When Yue Feijun saw them, he realized that it was not his brother who was making the empress dowager happy, but Jing Heguang. The man was wearing his brother’s clothes.
Yue Feijun knew Jing Heguang, but he didn’t like him very much.
He knew that his father’s death had nothing to do with Jing Heguang, the six-yuan zhuangyuan(first place), but after hearing some rumors, he was also a little angry at Jing Heguang.
Therefore, he sent the person to Hanlin Academy. The zhuangyuan was not given the sixth-rank position, but was only given the same seventh-rank official position as the bangyan and tanhua.
When the empress dowager saw the sweat on Yue Feijun’s face, she asked with concern: “why are you in such a hurry? Don’t worry, your younger brother came just in time and rescued imperial mother and others!”
Yue Feijun said: “imperial mother, I know. Thanks to Xingchuan this time, otherwise things will be troublesome.”
If too many people died, the merit-based rewards in the afternoon would become a joke. Although several people were injured, they can still continue now.
Thinking of this, Yue Feijun glanced at his younger brother gratefully.
Yue Xingchuan felt that his brother’s look was quite sappy, so he said: “I haven’t resigned from the general position yet.”
General, the general of an army, is an official position established to protect the people of the country.
The empress dowager looked at her eldest son, then at her younger son, and said proudly: “You two brothers are both good and filial children. Feijun was thinking about mother and hurried over here, AXing also thought of mother’s presence and rode alone to come save people!”
After feeling proud, the empress dowager looked at Jing Heguang with a smile: “This is Jing Shizi from Zhennan Marquis Mansion. hHis name is Heguang, he was AXing’s former companion.”
“These palace people stopped aijia from seeing your brother’s heroic performance in catching the assassin just now. He only told aijia once, and aijia seemed to have seen it with my own eyes!”
The same things all day long make the empress dowager feel that life is too boring. What Jing Heguang said was a novelty that was beyond her thought.
Yue Feijun nodded coldly. What’s there to say about killing people, it’s so bloody. A clever mouth man.
As soon as Yue Feijun came in, Jing Heguang saluted, but Yue Feijun didn’t have any change of expression.
Even now that the empress dowager said she liked him, Yue Feijun still looked cold.
Jing Heguang knew: his future mother-in-law liked him, but his future brother-in-law did not like him!
Of course, ordinary brother-in-law aren’t scary, but this future brother-in-law is the emperor. What if he wants to beat the mandarin ducks?
Jing Heguang sat aside, nervously pinching the hem of his clothes.
Yue Xingchuan caught a glimpse of his little movement and frowned. He raised his head and said to Yue Feijun: “Brother, have you finished handling the matter? I’ll keep watch on imperial mother side. If you have anything to do, just go and do it.”
Yue Feijun: ???
Isn’t you the one who ran away from mother yesterday!
However, since something happened, Yue Feijun really had too many things on his hands to finish, so what his brother proposed was exactly what he wanted.
Yue Feijun smiled and said: “Since you, Xingchuan, have already chased me, I will go and get busy. You stay with mother well, don’t slip away again.” A hint of urgency flashed between his brows.
Yue Xingchuan knew that his brother was laughing at him for running away so fast yesterday.
However, Yue Xingchuan said that because he was not under any pressure today. With Jing Heguang around, he could please his imperial mother better than the brothers.
Yue Xingchuan nonchalantly waved his hand to his brother: “You can go!” so as not to show off his authority and scare others.
Jing Heguang breathed a sigh of relief when Yue Feijun left, then started chatting with the empress dowager who wanted to show off her son.
The empress dowager probably felt that she had no common ground with Jing Heguang when they talked about Yue Feijun, so they only talked about Yue Xingchuan and many things about Yue Xingchuan when he was a child. Jing Heguang found it interesting.
It turns out that Yue Xingchuan was so cute when he was a child!
Besides, Yue Xingchuan’s considerate behavior that secretly rescued him just now is so heart-warming!
***
Yue Feijun hurried back to deal with the chaos this time. He punished a group of people, asked the guards in the enclosure to strengthen their defense, then checked the rewards for the afternoon.
As he was busy, Yue Feijun suddenly remembered something.
—His brother seemed to have said before that he wanted to meet people from the Imperial Academy and catch up on old times?
That Jing Shizi is his younger brother’s former companion.
Yue Feijun has been a crown prince since he was a child. He enjoys many-to-one teaching from good teachers and has never studied in the imperial academy. But he knew that a prince would get one or two companions, and they were usually very close peers.
Just now, Jing Heguang was wearing his younger brother’s clothes. His younger brother’s clothes were made by the palace weaving people and had special markings that he recognized.
His brother also brought the person to see his mother, allowing Jing Heguang to be so close to their mother.
Was his brother chasing him away when he said ‘you can go’?!
Yue Feijun called his men and said with a straight face: “Go and find out! What did the Sixth Prince do in the enclosure before rescuing people in the morning? Who did he meet again?”
***
In the afternoon, the enclosure was tidied up. It looks as if nothing happened before.
The rewards continued, and the soldiers who worked hard and merited were also rewarded. Even a king, a marquis, and two princes were rewarded.
The first is naturally Yue Xingchuan who has made the greatest contribution. He changed from the sixth prince to King Chen.
Chen refers to the North Star(beichen), which also means regent. This shows the emperor’s trust and love for Yue Xingchuan.
Yue Feijun felt sorry for Yue Xingchuan, so he chose the best title. His younger brother is star(xing) and river(chuan), what is unbearable about giving him the ‘Chen’ character?
However, he originally thought that the ministers would have opinions, but unexpectedly everyone was very quiet this time. Yue Feijun expressed his satisfaction.
However, when he thought about it, these ministers were quiet because they were frightened by his younger brother’s killing spree when rescuing people.
His brother went out of control because he had been in the war for too long and was mentally unstable, so Yue Feijun became depressed again.
Yue Feijun was feeling sorry for Yue Xingchuan, then he thought of his subordinates’ report that his younger brother had only met Jing Heguang in the morning. Yun Feijun decided to promote Jing Heguang to the sixth rank.
The person his brother likes cannot be a seventh-rank official.
Jing Heguang was a little confused when he heard that he had been promoted.
He went up to thank and collect the reward and found that he…seemed a bit out of place among the group of soldiers.
After returning to the team at Hanlin Academy and hearing several superior officials congratulating him and verbally agreeing to give him two good jobs, Jing Heguang realized how difficult Yue Feijun was.
His brother-in-law valued him, so those officials also valued him. When the superior officials value him, they will give him work. If he works, he will be busy. If he is busy, he will have no time to chase Xingchuan!
***
The night is getting dark.
The huge procession rushed back to the capital, with troops on both sides to protect the procession’s safety.
Jing Heguang sat in the carriage with Yue Xingchuan, smiling arrogantly at his future brother-in-law in his heart.
There are always people who are better than you.
No matter how powerful his brother-in-law is, he can’t prevent his future mother-in-law from liking him!
After receiving the reward in the afternoon, the empress dowager called him again and asked him to go over and talk to her.
Yue Xingchuan was also there, so the three of them had a pleasant afternoon.
When they returned to the capital in the evening, she knew that Jing Heguang did not have a carriage, so the empress dowager directly arranged for Jing Heguang to go with Yue Xingchuan.
Feeling the obvious ‘joy’ on Jing Heguang’s face, Yue Xingchuan felt helpless.
Well, he used to think that Jing Heguang was scheming before…
Now it seems that Jing Heguang is obviously a fool. Everything he thinks is written on his face.
However, thinking about it carefully, it seems that Jing Heguang was also not very skillful in the past either, so he saw through him at a glance.
Jing Heguang thought silently for a moment, then came back to his senses and asked seriously and politely: “Will Heguang bother your highness?”
Yue Xingchuan said: “It’s okay, riding a horse at night is not convenient. Thank you for making my mother happy this afternoon. She is very happy to see you.”
Hearing the two people talking solemnly in the carriage, Li Da curled his lips as he followed outside on horseback.
How did the empress dowager know that Jing Heguang didn’t have a carriage? Wasn’t it his general who let the empress dowager know.
Both pretending to be serious!
Li Da was afraid of getting his eyes sting, so he rode ahead for a while.
***
In the carriage, the conversation between the two continued.
Jing Heguang said: “The empress dowager is also very lively, it’s not me coaxing her. If the empress dowager wants to talk to me in the future, just call me.”
Jing Heguang also wants to hug his future mother-in-law’s thigh! After all, his brother-in-law looks really fierce…
Jing Heguang thought about the promotion and asked Yue Xingchuan tentatively: “Why did the emperor suddenly promote me? I have no merit and no work. It’s strange.”
Yue Feijun’s people, who came to inquire, was discovered by Yue Xingchuan’s soldiers.
When the soldiers reported it, Yue Xingchuan knew that his brother must have discovered it — he had turned the celebration banquet into a hunt in Xishan, and the goal was Jing Heguang.
His brother was indeed very kind to him. As soon as he knew what he meant, he promoted the person he liked, which in turn fulfilled his whim.
However, the promotion also aroused Yue Xingchuan’s unhappiness, reminding Yue Xingchuan of how ruthlessly Jing Heguang had used him for the shizi position and ignored him once he had used him.
Thus, Yue Xingchuan looked at Jing Heguang with a smile but not a smile, and asked him: “Heguang, aren’t you happy to get rich and promoted?”
After hearing this, Jing Heguang’s mind went blank for a moment.
He originally thought that the promotion was due to his future brother-in-law, Yue Feijun, and that only the gold was given by Yue Xingchuan. Judging from Yue Xingchuan’s tone, he was the one responsible for the promotion too.
Gold, Jing Heguang needs it, but the promotion…Jing Heguang doesn’t want it now, it would delay him from ‘chasing star’!
However, Jing Heguang was already mentally prepared for when this moment came. As long as the two of them are together, Yue Xingchuan will naturally settle the ‘accounts’ of the past. This is a necessary process.
Although he didn’t do it, Jing Heguang could only bear the responsibility.
Jing Heguang thought for a moment and decided to face it directly.
After what happened in the morning, Jing Heguang felt that Yue Xingchuan should have some interest in him too, otherwise he would not have driven away Yue Feijun to protect him.
However, he was still panicking. It took Jing Heguang a while to calm down and suppress the anxiety and tension in his heart.
He frankly admitted: “I was young and foolish, I took advantage of you. I know I was wrong.”
Then Jing Heguang stretched out his hand and placed it on the back of Yue Xingchuan’s right hand, looked at him seriously and said, “Can you forgive me? Let’s start over. I will definitely not make any mistakes this time!”
If one were to ask why Jing Heguang likes Yue Xingchuan, Jing Heguang can’t think of any reason. It is not really a big deal feeling distressed for him. There are so many people who feel distressed.
However, when he saw Yue Xingchuan for the first time, he knew he fell in love with him!
He is looking for something, his Xingxing, must be Yue Xingchuan.
Jing Heguang even thought that he and Yue Xingchuan were a poor couple who were separated by the system Little Yellow Peach.
Since Jing Heguang really liked him, when he said his promise, his eyes were very bright, so clear that he could see into his heart.
Yue Xingchuan’s heart trembled at his gaze.
But Jing Heguang’s sincere look made Yue Xingchuan feel guilty.
Although Jing Heguang deceived him and he was just following his plan, in fact he himself was not a good person!
—He had no interest in the previous Jing Heguang, he just pervertedly coveted that face.
Of course he can’t say that he is a pervert, as it will scare him away. He also acted a fake hero to save the beauty, and quickly narrowed the distance between him and Jing Heguang, which cannot be said.
Then…since Jing Heguang misunderstood, let him continue to misunderstand!
It’s better to let him misunderstand than for him to run away.
Thus, Yue Xingchuan snorted softly, looked at Jing Heguang, and questioned: “Who knows whether what you say can be believe?”
When Yue Xingchuan said this, he still looked a bit fierce and his expression was very cold.
However, Jing Heguang still boldly put his hand on the back of Yue Xingchuan’s hand.
Therefore, Jing Heguang discovered that Yue Xingchuan snorted coldly and expressed doubts, but he didn’t move his hands at all!
The mouth hates it, but the body is happy. Is this the legendary expression of verbal dissatisfaction and physical integrity?
Jing Heguang was so excited that he held Yue Xingchuan’s hand with both hands and said quickly: “Of course you can believe it! Believe in me. If I lie, you can let your big brother chop off my head!”
Jing Heguang grabbed Yue Xingchuan’s hand with both hands. The movement was quite big, which reminds Yue Xingchuan.
He was still playing the angry persona, this almost gave him away!
Yue Xingchuan took out his hand, blinked in panic, then said calmly: “Sit tight.”
Jing Heguang sat upright, smiled, lowered his head to untie the pouch on his waist, and then lowered his head to untie the tightly tied pouch. He pulled it open, trying to take out the little tiger he had prepared.
However, when Jing Heguang was holding the tiger cub, he took a sneak peek, and sure enough he noticed Yue Xingchuan’s gaze looking over him!
Jing Heguang smiled at him, a wide smile with his eyes bent, as if to say ‘I caught you.’
Yue Xingchuan thought: Jing Heguang’s light smile was as nice as the breeze and the bright moon.
But now…all he sees is stupidity.
However, Jing Hegunag is always beautiful to look at. Yue Xingchuan feels very comfortable when he sees them, even the embarrassment of being caught peeping all vanish.
Jing Heguang felt relieved knowing that he was watching him, so he did not continue fishing and took out his little tiger.
The little tiger is yellow, very small, chubby, and has a dark yellow king character between its eyebrows.
Jing Heguang said: “I don’t have anything good. I dug this out in the house after you sent someone to bring something. I thought it was cute and wanted to give it to you to play with.”
Before Yue Xingchuan could reach out his hand, Jing Heguang put the little tiger into Yue Xingchuan’s hand.
Yue Xingchuan’s palm was not small, even wider than Jing Heguang’s, so the tiger’s mouth was full of rough calluses.
That little tiger was not even half as big as Yue Xingchuan’s hand.
But this was…the first time Jing Heguang gave something to Yue Xingchuan.
In the past, both of them were just pretending, and they were just doing it perfunctorily. There was no such thoughtful behavior.
Sure enough, falling in love has different treatment, huh?
Yue Xingchuan pinched the little thing. The corners of his lips unconsciously bent upwards, but he quickly pulled them down: “I will accept it.”
But even if he stopped smiling, he was caught by Jing Heguang, who had been staring at him!
Jing Heguang laughed in his heart: He was secretly happy, how cute!
Even though some people look serious on their faces, they might be happy in their hearts!
Jing Heguang came closer and asked him with a smile: “Are you happy then? You should be happy when you receive a gift, right? Can you smile for me? You have a straight face, I don’t even know if you are happy or not?”
Jing Heguang became bold when he discovered that Yue Xingchuan didn’t hate him at all. After saying a few words, Jing Heguang moved closer, almost touching Yue Xingchuan.
Yue Xingchuan saw that he was acting coquettishly, and thought that it was no wonder he got along with his mother, they were both ‘coquettish’.
Yue Xingchuan raised his lips and smiled and asked: “Is that okay?”
Yue Xingchuan wanted to smile and then pulled the corner of his mouth back, but he couldn’t take it back…
— He felt happy and wanted to smile.
Jing Heguang felt a sense of satisfaction as if watching the mimosa spread its leaves open.
He smiled and said: “Okay, I saw it! You look so beautiful when you smile. Smile more in the future.”
Although Yue Xingchuan looked scary, he actually had very good facial features. Sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes, he is also extremely handsome. It’s just the scar on his face that seems a bit irritating and makes him look fierce.
But when he smiles, he looks quite handsome and cool, which is particularly eye-catching!
Jing Heguang really wanted to hide him so he could only smile at him.
Jing Heguang counted his fingers in his mind. He had only been in this world for two days.
He managed to catch him in two days, he was so awesome!
Yue Xingchuan was really afraid of him, so he stuffed a book into him and said sternly: “Sit down and don’t talk. I want to read a book, It will be needed later.”
Jing Heguang was too attractive to him. If this continues…he won’t be able to keep his cold face at all!
Yue Xingchuan reminded himself: In Jing Heguang’s heart, he was not a pervert, but an innocent person whose feelings were deceived. He has to be a little angry and not accustomed to Jing Heguang.
Jing Heguang heard Yue Xingchuan say that reading was something he needed, so he followed him and read.
Of course it’s impossible for Jing Heguang to focus all his attention on the book. He is not a fool!
He read a few pages of the book, then peeked at Yue Xingchuan, then lowered his head to read a few pages of the book, then peeked at Yue Xingchuan again.
Jing Heguang felt that he was very awesome, he could do two things at once, and he actually remembered the contents of the book.
But later, Jing Heguang couldn’t stand reading anymore!
Yue Xingchuan actually fell asleep while reading a book, and leaned obediently on Jing Heguang’s shoulders.
Jing Heguang carefully turned his face sideways and began to look at Yue Xingchuan happily.
Yue Xingchuan’s profile is so pretty! The nose is very straight, but not as tall as his; the lips are a bit dry, which must be from not drinking water.
Then, Jing Heguang’s eyes fell on Yue Xingchuan’s book.
The book opens to…the first page.
Jing Heguang: ???
Jing Heguang glanced at the book he had already read a quarter of.
Cheat!
***
When it was dark, the team entered the gate of the capital.
The carriages dispersed in an orderly manner, each going back to their home.
A quarter of an hour after entering the city, Yue Xingchuan slowly woke up.
Then Jing Heguang and Yue Xingchuan looked at each other, and they started beating their legs and shoulders in tacit agreement. Their legs, feet, and shoulders were all numb after maintaining the same position for so long.
After feeling more comfortable, Yue Xingchuan, who finally slept for more than half an hour, said sincerely: “Thank you.”
Jing Heguang didn’t take it seriously, so he shook his head with a smile: “Why said this? I allow you to lean against me.”
While the two were talking, Li Da, who was riding a horse outside the carriage, trotted back. As he approached the carriage, he reminded them: “General, we are about to arrive at the Zhennan Marquis Mansion.”
The two people on the carriage saw off the guests first, and then returned to the palace.
Li Da actually wanted to help the general take the person back to the palace directly, but he was just thinking about it.
In the afternoon, Jing Heguang spoke for Yue Xingchuan, which made Li Da respect Jing Heguang a little more, otherwise he would have dared pull the carriage back to the palace directly.
Yue Xingchuan nodded: “I understand, keep moving forward.” Sending someone off means sending them to their doorstep.
When they were about to separate, Jing Heguang looked at the injury on Yue Xingchuan’s arm and warned him worriedly: “You have to remember the injury on your arm. Don’t touch water, don’t use force, and remember to change the dressing!”
However, this warning was quite surprising. Jing Heguang once again recalled the ‘roughness’ of this group of rough soldiers around Yue Xingchuan.
Yue Xingchuan was bleeding profusely but these careless soldiers only looked at him and smiled.
…Will such a group of rough people really follow the doctor’s orders?!
Jing Heguang frowned in thought: “How about I won’t go back? If I don’t look at you, who knows what you will do? You don’t know how to cherish your body at all!”
If he doesn’t go back, then wouldn’t he follow him back to the palace?
Yue Xingchuan’s heart moved, but he was still acting angry…
Yue Xingchuan rubbed his chest with his good hand: “I have so many people under my command, don’t worry.” After saying that, he used his injured hand to support him and stood up.
“Hand!” Jing Heguang quickly held Yue Xingchuan’s hand and asked him with raised eyebrows, “What are you doing getting up? The first sentence reassured me, but you forgot the next sentence. How can I be reassured?”
He was so angry! Because Yue Xingchuan showed no fear of pain a few times before, Jing Heguang didn’t think much about it, but now he was very angry.
Jing Heguang opened the curtain angrily and said to Li Da: “Please help me call my book boy.”
AFu was in the carriage behind, so Li Da went to call him over.
AFu thought he was being asked to go back to the Marquis Mansion, so he happily came to the carriage in front.
AFu said happily: “Lord shizi, we have arrived at the Marquis Mansion!”
Jing Heguang said, “I’m not going back today. You go back to the Marquis Mansion and tell mother. Just say that King Chen was injured while trying to save me. I’m going to the King’s Mansion to stay for a few days. I will be sleeping in the King’s Mansion tonight. Pack up the things I need tomorrow before coming to the King’s Mansion.”
AFu also knew about King Chen’s injury, so he nodded and said, “Okay, AFu remember. I will tell madam what happened when I get back later.”
Jing Heguang nodded, watching AFu enter the Marquis Mansion, and then lowered the curtain of the carriage.
However, as soon as he put down the hand holding the curtain, another hand held the opened curtain.
Yue Xingchuan used his good right hand to hold up the curtain and said to the puzzled Jing Heguang: “I have something to tell Li Da.”
Jing Heguang looked at his right hand and stepped away to make way for the entrance of the carriage.
Li Da rode on the horse and said: “Your highness, your orders.”
Yue Xingchuan didn’t say anything for now, but waved to him and asked Li Da to approach on horseback.
When Li Da approached, Yue Xingchuan said: “Li Da, you go back first. Clean up the wing of the main courtyard for this king too.”
Li Da nodded, wondering why he needed to be so close for just these two sentences, then he saw his general looking at him and moving his lips silently.
When Li Da read out his lips movement, he felt a sigh of relief in his heart!
Isn’t his general a bit shameless?
This shizi was worried about his general’s arm, but his general asked him to circle all the servants into the empty backyard of the palace and prevent them from coming out.
In other words, without the servants to take care of him, the wounded general would have to take action himself.
Even if the general temporarily wipes his body during the day, he still has to…take a bath at night, right?
However, Li Da saw that Jing Shizi also intended to help his general, so maybe the general’s shamelessness may suit Jing Shizi’s wishes.
Li Da ran on horseback and whistled in the night wind.
He had not seen such a shameless but lively general for a long time.
