forced into marriage

After finishing speaking, he left the main hall and went to look for Lin Xi.

In the entire main hall, there are only Yongning Hou and his wife.

The two stood up together, Lin Yanzong took Wen Rong's hand, and wiped the sweat off her palms with his sleeve: "It's okay, His Highness has promised, and will definitely do it."

"Judging from His Highness's words and the attitude of being hired a month ago, I know that His Highness will definitely protect Xi'er, but with Xi'er's character, besides the people in the house who can rely on him, who else can he rely on outside, not to mention Still in His Highness's mansion, if he annoys His Highness..."

Wen Rong didn't continue, she sighed lightly, she hoped that her worries were unnecessary.

-

Lin Yun's side.

"My brother really likes to play everywhere. If he sees it and blames his brother, then what should he do?"

After listening to Lin Xi's story, although she found it funny, she was also worried. Lin Xi's character...would cause trouble.

"Don't worry, he saw it the second day after he came back, but he didn't blame me, he just let me clean it myself."

This is true, and he is still happy.

"That's good. If he really blames it and something happens to my brother, what should my parents and I do?"

As she spoke, tears rolled down Lin Yun's eyes, she lowered her head, not looking at Lin Xi.

Seeing that she seemed to be crying, Lin Xi immediately got up, squatted in front of her, wiped her tears with his hand, and comforted her with a smile: "Okay, I think I'm a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, why do you still love her so much?" Cry, promise brother not to cry, okay?"

Just as Lin Yun was about to wipe away her tears, she heard Xia Qing's surprised voice outside the door.

"Who are you and why are you at the door of my lady's room?"

Ben was waiting outside the door for Lin Xi to finish speaking before he knocked on the door, but he didn't want to be disturbed by this girl.

Chu Yu wanted to stare at her, but just as he turned his head, he heard Lin Xi calling his name.

"Chu Yu"

He turned to him with a smile: "The princess is calling me the king."

As soon as Lin Yun saw someone coming, she immediately wiped away her tears, helped Lin Xi up, heard that the man called himself the king, guessed that it was Ning Wang Chu Yu, and saluted.

Chu Yu also responded politely.

Seeing him pretending to be stupid, Lin Xi asked, "Why are you here?"

"I'm here to look for you, princess." Chu Yu replied truthfully, and he looked at Lin Yun again, "Can I come in?"

"Please come in."

Seeing that Lin Yun agreed, Chu Yu entered the room.

But as soon as he took a step forward, Lin Xi pulled him out. Lin Xi asked Xia Qing to bring in the food, and at the same time told Lin Yun: "Yun'er, brother is leaving first, you eat slowly, remember not to take your body away." Just kidding, after a while, I will come back and check."

After saying that, Lin Xi dragged Chu Yu out of Lin Yun's courtyard and into his own courtyard.

As soon as he entered his courtyard, he sent Chu Yu away, turned around, and asked, "You can enter women's boudoir at will!"

Chu Yu was wronged, he asked clearly, Lin Yun also agreed, Lin Xi also asked him: "She agreed."

"She agrees, you can come in! I haven't agreed yet!"

Now the more Lin Xi thinks about it, the more angry he becomes. How can there be such a person who enters a woman's boudoir at will and is so confident.

Hearing this, Chu Yu still didn't know what to do. Before, he felt that it was reasonable and unreasonable, but now he felt a little helpless.

He wanted to tease Lin Xi again, so he approached Lin Xi: "The princess is jealous."

He leaned close to Lin Xi's ear, breathing out in Lin Xi's ear one after another, Lin Xi's body trembled, he quickly backed away, and said angrily, "I'm not your princess, and I'm not jealous either!"

"It's not my king's concubine, and I'm not jealous, so why are you blushing?"

Hearing what Chu Yu said, Lin Xi touched his face and it was really hot: "I'm so angry with you!"

"Forget it, I'm too lazy to tell you." He didn't want to tell Chu Yu any more, so he went to sit on the swing.

This swing was built together with the swing in Lin Yun's yard six years ago. It was a birthday present from Lin Xi to Lin Yun.

Seeing him running away, Chu Yu stood up straight, shrugged, smiled and admired the layout in Lin Xi's courtyard.

When you first enter the courtyard, there are two crabapple trees on both sides. The swing is built under the tree on the right, and there is a small pavilion next to it. Looking inside, a fish pond separates the two sides, and a bridge is built in the middle.

He walked to the fish pond, took a look at the fish in the pond, and then went to the small pavilion and sat down.

"The style in this courtyard is not like yours."

Lin Xi didn't look at him. He looked at the scene in the courtyard and replied, "It's not my style. I just saw a gentleman's courtyard like this, so I built it like this."

"Mr." Chu Yu looked at his profile.

Lin Xi didn't swing anymore, his legs were crossed, and he didn't see him, and told Chu Yu about himself and his husband.

……

"It's because of you. If it weren't for you, I would definitely be beside Mr. to help him grind ink now."

He turned his head and looked at Chu Yu, and Chu Yu was now holding his face with one hand, listening to him seriously, his face did not change, and he said calmly: "You would rather be a book boy by that person's side, I also don’t want to be the king’s concubine.”

"Can it be the same!" Lin Xi didn't even bother to talk to this unreasonable person, and turned his head away from him.

Seeing that he stopped looking at him, Chu Yu said, "I'll go home after dinner."

He knew that Lin Xi would be anxious when he heard this, and as expected, Lin Xi put down his legs, stood up, and walked in front of him.

"why"

"I have regulations against the law." He replied calmly.

"But I don't want to go back..." Before he could say the word 'go', seeing Chu Yu's expression was wrong, he immediately changed his words, "I don't want to part with my parents and sister."

Chu Yu knew what he was thinking, but what could be done, not to mention that he had broken Beiqi's law several times, and this time was not bad: "Forget it, I have broken it several times, and it's not bad. Once, let’s go back tomorrow.”

"Really..." Lin Xi didn't quite believe him yet.

"Then go home today"

Lin Xi shook his head quickly, and patted Chu Yu's shoulder happily: "No, no, no! Tomorrow!"

Chu Yu turned his head to look at Lin Xi's hand on his shoulder, and then at Lin Xi.

"Sorry!" Lin Xi finally realized that his behavior was not right, and he was afraid that Chu Yu would be angry, so he found a reason to leave his yard, "I'll go and see Yun'er!"

At dinner, Lin Xi brought Lin Yun out for dinner, and Chu Yu was there too.

Wen Rong said: "The wing room has been packed for His Highness."

Chu Yu put down the bowl and chopsticks, and looked at Lin Xi: "It's fine for the king to live with the princess."

This sudden roll call made Lin Xi almost choke. After taking a look at everyone, he quickly put down the bowls and chopsticks and ran back to his yard.

"Where are you going?" Lin Yanzong saw him running away.

Seeing Lin Xi leave, a moment later, Chu Yu also left the table and went to Lin Xi's courtyard.

As soon as he stepped into the courtyard, he saw Lin Xi's shadow reflected by the lights in his room, tidying up on both sides.

Chu Yu stepped up to the door of the room, without knocking, just pushed the door open and entered.

Upon hearing this, Lin Xi raised his eyes and saw that it was Chu Yu, so he immediately put down the quilt, got up and sat on the bed, clutching the quilt: "The bed is mine, you sleep on the floor!"

This territorial consciousness is quite strong, as soon as he hears any movement, he immediately occupies the bed.

Chu Yu closed the door, walked straight to Lin Xi's bed and sat down.

"What are you doing! That's yours, and this is mine!" He pointed to the unfinished quilt on the floor.

"Does the princess have the heart to let me sleep on the floor? It's so cold here." Chu Yu sold himself out in front of him.

Lin Xi didn't care, pushed him out of the bed, lay down immediately, and put out big characters: "Whether it's cold or not, the bed is mine anyway!"

Pushed like this, Chu Yu almost fell down, adjusted her clothes, turned around and looked at Lin Xi at this time, just smiled.

After a while, Lin Xi slept on his own bed, but Chu Yu could only sleep on the floor.

Lin Xi turned his back to the outside, feeling that the atmosphere is very strange now, and wanted to find some topics to relax.

"Chu Yu," he said.

"What?" Chu Yu closed his eyes.

Lin Xi hesitated for a while, and then said, "Why aren't you angry when they say that about you today?"

"I'm afraid that's not what you're asking."

He opened his eyes and looked at the roof, Lin Xi also turned around and looked at him, and the two happened to meet.

"Well, they said you killed your father and seized the throne. I don't think you are that kind of person."

Hearing that Lin Xi believed him so much, he started to laugh at Lin Xi: "You have only met me for a few days, and you think you know me, trust me so much, what if I am as they say?"

"I still don't think you're that kind of person."

Chu Yu just smiled, and he didn't know if he was laughing at Lin Xi's innocence, or at himself.

He also opened his mouth to find a topic: "Then why don't you like those people?"

"It's not that I don't like them, it's just that I don't like other people talking nonsense without factual basis." Lin Xi lay down flat and looked at the top of the bed, "Let me tell you a few stories."

Chu Yu didn't refuse either.

Half an hour later, Chu Yu didn't hear the slightest sound, and turned to look, only to find that Lin Xi had already fallen asleep.

Seeing that Lin Xi was really sleeping... and the quilt was not covered properly, she got up and helped him cover the quilt that was pressed again.

"He said he was telling a story for me, but he fell asleep without telling much. If you let your guard down like this, if you leave Yongning Hou, leave me... Prince Ning's Mansion, then what should you do?"

The next morning.

Lin Xi sat up, stretched, opened his eyes and saw that the quilt on the ground was gone, he thought it was late, and Chu Yu must have gone to eat, so he called Xiao Ran in: "Xiao Ran!"

Xiao Ran, who was waiting outside the door, heard Lin Xi calling him, and immediately opened the door and came in: "Master, why did you get up so early today, it's not time for breakfast yet."

"It's not time for breakfast yet." Lin Xi woke up so early for the first time, "What about Chu Yu, where did he go?"

"Your Highness said that he is going to the palace today to face the saint, and when he comes back, he will pick up the young master."

Lin Xi's point was that Chu Yu didn't look here today.

He got up quickly: "Clean up quickly, after breakfast, we'll go find Mr."

After breakfast, Xiao Ran prepared the carriage and went out of the city gate with Lin Xi.

Two hours later, they stopped at the door of a thatched bamboo house. As soon as the carriage stopped, Lin Xi hurriedly got out of the carriage and rushed into the courtyard with a happy face: "Sir! Sir, I'm back!"

He yelled several times in the courtyard, but there was no response. He thought that the husband was in the house, so he jumped into the house, but he didn't see anyone, and there was no one in the back room. When he thought that the husband was just going out, he turned around and took a look. , there is a letter on the table.

He walked over, picked up the letter, opened it to read, the ink was still wet, and he saw written on the paper: This is the fate between you and me, take care.

Just these few words made Lin Xi want to tear up the letter, but he couldn't, it was the last thing his husband gave him.

Lin Xi was still very angry. He rushed into the courtyard, yelled towards the air, and the surrounding trees: "Lin Yu! You knew I was coming, so why did you leave! I don't believe in the fate! Lin Yu! You wait! , I will definitely find you!"

Two people stood on the side branches of a big tree outside the house.

Those two were exactly the gentleman and his bodyguard that Lin Xi was talking about, and they happened to be Chu Yu and Su Qing.

"Why didn't you tell him directly that you are the sir?" Su Qing was puzzled as to what his master wanted to do.

"When the time comes, he will naturally know."

He just glanced at Lin Xi who was squatting in the courtyard of the thatched bamboo house, and then left. There was not much expression on his face, and his eyes were deliberately hidden.

No one spoke to Xiao Ran from the beginning to the end, but just told him to calm down. When he calmed down and his emotions were not so strong, he helped him into the carriage, and they drove back.

-

Inside the palace study

Emperor Chu Yi was playing chess by himself, looking out the door from time to time as he played, as if he was waiting for someone.

"Brother Huang, isn't it boring to play chess alone?"

Finally the person he was looking for came.

Chu Yu walked in quickly and saluted Chu Yi.

"Sit down quickly and play chess with me." Chu Yi hurriedly lifted him up, and pulled him to sit down opposite him.

So the two started to play chess, and after playing half a stick of incense, Chu Yi said, "Brother Huang has something to ask younger brother."

"Ah."

"Why does the emperor insist on letting me issue a marriage order?"

Chu Yu didn't answer his question, but just reminded him that if he didn't play chess carefully, he would lose.

Chu Yi still didn't give up, and asked: "Then why do you have to marry that person?"

Holding the chess piece in his hand, Chu Yu raised his eyes and answered with a smile, "Brother Huang's question is like asking you why the Queen's seat is always vacant."

It just so happened that as soon as he finished speaking, the game fell, and he won this game again.

"You won again."

"If Brother Huang is not distracted, Brother Huang may win this round."

Chu Yi looked at Chu Yu, looked up and down: "Look at you like this, but what's on your mind?"

"The younger brother is thinking, what should the younger brother do if he meddles in the court affairs?"

"If there is such a day, I believe you, you will have your own choice."

Chu Yu got up and was about to leave. After walking a few steps, he caught a glimpse of Qin on the left. Without turning his head, he turned his back to Chu Yu and said with a smile, "If Brother Huang had made it clear to that person back then, I'm afraid my brother will It's just number two."

After saying that, he walked away again.

Seeing him leaving, Chu Yi also got up, went to the qin, sat down, stroked the strings, with complicated emotions in his eyes, tears fell on the qin, and laughed at himself: "Am I the most useless emperor?" , I can't even bury you in the imperial mausoleum."

He started to ask Chu Yu again: "Now I hope Yu'er won't learn from me, a useless imperial brother."

-

Yongning Houfu

Since Lin Xi came back here, he has kept himself locked in the room, unable to come out.

Lin Yun understood the situation through Xiao Ran, so she wanted to go in to persuade him, but Lin Xi refused.

He didn't come out until Chu Yu came to pick him up. This time he didn't quarrel with Chu Yu, and obediently followed Chu Yu into the carriage. Lin Xi kept leaning against the wall of the carriage after getting into the carriage, feeling depressed, and his face was pale. Well, Chu Yu didn't say anything, just kept looking at him like this.

After the carriage arrived, Lin Xi fell asleep early. Chu Yu was afraid that Lin Xi would knock his head on the way, so he sat down and leaned his head on his shoulder. Chu Yu didn't wake him up, and carefully hugged him horizontally. Take him out of the car.

Xiao Ran wanted to wake Lin Xi up, but was frightened by Chu Yu's look and shut up.