marry a princess

Chapter 143 One step too late

Seeing Yuan Hongyu running towards her with open hands and face full of spring breeze, Bai Ziwan felt a sudden chill in the surroundings before he could react in the future, and then his wrist was suddenly grabbed and pulled, and when she regained consciousness, the whole body People have been blocked by a human wall.

"What are you doing?" Yuan Hongyu stopped suddenly, frowned, and stared displeasedly at the person who stood in front of him and sabotaged his good deeds.

"Shouldn't I be the one asking you this?" Yuan Hongyi smiled slightly, but there was no smile in his eyes, and said lightly, "Eleventh, why don't you stay in the capital, what are you doing here?"

"Where am I staying, what are you doing here, and what are you doing? Go away!" He raised his hand to push Yuan Hongyi, but seeing that he was motionless, Yuan Hongyu's frowning eyebrows couldn't help deepening.

Perhaps it is a relationship with different personalities. Although Yuan Hongyi and Yuan Hongyu are not as close as other brothers, they fight each other, but they have never gotten along peacefully. Since they were young, they always met with ridicule and sarcasm. The other party said a few words, even in front of Yuan Haochu, they still remained the same.

Yuan Hongyi looked at the pair of fire-breathing eyes in front of him with a half-smile as if he hadn't heard anything, and shook his head lightly. After all these years, he really hasn't changed at all. arouse his anger.

The curvature of the lips gradually deepened, I really don't know whether to praise him for his consistency, or laugh at him for being self-contained?However, thinking of the earth-shaking changes of other brothers, including himself, Yuan Hongyi only felt a bitterness in his heart, did he envy him?For princes like them who were born in the royal family, it is as difficult as heaven to maintain their truest selves.

"What are you laughing at? What's so ridiculous? Get out of the way!"

"Eleventh Brother," seeing that the situation was not good, Yuan Hongjin came over and circled Yuan Hongyu's neck, moved forward, touched his chest, and said with a smile, "Why did you come to Linjiang City when you are so good? Hey, you will take advantage of it again Father doesn't know that he sneaked out alone, right?"

Yuan Hongyu pursed his lips and glanced at him, "Sixth brother, do you think I'm the kind of person who sneaks out..."

Yuan Hongjin raised his head and laughed twice when he heard the words, tilted his head, smiled and raised his chin at him, "What do you think?"

Seeing Yuan Hongjin's narrow-minded smile, Yuan Hongyu was very embarrassed. Many brothers pointed out that he was the most lawless. He sneaked out of the palace just because he heard a few court ladies and eunuchs gathered around and said how good it was outside the palace. Once out of control, he always sneaked out alone when no one was prepared, and even dug a hole under a corner of the wall for the convenience of leaving the palace.

"Okay, no matter how you came to Linjiang City, or why you came to River City, you are a guest, and you are my eleventh younger brother. I, as an older brother, will naturally not treat you badly. Let's go, Go in first, and I will cleanse you up at night." Patting Yuan Hongyu on the shoulder, Yuan Hongjin took him half-pushed and half-hugged to go inside, while making eye contact with Yuan Hongyi.

"Wait" turned around and pushed Yuan Hongjin away, Yuan Hongyu was about to speak, when he saw Bai Ziwan's swollen belly, he couldn't help being taken aback, as if in disbelief, he said, "Ah Wan, are you pregnant?"

Ignoring the eyes of everyone who looked at her in unison, Bai Ziwan smiled, "Yes, I am not pregnant anymore, it has been five months."

She is pregnant?Yuan Hongyu pursed his lips, looked at Bai Ziwan with complicated eyes for a while, then looked at Yuan Hongyi, his gaze swept across Zi Wan's face, he slowly turned around with a bitter smile, and went inside.He was still one step late after all.

For dinner, Yuan Hongjin ordered He Lu to ask the kitchen to add a few more dishes for Yuan Hongyu to clean up the dust. At the dinner table, Yuan Hongyu and Yuan Hongyi inevitably had a verbal battle, but it was difficult for Bai Ziwan to be caught between them, left and right. Difficult.

Bai Ziwan puffed out his cheeks and let out a sigh of relief, put down his chopsticks with a slap, pointed at the two people who were blushing from the quarrel and still didn't know the truce, and said angrily, "Are you two over? Let's fight!" Refers to the courtyard outside.

The two were taken aback, snorted coldly, and buried their heads in silence to eat.Yuan Hongjin gave Bai Ziwan a thumbs up sincerely, but it drew big eyes.

"Let you stay here temporarily tonight, and go back to the capital tomorrow morning!" Yuan Hongyi glanced at Yuan Hongyu and gave the order to evict the guest.

If it were someone else, they would have been frightened by the coldness in Yuan Hongyi's eyes at this time and said yes repeatedly, but who is Yuan Hongyu?He is not even afraid of his father, how could he be afraid of this so-called fifth brother?Yuan Hongyu put down his chopsticks, took the handkerchief Ruxiang handed over, wiped his mouth gracefully, and returned it to Yunxiang, propping his chin with his hands, and looked at Yuan Hongyi with a smile.

"Three years ago, my father handed over Linjiang City to the sixth brother to guard it. Now the sixth brother is the general of Linjiang City. The fifth brother is just a down-and-out prince who was demoted and exiled here. When I came to Jiangcheng, the sixth brother has not yet spoken." Drive me away, fifth brother, why are you in a hurry."

Yuan Hongyi smiled lightly, turned his head to look at Yuan Hongjin, who was still smiling, but Yuan Hongjin's heart skipped a beat.

"Eleventh," Yuan Hongjin smiled coyly, got up and took Yuan Hongyu's bowl and poured him some chicken soup, "Fifth brother, he didn't mean to drive you away, you also know where Linjiang City is, you stay here It's always bad, in case Father finds out..."

"Father already knows." Slowly picked up the bowl and took a sip, Yuan Hongyu smacked his lips, gave a thumbs up, and sincerely praised, "This chicken soup is stewed just right, unlike the cooks in my house. , either the chicken is stewed too old, or the soup is not flavorful enough."

How could Yuan Hongjin have the heart to discuss with him whether the soup tasted good enough, whether the chicken was old or not? He took a quick look at Yuan Hongyi, leaned over and grabbed Yuan Hongyu's hand, and stared at him, "What did you just say? Father, he knows You came here?"

"Before I left, I wrote a letter and asked the housekeeper to send it to the emperor. If you don't believe me, you can ask the little basket." Yuan Hongyu pointed his backhand at the attendant standing behind him. After finishing the chicken soup in the bowl, he slowly raised his head and said Unsurprisingly, he said endlessly, "I walked on the road for five days, and my father must have seen the letter I sent someone four hours after I left."

After dinner, Yuan Hongyu excused himself to be tired, so he went back to the room to rest; Yuan Hongyi was called away by Qing'er, saying that Hong Yi had something to tell him; Yuan Hongjin stayed behind and chatted casually with Bai Ziwan for a while, They also got up and went back to their respective houses.

It was only a short while before Yuan Hongyi opened the door and came in, walked to the other side of the bed with a tired face and leaned against it.Bai Ziwan put down the half-made clothes in her hand, walked over quietly, took off the clothes for him, put on the inner clothes for him, and put the sewing basket and clothes on the table.

Walking to the washbasin, he picked up the kettle and put some hot water in the basin, handed over the handkerchief and came over, "Wipe your face and rest."

Yuan Hongyi held Bai Ziwan's hand together with the handkerchief, and looked sideways at her, "Why don't you ask what Hongyi asked me to do?"

Bai Ziwan smiled slightly, "If you want to tell, why should I ask?"

"After last night, I thought you had me in your heart, but now..." Yuan Hongyi smiled bitterly, "I thought I knew all kinds of women well, but I still can't understand you. Ah Wan, tell me, do you have me in your heart?"

"what happened to you?"

Is it really that hard to answer?Yuan Hongyi shook his head, wiped his face indiscriminately, threw the handkerchief into the tub with his backhand, and said softly, "It's getting late, go to sleep."

The room was pitch black, Bai Ziwan turned his head to look at the person lying beside him, and looked up silently, but she didn't understand, after last night, he even asked her if she was in her heart?She wanted to tell him, yes, but she couldn't.

Wouldn't it be too sad if two people had to ask the other party to answer before they could believe that the other party had themselves in their hearts?What's more, with his suspicious personality, even if she told him the answer, I'm afraid he wouldn't really believe it, that's all, let time tell.

"Are you asleep?" Yuan Hongyi tilted his head to look, and asked softly.

Bai Ziwan opened his mouth, but did not make a sound after all, and still looked at the dark bed curtain above.

After a long while, when she didn't answer, Yuan Hongyi seemed to mutter to himself, "Although my father has many concubines, the one I love the most is Concubine Rong, the mother of my eleventh brother. In my memory, Concubine Rong is a very beautiful and gentle concubine." , is also a very special woman. In order to attract the attention of the father, other women will carefully dress themselves every day, including my mother and queen, but Concubine Rong is the only one who wears plain clothes and does not wear makeup. Perhaps it is because of this that the father It is very different to Concubine Rong, even after Concubine Rong passed away many years ago, she still misses her."

A woman who became an emperor, whether she was voluntary or forced, eventually became involuntary because of her respective responsibilities and the intrigue in the palace.As for Concubine Rong, she remained the same from entering the palace to her death. She was not the most beautiful among those women, nor was she the one who could speak, but she was such an unknown woman who was favored by the emperor more than other women.Although she didn't stay for long, she kept her most beautiful side in a man's heart.

Therefore, even if she is not alive, her son's favor has not diminished, and he is even more beloved by the emperor than the former prince.

Seeing that Yuan Hongyi didn't continue, thinking he was asleep, he heard him say quietly again, "Brother Eleven is the most idle one among our brothers, no matter what the father assigns, he always has an excuse to shirk, so just give up." It's the same with giving marriages, our brothers once joked in private, saying that there is no woman in this world who can fall into the eyes of the eleventh brother."

Bai Ziwan's heart tightened, she knew what Yuan Hongyi was going to say next, but she couldn't stop her, so she could only continue listening.

"Although I have many side concubines, I have never been tempted by anyone. I also thought that the eleventh brother would not be tempted by any woman like me. Maybe he would be worse than me and die alone. I didn't expect him to be with me. Same, for you... moved the truth."

Thinking of Yuan Hongyu's smiling eyes at all times, and the promises he made to himself, Bai Ziwan slowly closed his eyes and bit his lip slightly.

(End of this chapter)