The shadow of the country

A few days later, the emperor returned to the palace from Shanglin Garden with a group of horsemen.After the hunting ground incident, the emperor actually started to care about Yilan.The last time Yilan was successful in rescuing Jia, the emperor had to admit Yilan's loyalty and filial piety.For so many years, he has been ignoring the existence of such a son.

That afternoon, the emperor summoned Yilan to play games in Weiyang Palace.In fact, Yi Lan's chess skills are far superior to that of his father, but he knows that his father is a king, so every time he quietly lets his father have a son and a son.But it is often much more difficult to lose chess without a trace than to win chess, and every time Yilan can do this, even the emperor can't see that he is deliberately giving in.

This time, when Yi Lan returned, it was already late at night.While walking in the corridor of the palace, I saw two black figures looming in front of me.

"Who's in front?" Yi Lan walked forward quickly.

The two turned around and saw that it was Yilan, they knelt together and said: "I have seen the fifth prince." Yilan saw that there were two guards, one of them was actually Mu Yan.

Mu Yan's whole body was drenched, and he was shivering in the night wind. His long black hair was loosely draped over his shoulders, dripping with water.His eyes were lowered, unable to see his expression clearly.

Seeing that he was still kneeling, Yi Lan bent down to help him up.But just when he touched his wrist, Mu Yan shrank slightly, and let out a muffled sound in pain, Yi Lan realized that his wrist was actually injured.

After helping Mu Yan up, he gently rolled up his wet cuffs, only to see that Mu Yan's wrist was blushing, as if burnt.Yilan didn't know what happened, but she didn't say much.Just as he was about to help Mu Yan into the hall, he saw another guard still kneeling, so he ordered him to get up.

"Thank you, Fifth Prince." The guard stood up, looking very refined, but his whole body was soaked.

Yi Lan saw that this person looked familiar, so she asked, "What's your name?"

"My subordinate's name is Wen Cheng, and he is the guard outside the Fifth Prince's Palace." The guard raised his head, his eyes were full of clarity.

Yi Lan nodded, "Go back, leave this place to me."

"Yes." Wen Cheng looked at Mu Yan with some concern, but didn't say much, and bowed back.

Yi Lan took off her cloak at this time, put it on Mu Yan, and helped him into the hall together.When Yi Lan first entered the palace gate, she ordered the maids standing on both sides to prepare ginger soup and another set of clean clothes before helping Mu Yan to sit down.

In Lanling Hall, Mu Yan no longer shivered, but it still felt uncomfortable to have wet clothes sticking to his skin.At this time, a maid of honor had brought a set of clean clothes, and she stepped back.

Yi Lan handed him the set of clothes, and said, "Change out the wet clothes." Seeing that Mu Yan had already taken the clothes, but did not move, she continued, "Why? Even men are shy?"

"No, it's not." Mu Yan's face flushed, and he lowered his head to unbutton his shirt.It wasn't until Mu Yan took off her wet clothes that Yi Lan realized that Mu Yan was actually so good-looking—delicate and fair skin, graceful lines and curves on her arms, delicate and soft collarbones...

Yi Lan lowered her head to avoid her eyes, took the small bottle of golden sore medicine and applied it to his wrist injury, asking him, "What happened today? Why did you make it like this?"

Mu Yan's long hair brushed over his eyebrows and drooped, and a few strands fell on his shoulders.I wanted to speak, but stopped talking.After a long time, he said softly: "Actually, it doesn't matter, and it's not a big deal."

Yi Lan chuckled lightly, making people confused about the meaning of this smile.After a while, he said lightly: "It's fine if you don't want to say anything, just leave the palace tomorrow, so that I won't worry about this kind of thing happening again in the palace." After saying that, he got up and walked out of the palace.As soon as he took a step, as expected, the man grabbed his sleeve.

Hearing what he said, Mu Yan was stunned for a moment.Unexpectedly, Yi Lan would say that he was worried about herself.After hesitating for a while, he finally agreed to say what happened.

That night, Mu Yan had just finished his errand, and when he was walking in the corridor, two guards suddenly walked out from nowhere, and they entered the palace in the same wave as Mu Yan.The two guards said they wanted to invite him over to drink tea and chat.Mu Yan couldn't refuse again and again, so he had no choice but to go with them.Although they were chatting together, in fact, the two of them ridiculed Mu Yan, as if they were very dissatisfied that he snatched the golden blood bird's nest last time, and were willing to work so hard for Yilan.

Then, the two "missed" and knocked over the teacup, and spilled all the hot tea that had just been cooked on Mu Yan's wrist.When sending Mu Yan back, he pushed him into the pool and left without caring about him.Although Mu Yan's martial arts isn't bad, it's still far behind the two of them, and he doesn't know how to swim.Therefore, we can only keep struggling in the water and calling for help.It wasn't until Wen Cheng, who came to replace him, passed by here and saw Mu Yan who was drowning that he jumped down to rescue him.Just about to help him go back to rest, but met Yilan on the way.

Yi Lan listened and thought for a long time in silence.Mu Yan didn't feel so sentimental, he just shrugged and told Yi Lan that this was just a trivial matter, and he could handle it well without his intervention, so there was no need to worry too much.

Yi Lan shook her head lightly, knowing that this matter is no small matter, there must be reasons behind it.These two guards may be the eyeliner sent by the Queen.Sure enough, the last time Mu Yan snatched the blood bird's nest did arouse the queen's vigilance.If these two people are really the queen's eyeliner, then this time they did this to find out the truth.Push Mu Yan into the water, observe his reaction to this matter, and then see if Mu Yan is really his favorite, and whether it is worth taking it for his own use.Otherwise, why did they just push Mu Yan into the not too deep pool instead of directly killing him?It's just that these eyeliners still need to be used to bring some information to the queen, so they can't be driven away for the time being.

In fact, Yi Lan also knew very well that the crown prince Su Yiyao had no strategy at all, he was clearly a waste, he was able to sit on the crown prince, all thanks to the empress.If he wanted to win the crown prince, he had to get rid of the queen first.Although the queen seems to be resourceful and kind-hearted on the surface, every time the prince gets into trouble, she can save the prince from danger, but in fact the queen has a difficult temperament and doesn't know how to convince people, so she wholeheartedly works for her.The queen only has these two shortcomings, but it is enough for him to get rid of her.

Seeing him silent for a long time, Mu Yan pushed him and asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay. It's just that you have to take care of yourself in the future." If you take the initiative to defend yourself this time and make Mu Yan the target of public criticism, it will really hurt him.From now on, in order to protect him well, I'm afraid that she really has to wrong him.

Mu Yan vaguely felt that this sentence was like a farewell, and he was a little unclear, so, "Take care in the future, what does this mean?"

Yi Lan shook her head and smiled: "It's nothing. I just said that I will keep you safe in the future, and I always think not to break my promise."

After hearing these words, Mu Yan couldn't help but feel his heart move for a moment, as if he had been hit for a moment, his heart was at a loss and went blank.

I had no choice but to quickly cover up and smile back.

The author has something to say: I slept for 10 minutes for the math test today and still dreamed of Mu Yan, lol

Special thanks to Sister Meng and Sister Meng.Great encouragement, I feel that everything is very worthwhile. ?

☆, seven. snubbed