Chapter 81 Chapter 81 After Shen Xuan was sent home, he was fine...
After Shen Xuan was sent home, he had a good night's rest. The next morning, he learned that Jin Shiyue's leg injury was serious, so he decided to go to Jinning Palace to see how he was doing.
He took a carriage to the palace, and before he entered Jin Shiyue's yard, he heard him losing his temper outside.
"I've been lying like this for a whole day. I'm getting shabby. I don't know how long I'll have to lie like this!"
When he returned home that night, his entire right leg was swollen like a pig's trotter. Fortunately, he invited an imperial physician from the palace to see him. The doctor found that his bones were not injured, but only his meridians were sprained. He would need to rest for more than three months to recover.
Chen Xuan felt a little guilty after hearing this. If it weren't for him, the Princess of Jinning would not have been implicated.
He came to the door and knocked. The attendant beside Jin Shiyue said, "County Lady, it's Brother Chen who came to see you."
Jin Shiyue regained some energy and quickly turned around and said, "Please invite Brother Chen in quickly. I'm so bored. I want to talk to him."
After hearing this, Shen Xuan walked in directly, sat down beside Jin Shiyue's bed and said, "I came to see how you were injured. I'm relieved to see that you are still in good spirits."
"You have to take good care of your leg injury. Don't disobey the doctor's advice, or you may develop a chronic disease."
When Jin Shiyue saw Shen Xuan, she asked her attendants to put a large bed behind her, and she sat on it and talked to him: "That day you led so many bandits away by yourself, but I was scared to death. I was worried that you might meet with an accident. Now it seems that you are stronger than me!"
"It was also my good luck that I met the patrolling soldiers of the Ye family halfway through my run, and they scared the thieves away." Shen Xuan said with a smile.
"Yes, the suburbs of Beijing have always been protected by the Imperial Guards, and there are people patrolling and guarding them all the time, so there are usually no bandits." Jin Shiyue said after hearing this: "I don't know what happened this time, but those disaster victims were so bold that they dared to form bandits in the mountains! Aren't they afraid of being caught and beheaded by Lord Ye!"
After hearing this, Shen Xuan did not say anything further, but smiled at Jin Shiyue and said, “They are ignorant and fearless. Lord Ye has already sent people to patrol the mountain.”
"Yes! Catch them quickly and chop them to death one by one. Let's see if anyone dares to be so presumptuous in the suburbs of Beijing." Jin Shiyue cursed angrily.
His movements while speaking were just a little too big, affecting his right leg, and he cried out in pain with his teeth grimacing again.
Shen Xuan hurriedly said, "You should lie down and rest. I'm leaving." Jin Shiyue quickly grabbed his sleeve and said, "No, no, no, don't leave me alone and get bored."
After that, he asked his attendants to go to the kitchen and ask them to make almond cheese. He then said to Shen Xuan, "The almond cheese in our Jinning Palace is not available anywhere else. The taste is really unique. Would you like to try it?"
The almond cheese in the Jinning Palace was taught by the imperial chef appointed by the previous emperor from the palace. Shen Xuan tasted it and felt that the cheese was tender and smooth, but the surface had a layer of crispy sugar skin. The taste is sweet and sour, really delicious.
Jin Shiyue asked the chef to make one flavor each for Shen Xuan to taste, a total of six flavors. There are original flavor, egg milk, osmanthus, honey, matcha, etc.
The six flavors were all the same and only the size of a teacup, but after eating them all, Shen Xuan felt a little full and couldn't even eat lunch.
"This almond cheese is really good." Shen Xuan put down the spoon and said to Jin Shiyue: "Now I have finished my meal, can I leave now?"
Jin Shiyue said in a somewhat unreasonable way: "No, why don't you stay in the palace and have dinner today. Otherwise, I will be lying here alone, and people will read to me. I will be so bored."
Shen Xuan then sighed and said, "If you don't take good care of your injuries and lie down according to the doctor's orders, if you end up disabled, how can you find a good marriage?"
Upon hearing this, Jin Shiyue said, "If no one wants it, then no one wants it. Anyway, the men I'm looking at now are not good. It's better to be unmarried for the rest of my life than to marry someone I don't like."
After hearing this, Shen Xuan raised his eyebrows and asked, "After I left that day, how did Young Master Yang behave? Wasn't he as good as you expected?"
When Jin Shiyue heard Shen Xuan suddenly mention Yang Xu in advance, she blushed and said, "He is a good person. He insisted on saving me that day. He is much better than those mediocre people."
Seeing Jin Shiyue's strange expression, Shen Xuan smiled and said, "If that's the case, then why don't you try to marry this Young Master Yang?"
Jin Shiyue blushed and said, "Don't talk nonsense. How can a brother have the final say on such matters? It depends on the parents' agreement and the matchmaker's words. It also depends on what Young Master Yang thinks in his heart. It is not something I can decide alone."
"Mr. Yang treats you like that, so he must have some feelings for you." Chen Xuan chased Jin Shiyue and said, "I heard that you were a bit aggressive before, but now you are a silver-plated spear. You really met the right person, but you don't dare to go up to him?"
Jin Shiyue was so embarrassed by Shen Xuan that she couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Alright, alright, don't you want to go home? Can't I let you go?"
Shen Xuan stood up with a smile and said, "Then I'll leave first. County Master, you should stay at home and take good care of yourself. Who knows, maybe Young Master Yang will come to visit you."
After saying that, he turned around and walked out with a laugh, leaving Jin Shiyue wishing she could get under the quilt. She recalled every detail of her time with Yang Xu that day, and a hint of anticipation rose in her heart.
Besides, although Shen Xuan told Lord Ye not to let Xue Fenglin know about this matter, so as not to delay his future imperial examination. But such a big event also frightened the servants in the mansion that day. After many twists and turns, this matter finally reached Xue Fenglin's ears.
Shen Xuan returned from the Jinning Palace. As soon as he arrived home, he saw a familiar carriage.
"Huh?" He turned around in surprise and found that Xue Fenglin had been standing behind him without him noticing. He held him tightly in his arms with a forbearing look on his face. After a long while, he said, "Fortunately, you are okay, otherwise I would be so guilty that I would die!"
“Xue Fenglin, I’m a little out of breath.” Shen Xuan said in a low voice.
Xue Fenglin then let him go, but still did not allow him to leave his side. He just held his hand all the way to the house, and after closing the door, he said, "If I hadn't sent Wuxin to deliver something this morning, I would have known from Suyun and Suyue that you were in danger yesterday. How long would you have kept it a secret from me?"
Chen Xuan knew that Xue Fenglin would be furious and anxious if he knew he was attacked, so he softened his tone and said to him, "It's just that you will take the Spring Examination in a few days, and I'm afraid it will affect your future, so I specifically asked Lord Ye to wait until you finish the exam, but in the end you still found out."
"You just came here like this. Aren't you going to the Imperial College today? The Spring Examination will be held in a few days."
"That requires me to see with my own eyes that you are safe and sound." Xue Fenglin glared at Shen Xuan fiercely before saying, "If not, how can I calm down and take the exam? Do you think I am heartless?"
"That's true." Shen Xuan smiled when he heard that, and a warm feeling surged in his heart. He then took Xue Fenglin's hand and said, "Then to apologize, I will cook a meal for you today?"
Thinking of the delicacies made by Shen Xuan, Xue Fenglin was really greedy. He hesitated for a while before saying, “Don’t make something complicated. Just something faster will do. As long as it’s made by you, it’s fine.”
Shen Xuan then asked Huang the cook to prepare a lot of dishes and cut them all. Then he took out some of the red oil base that he had made earlier, put it on the stove, added chicken soup and started cooking.
He asked Jin Zhi Jingui to light a stove in his room, put the boiling pot on the stove, and then served the dishes prepared by Huang the cook to the table. He said to Xue Fenglin: "Let's have a hot pot today. This is the simplest and the taste is also excellent."
It was the first time Xue Fenglin had seen a hot pot. After looking at it for a while, he said, "This looks a bit similar to the red oil skewers, but it also seems different."
"Each has its own flavor." Shen Xuan said with a smile, and put many things such as bean curd sticks, winter melon, and meat slices into the pot. He also added a bowl of rice for himself and Xue Fenglin.
After a while, the food was cooked and floated up. Shen Xuan scooped it out with a slotted spoon and put it into Xue Fenglin's bowl, saying to him, "It's ready to eat."
Xue Fenglin took a bite and found the meat slices tender and delicious, the winter melon very soft and glutinous, with a spicy and numbing pepper aroma.
In addition to these two, bean curd skin is another must-try. The cooked bean curd sheets are soaked in the rich aroma of the red oil chicken soup. When you put it in your mouth, it feels like you have drunk a whole mouthful of soup, which is amazing.
Shen Xuan couldn't wait to take a bite, letting the delicious soup soothe his mouth. Seeing that Xue Fenglin seemed to enjoy it very much, he smiled and said, "Since you like hot pot so much, I can open a hot pot restaurant when the famine is over this autumn."
"Why are you thinking about making money?" Xue Fenglin felt helpless when he heard this. He shook his head and said, "You encountered such a big thing yesterday. Aren't you afraid at all?"
"I'm scared." Shen Xuan said, "When I was halfway through the race, my horse couldn't run any longer. I was also scared. I thought, if I die here, what will you do? If your performance in the Spring Examination is greatly affected, Lord Ye will also be impeached. How will you deal with it?"
Xue Fenglin put down his chopsticks and listened carefully to Shen Xuan’s words.
After hearing what he said, he swore with even more heartache: "I will repay the person who attacked you yesterday double in the future!"
"All of these incidents are aimed at you and the Ye family." Shen Xuan then said, "If something happens to me, you and the Ye family will become the first targets of suspicion, and you will definitely be impeached in the court."
"Even if you can clear yourself of the suspicion of murdering me, those thieves disguised themselves as disaster victims to deliberately frame Lord Ye."
"You should know that Lord Ye was in charge of the resettlement of disaster victims in the suburbs of Beijing. If there are disaster victims who really disobey the rules and run into the forest to form bandits and harm others, it is also Lord Ye's failure to supervise properly."
"Yes, this incident is aimed at the Ye family, and it's not the first time." Xue Fenglin narrowed his eyes, apparently guessing who was behind the attack, but he didn't say anything more to Shen Xuan.
After the New Year, the second prince was sent by Emperor Wu of Jin to take charge of locust control in the northwest. He brought with him tens of thousands of mallards that he had prepared in advance. Wherever they went, the locust larvae were completely eradicated, with remarkable results.
As a capable subordinate of his faction, Lord Ye did a very orderly job in resettling the disaster victims at the beginning of the year.
Now that a large number of disaster victims have returned to their hometowns to start spring ploughing, the northwest of Shanxi has gradually regained its former prosperous scene.
Unlike the second prince who was in the limelight, the eldest prince's task of stabilizing prices was not going smoothly.
After all, it is only spring now and there are still more than a few months until the autumn harvest.
Seeing that the disaster victims outside Beijing had left, the city gates were reopened, allowing communication with other places. However, prices in the capital have always been inflated, and the people have been complaining.
Emperor Wu of Jin also severely reprimanded the eldest prince for this reason, accusing him of failing to do his job well.
When the court officials saw this, they began to speculate whether Emperor Wu of Jin had the idea of appointing a crown prince because of this incident, and they all chose to take sides.
The eldest prince must have been a little anxious, so he wanted to start with the Ye family, erase the credit of Lord Ye for resettling the victims, and cut off the second prince's right-hand man.
After finishing the hotpot, Xue Fenglin spent some time with Shen Xuan before leaving late at night and returning to live in Meihua Lane next to the Imperial College.
In the backyard of the Bai family, Bai and Bai Yan sat around the table. She looked at the tall and big men kneeling in the house and angrily scolded, "If you can't even take care of a little boy, what's the point of keeping you?"
These guards were specially selected by his brother to do the secret work. They were all tall and strong, and were usually kept with a few taels of silver a month with good food and shelter.
However, it was okay that I failed to deal with Xue Fenglin last time. Now he is just a country boy, but he didn't succeed and managed to escape to the Ye family camp.
"Madam, please calm down. Next time we see that guy, we will definitely not let him leave alive." The big man in the lead said hurriedly.
"Now that we've alerted the enemy, the Ye family has been prepared. What's the point of talking about next time?" Bai said harshly.
Bai Yan, who was standing beside him, frowned and said, "That's true. If we attack next time, we will probably be caught. If the Ye family finds out that this matter is related to us and the eldest prince, it will be bad. We must never do this again!"
"Chen Xuan's move is a failure. This country boy is so carefree. I asked him to help me with something, but he went straight to curry favor with Xue Fenglin and the Ye family!" Bai was furious when she thought of what Chen Xuan had done.
If she hadn't brought Shen Xuan from the countryside to the capital, how could he have such good fortune today?
In the past, it was only Bai who treated people as pawns, but today, she was used as a springboard by this country boy!
"Brother, how is the bloodline of the Shen family that you mentioned last time doing now?" Bai thought for a moment before asking.
"Of course, it's for my use." Bai Yan said after hearing this: "The Shen family has been silent for a long time. How can we let go of the opportunity to revive the family?"
"It's just that last time you heard that the Shen family is also a prominent family in Qizhou in the south, and the boys and girls in the family are good at playing the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, so you said that it is not as good as Shen Xuan, a country boy with a low status."
"At that time, I didn't know that Shen Xuan was so wild and difficult to control." Bai said with some annoyance: "If I had known this earlier, I might as well use the Shen family directly. It would be better than bringing them back to the capital now and having to think of another excuse."
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