Princess Yong'an

After the Qiqiao Festival, the few of them tacitly agreed not to mention the previous events, as if they had returned to the time when they traveled together.

But there was always someone missing back then, and now, all four are here.

Lin Yan continued to return to the academy to teach physical education to the girls.

Compared to Zhong Ningning's resistance to the academy, Lin Yan still likes going to the academy very much.

Zhong Ningning looked resentful about this, "That's because my sister is the teacher who teaches us, and I am the student who is forced to attend class."

Lin Yan did not comment on this, but she had never been to the academy. She was taught by her master Lin Jiumen in person when she was a child. She did not understand why Zhong Ningning hated going to the academy.

The time I spent teaching at the academy was a total of one and a half months, excluding one month when I took leave to go to Wenzhou.

The previous masters always felt that the girls could not bear that, and at most they would let them ride horses and stroll in the stables.

Lin Yan felt that the girls were curious about archery and Cuju.

So she asked the girls in advance about the archery and Cuju that were supposed to be included in the physical education class. They all agreed and expressed their joy.

Today Lin Yan is teaching in Class C, which is the class that Aning is in.

However, when classes started, a new student came to the academy, and Lin Yan was not surprised.

This new student was Princess Yong'an Songxi, but she did not stay in the academy with this identity. Instead, she stayed in the academy as her maternal cousin, named Chenxi.

The head of the academy brought Song Xi to class, which happened to be during Lin Yan's physical education class.

As for why Song Xi was here, it all started a few days ago.

After talking it out with Azhou, the two of them returned to their previous way of getting along.

Lin Yi was a drunkard, and there was almost no wine in the house. Lin Yan loved wine, so at least he could still have a few heroes in the martial arts world to drink with him. But after coming to the capital, there were no more such heroes.

A few days ago, after discussing Zhong Yuxi's matter in Mingju Tower, Lin Yan sent Zhong Ningning back home, and then Song Yizhou sent someone to invite Lin Yan to his home for a drink.

As soon as Lin Yan heard this, he agreed decisively and flew to the Regent's Palace immediately. The person who was delivering the message could not catch up with him.

Last night, Lin Yan reviewed with Song Yizhou what had happened in the past few years, and finally concluded that the group of people who plotted against Lin Yan were the same group of bandits that Lin Yan encountered in Sangzhou many years ago and the people who kidnapped Lao Zhao a month ago.

Even the assassination of the princess in Jinhua Temple was done by them, and their purpose was nothing more than rebellion.

As for why he had plotted against Lin Yan before, it was simply because there were countless people with great martial arts skills on Nanshan Mountain, and any one of them was one of the best in the world.

That force wanted to cooperate with Lin Yan by tempting him with promotions, but unfortunately Lin Yan didn't buy it at all. When the temptation failed and they found out that the leader of Nanshan Sect was just a woman under 20 years old, they simply killed her.

Who would have thought that Lin Yan's martial arts skills were no less than those of the former Nanshan Sect leader. He later directly destroyed several of their strongholds, inflicting heavy damage on them.

Now that the enemy is in the dark and Song Yizhou is in the light, Lin Yan naturally cannot expose herself. She slowly accompanies the person behind the scenes until the other party reveals his true identity.

There are many spies around the Regent's Palace, and she might be the one behind the scenes. It will be a lot of trouble if they find out about her.

Lin Yan climbed over the wall and entered the mansion. When he stepped on tiptoe, he saw Song Yizhou standing under the tree with a smile on his face.

"How long have you been waiting?" Lin Yan said casually as he walked towards Song Yizhou.

"I'll take you to see some wine soon." After saying that, Song Yizhou walked in one direction.

"Just take out the wine and find a place to drink it. There's no need to be so troublesome," Lin Yan asked doubtfully.

After following Song Yizhou to the place, Lin Yan's eyes were full of surprise and he hurried to take a look.

Song Yizhou brought Lin Yan to the wine room that had been built in the mansion and was filled with wine.

"Suzhou's Taohuazui, Quzhou's Zhuyeqing, Luzhou's Laojiao, Shaoxing's Huangjiu, Anzhou's Osmanthus Grain" Lin Yan smelled jar after jar, all of which were famous wines from all over the country.

"When did you prepare all this? There's even wine in here that I've never tasted before." Lin Yan was immersed in the joy of seeing so much wine.

"I am a prince after all, it is easy for me to get these wines." Song Yizhou's mouth corners rose slightly, and he was infected by Lin Yan's joy.

As for when it was prepared, this wine room was built by Song Yizhou when the palace was first built, and he was the one who ordered people to find the wine.

Over the years, Song Yizhou has replaced batch after batch of wine in the winery. When he first built the winery, he thought that if A'an came one day, he would definitely bring her here.

Unfortunately, eight years passed by and he still couldn't bring A'yan here.

Fortunately, it’s not too late now.

"I've decided to drink peach blossom wine." Lin Yan was dazzled by the choices and didn't know where to start looking at so many wines. Finally, he closed his eyes and chose peach blossom wine.

Song Yizhou couldn't help laughing when watching this scene, and said lovingly: "There is still a lot of time, there will always be wine, as long as you want, you can drink as much wine as you want in this winery."

Lin Yan handed another jar of peach blossom wine to Song Yizhou and said, "Where shall we go to drink it?"

Without waiting for Song Yizhou to answer, Lin Yan pointed to the roof and said, "Go drink there."

As he said that, he pulled Song Yizhou up to the roof with his light skills.

Looking at Lin Yan's agile appearance, Song Yizhou knew without thinking that she was in a hurry to drink.

Lin Yan hurriedly sat down, took a sip of wine, and sighed softly: "What a good wine! I haven't had this peach blossom wine for several years."

Song Yizhou sat down slowly, clinked the wine jar with Lin Yan, and said, "Ayan, do you still remember that you rescued Princess Yong'an Songxi in Jinhua Temple a few months ago?"

Lin Yan nodded and said, "I know. She was by your side when we were in Mingju Building before."

"Yong'an is not actually the late Crown Prince's child. As everyone knows, the Empress Dowager's biological son is Prince Jing. When the late Crown Prince and the late Crown Princess passed away, the Empress Dowager, who was still a Noble Consort at the time, volunteered to raise the infant Crown Prince and sent her own son, who would later become Prince Jing, to the frontier. His Majesty was deeply moved and gave her the long-vacant throne of Empress."

"Prince Jing had a son and a daughter. His son, Song Ting, followed his father to the frontier, while his daughter, Song Xi, stayed in the palace and grew up with the Crown Prince Song Jing. After the emperor passed away, Prince Jing rebelled, and the entire Song Dynasty was flooded with blood. Prince Jing, who had been guarding the border for many years, had secretly bribed people and recruited soldiers. It took five years to suppress Prince Jing's faction."

"At that time, the Queen was already the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager, for the sake of justice, put her own family aside and handed me the letter that Prince Jing had secretly sent to the capital to ask for the Empress Dowager's help. She also told me about Prince Jing's old ways. From then on, Prince Jing's faction was almost wiped out."

"During Prince Jing's rebellion, he quietly took the seven-year-old Yong'an away from the palace. When I found Yong'an, she was in Prince Jing's old room, extremely thin and frail. She couldn't answer any questions. Later, she returned to the palace and was examined by the imperial physician. Only then did I know that she couldn't speak. Yong'an wrote to me about her experience with Prince Jing. Prince Jing had taken her away so that she could gather intelligence in the palace. But Prince Jing was also crazy. What could a little girl under the age of eight do?"

"But Prince Jing had actually gone mad by then. After so many years of secret planning, he ultimately failed. Yong'an refused to speak when faced with Prince Jing's questions, and naturally suffered torture there. After that, he returned to the palace and never spoke again."

"After you saved her that day, she has been thinking about you. After seeing you a few days ago, she has been begging me to see you. She wants to thank you in person. Are you willing to meet her?"

Recalling the scene of that day, I thought the little girl was too scared to speak, but I never thought that she couldn't speak.

"Of course," Lin Yan asked, "She can't speak, but she has some disease. Aning might have a way to treat it."

Song Yizhou shook his head and said, "The imperial physician in the palace said that Yong'an's inability to speak is not an ordinary illness. It is a heart disease. No matter how precious the medicine is, it can't cure it. The key is whether she can get over it herself."

Lin Yan stopped talking, took another sip of wine, and sighed over Yong'an's experience.

Song Yizhou thought for a moment and said, "I'll pick a day to take her out of the palace and have dinner together at home."

"Let's do it tomorrow. The academy is closed tomorrow, so I'm free," said Lin Yan.

The next day, as soon as Lin Yan entered the dining hall, he saw Yong'an staring at him with his eyes open without blinking.

Song Yizhou smiled and said, "Since I told her about this after leaving the court, she was so happy that I planned to send someone to pick her up from the palace during lunch, but she couldn't wait and followed me."

Lin Yan looked at Song Xi and laughed: "You are so impatient."

Song Xi's face turned red.

"Okay, doesn't Yongan have something to say to A'an?" Song Yizhou changed the subject. Yongan was thin-skinned and couldn't stand teasing.

After Song Xi heard the busy man's words, the maid beside him took out the sword that had been prepared long ago and signed it.

The maid next to her said, "Her Highness said that she heard from the Prince that Miss Lin likes to dance with swords, so she specially ordered someone to make this sword to thank you for saving her life that day."

After hearing this, Lin Yan smiled and took the sword: "Thank you, Princess Yong'an, I like it very much."

Song Xi waved his hands and gestured.

The maid beside her said: "Your Highness hopes you will not call her by her title, but call her Xishui."

"Xishui is Yong'an's nickname," Song Yizhou explained, "I, the emperor's uncle, have been calling her by that title for so long, but I haven't seen her correct it."

When Song Xi saw that Lin Yan was too excited, and now heard the emperor's uncle say this, she couldn't help but doubt in her heart: "The emperor's uncle is always serious in front of her and Ajing, but now he is so patient in explaining."

After listening to Song Yizhou's explanation, Lin Yan hesitated for a moment and shouted to Song Xi: "River water."

After hearing this, Song Xi smiled with satisfaction.

It was getting late, so Song Yizhou ordered someone to serve the meal.

The dining table was very large, and Song Xi hurriedly sat next to Lin Yan, completely ignoring the murderous look in the emperor's uncle's eyes.

The dishes were served on the table one by one. Song Xi kept putting food into Lin Yan's bowl, his eyes shining as he looked at Lin Yan expectantly.

For some reason, Lin Yan felt for a moment that Song Xi resembled Aning, but Aning would not be so enthusiastic normally.

Suddenly thinking of Aning when she first followed her, Lin Yan suddenly realized that Aning at that time was just like Song Xi now, looking at her with bright eyes.

Song Yizhou was helpless about Song Xi's worthless look, so he held his forehead with his hand, coughed, and said, "Yong'an, sit down and eat well."

Song Xi slumped for a moment, then sat up straight.

After the meal, Song Yizhou ordered his men to escort the princess back to the palace. Song Xi was reluctant, but looking at the majestic eyes of the emperor's uncle, she had no choice but to say goodbye to Lin Yan reluctantly.

After watching Song Xi leave, Song Yizhou turned to Lin Yan and said, "I plan to send Yong'an to Shangde Academy."

Lin Yan was surprised: "Aren't the princes and princesses arranged to be taught in the Shangshufang? Why let her go to the academy?"

"Yong'an heard that you were a teacher at Shangde Academy and insisted on going there to find you. Later, I thought it might be feasible to let Yong'an go there. The children in the palace are all the children of Ajing's uncles. They didn't grow up with Yong'an since they were young, so Yong'an couldn't get close to them. In recent years, he has only been willing to get close to Ajing. Letting Yong'an go to the academy might help her speak."

After listening to this, Lin Yan nodded in agreement and said, "It's a good idea, but her identity as a princess may make the students in the academy restrained and afraid to get close to her."

"I thought of this, so I let Yong'an stay in the academy as a cousin of the Empress Dowager's mother's family, the Shen family," Song Yizhou replied.

This is the scene where Princess Yong'an Songxi appears in Shangde Academy.

Even though they hadn't seen each other for only one day, Song Xi felt like a long time had passed. When she saw Lin Yan, she couldn't help but want to say hello to her, but fortunately she resisted the urge.

The headmaster was informed in advance and left after handing Song Xi over to Lin Yan.

The girls in the class looked at the new classmate curiously.

Song Xi cannot speak, and the academy is not allowed to have maids. Lin Yan personally introduced Song Xi: "Her name is Chen Xi. She has been unable to speak since she was a child. She will be your classmate in the future. If anyone is found bullying her in the future, the academy will punish them severely."

Zhong Yuxi, who was standing behind, looked at her with disdain and thought to herself, "If someone didn't know her, they would think she was Princess Yong'an. She's so arrogant."

Lin Yan raised an eyebrow when he heard this. She was right. Thinking about how the other party had wanted to ask for help from Princess Yong'an before, he wondered what kind of expression he would have if he knew that Chen Xi was Yong'an.

Zhong Ningning looked at the new classmate who kept staring at her elder sister and felt something was wrong: "Oh my god, is she coming to steal my elder sister from me?"

On the day of Qiqiao Festival, Zhong Ningning did not pay much attention to the people around Song Yizhou. Half a month had passed since the incident, and Zhong Ningning had no impression of Song Xi at all.

Lin Yan had not yet told Zhong Ningning about Song Xi's affairs. On the one hand, he thought that since An Ning did not know Song Xi's identity, it would be easier for her to get along with her. On the other hand, if Zhong Yuxi had not intervened in the assassination, the two would have become good friends long ago.

Unfortunately, Lin Yan was wrong. Zhong Ningning had no good feelings towards this man who might steal her sister.