The prince does not fight for the heir

Chapter 138

Fu Xuechen guessed right, the person in the car was Emperor Yuan'an, Yegrika immediately bowed to him as soon as he entered and said, "Yegrika greets His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Sit down! You don't need to be too polite outside here."

Under Emperor Yuan'an's signal, Yegrika sat nervously beside him. The car was so small that the two maids could only sit on two small benches near the door.

"Ruyi Hutong in the east of the city, right?" Emperor Yuan'an said indifferently: "When you arrive, you will lead the way!"

Yegrika nodded obediently: "Yes, Your Majesty!"

Emperor Yuan'an didn't speak any more, but Yegrika could tell from his small movements of stroking the jade pendant in his hand that his heart was actually not calm, and his breathing was also quick and sometimes slow, revealing the turbulent thoughts.

Yegrika had never been to the capital of Darong, and she didn't know the exact address, but in fact, the guide was the maid beside her, who was in the car, so after a while, the lady who occasionally turned up The maid who looked out from the corner of the curtain of the driving door suddenly turned her head and nodded to her, and Yegrika knew that the place had arrived!

Emperor Yuan'an had already knocked on the wall of the car to stop the car.

Several people got out of the carriage and saw that the carriage had entered an alley. There were several houses in the alley, one of which was larger, but it was only a small courtyard with two entrances, and the dark-colored courtyard door was closed tightly.

Yegrika looked at the maid, who pointed to the gate of the black lacquered courtyard, and said in Qiang language, "This is the household!"

Emperor Yuan'an raised his chin toward the courtyard door, motioning for the maid to come forward and knock on the door.

The maid went, and the courtyard door opened quickly, and a middle-aged nun let a few people in.

"Little Yunzi! Little Yunzi!" Yegrika called as soon as she entered the yard.

Not long after, a girl in a light red Han skirt appeared at the second door, quietly looking at Yegrika, and then at the only middle-aged man among the women.

The girl was only 16 years old, she had bright eyes and white teeth, an oval face, and a baby chin that hadn't completely disappeared. It seemed that her whole temperament had become extraordinarily cute and cute.

"Yunyun..." Emperor Yuan'an froze as if being shocked by an electric shock, his gaze fixed on the girl's face.

The girl blinked her eyes and looked at Yegrika, Yegrika nodded to her quickly, silently reminding with her mouth: It's him!He is His Majesty!Say hello soon?
The girl looked up and down Emperor Yuan'an curiously, and asked aloud, "Are you that 'Wei Yun'?"

Emperor Yuan'an took a deep breath, came back to his senses, and nodded: "Yes! I am that Wei Yun!"

The girl looked at the jade pendant in his hand, smiled and said: "Since you still remember my mother and this jade pendant, and are willing to come here to find me, then I don't hate you! My surname is Yan, and my name is Yan Siyun."

"Yan Siyun?" Emperor Yuan'an nodded, "You look like your mother! Your mother..."

"Don't stand in the yard, come in and talk!"

The young girl Yan Siyun took the initiative to open the bamboo curtain outside the main hall and invited everyone into the house.

Emperor Yuan'an had no choice but to swallow the words back into his stomach, led Yegrika together, entered the room and sat down, watching the girl make tea on her own initiative.

"Your mother..." Emperor Yuan'an couldn't help but start talking again.

Yan Siyun didn't hide anything, put the teacup on the small square table in his hand, and said calmly: "My mother passed away six years ago! I was only ten years old at that time."

Emperor Yuan'an stopped breathing, and it took several breaths before he recovered. He didn't want to make a fuss, but blinked his eyes quickly a few times, turned his head away, closed his eyes, and then opened them again, saying shyly :"I see!"

"Then... where is your father?" Emperor Yuan'an asked again.

"My father left earlier. When I was two years old, my father died for the country. Don't you know?" Yan Siyun was surprised.

"Yes, yes! I was confused!" Emperor Yuan'an remembered that the girl's father was Yan Yongxiao, who died in the battle to guard the border city as early as 14 years ago.

In other words, the young girl in front of her lost her father first and became a child without a father. She grew up with her mother until she was ten years old, and then lost her mother. Up to now, she has lived the life of an orphan who lost her parents at a young age of six years.

Thinking of this, Emperor Yuan'an suddenly felt pity, and couldn't help but ask with concern: "Then how did you and your mother get here in these many years? How did your mother...how did you live in these years?"

Yan Siyun also took a seat, took a cup of tea, and said in a familiar way: "My mother said that she was abducted and sold to the border by someone in a coma, and then my father rescued her by accident, and she had nothing to repay her." , with my body, I married my father, but it was a pity that there were frequent wars in that era, and soon after, the Oirat army besieged the border town guarded by my father."

"I don't know the specifics. In short, my father died in the city, and my mother escaped with me. After several disasters, I was finally captured by the Huiqiang King and brought back to Qiang."

"At that time, the princess needed a nanny, and my mother became the princess's nanny. Together with me, she became the princess's maid before weaning."

Speaking of this, Yan Siyun smiled at Yegrika, and said: "The princess has only brothers and no sisters, so she has been very kind to me since she was a child, treating me like her own sister, growing up together, and growing up together. During the 14 years of growing up in Qiang, including the six years after my mother passed away, under the protection of the princess, I have not suffered any wrongdoing."

"But whether it's my father or my mother, they all hope that one day I can return to my homeland. I don't want to become a Huiqiang person, and I don't want to marry a Huiqiang person. I want to go back to my homeland and marry a Han person!"

Yan Siyun said with emotion: "In the past, I didn't know how to travel thousands of miles back to the Central Plains, and I didn't know where to settle down when I arrived in the Central Plains, and I didn't know who I could go to. Unexpectedly, the situation changed, and the war between Huiqiang and the Central Plains started. , and then lost again, the two sides negotiated peace, the princess was ordered to make a marriage, and I got the chance to come back like this!"

She glanced at Yegrika gratefully and said: "I have to thank the princess for her kindness. Before she entered the capital, she tore up my body deed, let me go free, and sent someone to come with me in advance." Here, help me find a place to live here, but this yard is rented, I still need to find a way to save money to buy it!"

Hearing this, Emperor Yuan'an couldn't help but blurted out: "This won't work! It's not easy for you to live in Darong, and it's not safe for you as a girl! Don't stay here! Go back with me, I will take care of you!"

"Didn't your mother want you to marry a Han Chinese in the Central Plains? I can promise you that all outstanding unmarried young men in the world can be chosen according to your wishes. Whoever you choose, I will marry whoever you choose, so that you can be happy." , a splendid marriage!"

Yan Siyun blinked and replied hesitantly: "But I'm not your daughter?"

Emperor Yuan'an looked at the bright girl in front of him benevolently, but said in an unquestionable tone: "In my eyes, you are my daughter! If you are willing to call father emperor, I will make you a princess, how about it?"

Yan Siyun's expression was stunned. She obviously didn't expect that the dignified Emperor Da Rong would be able to approve her so easily, a young girl whom she met for the first time. She won the position of princess for nothing without doing anything.

"If I..." Yan Siyun rolled his eyes and asked suddenly: "What if I choose your son?"

Emperor Yuan'an was startled, then laughed, and pondered for a while: "Okay! Whether you want to be my daughter or my daughter-in-law, to me, you are all my junior relatives, the same!"

Yan Siyun looked confused: "Why are you being so nice to me?"

Emperor Yuan'an was slightly surprised: "Your mother...didn't tell you anything? Didn't tell you why you came to see me?"

"Well, that's right!" Yan Siyun was reminded by Emperor Yuan'an's question, got up and ran out, and ran back to the hall after a long time, with a flat red lacquered wooden box in his hand.

"My mother told me that if possible, that jade should be returned to its original owner. It is too precious! I can't accept it, and there is..." Yan Siyun handed the wooden box to Emperor Yuan'an: "If You received the jade but refused to condescend to come to see me, then forget it! If you are willing to come, I will give this to you!"

Emperor Yuan'an took the wooden box, and asked in a daze: "That jade is so precious, it should be able to exchange for a lot of silver. These years, your mother and I have been living in Qiang, and life must be difficult. Why is your mother not willing to sell it?" ?”

Yan Siyun shook her head: "I don't know! I didn't even know that my mother still had this jade on her body. She didn't give this jade to me until my mother died, and then explained what I just said."

"I've been looking for the whereabouts of this jade all these years..." Emperor Yuan'an closed his eyes, gritted his teeth and muttered a few words, then sighed and remained silent, stretched out his hand and solemnly opened the red lacquered wooden box.

In the wooden box, there were several letters lying quietly. On the envelope of each letter, the words "Wei Yun's personal letter" were written. The letters were all sealed, and it seemed that no one had opened them.

For some reason, seeing these letters and the familiar handwriting on the envelopes, Emperor Yuan'an's hands trembled slightly, but he didn't pick up the letters to open them on the spot, but put the red lacquered wooden box back on again. went back.

"Clean up! I will send someone to pick you up later." Emperor Yuan'an got up and ordered, then turned to Yegrika and said, "Stay here and take care of it. When the carriages and horses in the palace arrive, you will follow them." Yan Siyun went into the palace together."

As soon as his aura opened up, he was the Ninth Five-Year Lord, and what he said was unquestionable. Yegrika just obediently agreed, but Yan Siyun was not afraid at all, and quickly protested: "Wait a minute! Why do I want to enter the palace too?"

Seeing the stubborn look on the little girl's face, "I don't want to go to the palace, what's so great about it", Emperor Yuan'an smiled kindly, but explained in a firm tone: "I'll tell you why!"

"Because your mother was my savior back then! Unfortunately, I have never had the chance to repay you. Now that your mother has passed away, and you are an orphan, I have the responsibility to take good care of you. This is what your mother asked you to take. The reason for coming to me with a token is that children must listen to adults!"

"I, I'm an adult! I'm not a child!" Yan Siyun objected loudly.

Emperor Yuan'an shook his head and laughed, and said nothing, but his expression seemed to say clearly: In my eyes, you are just a child who has not yet grown up, and you are still a rebellious child, who needs the supervision and education of adults!
any idea?Yan Siyun could only watch helplessly as he nodded and left.

When he got out of the courtyard, Emperor Yuan'an raised his hand, and a black-clothed guard suddenly appeared from some corner, and landed nimbly in front of him, bowing down to wait for his orders.

"Did you hear the conversation just now?" Emperor Yuan'an ordered in a deep voice: "17 years ago, a man was in the northwest border town, and he was rescued by Yan Yongxiao, the guard of the border town. She was exiled in Huiqiang and became the nanny of the princess of Huiqiang, and sent someone to check to see if it was true!"

"Hey!" The leader of the black guard quickly responded, stepped back a few steps, and disappeared again.

Returning to the carriage parked outside the gate of the courtyard, Emperor Yuan'an looked back at the gate of the black lacquer courtyard again, and said lightly: "Get the car and sedan chair ready as soon as possible, and I will see Concubine Yue and the concubine Yue in the palace within an hour. Miss Yan Siyun!"

"Hey!" One of the unremarkable coachmen sitting on the shaft bowed to the order, and this person was Zheng Ze, the chief eunuch next to the emperor.

Soon, the carriage quietly disappeared outside the alley. The alley was remote and quiet at noon. No one noticed that the emperor and concubine of Darong once appeared briefly in such a small alley where ordinary people lived.

In the small courtyard, Yan Siyun was arranging his clothes by himself, while the middle-aged nanny stationed by the landlord was busy outside, occasionally casting curious glances at these young girls.

Yegrika sent the Huiqiang maid beside her to help Yan Siyun, and stayed aside to talk to Yan Siyun.

"Have you really made up your mind? Go to the palace?" Yegrika spoke Huiqiang language.

Yan Siyun also replied in Qiang language: "My mother always said that she has forgotten the past, but I can see that she can't forget it at all. Even if she dies, she will cry this way. It's not just homesickness! She wants to come back! But she doesn't dare to come back, it's not normal!"

"I guessed whether she was married to my father before. Her feelings for Emperor Darong were too complicated and her experience was too unbearable, so I didn't want to set foot on my homeland. But when I met him today, I realized that I was wrong! It wasn't me As I thought before!"

Yegrika frowned: "So? What can you find out if you go into the palace?"

Yan Siyun stopped his movements, looked at Yegrika and said seriously: "My mother once told me that before she was captured and trafficked to the border, she was also from a wealthy family in the Central Plains, and she was a delicate young lady."

"I was curious and inquired a few times before I found out that the family is indeed very famous in the Central Plains. It is a famous and scholarly family in the Hunan and Chu areas. The surname is Zhang. It is rumored that they are descendants of Zhang Liang in the Han Dynasty."

"Every generation of that family has excellent heirs. More than ten years ago, they selected a young girl as a symbol of marriage, and married the person who had not yet become emperor at that time. This was a very profitable business, but it was short-lived. In less than ten years, the son-in-law who married the Zhang family has become the current Emperor Darong!"

Yegrika became curious: "You mean, someone in the nanny's family also became the emperor's concubine? She is in the palace now? Who is she?" If this is true, wouldn't he be a member of the nanny's clan? sister?
Yan Siyun smiled at her and said: "My mother's sister from the same family, she is also surnamed Zhang, but I'm afraid you can't become sisters with her, because she is the current master of the harem, Empress Zhang!"

The empress is the empress of the main palace, the master of the harem, and all the concubines are subject to her jurisdiction. Except for a few high-ranking concubines who have children, none of the other concubines is qualified to be worthy of her sisters. Yegrika was silent, full of astonishment.

(End of this chapter)