Chapter 62 Practice

Shen Yan walked on the palace road, thinking about his sister's words, and tried to imagine how to express his feelings to Ning Yuan.

It felt strange to be empty-handed.

This book is exclusively compiled by the LK team. He casually broke off a branch of laurel, handed it to the air in front of him with a cold face, and said, "For you."

The girl's appearance easily appeared in front of him.

If she were there, she would definitely slightly widen her black and white eyes, tilt her head and stare at him: "Why give me this?"

He should answer: "Because I like you."

...

How presumptuous.

This book is exclusively compiled by the LK team. He finally experienced the feeling of curling his toes.

Instead of letting him say such corny words, it would be better to let him let her do what she wants.

He immediately changed his words and handed it to the air again.

"Because it smells good."

No, this sentence is too ordinary, and it won't even have any connection with Ning Yuan.

He pondered for a moment, and added in his heart: "Same as you."

This sentence made him easily think of that secret daytime.

He kissed her there, and really tasted her.

He clearly felt his ears burning, and he was completely out of control.

...But why does it sound like a pervert?

Ning Yuan might be right, he might really be a hypocritical pervert.

While he was worrying about how to talk to her, he turned a palace gate and handed the laurel out again.

Then he handed it right into His Majesty's arms.

His Majesty had gone to find the Queen.

Seeing Shen Yan picking flowers and handing them to her with a strange blush on his face, she quickly took a step back and said in fear: "Shen Zhiyu, what are you doing? I am your brother-in-law!"

Ning Yuan, who had just entered the palace, was walking hurriedly with her head down as usual. When she heard the voice, she looked up and saw this scene in front of the red wall through the golden ginkgo leaves.

She frowned and thought, Shen Yan has never given her flowers.

She thought he was a man who didn't understand romance, and now it seems that he also knows it, but the object that can make him romantic is not herself.

However... this romantic object... well... how to say it...

it's hard to comment.

Shen Yan listened to her inner voice, closed his eyes helplessly, lowered his hands and said to the vigilant Majesty in front of him: "Don't be so self-indulgent."

The Majesty then covered his chest and said with a long sigh: "That's right, this is you."

"If you are not doing it for me, what are you doing? Practicing? Want to give it to Miss Ning?"

Shen Yan remained silent, looking into the distance, searching for Ning Yuan's figure, and finally caught a glimpse of smoky pink satin behind a ginkgo tree.

Is she peeking at him?

His Majesty had his back to Ning Yuan and did not notice her. He just kindly took the flower branch from his hand, held it in his mouth, held the red wall, and raised his eyebrows at him.

"If you have learned it well, I will only teach you once." He said indistinctly.

Ning Yuan found that except for the Majesty's shout, she could not hear the conversation between the two people clearly. After watching for a while, she thought it would be better to leave.

No wonder Shen Yan frequently went in and out of the palace and was highly valued by His Majesty.

Ning Yuan felt inexplicably uncomfortable in her heart.

Fortunately, she would be free soon.

She continued to lower her head and left in a hurry.

She went to the palace to see the imperial concubine today.

She is A Niang's aunt and used to be very kind to A Niang. It's a pity that once you enter the palace, it's like entering a deep sea. Now that the late emperor is gone, as the imperial concubine, she rarely shows up, and she can't even be seen at the palace banquet.

In the past, Ming Wei was in charge of the feeding and didn't allow her to have much contact. Now that she has returned to the ancestral home, she feels much more relaxed.

Hearing that the Toffee had caught a cold due to the change of seasons, Ning Yuan specially prepared some medicinal food and came to visit her.

With His Majesty here, Shen Yan couldn't just leave him alone. He retracted his gaze from the ginkgo tree and saw His Majesty's eyes with a joking look: "Ah Heng, do you want to go somewhere with me?"

Shen Yan: "..."

He frowned and said: "I have to go to the Imperial Hospital to invite a doctor for the Empress, so I won't delay Your Majesty."

His Majesty changed his previous appearance, straightened his body, and asked worriedly: "What's wrong with your sister?" He

immediately ordered the palace servant who followed him: "Go and call the doctor, run, the faster the better."

Seeing the palace servant hurriedly leave, he turned to look at Shen Yan: "Hurry up and tell me!"

"Nothing, I just think there is something wrong with her eyes."

"Otherwise, how could she like you?"

His Majesty's face darkened: "Shut up."

*

The courtyard where the concubines lived was always remote and quiet. Ning Yuan knocked on the door and went in. She felt that it would be too boring to waste her whole life in such a small courtyard.

The aunt in the palace led her to the inner room.

"Please come in, young lady."

The concubine sat up from the bed, and was a little surprised to see her: "Yuanyuan?"

Ning Yuan bowed: "Your Highness, I heard that you were sick. I was free, so I made this medicated meal and came to see you."

The concubine said kindly: "I didn't expect you to come to see me. I haven't seen you for many years. When I held you, you were still a baby in swaddling clothes."

"Later, your mother was bedridden, until she..." She sighed softly, "Let's not talk about this. Now that you have grown into such a beautiful girl, your mother's spirit in heaven must be very pleased."

"Unlike me, I have spent half my life in this palace and I don't even have a son or daughter."

Ning Yuan is actually not very good at comforting people.

She felt that having children or not was just a choice, and that the bond of family affection was inevitably accompanied by the mother's sacrifice and dedication. Whether it was bitter or sweet, only she could experience it.

But at this moment, she felt that she should say something.

She thought for a moment and said dryly, "Giving birth to children is not necessarily a blessing. It's a journey to the gates of hell. If my mother hadn't given birth to me, she might not have died so early."

Help... Even she herself felt embarrassed by this consolation.

The concubine smiled when she heard this, and patted her hands and said, "You don't have to worry about this. If you are healthy and the pregnancy is proper, you won't suffer so much. On the contrary, if you don't pay attention to your body and are often sick, it won't be any better." This book is compiled exclusively for you by the LK team "No matter what, you must take care of yourself."

Ning Yuan smiled at her faintly: "Thank you, concubine."

Maybe when people get older, they like to talk about the past. She took Ning Yuan and reminisced about the past and said, "Speaking of your mother, she used to be a playful and cheerful person, and she was strong. But her temperament changed a lot after she married into the Shen family, especially in the later stages of pregnancy, her complexion was very bad."

"What about when she first became pregnant?" Ning Yuan asked casually.

"When she first got pregnant..."

"When she first got pregnant, it can be said that she had almost no discomfort. She didn't have the symptoms that other people had. If her period hadn't suddenly stopped, she probably wouldn't have known she was pregnant."

Ning Yuan frowned.

The concubine had no experience in giving birth to children, but thanks to Shen Yan's deception, she might have some experience.

During the time when she thought she was pregnant, she read a lot of medical books and knew that the early and late stages of pregnancy for women were the most difficult, but if the pregnancy was relatively stable in the early stages, most of them would give birth smoothly.

But her mother was injured in a difficult delivery.

If she was healthy at the beginning, there might be some calculations and hidden secrets.

When she walked out from the concubine's place, she was preoccupied and did not notice that the bricks under her feet were covered with a layer of moss. She slipped and missed a step.

Her calf scratched on the steps and she felt pain. She fell back on the steps and quickly protected her head.

She thought, it's over.

She thought she would have an intimate contact with the earth, but she was stopped halfway and thrown into an embrace full of cold fragrance.

Ning Yuan's chest was heaving and her heart was beating fast. The pain in her legs seemed to wet the hem of her skirt, and it hurt so much that her eyes were sore and misty, and her eyes were blurred.

Despite this, she still felt that she met Shen Yan's eyes.

She was held in his arms, and she found that his heartbeat was faster than hers.

How did he know she was here?

Did he see her at that time and come to test what she knew?

She had to stay calm and not expose herself.

Shen Yan lowered his eyes to look at her, then held her horizontally, and his fingers touched something cold at her waist.

It was the jade flute he had picked for her at that time.

She was going to take the flute he gave her and go find another man.

"Are you going to find Zixing?" he asked lightly.

She said "um" without hesitation.

Shen Yan was silent, and took her steadily in the opposite direction of the palace gate.

"...Where are you taking me?"

The man's voice was cold: "Take you to find your little star."

Ning Yuan was a little puzzled: "Then why are you taking me to the palace? She is not in the palace."

Zixing is on leave today. The two of them were specially called by His Majesty to the Yangxin Palace. He just met His Majesty again, which means that Zixing had left a long time ago.

It seems that she knows it very well.

"Then where is he?"

"Waiting for me in the carriage to go back to the mansion together." Ning Yuan answered truthfully.

Carriage?

No, even he and Ning Yuan had many ambiguous things in the carriage, how could he let her ride with Pei Zixing.

"I will send you back in person later, let him go first."

"...Isn't this not good?"

Shen Yan helped her and she was very grateful, but she still cared about the scene she saw before.

"Do you want the three of us to go together?"

He lowered his eyes and looked down at her.

"Is it not possible?" Ning Yuan looked him in the eye.

"Of course not." Shen Yan frowned.

What was she thinking?

He wanted to tell her that she could only choose one between him and Zixing.

But he was afraid to say it out loud and hear her say, "Then I choose Brother Pei."

Then he would never have another chance.

He would never pester her when she clearly didn't want him.

At least not now.

... Then could he tolerate her being so close to him?

Shen Yan's heart was blocked.

Forget it, what else could he do if he couldn't tolerate it?

He was already very satisfied that he could still hold her in his arms now. Maybe he wouldn't be able to hold her in the future, and she would only be in the arms of "Little Star".

Ning Yuan looked at the corners of his lips that were gradually tightening, and was puzzled for a moment.

Why did he seem angry?

"Shen Yan, what are you angry about?"

Ning Yuan carefully recalled their conversation.

They tacitly did not mention the incident in front of the palace wall. He was definitely not angry about it. There was nothing wrong with her saying that she wanted to go back home. The only thing wrong was that she said she was going to see Brother Pei.

But didn't she not go?

You can't be angry just because we are in normal contact, right?

Even if she really married him, she would definitely meet other men after marriage.

Shen Yan listened to her inner voice and thought, if she still doesn't admit it, would she ride in a carriage alone with other men and call him little star affectionately when she meets them?

Shen Yan said stubbornly, "I'm not angry."

He carried her into the courtyard given to him by Yu and put her on the bed.

He took off her shoes and socks, and wiped her wound with a wet cold handkerchief. The blood soaked the white handkerchief, and she couldn't help but shuddered back as she felt a slight sting.

Unfortunately, her ankle was wrapped in his hand, and the pattern did not move.

Shen Yan lowered his head and said, "Bear it for a while, it will hurt more later."

... What will hurt more?

Ning Yuan was a little puzzled. When he covered her wound with a handkerchief again, she still couldn't help but gasp.

Shen Yan looked up at her, put her calf on the chair, and considerately put a soft cushion under it. He stood up and took a storybook from the desk and threw it beside her.

"Take a look first."

He bought a lot of storybooks last time, intending to figure out how to please Ning Yuan from them.

Because there were only a few places he could stay, he put some in his house, a few in the palace, and even a book in the files of the government office.

But he bought a lot of books, and the one he gave Ning Yuan was new before he had time to finish reading it.

Even if she asked, he could say that he bought it for his mother. He

gave it to her now to distract her attention, kill time, and stop thinking about her injuries.

He turned around to look for ointment to treat bruises and injuries.

Ning Yuan glanced at his back in confusion, then lowered her eyes to look at the book at hand.

When she caught a glimpse of the title, her pupils shrank slightly.

What a coincidence, she had read this book before.

The book tells the story of a country girl who was bought to be a concubine of a high-ranking official. She quietly saved money and planned to escape all day long. Unexpectedly, she was discovered by the high-ranking official on the eve of her escape. The high-ranking official cut her tendons in her hands and feet, imprisoned her in an unknown room, tied her to the bed, and forced her to have sex with him every day.

Coincidentally, she also wanted to break off the engagement and escape.

Shen Yan was definitely not the kind of person who would read such a story. People who were in the officialdom didn't like to speak their mind directly, and everything they did had their own intentions.

Combined with his words "It will be more painful later", Ning Yuan suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Was she a little cold to him recently, and made him notice something?

No, running away was the best option at this time, comforting was the middle option, and exposing was the worst.

She even thought about where to spend her old age, and she didn't want to be trapped here by him.

Ning Yuan immediately stood up despite the pain and limped to the door.

Shen Yan finally found the ointment. He turned around and saw Ning Yuan had already leaned on the door frame and was about to step out.

She was thinking about all kinds of messes every day.

"Come back to me." He walked towards her.

Ning Yuan's mind was spinning rapidly.

It was too late to run away, so it was better to comfort him and let him know that she had no intention of leaving him.