The bridal chamber was full of red gauze and red silk, and the ever-burning lamps were brightly lit, making it look very festive.
Yan Shi walked into the inner room and saw Hua Ling sitting upright with a red hijab covered. The lady Xi who was serving beside him saw him coming and saluted him. Yan Shi waved his hand and ordered them all to leave.
Soon, only the two of them were left in the huge house. There was silence for a while, save for the occasional crackle of burning candles.
Yan Shi looked at the person who was close at hand, with a sneer on his face. This Duke of Kang's mansion belongs to King Zhao, and the mother of King Zhao is the current successor. This successor and the Yang family are sisters of the same siblings, and the successor is the mother of the prince who was murdered fifteen years ago.
So, if there is nothing tricky about this marriage, no fool would believe it!
Yan Shi was about to turn around and walk out when he heard a "grunt" and looked at his princess, who was quickly covering her stomach with her hands.
"Yes, I'm sorry." Different from the cry heard during the day, this voice was clear and bright, with the cleanness and purity of a young man, and the voice was a little small, so you couldn't hear it unless you listened carefully.
"Are you hungry? There's some snacks on the table, come and get them yourself." The banquet master was so interested that he thought the new princess would complain tearfully that he came back too late and made himself hungry like in the daytime.
"I, I have a veil on my head. Look, I can't see the way." The voice was still small, with some vibrato, was it because of fear
Yan Shi thought about it, that's all, the marriage of Zuo and Zuo is also done, and it's not too late to lift a hijab. Yan Shi didn't expect him to cover his head, and he didn't prepare to weigh in. He just stepped forward and gently lifted the hijab with his hands.
Hua Ling lowered her head, unable to see her face clearly.
"Okay, go and eat by yourself." Yan Shi didn't have the curiosity to ask him to raise his head to see what he looks like.
Hua Ling grabbed the hem of the clothes with both hands, and rubbed it to the ground little by little. As soon as his butt got off the bed, his body suddenly leaned forward. Fortunately, Yan Shi quickly hugged him.
"Ah—" He yelled in fright due to the accident just now, and saw himself falling into a warm embrace again, reddening to the tips of his ears.
"Many, thank you." Hua Ling struggled to stand up from Yan Shi's embrace, "I'm so useless, my legs will go limp after sitting for a while."
It was only then that Yan Shi could see his appearance clearly. Hua Ling had a face that was prettier than a woman's, but without a hint of femininity, so that no one would mistake him for a woman. Especially those big round eyes added a bit of innocence to this face. Forcibly lowering his age by a few years, he looked like he was fifteen or sixteen years old.
Yan Shi was stunned, it wasn't that he was bewildered by the beauty, but he didn't expect his princess to be so good-looking. The doubts in my heart deepened.
"It's okay," Yan Shi saw that he was standing still, and asked again, "Can I go by myself?"
Hua Ling replied cautiously: "Yes, yes."
Hua Ling had already walked to the table, and Yan Shi wanted to leave again.
"Brother—" Hua Ling's crisp voice came from behind.
elder brother? No one has ever called him elder brother, and people in the royal family will only call him emperor brother.
Yan Shi turned his head and asked suspiciously: "What else?"
"Brother, don't you want to eat?" Hua Ling looked in front of him with a plate of dim sum, eyes blinking, full of longing.
"I won't eat it, you can eat it." Yan Shi tried not to look into those eyes.
"But if you don't eat it, I can't eat it." Hua Ling's eyes suddenly became a little disappointed, and her small mouth was also suffocated.
Yan Shi said: "You eat by yourself, don't worry about me."
Hua Ling asked, "Brother, aren't you hungry?"
I don't even think about it, I really feel a little hungry after talking about the banquet. After a long day of tossing, although there was a wedding banquet just now, he ate and drank a few glasses of wine, and did not eat anything else.
As if seeing Yan Shi's hesitation, Hua Ling went up and tugged on his sleeve lightly: "Brother, sit down and eat something with me."
I don't know if it's because I'm really hungry, or because Hua Ling's appearance is too pitiful. In short, the banquet followed him to the table.
Hua Ling picked out a few delicious-looking snacks and brought them to Yan Shi: "Brother, you eat."
Seeing that the banquet had been eaten, he joyfully took small bites of the leftover snacks he picked.
Yan Yan looked at the pastries of the two of them and asked, "Why are ours different?" Obviously, what Hua Ling gave him was much better than what she left for herself.
Hua Ling hurriedly put down the half-bitten snack, swallowed the food in her mouth, and then said: "Leave the delicious food to my brother, and I am like this in the mansion."
"In the mansion? Aren't you the elder brother?" Yan Shi didn't have a good impression of Hua Qiancheng, and even thought that the children of the Hua family were domineering and condescending playboys, but he didn't expect that the little princess he married was quite polite.
"Mother said, good things should be given to parents and younger brothers and sisters." Hua Ling said sternly, this mother was referring to the Yang family.
Yan Shi asked curiously, "Then what kind is yours?"
"Of course the parents and younger siblings will pick the rest."
"Don't you feel wronged?"
Hua Ling glanced at him in surprise: "Don't you know the story of Kong Rong making pears, brother?"
Yan Shi was choked by what he said, and then smiled: "Of course I know."
"You are older than me, and I am younger than you, so I will give you such a good thing. And my younger brothers and sisters are younger than me. As an older brother, I should let them go." Hua Ling finished speaking, The eyes aimed at the snacks on the table again.
"Hurry up and eat." Yan Xi took a bite first, Hua Ling saw that he had eaten, picked up the pastry and took another bite. After eating five or six in a row, he seemed to be full, so he poured a cup of tea and brought it to the banquet master: "Brother, please have some tea."
After Yan Shi took a sip, he poured himself a glass and drank it, then stared at Yan Shi with big eyes and blinked.
Yan Shi was not in a hurry to leave: "Your mother, do you often teach you things?"
"Yeah!" Hua Ling seemed less reserved than before, "She can teach me a lot of things, I can play piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, spinning cloth and making clothes."
Yan Shi frowned, the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are reasonable, but what about spinning cloth and making clothes? Isn't this what women should learn
"Brother, look, I embroidered the pattern on this hijab stitch by stitch." Hua Ling presented the red hijab to Yan Shi with both hands as if offering treasures, with indescribable pride in her words.
Yan Yan took it and saw that the red hijab was embroidered with a picture of mandarin ducks playing in the water. The embroidery was exquisite and very beautiful. There are circles of gold thread embroidered around the red hijab, which looks graceful and luxurious. He didn't pay attention to the red hijab at first, he only thought it was embroidered by people from Kangle State's mansion, but he didn't expect it to be embroidered by Hua Ling.
Yan Shi raised her head, seeing Hua Ling looking at him with an expression begging for praise, she coughed lightly: "Very, very pretty."
"And the wedding dress I wear is also made by myself." Hua Ling said, "When I was young, my mother often told me that I must learn how to be a female celebrity, so that in the future I will not be punished when I come to my husband's house." dislike."
Yan Shi frowned slightly, when he was young? often? Did you never think of marrying him
Yan Shi and Hua Ling's wedding dresses had the same style, Yan Shi's wedding clothes were made in the palace, he thought Hua Ling's were the same, but he didn't expect that even the wedding clothes were made by himself.
"You—" Yan Shi paused and asked again, "Have you ever learned horseback riding and archery?"
"I've never learned it before," Hua Ling shook her head, and said with a smile, "Mother said I don't need to learn that, it's too hard, so I just let my younger brothers suffer. Although mother is not my own mother, she can It hurts me, and I don’t want to suffer a little bit.”
"Then how is your reading?" Yan Shi asked again.
"Yes," Hua Ling replied, "I can compose poetry."
Yan said: "Then write a poem and listen to it."
"What are you going to make a song for?" Hua Ling looked around the room, "Yes, today is our big day, so I'll make a song with this theme."
With a soft voice, Hua Ling began to compose a poem—
"There is a big happy event today."
Yan Shi drank the tea in his mouth and almost spat it out.
"I married my brother."
Yan Shi took a deep breath and listened to him continue to read.
"From then on, we are of one mind."
"Hmm..." The last sentence seemed a bit stuck, Hua Ling tilted her head and frowned, thinking for a while, "Enenaiai has been in love for a hundred years."
After finishing the poem, Hua Ling did not forget to ask, "Brother, how did I do with this poem?" Although she was asking, her face was full of confidence.
"No, not bad." Looking at his smiling face, Yan Shi praised without conscience.
"Mother also said that my poems are good," Hua Ling smiled even more happily after being praised, "she often praises me, and she also said that my younger brother's poems are too complicated and not as good as mine."
"The Master thinks so too?"
"At the beginning, a master said that my poems were not good. My mother said that he had no knowledge and misunderstood my son, so she drove him away, and then invited another master back. This master knows a lot and often praises me. Woolen cloth."
"Then your mother didn't say when you can take the imperial examination?" Yan Shi continued, "After all, after all, after all, you are so good at reading, you should serve the court earlier."
Hua Ling said: "Mother said that I don't need to take any examinations for fame. Anyway, the seat of the Duke of Kangle will be mine in the future. Being with the king is like being with a tiger. It's much more comfortable to just be a carefree Duke."
Speaking of which, Yan Shi already knew almost what he wanted to know. Such a smart woman, such a vicious strategy.
The little princess was blinking her beautiful big eyes and looking at him eagerly, not knowing what she was thinking. Yan Shi sighed silently, what a poor little fool.
Yan Shi has taken a lot of precautions against Hua Ling, but he is not completely defenseless against him, and needs to be observed in the future.
Originally, Yan Shi decided to be husband and wife in name only, but perhaps the same experience of losing his mother when he was young moved him to feel compassion. Yan Shi made two decisions in his heart - if you harbor evil intentions, I will get rid of them quickly; if you are really as innocent as you have seen, I will let you go back when you find a lover in the future.