When Chu Yunfei and Xie Danshu entered the palace, the queen and Rong Cang had finished their conversation.
The hall seemed to be filled with a strange and warm atmosphere.
Chu Yunfei, who had just returned from a walk outside, had rosy cheeks and a thin layer of sweat on his forehead. After curtsying to the queen, he sat down next to Rong Cang.
Holding a soft handkerchief with her slender fingers, she wiped the sweat from her forehead in a very natural movement. Chu Yunfei tilted his head and looked at Rong Cang's deep eyes and the faint smile at the corner of his mouth.
"The Queen and Miss Xie are still here, please pay attention to your image." Chu Yunfei frowned and reminded.
The cold and steady His Highness the War King actually doesn't even care about his identity?
Xie Danshu sat opposite them, took a sip of tea with her eyes closed, and pretended not to see the interaction between them.
"You and your wife haven't seen each other for more than 20 days, why not be a little intimate?" the queen said with a smile, her kind eyes falling on Yun Fei's abdomen, "Yun Fei is already pregnant. In a few months, father and son will be together. We can meet."
Rong Cang followed her gaze and looked over.
Chu Yunfei was wearing a loose and elegant blue wide-sleeved long dress today, with a tulle coat on top, making her look lazy and relaxed.
If you don't look carefully, you can't even see the slight bulge in the abdomen.
Rong Cang's eyes slowly moved up, wondering if it had been too long since they had seen each other. Looking at Chu Yunfei's plump cheeks, he felt that her skin was so white that it could be broken by a blow, and her whole body was obviously plumper than before. Some, and there is a bit more of a mother's gentle demeanor between her brows and eyes.
Rong Cang's heart felt soft involuntarily.
"What are you looking at?" Chu Yun raised his eyebrows lightly, "We've only been apart for twenty days and you don't recognize me anymore?"
Rong Cang calmed down and shook his head slowly: "No, I just think you look better than before."
Chu Yunfei laughed: "Pregnant women will only get uglier in the later stages, how can they be more beautiful?"
Rong Cang frowned: "Not ugly."
The queen felt helpless for a moment, she raised her hand to cover her eyes and looked at Xie Danshu: "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never have believed that His Highness the War King, who used to be taciturn and indifferent, could have such disgusting moments. "
"I can't believe it either." Xie Danshu joked with a smile, "I used to think that the King of War was very cold, and would shy away before anyone got close to him. I didn't expect that he would look like this in front of the princess."
Chu Yunfei felt worried: "When I first married him, I was a little afraid of him."
The queen was surprised: "Why did you become so bold later?"
Seeing Chu Yunfei's calm and calm demeanor these days, and facing Rong Cang's neither humble nor overbearing attitude, the queen was really surprised that she sometimes felt timid.
"I was stimulated by his divorce letter and my temperament changed drastically." Chu Yunfei said about the divorce letter, and inevitably showed a bit of dissatisfaction, "Although since then, my daughter-in-law has dared to argue with him, and sometimes she can He surpasses him in terms of momentum, but every time I think of that divorce letter, I can’t help but want to settle old scores.”
From the surface, it seems that Chu Yunfei's temperament has indeed changed drastically since the divorce letter.
She has become no longer cowardly, no longer submissive, and has convinced others with reason in everything, and is even a bit unreasonable - but she knows in her heart that all this is based on the premise that Rong Cang loves her.
If it were someone like Chen Wang who had no love or taste, her change would only make her death ugly.
The queen nodded: "Old accounts must be settled when they need to be settled, and we must always remind him not to make mistakes again."
Rong Cang said nothing and sat quietly, letting the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law join forces to attack him, while silently reflecting on himself in his heart.
Xie Danshu sat aside and watched this scene quietly. She always felt that Rong Cang and Chu Yunfei's relaxation, as well as the queen's tenderness and relief, were all sincere.
It feels as if there has never been any scandal in this palace, those plots and plots do not exist, and people can be so open-minded and get along with each other without any grudges.
Aunt Cai served tea, they talked and laughed, and time passed quickly without realizing it.
In the evening, after discussing with the ministers about establishing a heir apparent, Emperor Mu came to Shuhuang Palace and heard a burst of relaxed laughter from a distance.
He raised his hand to avoid the eunuch's announcement and walked into the main hall: "Why are you smiling so happily?"
Several people in the hall stood up and saluted.
"My concubine is making fun of Xiao Cang and Yun Fei." The queen smiled, "Dan Shu also felt that Rong Cang, the cold and ruthless god of war, turned into a soft and submissive person in front of Yun Fei. As expected, that sentence is true, all things in the world are overcome by one thing.”
When Emperor Mu heard this, a smile appeared on his face: "Princess Zhan is indeed quite good."
Rong Cang has a good vision and married a wife who is smart and independent. Unlike the other princesses, who are of high family background, but are so petty in their work, they don't have the air of a lady at all.
"But speaking of this," Emperor Mu sat down at the main seat, and his eyes naturally fell on Xie Danshu, "Danshu."
Xie Danshu knelt down and said, "My daughter is here."
Emperor Mu asked: "Did the queen tell you that I will grant you a marriage?"
Xie Danshu said respectfully: "The empress mentioned it."
"What is your opinion?"
Xie Danshu knelt down and replied: "If the emperor asks me what I want, I will say that I have no feelings for the prince. If the emperor is willing to grant a marriage, I will comply with the order."
Emperor Mu clicked his tongue: "This answer is really watertight."
"My dearest servant, tell the truth. I hope your Majesty will forgive me."
Emperor Mu glanced at Rong Cang and his wife, then raised his hand to ask them to sit down: "Looking at the relationship between Rong Cang and Yun Fei, are you not moved at all?"
"My daughter envies the relationship between His Royal Highness the War King and the princess, but this kind of feeling is hard to come by, and I will not have any illusions."
Emperor Mu frowned: "You are as weird as Qi Jin."
"What?" The queen was surprised, "Qi Jin doesn't want to do it either?"
"Qi Jin's temperament doesn't know who to follow, and it's very difficult to control." Emperor Mu frowned and was dissatisfied, "I offered him marriage two or three times in a row, but he refused without hesitation. It didn't look like he was dissatisfied with anyone. , I just simply don’t want to get married.”
"In that case, don't force it." The queen said, "It would be troublesome if it leads to a feuding couple."
"You should get up first." Emperor Mu raised his hand, "I don't want to pay attention to him, but Marquis Zhongyi and the eldest princess are just like this. Is it possible that he will die alone?"
Xie Danshu stood up and said, "It's getting late, so I'll take my leave first."
The queen ordered Ah Cai to send Xie Danshu out.
Emperor Mu stared at her back and couldn't help but sigh: "What's going on with these little girls' families now? I remember that when I was young, marriages were all based on the orders of the parents and the matchmakers. If the father gave gifts to the princes and ministers, No one dares to refuse marriage."
The queen smiled and said: "It's not because the emperor is approachable and tolerant to the younger generation that they dare to express their truest thoughts."
Emperor Mu did become a lot more tolerant in his middle age.
Probably because when he was young, he was tired of consolidating the throne, calculated too much, and killed too many people. After middle age, he wanted to cultivate his moral character, govern the country in a gentler way, and treat his juniors mostly in an easy-going manner.
But sometimes being too easy-going can lead to neglect.
