Outside the imperial city, in the western suburbs, besides the peach groves, there is also a deep and clear river. There are large stones piled up sparsely on both sides of the river bank, and there are also a few old willow trees, with willow branches hanging down on the river surface. When the breeze blows, the river water ripples slightly.
There is a stone bridge and a wooden bridge on the Kuan River. The wooden bridge planks are old and look very unstable. People passing by the river would not choose it.
There was only flat grass on both sides of the river. Looking further away, you could see a forest and a few paths. At the end of the path, you could vaguely see the gate of the imperial city.
The open space and flat grass are perfect for flying kites.
Lin Mo called An Jinyuan and Lingyi out, and Lin Xiu, considering their identities, only invited Yu Yange and three friends. Except for Yu Yange, no one else had seen his brother and Cheng Yan, so Lin Xiu was not worried.
However, what surprised Lin Mo was that An Chenglin would follow Lingyi out. But considering how much he cared about Lingyi, this was not impossible.
They said they were out flying kites, but the ones who really wanted to play were Lin Mo, Ling Yi and An Jinyuan. Lin Xiu and the few people he brought with him went to the thatched pavilion to chat. Not far away were guards disguised as ordinary guards, and there were also many shadow guards hiding in the forest.
Lin Mo sat cross-legged next to Cheng Yan, watching him fix the string of the kite. Lingyi came running over with the koi kite that An Chenglin had prepared long ago, and An Chenglin looked a little helpless.
"Amo, Amo, let's have a competition to see whose kite flies higher!" Lingyi ran over and squatted beside Lin Mo, his eyes sparkling.
When Lin Mo heard this, he turned his head to look at the unconscious intimacy in his eyes, and his heart paused. In the end, he reached out and touched his head.
"good."
"Then I'll join too." An Jinyuan looked at the two of them and said with a smile.
I always feel like there's something wrong between Amo and Lingyi.
After everything was ready, the kites placed on the grass were released into the air one after another. The servants and some secret guards stood by and carefully controlled the strings in their hands. Lin Mo took it from Cheng Yan, then sat on the grass and looked up at the sky.
Cheng Yan sat behind him, letting Lin Mo lean his back against his chest. Looking down at the smile on his face, Cheng Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief and put his arms around his waist.
It's good to laugh. Although Cheng Yan doesn't know why Lin Mo is in a bad mood, he still doesn't want to see the sad expression on his face. In Cheng Yan's heart, Lin Mo should always smile.
"So beautiful..." Lin Mo rested his head on Cheng Yan's chest, looking up at the colorful kites in the sky, his eyes full of amazement.
Lin Mo remembered that when he was a child, his brother took him to fly kites. There were many people at that time and there were many kites in the sky, but it was not as shocking as the scene now.
"Did you prepare this specially?" Lin Mo tilted his head to look at Cheng Yan behind him and asked. But the look in his eyes clearly showed that he was sure that this was Cheng Yan's order.
"Yeah." Cheng Yan took the kite string from his hand and fiddled with it for a few times. The big eagle, which was originally suppressed by Lingyi and An Chenglin's koi kite, flew higher.
“I guess you’re the only one who would let Yingyi and the others show up to fly kites. What a waste of talent.” Lin Mo glanced at a few ordinary-looking men in black not far away who were flying kites with serious expressions, one in each hand, which looked inexplicably funny.
"It's okay. They are quite happy to do it." Besides, the emperor's secret guards are also among them.
"Why do Yingyi and the others look so ordinary?" Lin Mo's thoughts jumped to another place, and he poked Cheng Yan's hand and asked.
Although the few shadow guards Lin Mo had seen before were all wearing masks, based on their figures, Lin Mo felt that they should be good-looking. At least they wouldn't be unrecognizable in a crowd like they are now, which was somewhat beyond Lin Mo's expectations.
If they were not wearing black clothes and had not had their unique cold aura, Lin Mo would probably have mistaken them for ordinary guards.
"Disguised, why? Momo seems very interested in them...especially their looks, huh?" Cheng Yan rested his chin on his shoulder, tilted his head and narrowed his eyes, speaking in a dangerous tone.
"No way. I'm just curious. Besides, I'm only interested in you." Lin Mo heard the meaning in Cheng Yan's tone and quickly responded. In his previous life, when he read novels, he was quite fond of loyal dogs like Shadow Guards and Dark Guards, so he paid more attention to them.
The old man is a jealous person, which is really a sweet burden.
"Yeah. Momo, just look at me. I'm prettier than them." Cheng Yan held her in his arms, letting out some string from time to time to make the kite fly higher.
“…Shameless.” Lin Mo burst out laughing.
Lin Xiu and his companions, who were sitting in the thatched pavilion and chatting, were naturally attracted by the scenery in the sky. Although the kites were of different sizes, colors and shapes, they were all neatly parked in the sky, which was still quite shocking.
Lin Xiu came back to his senses and turned his head to look at his brother and brother-in-law sitting on the grass across the river. His worries also dissipated a little. When Lin Mo came to see him yesterday, Lin Xiu knew that his brother was in a bad mood. He thought something happened between Lin Mo and Cheng Yan.
Fortunately, Lin Mo's condition has improved now.
Lin Xiu saw his brother's unclear smiling face in the distance, raised the corners of his lips slightly and smiled, then turned around and continued chatting with them.
"…Speaking of this, I admire the Prime Minister's daughter very much. A girl in the boudoir has such good literary talent." A man in blue clothes said, waving a fan.
"That being said, her poems have different styles. Can a woman write about the tragic and majestic battles on the battlefield? I don't believe it. It's better to say that it was written by His Royal Highness Prince Cheng."
The others couldn't help but chuckle when they heard this. Everyone knows that His Royal Highness Prince Cheng has fought on the battlefield for many years, and it is easy for him to kill the enemy, but it is not certain that he can write poems. This is also a disguised way of saying that they have doubts about the literary talent of the Prime Minister's daughter.
When Lin Xiu heard this, the smile in his eyes faded a little. The Prime Minister's daughter... Su Qingran... What kind of person is that woman? How could so many men be obsessed with her? Or is she really a monster who deceives people with her lies, as my elder brother guessed?
She could also compose those exquisite poems. If it weren't for the reminder from her elder brother in his previous life, perhaps Lin Xiu would have really developed some interest in that woman like he did in his previous life.
Since Lin Xiu came to the imperial city, he has been staying in the Chengwang Mansion, and occasionally goes to the teahouse to relax. Fortunately, he has never seen the legendary prime minister's daughter, and Lin Mo also had the handiwork of this.
"Second brother! Come here quickly!"
Lin Xiu came to his senses when he heard his brother's call. He turned his head and saw Lin Mo waving at them.
"You guys chat, I'll go take a look across there." Lin Xiu said to them and got up and left. He had promised his brother that he would accompany him to play, so he decided to go over there.
Except for Yu Yange, the other three looked at each other. All three of them were from the capital, with prominent family backgrounds, and some of their family members were officials in the court.
The relationship between the three of them was good. They were all in the same college and had been classmates for many years. They also knew each other's family background. At the beginning, they became friends with Yu Yange because their elders told them to do so. The status of the Yu family in the imperial city was no lower than that of the prime minister.
But later they were impressed by Yu Yange's talent. Even without their family's permission, they were happy to make friends with Yu Yange. After all, it is not easy to find a like-minded friend.
Compared to the family backgrounds of the four, they didn't know much about Lin Xiu. They only knew that he and his brother came to Beijing from a remote place to take the imperial examination, and now they were temporarily staying at his brother's husband's house. Now it seemed that his brother's husband's family was not ordinary either, but unfortunately they didn't go out often, and they didn't know who that person was.
"Let's go over too. I have prepared a few kites." Yu Yange said with a smile.
As for His Royal Highness Prince Cheng, they should not go over there. Fortunately, the grasslands on both sides of the river are equally spacious, so they can just stay here.
"Brother Yu, do you know those people?" asked the man in blue who was walking beside them. The others were also curious. It was really because Lin Xiu's husband's family was too mysterious and they had never seen them before.
"The person next to Lin Xiu's brother is His Royal Highness Prince Cheng." Yu Yange glanced at them and said. I thought they were not curious, but I didn't expect that they had been holding back for a long time before asking.
Every time Lin Xiu went to the teahouse, he would be followed by a servant and more than a dozen guards, and the carriage he rode also had the logo of Prince Cheng's Mansion, but they had never noticed it before.
"Cheng... His Royal Highness Prince Cheng?!" The three of them gasped, their faces full of disbelief.
"I heard that His Royal Highness Prince Cheng had returned to the capital. After such a long time, I thought he had gone to the border again. I didn't expect that he is still in the imperial city now."
Although His Royal Highness Prince Cheng is well-known in Yu Country, few people in the Imperial City have seen His Royal Highness Prince Cheng's true face. Prince Cheng rarely returns to the capital, and every time he returns with honor, he wears a mask on his face, so only a few people have seen him.
Yu Yange was one of these few people. When he was a child, he worked as a tutor to His Royal Highness Prince Cheng for a period of time. Later, Prince Cheng went to the border, and he was also sent away from the imperial city due to family reasons. Unexpectedly, when they met again, they were already this age.
Yu Yange looked up at Cheng Yan, who was looking at Cheng Wangfu tenderly, and a smile flashed across his eyes. When he was a child, he didn't understand why His Royal Highness Cheng Wangfu, who was the same age as him, always treated others with indifference. It was not until he grew up that he understood.
You gain something, but you also lose something. What his grandfather once said to him came to his mind. Yu Yange used to think that His Royal Highness Prince Cheng would never smile at anyone except the two people he cared about.
Now it seems that he has found the person of his dreams.
"It is rumored that His Royal Highness Prince Cheng is cold-blooded and heartless. Now it seems that the rumor is not credible." Obviously he also saw the gentle side of His Royal Highness Prince Cheng at this time, although it was a little scary for them.
"I heard before that when His Royal Highness Prince Cheng returned to the capital, he brought back Prince Cheng's wife, but no one has seen him. If His Majesty hadn't issued an edict saying that the wedding would be completed in two months, I wouldn't have believed it." The man in green said, fanning himself.
"After all, no one expected that His Royal Highness Prince Cheng would get married so early. His Royal Highness is only twenty years old, right?"
Although many men already have several children by the age of 20, given that His Majesty the Emperor has not yet married, they thought that His Royal Highness Prince Cheng would be even later than His Majesty, or even not marry at all.
They were of the same age as His Royal Highness Prince Cheng, and they didn't want to be distracted by their studies, so they didn't get married. But now it seemed that His Royal Highness Prince Cheng, who they thought was the least likely to get married, had gotten ahead of them.
Lin Xiu didn't know that his friends were talking about something related to him. Now he was being pushed by his younger brother to the side of His Highness Jin Yuan, saying that His Highness Jin Yuan was alone and asked him to come and keep him company.
Lin Xiu couldn't help but smile bitterly. This Highness Jin Yuan was a boy, the most noble boy in Yu Country. Was it appropriate for a man like him to be with him? Lin Xiu glanced at Cheng Yan, who was standing beside him, and then at another man who looked similar to Cheng Yan.
Needless to say, Lin Xiu could also guess the identity of that man.
Lin Xiu didn't know what An Jinyuan meant to him, and he didn't dare to reveal his feelings. Lin Xiu was worried that he would misunderstand her.
"Let's go over there. There are too many kites here. We'll get entangled if we're not careful." An Jinyuan turned his head to look at Lin Xiu and smiled.
"Yes, Your Highness." Lin Xiu came back to his senses and carefully moved the kite in his hand to the other side.
"You..." An Jinyuan hesitated to speak.
"What's wrong?" Lin Xiu asked puzzledly.
"It's nothing, let's go over there." An Jinyuan shook his head.
The exam will be held in a few days, and he still has a month, so he should ask again after the exam.
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