Chapter 17: Blazing Purity

Yan Lin didn't expect the group of people from Qingyuan Uncle's Mansion to be so disruptive, and because Qingyuan Uncle came to talk to him personally for a while, he couldn't escape for the time being, so he didn't get out until late at night. I was supposed to go to the Skyscraper, but when I arrived at the intersection, I found that it had been blocked by officers and soldiers. When I asked, it was said that there was an assassin from the previous Skyscraper who had assassinated the imperial officials, almost causing me to panic.

He wanted to go In, but inside was Xie Wei, and he didn't dare to cause trouble.

Fortunately, someone went to Tongchuan and brought Jiang Xuening back when they returned.

"Ning Ning!" Seeing her come out, Yan Lin felt anxious and didn't care if anyone around him was looking at her. He took her hand and looked up and down at her, "You're not injured, you're not falling somewhere, are you?"

Jiang Xuening had just passed through the sudden and thrilling scene. Although she had walked all the way, her legs were a bit weak, and she couldn't even recover from Yan Lin.

She blinked when she heard him shout several times.

He only said, "It's okay, there's no danger."

Although it didn't hurt much, the person looked pale and devoid of blood on a face as big as a palm, and their expression was also dazed, indicating that they were frightened.

Yan Lin's eyebrows not only did not loosen, but also furrowed even tighter.

He gripped her hand and felt her fingers cold. For a moment, his heart felt a bit uneasy, but he even lowered his voice to coax her, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I'm here now. It's all my fault. I shouldn't have given face to those people in the Uncle's Mansion, and I shouldn't have asked you to wait for me at the Skyscraper, so I wouldn't have encountered an assassin…"

Where is the assassin that Jiang Xuening is afraid of?

What she is afraid of is the emperor teacher Xie Wei, who looks so good to others and is like a saint!

And she recalled the conversation between the two of them, which had only been a secret and clever conversation, only to realize that Xie Wei actually knew about her relationship with Yan Lin.

When the person in charge came to report, they only said that Yan Lin was coming in, but didn't mention a word about her. Xie Wei glanced directly at her and asked Sword Book to send her out.

Please note that she used to dress up as a man when going out with Yan Lin, and the news has not spread.

Where did Xie Wei know?

At this moment, Jiang Xuening thought of many possibilities, perhaps from the Yongyi Marquis's Mansion, or perhaps from her father Jiang Boyou. But ultimately, for Xie Wei, this is a well known thing.

So Xie Wei from his past life must also know.

In this way, the attitude of Xie Wei, who had always kept a distance from her in the previous life, can be fully explained: because she betrayed Yan Lin, indirectly harmed the Yongyi Marquis's Mansion, and even later reused Zhou Yinzhi!

Jiang Xuening felt the scorching warmth in the young man's palm, as if she could also feel the fierceness in his heart. Looking up, she touched his sincere and heartfelt eyes, and for a moment, she felt a sense of not daring to look directly at him.

Because of her despicability.

Because of her hypocrisy.

Yan Lin was still worried about her and said, "You were scared today. You should go home and sleep early to nourish your mind. Let's not go to the lantern festival. When it's reopened in the future, I'll take you with me."

He said he was going to pull her onto the carriage next to him.

Jiang Xuening's heart turned sour, and she pulled his hand back and said, "No, I want to go."

She suppressed the urge to cry, bent her lips, and smiled at him, hoping to reassure him and tell him she was okay.

Yan Lin looked at her quietly.

After a while, he laughed along and said, "But you said you're going!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he took a step forward and grabbed her waist, lifting her onto the horse!

Where can Jiang Xuening react?

My eyes widened for a moment, and I couldn't control myself. I exclaimed in surprise, "Yan Lin!"

Yan Lin laughed heartily without explaining, then helped her saddle onto the horse and sat behind her, pulling on the reins with one hand and swinging the whip with the other, half circling her in her arms and directly hitting the horse away!

The horse scattered Its four hooves and ran.

The slightly cold autumn wind hunted the ground and poured it into people's clothes. The sparse pedestrians on the street and the rows of towers on both sides rushed quickly from both sides of the line of sight.

Jiang Xuening pressed her back tightly against the boy's already broad chest, with only the sound of the wind and his cheerful laughter behind her ears for a moment. She felt her heart beating even more violently than when she encountered the assassin and Xie Wei.

She finally regained her composure.

I couldn't help but say, "You're sick!"

Yan Lin laughed so hard that her entire chest was shaking, and she was very happy: "I have it."

Jiang Xuening's aura is bloated.

Yan Lin knew she was afraid, but not only did she not let the horse slow down, but she also urged the horse to run faster. She only asked her, "Are you afraid now?"

Jiang Xuening said she was almost scared to death and wanted to retaliate against him.

When the words were about to be spoken, they were stunned.

Yes.

At the moment when he picked him up and galloped on the street, everything that had just happened in the skyscraper became a blank slate. She forgot about it and forgot everything completely.

Jiang Xuening reacted and didn't know whether to be moved or continue scolding him.

But when I got off the horse, my legs almost went weak and I couldn't stop.

After being helped to stand firm by him, she saw him shrug his shoulders and chuckle. In a fit of anger, she clenched her fist and hammered the brat, "You're still laughing, aren't you? Give it another try!"

She is a girl's family, and hitting someone doesn't hurt at all.

Yan Lin has been raised by her family in the military camp for most of her time since childhood, and she has practiced martial arts solidly. How could she be afraid of these two attacks?

Just stand there and let her hammer.

Then he had to cover his chest, pretending that he couldn't pretend to be in pain anymore: "Oh, it hurts, it hurts so much!"

Jiang Xuening glared at him and decided not to beat him.

Everyone knows he doesn't hurt.

The young man who practices martial arts also has a tough chest. If you hit him, he won't hurt, but the key is that your hand hurts.

So he turned around and walked towards the lively lantern festival, saying, "I'm too lazy to bother with you."

Yan Lin didn't mind either. Instead, she caught up with a smile on her face and soon asked her:

Do you want to eat the sugar man over there?

Look, let's go put a lantern too.

Ning Ning, look at the one they're wearing on their heads, it looks really nice. I'll buy one for you.

Flower lanterns!

"Guessing lantern riddles, come with me now!"

Jiang Xuening was born with a playful nature. After being reborn, it was only then that she truly went out for the first time. At first, I was a bit uncomfortable, but being led by Yan Lin, I asked one question after another, and soon regained the feeling of my youth.

Walking freely through the crowd.

This world is not as cramped as the Kunning Palace, vast and boundless, allowing her fish to thrive inside.

So she remembered why she always liked to be with Yan Lin when she was young——

She was a child who grew up in the countryside, but after returning to the capital, she had to learn various rules from the government. She was worried about not being liked by her "new" parents, and also worried about being scared and ridiculed by the older sister who didn't grow up in the government. She couldn't go out all day, and the things she saw were always so different, which was both oppressive and boring.

It was Yan Lin who gave her the opportunity to break free from everything.

Although he was young, he had traveled many places with his father's generation, and had many extraordinary experiences. He not only led her to be reckless in this capital, but also told her about the magnificent rivers, mountains, customs, and people outside that she had never known before. It was a bright window for her to see everything that made her curious.

And he gave her love she had never received before.

Just like the brightest color on the painting.

How cold and heartfelt was she when she was such a good young man, to have the heart to hurt him with such cruel words?

Yan Lin took her to guess lantern riddles.

Although the colorful lantern riddles are all worthless little things, the advantage lies in not having to spend money. It feels like it was picked up for nothing. When I really hold that pile of things in my hand, I feel even happier than buying them myself.

The street is filled with beautiful lanterns.

As the night deepened, everything lit up.

Walking inside is like wandering in a sea of light.

There are also vendors on the roadside selling some food.

Yan Lin unexpectedly saw someone laying out a basket of chicken head rice and beckoning customers to buy it. So she remembered that Ning Ning loved this item very much and pulled her to buy it.

There were many buyers, but in the end, there were not many left.

The vendor saw him dressed brilliantly and quickly smiled, saying, "I just shipped it from Suzhou. It's top-quality purple flower chicken head rice, it's delicious. Why don't you try it?"

Chicken head rice, also known as thicket fruit, is usually planted in the south and named after its appearance resembling a chicken head. However, it is eaten from the "rice" inside, which is the core after being broken open.

It looks a bit like lotus seeds.

Yan Lin took a few and said, "The water conditions on the Caohe River are not good these days. How could fresh chicken head rice like you be transported from Suzhou? Even the urgent lychees from 800 miles cannot be planted so quickly. Is it from Shichahai?"

The vendor Immediately sneered and said, "Yes, you're really eye-catching. But the taste is not worse than Suzhou's. Try it!"

Yan Lin broke open and picked up a round fruit inside, handing it to Jiang Xuening's mouth.

Jiang Xuening instinctively opened her mouth.

Yan Linbian asked her, "Is it delicious?"

Jiang Xuening nodded.

Yan Lin said, "Give me the rest of you."

He handed out a piece of broken silver without the need for the other party to find it, packed those few pieces of chicken head rice and left.

Jiang Xuening played and ate all the way, and when she finally got tired from playing, Yan Lin took her to sit down and rest on the steps in front of the Baiguo Temple.

Large areas of ginkgo trees are planted in front of the temple.

Until this late autumn season, all the leaves have turned yellow and fallen from the trees, covering the ground.

The evening classes of the monks in the temple have all ended, and the streets in the distance are bustling with activity. However, the evening bell rings nearby, peaceful and quiet.

Yan Lin sat next to Jiang Xuening.

In the past few days, he has also heard about some things in Jiang's mansion, and he only feels that she seems to have changed a bit, which seems different from before.

He has a heart to ask.

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But when she turned her head, she saw her sitting side by side on the steps, focused and focused on nibbling on the last chicken head rice. Others were picking out the fruits inside and eating them, but sometimes she was used to leaning up and picking them up, like a little chicken pecking at rice.

So he chuckled for a moment.

Where is there any difference? It's still his Ning Ning.

Yan Lin was also a bit tired, so she lay down beside her on the steps and looked at the starry night sky. She smiled and said to her, "Ning Ning, I will have a coronation soon."

Jiang Xuening paused and fell silent.

She didn't really want to talk about the topic he really wanted to talk about, so she said, "I have someone I want to recommend to you."

Yan Lin was curious and said, "Who is it?"

Jiang Xuening said, "His name is Zhou Yinzhi. He was originally a servant of my family. Later, he worked with his father and his father helped him secure a position in the Royal Guards. It seems that there has been an incident with Zhou Qianhu in the court these days, and he has come to me to seek this opportunity and join you."

This person Yan Lin has heard of before.

Without asking a few more questions, he said, "Then you can ask him to bring a famous post to submit to me another day."

His demands for her, as long as he can, are always blindly satisfied.

This kind of answer is almost identical to the previous life.

Jiang Xuening then thought of Zhou Yinzhi: she wanted to avoid the Yongyi Marquis's Mansion from repeating the mistakes of the previous life, and also wanted to save Yan Lin. But now she's not anyone, she's the only one she can use. She doesn't even have the confidence to save a step from what she's doing now.

At this moment, he slowly lowered his hand.

A fresh and tender thicket was pinched by her fingertips, and her eyelashes trembled lightly. Suddenly, she asked, "Yanlin, what do you really like about me for being so kind to me?"

Although she is good-looking, she is not inferior to other ladies from big families in Beijing;

As for her temperament, she is more cunning and indulgent than others;

Her knowledge and cultivation are also extremely mediocre, in the words of her own mother, it is "not on the table".

But Yan Lin prefers it.

Yan Lin felt that she had made a fool of herself and naturally said, "When I saw you first, I knew you were different from the girl in the capital. When you looked at people with one pair of eyes, you were really real and didn't know how to cover them up at all. If you wanted to, you would go grab them. If you're not happy, you wouldn't give anyone a good face. If you're happy, you can make people feel sweet, but if you're hurt, you have to hide and cry.". I thought to myself, "This should be someone who is being hurt. If I could ask her to take me to heart every day, look at me with that hopeful gaze, and comfort me in her heart, it would be a very happy thing."

Jiang Xuening felt a sourness in her eyes and said, "But no one else likes me. Wanniang doesn't like me, mother doesn't like me, servants in the mansion don't like me, and people in the capital don't like me either. So, you never thought about it. Did you actually like the wrong person?"

Yan Lin, do you know——

I won't always be the little girl who is satisfied with being held in your palm.

I will grow up, I will become bad.

Yan, on her deathbed, noticed the crying tone in her voice and slowly sat up from the steps. Looking at her red eyes, she felt her heart blocked and a bit stuffy.

He reached out to touch her head.

But she laughed and said, "Nonsense. You think, your Wanniang actually didn't need to let the mansion know that you had exchanged with your sister. As long as she doesn't say it, your sister will always be the legitimate young lady of the Jiang mansion. If she goes, this secret will be buried in dirt. But before she died, she had her own flesh and blood, but was willing to take the risk of making her suffer and send you back to the mansion. How can she say she doesn't love you?"

Tears rolled down Jiang Xuening's eyes.

She thought of Wanniang.

I also remembered the bracelet that Wanniang had stuffed into her hand before leaving to give to Jiang Xuehui.

I don't know why, although I tried my best to stop the tears, I cried even more fiercely.

That chicken head rice soaked in tears.

Yan Lin felt heartbroken and took it from her fingertips. In her mouth, there was a bitter salty taste.

He said, "My Ning Ning deserves the best love in the world."

Jiang Xuening buried her head or cried.

The girl's pink face, under the hazy lights around her, was like a cold epiphany blooming under the moon. Tears slid down, but the night's starlight seeped in. It looked pitiful and heart wrenching.

Yan Lin whispered again, "Don't cry."

At this moment, he felt like he was possessed by a demon. He couldn't control his thoughts or his hands and feet, so he leaned in and pressed his trembling fingers against her cheek, then pressed his lips against hers.

Little by little, lick and kiss away that tear stain.

Like a small beast with teeth but still a gentle temperament, it has an instinct to get close to her.

Jiang Xuening was stunned.

However, Yan Lin felt that as his lips covered her cheeks, his whole body heated up, and even his heart was pounding wildly in his chest.

At this moment, he hardly knew what he was doing.

But her lips had already moved down, unconsciously landing on her two soft lips.

Her coolness is slight.

He is boiling hot.

At different temperatures, Yan Lin was awakened in shock at the moment of touch. Until then, looking at the pair of eyes close by, whether surprised or shocked, he immediately let go of his fingertips as if they had been burned by a soldering iron and retreated.

"Me, I…"

What did he do just now!

Yan Lin's young face suddenly turned red, feeling ashamed for a moment. He quickly turned his back and coughed, "I… I was impolite."

Jiang Xuening: "…"

On the steps in front of the temple, no sound could be heard for a moment.

The boy could only hear his own intense heartbeat.

He looked at the ginkgo tree, which had almost lost all its leaves, and after a long time, he turned his back to the girl sitting in front of the steps and said, "Ning Ning, after the crown ceremony, marry me."