Duan Zhisu is really good to Suiyan. His mother's family has no power and power, and even he is not favored by the emperor. Some good things are hard to come by, but he often moves most of them to Suiyan.
The mansion of the Marquis of Sui'an is unoccupied all the year round, and Sui Yan is naturally indulgent and does not have many playmates. When he was young, his heart was the softest. Even if Sui Yan was a stone, the warmth of these years like running water could warm him up.
Duan Zhisu dragged him to sit on the soft couch beside him, threw a piece of charcoal into the charcoal basin at will, and said, "You have been ill for half a month, and the master was almost so angry that he complained to the emperor every day and scolded you. If you don’t want to make progress and ruin the atmosphere, you have to accuse the father and emperor of a crime at the family banquet today.”
Suiyan's cynical impression has been deeply rooted in the old pedantic master. Even if he is really sick, he will be regarded as sick and lazy, and he will take the opportunity to be tired. After all, Suiyan jumped up and down all day before he fell into the water, and he didn't look weak or sick at all. .
Sui Yan innocently said: "I'm really sick, and he scolds me for what he does, why didn't you tell me the difference?"
"Song Xian said a few words for you, and was picked up and scolded by the master, and now he is still copying books in the mansion." Duan Zhisu said helplessly, "You seem to be better today than before, Yuyi Meng. How do you come here?"
Sui Yan repeated the quack doctor's words and said, "I obeyed the doctor's orders and stayed in the house to recuperate, and I didn't even go out of the room."
Duan Zhisu glanced at him and said lightly, "Then why did I hear that you appeared in Wanhualou today?"
Sui Yan's face stiffened.
It seems that this Duan Zhisu came here to send blessing oranges this time is fake, and Xing Shi to ask guilt is true.
Sui Yan was desperate, and explained hopelessly, "To eat steamed buns."
Duan Zhisu frowned, and his face softened unexpectedly: "You, I'm the only one who believes in you. Others might say that you are nonsense, and you don't even have sincerity in lying."
Seeing that Duan Zhisu's reaction was probably believed, Sui Yan said, "Who did you listen to? Gan Enhe?"
Duan Zhisu nodded: "You are still young, you can go to those places less often. Wouldn't it be easy to invite a cook to come to the house for whatever you like to eat? In recent days, because of the fifth-ranking business, the children of the aristocratic family in Beijing are right. That kind of fireworks place can't be avoided, why do you just move forward?"
Since Suiyan was reborn, he was either sick or on the way to being sick. The entire Hou Mansion turned around and did not have the energy to take care of the outside world. Suiyan said calmly, "What happened to the Fifth Highness?"
"It's a long story." Duan Zhi solemnly said, "Some time ago, Shaoqing of Guanyao Province was imprisoned for corruption and accepting bribes, which is a coincidence..."
Since the Ministry of Official Medicine has benefited from the private sector, it has made countless profits every year. Although the management is proper, it is inevitable that there will be mistakes. After finding out that Shaoqing had corrupted officials and silver, the emperor was furious and ordered the Ministry of Punishment to conduct a thorough investigation, but it was pulled out within a few days A bunch of officials were implicated in a wide range. The ministers refused to take the guilt completely, and they finally managed to bite the fifth prince.
The emperor loved the fifth prince very much. Although he was banned for this matter, but because of any substantial punishment, he attributed the matter to the mishandling of the Shangqing of the Ministry of Official Medicine and severely punished him.
And the most coincidental thing is that Yin Lingfeng, the minister of the official medicine province, who has just been in office for only one year after taking office as the county governor, and who has been working hard in life, suffered an innocent disaster. , the dust settled in three months.
Duan Zhisu sighed and said: "The culprit in this matter was the fifth child, Yin Lingfeng was implicated in his family and ruined, but he was fined for several months and it seemed that nothing happened. After the ban was lifted, he swaggered. When I went to the place of fireworks, it seemed that I also took a fancy to a dusty woman..."
Sui Yan had heard of this time, and muttered: "That woman is not a showman, she is stubborn and stubborn, and she was forced to jump down from the carved wooden building on the fourth floor..."
Duan Zhisu said in surprise, "Have you heard?"
Sui Yan stretched out his hand and pressed his chest, whispering, "Listen... I heard someone say it."
Duan Zhi said solemnly: "This matter is too much trouble, and it was directly passed on to the father and emperor. The fifth one was punished again, but it was just an insignificant punishment."
Sui Yan pressed his chest, sneered, and said, "As long as it's not a crime of treason, the emperor can't touch him."
Duan Zhisu's expression turned cold, and he said in a low voice, "Forgetting to go home, speak carefully."
Sui Yan lowered his head.
Duan Zhisu saw that his face was a little bad, he reached out and touched his forehead, frowning and said, "I don't have a fever, are you not feeling well?"
Sui Yan shook his head and said, "It's alright, is there a family banquet today? Say something for the emperor for me, I can't go."
Duan Zhi said solemnly: "What nonsense is it, Doctor Meng returned to the palace today and told the royal father that you were all right. The children of the royal family must go to the family banquet today, and there is no way to avoid it."
Sui Yan forced a smile and said, "But didn't Royal Doctor Meng tell me not to run outside for nothing?"
"Your Majesty holds a banquet, is this a trivial matter?" Duan Zhisu walked to the side cabinet and rummaged through it, took out a set of court clothes and threw it to him, saying, "Put it on, I'll go in with you by the way. palace."
Sui Yan felt a pain in his heart and headache everywhere. He crouched on the bed and hummed for a long time, but was dragged up by Duan Zhisu, so he had to put on the thick court clothes bitterly.
Duan Zhisu didn't have the shelf of His Royal Highness, and when he saw Sui Yan's collar folded inside, he got up to help him straighten his clothes, and said casually: "You, how can you live alone without others?"
Sui Yan's waist-banded hand shook violently. He wanted to laugh, but he couldn't. He wanted to raise his head and say to the young man in front of him, saying that no one was by my side in the last life, and I was still in this wild capital. stand firm;
Saying that I avenged you, and that I took those two scumbags off the horse with my own way of repaying them, you don't even know how ridiculous they looked when they were defeated;
Said that I also won the supreme position for you...
Say... these things, you know
Without hearing the answer, Duan Zhisu raised his head, just in time to see Sui Yan taking a deep breath, he smiled helplessly: "What's wrong?"
Sui Yan, who forcibly took back the sour emotion, still had some light in his eyes, he smiled and said, "Nothing..."
He didn't speak, and suddenly felt a sense of suffocation in his heart, and he pinched a fold on the exquisite girdle with silver threads.
Duan Zhisu: "Huh?"
Sui Yan stared at him blankly. After a while, she seemed to make up her mind, and suddenly said: "If... one day, you have to exchange my life for something extremely important, you will... "
Sui Yan raised his head, his lips twitched slightly.
"… change?"
The young Sui Yan was always looking like a gag, and this was the first time Duan Zhisu saw him so serious. After thinking about it, he also said seriously, "No."
Sui Yan breathed a sigh of relief, and the expression on his face was like a cry and a smile: "Really?"
Duan Zhi said solemnly, "That's natural."
Sui Yan thought to himself, "Then if such an extremely important thing is the throne, would you still be so decisive?"
Thinking of this, he realized how ridiculous his question was. In the last life, didn't Duan Zhisu already make a choice
That cup of stigma is the best proof.
Sui Yan gently waved the hand that Duan Zhisu put on his neck, turned around, his voice trembled slightly, and said, "Don't bother Your Highness, I'll do it myself."
Duan Zhisu frowned, just as he was about to say something, there was a light knock on the door beside him, and Haitang walked in carefully with the fried medicine.
Sui Yan quickly packed up his emotions, tied his girdle casually, and wiped the corners of his eyes carelessly.
Haitang said, "I've seen His Highness—young master, Yu-Yi Meng left another recipe before he leaves today, so we must watch you drink it, you can't fry it into a medicinal meal..."
Sui Yan responded indiscriminately, shaking his hands to take the dark medicine, but his face was still a little uneasy.
The more Duan Zhisu looked at him, the more he felt that something was wrong, he stepped forward and said, "Forgot to go home?"
Sui Yan looked up at him slightly.
Duan Zhisu couldn't say what he wanted to ask for some reason, so he had to coax: "Drink the medicine first, and we'll enter the palace after drinking, be good, it's not bitter."
Sui Yan absently took a sip, and suddenly said, "Liar."
lie.
You still gave the wine.
Duan Zhisu frowned, holding the edge of the medicine bowl and leaning over slightly and taking a sip, he said, "It's okay, it's not bitter, where did I lie to you?"
Sui Yan still stared at him blankly.
Duan Zhisu couldn't, so he had to say to Haitang: "Bring some candied desserts to your young master."
Haitang repeatedly promised to go, but Sui Yan stopped him, brought the medicine bowl to his lips, drank it, and then covered his mouth.
In the past, Sui Yan didn't have the problem of vomiting as soon as he took the medicine. Duan Zhisu was startled and said quickly, "What's wrong? Is it really bitter?"
Sui Yan's eyes sparkled, he forcibly swallowed the disgusting medicine, and said with a little weeping: "Well... it's very bitter... I'm dying of hardship, does that quack doctor have a grudge against me?"
Duan Zhisu quickly patted him on the back, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "No matter how hard it is, you won't shed tears, why don't I know that you cry so easily?"
Sui Yan blinked, blinked away the tears in his eyes, smiled reluctantly, and said, "It's fine, it'll be fine in a while, just now..."
Duan Zhisu waited for him to relax for a while, until he looked much better, and then he took people on a sedan chair and went all the way to the palace.
Every year on the New Year's Eve, the emperor will hold a family banquet in the palace. When he was young, Sui Yan always regarded the family banquet as a place to eat, drink, and seek rewards. It was not until he grew up that he realized how turbulent the water that seemed to be happy was. undercurrent.
It took only half an hour for the Marquis of Sui'an to arrive in the palace, and when the carriage arrived at Cheng'an Gate, the guards asked the two of them to get out of the carriage and enter, but Duan Zhisu opened the curtain and said, "Little Marquis is unwell, and I can't see the wind, I have already I have asked the imperial father's favor to allow the sedan to enter the outer hall of Taihe."
The guards saw Sui Yan with a pale and sickly face from the crack of the sedan chair, and he didn't dare to stop him any more, and quickly let go.
Soon, the sedan came to the outer door of the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Sui Yan got off the sedan wearing a thick cloak. A cold wind passed through the hall, and the golden spikes on the hair crown made a slight noise.
Duan Zhi said solemnly: "Let's go, everyone from the clan is almost here."
Sui Yan stretched out his hand, and a snowflake fell on his palm, melting quickly.
He murmured, "It's snowing."
Snowflakes fell one after another, and a man trotted across the road on the side, before he reached the front, he raised his voice: "His Royal Highness!"
Duan Zhisu saw that it was Song Xian, and it seemed that the book had been copied.
Sui Yan retracted his hand and stretched his cold hand into his robe. Duan Zhisu and Song Xian both said a few words, but the hand was still cold and painful.
Sui Yan sighed faintly.
At this moment, a sedan chair stopped slowly, and a young man dressed in ink emerged from it, it was Duan Mingchong.
When Sui Yan saw it, he quickly stepped back to the wall, and was about to bow his knees to salute when Duan Mingchong took a few steps to stand in front of him, and gently took his hand out of his robe.
Sui Yan's face was dazed.
Duan Mingchong quickly put a small hand stove embroidered with Begonia into Sui Yan's hands, turned around and ran away without saying a word.