Yan Shiyue was surprised and happy. She stood up and wanted to throw herself into his arms: "Ah Jing! You're back!"
Emperor Ming Yan coughed heavily, and Yan Shiyue stopped his movement midway, unable to stop it in time, and almost threw himself under the bed.
Huo Qijing quickly stepped forward, grabbed her forearm with one hand, pulled her into his arms, took the opportunity to wrap his hand around her waist, and then gently returned her to the couch.
Their eyes briefly touched in the air.
Emperor Ming Yan coughed heavily again.
Yan Shiyue quickly looked away, put his hands on his knees, and said in a well-behaved manner: "Ah, brother, are you back? Why didn't you tell me, I will pick them up outside the city!"
Emperor Mingyan stretched out his hand and patted her gently on the back. The successful pat made her scream strangely. Emperor Mingyan said: "First make yourself smart, and then worry about others!"
Huo Qijing helped her again.
Yan Shiyue grabbed him and asked him to sit next to him, while saying, "Where is eldest brother? I'll go see him."
Huo Qijing said briefly: "At the back, Your Highness will sit on your shoulders."
"Here we come," there were footsteps outside. The prince was supported by someone and slowly walked in. He raised his head and smiled: "Yue'er."
Yan Shiyue looked him up and down: "Brother, are you okay?"
"It's nothing serious."
When the prince came in, he first bowed to Emperor Ming Yan, then was helped to sit down, looked at her and said, "Are you okay too?"
She nodded and asked him: "What's going on? Why have you been missing for so long?"
It turned out that when the prince and two shadow guards were returning that day, they accidentally saw a burst of thick smoke on the left side. The prince was worried that something had happened, so he took someone over to take a look. Unexpectedly, a stone rolled down the mountain during the journey, startling the horse and causing it to run wildly.
The prince's feet got stuck in the stirrups and he couldn't free himself for a while. The two shadow guards could only chase him wildly. The three of them ran for several miles, but they ran into a stumbling rope.
It was a group of fierce people who took the opportunity to make a fortune and blocked the road. Seeing that they were well-dressed, they stopped them. Naturally, the two shadow guards fought to the death to protect them. Originally, this group of people were just ordinary people, and they were no match for the shadow guards.
However, there were traps everywhere in that forest, and they didn't get the upper hand. One of them was injured and the other died.
Then the prince saw that the situation was not good, so he told them that they were from the Yan Mansion, and asked them to use them as hostages to go to "Master Yan" to ask for money. He had already persuaded them, but then the shadow guards kept looking for them, and they were quite loud.
, somehow someone found out that the prince was missing.
These people knew his identity, but they didn't dare to let him go, and they didn't dare to kill him. After discussing it, they threw them off the cliff.
They had been hungry for several days, injured, and unable to resist. At the last moment, the shadow guard used himself as a meat mat. The prince escaped with his life, but he was also seriously injured.
When he was dying, he met a family of people fleeing and was rescued by them.
It sounds simple, but it is actually thrilling.
The prince said: "Speaking of which, I would like to thank you very much."
Yan Shiyue was surprised: "Thank me?"
"Yes," the prince said, "do you know who the family who saved me in the end was? One of them was actually from Yuefang, named Cai Hong. As soon as I said my name was Yan Dong, Cai Hong asked me if I was lucky.
My empress’s friend even showed me her big weaver waist badge.”
He said with some emotion: "I was seriously injured at that time. I had many fevers and could not walk. They were also on the way to escape. It was not easy to take care of me. They also had to ask the doctor for diagnosis and treatment. If it hadn't been for this important relationship, I might have been there earlier.
Just..." He swallowed and touched her head: "Thank you Yue'er."
Yan Shiyue asked him: "But why don't you just say you are the prince?"
The prince smiled and shook his head: "If I have a large number of people here, telling my identity can scare the enemy. On the contrary, if I tell you, there are too many variables and it may be dangerous, so I can't tell you."
Also, Yan Shiyue sighed: "Fortunately, it was a false alarm."
She looked at Emperor Ming Yan, who still looked gloomy, then at the prince, at herself, and then at the imperial concubine. She couldn't help but sigh: "Everyone in our family has had a bad life this year. I hope things will turn around in the coming year!"
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The prince smiled and said: "We can all take advantage of the situation of 'if you survive a catastrophe, you will be blessed later'. What's wrong with that?"
Just as he was talking, someone from outside came to report: "The Imperial Concubine is awake."
The prince then stood up and said: "I want to see my mother and concubine, is Yue'er going?"
Yan Shiyue hesitated for a moment.
The imperial concubine's poisoning really hurt her body, and she has been recuperating these days.
That night, she instinctively saved Emperor Ming Yan first. Although there was nothing wrong with this and she really tried her best, she still felt a little embarrassed.
Emperor Ming Yan said: "You all go."
Huo Qijing turned around and said, "Yes."
Yan Shiyue was also sitting in a carriage these days. When she finished packing and went out, the prince's carriage had already left without waiting for her.
She sat on it, and Huo Qijing was beside her, helping her up. Yan Shiyue saw that there were people of her own around, so she poked his finger and said, "Ah Jing, Ah Jing!"
Huo Qijing glanced at her, his eyes were dark and he couldn't tell what he meant. After a long while, he said in a deep voice: "Are you afraid?"
She thought for a while: "It's more anxious."
His Adam's apple rolled, but he didn't say what he wanted to say. In the end, he just stretched out his hand, covered her head, and rubbed it gently: "I will work hard and be your hero next time."
For people who don't like to talk, if they rarely say a word of love, it will feel like it hits your heart, heavy.
Yan Shiyue was speechless for a long time.
She curled up like a cat and rested her face on his hand: "Yeah."
When he looked sideways, he saw her soft and downy hair.
The situation at that time, when she was protecting her parents alone, facing everyone, fighting alone... When he thought about it, he felt pain in his heart.
Yan Shiyue said that the prince was fine, and he believed that he must be fine. He asked for orders to leave the capital to earn military merit. He dared not say anything else. He had to regain the glory of his ancestors in order to marry her.
However, if he had known this, he would have never gone, he would have stayed, and he would never have left her alone, not even for a moment.
The group of people arrived outside Yonghe Palace in silence. When she sat up straight, she heard him say: "The emperor said that we can get married after the New Year."
She looked at him, and he looked up at her, with the corners of his mouth slightly curved, and his sharp and strong face, coupled with that soft little shyness, was really charming.
She couldn't help but smile and nodded: "Yeah."
The two entered the Yonghe Palace.
The imperial concubine was holding the prince and crying, and the prince kept comforting her softly.
Yan Shiyue simply refused to go in and asked Jin Yu: "What did you eat today?"
Jin Yu whispered in embarrassment: "I only used half a bowl of porridge, and I refused to eat it no matter how hard I tried to persuade me."
This won’t work!
It's been several days. The imperial concubine has lost her appetite, firstly because of taking medicine, and secondly, maybe because of psychological shadow.
Yan Shiyue thought for a while and then went to the small kitchen.
There is a small kitchen in Yonghe Palace. It is said to be used for making snacks, but in fact it can make anything.
The imperial concubine likes to eat sweet and soft things, but not too sweet. She is thinking, how about making a layer cake?
Thousand-layer cake is actually very easy to make. It mainly consists of crust and cream, and then you have someone add some chopped walnuts and dried fruits.
For the cake crust, add eggs, sugar, and milk one after another, and mix well. It is best to sift the dough with a fine sieve, and mix evenly. You need to let it sit for a while to allow the ingredients to blend, so that the rolled out cake crust will be soft, delicate, and tough.
Then beat the egg whites and sugar into the cream.
All she had to do throughout the process was move her mouth, and someone would naturally take action.
When it was done, Yan Shiyue asked someone to wash the cloth, sew a sharp corner out, made a decorating bag, and then wrote the word "福" on the layer cake.
When Duan went in and invited Emperor Ming Yan to come over, Yan Shiyue said solemnly: "Okay, from today on, I hope that our whole family will be blessed with endless blessings!" (To be continued)