Dingjiangshan

Ning Huaijin didn't expect Cheng Yuan to be able to talk about the matter of "grow old forever" so openly. He was surprised for a moment, and then he sincerely praised: "Although Doctor Cheng doesn't know martial arts, but in terms of character and courage, he is no less than those in this camp." Soldiers."

"It can't be said that it's not inferior, it's much better than most people." Xie Jue added with a smile: "...at least much better than me."

Cheng Yuan was a little embarrassed, and lightly kicked Xie Jue's boots with his toes, as if to make him stop talking.

Xie Jue smiled and moved to the side, making room for Cheng Yuan.Cheng Yuan originally didn't want to interfere with the conversation between the two of them, but Xie Jue couldn't help but dragged him onto the hay mat and had no choice but to sit down.

"Actually, I know what the lord wants to ask, or what he wants to understand." Xie Jue said, "To be honest, I thought the lord didn't mean anything to His Majesty, but looking at it now, it doesn't seem to be the case."

Ning Huaijin felt guilty when Xie Jue spoke out about it, she subconsciously looked down at the hare's leg in her hand, and didn't even bother to refute.

"I--"

Ning Huaijin opened his mouth, and even forgot "this king". He hesitated again and again, as if there were thousands of words in his mouth, but unfortunately he didn't say any of them in the end, and all of them turned into a sigh.

"I don't know either." Ning Huaijin said: "It stands to reason that His Majesty's idea is absurd and inexplicable. I didn't dissuade His Majesty, so why not—"

"Why do you keep thinking about this matter, right?" Xie Jue said with a smile: "Even thinking about His Majesty's heartbreak because of this, I feel extremely uncomfortable first?"

Ning Huaijin nodded dejectedly, acquiescing.

"I can see it." Xie Jue said, "If it wasn't for this, with the prince's usual temper, such a trivial matter would not have been postponed until today. Wanting to get married to the prince, the eldest daughter of his family saw him at the flower viewing banquet, and the prince refused before the love was finished."

Xie Jue burst out laughing, and tugged Cheng Yuan's hand with great interest, not feeling that there was any harm in spreading gossip in front of the "principal".

"I heard that the girl from Dali Temple Qing's family made a big fuss and went home crying." Xie Jue said, "Because of this, Dali Temple Qing didn't speak to the prince for three days."

Cheng Yuan: "..."

Cheng Yuan glanced at Ning Huaijin's face, tugged at Xie Jue's hand, and while signaling him that enough is enough, he responded with difficulty: "Really?"

"Indeed." Ning Huaijin didn't think there was anything he couldn't say. He subconsciously sat up straight and said solemnly: "At that time, I couldn't marry a wife, so why bother with such a good girl. Such a big event is natural. It is necessary to say it clearly, otherwise it will give people unnecessary misunderstandings, and it will only increase troubles."

"That's right." Xie Jue said with a smile: "So the prince hasn't 'cleared' to His Majesty so far, but is he not afraid of His Majesty's misunderstanding?"

Ning Huaijin: "..."

Prince Gong, who had always had a clear mind in court, was confronted with the question, and the conversation was cut off immediately. He glanced at Xie Jue, and inexplicably, a bit of bewilderment appeared in his eyes.

"The prince also knows." Xie Jue glanced at Cheng Yuan, and said, "I was actually a deserter who fled the battle back then. In terms of courage, I am not one-tenth of Xiao Yuan's."

Ning Huaijin also knew what happened ten years ago. At that time, Xie Jue was young and had a lot of messy things on his shoulders. He felt that he couldn't give Cheng Yuan peace of mind, so he gave up the relationship he had just met by chance.

Later, it was Cheng Yuan who chased him all the way to the border town, and only then did he regain the companionship and stability of these years.

Ning Huaijin looked at Cheng Yuan who was sitting next to Xie Jue. The warm light from the bonfire outlined a faint halo on his body. The slender young man seemed to be no different from ten years ago. young.

Cheng Yuan's appearance is very gentle, but probably because of his practice of medicine, he has a compassionate temperament, reflected by the candlelight of the bonfire, sitting beside Xie Jue who is wearing light armor, he is as gentle as a person who will melt away at any time. shadow.

Judging from the appearance alone, it is really hard to imagine that he would have such great courage, walking all the way from the capital to the border town, just to ask for a relationship that is deviant in the eyes of the world.

Thinking about it this way, it seemed that Xie Jue was right when he said that he was stronger than most people.

"There are very few people in this world who can have the kindness of Dr. Cheng." Ning Huaijin said: "Most people in this world are ordinary people, who are always bound by ethics and morality, and have many choices in their hearts."

"Perhaps what I said was wrong, and I shouldn't, but..." Cheng Yuan glanced at Xie Jue, hesitated for a moment, but still said: "Actually, Zhaoming would not say this, if Mr. Jiang is changed, it must be I wouldn’t say it either. Only a Jianghu person like me, with a narrow vision, too short-sighted, who doesn’t understand the worries and involuntary feelings of the royal family and the court, would stand up and say such things without pain.”

"How could it be?" Ning Huaijin hurriedly said: "Doctor Cheng has practiced medicine for many years, and he has met countless people. In comparison, his vision is wider than those of us frogs in the bottom of the well who are trapped in the imperial city every day... ...you may as well speak up if you have something to say.”

"It doesn't matter if it's Zhao Ming, Lord Jiang, or any other adults in the court that I don't know." Cheng Yuan said seriously: "It's even the same for the prince himself. I think, if these people are put together Knowing His Majesty's intentions, everyone must not agree with His Majesty—but then again, who cares about His Majesty."

Ning Huaijin was taken aback.

"Whether your Majesty likes someone, who you want to be with, why does the prince have to look at the courtiers and the people of the world to decide, but he doesn't look at His Majesty himself." Cheng Yuan said: "It's just the people around, there are not many of them. It is normal for someone who cares about His Majesty to care more about orthodoxy and decency. But the friendship between the prince and His Majesty has been real since childhood, how can you be like others and refuse to look at Your Majesty."

Xie Jue originally wanted him to stop talking, but for some reason, he raised his head but hesitated again. He glanced at Ning Huaijin, and in his heart there were three hundred rounds of battle between heaven and man, and finally he just lowered his head and fiddled. The scorched wild rabbit pretended not to hear it, but just pretended that he was a deaf and blind manual grill.

Doctor Cheng usually looks quiet and doesn't talk much, but every word he speaks pokes into people's hearts.Ning Huaijin obviously felt that there was something wrong with this statement, but she couldn't find a way to refute it.

"But—" Prince Gong struggled to pick out some thoughts from his mind, and said, "But in this world, harmony between yin and yang is orthodox. After all, when two men are together, people in the world will poke their backs. how come……"

"Although Zhaoming is not a rich man, he is still a son of a family." Cheng Yuan said, "Master Jiang is a family of civil servants. The whole family has been thinking about it for so many years, and they can still be beaten for Mr. Yan."

Cheng Yuan didn't return to Beijing many times these years, and the only few times he just followed Xie Jue, and the number of times he saw Ning Yan was even rarer. Putting aside his identity, he spoke for Ning Yan.

But just a few days ago, without everyone's knowledge, he was secretly invited into the palace several times by Ning Yan to explore the medicinal soup that Jiang Xuan gave Ning Yan.

Cheng Yuan traveled all over the world for these years, and he also saw many difficult and miscellaneous diseases with his master. Not only did he know the cold poison, but he also knew its curative effect.

It was even said that he was the one who had been exposed to that medicine earlier than Yan Qing and Jing Zhan.

Cheng Yuan once told Ning Yan clearly about the dosage, curative effect, contraindications and possible sequelae of the medicine, and even told him about the "unprecedented" thing.

At that time, there was a bowl of clear sweet soup between Ning Yan and him. The young His Majesty stood behind the desk for a while, his eyes poked out from the half-open window, and fell on the plum tree outside.

It was still summer at that time, and the plum tree looked no different from other peach trees and acacia trees, all of which were lush green.

What Ning Yan was thinking at that moment, Cheng Yuan didn't know, all he could remember was that Ning Yan calmly looked away from the window, then shook the bowl of sweet soup in front of Cheng Yuan, and drank it down in one gulp.

It was difficult for Cheng Yuan to put himself in the shoes of an "emperor" and understand how important an offspring was, but this did not prevent him from understanding that this decision was actually not as random as Ning Yan's performance.

But on Ning Yan's face, Cheng Yuan didn't see any emotional fluctuations, he didn't seem to hesitate, and he didn't seem uneasy, as if this was just pushing the boat with the current, pushing the boat on the path he expected.

Even Ning Yan put down the bowl at that time, frowned slightly, and just said "It's so bitter".

Like Xie Jue, Cheng Yuan once felt that it was ridiculous for an emperor to look at his uncle, but at that moment, he suddenly changed his mind.

——Because he suddenly discovered that, regardless of their identities, Ning Yan who liked Ning Huaijin was actually no different from Cheng Yuan who liked Xie Jue.

They are all the same clumsy and decisive.

Because Ning Yan once asked him to keep it secret, he couldn't tell Ning Huaijin about these things.But this doesn't mean that Cheng Yuan won't make a small contribution where he can.

"I said this today, not to win over the prince, nor for anything else." Cheng Yuan sighed, and said, "The prince also knows that although I have lived with Zhaoming for ten years, I still don't know much about the court. Maybe I said These are not in line with the rules, and there is also the crime of talking about the royal family. But since the prince wants to hear my humble opinion, I still dare to say it-the reason why Zhao Ming and Mr. Jiang can put aside the worldly vision is nothing more than knowing that life is short and wanting to To catch a little sweetness in the sourness and bitterness."

Ning Huaijin was bitterly told by him. He knew in his heart that he was actually the "sweetness" in Ning Yan's heart, but because of the gap between identity and gender, this "sweetness" must have become It made Ning Yan feel "sour and bitter".

"Your Majesty cannot be without a descendant." Ning Huaijin seemed to have given up, and he said bluntly: "You can ignore everything else, but the orthodoxy of this country cannot be without a descendant."

"What does this have to do with whether the prince likes His Majesty?" Cheng Yuan asked back.

Ning Huaijin choked, he wanted to say how could it not matter, if he really broke his sleeves, why would he talk about successors.

"If the prince doesn't like His Majesty, there is no need to worry about this matter." Cheng Yuan said: "Only the Prince likes Your Majesty, this is the hurdle you have to 'together' with Your Majesty."

Cheng Yuan subconsciously bit the accent on "together".

Ning Huaijin seemed to have been enlightened. During the cold winter, someone poured a bucket of ice water over his head, and the ice made him feel smooth all over.

——He was right, Ning Huaijin thought blankly, if he had never thought about Ning Yan since he separated from the hunting ground, why did he even think about such a reason.

On the other hand, if he didn't have a worldly vision and didn't leave behind these things, would he have agreed to Ning Yan?

Ning Huaijin's whole body trembled, and she didn't dare to think about it anymore.

"I just told the lord that things need to be thought about first and then acted upon." Cheng Yuan said, "Even to put it a little more bluntly—before the result is determined to be good or bad, it means that the idea has already been formed. "

"Did the lord say so?"