As New Year's Eve approaches, Yan Fuguang is still nowhere to be seen.
Ning Huayue suddenly felt that it was not a good thing for Emperor Xihe to pay too much attention to Yan Fuguang. When she said goodbye, she said: "No matter how busy the prince is, he should be able to return to the palace before New Year's Eve, right?"
Lu Qing remained silent, but in the afternoon of the same day, someone came to send a message, saying that Yan Fuguang had been temporarily sent out to work by Emperor Xihe. He was delayed on the way and might not be able to come back to celebrate the New Year.
Ning Huayue lost the mood to hold a family dinner.
In previous years, everyone would go to the palace on New Year's Eve, but this year Yan Xianzhi was deposed, Empress Xu didn't have the energy, and Emperor Xihe didn't talk about the palace banquet, so everyone defaulted to spending New Year's Eve in their own homes.
Chen Qingzi's opinion is: "The prince is not here, and there are so many people in the mansion, so it should be lively."
We can't be too ostentatious, but we can't even miss such an important festival.
Seeing Ning Huayue's delay in expressing her position, Chen Qingzi lost her patience and said directly: "If the princess doesn't want to worry about it, then Concubine Wei and I can do it. It'll be simple, and it will be a happy celebration without any trouble."
No one cared about Ning Huayue's opinion, so Lu Qing agreed directly: "Okay, then I will listen to my sister."
Ning Huayue's mouth twitched: "..."
Do you need to ask me? How capable you two are!
After receiving the errand, Lu Qing didn't forget to call Qu Dong'er and the four concubines. It was better for them all to work together than to hide in the yard and think about stupid things.
Chen Qingzi came to Jinjiyuan to discuss the details with Luqing. Luqing happened to go to deliver soup to Brother Lan and was not in the yard.
She was welcomed in by Ji Qin and sat down, and saw two fat children staring at her with wide eyes on the couch.
Brother Yu narrowed his eyes: "Ah~"
Brother Jiu opened his eyelids and took a look. He didn't know this person. He was just kidding himself!
Chen Qingzi's heart was ready to move, and her eyes were always glued to the two little brothers.
Ji Qin came over immediately and smiled apologetically: "Young masters have just woken up, so you don't want to be hugged by your slaves. You..."
Chen Qingzi: "It's okay, just stay here."
Lu Qing rarely carried her children outside, and she had never seen Brother Yu or Brother Jiu. Chen Qingzi pointed at Brother Jiu and smiled and said, "They look very similar to Concubine Wei."
"I think so, slave, but the third young master just looks alike." His temper is much worse.
Brother Jiu felt the eyes on him. He turned over and faced Chen Qingzi with his buttocks, and continued to play with the cloth tiger.
Brother Yu was not interested in Buhu, so he nimbly crawled to Chen Qingzi's side and looked up at Chen Qingzi with his chubby little face.
"ah!"
Glitter saliva flowed down and hung on Rourou's chin.
Ji Qin was about to take a handkerchief to wipe Brother Yu's saliva when she saw Chen Qingzi wipe away Brother Yu's saliva gently and naturally.
"You're teething, aren't you?" She took the opportunity to touch her soft and tender face, then reluctantly took her hand back.
Brother Yu seemed to understand, and opened his mouth: "Ah——"
He has two little white teeth!
Chen Qingzi's eyes burst into laughter and she praised him: "You're so smart."
Brother Yu smiled and crawled away again.
When Lu Qing came back from Mengbi Studio, he immediately listed out the things he had sorted out and discussed them with Chen Qingzi. After confirming the details, he assigned tasks to the four concubines.
In this way, the New Year's Eve family dinner was prepared in an orderly manner.
**
Southwest of Dayan, Xili City.
Yan Fuguang rode the wind and snow all the way here and led the accompanying guards to patrol inside and outside the city overnight.
The weather in Xili City is not as cold as the capital city, and the snowflakes in the sky are not very powerful, but the biting cold wind is not as soft as the capital city, and goes straight into the cracks of people's bones.
Yan Qinghuai also came with Yan Fuguang.
He had never left the capital very often, and he gritted his teeth along the way, fearing that he would hold back the team and that he would be laughed at and despised by Yan Fuguang.
At this moment, his hands were frozen. He sucked his red nose and looked at the drawings for a while, then said loudly: "Third brother, how many days are we going to stay here? Didn't you say that we also want to take a trip to the northwest?"
Yan Fuguang had just returned from inquiring about the news. He glanced at him and said, "If I stay here for a few more days, I always feel that the peace here is a bit unusual."
Yan Qinghuai put the drawing in his hands and sniffed again: "Oh, okay."
After Yan Xianzhi's incident, he seemed to have grown a lot overnight. The person who used to like to talk back and argue became much more obedient, and even actively asked to join Yan Fuguang's team when Yan Fuguang proposed to go out for inspection in Beijing.
"Drink some wine to warm yourself up." Yan Fuguang threw over a water bag filled with wine, quickly got on his horse and gave the order, "Okay, let's go back to the inn to rest, and we can continue tomorrow."
The two people's rooms were next to each other. Yan Qinghuai tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, but he still mustered up the courage to knock on Yan Fuguang's door.
Inside the door, Yan Fuguang had just finished bathing, and his hair was still wet.
Yan Qinghuai raised the wine jar: "Third brother, would you like a drink?"
He glanced at Yan Qinghuai lightly, stepped aside and said, "Come in."
Fang Jinbao didn't take anything with him when he went out. Yan Fuguang did all the washing and bathing by himself. He took a clean handkerchief and rubbed his hair, then sat down opposite Yan Qinghuai and drank a glass of wine.
Yan Qinghuai held up the wine glass and was still waiting to clink it. When he finished the drink, he curled his lips and drank it all in one gulp without saying anything.
"You're up so late at night, what's wrong with you?"
Yan Qinghuai hesitated for a while, then suddenly asked: "Have you experienced many such things before?"
"Have you been tricked? I've never experienced it."
"No... I'm talking about, third brother, do you often do this, doing some work that we don't know about but is very hard, tiring and dangerous?"
Yan Qinghuai's voice became lower and lower as he spoke. He was the youngest son of Emperor Xihe. Although his biological mother's identity was not very noble, he was still very favored since he was a child just because he was the youngest.
He grew up in the palace, and the most common thing he saw was the harem's secret affairs. He thought that was already a very cruel and vicious thing, but he didn't expect that when facing the difficulties of his family and country, those petty fights would never come to the fore.
"I haven't seen it, but I can imagine that you must be facing a situation that is a thousand times more dangerous than ours on the battlefield." Yan Qinghuai exhaled, grabbed the wine jar and took a big gulp of it, "Father, He said that any problem can be solved as long as I have you, but third brother, you are not a god, you will bleed when the sword cuts you, so I shouldn’t put all the pressure on your shoulders."
"I used to be ignorant. I listened too much to other people's rumors, and I also felt that you were murderous and I didn't dare to get close to you. But that's obviously not the case. If it weren't for you, we, Dayan, wouldn't have known how cruelly we would have been bullied. .”
"Dayan is our country. You should not be the only one working hard for Dayan. I think I should shoulder my responsibility."
As he spoke, two big tears fell on the table. Yan Qinghuai wiped two of them randomly, stood up angrily and said, "Anyway, I'll ask you if I don't know how. I'm not stupid, just learn more and do more." ”
Yan Fuguang sent him out in a funny manner, but in his heart he was glad that there was only one Yan Xianzhi in the world, otherwise it would be useless no matter how hard he tried.
