There are many treasures in this country

Shen Yan sent Xiao Suo away in the early morning, then changed clothes and entered the court, congratulated my emperor with a happy new year with all the ministers, and received a banquet before returning to wait for the guests.It was a busy day, and there was no time to be free.

In the evening, he took a break to rest, thinking of his family's unique treasure again, and repeatedly ordered someone to pick it up.

Xiao Suo went back and ate dumplings, and distributed the things Shen Yan had prepared to everyone, and sat at the door to watch the little urchin mischievous.In the evening, no one came, and he couldn't sit still. His mind was in turmoil, and he always felt that something was wrong.

He didn't wait for anyone to pick him up, he and Babao went to Shen's residence in that half-old red carriage.The person at the back door saw that it was the bookboy beside him driving the car, so he hurriedly took him into the mansion.

Walking through the garden, Ruan Tong, who had sobered up, was standing by the pavilion talking and joking with two children in the servant's room. Seeing him coming, he said, "Master Yan is here, and he is talking with General Shen in the front hall. Young Master Xiao went to hide in the study." Hide."

Xiao Suo thanked him, and took Babao to the small study surrounded by rockery, carefully avoiding people along the way, seeing people gathered in front of him, he asked: "What's wrong here?"

When the boy saw that it was him, he hurriedly replied, "This place is full of paper windows. The fire paper from the fireworks last night fell on the eaves and burned more than half of them. No one was hurt, and nothing was lost. After the general learned about it this morning, his order was quickly repaired, and people will be able to enter around tomorrow."

Hearing this, Xiao Suo had to wait for Shen Yan.Go in through the back corner door and go straight to the bedroom, but Yan Jun in the front hall won't see him.It's just that you should be careful in your actions, and act lightly, so as not to make a big noise.

He turned around the corridor, bypassed the tea room, and stood in front of the desk behind the wooden wall, looking for a book to read.Just picked out the book to sit down, suddenly heard a faint voice from the next door: "...I don't do it, even if I resist the order!"

It's Shen Yan.

Xiao Suo didn't want to listen to the corner at first, but he had nowhere to hide, so he couldn't help but wonder in his heart——what did he not follow?

After this pause, another gentle voice said: "Don't worry, this will happen sooner or later! Don't tell me you won't get married in this lifetime?"

Marriage, Yan Jun said that Shen Yan was married.

Xiao Suo couldn't help getting closer, and heard him say again: "Princess Pingyang is the first emperor's daughter, the current emperor's half-sister, her status is extraordinary. Although the emperor didn't say it clearly, but according to the people below, he has already mentioned it to the empress. Now, I want to point her out to you as my wife. You are not young anymore, and the rumors and rumors outside are harsh, so you should marry relatives to silence their mouths. This is a great kindness, you don't want to..."

Xiao Suo couldn't hear the words behind him clearly anymore, he just felt a thunder "bang" in his head, he didn't know why, who he was and where he was, he couldn't tell clearly anymore.

He took two steps back in a daze, his vision was dark and he almost fell down, he hurriedly supported the corner of the table, and suddenly knocked over a white porcelain pen holder near his sleeve, "jingle jingling", the writing brush fell all over the floor.

"Who, who's in there?"

Immediately there was an inquiry from the next door, and Babao had an idea, and hurriedly threw Baoyu out of the couch.Hearing the meowing of the cat and seeing its fluffy body running out, Shen Yan dispelled his suspicions, and turned around and said, "Don't tell me these things, I won't do it anyway! What do you mean by old age? How old are you? Why are you so old?" Not married?"

Yan Jun sighed: "Of course I know what you're thinking, but it's hard to be holy. If I don't say something nice to persuade you, don't I just add fuel to the fire and let you disobey and commit crimes, and lose your life? In fact, why should you do this? It's just a So what if you marry a princess who is not valued by the emperor, does she still dare to restrain you? You can go to Fireworks and Willow Alley, and no one dares to say anything about you."

"Then how can I do that?" Shen Yan resolutely refused, "I'm in a panic, I can't do such a wicked thing. Besides, if you marry someone and let them hang out, you'll waste your life for nothing, what kind of person will you become! I'm not that water It doesn’t matter if you are male or female. Besides, you should know what’s on my mind. I’m full of it. No matter how good others are, I can’t hold it.”

"I'm afraid, it's up to you." Yan Jun shook his head and said, "That Xiao Suo, left and right have already broken up with you, so why should you stick to him so hard? In the end, even if this marriage fails, there will be other things in the future. It is impossible for you to be together. Instead of being tied to each other and living a difficult life together, it is better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes and let each other live better."

Shen Yan was silent, and suddenly punched the back of the chair, and the sawdust scattered all over the place.But he didn't seem to feel the pain, and his voice was desolate: "Why is it so difficult for me to like someone, so difficult!"

Could it be that he had indulged in romance in the first half of his life, and had already exhausted his marriage in this life?

Yan Jun sipped his tea, and said again: "I also know that this matter is inappropriate, but the emperor probably wants to tie you up with Princess Pingyang, and there are difficulties in saying it, so how can we disobey it? If you really don't want to, I have to think of a way to refuse earlier. It can be regarded as I told you in advance, otherwise it will be too late to say anything."

"What are you preparing for?" Shen Yan said sullenly, "What can be done about such a thing? At most, I will marry one now. Even if the emperor doesn't like it, he can't marry his sister to me as a concubine. But what is this? I still want to ruin a woman, I still want to marry, it’s no different from marrying a princess!"

Yan Jun pondered for a moment, and said: "Or you can make a marriage, and let this matter go away first, and you can retire after the emperor marries Princess Pingyang. It is a prominent family, preferably the family of important ministers in the court, or a family with a reputation, otherwise the emperor will not give in easily. But the problem is, how can a woman of a prominent family allow you to regret and withdraw from the marriage!"

"Hey!" Shen Yan clapped his hands suddenly, "I think of someone who can do it!"

"Who?"

After finishing his sentence, he suddenly heard an outsider reply: "The Yan Mansion sent someone to ask Mr. Yan to go back, saying that Miss Xi Sheng was playing ice skates with others, and she accidentally fell into the ice hole. She is feverish right now!"

Yan Jun's face changed drastically when he heard this, he got up and walked out.Shen Yan hurriedly followed: "I'll go and have a look with you!"

"Your back injury has recurred, don't run around!" Yan Jun hurriedly said, "I'll send someone to tell you later."

It's hard for Shen Yan to say that he is lying, and he is really irritable at the moment, and he really has no intention of visiting the sick, so he sent him away and came back.

Xiao Suo didn't know when he came, he was sitting in the hall, when he saw him he said with a smile: "I came by myself, and I didn't wait for anyone to pick me up."

"When did you come?" Shen Yan frowned slightly, "I asked Eleven to pick you up, but you didn't meet him?"

"Not long after I arrived, I heard that you were talking with Mr. Yan, so I didn't dare to come out to disturb me. Did Shi Shi go pick me up? I didn't wait for him, so he ran away in vain."

Shen Yan paused, then walked towards the inner room with his arms around him: "It doesn't matter, just treat it as a walk. Where were you waiting just now, did you hear what I said?"

"I didn't hear anything. Is it important? What you say is the same as what I listen to."

"It's nothing important, don't say anything."

Xiao Suo smiled, speechless.

In the evening, the two of them got together to eat dumplings, there were clearly several large plates, but Shen Yan wanted to pick Xiao Suo's bowl.He picked and picked again, saying that the tooth marks on the dumpling were not good-looking, and told him to bite a heart-shaped one.

"I didn't realize before that you are quite hypocritical." Xiao Suo had no choice but to give him all the dumplings he had bitten.

Shen Yan was flustered and didn't refute. He ate all the dumplings slowly and leaned beside him and said, "I have something that I want to tell you."

Xiao Suo was waiting for him to mention it, when he heard that he put down the book and looked at him: "Well, tell me."

"That..." Shen Yan rolled his eyes twice, "I, I didn't have enough dumplings tonight, and I want to eat more..."

"Oh," Xiao Suo felt empty, lowered his head and continued to read, "then you can eat some more, and ask someone to bring it in."

Shen Yan was already full, but he was rushing to talk here, so he had to ask someone to bring another plate of dumplings. After eating it with great pains, he plucked up his courage and said, "I have one more thing... I want to say. "

"Speak." Xiao Suo didn't even lift his head this time.

Shen Yan pondered for a long time, then said dejectedly, "I'm still not full..."

So he ate another plate of dumplings, and now he couldn't even move. He only wished that someone would rub his stomach like the First Prince.

Xiao Suo brewed a cup of hawthorn tea from the outside, put it on the table for him, and said earnestly: "No matter how delicious it is, it should be in moderation. It's neither light nor heavy, so it's good if you eat it bad!"

Shen Yan not only did not refute, but was sincere and nodded obediently: "You are right, I will change everything in the future."

He drank two sips of tea and wandered around the room to digest.Xiao Suo was still reading the book, with a serious and serious expression, meticulous, but for some reason, he was faintly lonely, and it made people feel distressed when he looked at it.

Shen Yan didn't say anything after all, Xiao Suo didn't ask either.The two blew out the lamps and lay silently, stiff and breathing, neither doing nor talking about anything.

After a while, they all fell asleep.

After the year is the Lantern Festival, there are countless lanterns hanging up and down, which are dazzling and very lively.This day there was an opera troupe in the mansion, everyone gathered in the front yard to listen to the opera, only Xiao Suo was studying in the house.

Shen Yan personally packed the made glutinous rice balls in a food box and sent them to him. Seeing that he was writing an article, he lowered his voice and whispered: "Still working hard! Although the scientific examination is about to take place, the time is a little tight, but it's still worth it. Don't be too tired. There are glutinous rice balls here, eat some, you should be hungry at night."

Xiao Suo put down his pen, smiled at him, bit into a glutinous rice ball, the fragrant smell of golden osmanthus and sesame immediately burst into his mouth, he couldn't help but ask him: "Have you eaten?"

"Eat, eat." Shen Yan nodded hurriedly, "This is reserved for you only, you can just eat."

Xiao Suo lowered his eyes and did not make a sound, silently finished eating the glutinous rice balls, put the empty bowl back into the food box, and picked up his pen again.Shen Yan leaned beside him, touching here and there, but he didn't get a response for a long time, and felt a little boring, and couldn't keep his face, so he backed out, leaving him in the room to continue studying.

Xiao Suo looked at the closed door for a long time and sighed.

After the Lantern Festival, it is time for the exam. Xiao Suo has experienced many battles, seen a lot of world in the capital, and experienced many things. Although this exam is important, he is not as nervous as before. Chatted with the inspector for a few words.

Ouyang Xu is also there, the number room is far away from him, no longer next to him.When he came in this morning, he also saw another acquaintance - Liu Siwen in the Hongwen Museum.

He still had a cold face, and his words were extremely concise and powerful. He nodded with Xiao Suo, and then went into the number room with the basket.

This time the examination went very smoothly, Xiao Suo easily took the first place again, won two yuan in a row, and finally let out the depression he had accumulated before.

On the day the list was released, everyone saw his name written in gold powder hanging high at the top of the list. Some were jealous, some were envious, some were surprised, and some secretly made up their minds to work hard, but no one underestimated him.

Xiao Suo felt proud and elated, he was very happy in his heart, he couldn't wait to tell Shen Yan, and he didn't care about avoiding suspicion during the day, so he hurried to Shen's residence.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked to Qingtong Street, he suddenly heard a passerby talking about that General Shen was engaged to the second lady of Shi's family, a wealthy businessman in the west of the city.One word is like a bucket of cold water, pouring Xiao Suo's heart into a chill.

Seeing him standing still in the middle of the road in a daze, Babao tugged at his sleeve and reminded: "My lord, the carriage is here, my lord!"

Xiao Suo paused for a moment before raising his head, only to see a carriage galloping ahead.His face turned pale, he hurriedly avoided, stood on the side of the road in shock for a while, then bowed his head in silence for a moment, and finally diverted to Nancheng.

The snow on the side of the road has not disappeared, and there are countless footprints scattered on it, some are deep, some are shallow, some are big, some are small, some are criss-crossed, and some are parallel to each other.

It was chaotic, just like his state of mind at the moment.

Is Shen Yan really engaged? Why doesn't he tell himself?

The Shi family is as rich as an enemy country, so is it a marriage that can be easily withdrawn?Could it be that the matter is really so serious that he would rather offend the Shi family than make such a move?

If this plan works and the emperor is forced to make concessions, with his emperor's heart, will he hold grudges?If the emperor holds a grudge, how will he be punished?Rebuke, banished, deposed, ransacked, or imprisoned, exiled, and bestowed with death?

It seems that since the two got acquainted with each other, troubles have never been far away.They are like a pair of travelers on different journeys, they are always jealous when they are forced together, and even the most ordinary trivial things become a luxury for them.

The people in the Hongwen Museum are right, he is indeed a disaster.