Shen Dingzhu felt heartbroken when she saw her daughter seeking father's love so carefully.
So she stepped forward decisively, hugged Su Xincheng in her arms, and begged Xiao Langyan: "Your Majesty, just think that I am dead. It is impossible for me to leave Chengcheng. When you return to the capital, I promise to take Chengcheng away with you." Far away and won’t tell anyone her identity.”
She knew Xiao Langyan's difficulties. She disappeared for four years and returned with her child. How did Xiao Langyan convince all the officials and people in the world that the child was his.
Rumors, for a new emperor who has only just ascended the throne, are a source of leverage that will fall into the hands of the enemy.
Xiao Langyan lowered his eyes and looked at the mother and daughter, his eyes dark and dull, like a deep sea.
"When did I say I was going to separate you?" he said coldly.
Shen Dingzhu raised her head and looked at him with tears in her eyes: "Then the emperor asked Eunuch Xu to take Chengcheng away because..."
Xu Shou stepped forward, with a smile on his face, and said even more embarrassedly: "Shen... Master Shen, you have misunderstood the Zajia family. The emperor asked the Zajia family to lead the young highness to the carriage behind. Because it rained yesterday, the emperor I have arranged for Dr. Cen to diagnose Your Highness’s pulse first to prevent her from getting sick from the cold.”
Xiao Langyan looked at Shen Dingzhu, his thin eyes were cold: "Although I am unreasonable, I am not really unreasonable. I have taken the child and you with me. If you cry again, you are ignorant. Give me your tears." Wipe it clean.”
After that, he rolled up his sleeves and followed the imperial army away first. He didn't forget to look back. He looked at Shen Dingzhu with a cold eyebrow: "Why don't you follow? Wait for me to hug you?"
Shen Dingzhu finally came back to his senses: "Here he is..."
Her mood was very complicated, but Su Xincheng was very happy. After the little guy figured out that he could return to Beijing with his biological father, his laughter was sweet and never stopped, like a little butterfly flying excitedly.
Shen Dingzhu still had some things left at home that needed to be retrieved. Xiao Langyan was particularly gracious and gave her a stick of incense to get them.
The carriage stopped at the entrance of the alley, and Shen Dingzhu went back alone.
As soon as she opened the door, unexpectedly, Fang Suifeng heard the noise from the house and ran out.
"Sanniang, it's really you. I thought you wouldn't come back." He stepped forward excitedly, and just as he stretched out his hand, he quickly took it back when he thought of something.
Looking at the joy on his delicate face, Shen Dingzhu walked into his bedroom, took out a bag of silver that he had saved before and handed it to him.
"Suifeng, thank you very much for covering up our mother and daughter over the past three years. Occasionally, you have helped me fend off difficult people."
"When we first cooperated, we agreed that I would support you in your studies and become a scholar. You can take this money and you can meet again in the capital when you get the honors."
Fang Suifeng looked down at the heavy silver bag, and when he looked up again, his eyes were complicated.
"Sanniang, I did it for the money at first, but now..." He hesitated and said, "You don't have to give me the money anymore. Your husband entrusted the guard to give me half a box of silver. "
For a man with such generous spending and such a noble temperament, Shen Dingzhu didn't say anything, but Fang Suifeng could also guess that the man had a good background and must be a big shot in the capital.
Su Xincheng is probably their child.
Shen Dingzhu was stunned. She stood in the gentle spring breeze, her hair on her temples moving in the wind. Her eyebrows were both mature and gorgeous, yet also feminine and charming.
She pursed her red lips and smiled calmly: "It's okay. If you have money at your side, it won't be too difficult for you to study."
Shen Dingzhu simply collected a few pieces of clothing, picked up Su Xincheng's calligraphy practice post, and was about to leave. Fang Suifeng walked her all the way to the door.
Shen Dingzhu waved his hand gently: "No need to send her off, the carriage is at the entrance of the alley, let's say goodbye now, Suifeng, I wish you a high school."
In order to choose a man to take charge and get rid of those malicious eyes, she entrusted the matchmaker in the city to carefully select Fang Suifeng, who had some physical defects due to an accident when he was a child.
Shen Dingzhu initially treated him as a business partner. Fortunately, Fang Suifeng had always been a scholar. Although he was occasionally a bit rotten as a scholar, most of the time, he was very responsible.
In the past few years, he has never told anyone about his transaction with Shen Dingzhu.
Therefore, Shen Dingzhu thanked him.
Fang Suifeng looked at her with emotion: "I hope I can have a chance to see you again."
Suddenly, he thought of something: "Sanniang, please wait, I have something for you."
With that said, he hurried back to the yard.
After a while, he came out with an extra scroll in his hand.
He said: "For your birthday this year, I drew a mother-daughter portrait for you and Chengcheng. At that time, I said I wanted to color it, but trivial matters delayed me and I never finished it. Now I finally finished it. I thought I would find a suitable time. I gave it to you, but I didn’t expect..."
Fang Suifeng smiled and handed it over: "Here it is, you and Chengcheng will live well."
Shen Dingzhu took it in his hand, his eyes sparkling: "Thank you."
After saying that, she turned and left.
Looking at her graceful back, Fang Suifeng felt that he was as small as a shadow under the sun. How could he dare to have such possessive thoughts? I can only miss it secretly when no one is around.
Shen Dingzhu didn't want Xiao Langyan to see her crying, lest he cause trouble again, so she wiped away her tears quietly. Unexpectedly, when she looked up, she saw Xiao Langyan standing at the entrance of the alley, staring at her deeply.
Su Xincheng was on the horse behind him, swaying her little feet and laughing loudly: "Mom, daddy taught me how to ride a big horse. Look!"
Shen Dingzhu walked over with a delicate and beautiful face: "Be careful not to fall. Come down."
Su Xincheng stretched out her little hand and said in a childlike voice, "I want daddy to hold me down."
Xiao Langyan picked her up, and Su Xincheng suddenly tilted her head: "Mom, why are your eyes so red?"
Shen Dingzhu quickly rubbed the corners of his eyes, and heard Xiao Langyan laugh out loud from his thin lips, saying inexplicably: "Your mother is sad about parting, and she can't bear to leave your other father."
Su Xincheng didn't understand, so she was sent back to the carriage by Xiao Langyan. Shen Dingzhu held the file and saw Xiao Langyan reaching out to grab her wrist. She quickly boarded the carriage first.
Then, without knowing that Xiao Langyan was trying to pull her away, he looked back at Yingying and said, "Your Majesty, please rest more."
Then, she hurriedly walked into the carriage, not daring to look at his expression. She knew that Xiao Langyan's eyes must have darkened immediately.
She couldn't give him a chance to settle the score, or he would forget about it later.
The carriage rolled over the bluestone slabs and stopped when passing through the market.
Xu Shou came over and said to the carriage: "Master Shen, the emperor said that you can go and say goodbye to your friends at the embroidery shop."
Shen Dingzhu's eyes froze, and she was extremely happy. She quickly thanked her and picked up Su Xincheng: "Chengcheng, let's go see your Aunt Chunyun again."
As soon as she left with the child in her arms, Xu Shou got into the carriage, took out the file sent by Fang Suifeng, walked quickly to the low-key and luxurious carriage in front, and handed it in with both hands: "Your Majesty, I found it."
Xiao Langyan took it with a cold face and opened it to take a look.
In the scroll, the mother and daughter smile peacefully and happily, hugging each other and sitting together, surrounded by flowers.
It was as if I could smell a delicate fragrance and saw among the flowers, a beauty with skin as white as jade, plump breasts and slender waist, holding her little daughter in her arms, looking at Fang Suifeng, who was smiling as plump as a pink hibiscus.
Shen Dingzhu's smile in this painting has a brilliance that Xiao Langyan has never seen before. Under Fang Suifeng's painting brush, her expression has a hint of freedom and joy.
Xiao Langyan's eyes darkened and his voice was cold: "No wonder you protected her from me. Fang Suifeng treated her really well."
He said, throwing the scroll aside.
At this time, Shen Dingzhu had brought Su Xincheng to say goodbye to the shopkeeper Chun Yun.
When Chun Yun heard that they were going to the capital, he was immediately surprised: "Thousands of miles away, walking so far? Can you do it with your children?"
Su Xincheng raised her head and said happily: "Aunt Chunyun, it's my father who is here and wants to take us home!"
Before Chun Yun could say anything, a sharp ridicule came from behind them——
"Your father? Just because Fang Suifeng, a poor scholar, brought you to the capital, is it because he wants to beg?"
Shen Dingzhu frowned and turned around, only to see Chen E, who was not dealing with her, coming again with Chu Er.
Looking at the arrogant look on Chu Er's face, could it be that he still doesn't know that his brother Chu Wen has been dealt with?
