Chapter 48
They found a wonton stall on the street and sat down and ordered two bowls of wontons.
Yin Jianyue followed behind and sat at the table next to them. Seeing that the environment here was not good, he fidgeted restlessly. He wiped the table with his fingers and found it was still a little greasy. With a slightly disgusted expression, he called the stall owner to bring him a bowl of wontons.
Wang Sheng's mind was extremely confused last night. He stayed up for a long time before falling asleep. His stomach was already growling, so he started eating the wontons one bite at a time. Soon, only some soup was left in the bowl.
He was actually only half full, but thinking that he would not be able to walk if he ate too much, he decided to give up and got himself a bowl of water and took a sip.
A pair of chopsticks holding wontons were extended to the bowl in front of Wang Sheng. The wontons fell into the soup. Wang Sheng looked over as the chopsticks were extended back. Although Shi Ye had no expression, there were some tiny wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. He said softly, "I'm not hungry. I'll give it all to you. Eat it."
"Ahem!" Wang Sheng choked on the water, his face flushing red. He said, "That's enough. You don't have to give it all to me."
But Shi Ye still gave him most of the remaining food in the bowl and said, "You seem to like wontons very much." He had noticed before that Wang Sheng often bought wontons.
Wang Sheng said, "It's a habit I developed in the past. Before I opened my fortune-telling stall, the only thing I could afford to eat when I wanted to eat meat was wontons."
As soon as he finished speaking, two people present paused.
Yin Jianyue looked at the wontons that had just been served. He was disgusted and didn't want to eat them. He looked at the wontons in the bowl and fell silent. It seemed that he had never asked his cousin what his life was like in the past.
But a child who was stranded outside with no relatives must have had a very hard life. He should have been the happiest person in the world. He had a mother, the eldest princess, who was favored by the emperor, and a father, the powerful general of the Black Jade Army. But in the end, he couldn't even get a bowl of wontons.
Shi Ye just watched Wang Sheng finish his meal quietly. When he saw that he was full, he paid and went to Tuanyuan Study.
Yin Jianyue followed him in, looking distraught. Xiao Wen, who was sweeping the ashes, was puzzled when he saw him. Was he seeing right? This must be the prince! He quickly put down his things and came to Shi Ye and said, "What's going on? Didn't you go to see the prince yesterday? Why did you bring him back today? Oh, this is..."
He looked at Wang Sheng and then gave Shi Ye a frantic look. Where had Wang Sheng gone? Why was this person still wearing Wang Sheng's clothes?
Shi Ye glanced at him and said, "This is Wang Sheng."
Xiao Wen:!
Wang Sheng also remembered that he had restored his true appearance, so he said, "Brother Xiao Wen, it's me, Wang Sheng."
They roughly told Xiao Wen what happened yesterday. Xiao Wen nodded. For a moment, he found it difficult to accept that the handsome man in front of him was Wang Sheng. It took him a while to digest it.
Meanwhile, Yin Jianyue, in the other century, pretended to search for a book, occasionally glancing at Wang Sheng, as if wanting to say something but afraid to. Zhao Hongde and his group soon arrived. Some stayed by Yin Jianyue's side, ready to act at any moment, while others stood guard outside the door, stopping anyone who tried to enter and only allowing them in after a body search. It was a grand spectacle.
The people who came to the study were all literati and had never seen such a thing before. They were searched as soon as they saw the clothes, so they all refused to come in. They even took a look inside the study and walked away pointing and talking with their companions.
Wang Sheng folded a grasshopper out of paper covered with talismans to tease Chang Sun Yi. He didn't want to get involved in their affairs, but Yin Jianyue's people affected the business of the study, and the study was indeed in trouble.
After he put the grasshopper down, he stood up and came over to find Yin Jianyue who was sitting there reading a book. Yin Jianyue was not reading seriously, so he stood up immediately and said, "Cousin."
Wang Sheng said calmly, "Don't you see that your people are blocking all the business? Get out, including you."
Zhao Hongde stood there with his head lowered. Yin Jianyue looked at him gloomily, then turned around and said with a look of disappointment, "Cousin, I'll tell them to leave right away."
Wang Sheng continued, "I told you, you and your men, get out of here. Stay as far away as possible."
Seeing his tough attitude, Yin Jianyue knew that no matter how much he said, it would be useless, so she could only lead everyone to retreat and stand behind the road opposite the study.
For the next few days, Yin Jianyue followed Wang Sheng wherever he went. She even moved to the inn where Wang Sheng was staying, for fear that Wang Sheng would leave without saying a word. If Wang Sheng didn't want to care about them at all, he would have climbed out the window in the middle of the night and thrown Yin Jianyue out.
It was raining heavily in Pingyang City. Pedestrians on the road would rather get wet than rush home, or find a store to take shelter.
Wang Sheng and Shi also helped the people in the study bring in the books that were drying outside. Xiao Wen handed them a dry towel to wipe the water off, then pointed at the other side and said, "Don't worry about them? I'm afraid this rain will last a long time before it stops. People are going to get soaked to death."
Although he said these words, he did not take any action. If it were anyone else, they would have rushed over to welcome the people in, but these people from Yuntai Mountain had seen all kinds of people, so they all went about their own business and forgot about them.
He also took out the Samadhi Talisman, lit it and placed it on Wang Sheng, which instantly dried Wang Sheng up. The handkerchief Xiao Wen gave him became a decoration.
Seeing this, Xiao Wen also used the Samadhi Talisman he used to catch ghosts to do this, and he felt a sudden heart attack. Although he had not done much for his master, he was also cautious about things like talisman paper. Who would have thought that it could be used to dry water?
He shook his head, feeling extremely disappointed, and moved away from the two people with bubbles coming out of their bodies.
After a cup of tea
While drawing the talisman, Wang Sheng couldn't help but look outside. The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and he couldn't see the face of the person opposite him. He could only see Yin Jianyue shivering there, and he stubbornly refused to let others hold an umbrella for him. He looked extremely embarrassed.
He was soaked through, and his usually pampered body was trembling. He stood there stubbornly, punishing himself as if to atone for his sins.
Half an hour later, Wang Sheng put down his pen. Shi Ye, who was teaching him a new spell, looked up at him and said, "What's wrong?"
Wang Sheng just sighed, borrowed an umbrella from Xiao Wen, and walked over.
Yin Jianyue was so cold that he could not stand it, and the heavy raindrops hitting his body hurt, but he did not dare to leave, for fear that if he left, his cousin would think he was just pretending and would never pay attention to him again.
Suddenly the rain stopped above his head. Yin Jianyue looked up suddenly and saw that it was Wang Sheng who was shielding him with an umbrella.
"Cousin? Why are you here? Did I disturb you?" Yin Jianyue subconsciously thought that it was her presence that made Wang Sheng disgusted.
Wang Sheng studied his expression, trying to discern the deeply hidden hostility within it, but Yin Jianyue was dying, and he couldn't see his true intentions.
"Yin Jianyue, what exactly do you want to do?"
When Yin Jianyue heard Wang Sheng calling his name, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Cousin, you finally called my name."
Wang Sheng held up his umbrella and said, "You and I have nothing to do with each other, and I won't stand in your way. Why do you have to come and annoy me?"
"Cousin... I didn't... I just missed you so much." Yin Jianyue lowered her head. "Since you left, there's no one in the palace who will stand up for me when the other brothers bully me."
He has had a deep relationship with his cousin Nanxing since childhood. When his mother forced him to learn things about the crown prince, his cousin Nanxing would climb over the wall and take him out to play. When the brothers born to other concubines secretly excluded him, he would take him back to bully them.
The queen hated Yin Nanxing very much. Every time she saw Yin Nanxing coming to see her son, she would raise her neck high to look at him, and then say condescendingly that the eldest princess's son was no better than this. She warned Yin Jianyue not to hang out with Yin Nanxing, but she never cared how much pain Yin Jianyue was forced to suffer because of her.
At that time, the little Yin Nanxing was as shining as Yin Jianyue's morning star. Even if he was stopped by the Queen's people, Yin Nanxing would still appear on the wall of the palace, look at his cousin who was a few months younger than him, and smile and call him to go out and play.
Wang Sheng thought back to when he was a child. Because of the eldest princess's upbringing, he was so enthusiastic towards everyone at that time. He only vaguely remembered that this cousin liked to follow him.
"Cousin, can you come back to Beijing with me?" Yin Jianyue looked at him cautiously.
These events seemed like a lifetime ago. Wang Sheng had long since lost all traces of these friendships. He sneered, "Yin Jianyue, if I remember correctly, you're heading to the northern border to help. Do you think I'm a fool who just listens to your nice words?"
Yin Jianyue said anxiously, "You can go to the Northern Territory anytime, cousin. Father has been grieving for the eldest princess for a long time, and his health has deteriorated over the years. He must also want to see you. And don't you want to go back and take a look? Everything in the eldest princess's mansion is intact. Their things are all there. The eternal lamp in the imperial mausoleum is always burning. They would also want to see you very much."
"Do you think I'll be able to come back alive if I go there?"
Yin Jianyue paused after hearing this, and Wang Sheng continued, "You had the ghost realm released that day just for fun. You and your mother are exactly alike."
"Go away, don't show up in front of me again. I will go back, but I will only go back to find out the truth of that year."
After Wang Sheng left, Zhao Hongde quickly opened his umbrella and said, "Your Highness, should we send a letter to the capital?" Wang Sheng now has Yuntai Mountain behind him, and if the emperor loves the princess so much, he might really be disappointed in the queen because of Wang Sheng.
Yin Jianyue suddenly grabbed his collar and said, "Did you ignore what I said before? If I find out that any of this has leaked out, I will make you live a life worse than death."
Zhao Hongde nodded repeatedly in fear.
Yin Jianyue released him and looked towards the study, but he knew it was just a delaying tactic. His mother had been plotting something behind the scenes these past few years. He often saw strange ghost riders leaving her palace, and they were often communicating with the Northern Territory.
He had already informed his uncle who was in the northern border about this matter. The King of Huai'an had taken precautions, but still had not found any problems.
And his abnormal behavior in Pingyang would definitely be known to her, so he had to go back to the capital to keep an eye on his mother.
If his cousin wants to find out the truth of what happened back then, he is willing to accompany him.
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