last night suddenly dreamed of mountains and rivers

That night, King Zhen Xian hugged the letter from Prince Yi's mansion and slept soundly.

That night, Lan Jiansu lay beside King Yi, not sleeping so soundly.

The palace is so big, there are dozens of empty rooms, if not hundreds.For some reason, King Yi felt that the empty seat beside him was a holy place, or a holy place where his nephew should come and lie down.

At night, the two of them share the same bed in thin clothes, even though they lie in separate quilts, each with a pillow, they are still body to body.

This orchid gradually Su Fei Pilan gradually Su.Bi Lan Jiansu treated him like a royal uncle, even taking a bath together might be taken for granted.Now Lan Jiansu treated him like any other man in his heart, as a well-known and handsome guy, it was inevitable that he would be cautious and embarrassed.

Closing his eyes, he heard Yi Wang's regular breathing beside his ears, scratching his ears like a piece of soft cotton.So Lan Jiansu thought back tonight, when King Yi held his wrist tightly, and in his eyes was the dark river of hunting animals.Suddenly, his body shuddered, he opened his eyes, turned his head to the side, and saw King Yi's sleeping face wrapped in a veil-like night.

Lan Jiansu carefully got up from the bed, put on his coat, and walked out the door.

He quietly came to the study room, lit an oil lamp, determined to read at night here, and went back to lie down when the sky was clear.

The books on the table were neatly arranged, Lan Jiansu took out the middle travel book and started reading.However, Lan Jiansu, who was born in the Institute of Technology in his previous life, seemed to overestimate his own cultural level. After reading a travel book, he could hardly understand the meaning except that he knew what words were written in it.

Lan Jiansu yawned twice, flipping through the book more and more casually, the ink words on the pages looked like tadpoles swimming quickly in his eyes.

Turning to the middle of the page, Lan Jiansu stopped abruptly, but felt that the page was unusually thick.He rubbed the page repeatedly, observed it, and found a small opening near the spine.

He tried to explore the opening with his fingers, and pulled out a stacked letter paper from it.Lan Jiansu opened his eyes to see it.Looking at it, it seemed that a huge rock fell from the sky, which caught him off guard and made him stunned on the spot.

Although he doesn't know much classical Chinese, he can clearly understand this sentence in the letter: King Yi is not a descendant of the emperor, but the regent and empress Kang Xian.

Lan Jiansu was in a daze at first.Slowly, the sea of ​​terror rose, covering the sky and covering the sky, rolling over his chest.

Empress Kang Xian, the current Empress Dowager Xianzhao, the emperor's adoptive mother.The Prince Regent in the letter, if nothing else, is the Emperor's nominal cousin, who is also the Empress Dowager's pro-cousin.After the emperor came to power, the regent was imprisoned for the crime of forming a party for personal gain and enclosing people's land, and died of illness in prison within two years.

But at this moment, Lan Jiansu couldn't tell what he was frightened about.Was it because he was frightened that King Yi was actually the illegitimate son of the queen mother's cheating cousin, was he frightened that he had discovered the secret of losing his head, or was he frightened that King Yi and him had no blood relationship?

There were footsteps outside the house, and the guards of the mansion came to inspect the place.Lan Jiansu hurriedly folded the letter and hid it back, and blew out the lamp.However, the secret he discovered cannot be extinguished with this light.

When the emperor was in court, if he was not reviewing memorials in the north study, he would be eating melon seeds in the imperial garden to enjoy the scenery.His itinerary has rules to follow.

Beyond the plum grove in the imperial garden is Liuyin Pavilion, a place where the royal family watched operas and listened to music.Usually there is no performance, the actors will practice on stage.

These actors are all as beautiful as pearls, delicate and charming.The emperor has a hobby of looking at beauties, but he is more afraid of his wife.So on sunny days, he would stay in the Immortal Pavilion in the Imperial Garden, holding a plate of melon seeds, and watch the actors singing in Liuyin Pavilion from a distance, using the reason of "wanting to be alone in the Imperial Garden".

He doesn't come on cloudy days, because he feels that the light is not good on cloudy days, and Liuyin Pavilion looks like a big stage in the underworld.

The nobles who are not favored in the palace, the court ladies who want to fly on the branches and become phoenixes, occasionally ask eunuchs to buy the emperor's itinerary.After buying a lot, they also figured out the rules of the emperor's itinerary.

In order to meet the emperor by chance, they would lie in ambush in the imperial garden early.There are those who pretend to be singing here, those who are fishing, those who are about to fall into the river, and there are court ladies who stage an elaborate accidental scene.

So on sunny days, the Imperial Garden is always in danger.Either a nobleman who dances or sings, or a court lady who hides in the dark with a basin of water and wants to accidentally spill it on the rich and powerful, and start a story.

It happened to be a sunny day.King Yi led Lan Jiansu into the palace, and within two steps, the personal eunuch next to the queen mother came to them from afar.

The eunuch bowed down and greeted King Yi: "The queen mother knows that you are entering the palace, and ordered the servants to invite you to the Xingnian Palace."

King Yi frowned slightly, and nodded, "I know." Then he said to Lan Jiansu, "You go to the Royal Garden to see Brother Huang first, and I'll be there soon."

Lan Jiansu still remembered the road in the palace clearly.Walking into a lush bamboo path, he vaguely heard Yanyan murmuring beside his ears.

A court lady said: "The former second prince, is this water pouring on him?"

Another court lady said: "Useless, useless, save it."

"What if I become a county princess in the future."

"At least I have to get a concubine, I'd rather pour this water on the prince!"

Lan Jiansu said in his heart, "I'm so ambitious." After all, it's not easy to drink a bucket of water. It's a waste to splash him. It's sensible to save it from him.

A rush of footsteps gradually came from outside the Maozhu trail.Lan Jiansu heard a little eunuch yelling anxiously: "Prince, please slow down, it will be bad if you fall."

The eunuch was sweating from worry.The prince seemed to have never heard of it, and walked like the wind, with a hurried expression, while adjusting the jade leather belt on his waist, and straightening the soft veil on his head.Obviously a hasty trip.

Walking into the lush bamboo path, the prince paused hastily: "Lan Jiansu?"

Lan Jiansu nodded and said, "Coincidental."

"Are you here to see the royal father?"

"See you on the way."

The prince didn't speak anymore, looked at him a few times, and then rushed to the imperial garden.

Lan Jiansu naturally regarded him as air, and was about to continue walking into the garden.But this road is not wide, and it can even be said to be narrow.If one of the two wants to get ahead, the other has to lag behind.

The two have been fighting since childhood.Maybe Lan Jiansu didn't want to fight him in his heart, but his body had formed muscle memory, and his instinctive reaction was to fight him.

So one before the fight and one after the fight, they all got excited and stumbled.

Lan Jiansu stopped and turned to the prince: "There is another road over there, do you want to grab it from me?"

The prince was not convinced and said: "You are the one who wants to snatch it from me."

At this time, Lan Jiansu noticed the noise in the bamboo bushes, stepped back two steps vigilantly, and raised his hand: "Then I won't fight with you, you go first."

The prince is a little strange.Then he strode forward with a "hmph": "I am the crown prince and your elder brother, of course I should be the first."

The palace maid in the forest was so excited that Yanyan's voice turned into a duck quacking: "It's the prince! Throw him! Throw him!"

The prince just dropped the word "Xian", and triumphantly walked to the turning, a splash of cool air rushed towards his face, making him feel refreshed.

The prince stood still wetly.

The little eunuch yelled loudly: "Bold slave! How dare you pour water on our Crown Prince! What should we do?!"

The palace maid immediately swayed and fell out, stuck to the prince, wiped his face with a silk handkerchief, squeezed her voice and begged for forgiveness: "Your servant should die, my servant should die, my servant did not notice that His Royal Highness passed by and offended the prince. Convicted, please punish the prince!"

Lan Jiansu knew that it was not appropriate to laugh at this time.However, since he was a child, he loved watching the prince being unlucky, which also formed muscle memory.So he subconsciously: "Pfft."

The crown prince's eyebrows were twitching, and he kicked the maid away: "Get out."

Come to the royal garden.The emperor who was knocking melon seeds in Huixian Pavilion saw a drowned chicken and a strange smiling face coming.The plate of melon seeds in his hand could not help but smell strange.

"You two, what's the matter?"

The prince's face was pale and sick, and he said it immediately: "Just now, I was splashed with water by a court lady who didn't wink."

After hearing this, the emperor was extremely moved, with an expression of "son, you have suffered this for the emperor".

He picked up the buns on the table and waved to them kindly: "Stop standing there, are you hungry? Come and eat something."

The prince's eyes were all bright, and he said "Thank you, father", and went up to pick up the buns and gnawed them.

He coughed while eating the steamed stuffed bun, and ate while coughing.

Lan Jiansu couldn't understand the need to show weakness and eat, "Brother Prince, are you choking?"

The prince patted his chest: "Heart attack, heart attack."

Lan Jiansu was going to collect his plate of buns: "Don't eat if you have a heart attack."

The prince stood aside, covered the buns, and pointed to his head: "If you don't eat actively, there is something wrong with your brain."

Lan Jiansu whispered: "Seeing that you are very active in eating, it doesn't mean that you are fine."

The emperor asked Lan Jiansu to sit down as well, and watch Liuyin Pavilion performers rehearse together.

After warming up a cup of warm tea in his hand, Lan Jiansu heard the emperor ask, "Su Er, you made Shi Yougong plead guilty a few days ago, and I haven't rewarded you yet. What reward do you want?"

Lan Jiansu took a sip of tea, and said, "My son." Feeling wrong, he changed his words, "Weichen..." No, and changed his words again, "Little... grassroots..."

The emperor couldn't help laughing: "After all, I have been a father and son for more than ten years. There is no one else here, so there is no need to be restrained like this."

Lan Jiansu exhaled, let go of restraint: "Thank you."

The emperor was startled.

"The common sayings in the market are well learned."

Lan Jiansu said: "I didn't think about any reward, so the emperor suddenly asked me, I really can't say what reward I want."

The emperor let out a long "hmm", tapped his fingers on the table, and raised his eyes to look at him: "Do you want a wife?"

Lan Jiansu: "Huh?" Suddenly there was a sound of puffing, the prince propped his hands on the table, bent over and coughed sharply, his face turned pale as stone.

Lan Jiansu: "Heart attack?"

The prince raised his voice: "I'm choking this time..."

The little eunuch hurried up to pat the prince on the back and feed the prince water.

"Look at you, you don't look like a crown prince." The emperor scolded the prince a few words, and then said to Lan Jiansu, "Su Er, you have reached the age of marriage. A few days ago, I asked King Zhenxian if he would marry you for you." I plan to marry, but Zhen Xian Wang Dao's son is not yet married, so naturally he didn't consider you. Hmph, but you were born by me, so why do you need to care whether his son is married or not?

"Not long ago, the Baila Kingdom sent a princess to make a marriage. I think it looks good. If you are interested, I will marry you two."

Lan Jiansu thought that marrying him a wife was enough to surprise him, but he never expected that something even more surprising would lie in wait for him here.Feng Shui takes turns, and wives take turns?Going around and going around again, and there is no end in the end?

Hengpi: So terrifying.

But he didn't show this surprise, lest he couldn't show an expression that could deal with it when something that surprised him even more came out later.

Before Lan Jiansu could speak, the crown prince became anxious, threw the buns away, and stopped eating: "Isn't Princess Baila going to marry my son? Why did you let the second brother... let Jiansu..."

The emperor said: "You don't like her? You don't want to marry her?"

"Yes, but you can't let the second brother... Anyway, no."

"Hmph, what do you say?" the emperor knocked on the table with his fingers, "There is a majestic princess who has traveled thousands of miles to come here. You don't want her, and you won't let others want her. How can you save her face?"

The prince's eyes flicked left and right, and he raised a finger: "Ah, yes. For the third brother, the third brother loves to see beautiful women."

The emperor shouted: "Nonsense! How old is your third brother this year?"

The prince said: "Then why not marry her as a concubine! Father, you also like to see beautiful women!"

The emperor's face was shocked: "Ahem! Bold, how can you say such nonsense? Be careful to let your mother hear..."

The prince said, "Let's ask Er... Second Young Master what he means." He stared straight at Lan Jiansu, his eyes seemed to be filled with the "meaning" that Lan Jiansu had to say.