Dingjiangshan

Cheng Yuan hesitated for a moment before staying and leaving.

Ning Huaijin knew that she had lost her composure when she couldn't help but laugh, but in front of Cheng Yuan, no matter how embarrassed he was, he put on an unflappable appearance to maintain face.

So he straightened his crumpled skirt, stood up before Cheng Yuan could react, patted the hem of his clothes, turned around and saluted Ning Yan.

"I heard from A Ling that the wet nurse I found for Ah Jing doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for, I'll go over and have a look." Ning Huaijin turned around as she spoke, then nodded at Cheng Yuan and said, "Your Majesty will trouble Dr. Cheng. "

——It looks polite and stable.

Cheng Yuan didn't know what happened, and before he had time to think about it, he quickly replied, "Your Highness is polite, you should."

Ning Huaijin nodded, brushed past Cheng Yuan with a natural expression, and turned her back to close the door behind her when she left.

Cheng Yuan was confused by Prince Gong, so he forgot about the scene when he entered the door.

Ning Yan took this opportunity to pull up the blanket, picked up the lost notebook, shook it, and put it beside the pillow.

"Doctor Cheng sit down, don't be restrained." Ning Yan said.

Cheng Yuan came back to his senses, greeted Ning Yan, then walked to the chair beside the couch and sat down, spreading out the needle pack in his hand.

Ning Yan rolled up the sleeve of his right hand, and put his wrist on the small soft pillow Cheng Yuan brought.

Acupuncture once every three days, Ning Yan and Cheng Yuan are already very familiar with this process.Cheng Yuan lit the small incense burner that was mixed with the medicine powder, put it in Ning Yan's hand, twisted out the first palm-length silver needle from the needle bag, and carefully inserted it into Ning Yan's Yangchi acupoint.

Ning Yan frowned in pain, but didn't make a sound.

"Your Majesty." It was Cheng Yuan who spoke first: "Speaking of which, I just remembered when I saw the prince. A few days ago, the prince went to Caomin to ask about His Majesty's situation, and he also mentioned the cold poison."

Cheng Yuan has been with him for a long time these days, and gradually he is not as afraid of him as he was at first, and occasionally chats with him when he is doing needlework.

"Uncle Huang has been thinking about this these days." Ning Yan said: "...Dr. Cheng didn't mention the matter of extinct heir."

"No." Cheng Yuan said: "The things that His Majesty has explained, the grassroots dare not speak out without authorization."

Ning Yan was relieved.

Cheng Yuan actually didn't quite understand Ning Yan's thoughts. It stands to reason that he has peace now, so it doesn't matter whether he talks about it or not, but he doesn't know why he insisted on keeping this matter a secret and refused to tell Ning Huaijin.

But Ning Yan's mind is difficult to guess, Cheng Yuan's inner slander is fine, he will not really ask without understanding.

"It doesn't matter anything else, what the emperor asks, just tell the truth." Ning Yan looked down at his hand and said, "I have nothing to hide from him."

"The grassroots understand." Cheng Yuan said.

"Doctor Cheng has helped you a lot along the way, so don't be an idiot." Ning Yan said with a smile: "When I get back to Beijing, I will give Dr. Cheng a name in the Imperial Hospital, and then go to the Zhaoming Army. It's justified."

Cheng Yuan was twisting the needle in his hand, and it was inconvenient to kneel down to thank you, so he could only change his words quickly: "The minister thank you, Your Majesty."

"No thanks." Ning Yan said: But I really want to ask Dr. Cheng to do me a little favor. "

"What's the matter?" Cheng Yuan was taken aback, and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty just ask."

Ning Yan didn't know what he was thinking in his heart, and he was a little embarrassed on his face. He licked his lips, typed twice in his heart, and then said: "In half a month, the 24th will be the uncle's birthday. I think Doctor Cheng, please do me a favor, I will send Zhaoming and A Ling out that day."

Cheng Yuan: "..."

Cheng Yuan is not surprised that Ning Yan wants to celebrate Ning Huaijin's birthday; Ning Yan has already fulfilled his wish, and Cheng Yuan is also very clear about this.But he never expected that Ning Yan really didn't treat him as an outsider, and could entrust such a private matter so confidently.

Although Anqing Mansion is large, the only places where people can settle down are the Wang Mansion and the Mansion Yamen.It's not easy for a girl like Jiang Ling to go out to squeeze inns or barracks with others, so she can only set up a side courtyard in the palace.Although Xie Jue lived in the barracks most of the time, because he often had to discuss matters with Ning Huaijin, he also ran to the palace three times a day, almost never leaving until dark.

Hearing Ning Yan's quarrel, Cheng Yuan obviously wanted to make a big noise that day, so he wanted to get rid of all these "irrelevant people".

"I have the guts to ask, where do you want to go?" Cheng Yuan asked dryly, "Should I just leave the palace or...?"

"It doesn't need to be too far away." Ning Yan said honestly, "I've got someone to tidy up the government office and the back house, so you can live there when the time comes."

Cheng Yuan understood that Ning Yan had already prepared, and was just waiting for someone to do this job for him.

"Excuse me, speak bluntly." Cheng Yuan took the silver needle down while trying to struggle a little: "Your Majesty can just give you an order, so why do you have to go far and ask me to help you with this?"

"That won't work." Ning Yan helped Cheng Yuan press the corner of the plaster on the wound, and said confidently: "Uncle Huang is so sensitive, if I give orders, he will find out."

Cheng Yuan: "..."

"I understand." Cheng Yuan said with difficulty, "I will be careful."

Ning Yan pursed her lips, smiled with satisfaction, and gave him a look of approval.

"Physician Cheng" never expected that the first job he took office was not to treat Ning Yan's illness, but to prepare a birthday surprise for him as a cover.

At this time, Ning Huaijin didn't know that his birthday ceremony had already been changed to "everyone knows".

Ning Huaijin had also thought about how Ning Yan would mess with his birthday before, but Anqing Mansion was not familiar with the place where he was born. No matter how lively it is, set off some fireworks like New Year's Eve, and it will be over to make people happy, it doesn't matter.

In addition, Ning Yan hadn't paid much attention to birthday matters these days. Ning Huaijin thought about it secretly, and was sure that no matter how whimsical Ning Yan thought, he couldn't do anything out of the ordinary. I don't even ask myself.

On September 22, Zheng Shaohui from the northern battlefield led his own troops back to the army and joined them in Anqing Mansion. He was also preparing to report the situation in Shunchang Mansion face to face.

Although Anqing Mansion is large, most of them are owned merchants and residential houses. Ning Huaijin deliberately did not disturb the local people's livelihood, so he even stationed troops on the outer city side.Zheng Shaohui said that there were not many soldiers brought back, but at least there were tens of thousands of soldiers. Obviously, they couldn't enter the city, so they had to camp outside the city.

In addition, Zheng Shaohui also brought a wave of captured soldiers brought back from Shunchang Mansion in addition to his own soldiers.At that time, after Ning Chengyi died in Shunchang Mansion, Ning Zheng's army was in chaos, and he inevitably suffered a lot when he returned to aid.Zheng Shaohui is like an iron rooster who will never suffer. In the few battles of fishing in troubled waters, he swallowed many small towns by chance, and even gathered a bunch of prisoners in his hands.

Most of these people are not Ning Zheng's direct descendants, but young people recruited by Ning Zheng's army.Most of these people were ordinary civilians in the fiefdom of Anqing Mansion, and there were so many of them that Zheng Shaohui didn't know what to do with them, so he could only trust Ning Yan and ask for his opinion.

It stands to reason that after Ning Zheng's defeat, these people were also Ning Yan's subjects, even if they had followed the anti-king to raise troops, most of them could only be punished for the crime of clinging.Ning Yan didn't want the folks to think he was cruel, but also wanted to make a good reputation, so he asked Zheng Shaohui to bring these people back to Anqing, whether it was to reclaim wasteland or go to official farmland to do white work, or to pay for crimes with work. That's it.

It's just that, before finding a place for these people, Zheng Shaohui would not be able to leave the army and enter the city alone, so Ning Huaijin could only go alone, first go to the camp outside the city to meet Zheng Shaohui, and then follow Ning Yan's previous instructions. Written errand assignments put these people in place.

Ning Huaijin originally made an appointment to spend his birthday with Ning Yan, but this incident happened unexpectedly, which he did not expect.

Ning Huaijin was already ready to discuss with Ning Yan, but Ning Yan was more reasonable than he imagined.

"The captives brought back by Zheng Shaohui this time are all locals of Anqing Mansion, and they survived to death, but more than 5000, and we can almost find out in two days." Ning Yan said: "Anyway, the emperor only needs to arrange their whereabouts. Just leave it to Zheng Shaohui and the local government soldiers."

"Since we agreed to celebrate our birthday together, Uncle Huang just remember to come back early the day after tomorrow." Ning Yan said.

Even though this was the case, Ning Huaijin was a little uncomfortable with being so "reasonable" by Ning Yan.

"Then I really went?" Ning Huaijin tentatively asked.

Ning Yan was amused, but he probably guessed what Ning Huaijin was thinking, so he put down the notebook in his hand and looked at Ning Huaijin pretending to be displeased.

"Why, isn't the emperor planning to come back the day after tomorrow?" Ning Yan asked.

"How could it be?" Ning Huaijin subconsciously denied, "What I promised you will never count."

Ning Yan seemed to be convinced by this reason, and his expression was a little loose.

But he still seemed reluctant, staring at Ning Huaijin for a while, then lazily opened his hands and waved at Ning Huaijin.

When Ning Yan was reasonable and easy to talk, Ning Huaijin always felt awkward, but now when he started acting unreasonably like a baby, Ning Huaijin had a feeling of "as expected", and I don't know if he was used to Ning Yan's behavior. Being a pie, he was almost assimilated by him.

Ning Huaijin put on her outer shirt, met Ning Yan's gaze, walked into the inner room, then bent slightly, and followed his movements to hug him.

Ning Yan folded her arms contentedly, accepted the hug, and rubbed her head against the side of Ning Huaijin's neck.

He likes to be intimate with Ning Huaijin so much, and Ning Huaijin is also willing to spoil him. Eight out of ten times he follows his heart, so that whenever Ning Yan encounters something now, he always takes the opportunity to talk to Ning Huaijin. Jin asked for some prizes to let him pass.

"Uncle Huang will come back early." Ning Yan said, "I have prepared a surprise for Uncle Huang."