Emperor Ming Yan was at a loss whether to laugh or cry: "I am not asking you this. I know Yue Er is not an ordinary woman. She will not just be with me day and night. I am willing to help Huo Qijing fulfill his ambition to travel thousands of miles."
He touched her head and said, "But I transferred him back not just for Yue'er. Look, your father should understand that the Imperial Guard is different from the Border Guard. The Imperial Guard needs loyal subjects. I think Huo Qijing's temperament is more suitable for being in the capital, in charge of the Imperial Guard."
Yan Shiyue really didn't expect that Emperor Ming Yan would tell her this.
She was so moved that her nose was sore. She hugged Emperor Ming Yan's arm and rubbed it: "Aye, you are so good to me. I love you so much!"
In fact, in Yan Shiyue's mind, she would not interfere in Huo Qijing's "career" at all. Besides, Emperor Ming Yan had met Huo Qijing before, and she subconsciously thought that this was Huo Qijing's own choice, so of course she would not think too much about it.
Besides, in an imperial society, who wouldn't want to stay at the emperor's feet? The emperor personally promoted you to be an official in Beijing, which is really a great joy, right? Besides, you can stay together forever, so why wouldn't she be happy with such a good thing?
The more I thought about it, the more I felt that my father was so good. He gave me such a good thing, and yet he was afraid that she would not like it.
The group stayed in Anlan Pass for another two days before setting off again.
Huo Qijing rode her little red horse and walked past the carriage from time to time.
Jia and a few others knew that he was their prince consort, so they were naturally close to him and often joked with him.
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After Ding Xiaoyan came back, he saw that Jia and the others had divided the South Pearls, and he thought he had fallen out of favor, and he cried. Yan Shiyue teased him for two days before giving him the South Pearls that were divided among them.
So Ding Xiaoyan was very active in the past two days, chatting with the Prince Consort from time to time. Yan Shiyue was in the car and could hear him joking with Huo Qijing: "Look at you, why do you have patches on all your clothes? Today you patch here, tomorrow you patch there!"
Yan Shiyue felt itchy after hearing this, so she opened the car window and looked out, and saw Huo Qijing's phoenix eyes, slightly curved with great pleasure. As soon as she opened the window, he looked over and raised his eyebrows slightly at her.
In public, as Her Royal Highness the Princess, she still had to maintain her reputation. Yan Shiyue was embarrassed to do too much and could only peek for a while. The two of them exchanged silly glances and then closed the window.
Huo Qijing had a smile on his face.
In fact, he didn't understand at first why such good clothes had to have a strange stitching. But every day Yan Shiyue quietly sent Jiahe to deliver them to him, and was unwilling to give more than one piece at a time, and asked him to wear it the next day.
When I saw her again, there was a similar pattern on her clothes, his on this side, hers on that side, hers on the top, his on the bottom... they echoed each other. Even though Huo Qijing was a straight man who didn't understand romance, he could tell she did it on purpose based on his IQ.
He wondered, could this mean sharing weal and woe?
If Yan Shiyue knew about this, she would definitely complain, saying that this doesn’t have any deep meaning! This is just a couple outfit! Couple outfit!
On the contrary, the observant Emperor Ming Yan saw it on the first day and sneered at it: "Girls should not be kept when they grow up!"
Yan Shiyue blushed and smiled: "Hehehe..."
The round trip took several months, and Emperor Ming Yan's birthday and Yan Shiyue's birthday both passed on the road.
When they returned to Chang'an, it was already the end of August. The crown prince, along with all the civil and military officials, went out of the city and welcomed the emperor into the palace.
It was not known whether Emperor Ming Yan forgot or did it on purpose, but he did not grant Huo Qijing a mansion. Huo Qijing did not care and temporarily lived in Fu Yan Mansion.
He was not alone. He also brought fifty people from the border to serve as his personal soldiers. A large group of people rushing in was quite conspicuous.
They hadn't seen each other for half a year. As soon as Huo Qiyang saw her, he rushed over and they kissed for a long time. But when he saw Huo Qijing, Huo Qiyang just called out calmly, "Brother."
Huo Qijing: “Yeah.”
Yan Shiyue was really happy. If someone didn’t know, they would think that this pair of brothers were incompatible!
That night, many people received gifts from Yan Shiyue.
Except for the Queen Mother’s gift, which was a set of Buddha pearls that came with a box, the others each received a handkerchief…
The things were indeed good, exquisite and rare, but when you give a gift you should at least give the whole box, or present it in a way that looks decent. But it was just a handkerchief, not to mention there was a small piece of paper with her name on it.
It was easy to deal with people like Meng Yiqiu and Sheng Qi. The Third Prince and the Fourth Prince had never received such gifts. However, the Third Prince was quite grateful that Yan Shiyue still thought of picking a gift for him at that time.
Not to mention, the little eunuch Jun Buchang here burst into tears when he received the Nanzhu. He never thought that he would receive a gift in this life. It was not a reward from the master to please him, but a gift from the master who came back from afar and treated him as a human being.
Wei Xin was able to get out of bed now, and she received her jewelry. A group of people surrounded her happily.
Linlang also said with a smile: "Master, if you give so many gifts, people will be worried about giving gifts in return."
Yan Shiyue then remembered about returning the gift and said with a smile, "I don't mind whether you return it or not."
She said she didn't mind, so who would have the nerve not to give her back?
So before she could even gain a foothold, people came one after another to return the gifts. Those who were familiar with her would just send someone to deliver something. Anyway, they knew she wouldn't care. People like Xu Wenqu would just not return the favor.
Only someone like Meng Dansui, who attached great importance to courtesy, gave a small gift in return, which was a formal return gift. In addition, the Princess's Mansion and the Third Prince's Mansion also gave back a lot of things.
Before we finished cleaning up here, the rewards from the palace came down.
Gu Jiuxing came over in person to announce the decree, and the large boxes and baskets were carried in. After the long list of gifts was read out, Gu Jiuxing personally brought the last tray over to her and said to her, "Your Highness, please wear this jade pendant carefully and do not take it off easily."
Yan Shiyue responded, took it, and tied it around his body with sincerity, without noticing the expressions of others.
Not until Gu Jiuxing left did Linlang tell her that this was a Panlong pendant. Every prince would be given one when his name was recorded on a jade disc as proof of his identity...but the princess had never given one, never.
This is a unique honor.
While everyone here is happy, there are some who are happy and some who are sad in the palace.
Because Yan Shiyue gave gifts to the crown prince, the third, fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth, and even the crown prince's daughter, but not to any princess! No matter if they were married or not, not a single one was given.
Many concubines secretly cursed her power, but there was nothing they could do.
Afterwards, Emperor Mingyan remembered to ask her again, and Yan Shiyue said bluntly: "I don't like them." She was very confident: "No desire means strength, I don't want anything, why should I do things so carefully? I only give it to people I like."
Emperor Ming Yan thought that she didn't even send the empress, and he couldn't help but hold his forehead. Then she had the nerve to make a request: "Father, you are not allowed to like them, you can only like me!"
Emperor Ming Yan looked at her askance and said, "So you only like me?"
She answered very cunningly: "I like Aye the most!"
Oh! It would be foolish to believe her! Emperor Ming Yan thought about it and said, "Don't you dislike Sanlang?"
She didn't like him, but she felt an inexplicable pity for him.
Yan Shiyue sighed and gave him a meaningful look. Emperor Mingyan knew her very well and understood instantly. He didn't ask any more questions and drove him away directly: "Hurry up and leave! Don't make a fuss here, it makes me upset!"
Yan Shiyue walked away leisurely.
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