Chapter 44 Outburst

Sui Yan was afraid that the truth would be exposed, so after threatening Song Xian, he quickly said goodbye and left Yu Garden with the people from the East Palace at a rapid speed.

She stared at his back, her eyes dim and unclear.

Song Xian was so angry at Sui Yan that he turned around and said, "Your Highness, look at him. Now that he's with the Crown Prince, he's showing off to me like this!"

Song Xian's words were just harsh, and in fact, while he was secretly complaining about Sui Wangui's ungratefulness, he was also somewhat relieved that he had the prince to rely on, and he didn't have to follow their schemes and worry.

Duan Mingchong retracted his gaze and said calmly, "He is doing very well this way."

With someone to protect you, you can live a proud and carefree life.

When Sui Yan and Duan Zhisu were together, they would never be so bold as to cut the flowers in the garden.

The arrogant young marquis trotted back to the East Palace, panting slightly as he grabbed the palace maid holding the flowers and asked, "No one saw us, right?"

The palace maid was very careful about her life and had never run so fast before. Upon hearing this, she shook her head desperately: "No, no."

Sui Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He waved his men away and returned to the side hall alone. Looking at the plum branches still covered with frost on the table, he curled his lips and smiled.

Half an hour after lunch, Duan Mingchong hurried back. He didn't even have time to take off his cloak, so he asked, "Where is the young marquis? Have you had lunch?"

The palace maid frowned and said, "The young marquis said that he would not eat lunch until His Highness came back, and he is still busy in the side hall."

Duan Mingchong frowned and said, "Nonsense."

The palace maid quickly confessed her crime.

Duan Mingchong: "Go prepare lunch first, hurry up and don't make it too greasy. Boil the medicine and add more licorice."

The palace maid hurriedly said yes and left.

There were many charcoal basins placed in the side hall. Before entering the room, he felt a warm breeze on his face. Duan Mingchong frowned and vaguely smelled the fragrance of plum blossoms.

Did Sui Yan go to Yu Garden?

With such a strong scent of plum blossoms on my body, how long have you been in the plum forest?

It's freezing cold now, can't he take care of himself?

Duan Mingchong pushed the door open while thinking, and with a casual glance, he was shocked by the scarlet color that filled the entire hall.

Duan Mingchong: “…”

Sui Yan was sitting at the table, pruning plum branches with a pair of scissors. The whole room was already filled with cinnabar plums in vases, with a refreshing fragrance that carried a hint of the cool scent of melting ice and snow.

Duan Mingchong stepped forward tentatively: "Ayan?"

Sui Yan turned around and saw him coming back, so he stood up and saluted: "Your Highness."

Duan Mingchong helped him up: "You...what are you doing?"

When Duan Mingchong came close, Sui Yan's sensitive nose detected a strange and clear medicinal fragrance on Duan Mingchong, which seemed somewhat familiar.

Sui Yan's eyes darkened for a moment, but soon returned to normal. He handed him the gorgeous plum blossoms in his hand, narrowed his eyes, and said, "I went to Yu Garden today and saw that the plum blossoms were very beautiful, so I cut a few branches and brought them back."

Duan Mingchong: “Hmm…”

Looking at the room full of plum blossoms, I'm afraid that more than just a few branches were pruned, but the entire tree was pruned, right?

Duan Mingchong asked: "Do you like plum blossoms?"

Sui Yan said carelessly: "It's OK, but I heard that Your Highness likes it."

Duan Mingchong: “…”

Duan Mingchong had quarreled with Duan Ruwang for half a day in the inner chamber over Sui Yan's seizure of the title during the court session. On his way to pay his respects to the empress, he met Concubine Ning and was scolded by the woman who had lived in the palace for a long time. He was a little surprised when he came back, but as soon as Sui Yan said this, Duan Mingchong's depressed look disappeared in an instant.

Sui Yan said cautiously: "Your Highness, I...did I do something wrong?"

Duan Mingchong smiled gently: "No, I like it very much."

Sui Yan then smiled and pulled Duan Mingchong to sit down. He held out the plum blossom that he had trimmed long ago like a treasure and said with a blink of his eyes, "This is the most beautiful one I think. I'm giving it to Your Highness."

He would lend flowers to offer to Buddha.

Duan Mingchong smiled even more gently, brought the vase to his side, lowered his eyes to look at it, and said with a smile, "Thank you."

After hearing these words, Sui Yan suddenly felt that all the suffering he had endured today was completely worth it.

But this situation cannot be ignored.

Soon, lunch was ready. Duan Mingchong watched him eat some before he began to instruct him, "If I can't come back for something in the future, you can eat first and don't have to wait for me."

Sui Yan responded vaguely.

After the two of them finished lunch, Sui Yan climbed onto the bed to take a nap. When his elbow hit the bed, he hissed in pain.

Duan Mingchong was lighting incense to calm his spirits. When he heard the voice, he turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"

Sui Yan lifted his wide sleeves and bent his arm to reveal a bloodstain on his elbow.

Duan Mingchong was frightened at once, and hurried over to hold his hand: "What is this... How did it happen? It's so serious, does it hurt?"

Sui Yan curled his lips and added fuel to the fire, "I was standing on a ladder to prune flower branches today, and Song Xian passed by and tried to scare me from below. I lost my balance and fell down."

Duan Mingchong frowned: "Song Xian?"

Sui Yan: "Yeah, he is very mean to me and always scolds me every time we meet."

Duan Mingchong's face was ashen. He asked someone to bring some golden medicine for wounds and personally treated the wound on Sui Yan's elbow.

"Can you still sleep?"

Sui Yan moved his arm. It didn't hurt much, but the kid was shameless again in order to trick Song Xian. He frowned and said, "It's probably too painful to sleep. Let me try."

Duan Mingchong sat beside the couch and watched over him.

Sui Yan closed his eyes and tried for a while, sleepiness quickly came over him. Just when he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly remembered that he was still cheating others, and pinched himself hurriedly.

He opened his eyes pitifully, tears still glistening in his eyes - he was hurt by pinching himself.

"Your Highness, I can't sleep because of the pain."

Duan Mingchong was almost pissed off to death by Song Xian.

The person I was protecting so much was bullied by Song Xian just because he didn't see it.

The people of the Manchu court were accusing Sui Yan of moving into the Eastern Palace and even accusing him of the unfounded crime of poisoning the Fifth Prince. Duan Mingchong could tolerate all this and explained it to them in person with a friendly face, but this Song Xian...

Thinking back to the information he had found out, it seemed that it was Song Xian who had someone drug Sui Yan, which was why he harmed him. Although Duan Zhisu and Song Xian were used as guns, it did not prevent His Royal Highness the Crown Prince from secretly finding fault with him.

Duan Mingchong thought as he patted Sui Yan's hand tenderly, coaxing her, "It won't hurt in a while."

Sui Yan nodded. He had enough of the play and decided not to torture himself any more. He closed his eyes and fell asleep soon after.

After Sui Yan settled down in the East Palace, he ate, drank and had fun every day, flirting with the Crown Prince from time to time. Except for the unbearable drug addiction every night, his life was more comfortable than that in the Marquis' Mansion.

Half a month passed in this uneventful manner, and the ice and snow in the city began to melt.

Duan Mingchong didn't know what he said to Lord Song in the court. After returning home, he grabbed Song Xian's ear and dragged him all the way to the Song Family Ancestral Hall. Regardless of Song Xian's screams of pain, he whipped him twice and punished him to kneel for three days. When he was rescued by Duan Zhisu, he was completely dazed.

Sui Yan heard this in the East Palace and laughed so hard that he almost fell off the rattan rocking chair.

After half a month, his drug addiction no longer recurred, he was well fed and well served every day, and he even gained a lot of weight.

Jun Jingxing went to the palace to check his pulse. Seeing that he couldn't help laughing, he said speechlessly, "Did you do that to Song Xian?"

Sui Yan suppressed his laughter and pretended to be confused: "Ah? What? I don't know."

This time when Jun Jingxing entered the palace, he brought the two little Yuejians from the Marquis' Mansion with him. The rabbit was sleeping on Sui Yan's legs, and he held the golden silk bear in his hand as a hand warmer. He felt very comfortable.

Jun Jingxing sighed and said, "There may be major changes in the palace in the next few days. You should stay in the East Palace and be a good young master. Don't run around."

Sui Yan laughed enough, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said: "When you say this, isn't it just a disguised way of telling me to go out and play?"

Jun Jingxing: "I don't have any!"

Sui Yan asked: "Do you think I am the type to listen to you?"

Jun Jingxing: “…”

Jun Jingxing said: "I'm telling you the truth, don't make a fuss."

Sui Yan could only shrug his shoulders: "Okay, are you starting now?"

Jun Jingxing nodded.

Sui Yan rested his elbows on the armrests, propped up his chin and looked at him, saying, "I have never understood why you didn't want to follow my instructions and wait for the right time to re-examine and re-sentence Yin Lingfeng's case, but instead took such an extremely risky method to kill Duan Xichen."

Before this, Sui Yan had secretly had someone find evidence of Duan Xichen's corruption. It was precisely because of this that Duan Xichen made things so difficult for him during the Lantern Festival.

Sui Yan originally wanted to find out about this and then inform Jun Jingxing, asking him to be patient and wait for the right opportunity. However, because Hua Lantern Festival was in a hurry to meet Duan Mingchong, he missed the informant who came to report the news, and Jun Jingxing took action directly that day.

Jun Jingxing laughed sarcastically when he heard this: "Retrial and re-sentencing? Will my father survive then?"

Sui Yan pursed his lips and said, "Then at least it's innocent..."

Before he finished speaking, Jun Jingxing said calmly: "You're already dead, what's the point of being innocent?"

Sui Yan was stunned, and vaguely remembered what he said to Yue Jian in order to escape the charge of harming the prince.

"Reputation? I'm dying, what do I need that for?"

Jun Jingxing said: "Now I just want him to live a life worse than death, otherwise I will never be at peace for the rest of my life."

Sui Yan lowered his head and said nothing.

He recalled that in his previous life, he had blocked Yue Jian's only chance to kill Duan Xichen directly with blood, and since then, even though Duan Xichen was exiled and Yin Lingfeng was rehabilitated, Yue Jian's face was always cold and indifferent, without the slightest joy.

"Did I do something wrong?" Sui Yan thought blankly, "I just wanted both of us to live."

He shuddered unconsciously: "Does Yue Jian...hate me?"

Yue Jian had suffered so much in his previous life, and he was introverted and never showed his emotions. The two had known each other for so many years, but Sui Yan still couldn't tell any of his emotions, so much so that when he thought about this problem, he was filled with confusion and uncertainty.

But now that he has lived a new life, Sui Yan can no longer ask Yue Jian any questions.

Sui Yanyu was very angry. He always thought too much about things and always thought of the worst. After just a few words, he became depressed and his smile disappeared.

Seeing him like this, Jun Jingxing asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

Sui Yan shook his head.

Jun Jingxing didn't want to stay in the East Palace for long, so he gave Sui Yan a few more instructions before getting up to say goodbye.

Sui Yan sat alone on a rattan rocking chair, rocking gently. He lowered his eyes and pointed at the golden bear that was happily chewing a peanut in its palm, and murmured, "Yue Jian, do you hate me?"

The golden bear was almost knocked over by his finger while holding the peanut. It squeaked twice and continued to gnaw the peanut skin with its two sharp teeth.

Sui Yan seemed to want an answer. He poked its head vigorously and asked repeatedly: "Do you hate me? Do you hate me?"

"Speak, speak."

The golden bear was poked by him and fell on its back, chirping in dissatisfaction.

Sui Yan said: "Speak human language."

Golden Silk Bear: “Chichichichi!”

Sui Yan said: "If you don't speak human language, I will assume that you don't hate me."

“Chichi.”

Sui Yan deceived himself and finally let the poor golden bear go. He touched his chest and murmured, "Then I... will assume that you don't hate me."

"You...you can't hate me."

In the previous life, Sui Yan and Yue Jian depended on each other, and Sui Yan almost regarded him as the only person he could talk to. If he found out now that the person he relied on in the past had always resented him in his heart, Sui Yan might collapse.

"You can't... you can't..."

Sui Yan bent his legs and curled up into a ball, murmuring with a somewhat distracted look in his eyes.

The palace servant who was guarding nearby seemed to notice something was wrong with him and was about to step forward when a sudden noise came from outside the palace gate.

"Your Majesty! Please stay. This East Palace is not yours..."

"Get out of the way! Is Sui Wanggui in there? Let him come out to see me!"

The palace maid standing by Sui Yan saw it from a distance, and hurriedly stepped forward and said anxiously, "Young Marquis, Concubine Ning is here, would you like to hide away first?"

Sui Yan's face turned pale, his dim eyes moved slightly, and he asked blankly, "What?"

The palace maid said anxiously, "Noble Concubine Ning! The Fifth Prince's mother, now people outside are saying that you poisoned the Fifth Prince. She is most likely here to call you to task. Young Marquis, you..."

"Poison?"

Sui Yan was even more confused. Although depression was not considered a disease, once it broke out, he would be depressed to the bottom and his mind would be a little unclear: "Who is it for?"

The palace maid ignored Duan Mingchong's instructions not to let Sui Yan know about this matter: "To the Fifth Prince! Young Marquis, you should go to the side hall to avoid the limelight. I have already asked someone to invite His Highness back."

Sui Yan stood up from the rattan rocking chair in confusion and gently placed the two little girls on the soft cushion.

Palace maid: "Young Marquis! Young Marquis!"

"It's okay, no need to call the prince, I can handle it myself."

Every time he got sick, he instinctively wanted to commit suicide. But now, even though his mind was not clear, he vaguely remembered that Sui Xun and Duan Mingchong were still alive. He had reasons to live and could no longer be as depressed as before.

Since he couldn't commit suicide, he had to find something to do.

During this period, whenever he had a problem, he would think of asking Duan Mingchong to solve it for him. If this continued, he might end up ruining himself.

It is Sui Yan's style to figure things out on his own when encountering problems.

When the palace maid saw him like this, she was inexplicably frightened: "Young, Marquis?"

Sui Yan murmured, "Don't worry, I don't hit women."

Palace maid: “…”