Yan Shang closed the door of the study and turned back to look at Mu Wanyao.
Mu Wan was very devoted in pretending to be drunk, but she held the wine jar tightly, afraid of dropping it, which made Yan Shang see her motives very clearly.
Yan Shang sighed: "Your Highness, do you think I'm a fool?"
Mu Wan leaned against the bookshelf pretending to be drunk, resting her forehead on the back of her hand, her eyelashes trembling twice. She didn't want to face the reality, so she kept humming: "I'm really a little drunk, I feel so hot here. I feel dizzy, Brother Yan, you don't care about me at all."
Yan Shang smiled and said, "Aren't you so drunk that you don't recognize who I am?"
Mu Wan shook: "..."
She covered her face and eyes with her hands, and looked at Yan Shang through her fingers. Seeing Yan Shang sitting on the other side of the long table, she lowered her head and glanced at the wine bottle she placed on the table. Mu Wanyao's heart immediately beat fast, because just now when Yan Shang knocked on the door, she was scared and spilled the wine, and there might be traces left in the wine bottle...
Before Yan Shang could take a closer look, a moon-white skirt flashed before his eyes, and Mu Wan stumbled and fell over, lying on the table. Her arm hit the wine bottle, and when she felt the pain, Yan Shang quickly lifted the wine bottle, fearing that she would push it to the ground and break it.
Having said that, there is no time to check whether there is wine in the wine jar.
But he was worried about Mu Wanyao, so after putting the wine jar down, he looked up and heard a "bang". The wine jar in the princess' arms was thrown onto the table.
Mu Wanyao had been peeking at Yan Shang through her fingers. When she saw him looking at her, she quickly lay down, rubbing her forehead and complaining about a headache.
Yan Shang disagreed: "Your Highness!"
How can you entertain him like this?
Mu Wan said stubbornly, "I'm really drunk and I really have a headache!"
Yan Shang hesitated slightly. He didn't quite believe her because he knew how much she could drink. However, the young princess's cheeks were flushed, and she covered her face and cried out that she felt uncomfortable. She was so delicate and weak, so he was worried that she really felt uncomfortable.
Yan Shang: "Can I rub your forehead for you?"
Mu Wan turned her head towards him and gave him a seductive look.
Yan Shang came over and put his cool fingers on her forehead. He sat beside her, rubbing her forehead while looking down at her. Mu Wan leaned on the table, humming, which made Yan Shang blush and said, "Don't do this anymore."
He lowered his eyes and met the girl's stealthy glances at him.
Yan Shang was stunned, then put down his hand and said, "I knew you were not drunk, you were just trying to trick me."
Seeing that he was about to leave, Mu Wan smiled and pulled his sleeve and shook it: "If I knew you were not angry, I wouldn't pretend. I just confirmed that you are really not angry."
Yan Shang's sleeve was pulled by her. She didn't use much force, but he seemed to be pulled to the spot, unable to move. Yan Shang hated himself for being unprincipled, but he just said, "I wasn't angry in the first place. It was you who insisted on swearing to me that you would never drink again. I never asked you to do that. I just asked you to drink less."
Mu Wanyao: "I just have a bad memory. Who told you to always say drinking is bad? It's all your fault. If you hadn't always told me that, why would I have hidden the wine?"
Yan Shang glared at her and met her cat-like eyes: "So it's my fault again?"
Mu Wan bit her lip and winked at him. He blushed and whispered, "Okay, I won't say anything about you. Actually, I didn't say anything about you... because I was drinking secretly myself."
Mu Wanyao immediately looked up, eyes wide open: "Huh?"
Yan Shang's face turned even redder because of her surprise, and he coughed: "Didn't you say that my inability to drink is a shortcoming? I know it myself, so I have been practicing secretly. Sometimes I try to drink a little at night. I think if I continue to practice like this, at least I won't get dizzy when I touch alcohol."
Mu Wanyao: "You really... even practiced drinking?"
There is no answer yet.
Mu Wan shook his arm and asked excitedly, as if sharing a little secret between them, "How much can you drink now? Can you drink without fainting?"
Yan Shang smiled: "I can sip muddy wine a little, but I still can't touch clear wine. But after a while, I should be able to get better."
There are two types of wine in this world: muddy wine and clear wine. Muddy wine has a low alcohol content, is not clear enough, and is not easy to get drunk. This kind of wine is like white water in Mu Wanyao's eyes, bland and tasteless. However, Yan Shang can still taste muddy wine, which is always a progress and needs encouragement.
Mu Wanyao quickly pushed the wine jars and wine jars away from the table and said, "All I have here is clear wine. I dare not give it to you."
Yan Shang smiled: "I know."
Mu Wanyao thought about it and still wanted to test Yan Shang. She clapped her hands and told the maid outside to go to the isolated Yan Shang's mansion to get some muddy wine. When the muddy wine came, Mu Wanyao poured a small cup and took a sip quietly. She felt that it was indeed tasteless and could hardly taste the wine.
Mu Wanyao frowned in disdain and pushed the wine bottle to Yan Shang.
Yan Shang was stunned for a moment and looked at her.
Mu Wanyao lowered his eyes to look at the wine bottle and urged: "Drink it. Let me see if you can drink it."
Yan Shang hesitated: "But...didn't His Highness sip wine from this wine bottle just now? Isn't this His Highness's wine bottle? How can I use the same wine bottle as His Highness?"
Mu Wan raised her eyes and said with a frown: "Why, do you dislike my saliva?"
Yan Shang: "Of course not. It's just that this is not good..."
Mu Wanyao was getting impatient: "I don't know how many times you've lain in bed with me, and now you're afraid to drink the same glass of water with me. Don't be so pretentious. Drink!"
She held the cup in her hand and brought it to Yan Shang's lips, with a forcing posture. Under this posture, Yan Shang could only grab her arm and sip the wine helplessly.
After that, the two of them were silent, and Mu Wanyao stared at him nervously.
After sitting quietly for a while, Mu Wan suddenly leaned close to his heart and said, "Your heartbeat has quickened a little."
She touched his forehead again and fussed, “The temperature on your face is a little higher, too.”
She waved her hand in front of him: "Are you still awake?"
Yan Shang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he took her hand off and held it in his. He said it was okay, this little bit of wine was no problem. Mu Wanyao was still observing him seriously, and Yan Shang also looked down at her. After looking at her for a long time, he couldn't help but smile.
That kind of smile that is extremely restrained, yet comfortable and gentle.
Mu Wanyao was surprised what he was laughing at.
Yan Shang whispered: "It's just that I haven't seen Your Highness for a long time. It's been a long time since I saw Your Highness care about me so much. I just miss you a little."
As he spoke, his face turned red again.
Mu Wan was stunned for a moment, then she started to laugh along with him. She was sure that he should be fine now, so she rested her chin on her hand and leaned against the long table with relief: "Because you are busy recently. I am also busy."
Yan Shang whispered: "But you shouldn't be so busy that you can't even see each other a few times."
He ran into Mu Wanyao in the alley several times, but the two of them only glanced at each other briefly and didn't say much.
This is because they are neighbors and can often run into each other. If Yan Shang didn't live here, Yan Shang really didn't know how he could see Mu Wanyao so often.
Yan Shang said softly: "I really want to see His Highness every day and be with His Highness."
Mu Wanyao slowly looked at Yan Shang who was kneeling beside her. His eyelids slightly lifted, and his dark eyes looked at her, his expression gentle and focused. It was like a stone thrown into a lake, which made Mu Wanyao's heart slightly moved, and her cheeks were hot when he looked at her.
She turned her face slightly and stammered like a quail, "You are a little drunk, and you are talking nonsense. We could have seen each other every day."
Yan Shang was silent for a moment.
He knew that she had once again circumvented his hints—he wanted to talk to her about the future, but she kept avoiding it.
Seeing Yan Shang didn't say anything, Mu Wanyao took the initiative to please him: "What do you want to talk to me about today? You didn't come here just to see me, did you?"
Yan Shang said softly, "Can't I come to see Your Highness if I have nothing to do? Does it have to be something every time I visit Your Highness?"
Mu Wanyao was almost driven to death by him, her eyes widened: "So you are fine, you came to see me?"
Yan Shang paused, his tone less firm: "...I really have something to do this time."
Mu Wanyao immediately glanced at him mischievously and said confidently again: "Look at you."
Yan Shang was helpless and hated himself for always finding something to do. His self-forcing behavior gave Mu Wanyao the impression that he would not come to her unless he had something to do.
Yan Shang reminded himself to pay attention to this issue in the future. This time, he could only focus on the key point: "Didn't His Highness say that he had a backup plan for the last incident at Nanshan? He said that he had found someone who looked very similar to the Wuman King, and could almost be mistaken for the real thing? Is this person still in the Princess's Mansion?"
Mu Wanyao explained, "Not that similar. It takes a little bit of changing of appearance to be similar. However, the body shape and height are the same. This person is still in the mansion. I can't easily get rid of him now, because I'm afraid that something will happen to King Wuman. But why are you asking about this person?"
Yan Shang raised the corner of his lips, with some joy in his eyes: "Your Highness, please lend this man to me. When the military exercise begins tomorrow, maybe this man can play a big role."
Mu Wan shook: "It's up to you."
She answered him so casually, because of his serious attitude towards official business, which reminded Mu Wanyao that he seemed to have several letters that he had not replied to.
The military exercise will begin tomorrow, and the literary duel will naturally begin as well. The "merit stone" that I asked the Jinling Li family to transport from the south has arrived in Chang'an and will be displayed tomorrow. I should write back to the Jinling Li family and tell them about the situation in Chang'an.
Mu Wanyao took out a piece of letter paper and began to write a letter.
Yan Shang finished thinking about his own affairs, turned his attention to Mu Wanyao, and couldn't help being a little absent-minded. The girl was sitting next to him, but today, since he sat down, she didn't lean over like she did in the past and took the initiative to lean into his arms.
She didn't hold his arm, nor did she hug his neck, nor did she... nor did she kiss him.
Yan Shang felt a little disappointed, staring at her profile in a trance, wondering why she didn't come and kiss him.
Perhaps it was because the aftereffects of the wine had only just begun to kick in, Yan Shang felt his heart beating so fast. His fingers were numb, and he stared at her red lips, unable to take his eyes away.
Mu Wanyao was writing, and when she felt his gaze, she turned her head to look at him. Her eyes were like water, her lips were red, and her skin was white. She turned her face away indifferently, and Yan Shang's heart was pounding and his throat was a little dry.
Afraid of losing control, Yan Shang lowered his eyes.
Mu Wanyao rolled her eyes and said coquettishly, "Second Brother Yan, look at me!"
Yan Shang looked over, his eyes involuntarily falling on her lips again. He said in a hoarse voice: "What's wrong?"
Mu Wanyao rubbed his wrist and said unhappily, "My hand hurts from writing. I don't want to write anymore."
Yan Shang paused and said, "Then don't write it."
Mu Wan shook her head: "No. This letter must be sent before tonight."
Yan Shang was distracted for a moment.
Mu Wan shook him and pushed him, staring at him asking why he was distracted again.
He didn't dare to look at her, his eyes flickered, he just kept drooping his eyelids, and asked in embarrassment: "Then what do you want to do, Your Highness?"
Mu Wan smiled and said, "Second Brother Yan, please help me write it."
Yan Shang: "How can this be..."
Mu Wanyao stood up suddenly, pushed him to sit in her seat, put the pen in his hand and asked him to write a reply for her. She knelt behind him, put her hands on his waist, chin on his shoulder, and the fragrance of a girl brushed against his red ears.
Mu Wan shook slowly: "I'll tell you the content of the letter, and you write it for me..."
She put her hand on his waist, Yan Shang looked down, not knowing whether she did it on purpose or unintentionally. When he was a little confused about whether he was too dirty, Mu Wanyao urged him to start writing again.
Yan Shang's heart was beating fast, and he tried to suppress it. He calmed down and felt a little dizzy. He didn't know if it was because of her or the alcohol. He felt that he had written a lot of words, and the palm of his hand holding the pen was sweating.
Mu Wan shook behind him unhappily: "You are distracted again! What's wrong with you?"
As if as a punishment, she turned her face and threw the gold leaf-shaped earrings on her ears onto Yan Shang's face.
The crisp "pop", accompanied by the flickering light of the candle on the table, hit the two people's hearts like ripples.
Yan Shang stopped writing and sat there in a daze. He suddenly put down the pen, turned around, and hugged Mu Wanyao, who was looking at him quietly, into his arms and hugged her waist.
He was a little too strong, and he dragged her from behind and dragged her into his arms, sitting in front of him. Mu Wanyao was hugged by him and faced him, and her thin waist suddenly hit the table behind her. She was almost overwhelmed by Yan Shang, and she opened her eyes wide, and Yan Shang leaned over and hugged her.
Mu Wan shook and yelled: "Yan Shang, what are you doing!"
She thought: He is so excited.
Yan Shang lowered his head to look at her. He probably didn't know how straight his eyes were when he looked at her. He stroked her face with his fingers and whispered, "Your Highness, do you want to, do you want to..."
Mu Wan shook: "What am I thinking?"
Yan Shang hesitated for a while, then said shyly, "Do you want a kiss?"
Mu Wan was stunned, then glanced at his slightly red eyes and said, "I don't want to!"
Yan Shang: “…”
His disappointment was obvious, and he stared at her blankly. He still hesitated: "Aren't you teasing me?"
Mu Wanyao: "You are 'a lecher who sees lechery', right? When did I tease you?"
Mu Wanyao yelled loudly, teasing him in her heart and speaking righteously. She raised her eyelids and waited to see what he would do. Did he give up just because she said she didn't want to?
Yan Shang seemed to calm down a little and said, "I'm sorry."
Mu Wan was shocked.
He actually let go of her and pulled her up. He stopped looking at her and took the pen to write a letter.
Mu Wan shook: "..."
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Yan Shang spent an hour with Mu Wanyao, but when he finally left the princess's mansion, he didn't get anything.
When he was about to leave, he wanted to say something to her, but Mu Wanyao just waved at him with a smile. Yan Shang had no choice but to leave.
After returning to his residence, washing his face and regaining some normality in his mind, Yan Shang thought about tomorrow's military drill and went to bed early.
In the middle of the night, when he was half asleep, he suddenly felt something rustling, and the moonlight from outside the bed curtain shone in. Yan Shang opened his eyes, and was frightened by Mu Wanyao, who was kneeling beside the bed and looking down at him, and his heartbeat almost went out of control.
He stood up in a daze, and Muwan shook his head and said "hush" to him.
Yan Shang was confused: "Am I... dreaming?"
In the dark, without a light, the bed curtains were illuminated by the moonlight. Mu Wan lay on the bedside and whispered to him in a low voice: "I remembered that I have something to tell you, so I came here to tell you."
Yan Shang: “What?”
Mu Wanyao said solemnly: "I wish you a successful start and that you will get what you want. I hope that tomorrow's military exercise will achieve the results you want."
Yan Shang sat up with his hands supporting his upper body and looked at her in confusion. He couldn't understand why she would sneak over here in the middle of the night to say this.
Mu Wanyao urged: "Won't you bless me?"
Yan Shang was confused: "Then I... also wish your Highness a successful literary contest?"
Mu Wan nodded with satisfaction. After saying this, she left her knees beside the bed, lowered the curtains for him, and was about to leave.
Yan Shang: “…”
He was almost driven crazy by her!
Mu Wan turned her back, and the bed curtain behind her was opened again. Yan Shang hugged her and carried her inside. She said "no" with a cry, but Yan Shang gritted his teeth and dragged her back to the bed. She was pressed under him, and his long hair fell on her face, itching her.
Yan Shang: "Your Highness is leaving now? Leaving again? Is Your Highness torturing me on purpose?"
Mu Wan bit her lip and smiled. He pressed her down and she kept laughing while covering her eyes. Her eyebrows were dancing with joy and her face was flushed. He bent down to kiss her face and eyes. He was out of breath, but she just kept laughing.
Mu Wan shook his head and sighed, "You are such a weird person. When I get close to you, you get really nervous. When I don't get close to you, you complain and blame me for ignoring you. You are such a troublesome person. How can I know what you want?"
Yan Shang blushed and said angrily: "I never hated you coming near me! Don't you know that?"
He was really driven crazy by her, or perhaps the night brought some private courage, allowing him to say things that he dared not say on ordinary days.
She lay under him, so soft and fragrant. He only needed to kiss her to be fascinated and couldn't help wanting more.
Mu Wan shook her eyes and said loudly: "But you never said you liked it!"
Yan Shang was frightened by her voice, and covered her mouth with his hand, blushing and saying, "Don't be so loud. Your Highness, don't you want your reputation anymore?"
Mu Wan rolled her eyes.
In the darkness, Yan Shang seemed to be able to really see her movements and kissed her eyes: "Young lady, don't do such indecent actions."
Mu Wanyao didn't blush just now, but now she blushed when he kissed her eyelids. She whimpered and hugged his neck, asking him to press down on her. But he refused, still supporting himself with his arms, afraid of hurting her. Mu Wanyao was touched and liked it, and she also opened her mouth and kissed the tip of his nose.
Mu Wan shook her head and said, "I want to tell you that if you want to get close to me in the future, just take the initiative. If you don't take the initiative, I will ignore you."
Yan Shang: "...Can I take the initiative?"
Mu Wanyao was angry and amused: "It's OK even when I'm not annoying."
Hearing this, he was a little confused about when she would hate him and when she would like him.
Yan Shang hesitated: "What about now...?"
Mu Wan shook his head and frowned: "Let's go to bed now."
Yan Shang: ...Oh.
He let go of her wrist and turned over reluctantly. He was confused and wondered if she would not return home tonight and sleep with him. But he didn't dare to say it. As long as he got close to her, he couldn't help it... Yan Shang sighed softly and turned his back.
In the darkness, neither of them spoke.
After a while, Mu Wan shook her head and stared at his stiff back: "You sleep like a dead person. The girl sleeps next to you, but you don't move at all."
Yan Shang turned his back to her and said nothing.
Mu Wanyao rolled her eyes and guessed what he meant, that he was afraid that he could not control himself. Mu Wanyao gently moved closer and rested her head on his back.
His body was as stiff as a stone. Mu Wan laughed and put her arms around his waist from behind, hugging him, resting her forehead against his back and closing her eyes.
Mu Wanyao smiled and said, "Second Brother Yan, after the military exercise is over, and after King Wuman and the envoys have left Chang'an, I will give you a big gift, okay?"
Yan Shang: "What kind of gift? Are you sure I like it?"
In the dark night, Mu Wan looked at his back and said solemnly: "You will definitely like it."
Such a sweet night.
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The next day, military exercises and literary competitions began.
Before dawn, Mu Wanyao was pushed awake, and Yan Shang reminded her to go back to her princess's mansion to sleep when no one was watching. Mu Wanyao wanted to say that it was nothing, and the servants of the two families knew about their relationship. But Yan Shang was worried about her reputation, so Mu Wanyao sighed and listened to him obediently, yawning as he sent her back to sleep for a nap.
When Mu Wanyao woke up again, Yan Erlang had already left the mansion and the literary duel had begun.
The literary fight and military exercises were held at the same time, each lasting three days. For convenience, both were held on the outskirts of the city, with the literary fight at Leyouyuan and the military exercises backed by Nanshan, leaving a distance of nearly ten miles between the two sides.
When I rode my horse to Leyouyuan in the evening, I could hear the ground shaking.
When he dismounted, Leyouyuan was already surrounded by nobles. There were many nobles' private houses in Fanchuan next to Leyouyuan. During the literary duel, the nobles who could not go to the military parade gathered here. When Mu Wanyao heard that the emperor's sedan chair was coming, he went to greet it in person and asked a noble lady next to him: "The ground is shaking so much, are horses used in the military parade?"
The noble lady was fascinated and smiled as she replied to the princess, "Yes. I heard that both sides used cavalry."
Mu Wan was stunned, then understood.
The use of cavalry shows that the combined armies of Wei and other countries attach great importance to this military exercise, and not just infantry and archers. Cavalry is almost invincible on the plains, and both sides use it, which shows that both sides want to win.
The emperor got off the sedan chair and saw the little girl talking to the woman next to her. The emperor waved to Mu Wan, who went over to help him.
The emperor took the initiative to ask: "I heard that you got some 'merit stone'?"
Mu Wan was stunned for a moment and nodded. She didn't expect the emperor to take the initiative to care about what she did. She thought she had to lay a lot of groundwork before her father would be interested.
However, as soon as the emperor arrived, he showed his interest: "Accompany me to take a look."
The emperor paused, looked at the little girl, and sighed, "You are the one who presided over this literary competition? Thank you for your hard work."
Mu Wanyao was not used to the kindness shown by the emperor, so she smiled perfunctorily. She did not disguise her expression. The prince behind her coughed as a reminder, but the emperor turned around and looked at the prince with an indifferent expression.
The prince paused and stopped talking about Mu Wanyao.
Mu Wanyao and the emperor went to see the "Stone of Merit" together. An eunuch came on horseback and reported the situation at the military parade: "Both sides have demarcated their spheres of influence and are preparing to go to war."
The emperor nodded: "Hmm...Yaoyao is worried?"
He saw Mu Wanyao looking in the direction of the military parade with a worried look in his eyes. The emperor seemed to be thinking: "What is Yaoyao worried about, or who is he worried about?"
He meant to care.
Mu Wanyao was immediately alert: "I'm just curious about the military exercise, I don't care about anyone."
The emperor was silent for a moment, then smiled. Knowing that his daughter was wary of him, he stopped talking.
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While at the parade ground of the Wei Dynasty, in the main camp, several generals were discussing the strategy of attack, but something not too small happened here.
Yan Shang and Yang Si were speechless as they looked at the soldier who was brought in by the soldiers.
The soldier was forced to wipe his face and take off his helmet, revealing a delicate girl, Yang Si's cousin, Concubine Zhao Wuniang.
Yang Si looked up at the sky: "...How did you get here?"
Zhao Lingfei stood in front of several young generals with a smile, greeted her cousin, glanced at Yan Shang shyly, and then said generously: "I am not good at literary fighting, but I am very interested in your affairs. Second brother Yan, don't blame my cousin, my cousin didn't know I wanted to come. I sneaked in."
Yang Si folded his arms in response to the disapproving looks from several generals, "I really don't know."
Zhao Lingfei was patting her chest and assuring: "Don't worry about me, just let me go to the battlefield. I'm very good at martial arts, if you don't believe me, ask my cousin."
Yang Si sneered: "Why are you asking me? I don't know."
Concubine Zhao Ling was angry: "You! You have no sense of loyalty!"
Yan Shang felt a headache and laughed at how bold Concubine Zhao Ling was.
Concubine Zhao Lingfei said that she could be used as an ordinary soldier, but who would dare to bully a little girl like this?
Yan Shang was just pondering when the door of the military camp was pushed open and Wei Shu came in. Wei Shu was holding a booklet and wanted to talk to a few people here about military rations.
The handsome young man didn't even raise his head before Yan Shang arranged for him: "Juyuan, you are in charge of the rear, and the task is heavy. I will arrange someone to protect you. Lingfei, you follow Juyuan and protect him."
Zhao Lingfei: "Why? Why don't you let me go to the battlefield? I don't want to protect people. Brother Yan, why are you like this? Cousin, won't you say something for me?"
Wei Shu slowly raised his head, confused: ...Did he hear a girl's voice here?
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