Chapter 56 Connection

Then how can she forgive him?

When this strange thought popped up in his mind, even Shen Yan himself was shocked.

From childhood to adulthood, he has always been the one who is surrounded by stars.

It has always been others who try to figure out his thoughts and please him, rather than him catering to others.

Therefore, when facing Ning Yuan, who always kept her head down and avoided him, he subconsciously thought that she was just like other women, secretly catering to him while pretending to be shy.

He never tried to understand her inner heart, and only hated why she was so boring and vulgar.

Until he suddenly could hear her inner voice, he gradually realized that he seemed to have never understood this seemingly well-behaved and gentle girl.

It seems that there is nothing in this world that she particularly cares about.

This means that it is difficult for him to please her.

Shen Yan suddenly realized that he seemed to have no way to deal with her.

He turned around and lit incense in the house. Looking back, he saw that she had walked to the door leisurely. At this moment, she suddenly looked back and called his name.

"By the way, Shen Yan."

He immediately understood what she wanted to say.

"... Don't worry, I won't bother you about your marriage, nor will I tell anyone about this."

The latter is possible, but the former is naturally impossible. He thought to himself.

The girl turned her head and responded with a "yes". Her tone was light and no emotion could be heard.

Although this was an accident, Shen Yan knew that even if she still refused to marry him, even if she was still angry with her, the connection between them was closer than before.

From then on, no matter which man she met, she would never forget that she had done such intimate things with him in this somewhat stuffy room.

Ning Yuan pushed open the door, stuck her head out, and took a breath of cool air: "...There are so many people."

The number of people standing outside was unexpectedly much more.

In addition to her mother, General Pei and the imperial physician, His Majesty and His Majesty, who had been alarmed at some point, and her serious-looking father. Behind

her father stood her pitiful sister Ning Li.

She walked up and greeted everyone calmly.

Ming Wei, who was standing in the corridor, rushed into the room first and was choked by the strong and pungent smell of incense for a moment.

This book is exclusively compiled by LK team for you. Although she had never smelled the scent of sweat and fragrance, she still acted hard and called out, "Ning Yuan, how could you do such a thing?"

Ning Yuan took a deep breath and was about to answer, but she heard Shen Yan's voice coming out from the room weakly, saying, "Madam Ning, do you think it is beneath your status that the young lady is willing to condescend to take care of me?"

...Isn't he well now?

Isn't the safest way now to pretend that he is fine and then pretend that this medicine has never taken effect? ​​This book is exclusively compiled by LK team for you. Why does he seem to want to make a big deal about this matter?

Ming Wei sneered and said in a sinister tone: "Lord Shen, your physical discomfort is very different from that of ordinary people like us."

Upon hearing this, His Majesty walked into the house: "No wonder you asked Mingjue to tell me that you were not feeling well. Have you seen the imperial physician?" This book is exclusively compiled for you by the LK team. Shen Yan covered his lips with his hands and coughed twice: "No need to see Your Majesty, the symptoms have been suppressed a lot."

He then looked at Ming Wei: "I didn't know that Madam Ning is quite proficient in medicine. She can tell what disease I have with just one glance."

Shen Yan's words were quite sharp, and the sarcasm was too obvious, which immediately provoked Mingwei's anger.

"Lord Shen, you are joking. I don't know the art of medicine, but I am good at hosting the banquet. Only in this way can I settle the account of my foolish daughter."

Seeing the displeasure between his majesty's brows, Duke Ning hurriedly stopped him and said, "Today is their daughter's family's festival, what account are you going to settle? If you have anything to say, go back home and talk about it. Don't embarrass yourself here."

Ning Yuan thought to herself that her father cares about face the most. Regardless of whether she is right or not, he will definitely blame Ming Wei for spreading this matter in the palace.

Thinking of this, her father can be regarded as her helper today.

This is a good opportunity to make her father and stepmother turn against each other, so she can't really let Ming Wei give up.

She followed her father and said timidly, "Yes, mother, this is in the palace after all, not in the mansion, and certainly not a place with a small family... When you return home, you can do whatever you want to me, but now don't waste the time of the adults."

Ming Wei's family background was not high, so she sensitively misunderstood her childhood non-competition, non-competition, non-flattery, and non-pleasure as her looking down on her.

This is also one of the reasons why she always targeted Ning Yuan.

Ning Yuan knew that this was her sore spot.

She would not deny a person because of his background, but in order to anger Ming Wei, the best way was to poke her sore spot.

Ming Wei was already upset because her plan was ruined by her, and now she was even more furious when she saw her words hinting that she was from a small family.

Yes, so what if her mother was a noble lady?

Isn't it her who has been defeated?

Thinking of the arrangements she had made before, she immediately ignored her father's face and said confidently: "Didn't you cure Lord Shen's illness?" Sure

enough, she was hooked.

Ning Yuan raised her eyebrows.

"Mother, how could you rape me? After I entered the palace, I brought my maid to learn musical instruments from General Pei, but I never met Lord Shen. When he came to find us, he had already taken Chinese medicine."

Pei Zixing said, "Your Majesty, what Miss Ning said is true, I can testify to it."

Ming Wei sneered, "Now that things have come to this, I won't hide it from you."

"I once saw a medicine box in the drawer of her dressing table in her room. At that time, I wondered what the purpose of keeping this medicine box was. I never thought that she would keep it just today to secretly collude with Lord Shen!"

"...I do have a medicine box in my room, but I usually prepare it to treat some minor illnesses. How can it be a medicine?" She frowned and said, "Do you have any evidence?"

"Evidence? The evidence is in your room. You'll find out when you return home and search it!"

As soon as Madam Ning finished her words, Ming Jue walked into the yard carrying a person who looked like a maid and threw her in front of everyone: "Maybe this is the evidence that Madam Ning wants?"

Finally here she is.

Shen Yan closed his eyes and felt relieved.

Although they were master and servant, they were more like friends.

Just as Ming Jue understood him, he also understood this playmate who had been with him since childhood.

He had not appeared for such a long time, he must have noticed some extremely important flaw and had to leave him to deal with it.

That's why he dared to take the initiative to respond to Madam Ning's words and provoke this dispute.

Ning Yuan tilted her head and saw Chuxing following behind him.

Chuxing saw her, ran to her quickly, held her hand and said worriedly: "Miss, are you okay?"

"I'm fine." She said calmly.

She stood on tiptoe and whispered, "Master Ming and I were on our way to Lotus Fragrance Pavilion. He had good hearing and happened to hear Madam talking to the maid. He thought there must be something fishy going on, so he said there was nothing serious going on there, and took me to follow that person, and we ended up following him to the mansion." It

was indeed nothing serious, it was just her fingers that were numb.

Ning Yuan forced a rather forced smile.

Ming Jue said, "Your Majesty, Miss Ning's maid asked me for help, saying that there was an emergency in the mansion, and asked me to send her back. As a result, I happened to see this maid sneaking into Madam Ning's bedroom."

"I thought, how dare a mere thief covet the things of the Duke's wife?"

"So I waited for her to come out and captured her in one fell swoop. Now I have both the person and the gain."

He finished speaking and presented a small round box.

"Madam, take a look? Have you lost anything?"

"Thank you very much."

Ming Wei's smile was almost unable to hold back.

She didn't expect that Shen Yan's hand could actually reach into the Duke's Mansion, and he did this to her halfway.

She stared at the small round box and was about to take it away and hide it well, but the queen on the side got there first.

"This box is so exquisite. Let me have a look."

As she said that, she unscrewed the lid, sniffed it gently, and then her face changed drastically and she handed it to the nanny beside her.

After hearing this, the nanny knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty... this... this is indeed □□."

His Majesty looked around and said, "Where did you say you seized it? Madam Ning's room?"

Ming Jue clasped his fists and said, "Yes."

Shen Heng shook his head and frowned, "Your Majesty, it's not just a matter of □□. This medicine is a forbidden recipe in the palace. The person who created this recipe is Prince Xuan's mother, Concubine Li Shufei. Because she used this recipe to gain favor and then failed in public, she was sent to a Buddhist temple by the late emperor to meditate."

"And there's also an ingredient in it, Yangqi Stone, which is only available in Prince Xuan's fiefdom... Now Prince Xuan has the potential to secede, and this thing appeared in the mansion of Duke Ning..."

She looked at Duke Ning in embarrassment.

The emperor's suspicion is far more serious than the unrest at home!

Duke Ning's already ugly face was covered with a layer of frost: "Your Majesty, I am loyal!"

"I know."

His Majesty symbolically supported him, making it impossible for him to guess his mood.

Duke Ning's dissatisfaction with Ming Wei increased a little.

"At this point, why don't you tell me where this medicine came from?"

Ming Wei bit her lip and remained silent.

Shen Yan added: "Speaking of this medicine... I seem to have seen it somewhere else."

"Last time at the eldest princess' birthday banquet, the Ning Mansion invited Miss Ning alone. I felt something was wrong, so I changed the wine pot on her table in advance before the banquet and sealed it for sampling."

"If my guess is correct, it is probably the same as the medicinal materials in this small round box today."

"Your Majesty, do you still remember the last time we capsized?"

The emperor's face became more and more ugly, and he snorted coldly, "Prince Xuan's hand has been extended to the capital. It's not enough to deceive his sister and aunt to speak for him, but now he can even persuade the teacher to rebel."

Duke Ning knelt down with a thud and kowtowed, saying, "This old minister will never do anything to let your Majesty down!"

He looked at Ming Wei with a sullen face, "Tell me, where did this medicine come from! If you still don't tell the truth, I will write you a letter of divorce, and your Majesty should be executed, and you should accept your fate!"

Ning Yuan stood alone and watched the show.

She would never have expected that today's medicine would be related to someone who wanted to rebel. In this case, who would care about how she gave the medicine to Shen Yan?

Now everyone is in danger, and it is good enough to get rid of the crime of treason.

Ming Wei finally couldn't bear the pressure and said: "...I have no intention of treason, but...I just said a few more words to the princess...She hates Ning Yuan for ruining her again and again, and I...I don't want to see her have an easy life, so...that's why..."

"Your Majesty, I really don't know anything about Prince Xuan..."

"...She hates Miss Ning for ruining her again and again?" His Majesty looked at Shen Yan, "Zhiyu, you just said...you replaced the princess's wine at the birthday banquet, what do you mean?"

Shen Yan walked slowly to his majesty's side: "This is a long story."

"Your Majesty, please go back to Yangxin Palace. I will tell you slowly."

It was not until His Majesty repeated Shen Yan's words that Ning Yuan finally reacted. She stood there in a daze, watching Shen Yan and His Majesty walk away together.

... What she heard that night was true. The princess actually prepared aphrodisiac wine for her.

So... was it because he replaced her medicinal wine that she barely escaped?

Otherwise, if she fell into the same situation as Shen Yan at that time...

She didn't dare to think about it.

After all, he saved her.

But she also returned it today.

In this way, she was even with him. From now on, they will go back to the same way.

Anyway, lying to her is unforgivable!

*

Ning Li not only failed to climb into bed, but also failed to win the needle threading contest at the night Qiqiao Banquet.

She tied with Yang Zhiyi in the needle threading contest, but Yang Zhiyi won the embroidery contest.

She did not covet anything, but only hoped that the Empress would give her a divorce letter from her father and her mother, so that she and her mother would be completely free.

During the banquet, Ning Yuan and her looked at each other from a distance and smiled at each other.

It was late at night when they returned from the banquet. The Ning Mansion was silent, like the calm before a storm.

She was a little curious about how her father would deal with her stepmother when the sun rose tomorrow.

Ning Yuan specifically instructed the eldest brother guard to strengthen the defense around her courtyard to prevent some "annoying ghosts" from invading her territory again.

The summer heat had not yet dissipated, and her wooden window had a small slit, bringing in a breeze.

She was very tired today, and after taking a bath, she was too lazy to light a candle, so she lay down on the edge of the bed, enjoying the breeze while pulling the quilt over her lower abdomen and closing her eyes to prepare for sleep.

She raised her hand and clenched it, but her fingers were still numb for some reason.

It was all Shen Yan's fault.

She didn't understand, Shen Yan was born with such a gentle and handsome appearance, why couldn't he be gentle and handsome as well?

He only had such a pink complexion, but when he was in love, even he would become more passionate. Now when she recalled it, it was still vivid in her mind.

And her hands couldn't even completely surround him!

Ning Yuan thought uncontrollably.

If she tried those blushing things in the novel with him...what would it feel like?

Would it hurt?

Or would it be happy?

...What on earth was she thinking about? She

should go to bed quickly.

She felt a little hot behind her ears, and she couldn't help but pull the quilt and rub her cheeks on the slightly cool satin.

Shen Yan was lying on his side at the deepest part of her bed, holding his head with one hand, and her unspeakable thoughts were echoing in his mind.

Seeing that she had stopped her charming thoughts, he suddenly said, "Yuanyuan, are you thinking about me?"