comeback [rebirth]

The scorching sun in the courtyard, Cen Yuan stared at the drooping head, but his tone was as cold as a winter ice cave: "Raise your head."

"Yes." Bi Ling replied, and then slowly raised her head, only her eyes drooped slightly, and landed on the ground.

Not to mention how amazing that face is, but it is two or three points more beautiful than ordinary girls.

Cen Yuan had also seen this face in his previous life, not many times, it was just a few times when he went to the palace to visit his mother and concubine, he only had a vague impression.And when Cen Yuan remembered her thoroughly, the beauty on this face no longer existed, leaving only the paleness that could complement the white silk wrapped around his neck.

——That was after Jiang Zhaoyi passed away.

In the previous life, Cen Yuan was assigned to go to Shu to be in charge of investigating the revitalization of Liumu Town after the plague many years ago.But when he returned to Chang'an from Shu, what he learned was that his mother concubine Jiang Zhaoyi began to suffer from tuberculosis symptoms shortly after he left, and was already seriously ill in bed at that time.And within a few days, she passed away suddenly.

At that time, the imperial physician claimed that the cause of death was not suspicious, so Emperor Ning did not ask people to investigate further, but Cen Yuan always felt that something was wrong - after all, Jiang Zhaoyi had always been in good health, so how could he suddenly contract tuberculosis?

Therefore, he investigated privately for more than a month, and finally pointed the finger at a maid in Jin'an Palace at that time.The palace lady has been in charge of Jiang Zhaoyi's diet since more than a month ago. She quietly added colorless and odorless chronic medicine into Jiang Zhaoyi's diet. In a short period of time, it can make people look like they died of a natural disease.

And that court lady is exactly this woman named "Bi Ling".

When Cen Yuan found out about this step, he took someone to arrest Bi Ling, who knew that the other party had already killed himself with a white silk.It's just that if this is really suicide, or if it is sealed, it can only be buried under the loess, tacitly.

Only after this did Cen Yuan understand that there are some things that can completely eliminate other people's grudges against him, just because he doesn't want to fight and pretends not to fight.

As long as the second prince survives for a day, as long as Jiang Zhaoyi, who is most favored by Emperor Ning, survives, he will be like a thorn in his throat, and will always be a thorn in those people's hearts.

Some time ago, when Cen Yuan entered the palace to visit Jiang Zhaoyi, he learned that there was a new batch of maids in Jin'an Palace, and there was no woman named "Bi Ling" among them. she.

She even became his maid of honor for these two days.

why?

Cen Yuan was wondering, and Bi Ling on the other side didn't dare to look up at the second prince, and didn't even dare to say a word, so he could only wait for instructions in silence.

Seeing that Cen Yuan's expression was not right, Lou Yuanbai asked, "Your Highness, what's wrong with you?"

Cen Yuan woke up like a dream: "It's okay."

Then he turned to Bi Ling, nonchalantly said: "It's nothing, you can go down."

Bi Ling said "yes" and quickly withdrew.

Watching the maid walk away until she disappeared behind the courtyard wall, Lou Yuanbai lowered his voice and asked, "Your Highness, what's wrong with this maid?"

"Hmm..." Cen Yuan pondered for a moment, "It's nothing, it's just that the palace servants who don't know him are awkward and took a second look."

Lou Yuanbai glanced at the palace lady's whereabouts again, but Cen Yuan yawned, waved his hands and said, "I'm sleepy, call me again when the time is almost up."

Lou Yuanbai didn't pay attention to the maid again, nodded and said: "Yes, Your Highness."

·

It was less than three minutes before Lou Yuanbai came to call for someone, but Cen Yuan woke up by himself.

He didn't sleep well during this short sleep, and his consciousness was very clear after he closed his eyes. The emaciated appearance of his mother and concubine in his previous life when he died, and Bi Ling's pale face when he hanged himself, flashed before his eyes.

He was thirsty, but he didn't dare to touch the water here, so he had to endure it.

At this moment, someone knocked on the door suddenly, and a female voice called out, "Second Highness."

Cen Yuan glanced in the direction of the door, did not respond, packed his things in a leisurely manner, and then walked to the door, and when he opened the door, he saw Bi Ling waiting outside.

"What's the matter?" He said coldly without too much turmoil in his tone.

"Slave..." Bi Ling looked up at him, then lowered her head immediately, "Slave just wanted to ask if you need to prepare sober tea for emergencies."

Drinking at dinner parties is unavoidable, and Cen Yuan downed a drink without saying anything, but it can't be said that it will be any better.Usually, when banquets are held in the palace, he will indeed ask the servants in the mansion to prepare hangover tea, which can be used as soon as they return to the mansion.

But at this time, he said: "No need."

Hearing this, Bi Ling opened her mouth as if to say something more, but Cen Yuan cut her off straight away: "Back off."

Bi Ling couldn't say anything more, so she obediently retreated after responding.

There is not much time left before the official start of the hunt, but Cen Yuan still packs his things slowly, as if the next thing has nothing to do with him.

But in fact, he didn't have his own horse, nor did he have a bow he was used to. At this time, he was light and simple, and only took an unopened folding fan.

And when he finally stepped out of the side door of the side hall, he met an unexpected person.

"Why are you here?"

Yan Xuan was wearing a light gown with dark blue and gold pattern narrow sleeves, holding his horse with one hand, waiting outside alone, looking in the direction of the side door without turning his eyes.

He said, "Wait for you."

Cen Yuan thought to himself: You can tell by looking at you like this, why should I bother to ask...

But then he asked again: "Why are you waiting for me?"

Yan Xuan replied, "I heard you haven't left yet."

"..." Cen Yuan said again: "Then why don't you wait at the main entrance?"

This time Yan Xuan didn't answer immediately, but lowered his eyes and thought for a while, Fang said: "You are used to going sideways."

"Fine……"

Cen Yuan turned his eyes away, and suddenly slandered: such a waste of life conversation, thanks to Yan Xuan who can go on with him sentence by sentence.

Thinking of this, he lowered his head and chuckled, feeling that the gloom brought about by the nightmare just now had been swept away.He shook off the folding fan, and the breeze from the fan almost made his eyes shine.

"Let's go." Cen Yuan said, "It's time for the emperor to talk later."

"Okay." Yan Xuan responded, leading the horse and following Cen Yuan.Suddenly, he turned his head and looked in the direction of the side door, and saw a figure standing at the door.

The figure spotted him, and immediately flashed into the side hall.

Yan Xuan seemed to think of something, his long eyebrows were slightly frowned, and he looked away.

·

The palace is actually not far from the White Deer Forest, and when they arrived in front of the White Deer Forest, they had just arrived at Shenshi.

Emperor Ning was sitting on the high platform, talking with the Fifth Prince below the stage.

"Old fifth, you performed well last time in the spring search, and you will also give me a good hunt today."

The fifth prince's entire expression seemed to be filled with light: "I will not disgrace my father's expectations!"

Emperor Ning laughed twice, turned his head and said to Duan Zhaoyi, the fifth prince's biological mother: "Sometimes I really feel that the fifth child is different from you, he is full of blood. Just looking at it like this makes me want to go Bring a horse yourself, and go hunting with them."

Duan Zhaoyi is gentle and quiet, and the most common thing to do on weekdays is to recite scriptures in the Buddhist hall, and one recitation lasts a whole day.

She lowered her head and said slowly: "You made His Majesty laugh. Cen Yi, your Majesty is really flattering him when he says he is young. In the eyes of my concubine, he should be reckless."

"It's not a bad thing to be reckless." Emperor Ning smiled, "If you hit a lot, you will naturally understand the correct speed when your head is broken."

After finishing speaking, he glanced over and saw Cen Yuan and Yan Xuan rushing over.

"Second brother, Yan Qing." Emperor Ning turned and shouted, "What time is it?"

Cen Yuan lifted his robe and knelt down to salute: "My son fell asleep and forgot the time, and I hope that the emperor will forgive me."

"That's all." Emperor Ning waved his hand and turned his gaze to Yan Xuan, "Yan Qing, are you sleepy too?"

"Chen——" Yan Xuan knelt beside Cen Yuan, and was about to explain, but was immediately interrupted by Cen Yuan: "Going back to my father, I was worried that I would forget the time before going to bed, and I happened to meet General Yan Shao, so let him go I called out to my son-in-law, but when I woke up, my son-in-law stayed in bed, which wasted the time, so please don't blame him."

Emperor Ning supported his knees with one hand, and narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at the two of them: "Did I say that I want to blame him? Are you so eager to take responsibility?"

Cen Yuan crouched down and said, "Father Huang Shengming."

Emperor Ning waved helplessly: "Okay, stop kneeling, I don't want to come out to hunt and listen to these flattering words."

After both of them stood up, Emperor Ning said again: "Second brother, your hunting results in the past few years have not been satisfactory. I still remember that you were the first in every hunting back then. Why did your level suddenly plummet? gone."

"Return to father." Cen Yuan bowed, "I think that it's not because my level has declined, but because General Yan Shao is superior. Every time I let him take away the crown, I can only bow down. "

"Belittle yourself." Emperor Ning pointed at him and said, "Don't think I'm an idiot, you two were evenly matched before."

Cen Yuan smiled: "That was also before, the young general has accumulated so much experience from actual combat, it has long been beyond my son's ability to catch up."

These words seemed to convince Emperor Ning, he snorted, his eyes turned twice between Yan Xuan and Cen Yuan, and finally said: "Then don't talk nonsense here, let me see what your real strength is."

Cen Yuan said: "My son will definitely go all out."

...that's weird.

The time has come, and Emperor Ning stopped talking after exchanging these two sentences, and let the people participating in the hunt lead their horses and bows.

Cen Yuan randomly picked a horse that looked more pleasing to the eye, took a bow casually, pulled it apart and pretended to try it twice.

Lou Yuanbai followed Cen Yuan, and said softly when the other party tried the bow: "Why did Your Highness protect the Major General?"

Cen Yuan's hand paused, and it landed on Yan Xuan who was not far away.

He said: "Originally he was late because he was waiting for me, so it's understandable for me to say that."

Lou Yuanbai said: "Your Majesty seems to have never mentioned the marriage between His Highness and the Major General in the past few days. Isn't Your Highness afraid that this will cause His Majesty to misunderstand something?"

Cen Yuan held the rein and didn't speak for a while, running his hand along the horse's fur.After a long while, he said: "If you misunderstand, then misunderstand. If I am the reason for arriving late, then the emperor will pass by after saying a few words to me, and I hope he can kick me back to the side hall from the hunting ground. But If it's Yan Xuan, I'm not sure, let alone..."

What's more, even if the punishment is only disqualification from this hunting, that is something Cen Yuan doesn't want to see.

His little general is more suitable for riding horses between heaven and earth than sitting in the middle of the officials and being a puppet.

He chuckled lightly, didn't continue, and got on his horse.

"Okay, there's a lot of gossip again." Cen Yuan said, "You can play here by yourself."

Lou Yuanbai: "..."

Not long after Cen Yuan finished speaking, soldiers on the other side started beating drums.

After ten heavy drum beats, a horn sounded, and a man shouted in a high-pitched voice: "The hunt begins—"

In the blink of an eye, the sound of horseshoes splashed loudly, dust flew up, and young men from all walks of life rode their horses with their bows on their backs, and disappeared into the lush forest one by one under the orange sun.

Cen Yuan rode his horse for a certain distance, guessing that he could no longer be seen from the outside, so he pulled the rein and let the horse stroll leisurely.

After he entered the White Deer Forest, he ran towards the edge, where the prey was usually scarce, and few people would go this way, so as a matter of course, there was only the rustling of horseshoes on the leaves for a while.

However, at this moment, Cen Yuan heard a sound of leaves behind him that was different from his own horse's dismounting.

He looked back, suddenly stunned.

"Why did you follow?" He said to Yan Xuan.