A spring dream is unclear
Nangong Jingnu coldly ordered, "Open this thing."
The captain of the guard was very embarrassed: "But..."
Nangong Jing's phoenix eyes stunned: "You'd better weigh it, whether you have a life to recover, and then 'but'!"
The captain of the guards was at a loss for words, and got up from the ground to remove the shackles for Qi Yan himself. He bowed respectfully to Nangong Jingnu: "His Royal Highness, the villain is also under orders. I hope Your Highness will not embarrass the villain. Our brothers are also old and young."
Nangong Jingnu raised her chin: "Half an hour."
The captain of the guards was relieved: "In this case, the villain took the brothers to wait outside the mansion."
All the guards left, and the servants of the private house had long since left. Nangong Jingnu stepped forward to Qi Yan, took her hand and said softly, "Don't be afraid, I won't let you do anything." Even the reason I didn't ask, I made a promise.
Qi Yan still lowered her head, her eyes were dry and dry, she moved her mouth and forced out a calm sentence: "His Royal Highness... why are you here?"
A rhetorical question that is well-informed, the meaning of which is only clear to Qi Yan himself.
She won the bet again, but she didn't feel well.
Nangong Jingnv shook Qi Yan's hand with a smile, and said softly, "They are all gone, it's just the two of us here." She thought that Qi Yan was afraid that the wall would have ears, so she deliberately said this.
Qi Yan nodded, Nangong Jingnu took her back to the main hall, pressed Qi Yan to the main seat, and sat beside her, looking at Qi Yan's profile and thinking: "Come up from the official uniforms of those few people. Look, it should be the royal guard directly under the royal father... So, what is the reason for the royal father to ask you to enter the palace? Do you know what?"
Qi Yan gave a "hmm", and then there was no more.
Nangong Jingnu waited patiently and comforted: "I will accompany you to enter the palace with you in a while, and I will find a way from the father's side."
Qi Yan remained silent. She thought of two sets of rhetoric about Xiaodie's identity. Since the day the two sets of plans were finalized, she has been deliberating over and over again, and until now there is no winner.
If she told Nangong Jingnv that Xiaodie was just an orphan she saved, that her "mother" died at her banquet, and that Xiaodie was an old friend of Jinzhou, Nangong Jingnv would definitely believe her.
This is the best answer, and both sides are easy to explain.
But the problem is that Xiaodie's situation doesn't allow it... Nangong Rang's personality will definitely call Xiaodie to inquire, she and Xiaodie can't confess, and once Xiaodie is so frightened that she becomes sick and speaks her native language, she will be A catastrophe.
Moreover, her situation was good and bad, and she had to be in her arms at night to fall asleep. At that time, it was the crime of deceiving the king.
Another rhetoric is...
She simply admitted that Xiaodie was her concubine, and as long as Nangong Jingnu nodded, it would be done once and for all, and there would be no future troubles.
Both plans have elements of gambling. The former is betting that Nangong will not go into detail, and the latter is betting that he has weight in Nangong Jingnu's heart.
The odds are greater, it is clear at a glance.
Just... just ah.
Qi Yan's heart was twisted like a knife, but she couldn't bear the pain of losing her sister.
She stood up, lifted the hem of her clothes and knelt in front of Nangong Jingnu.
Nangong Jingnu: "What are you doing?!"
Qi Yan knelt down and said, "This minister is guilty of death."
Nangong Jingnu: "You..." Could it be that Qi Yan really did something to bend the law for personal gain
Qi Yan knocked her head down on the ground and said in a low voice, "A few days ago... I raised a concubine in this private house." At this moment, the two plans finally decided the winner.
Nangong Jingnu: "...What are you saying?"
…
Nangong Jingnu: "Qi Yan, look at me."
Nangong Jingnu thought that there was a problem with her ears, but she was anxious and wanted to get an exact answer.
Qi Yan raised her head slowly, but she was fascinated by the patterns on Nangong Jing's palace dress: "Chen... I have a concubine."
Nangong Jingnu fell down on the chair and was speechless for a while.
Her face gradually turned pale, her body trembled slightly, and her eyes were filled with too many emotions, including consternation, confusion, sadness...
One hand clenched the armrest of the chair tightly, his fingertips were white, his lower lip was biting, and his eyes were red.
She never thought that Qi Yan would do such a thing behind her back, and she couldn't understand it.
I don't know how long it took, Nangong Jingnu recalled a book she saw in the Hongwen Pavilion in her mind. The book said: If the concubine does not have the permission of the princess to take care of the concubine, the concubine will be drowned, and the concubine will be stabbed to death. ten… .
Nangong Jingnu's lips twitched, and when countless thoughts came to her mouth, only a feeble sentence: "Why?"
Qi Yan's breathing was stagnant, and her eyes were red.
It was Nangong Jingnu who shed tears first. She sniffed and asked in a trembling voice, "Why? She is... beautiful? Or is she talented?"
Qi Yan lowered her head and said in a low voice, "It's not... it's just an impulsive mistake made by the minister."
Nangong Jingnu sucked in a breath of cold air, closed her eyes and let the tears fall before she said, "A little gold and silver... I will ensure that she will be safe for the rest of her life, and find a reliable person to send her out of the capital overnight! You..." You know do not know? Is she supposed to drown? Twenty court sticks... How can your body endure it
"On the father's side, Ben Gong will personally go and say..."
Qi Yan's breathing was a little choked, she was determined to do nothing, but when she heard Nangong Jingnu's resignation, she still couldn't control her emotions.
On one side is the lost and found sister who cannot take care of herself, and on the other is the innocent daughter of the enemy.
No choice.
Qi Yan put her forehead on the cold ground, and her tears fell on the cold ground and became water stains one after another.
"I can't do it."
Nangong Jingnu clenched her teeth and looked at Qi Yan in disappointment: "...why?" She had already given in so much, she even planned to deceive the king in order to keep her concubine, why? Why? You refuse to step back
Qi Yan: "... She is four months pregnant and is the child of the minister."
…
It turned out that the heart will be broken.
It turns out that heartbreak has a voice.
What does heartbreak sound like
It was a sound of the sky falling, deafening and black.
"His Royal Highness!" Qi Yan didn't expect Nangong Jingnv to faint. She knelt on the ground and hugged Nangong Jingnv in her arms, her heart twisted like a knife.
"Your Highness! Wake up, don't scare me!"
Nangong Jingnu only fainted for a few breaths, and slowly opened her eyes while Qi Yan swayed, blurred for a moment, and suddenly pushed Qi Yan away: "Don't touch me!"
Qi Yan fell to the ground, her body stiffened when she heard Nangong Jingnu's words, she slowly got up and knelt again: "Yes."
Nangong Jingnu stood up with a chair, staring at Qi Yan without speaking.
After a while, Nangong Jingnu sat back again and asked with a sneer, "What do you plan to do for this palace?"
Qi Yan pursed her lips, let out a shallow breath, and replied, "I am willing to bear all the consequences, but I hope Your Highness can save the girl."
Nangong Jingnu was furious, and "you" didn't say anything after a long while.
Qi Yan raised her head, looked into Nangong Jingnu's eyes, and said calmly, "Since I met His Highness, I have never asked His Highness for anything, this life and this life... only this one."
Nangong Jingnu's tears flowed out again, leaning weakly on the back of the chair: "You, why?"
Qi Yan: "The plague in the first year nearly wiped out the Qi clan in Jinzhou. The minister is the only bloodline. Now she is pregnant with the flesh and blood of the minister... If only one person can be kept, the minister..."
Nangong Jingnu was in a hurry and blurted out, "How do you know that we can't..." Halfway through the sentence, she stopped abruptly, and Qi Yan understood.
The fist hidden under the wide sleeves clenched tightly, and for a moment Qi Yan even thought impulsive: Tell Nangong Jingnu everything! Whether it is to die or live depends on the will of God, it is too tiring to live like this...
But her body was the first to respond: "Does Your Highness still remember the Gentleman's Covenant?"
Nangong Jingnu widened her eyes and stared at Qi Yan without blinking, as if she didn't know her.
There was a tearful smile on his pale face: "So... where is this palace waiting for?"
Qi Yan's heart groaned, Nangong Jingnu had grown up.
At the age of seventeen, she is no longer the ignorant girl who was willing to enter the urn. All this was arranged so cleverly... Maybe she has realized that she is using her.
Qi Yan bit her head and didn't say a word, she had already finished what she had to say, and left the most difficult decision to Nangong Jingnu.
Nangong Jingnu stood up, without looking sideways: "Take Ben Gong to see her."
Qi Yan: "Your Highness...?"
Nangong Jingnu sneered: "What? You already have children, are you afraid to see Ben Gong?"
Qi Yan: "She... took the medicine and fell asleep."
Nangong Jingnu: "Take me there!"
Qi Yan: "Yes."
…
Nangong Jingnu saw Xiaodie, the sleeping Xiaodie.
Standing beside her, Qi Yan looked a little nervous. In the end, she still underestimated the demeanor of Nangong Jing's daughter, the nobleman of the heavenly family.
Nangong Jingnv didn't do anything, she didn't even ask Xiaodie to get up and pay her respects, she just stood by the bed and looked at it for a moment.
He glanced at Xiaodie's black, thin and not very beautiful face, and then across her stomach, because she was so small that she couldn't see anything because of the quilt.
Nangong Jingnu silently withdrew without saying a word. She couldn't tell what she was thinking, she had to look at this woman.
Maybe... Maybe I want to know who I lost to.
Nangong Jingnv stopped in front of the door and didn't look at Qi Yan: "I will tell you what the emperor will say. As for the result... I can't guarantee it. You can wait for the news in the palace."
Qi Yan: "…Thank you, Your Highness."
Nangong Jingnv hooked the corner of her mouth, and there was a bit of bitterness in her mouth.
"From now on... the agreement between you and me will not count."
"… Yes."
Nangong Jingnu looked at the white snow in the courtyard and murmured, "Yizhu is more melancholy when thinking about it, and a spring dream is not clear."
Every word hit Qi Yan's heart heavily. Before Qi Yan could answer, Nangong Jingnu took a step: "Leave and take care of her, you don't have to give it away."