Chapter 179: Little Prince【12】
When Yuan Jia was busy fighting crime, Qi Yuan and Lu Wan, who were far away in Qingyang County, decided to go to Beijing.
Because this dynasty had no restrictions on the imperial examinations for the descendants of merchants, Qi Yuan was well trained by the Qi family since he was a child.
Under the dramatic change in the plot, Qi Yuan was not mistaken for the son of Princess Xihua, and was brought back to the capital to become the little prince. There was no identity gap between him and Lu Wan. People are already married.
Qi Yuan went to Beijing to prepare for the Spring Festival, and Lu Wan also planned to open a branch in the capital, so the two went to Beijing together.
Because they were newcomers, they were outsiders, and they were not familiar with the place in the capital, so Lu Wan had not made much progress in opening a branch.
Qi Yuan was concentrating on preparing for the exam, and Lu Wan didn't bother him with these trivial matters, but she was often frowning, and Qi Yuan saw her.
After Qi Yuan inquired about Lu Wan's worries from Father Lu, he hesitated for a while, and pulled out a small box from the bottom of his luggage. He opened the small box with the key, and took out a letter from it. It was Yuan Jia back then. The letter left to him when he left Qingyang County.
Originally, Qi Yuan didn't intend to use Yuan Jia's relationship. After all, as a male protagonist, he also has self-esteem and pride, but if you hit this brick, you can hit the capital of an official or a royal relative, the Qi family and the Lu family. It is too difficult for small businessmen from other places to gain a foothold.
Even if he passed the championship in the general examination, he would not be a figure in the capital.
Therefore, Lu Wan wanted to open a store and run into walls everywhere, to make connections everywhere, frowning, Qi Yuan looked distressed, but he couldn't do anything, so he could only ask Yuan Jia for help.
Qi Yuan put on a brocade clothes and went to the Princess Chang's residence. The address written on the letter was here.
He came to the front of the palace of the eldest princess, and when he saw the mighty and majestic guards and the tall mansion gate, his heart tightened, he took a deep breath, stepped forward, and cupped his hands to the guard: "Two adults, In Xiaqiyuan, Qingyang County raised people to ask to see the little prince." He took out the letter in his arms, "I was fortunate enough to have a relationship with the little prince, this is a token, the little prince said that I would take this letter and let me You can come and see him."
The two guards looked at Qi Yuan vigilantly, and one of them came forward to take the letter in Qi Yuan's hand, glanced at the handwriting, and said to Qi Yuan: "Please wait for a while, my son, I'll go in and report to the little one. Lord."
Because Yuan Jia had torn his face with King Jianping, he proposed to Princess Xihua that he wanted to move back to Princess Xihua's mansion. Princess Xihua cared about his son the most. He said that he wanted to move. The princess didn't even ask the reason, she just packed up and moved back.
It just so happened that today was Yuan Jia's holiday, and he was playing against the prince in the water pavilion of the eldest princess' mansion.
Someone came to report: "Little Prince, there is a person from Qingyang County who claims to be Qi Yuan outside the mansion, and this is the token he handed over."
Yuan Jia got the letter, and at a glance he knew that the original male protagonist Qi Yuan had come to the door. He smiled and said, "Quickly invite him in."
"Yes, little prince."
The prince who visited the princess' mansion privately in Weiwei asked curiously, "Yuan Jia, who is this Qi Yuan? How can I ask you to ask?"
Yuan Jia said with a smile: "His Royal Highness, this Qi Yuan is actually the Zhou Hongyuan I told you when I was young. I regretted not being able to introduce Hongyuan to His Highness. It's not too late now."
His Highness the Crown Prince has an excellent memory, otherwise he would not be able to keep his mind intact under the stimulation of an unforgettable companion. He recalled that when Yuan Jiagang came to be his companion, he seemed to have mentioned the Marquis of Changning to him. The eldest son, Zhou Hongyuan, just waited for a week's vacation, and when Yuan Jia returned home, he found that Zhou Hongyuan was sold by his stepmother.
His father, the emperor, was furious at that time, took the title of Marquis of Changning, and demoted Mrs. Marquis of Changning to his concubine.
His Royal Highness said with a smile, "That guy needs to see what kind of person Zhou Hongyuan is who can be recognized by Yuan Jia today."
Yuan Jia said: "Now he is not Zhou Hongyuan, but Qi Yuan."
His Royal Highness said strangely: "Oh? Doesn't he plan to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestry?"
Yuan Jia said: "In the situation of the Zhou family, what is there for him to recognize? The kindness of life is not as great as that of raising kindness, and his adoptive parents rescued him from kidnappers back then, and they are very kind to him, and he is unwilling to do it for Zhou. It is also intended to make the adoptive parents sad because they are at home.”
His Royal Highness asked, "Who are his adoptive parents?"
Yuan Jia replied, "It's just an ordinary businessman."
His Royal Highness Qi Yuan became more and more curious. Although the Zhou family has been deprived of the title, it has become more and more declining, but the thin and dead camel is bigger than the horse. those connections.
If Qi Yuan recognized his ancestor and returned to the Zhou family, he was the eldest son, and he passed the test at a young age, and all the resources of the Zhou family would definitely be tilted towards him. This is much better than being the son of a merchant in a small county town.
Some Yuanjia praised Qi Yuan's 'not looking for fame and fortune' in front of the prince, but it made the prince have two points of goodwill towards him without meeting him.
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Qi Yuan followed the housekeeper all the way to the waterside pavilion, took a look at the roadside scenery, and was shocked by the luxury and the expanse of the Princess Chang's residence. He walked from the gate to the waterside pavilion for so long. Is it normal? Does the little prince always take a carriage at his house?
The housekeeper stopped not far from the water pavilion and said to Qi Yuan, "Mr. Qi, the little prince is waiting for you in the water pavilion."
Qi Yuan thanked him and went to the waterside alone.
The breeze on the lake brought a bit of chill, so Qi Yuan couldn't help tightening his coat.
At this time, it was January, and the spring was cold and very cold. Qi Yuan didn't understand why Yuan Jia would go to the waterside and get cold in this weather.
However, when he walked into the water pavilion, a strong warmth rushed to his face, and he realized that he was rare and strange.
The water pavilion is indeed too cold to be ventilated everywhere, but the glazed windows are installed, which block the cold wind and will not affect the people inside from enjoying the scenery outside. It is more comfortable to enjoy the warm spring scenery outside the waterside pavilion.
There were two domineering youths in fancy clothes sitting by the window. There was a chessboard and chess pieces on the table between the two, apparently playing a game.
At a glance, Qi Yuan saw that the handsome young man in Tsing Yi who smiled at him was the young prince Xie Yuanjia he had seen in Qingyang County a few years ago. He did not know the identity of the other young man in black clothes.
Qi Yuan stepped forward and bowed slightly to Yuan Jia without being humble or arrogant: "Qi Yuan has seen the little prince." He saluted the prince beside Yuan Jia again, "I have seen this prince."
Yuan Jia stood up, stretched out his hand to help him, and said with a smile, "Brother Yuan, I haven't seen you for a few years, stay safe."
Qi Yuan warmed his heart and replied with a smile: "Thanks to the little prince, everything has been going well in recent years. Now I have passed the exam to become famous. I will go to Beijing to participate in the Spring Festival Exam this year, hoping to become a scholar."
Yuan Jia let him sit on the vacant stool and introduced the prince to him: "This is my friend, you can call him Mr. Huang."
Qi Yuan cupped his hands towards the crown prince and said, "I've seen Young Master Huang before Qi Yuan."
The prince smiled and said nothing.
Yuan Jia ordered someone to serve a pot of hot tea, and a hot cup of tea was poured in front of the three of them.
Yuan Jia asked about Qi Yuan's days in Qingyang County in the past few years, Qi Yuan said slowly, and naturally he also mentioned his engagement with Lu Wan.
Yuan Jia smiled and congratulated: "Then I'm here to congratulate my distant brother for getting his wish and getting a beautiful girl back. When you are named on the golden list, I will definitely go to the wedding banquet where the two of you got married, and I will definitely send them to you at that time. Give me an invitation."
Qi Yuan pressed the invitation in his heart, and replied, "It is my pleasure and Wan'er's pleasure for the little prince to come. This invitation will naturally be sent."
The prince took a sip of tea and suddenly added, "I'll join in the fun then."
Yuan Jia took the conversation naturally and said with a smile, "Even if you want to join in the fun, it depends on whether you can complete your homework. If you don't do your homework well, you won't have a chance to go out."
The prince shook his head helplessly.
He is the eldest son, and was established as a prince since he was a child. Unfortunately, the position of the prince is not so comfortable. He lives under the eyes of the emperor every day, and the emperor has extremely high requirements on him.
Other princes could move out of the palace to open the palace after their wedding, and secretly recruit people to form forces, but the prince could only live in the East Palace all the time, living under the emperor's eyes.
Although the officials in the East Palace system are a small court and the team that the prince will succeed to the throne in the future, these powerful teams that can be established justifiably are all under the control of the emperor, making the prince hesitant to believe it.
The crown prince is now living tremblingly under the control of the emperor, and he really cannot go out of the palace freely and freely.
Thinking of this, the prince couldn't help but cast an envious look at Yuan Jia.
Compared with the prince who was restrained everywhere, Yuan Jia, the little prince, was more favored by the emperor. If he wanted to live in the palace, he would live in the palace. The palace was dedicated to Yuan Jia, and even the prince could not get such favors.
Not to mention running errands, the emperor can always find faults when the prince runs errands. Although he knows that these faults do exist, compared to Yuanjia, the emperor only praised the errands, and the envy was hard to hide.
But fortunately, the prince is a broad-minded prince, so he won't be jealous of Shang Yuanjia because of this, but he has a very good relationship with him, at least better than the prince's half-brothers.
The prince said: "If you can't go out at that time, you can take the congratulatory gift for me."
Qi Yuan quickly thanked, "Thank you, Young Master Huang."
He also vaguely guessed that the identity of this Young Master Huang was probably unusual. If he wanted to sit at the same table with the little prince, he was called a friend by the little prince, and a person with such a familiar attitude would not have a low status.
It was himself, and he was from an extraordinary background, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to step through the gate of the Princess Chang's mansion, let alone form a friendship with the little prince when he was young?
Now, relying on the friendship from childhood, I can now enter the door. Sitting here, Qi Yuan feels like sitting on pins and needles. It's really uncomfortable to be too respectful and distant.
And Mr. Huang, who can joke and laugh with the little prince, is also a noble boy of the same level.