swear not to be concubine

Chapter 114

Regarding Jian Yan's worries, Xu Zhongxuan's answer is very positive.

"If it can be proved that you are really their daughter, they will definitely recognize it."

When he was in the Jade Emperor Temple, he heard Su Jinniang and the others mention that Mrs. Zheng Guogong would give her daughter a safety dip every year during the Dragon Boat Festival.If it can be confirmed that her daughter is not dead, and that she appeared in front of her alive, it is impossible for Mrs. Zheng Guogong not to recognize it.

Seeing that there was still anxiety in Jian Yan's eyes, he tightened his arms again, rubbed his chin on the top of her head, and then smiled again: "If you can really have the status of a girl from the Duke's Mansion Naturally, it is good, so Zhou Yuanzheng may not be able to make up your mind in the future. But even if this matter does not come to fruition in the end, it does not matter if you do not have this status. Don't worry, I will not let Zhou Yuanzheng live through this year April."

Although his last sentence was plain, Jian Yan still trembled in her heart.

After hesitating for a moment, she still asked: "But Zhou Yuanzheng also seems to be a very cautious person. I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to catch him? Don't be too eager, and end up giving yourself away instead." went in."

"I know." Xu Zhongxuan said with a gentle smile on his face, "In the past, I didn't want to have a family because I was afraid of being distracted by the family. When I was alone, I just did what I wanted. If you succeed, you'll be a great minister. , even if it is defeated, it is nothing more than Xiao Xiao handing over his life. But it is different now. Jian Yan, I have you, and in the future my life will not only be mine, but also yours. So I will cherish my life, Stay with you to grow old together, full of children and grandchildren."

The corners of Jian Yan's eyes were a little hot, and her heart was stuffed like a sponge full of water, swollen and speechless.

Today, after listening to so many sweet words all at once, it almost made her uncomfortable, and her heart was beating like a drum.

So she blushed, and hastily changed the subject: "Have you already grasped any definite evidence of Zhou Yuanzheng's crime?"

Xu Zhongxuan pondered for a while.If he didn't open up the matter about Zhou Yuanzheng to Jian Yan, I'm afraid she would still worry about it day and night.

Thinking of this, he said: "There are many evidences of Zhou Yuanzheng's crimes. He is greedy for ink, indulges his son in committing crimes, planted party members in the court, overshadowed the government with one hand, and even used his power to frame Mei Niang's father many years ago. But if these are true It’s actually useless to say it.”

These evidences turned out to be useless?Jian Yan couldn't help but raised her head and asked, "Why is it useless? You didn't tell the emperor how did you know Zhou Yuanzheng's criminal evidence was useless?"

Xu Zhongxuan didn't answer, but instead asked: "There was a man named Su Chuo in the Three Kingdoms period. He said these six words, using corrupt officials and fighting against corrupt officials. Have you heard of it?"

After being silent for a while, Jian Yan slowly said: "I know what Su Chuo said. So what you mean is that the emperor still needs Zhou Yuanzheng, so even if he has so many criminal evidences, the emperor Will you selectively ignore him instead of moving him?"

"My Jian Yan is smart." Xu Zhongxuan praised her sincerely, "You understand everything."

Jian Yan complained silently in her heart, what is your Jian Yan?
But, "If it's true as you said, wouldn't it mean that no matter how many criminal evidences you have against Zhou Yuanzheng, you won't be able to bring him down? Then what should we do?"

Xu Zhongxuan patted her on the back and comforted her: "Don't worry. As an emperor, who is not suspicious? He is always on guard against his relatives, let alone a courtier. For As far as the emperor is concerned, a subject can be greedy and treacherous, but as long as he is useful for the time being, the emperor will not touch him. But the most unacceptable thing for the emperor is that a subject has the heart of disobedience, which will threaten his throne, so even if this subject No matter how useful it is, the emperor will not keep him. Now, I want to plant the seed of Zhou Yuanzheng's disobedience in the emperor's heart. I don't need the emperor to believe it for the time being, as long as he has this doubt in his heart. And once he doubts, he will naturally let this seed germinate slowly in the end. And all I have to do is to add fuel to the flames and keep guiding the Emperor Zhou Yuanzheng's actions to that direction Just think about it. And when this seed grows into a towering tree in the emperor's heart, the emperor will definitely not tolerate Zhou Yuanzheng. When that happens, the evidence of Zhou Yuanzheng's crimes I have collected now will become his concrete image Otherwise, those charges are useless. Jian Yan, do you understand what I mean?"

Jian Yan didn't speak.But she naturally understood.

The heart of disobedience is actually a broad and abstract thing, how much can it be concreted?Unless it is a direct battle with real swords and guns.But once the seed of disobedience of a certain minister is slowly planted in the emperor's heart, the more the emperor looks at this minister, the more suspicious he will become. I can make up a whole bunch of things.What's more, this Zhou Yuanzheng had already planted his party members and covered the sky with one hand before the government.

Seeing that Jian Yan didn't speak, Xu Zhongxuan said in a low voice: "Jian Yan, I was a bachelor's attendant to King Liang for two years."

The meaning of his words is obvious.Jian Yan only looked up at him in shock.

Xu Zhongxuan looked back at her with a smile on his face, stretched out his hand to touch her head, and said with a smile: "Now you can rest assured? In the duel with Zhou Yuanzheng, I am actually not alone."

He is willing to tell her such a confidential matter?

"You, in fact, you don't have to tell me these things." She muttered, "I didn't want to spy on you just now. I just, just asked casually."

"I know." Xu Zhongxuan bowed his head and kissed her soft hair, "It's just that we just said to be honest with each other. So in front of you, I don't have any secrets. Jian Yan, look, I trust you completely, so you have to trust me completely in the future, okay?"

Jian Yan couldn't speak, she just nodded continuously.

The best proof of love is trust.Xu Zhongxuan would tell her everything he chose, so why would she not trust him?

She buried her head in Xu Zhongxuan's warm arms, leaning against him tightly, with a smile on her lips, she didn't speak anymore, but her heart was full of joy and sweetness.

Xu Zhongxuan also didn't speak any more, just stretched out his arms to wrap her around her, and at the same time leaned his back against the wall of the carriage, and began to close his eyes and rest his mind.

His wind chill did not improve.He still has a high fever and headache today, but he still insists on coming to pick up Jian Yan in person despite the persuasion of Xu Miaojin, Qi Sang and others.

The sooner he sees her, the sooner he will feel at ease.Like now, holding her in his arms, even though his whole body was burning like fire and his headache was about to split, he still felt it was worth it.

In the silence, the sound of the wheels of the carriage can be heard.There was a chilly wind blowing in early spring, blowing the curtains on the car windows, and the orange-red sunset came in.

Jian Yan didn't sleep well last night, and she was anxious for so many days, and now leaning in Xu Zhongxuan's arms, she only felt peaceful and peaceful in her heart.So amidst the sound of the rattling wheels, she closed her eyes and slowly fell asleep.

Then, after an unknown amount of time, she was woken up by April.

Opening his eyes, Fang Jue saw that the blue-and-white car curtain in front of him had been lifted.But the sky outside is already dark, and there are several cold stars hanging in the blue night sky, twinkling.

Si Yue was standing beside the carriage, lifting the curtain with one hand, and calling her softly, "Miss?"

Jian Yan sat up straight.

He got up too fast, and the top of his head hit Xu Zhongxuan's chin, causing some pain.

She ouched in a low voice, reached out to touch the top of her head, and turned to look at Xu Zhongxuan.

Xu Zhongxuan was leaning against the wall of the carriage, his eyes were tightly closed, and he did not wake up.

He was knocked so hard just now, but he didn't even wake up?
Jian Yan was surprised, so she stretched out her hand to pat his face, and called him: "Xu Zhongxuan? Xu Zhongxuan?"

His hands were hot, no matter how much she yelled, he still didn't wake up.

Jian Yan's intuition was wrong, she didn't care too much, and hurriedly shouted: "Qi Sang, what's going on? Why is he so hot?"

Qi Sang rushed forward to have a look, and then said: "The young master suffered from a severe wind and cold a few days ago, and he has been running a high fever, and he hasn't improved today. I just heard that you are there, so he must go there in person. Pick you up, no matter how much the little one and the fourth girl persuade you, the young master won't listen."

He actually has a fever all the time?No wonder she felt his hands and face were so hot just now.But she only thought that it was because he was too excited to see her well, and she didn't think about anything else.

Jian Yan's hands were shaking.She bit her lower lip tightly, even though her heart was in turmoil, she still tried her best to force herself to calm down.

After taking a few deep breaths, she then instructed Qi Sang: "Help Xu Zhongxuan to his bedroom to lie down."

He asked Qi Hui again: "Has he ever seen the doctor? What did the doctor say? Is there any medicine prescribed by the doctor at home?"

Qi Sang has already helped Xu Zhongxuan into the courtyard.Qi Hui hurriedly replied: "A few days ago, the imperial physician from the imperial medical office came to see you, and said that the young master had a severe cold. The medicine prescribed by the imperial doctor is still available at home. It's just a girl, the young master has always been afraid of suffering the most. Even if those medicines are decocted, he won’t take them.”

A person who seems so calm and introverted is even afraid of taking bitter medicine?Jian Yan didn't know what to say for a while.

"Go and decoct the medicine left by the imperial physician."

If he doesn't eat, you have to pour him down if you open your mouth.

Qi Hui agreed, then hurriedly turned and ran away.And here Jian Yan ordered Si Yue to fetch warm water, and she followed Qi Sang to Xu Zhongxuan's bedroom.

The furnishings in Xu Zhongxuan's bedroom are extremely simple, just a few necessary pieces of furniture.Jian Yan didn't have time to take a closer look in her hurry, she just went straight to the canopy bed behind the screen.

Xu Zhongxuan was already lying on the bed supported by Qi Sang, and had already woken up, with a soft pillow on his back, leaning against the railing of the bed.It's just that the corners of his eyes were red, and he didn't know if it was because of the high fever, or because he didn't sleep well last night.

Jian Yan breathed a sigh of relief first, then gritted her teeth and took a deep breath.

Well, such a big person with such a high fever is so self-willed that he doesn't even take medicine.And it is because of the fear of suffering.Can he do more?

While pouring a cup of warm tea, Jian Yan ordered Si Yue: "Go and see if Qi Hui's medicine is ready. Bring it here as soon as it's ready."

When Xu Zhongxuan heard this, his right hand resting on his forehead froze for a moment.Then he opened his mouth to discuss with Jian Yan: "Jian Yan, can I..."

"No." But just as he opened his mouth, Jian Yan resolutely refused with a cold face.

Xu Zhongxuan flinched.Qi Sang also flinched.

Qi Sang felt that if he stayed here any longer, he might be accidentally injured later, so it's better to quickly put oil on the soles of his feet.

So he justly said to Jian Yan that it's getting late, the young master and the young lady are hungry, right?This subordinate will go to the restaurant outside and call for a banquet.Then turned around and ran away.

As for Jian Yan, she continued to pass the teacup with the lid off in front of Xu Zhongxuan with a cold face.

Xu Zhongxuan didn't reach out to pick it up, and even started to pretend to be pitiful.

"I don't have the strength in my hands to hold it."

His voice at this time is not as calm as before, but he is like a child who has done something wrong, deliberately lowering his voice.He lowered his head halfway, sneaking glances at Jian Yan from time to time, and then quickly lowered his head when he met her cold gaze.

Jane Yan: ...

Then she directly stuffed the teacup into his hand, and said one word with a cold face: "Drink."

Xu Zhongxuan: ...

Then he obediently drank all the water in the teacup.

Jian Yan took the teacup, put it on the small square table beside her, and then said: "Lie down and sleep for a while. I'll go and see if the medicine is ready."

It's just that when she got up to leave, Xu Zhongxuan suddenly leaned over and quickly grabbed her hand.

"Don't go." He looked up at her with a pitiful look, "Stay by my side and don't leave me."

Although she knew he was pretending, Jian Yan still softened in her heart.

So she sat down on the edge of the bed again.

But in the end she still couldn't feel angry, so she began to criticize Xu Zhongxuan, who was obviously his age, and how could he learn from children who didn't take medicine because of the pain.Haven't you heard the saying that good medicine tastes bitter and is good for the disease?

Xu Zhongxuan explained weakly: "According to my experience, it takes seven or eight days for the disease of wind-cold to be completely cured after taking medicine, but it takes seven or eight days for it to be cured without taking medicine. In this case, then Why do you need to take this bitter medicine for seven or eight days? It will be fine after you get over it. Besides, I have had this cold for seven or eight days now, and I reckon it will be cured soon, so the medicine that will be given later, can it be okay? Don't you want to eat?"

Jian Yan's answer was that she flew over with an angry eye knife, and Xu Zhongxuan, who was only pierced, shrank back, hung his head and shrank at the corner of the bed, and dared not say a word anymore.

After a while, Si Yue finally hurried over with a bowl of medicine on a small tray.

The white porcelain bowl is filled with black-brown concoction, not to mention eating it, you can tell how bitter it is just by smelling it.

Xu Zhongxuan thought it was extremely against taking medicine.So when he saw April coming in with medicine, he turned his head away.

Jian Yan glanced at him, then reached out to take the medicine bowl from the tray, and said to Siyue: "You go out."

April agreed to go out, and closed the door very considerately.

Xu Zhongxuan glanced at Jian Yan secretly, and saw that she was slowly stirring the dark brown concoction in the bowl with a spoon.

A steaming hot air rose up and rushed over her half-sagging jade-like face.

Xu Zhongxuan still wanted to persuade Jian Yan not to drink this bowl of concoction.It's just that he just opened his mouth to call Jian Yan, and saw Jian Yan slowly raised her head, with the corners of her lips slightly hooked, and pulled a half-smile at him.

Xu Zhongxuan suddenly felt a creepy feeling rushing up from the tailbone, and then spread to all the limbs and bones of the whole body.

What a terrible feeling.

At this time, Jian Yan had already handed the bowl of medicine to Xu Zhongxuan, raised her eyebrows with a smile and asked, "Do you want to drink it obediently by yourself, or do you want me to pour it for you myself?"

Xu Zhongxuan swallowed with difficulty, and then said weakly: "I don't think it's good to use the word "Guan". It's better to use the word "Feed". Otherwise, you feed me? It's not with a spoon. It's feed. The crow feeds back. Do you understand what it means? Then I am willing to drink no matter how bitter the medicine is."

After all, she looked at Jian Yan with burning eyes.

Jian Yan laughed angrily at him.

Are you still playing word picking with her?There are so many requests for him to drink a medicine, who is sick now?
So she simply took out the spoon in the bowl and put it on the small square table beside her, then took the medicine bowl in her hand, knelt on the edge of the bed with one knee and a half, leaned over, put one hand on his shoulder, and put The medicine bowl moved to his lips.

"Drink." She raised her eyebrows and drank softly, her face glaring like a diamond.

Where did Xu Zhongxuan dare to defy?If he couldn't say it, he could only close his eyes, open his mouth, and let Jian Yan pour medicine into his mouth.

It's just that his tongue is extremely sensitive to bitter things since he was a child, so he didn't touch bitter things at all in the past.When such a big bowl of medicinal juice that was so bitter that he didn't know how to describe it suddenly poured in, he subconsciously wanted to vomit.

But Jian Yan could be heard drinking him in a cold voice: "Swallow it down."

Xu Zhongxuan had no choice but to be ruthless, pretending that his tongue didn't exist, he gulped down the whole bowl of concoction.

I don't know when the medicine bowl was taken away, and then soft lips pressed down.

With a soft and flexible tongue, he licked away all the medicine juice on his lips that he would not be able to swallow in the future, and then pried open his lips and teeth, poked in carefully, and licked the bitter taste between his teeth and tongue one by one. After leaving, only the faint fragrance of jasmine lingers between the lips and teeth, which lasts for a long time.

Xu Zhongxuan felt as if he had been shocked by an electric shock, and his whole body was hardened into an iron plate.

This was the first time Jian Yan kissed him proactively, and he was so shocked that he even forgot to respond.And when he finally came back to his senses and wanted to respond, Jian Yan straightened up, her lips left his lips, and at the same time gave him a pat on the head, and said with a very kind smile: "Good. Now you don't think this medicine is bitter, do you?"

Xu Zhongxuan: Can I ask her to kiss him again on my own initiative now?

But Jian Yan never gave him this chance.

She just told him to lie down and have a good sleep, then took the medicine bowl, turned around and drifted away.

Xu Zhongxuan: ...

He felt as if he had been molested by Jian Yan.And it's still the kind of teasing that first gives a stick and then a sweet date.

But then he felt that the more such teasing, the better.Then he thought again, he didn't expect Jian Yan's true temperament to have such a cold and domineering side.But he also likes this side very much, it seems that the bed and sex room will definitely not be boring in the future.

With such a mess of thoughts, he closed his eyes and slowly fell asleep.

(End of this chapter)