This queen is not too curly

Chapter 5
At this time, it was less than half a month before Yan Yuan's wedding.

Palace lanterns have already been hung at the gate of Dingbeihou's Mansion, and the whole mansion has been newly decorated. The entire Dingbeihou's Mansion is filled with joyful atmosphere.

Yan Yuan got out of the carriage, glanced at the brand-new door plaque, and then lowered her head to look at her own toes.

The clothes on her body were cleaned overnight by the women in the group of kidnappers, and there is no trace of distress now, only the shoes on her feet are too late to deal with, and there are still traces of the night of running away last night.The dirt and grass clippings stuck to her feet and adhered to the soles of her feet, which was the last evidence of her being outside for the past few days.

"Miss?" The guiding nun called softly.

"Huh?" Yan Yuan came back to her senses.

"Master Hou has been waiting for you in the inner hall for a long time." Nanny laughed and urged in a low voice.

Yan Yuan didn't hesitate anymore, and stepped into the gate of Hou Mansion.

In the inner hall of the Hou Mansion, Dingbei Hou Yanzhou had indeed been waiting for a long time. He was sitting on a high seat, holding the freshly brewed tea in his hand, and closed his eyes to feel the aftertaste of the tea fragrance.

Yan Yuan walked into the room with her head buried, and bowed to Yan Zhou.

"The daughter has seen her father."

Yan Zhou didn't speak, but put down the teacup in his hand with a frown.

Yan Yuan understood, got up and went to his side, picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea for her father, and handed it to him respectfully.

"The daughter made the father worry."

Yan Zhou watched Yan Yuan's movements with a dark face, and after a moment of stalemate, he finally took the teacup and said coldly: "I thought you had forgotten who you are, and you would never step into the gate of the Marquis Mansion again. "

Yan Yuan was wronged, she lowered her head and said nothing.

Everyone in the world knows that the youngest daughter of Hou Yanzhou of Dingbei was sent to the residence of a genius doctor outside the pass to recuperate her body four years ago because she was weak and sick.

Actually not, four years ago, she ran away from home.

Before the Mid-Autumn Festival of that year, she had just learned that her path to the palace had been paved. Well-known old things.

She was only 14 years old at the time, and she couldn't accept it for a while, so she simply packed her bags and ran away.At first I thought the sky was big and the earth was big, but I didn't want to be injured for some reason later. I didn't see many of them in the vast world, and I took two years of injury solidly.

"...Daughter knows she's wrong." Yan Yuan said in a muffled voice.

Yan Zhou remained silent with a cold face, it was obvious that the bad breath from four years ago was still there.

Yan Yuan thought for a while, then knelt down with a plop.

Yan Zhou didn't expect her to make such a move, so he instinctively raised her elbow, and when he realized it, Yan Yuan had already looked at him with curled eyelashes and a face that had succeeded in a trick.

Yan Zhou suddenly said in a bad mood: "Why, the four years outside the Great Wall have lost all my bones."

Having said that, his complexion is already clear after the rain.

Yan Yuan naturally climbed up the pole, leaned close to her body, took her father's hand and coquettishly whispered: "My bones are from my father, and my temper is also from my father. What kind of backbone do I need in front of my father? I don't want half of it."

"You."

Yan Zhou rolled his eyes, finally couldn't hold it back, reached out and rubbed Yan Yuan's face.

The skin under his hands was cold to the touch.

Yan Zhou finally frowned: "Your body..."

Yan Yuan didn't care: "It's nothing serious, just a little bit chilly."

Yan Zhou frowned, worry was written all over his face, but he didn't say anything after all.

He just said: "Your mother is still offering incense in a temple outside the city, and she won't be able to return until tomorrow at the earliest."

Yan Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that her father had finally passed this test, she laughed: "Okay."

Half an hour later, Yan Yuan stepped into her room, and the first thing she saw was the huge fireplace standing in the center of the room.

Yan Yuan was dumbfounded, standing at the door in a daze.

That can no longer be called a heating stove. She had seen a stove used by craftsmen for refining weapons in the armory outside the Great Wall, and it was about the same size, but the one in her room was engraved with complicated and delicate patterns. From famous handwriting.

The nanny in charge stood behind her and said with a suppressed smile: "Master Hou heard that Miss is afraid of the cold, so he ordered this heater to be built years ago. Miss, please rest assured that this heater was designed together with the room. It is driven into the ground, and the pipes lead to the outside, but only through the heat but not through the smoke."

But this is too big.

Yan Yuan walked around the stove and said silently, "Actually, I can't live there for a few days."

Mammy was stunned for a moment, and the expression on her face dimmed a little bit.

She almost forgot that this room, which has been carved for half a year, is only half a month's residence to Yan Yuan. Even though Lord Hou has treated her like jewels and treasures all these years, he will eventually send her into the palace of.

Those men who are officials are still too cruel after all.

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That night, Yan Yuan slept soundly and warmly.

I don't know how many skilled craftsmen's thoughts have been spent on this huge fireplace, and I don't know what is burning in it. With it, the whole room seems to have returned to the season of spring and flowers. She only used a thin bed. Under the quilt, I fell asleep almost as soon as I touched the bed.

Maybe it was because she slept too soundly in the first half of the night, but in the second half of the night she started to dream groggyly.

In the dream, it was still a world of ice and snow, the boundless forest was covered with white snow, and the shadows of the trees touched the sky and it was difficult to distinguish the direction.

Wearing armor and carrying a torch, she saw a huddled, furry figure at the end of the cave.

It was a young man.

He was wearing a white fur coat, and his thin face was covered with blood.

She wanted to get close to that man, but he held a dagger to her waist.

"Get out."

A hoarse voice sounded in the cave.

The young man could no longer see his original appearance, only his eyes shone brightly against the torch, like a trapped animal, very much like the puppy she kept in the tent.

So she stretched out her hand out of nowhere, and the palm of her hand landed on the top of the man's head as she wished.

Habitually blurt out:

"Come on."

In the next moment, the torch went out and the dream fell away.

Yan Yuan opened her eyes on the warm bed and was stunned for a long time before slowly raising her hand to glance at her own.

In the dream, the warm and delicate touch was still vaguely lingering on her fingertips, but in the real world, the sun had already penetrated the window paper, and a faint halo appeared on her quilt. The woman was sitting not far away, quietly watching her wake up.

Yan Yuan's eyes fell on her, she was slightly startled, she lowered her head and called softly: "Mother."

Madam Yanhou didn't speak, but just nodded, with an indescribably reserved expression on her face.

After staring at Yan Yuan for a long time, she said softly, "You... have grown up... and lost a lot..."

Her voice was also cautious, as if facing a frightened rabbit.

In fact, she didn't know that she herself looked more like a fully alert rabbit.

Looking at her like this, Yan Yuan suddenly felt sour in her heart. It was a guilt that she hadn't faced directly in these years.Back then, she just learned that she was not born to her mother, so she left home without thinking too much, without thinking about her feelings at all, but now, after four years, when she met again, she did not expect that her life would be like this.

She is not a prudent person, and she can only say guilt to her mother over the years.

She thought about it, got out of the bed with bare feet, walked up to her and knelt down, lowered her head and rubbed her knees with her head.

Madam Yan Hou's eyelashes trembled, and her eyes instantly turned red.

Her fingertips trembled slightly and landed on top of Yan Yuan's head, her voice also trembling: "Have you...found your biological mother?"

Yan Yuan closed her eyes: "No."

"I didn't find it or..."

"When I left the customs, I encountered riots at the border, and I stayed in the military camp over there for two years."

"Then ..."

"Later, I accidentally got injured and had been recuperating with a genius doctor outside the pass, so I didn't look for it at all."

Yan Yuan said it lightly, but Mrs. Yan Hou's brows became more and more wrinkled.

In fact, she didn't need to say it, she knew it too. Over the past few years, news about her had been sent back to the Dingbei Hou Mansion through different channels.

She knew the real reason why Yan Yuan ran away from home four years ago and followed the direction pointed by the clues all the way north, and she also knew that when she crossed the border, she encountered a dispute between the two countries.Yan Yuan did not continue to go north, she stayed at the border to help the people in the frontier resist the raging horse bandits, and finally she simply disguised herself as a man and was recruited by the border army.

Back then, she was so anxious that she urged Master Hou to bring his daughter back home. What does it mean for a girl to stay in the barracks?

Unexpectedly, Lord Hou was very happy, and praised her: "Father Tiger has no sons, you are worthy of being my Yan Zhou's daughter!"

Because of this, it eventually led to a disaster later on. Because of a military order mission, he almost lost his life at the border.

Madam Yan Hou looked at Yan Yuan's pale face, and felt very distressed: "You father and daughter, each of you speaks more easily than the other!"

Where is the nursed back to the body?
That is to recover a life from the gate of hell!

Yan Yuan felt that her forehead was wet, and raised her head, only to find that it was her mother's tears that fell on her forehead.

She immediately wiped it off in a hurry: "Nothing serious happened, didn't I come back well? I didn't lose a single finger."

Yan Yuan originally wanted to comfort her mother, but she didn't want to add fuel to the flames instead. Madam Yanhou's tears fell more and more, crying until the makeup on her entire face was stained.

"What's the matter?" Madam Yanhou sobbed in a low voice, "It's better not to come back, at least you don't have to be sent to the palace."

"Ok?"

"The emperor..." Mrs. Yanhou hesitated to speak.

"What's up with him?"

Madam Yan Hou was silent for a long time before gritting her teeth and said:
"He's fatuous, immoral, immoral, and definitely not a good match!"

(End of this chapter)