Dingjiangshan

Although the servant didn't know Ning Huaijin's intentions, he went there swiftly, and soon came back with a bowl of clear noodles.

Ning Yan understood Ning Huaijin, tapped the small table in front of him with his fingers, and signaled the servants to put the noodle bowl on it.

"You want to eat with me on Uncle Huang's birthday?" Ning Yan said with a smile.

"Didn't His Majesty say that we want to live a long life together?" Ning Huaijin said.

Longevity noodles are Baoyitou, and there is only one noodle in a bowl of noodles, and it cannot be bitten off.Therefore, this bowl of noodles was delicate and compact, and it didn't hold much, so Ning Huaijin finished eating after picking up two chopsticks.

Ning Yan didn't move his chopsticks, he picked up an egg from the tray, rolled it gently on the small table twice.

Ning Huaijin put down her chopsticks, feeling a little funny.

"I'm not a child anymore." Ning Huaijin said, "I don't need this."

"There is never too much time to exorcise evil spirits and evil spirits. There are only a few good days in a year. If you miss one, you will lose once." Ning Yan said, and said in his mouth: "If you are healthy, all diseases will disappear."

Ning Yan rolled the thin eggshell into fine pieces, and only then reluctantly felt it was done.Ning Huaijin was concerned that his hands were inconvenient, so she took the egg just in time and peeled off the shell by herself.

Ning Yan took this opportunity to eat up the small bowl of noodles in front of him, and drank a few mouthfuls of hot soup to warm his stomach.

It's past dinner time now, according to Ning Yan's habits, he usually doesn't eat, but today is Ning Huaijin's birthday, so he made an extra exception.

As soon as he put down his chopsticks, Ning Huaijin brought over the peeled egg and touched his lips lightly.

"It's Uncle Huang's birthday, not mine." Ning Yan laughed and said, "What are you doing for me?"

"There are two." Ning Huaijin stuffed the eggs into his hand without any explanation, picked up the second one from the tray, rolled it around twice, peeled off the shell, and said, "Compared to me, Your Majesty should All illnesses disappear—half of the noodles is given to you, not missing one of this."

Ning Yan couldn't laugh or cry, so he could only accept Ning Huaijin's kindness, and slowly shared this extremely simple "birthday feast" with him.

Prince Gong's birthday ceremony was properly organized by Ning Yan, but it was really low-key. Before noon the next day, the lanterns all over the lake were cleared up, and no one caught up to see them.

Except for a few close followers of Ning Yan, no one knew that Ning Huaijin had sold herself just for a few hundred lanterns.

As soon as Ning Huaijin's birthday passed, Ning Yan had no intention of staying outside. After playing with Ning Huaijin around Anqing Mansion for two or three days, he began to return to Beijing.

According to Ning Yan, since he wanted to go back, he should hurry up sooner rather than later.He hurt his hand, and it was inconvenient to ride a horse. On the way back, he took a car like Ning Jing. The army wandered back to the capital, and it took almost a month.If you leave later, I'm afraid you won't be able to catch up with the New Year's Eve.

But before they left, they had to settle down the local government army, and they had to pick out officials to temporarily manage Anqing Mansion.In addition, the civilians who have returned to their hometowns have to be resettled, and the accounts and taxes have to be collected. These messy general affairs are added together, not to mention Ning Huaijin, and even Ning Yan can no longer be lazy.

Although Shen Tinghe was let go by Ning Yan, the Shen family was not so lucky.The accusations of clinging to the rebellious king and colluding with the rebels would be a bottomless abyss. Ning Yan didn't deliberately punish Liwei severely, but he didn't show mercy. Soon, the Shen family fell from the Prince Yue's family into the quagmire, not even keeping the old house.

On the day of the execution, it happened to be raining, and Ning Yan didn't want to go out because of the cold, so it was Ning Huaijin who went to the prison in person.

There were a total of thirteen members of the Shen family, each of which was shaped like dead wood. They were carried to the execution platform one by one by the imperial guards. The executioner stabbed them down, and hot blood spurted out more than ten steps away.

At that time Ning Huaijin was sitting on the execution platform a few steps away, his face was a little colder than the winter rain outside.

——In his heart, these people deserved to die.

It was Ning Huaijin's heart that Ning Zheng secretly colluded with the capital to poison Ning Yan. These days in Anqing Mansion, he worked hard with Ning Zheng, but he did not find any news.

It wasn't until later that he took people to search Shen's house, that he realized that Princess Shen's natal family also contributed a lot in it, seeking medical advice, matching up bridges, and doing nothing less - no wonder Ning Zheng would marry Shen Ting A woman like He who doesn't understand everything is his wife because there is a capable Yue's family standing behind her.

When Ning Huaijin learned about this, her teeth itch with hatred, wishing she could kill this daring traitor alive.Fortunately, the crimes committed by the Shen family are already worthy of death, and this one is not bad.

It's a pity that the old doctor who asked for the medicine passed away seven or eight years ago, and I couldn't find anything more.Ning Huaijin was afraid that Ning Yan would be disappointed if she said it out, so she decided to keep the matter a secret.

However, Ning Yan has been much busier recently than before, and he has no time to take care of such trivial matters.

Since he was going back to Beijing, he had to prepare for matters in Beijing.Seeing that winter is about to enter, and the coming New Year's Eve will be one after another, the official documents on Ning Yan's desk are as high as one person.

And after all, this is a two-year war, the treasury and the army are both attrition, and there are still a lot of things to deal with in Beijing. Ning Yan has a headache when he thinks about it, so he simply said that this year's Longevity Festival will also be avoided. It's not a whole life, just invite a few close officials to come in and have a banquet and it's over.

Ning Huaijin had nothing to do with this, Ning Yan only mentioned it briefly, and he nodded, and then naturally arranged the corresponding matters, and erased the item of Wanshou in the plan after returning to Beijing.

After Ning Huaijin's birthday, perhaps it was because of his heart-to-heart relationship, he didn't say that he was obedient to Ning Yan, he was obedient to his words, no matter how big or small, he almost never said no.After a few days, Ning Yan was so carefree that even Cheng Yuan could see the clue.

"Is your lord lately..." Cheng Yuan took the belt from Xie Jue, and whispered to him hesitantly, "Something is not quite right."

Ning Huaijin accompanied Ning Yan to take care of all the affairs of the Anqing Mansion, and all military affairs were left to Xie Jue.Little General Xie has been busy for ten days, and managed to manage the affairs of the general with great difficulty. He finally moved out for a day before the army returned to Beijing, so he could be free to listen to other things.

"What's wrong?" Xie Jue said strangely, "I don't think so."

As Xie Jue said, he took off his outer shirt, then went to twist a hot towel and wipe his hands, making his whole body loose and warm, before he sat down at the table and pulled Cheng Yuan's clothes to him.

"Or are you uncomfortable in front of His Majesty these few days?" Xie Jue comforted: "Anyway, it's just these few days, and there's no need to—"

"No." Cheng Yuan shook his head hastily, and said, "Don't you think the lord has indulged His Majesty too much recently?"

Xie Jue still thought he was going to say something, so he was overjoyed when he heard the words, and asked, "Who? Your lord? Too indulgent?"

"Ah, don't you think so." Cheng Yuan said.

"It's okay, the prince is used to pampering." Xie Jue waved his hand carelessly, and said, "You don't know, the prince is just a childish character, not to mention that he and His Majesty have affection for each other now, even when he was a child, he was not dissatisfied." I'm used to it."

When Xie Jue talked about getting up, he stretched out his hand and gestured, and said, "You haven't seen it before. When His Majesty was this tall, what did you really say? You want candied haws and not toffee cakes."

Cheng Yuan: "..."

What kind of method is this, Cheng Yuan thought blankly.

"At that time, His Majesty was raised by the prince's side. Whatever he wanted, he could get it by tugging on the prince's sleeve—you have seen Jiang Ling act coquettishly with Mingyuan when he was a child, and he learned it from here." Xie Jue held his hand Throwing the hot towel on the table, he said with a smile: "Later, His Majesty came to the throne, and the prince felt that it was easy to spoil him so much, so he restrained himself a lot and looked stricter."

Cheng Yuan: "..."

——I really can’t see it, Cheng Yuan thought.

"Don't tell me, when I knew His Majesty's intentions in the hunting ground, I knew that there would be a day like today." Xie Jue became more and more enthusiastic as he talked. A dignified general of the country, when talking about such things, he even chatted with the needle thread at the village entrance The woman in the sky is as excited: "Who is the prince, how can he stand up to His Majesty's softness, even if he can't get over the hurdle in his heart for a while, as long as His Majesty persists, as time goes by, he will soften his heart sooner or later."

Cheng Yuan: "..."

"That's why Mingyuan can see it clearly and know how to work hard from the prince." Little General Xie shook his head and said with emotion: "It's a pity that the prince himself is not determined-it's good now, your majesty even has a queen, I guess in the future That's it. It's decided. I saw His Majesty's high spirits. After returning to Beijing, I should beat those courtiers. Although the matter between him and the prince can't be shown in a big way, but with His Majesty's character, it probably won't be. Deliberately concealing it."

Cheng Yuan was startled, and lowered his voice, "What do you mean, Your Majesty still wants to admit this matter openly?"

"Who knows." Xie Jue himself was not sure what Ning Yan was thinking, so he could only shrug his shoulders and said, "It depends on what His Majesty thinks—but what happened to you today, you care so much about them?"

Cheng Yuan was stunned by his question and hesitated for a moment.

The matter of Ning Yan's extinct heir was so big that he dared not tell anyone, nor did he dare to tell Xie Jue.

Ning Yan asked him to hide Ning Huaijin from the beginning, but Cheng Yuan could understand that Zuo was just afraid that Ning Huaijin would worry about him, or that it would affect his plan.But now that Ning Jing has been brought back, and he already has an heir in name, Cheng Yuan doesn't understand why Ning Yan has to pay attention to tell him to hide it.

It was precisely because of this that the more Ning Huaijin asked him about Ning Yan's situation, the more uncertain he became.But he is a little imperial physician, and he can't tell His Majesty to be "honest".Even though Cheng Yuan always felt that this was not good, he didn't dare to say anything.

"It's nothing." Cheng Yuan made a fool of himself, then changed the subject and said, "By the way, I heard that His Majesty has already set a date to return to Beijing?"

"It's settled." Xie Jue nodded without any doubt, and said, "Only the first day of October."