Yan Shisheng waited outside the house with a bowl of medicine, and asked the princess inside for instructions.
But it was obvious that Mu Wanyao was sick and could not answer him.
When Yan Shisheng entered, he saw that the house was quiet. The maids were doing their respective duties, some holding whisks to sweep the utensils, some standing in front of the window carefully pruning the branches of flowers... In short, they were all very focused, almost too focused.
Walking around the screen, he saw the lush green curtains hanging low, with scent bags and golden balls adorning the corners. The entire inner room had the youthful beauty of a girl. But today, it seemed that incense was burning.
He opened the curtain and saw Mu Wan sleeping with her eyes closed, her fair face half hidden under the quilt, only her milky white forehead showing. The light from the curtain he opened startled her, she grabbed the quilt with her hands, and her face gradually emerged from under the quilt. Her dark eyes were as clear as water, and her nose was beautiful and friendly.
Yan Shisheng sat beside the couch and stretched out his arm to help her up. His voice was softer than usual: "Yaoyao, you woke up so early today? Did you sleep well last night? It's time to get up and take medicine."
Mu Wanyao stared at him intently without saying anything.
Since she was like this two days ago, Yan Shisheng didn't do anything and continued to coax her to get up with soft words. The princess slowly got up from the warm bed. She was probably suffocating, and her whole face was a little red when he held her in his arms.
Yan Shisheng lowered his eyes and saw that under her thick black long hair, her eyelashes were slightly curled up, and her face was slightly powdered, so it was impossible to see what her expression was.
Like a magician, he took out a candy from his sleeve and stuffed it into her mouth when she opened it.
Mu Wan shook his head and his mouth was filled with food: "..."
His cheeks were bulging from being stuffed.
When she wanted to get angry at him for overstepping his bounds, her good manners prevented her from spitting out the food she had stuffed into her mouth. She could only chew the candy in her mouth with great force, and it was sweet but not greasy, and even a little sour...
What kind of candy?
Yan Shisheng scooped a spoonful of thick black medicine and wanted to feed it into her mouth.
The lady in his arms was already awake. She was just pretending to be awake to test what he had done to her. Since she had already woken up, Mu Wanyao certainly refused to drink the medicine. She said faintly, "So this is how you tricked a poor sick person into drinking medicine?"
Yan Shisheng's hand holding the medicine spoon trembled slightly.
Leaning on his shoulder and refusing to drink the medicine, Mu Wan slowly raised her eyes and looked at him intently. Cold anger and a vague sense of laziness came towards him at the same time.
She is very imposing.
Princess Danyang would have been more imposing if the candy she had not completely swallowed had not made her voice unclear.
But Shisheng felt calm.
He had guessed that she was awake, otherwise the maids would not have tried to remain calm.
But the princess wanted to test him, so he could only satisfy her and be tested by her.
Yan Shisheng changed his address to "Your Highness."
Mu Wan raised her lips, and when Yan Shisheng stood up to apologize, she flipped the medicine bowl over and smashed it to the ground. The medicine bowl was smashed, and the medicine juice splashed on the ground, frightening the maids outside to come and see in a panic, and apologized uneasily.
As Shisheng stepped back, the rough hem of his clothes was splashed with medicine.
He just bowed and saluted, not even looking at the medicine that splashed on his feet, and said happily: "I am finally relieved to see that Your Highness has woken up."
Mu Wan patted the bed: "Don't worry...!"
Because it was indecent, she didn't say the last word "fart". But she sat on the bed and stared at Yan Shisheng domineeringly, as if she was going to settle the score later.
Yan Shisheng said softly, "In fact, I have thought about this a long time ago. Although I have taken care of the princess, I have also indirectly crossed the line. When the princess wakes up, she will definitely settle accounts with me. I can neither leave her alone nor sit and wait for death, so I racked my brains and came up with a way to help her settle accounts later."
Mu Wanyao sat on the couch with her clothes disheveled, her shoulders half exposed, her long neck, her breasts hidden under her long hair, vaguely visible. She leaned over and asked with interest, "Do you have another way to help me solve my puzzle?"
Yan Shisheng immediately looked away, not looking at her any longer. He said, "The so-called punishment is nothing more than long-term pain or short-term pain. If it's short-term pain, Your Highness can kill me with one sword and it will be over; if it's long-term pain, Your Highness can torture me for a few more days, and I think it will calm down."
Mu Wan shook her eyes with a mysterious look.
She said, "Do you think I would choose long-lasting pain?"
Mu Wan smiled and said, "I choose short pain."
It means that Shi Sheng is stagnant.
He saw her get off the couch from the corner of his eye, her snow-white bare feet stepping onto the floor, and then her skirt fell down, blocking her snow-white feet. She walked down like this, step by step, towards him. The fragrance was lingering, and her footsteps stopped in front of him.
There was a "ding" sound, which should be the sound of a sword being drawn.
Yan Shisheng remembered that there was a sword hanging at the corner of the bed curtain. It was easy for Mu Wanyao to draw the sword.
He suddenly raised his head and looked at her. As expected, Mu Wanyao had already drawn the sword in her hand, and under his gaze, she placed the sword on his shoulder.
Mu Wan shook his head slowly and leisurely: "This sword was given to me by the current Crown Prince. He said that if I had this sword, he would bear the responsibility for whoever I killed. I tried it before, and it can break ashes and cut cow hair. It is much better than the sword of the guard before. I hung it on the head of the bed to prevent lawless people from disrespecting me."
Yan Shisheng looked at her.
This is the game between men and women.
Yan Shisheng said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince gave this sword to Your Highness as a token of love, but also as a warning. I think Your Highness should be careful with this sword, and there is no need to make a big deal out of such a small matter."
Mu Wanyao: "Calling me 'Yaoyao', is this a small matter?"
Yan Shisheng sighed, "Your Highness forced me to shout. If I don't shout, Your Highness, I won't drink the medicine. I can't just stand by and watch him die. There's really nothing I can do."
Yan Shisheng was nervous about the sword on his shoulder, but Mu Wan shook it off calmly: "You said that, which shows that you are sure that I won't kill you. Why do you think I won't kill you?"
Yan Shisheng looked at her.
He said slowly: “I am indeed gambling.
"Your Highness... please have pity on me."
Mu Wan shook: "..."
Yan Shisheng decided to stop while he was ahead.
He reached out and grasped her wrist, pulled the sword out of her hand, and threw it far away. He bowed and said, "Your Highness, please spare my life. It's easy for Your Highness to kill me, but the follow-up events will be troublesome. It would be better for Your Highness to let me go and let me serve Your Highness in 'Changtong'."
He spoke softly with a smile in his eyes, half joking, half genuinely apologizing.
This attitude made it difficult for Mu Wanyao to get angry.
Because...it was just a small matter.
Mu Wan shook his face and said, "My sick appearance..."
Yan Shisheng: "I won't say a word."
Mu Wanyao: "Then call me Yaoyao..."
Yan Shisheng: "I will never dare to scream again!"
Mu Wan's face turned cold for a moment, as if she was a little angry, but she didn't know what she was angry about. She finally said sullenly, "Then let's forget about it. It won't happen again."
Yan Shisheng breathed a sigh of relief.
The maids who were watching cautiously outside also breathed a sigh of relief.
After Mu Wanyao solved the problem, her face looked much better. She raised her chin to Yan Shisheng and said, "I plan to go see Chunhua."
Yan Shisheng understood what was going on and said immediately, "Then I will go with Your Highness. Madam Chunhua has already woken up, so she should be fine."
Mu Wan shook her head.
She said, "I need to change clothes."
Yan Shisheng turned and walked out.
Mu Wan shook his head and shouted: "Why are you leaving?!"
Yan Shisheng's back stiffened, and he turned back hesitantly: "...Then you can't let me serve you?"
Mu Wanyao was furious. She wanted to speak, but she pursed her lips. She didn't know what to say for a long time. Yan Shisheng stared at her suspiciously and intently, waiting quietly. After a while, Mu Wanyao's eyes drifted upwards.
She said, "The candy you gave me..."
Yan Shisheng understood.
He whispered, "Do you still want it?"
Mu Wan shook: "...No."
Yan Shisheng didn't say anything, he just walked back and put the bag of sugar in his sleeve on the small table beside the bed, so that Mu Wanyao could touch it. After he bowed again, he really left this time.
After he left, Mu Wan reached for the purse and took out some candy beans from the purse that looked like it had been used for many years and was not pretty at all.
Still sweet and sour.
Mu Wanyao sat alone in the house and ate some candy.
She glanced out the window and could vaguely hear her maids asking Yan Erlang with concern whether he was frightened by the princess, and Yan Shisheng answered gently.
Mu Wanyao bit the candy with a snort, cursing him for being hypocritical in her heart.
People like him are considerate in every way and it is easy to like them.
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The sun had just risen and Chunhua sat in front of the house to bask in the sun.
Liu Wenji came over hesitantly, and when he saw her sitting in the sun with a pale face, his steps became a little flustered. After hesitating for a long time, he walked forward with a red face and placed a straw figurine on the steps.
Liu Wenji said softly: "I heard that you woke up... I sent you to play."
Chunhua was surprised and looked up at the handsome scholar. With trembling fingers, she took the straw figurine. Chunhua blushed and lowered her head without saying a word.
Liu Wenji said with a stammer: "I know you are a maidservant beside the princess. I am a commoner, so I can't marry you now. But you wait a while, until I pass the imperial examination..."
A female voice came lazily: "What are you waiting for?"
Chunhua immediately stood up in panic: "Your Highness!"
Liu Wenji looked at it blankly.
The girl, fanning herself, entered from the corridor, with her hair in a high bun and a hairpin in her hair. Her skirt trailed on the ground, and her scarf fluttered.
The man following behind her, wearing a narrow-sleeved scholar's shirt, with his hair tied up in a cloth, and with elegant eyes, was Yan Shisheng.
Yan Shisheng glanced at Liu Wenjie and signaled Liu Wenjie to pay his respects quickly so as not to offend Princess Danyang.
Liu Wenji was thinking: Why is Yan Erlang following the princess?
How come Yan Erlang is so familiar with the princess?
Yan Erlang is so familiar with the princess, so are he and Chunhua...
Before he could finish his thoughts, he heard footsteps coming hurriedly. Mu Wan looked over and saw that it was the guards stopping the person who was trying to break in. The person who broke in was Yan Shisheng's eldest brother and third brother.
Mu Wan shook her head in surprise.
Yan Shisheng's heart moved.
When Yan Dalang and Yan Sanlang arrived, they only hastily greeted the princess and said with a complicated expression: "The results of the state examination are out... This year's quota is Liu Lang, Liu Wenji."
Yan Shisheng didn't say anything.
Yan Dalang didn't know what to say, so he tried to suppress his sympathy: "...Erlang, it's okay, we still have next year."
Yan Shisheng came back to his senses and said with a smile: "It should be congratulations to Brother Liu. Big brother and third brother, I am not sad."
Because this was exactly what he expected.
But the surroundings were shrouded in a cloud of sorrow. Except for Liu Wenji and the princess, everyone else seemed to be happy because they liked Yan Erlang.
"Yan Erlang, it's okay, you will definitely be able to go to Chang'an."
"Erlang, don't be sad."
"Erlang, how about you ask for help?"
The last sentence was Chunhua hinting at Yan Shisheng to ask the princess for help. Yan Shisheng answered everyone's concerns one by one and looked very busy.
In the evening, I leaned against the pillar, fanning myself and looked at them.
She really didn't understand why they were sad.
She asked curiously, "Isn't it expected that he would fail? Why are you so worried?"
Everyone was angry but dared not speak out.
Mu Wanyao didn't care about these things at all. She looked at Yan Shisheng and asked, "What's that scent on you?"
Yan Shisheng: “Ah?”
Mu Wanyao looked at him and said, "I want it."
Among all the people, Mu Wanyao was probably the only one who was not sad at all about Yan Erlang's failure in the state exam. Yan Shisheng looked at her helplessly with a smile.
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