The loyal minister was forced to marry the traitor

Bai Yan wrapped himself up tightly, Xiao Jiuqin stretched out his hand to remove the quilt, he rolled it up and down, and directly wrapped himself into spring rolls.

Xiao Jiuqin: "..."

He poked weakly at the quilt, "It's so tightly covered, isn't it uncomfortable?"

"Well, it's okay." Xiao Jiuqin laughed when he spoke in a low voice, "Okay, I won't force you anymore, just don't say anything if you don't want to."

He thought, there will be a day when you are willing to speak.

In fact, Xiao Jiuqin also has hidden worries. The two of them are now separated by a layer of window paper, without tearing fashion and maintaining harmony on the surface. Once those old bad debts are turned over, they may throw knives at each other.

Xiao Jiuqin sighed, and he couldn't tell whether he was expecting more or more disappointed.

As soon as he let go, Bai Yan silently struggled out of the quilt and took a deep breath first.

Xiao Jiuqin pinched his nose, "Are you willing to come out?"

"Don't pinch it." Bai Yan slapped his hand off angrily, and urged him to leave, "You always stay at my house, it's not good to be seen by others."

"You and I didn't do anything against the law," Xiao Jiuqin looked at him and wanted to tease him.

"Then you stay here, I'll go out." Bai Yan covered Xiao Jiuqin's head with the quilt, and quickly put on his shoes and socks and went out. Xiao Jiuqin laughed as he looked at his back, who was almost running away.

It wasn't until he walked outside that Bai Yan leaned his back against the wall, that he almost couldn't hold back the words.

Covering his head with the quilt was not to avoid Xiao Jiuqin's questioning, but the unnatural moment on his face.

As much as he knew Xiao Jiuqin, Xiao Jiuqin knew him as well. With just one glance, Xiao Jiuqin could clean up all his cover-ups.

Bai Yan let out a mouthful of stale air, quietly waiting for the congestion on his chest to dissipate.

When he suppressed all his emotions and went out again, Xiao Jiuqin had already left.Yue Xi held a porcelain bottle in his hand, "Master, this is left to you by Lord Xiao Hou. He said that he might leave Yingdu for a while, and he wants you to pay attention to your injuries."

"Leaving Yingdu?" Bai Yan frowned, "What else did he say?"

"There is nothing else."

"Then how did he look when he left?"

"It's just like usual. I even bumped into the Second Young Master, touched his head, and told him to listen carefully to what your lord has to say."

Said, Bai Qi came in from the outside with a book in his arms, Bai Yan called the little guy over, and took him in to continue practicing calligraphy, Yue Xi saw that Bai Yan's expression didn't change, and didn't care, and went about his own business.

When Bai Yan walked to the steps, he couldn't help but look back.

Bai Qi looked up, "Brother, what's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing..." Bai Yan shook his head, "Practice your handwriting today, and continue to go to the private school tomorrow. I heard from Yue Xi that the children who are with you always ask you, and staying in the mansion will waste your studies. "

"Oh..." Bai Qi looked a little reluctant, and Bai Yan gently rubbed his head, "I only went to Yongzhou Mansion once, and I shouldn't leave for so long after that, but you, with me Don't you feel bored staying together?"

"It's not annoying." Bai Qi stared at Bai Yan seriously, "Staying with my brother is very comfortable."

The child's attachment to him seemed incomprehensible to Bai Yan.

He thinks he is not a good person, and bringing Bai Qi back to the mansion is just a physical injury. When he was young, he and Xiao Jiuqin were the youngest two in the Marquis of Pingjin. When they were together, they were reluctant to stick to the two elder brothers.

On the contrary, the two of them dislike each other and are inseparable. They always seem to be stuck together, and they don't want to talk to cousins ​​from the concubine family. Because of this, Xiao Jiuqin was even scolded pause.

With Xiao Jiuqin's bad temper, he could be more docile towards Bai Yan. He was reprimanded by the Marquis of Pingjin, and when he turned around, he would scold his cousins.

Since then, when the young masters and ladies of the concubine family saw the two of them again, they ran faster than rabbits. For many years, Bai Qi was the first one besides Xiao Jiuqin who liked to cling to him.

Probably because Bai Qi would not be too naughty if he was clingy, Bai Yan was not impatient, so he took the brush from the child's hand and took him outside to breathe.

Bai Yan stayed with Bai Qi all day, and at dusk Huai Chun's cronies drove a carriage to look for him.

Having expected it from the beginning, Bai Yan didn't ask any questions, just put on a big cloak and went.

The very powerful Eunuch Huaichun had a house outside the palace, which was awarded by the emperor, together with a dozen maids and eunuchs, and two or three hot spring villages.

The house is not small, it's just a little remote, but compared to Bai Yan's "poor" small house, it's more than a star and a half better.

Bai Yan had been here many times, and found Huaichun's courtyard with ease. The maids who served him all went down. As soon as he stepped into the main courtyard, he saw the "powerful" eunuch with palm prints squatting in the field... digging carrots.

"You're very interested." Bai Yan walked over, casually picked a pear from the tree and shook it in his hand.

Bai Yan had no envy for Huaichun's house, the only thing he envied was his garden.

Others like to plant some precious flowers in the yard, but Huai Chun likes to grow some fruits and vegetables, and from time to time he goes in to weed and catch insects.In particular, there are two fruit trees, which have been carefully cultivated and the juice is very sweet.

"My heart has been unable to calm down, so I came here to stay for a while. I can't talk about whether I am interested or not." Huai Chun got up and cleaned his hands, and changed into a single shirt. Bai Yan looked at him, "I was disturbed by a certain Highness. heart?"

Huai Chun said nothing.

Bai Yan sat down at the stone table familiarly, took a clean handkerchief and carefully wiped the pears, "You didn't ask me to come here today to watch you dig radishes, did you? Xiao Jiuqin's people have already sent you a message. Tell me, what are your plans?"

Huai Chun sat down after him, poured himself a cup of tea and drank it all, "I have already checked, Concubine Feng is indeed pregnant."

He stroked the rim of his cup, "Concubine Feng had an affair with a guard. That man had no background, and he must have been bewitched by Concubine Feng. When I checked today, the other party had committed suicide in the squad room."

"Did you kill yourself?" Bai Yan sneered, "I'm afraid I was warned."

He didn't think the guard was pitiful, he had made his own decision, and he knew that such a day would come.

"Concubine Feng wanted to bribe the imperial physician, but my people disturbed her. She was probably jumping up and down in panic now. I was too lazy to mediate with her, so I took the opportunity to come out."

"I've always been curious about one thing." Bai Yan took a bite of a pear and chewed it slowly.

"what?"

"Concubine Feng knew that the child was confusing the royal family's blood. Why did she keep him? There is no impenetrable wall in the world. Once the emperor finds out, how can she end well?"

"Wei Chengfeng can't count on it anymore, Concubine Feng will not follow him to fief the land." Huai Chun had something in his words.

Bai Yan instantly understood, "She wants to use this child to stay in the palace?"

"Yes." Huai Chun had been immersed in the palace for several years, he was used to the dirt, and there were many such as Concubine Feng, in their hearts, a child was no match for a position of power.

"But now that we have found out, she will definitely get rid of this child," Bai Yan recalled what he had told Xiao Jiuqin before, "I originally wanted to..."

"Since she's pregnant with this child, it's not up to her to decide." A sternness flashed in Huai Chun's eyes, "I've already asked someone to watch, and the child will be fine for the time being."

Huai Chun had already thought of what Bai Yan was thinking, "Cheng... His Highness the Second Highness and his party were assassinated. This matter has not been investigated yet. I always feel that it has something to do with Wei Chengfeng. Now it is not good for him to leave Yingdu in a hurry, so I simply sent him to the capital first." Their mother and son were detained."

"You and Second Highness..." Bai Yan was a little worried.

"He and I have been in the relationship of master and slave from beginning to end." As soon as Huai Chun spoke, Bai Yan couldn't help but look at him.

If it was someone else, he would naturally not meddle in other people's business, but Huai Chun, who wanted to come back from Wei Chengdan, has been in a bad state.

"In the past few years, he often sent people to inquire about you, but he didn't let you go," Bai Yan said after holding back for a long time.

He intends to comfort Huai Chun, but even he and Xiao Jiuqin are in a bad debt, how could he have the face to teach Huai Chun how to do it.

Thinking about it this way, he let out a long sigh, "Thinking about you and me, we are either advancing or retreating or..."

He and Xiao Jiuqin, Huai Chun and Wei Chengdan couldn't tell for a while which of the two was more difficult.

"Haven't you talked to Xiao Jiuqin yet?" Huai Chun poured him a cup of tea, "It wasn't your fault back then. To be honest, even you were a victim. It would be too much for him to make things difficult for you on purpose. Excessive."

"I..." Bai Yan almost frowned, "He didn't make things difficult for me, it's just that 'I don't know where to start,'" he unconsciously stirred his fingers, "Those things get mixed up, if you want to How to explain?"

It's not that Bai Yan never thought about confessing, but there are many things that even he himself doesn't know how to tell.

"At least it wasn't because of you that the Pingjin Hou Mansion had an accident." Huai Chun stared at Bai Yan, "Or, you still think that it was because of you that his family was ruined?"

In a word, Bai Yan was completely stunned.

As expected of Huai Chun, there is no need to repeat a lot, just one sentence will let him break the defense.

"Back then, I was the one who got the news first, but..." Bai Yan clenched his fists tightly, "Obviously I could have sent the news to Uncle Xiao a moment earlier, but..."

"I can't blame you." Huai Chun pressed Bai Yan's trembling arm, "You didn't know that the news was so important, and at that time, there was no way to criticize your choice, but...it just happened to be so coincidental."

Huai Chun couldn't help sighing, "I've told myself countless times that I shouldn't trust my fate, but Bai Yan...sometimes, I have to trust my fate. You are like this, I am like this, and the Pingjin Houfu is like this."

"Everyone is innocent, but the one who is guilty is God, who just wants to force those who don't believe in fate to believe in fate."

Bai Yan's eyes were red, "I regretted it..." He suddenly looked up at Huai Chun, "You know, countless times I dreamed of Uncle Xiao, and everyone in Pingjin Houfu, they asked me why I was here Then turn around and go back."

"I regret it, I regretted it when I saw the fire, but..." It was too late to say regret.

The veins on the back of Bai Yan's hand bulged, and Huai Chun grabbed his hand, "They definitely don't blame you."

"I'd rather be the one who died." Bai Yan's lips trembled, "Xiao Jiuqin cares so much about his parents and likes his two elder brothers, but I..."

Every time Bai Yan uttered a word, Huai Chun held him tighter. The person in front of him had accumulated all the guilt in his heart, which seemed to fade away, but in fact it fermented even more violently, just waiting for the day when he would be forced to Crazy.