"Okay, okay!" the old lady said with a smile.
"When you eat, eat well. When we meet, we talk about these business matters. My old lady doesn't understand. If you want to talk, you can talk by yourself after dinner."
"Okay, okay!" Ye Luoxin put a piece of tofu in the bowl for the old lady, and said coaxingly: "Then let's talk about something grandma likes to hear. Why don't I tell you about the cow at the east end of the village that just gave birth recently? The calf."
"What? Already given birth?" The old lady suddenly became interested.
"Yes, one with black and yellow flowers."
"Why is it still black? Didn't it mean that the calf's father is the big ox in the west of the village? Both of them are obviously oxen, how come they still give birth to a flower?"
"It looks like there was a mistake!"
The two people were discussing very seriously, and Xiao Mu and Su Qiubai looked at each other helplessly and smiled.
Xiao Mu asked: "Has there been a letter from Lord Marquis saying when he will be back?"
Su Qiubai: "It should be soon, that is, it happened in the past few days."
Xiao Mu: "The Marquis is here to investigate the fraud in the imperial examination of the Huizhou magistrate. If you pull out the carrot and bring out the mud, I'm afraid there will be great turmoil in the government and the opposition in the near future!"
Su Qiubai: "I heard that my father was in danger this time, and it was thanks to you that he came to the rescue. I am really grateful. Although you and Luo Xin are husband and wife, we are also a family, but in this matter, I still have to Thank you, why not use this glass of wine to show your gratitude."
Su Qiubai said, raising the wine glass in his hand.
"Uncle, you are polite, but I will be disrespectful."
Xiao Mu raised his glass to signal, and then drank the wine in the glass.
Su Qiubai looked at the young man in front of him.
Well-dressed, but not flashy.
His brows were full of heroic spirit, but there was no hint of arrogance in his movements.
His appearance is much more pleasing to the eyes than those dandy boys in the capital.
Because he didn't care about government affairs, Su Qiubai knew little about the past of the Chengwang family.
It wasn't until his mother brought it up when he came home that he remembered that the legitimate son of the Cheng Wang family had perished in the fire.
Unexpectedly, my sister’s daughter went round and round and ended up with the man she was originally engaged to.
Fate is such a wonderful thing.
"Since you have returned to Beijing, do you want to visit King Cheng?" Su Qiubai asked.
He still didn't know if King Cheng knew that his son was still alive, but there was no impermeable wall in the world.
Since Xiao Mu decided to return to Beijing, he should be ready to go home.
Sure enough, the next moment Xiao Mu said: "Tomorrow I will go to the house to pay homage to the prince."
"Okay!" Su Qiubai declined to comment.
"I won't get too involved in your family affairs. It's just Luo Xin..."
Su Qiubai wanted to say that Ye Luoxin had never seen such intrigues and tit-for-tat confrontations between wealthy families, so it was better not to embarrass her.
But after thinking about it, the two of them are husband and wife, so naturally they have to face things together.
You can't control yourself too much.
Xiao Mu said, "I'll go there by myself tomorrow. Luo Xin has been bothering me in the past few days!"
Su Qiubai quickly responded: "As a family, there is no need to be polite."
It was a very enjoyable meal.
In the first half of the trip, the maid served and picked up the food, but in the second half, they cooked what they liked.
Su Qiubai didn't think much of it, but the old lady praised it repeatedly: "I just said that the hot pot I had before always felt like something was wrong. You have to make this thing yourself to make it taste delicious."
After the meal, Xiao Mu went back to Xikuoyuan to rest, but Ye Luoxin was left behind to continue discussing business matters with Su Qiubai.
By the time Ye Luoxin returned to her room happily, Xiao Mu was already resting on the bed.
He lay on the bed without any seriousness.
Instead, he leaned sideways on the bed.
There was a book covering his face.
He was probably reading a book and waiting for Ye Luoxin, but he ended up waiting for himself to fall asleep.
The room smelled of citrus incense.
Xiao Mu was wearing a loose white shirt that clung to her body, vaguely revealing the bulging tendons underneath.
The fine silk material complemented his figure perfectly, making Ye Luoxin feel that such clothes were truly worthy of him.
She walked over gently and slowly opened the book on Xiao Mu's face.
Just as I was about to see what he was reading, the hand holding the book was suddenly held by a warm hand.
"Come back?" Xiao Mu's voice was a little hoarse when he first woke up.
"Um!"
Ye Luoxin followed the strength of his hand and leaned over, resting her head on Xiao Mu's arm.
"Are you tired?" Ye Luoxin asked.
"Well, a little bit." Xiao Mu gently brushed the strands of hair around Ye Luoxin's ears with her hands.
"I feel even more tired when I think about facing King Cheng tomorrow."
Ye Luoxin raised her eyes and looked at his face, "Do you need me to accompany you?"
Xiao Mu put his hands on her eyes, "No, it's been so long, I don't even know how to face them, let alone you.
You can live in the Hou Mansion with peace of mind. When I finish my work, the two of us will go back. "
"Okay!" Ye Luoxin agreed.
It is true that things in Prince Cheng's palace are not something she can interfere with.
What's more, it has not yet been confirmed how the relationship between Xiao Mu and Cheng Wang will develop. She doesn't want to be caught in the middle and become the variable.
"Then I have been studying the handicraft store with my uncle these days. Yesterday I showed him all the bags we made. He said that opening a store in Beijing would be very promising."
"That's good! With uncle's help, our business will get bigger and bigger!"
"Yes, I can also work together with him. This will save a lot of trouble."
The two of them had reached a consensus.
The next day, after Xiao Mu had breakfast, he said goodbye to the old lady and Su Qiubai and went to Prince Cheng's Mansion.
Prince Cheng's Mansion had already received the news.
After Divine Doctor Pei came back, he immediately visited King Cheng and explained everything that had happened in the past few days.
"It's not that I wanted to stay there for so long, it's just that the eldest young master is too stubborn and refuses to come back at all.
I was also worried that he would find a place to hide again after I left, and it would be even more difficult to find him in the future, which is why I have not returned to Beijing for a long time. "
King Cheng did not blame Dr. Pei for not coming back, and not a single letter came from him.
He was still immersed in this amazing news and couldn't believe it.
"You mean, that's really my son Xiao Mu?"
"If it's fake, it's guaranteed to be replaced!"
Doctor Pei said with certainty.
"I saw it when he was a child. Isn't there a small mole behind his ear? I looked carefully and found that even though he has grown up, the mole is still there!"
"Then why hasn't he sent me a letter after all these years?"
"Why else, because of hate!" Pei Shu muttered softly.
"You mean," the prince said in disbelief, "that child hates me?"
