Dingjiangshan

No one expected that Ning Yan would bring a woman back to the harem after the ceremony.

Even He Wenting, the moment before Ning Yan really nodded, didn't really think that Ning Yan would let go of his promise.

However, whether it was impulsive or a decision made after weighing the pros and cons, this matter seemed too hasty.

Ning Yan's harem was vacant. After nightfall, most of the palaces were locked, and the only few palaces were used to stay for clan members.Naturally, the palace where the outsider lived could not be used by female relatives. It was getting late now, and He Wenting didn't dare to find a random place for Jiang Xuan like arranging a maid. In the end, he had no choice but to put her in the side hall of Zichen Palace , called a few maids to watch her, lest she wander around and cause trouble.

After returning from the palace banquet, Ning Yan didn't say a word, and didn't mention Jiang Xuan's matter.He Wenting looked very worried, but he didn't dare to speak to persuade him, so he could only follow carefully, watching his expression at any time, waiting for Ning Yan's order.

Ning Yan sat behind the table with a very bad complexion, and Xiao Diao got up from the cushion of the soft couch, quickly ran across the coffee table and the desk, and rushed into his arms.

Ning Yan was not in the mood to coax him for now, so he took a sip of the herbal tea on the table and barely moistened his throat.

"He Wenting." Ning Yan said in a hoarse voice, "Call Linglong over here."

When He Wenting saw his expression, his heart shivered, and he thought that this matter might not be resolved today.

He didn't dare to delay any longer, and hurriedly answered the call and went.

It's a palace banquet tonight, Linglong doesn't need to go to the front to serve, she is already on duty, she should rest in the maid's room at the back.

Ning Yan's forehead twitched, he obviously didn't drink tonight, but his head hurt badly.

——Jiang Xuan is still in the side hall, he suddenly thought.

Just outside the wall of his main hall, the woman who looks exactly like Ning Huaijin may be sitting in the room, waiting for his visit tonight.

Ning Yan frowned, and suddenly felt a deep disgust.

Ning Yan's decision to bring Jiang Xuan back was partly impulsive, but more because he really didn't understand Ruan Yin's intentions for a while.

Ning Yan never expected that Ruan Yin could really send him a woman—looking at the whole world, Ruan Yin was the one who wished Ning Yan would be the last one, how could she "kindly" send him such a gift , to give him the opportunity to reproduce.

His obsession with Ning Huaijin has been deeply rooted in his bones since he was a teenager, and even he couldn't get rid of it for a while, so he felt angry.Hate and loathe.

Ning Yan was angry because he felt that his friendship was easily underestimated and tarnished, and he was also disgusted because he felt that Jiang Xuandong was imitating him, but in the end it was because he took Ning Huaijin more seriously.

If not, Ruan Yin's hand is not only a knife, but also a bridge to pave the way for the emperor to cross the river.To help the emperor, he went down the donkey, folded his invisible heart, and made up for it.After you have tasted the taste in the future, after a long time, people will get tired of it, and naturally you will no longer be attached to it-this matter will pass naturally.

But Ning Yan certainly didn't think that this was Ruan Yin's gesture of showing favor to him, and naturally he wouldn't believe that she had such kindness.

Ruan Yin didn't have the guts to order Jiang Xuan to stab him to death in his sleep, but she might not have the guts to do other things.There are quite a lot of secret means in the harem, and Ruan Yin is one of the best. She really doesn't know what's going on in her mind.

Ning Yan couldn't figure out Ruan Yin's thoughts for a moment, but felt his head hurt even more.

The little mink seemed to have noticed something, hooked his coat with its claws and climbed up to his shoulders, then lay down on his neck, and leaned over to smell his fingers.

Ning Yan was a little itchy when rubbed against the cub's soft down. He rubbed his forehead with his hand, and nodded his nose.

"What should I do?" Ning Yan asked in a low voice: "Your father doesn't see me, and I have other troubles."

Xiao Diao couldn't understand what he was worrying about, she just stared at him with wet eyes, tilted her head and rubbed his fingers, looking as if she had nothing to worry about.

While talking, He Wenting led Linglong in.

Linglong was summoned in the middle of the night, and she came in a hurry. She forgot to trim a small piece of collar at the side collar, and it was folded inward, and it was sandwiched between the outer shirt and the inner garment.

Seeing Ning Yan's face darken, Linglong felt a little flustered, she couldn't help trying to calm down, and saluted, "Your Majesty."

"Is there any sugar cheese in the kitchen?" Ning Yan asked suddenly.

Linglong felt strange, probably because she didn't expect Ning Yan to wake her up in the middle of the night to ask for a bowl of sugar cheese.Obviously there is someone on duty in the small kitchen, just call out, why bother to call He Wenting to find her.

"Return to Your Majesty." Linglong said hastily: "Sweet cheese is perishable, if you don't eat it for half an hour, it will condense into water, so the small kitchen didn't prepare it in advance."

"Then go and make a bowl now." Ning Yan said, "You just woke up, so make a plate of pretzels on the way."

Linglong was confused by his instructions, so she could only say: "Your Majesty, it's getting late now..."

"It doesn't matter." Ning Yan said calmly: "I want to eat, I will wait for you."

Linglong was really helpless, so she went to the small kitchen full of doubts.

"Your Majesty." He Wenting was also surprised, he thought that Ning Yan was finally going to tear his face apart, and asked Linglong about Ruan Yin, but he didn't expect him to ask for dessert.

——Obviously at the banquet, he still couldn't eat anything.

"Where's Jiang Xuan?" Ning Yan asked.

"Go back to Your Majesty, it's still next door." He Wenting said: "When the servant came back, he saw that the lights in the next door were still on. Presumably Miss Jiang didn't dare to rest without His Majesty's instructions."

"Go and ask someone to tidy up the Xianyu Palace on the west side for her to live in." Ning Yan said, "Go now."

As soon as He Wenting heard it, he knew that Ning Yan didn't plan to keep Jiang Xuan to sleep in the side hall, and he couldn't bear it even for a night, and people had to open the door to sweep the palace in the middle of the night.

It's just that it will take some time to sweep the palace. He Wenting knew that Ning Yan disliked it as soon as he tried it out, so he simply asked people not to send any washing utensils to the side hall.

——Anyway, I will have to move out in an hour and a half, so there is no need to go through the process twice.

He Wenting and Linglong both went out to do their own things, and Ning Yan leaned on the back of the chair, drinking tea one after another.

The cold tea had a stronger bitter taste than usual, and the bitterness made the corners of his eyes red.

The little mink lay on Ning Yan's shoulder for a while, then dozed off, with the sound of breathing rising and falling, and gently patted Ning Yan's neck.

After a while, He Wenting came back first. Seeing that Ning Yan was already leaning on the back of the chair to take a nap, he didn't speak, and walked back to the corner of the room lightly, continuing to be his decoration.

Pretzels and molasses are both desserts that require slow work and careful work. Linglong was already flustered, and the darker the sky outside, the less she dared to delay.

But even if the two stoves start working at the same time, it is inevitable that there will be procedures such as steaming and baking the noodles. By the time she finishes making the two snacks, nearly an hour has passed.

When she went out with the tray, Linglong even thought, now that it's late at night, and Ning Yan has been tired for another day, she might have already fallen asleep, so how could she really wait for her.

But when she walked around to the main hall, she saw that the Zichen Hall was still brightly lit, and Ning Yan's figure was pulled out of a corner by the candlelight, and was falling on the window.

——He was really waiting for Linglong.

When Linglong entered the door, Ning Yan opened his eyes, as if he really just closed his eyes to rest his mind.

"Your Majesty." Linglong put the tray in her hand on the desk and said in a low voice: "It's late at night, please use less, otherwise your stomach will not digest, and you will have a stomachache tomorrow."

The pretzels on the table were just brought out of the pot, they were crispy and golden, the crust was slightly burnt, and there was a burst of firewood aroma just after they were placed.

The little mink on Ning Yan's shoulder moved his nose and woke up from his sleep.

"Sister Linglong's pretzels are the best, and Ah Zhan has praised me more than once." Ning Yan twisted a piece of pastry from the plate and took a small bite: "Indeed, I also think...just talking about it, it's enough The cooks in the palace are not as good as Sister Linglong."

"Your Majesty." An ominous premonition suddenly surged in Linglong's heart. She looked at Ning Yan's face and forced a smile and said, "If Your Majesty likes it, servant—"

"He Wenting." Ning Yan pushed the plate of dim sum away a little: "Send it to the national teacher, tell him, if you don't eat tonight, there will be no more after that."

Linglong raised her head suddenly: "Your Majesty—"

"You told the queen mother about the matter between me and the emperor." Ning Yan said.

His tone was very calm, neither angry nor disappointed, he was just narrating a simple fact.

Linglong's legs suddenly went limp, and she sat slumped on the ground.

——She had long thought that Ning Yan had seen through the tricks between her and Ruan Yin, but if Ruan Yin didn't break up with Ning Yan for a day, even if Ning Yan knew that Linglong was the eyeliner, she could only guard against her, so she couldn't really do something about it What would break the balance with Ruan Yin.

But now, Ning Yan doesn't seem to want this fig leaf anymore.

After returning from the hunting ground, Ning Yan had so many opportunities to deal with her, whether it was transferring her to a remote place to do some odd jobs, or anything else, but he still kept her by his side, as usual , let her go in and out of the upper study and the emperor's bedroom at will.

"Sister Linglong." Ning Yan held the bowl of sugar cheese, stirred it with a spoon, and said, "I originally planned to keep you for a while, but it's a pity."

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty—"

Linglong suddenly felt that this might be her last chance to argue in her life - if she didn't say anything now, she might never have the chance to say anything!

"The servant is forced." Linglong cried and said, "The Empress Dowager asked the servant to do it, and the servant has to do it."

"Actually, I didn't think about what to do to you at this time." Ning Yan said with a calm expression, "Although you don't care about me, you have served He Wenting together for so many years, and there is no credit but hard work."

"It's a pity that I'm really unhappy today." Ning Yan lowered his eyes, looked at her indifferently, and said, "The empress mother has poked my pain, and I'm in so much pain, I just want to find someone to hurt with."

Linglong really didn't expect that a majestic emperor would be able to express his anger so confidently, and she was stunned for a while.

Ning Yan scooped a spoonful of sugar cheese from the bowl and sipped it into his mouth, then tapped the edge of the bowl lightly with the handle of the spoon.

A slender shadow suddenly appeared from the roof with the crisp knocking sound, and landed silently in the center of the room, standing in front of Linglong.

Linglong's eyes were suddenly covered by shadows. Before she recovered from the accident, she raised her head subconsciously and looked at the masked man in black in front of her.

The next moment, Linglong's eyes widened in horror - she realized that she had seen this man before.