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Chapter 29 The Princess Arrives (Part 1)

Liu Yixuan was chatting and laughing outside Ningshou Palace with Princess Yuling. Liu Yixuan asked about the painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", but Princess Yuling had seen that painting.

Liu Yixuan asked her quickly: "Where did my sister see that painting? Do you know where it is now?"

Seeing that he was so anxious to inquire about the whereabouts of the painting, Ling'er kept it in hiding again and said, "Why should I tell you, are you good?" She stared at Liu Yixuan with innocent eyes.

Liu Yixuan gritted his teeth in his hatred and said in his heart: "This girl is so difficult. She threatened me a few times just now, and now she asked me what benefits I want! How can I get any benefits? Do you want to apply for a QQ account for you? You can't go online either!"

"Benefits? I don't have any benefits. Beautiful girl, just tell me!" Liu Yixuan begged for nothing and wanted to use the "beautiful man trick". Unfortunately, Ling'er didn't take this set and said with a pout, "No, no, I can't tell you for nothing!"

"Then...what do? Hey, by the way, you have to tell me, I will climb onto the tree and make you feel the bird eggs. How are you okay?"

Ling'er shook her head and said, "No, no, who wants your bird egg? I used a quilt to cover it for half a month, but I didn't see a bird coming out!"

After hearing this, Liu Yixuan felt evil and smiled secretly: "Girl, don't speak so loudly. You can sip a 'bird egg' and 'bird egg', so it's so bad for others to hear it!"

"Why are you laughing at?" Ling'er didn't know what Liu Yixuan was thinking, so she asked him quickly.

"I'm not laughing! You want benefits, but I don't bring anything fun to you? When you want to arrive at our house in the future, I will take you to eat delicious food in the capital, and then take you to the east of the city to watch juggling, and then take you outside the city to ride a horse. The scenery there is beautiful, but it's fun, I won't lie to you!" Liu Yixuan tried to make her believe her words and said something to eat, drink and play to attract her.

When Ling'er heard that he wanted to take her to the city to play, she felt that it was a good promise and said, "Okay, it's a matter of determination!"

"Okay, it must be certain, then tell me where that painting is?" Liu Yixuan wanted to know the whereabouts of the painting.

"Well, okay, let me think about it!" She raised her head slightly, pouted and began to recall.

"It was three years ago when I ran to my father's study to play. I saw my father and Mr. Cai playing with a scroll on the desk. I quietly followed him up and lie on the desk to read it. Because the father gave the painting the title "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", Mr. Cai praised it all over the side, saying, "This painting is an unprecedented masterpiece, like the Qingming Festival of Yao and Shun, and is more than the prosperous era of Tang and Wu!" Ling'er said while learning about Mr. Cai, shaking her head and talking and enjoying herself.

After hearing this, Liu Yixuan couldn't help but admire Cai Jing's ability to flatter him and felt wronged for the Emperor Huizong.

Logically speaking, it is not a bad thing for an emperor to be versatile. Playing football and practicing calligraphy can not only strengthen the body and cultivate sentiments. It is understandable, but it is impossible for an emperor to forgive only know these. Not only that, Song Huizong's criteria for choosing ministers should also be based on whether he likes his own interests. He favors Cai Jing, who loves calligraphy and painting, and reuses Gao Qiu, who likes playing football, so that the cultural and sports cause of the Northern Song Dynasty prospers, but makes the national defense cause sluggish. "Sima Fa" says: "Although the country is big, war will perish! Even if the world is safe, forgetting to fight will be in danger!" Sure enough, the Northern Song Dynasty used bloody lessons to provide an argument for this sentence.

Liu Yixuan said: "Teacher Cai's flattery is really first-class. Huizong... Then does your father like this painting too?"

Ling'er thought for a while and replied, "I don't know. My father did not comment too much on the painting at that time. He just stamped his own treasure seal and sighed softly."

"Sighed? Why? Is that painting not good?" Liu Yixuan asked.

"I don't know why my father sighed. I only know that my father likes paintings of happiness, longevity and peace. There are many people wearing shabby clothes on the painting, and some dilapidated houses and alleys. Maybe it's not the same as my father's wishes!" Ling'er explained herself. She really didn't understand her father.

"Oh, that's the case, where is this painting now? Can you take me to see it?" Liu Yixuan asked her quickly because he needed to see what this painting looked like in the Northern Song Dynasty, and to further determine whether the original painting in the Palace Museum was. More importantly, he wanted to determine whether the initial part of the painting had the incomplete BMW, so as to fulfill his grandfather's wish for so many years.

"That painting is no longer in the palace!" Ling'er said.

"What? Why can't I not be in the palace?" Liu Yixuan was very puzzled. For the first time, he was so close to this "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" that he had been thinking about day and night. He wanted to have a chance to take a good look, but it became a bubble again.

"That painting was awarded to the Prince of Junzhou by his father. Now it is probably in the Prince's Mansion!" Ling'er told him this information as if nothing had happened, but Liu Yixuan felt great loss in his heart.

"Oh my God, this painting is not in Bianjing. I've been here for so long! This damn Zhang Zeduan, why are you doing such a broken painting? I made me come to the Northern Song Dynasty in a daze, and I don't know when I will go back!" He felt lonely and helpless again, and he didn't know what cruel test he was going to face. He looked at the sky in the distance in a daze, with a trace of despair in his eyes.

"Brother Xuan, what's wrong with you?" Ling'er asked in confusion when she saw his expression strange.

"Ah, I...I want to go back, I don't want to stay here with you anymore!" He was obviously a child, but tears of helplessness flashed in his eyes.

"I want to go back? But my uncle is still talking to my mother. You miss home so quickly, you are really useless!" Ling'er said.

"Who is out of luck? What's wrong with me? If you were like me and ran to an era hundreds of years ago, you wouldn't know what you would cry like! You said I'm out of luck!" Liu Yixuan didn't like Ling'er's evaluation of herself very much.

"What are the 'era hundreds of years ago', what did you say?" Ling'er didn't understand his words.

"Oh, don't ask, you can't understand. I have to find that painting anyway, otherwise I will not be able to go back to Beijing. I have been out for more than a month. My parents must be anxious to look for me?" The more he thought about it, the sadder he felt, and couldn't help but cry, "I'm not alive now, and I don't have to die. They are still anxious to die."

"What's wrong with you, Brother Xuan, why are you crying?" Ling'er didn't know what he was saying, "What's the 'you can't see people alive and die without corpses'? Aren't you doing well?" She began to comfort him.

"Don't you want to see that painting? When you have time in the future, you can go to the Prince's Mansion in Junzhou. The Prince of Junzhou is the younger brother of the emperor's grandmother and my uncle. Then we will go together. Don't be sad!" Ling'er saw him crying and she became sad. Her sadness was easily contagious, and girls' resistance in this area was already poor.

"Really? Do you know the address of that county prince's mansion?" Liu Yixuan felt that Ling'er's words made sense, and he still had hope to go back.

"Address? I don't know! But someone will definitely know. You don't have to worry, stop crying anymore, it's true! Such a big person is still crying, it's really a waste of time. I have to let my sister coax you!" Ling'er said pretending to be angry.

Liu Yixuan wiped his tears and said, "Who cried? I was blown by the wind. My eyes will be like this when the wind blows!"

While he was talking, a palace maid ran over and said, "Princess Qi, the Empress Dowager is calling you over!"

Princess Yuling hurriedly took Liu Yixuan to the back room of Ningshou Palace, but saw the Empress Dowager and Liu Anguo chatting. The Empress Dowager tearfully put Liu Yixuan's eyes on her eyes and asked, "Oh, Xuan'er, what's wrong with you? Is it because Ling'er girl bullying you? Tell my aunt, I'll vent your anger for you!"

Liu Yixuan smiled and said, "No, my eyes just got into the sand, I've rubbed them."

"Oh, it's fine. You two can't have conflicts and let others laugh at me!" The queen mother said with a smile, and then turned to Liu Anguo and said, "Liu Qing family, the Ai family will entrust you with Ling'er's affairs. You can send someone to the palace in two days to bring Ling'er to your mansion. This girl has never gone far away, so I'm afraid she will cause trouble for you again!"

"I dare not, I dare not, the princess can stay in our mansion because of the blessings accumulated by her ancestors. The old minister must do his best!" Liu An Guodao.

"Okay, this matter is settled. It's not too late today, so I won't leave you two!" said the Empress Dowager.

"Okay, the old minister will take his leave!" He quickly got up and pulled Liu Yixuan to kneel down. The father and son bid farewell to the empress dowager and got up and left Ningshou Palace. Ling'er ran over to Liu Yixuan and said, "Brother Xuan, don't forget what you promised me. You want to take me to ride a horse outside the city. I have not ridden a horse yet!"

Liu Yixuan said, "Well, when you arrive at our house, I will take you there!" As he said that, Liu Anguo pulled him out of the palace again.

Several servants of the Liu Mansion were still waiting in the doorman, and a few could no longer bear it and fell asleep on the table. When Butler Liu saw the master coming out, he quickly kicked a few servants and came to the palace gate to prepare for the competition. Liu Yixuan saw his father's face full of sorrow and lowered his head without saying anything. He didn't know what the empress dowager said to him. He wanted to ask, but he was afraid that the old man would think he was talking too much, so he might not scold him again, so he didn't dare to speak.

The father and son left the palace gate and each got into the sedan chair and rushed back to the mansion.

Two more days later, Liu Anguo arranged a few maids and elderly servants and hired a ox cart to go to the corner gate west of the Da Nei. Because according to the empress dowager's instructions, the princess did not have to be too arrogant when she went out to marry. It was obviously a visit to the kin, but in fact she took refuge. Liu Anguo took Princess Yuling to her mansion according to the empress dowager's instructions.

Mrs. Fan quickly cleaned up the courtyard in the east and let the princess stay. When Princess Yuling left the palace, she had no ceremonial guards and entourages, and only brought four close maids around her. Liu Anguo arranged for the servants and servants in the mansion to not tell outsiders that the princess lived in the mansion. In order to protect the princess' safety, Liu Anguo added servants to the mansion to take turns to be on duty.

Mrs. Fan and Liu Yixuan hurried to welcome him. Mrs. Fan leaned over to worship, but was helped by Princess Yuling and said, "My aunt doesn't have to give this gift. How can Ling'er bear it?"

Mrs. Fan said: "The princess is a golden branch and a jade leaf, and her old body is a man of a grass man. She should kneel down and worship him."

Ling'er said, "You don't have to do this, auntie. This is your mansion. Ling'er is bound to disturb you again when she comes. You can avoid these cumbersome etiquettes in the future!"

"This is not good, right?" Mrs. Fan still had some concerns.

"There is nothing wrong. I am used to it when I am with my mother. If I have added so many etiquettes to my aunt, Ling'er will feel uncomfortable. Auntie, you should love Ling'er!"
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