er is hungry!"

"You snack, why are you here now?"

Chen Nuo caught the stupid bird with a smile, let him rest in his palm, and poked the stupid bird's red cheek with his hand, "Silly bird, your master sent you to deliver a letter again?"

Chen Nuo took down the note in the small bamboo tube on Feng'er's feet, opened it and looked at it: "Ting'er, I'll wait for you at Fulin Restaurant, see you soon."

Chen Nuo felt irritated for a while, feeling her chest constricted as if something was blocking her, "Do you think I won't come by myself? Anyway, I won't go."

Chen Nuo said to himself, looked down at Feng'er who was staring at him with tilted head, thought for a while, and wrote a note: "It is inconvenient to meet before we get married, please wait until the day I wear wedding clothes, See you again."

"Feng'er, why is your master so stupid?"

Chen Nuo sent Feng'er away, watching the little parrot quickly disappear into the darkness, as if seeing himself stepping into the darkness step by step.

Sure enough, as Li Ci said, the Ministry of Rites really came to hire him.

There were a total of [-] dowry gifts sent to the Qu Mansion, all of which were placed in the courtyard of the front hall. Chen Nuo didn't see it with his own eyes, so he only glanced at the gift list and ignored it.

These things are arranged according to the regulations, roughly those things, nothing particularly precious, and King Yu didn't add any extra things into it, everything seems to be very in line with the rules.

However, Chen Nuo thought, Li Ci should not be as poor as before. He has not forgotten that half of the bonuses from those businesses belong to him. I saved a lot.

Jin Chan suddenly walked in with a tray, with a delighted smile on her face, "Master, this is a wedding dress sent by King Yu, please try it on, Master."

"Wedding dress? Shouldn't I prepare this?" Chen Nuo asked suspiciously.

"His Royal Highness Yu Wang is worried that the young master will not have enough time. His Majesty has already set the wedding date for next month. After careful calculation, it will only be more than 20 days."

"What, the wedding date is set so soon?"

Chen Nuo couldn't help frowning, what was Emperor Dazhao thinking?Shouldn't he be most wary of Qu Moting marrying King Yu?Why are you in such a hurry to get married?