Shen Dingzhu gently folded the memorial and put it back in his palm.
Seeing her react like this, with her white face looking calm and calm, and her red lips pursed in a nonchalant arc, Xiao Langyan's heart sank for no reason.
He frowned slightly: "Are you dissatisfied? No one in the palace is above you, I gave you a special exception."
Is it a special case?
There was no fluctuation in Shen Dingzhu's heart at all, but she just smiled in agreement on her face: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward."
Her smile did not reach her heart, but Xiao Langyan could actually notice that she was not as happy or flattered as she had imagined.
What does she want?
Xiao Langyan wanted Shen Dingzhu's face to show a smile similar to Fang Suifeng's painting.
Genuine happiness.
He is already the emperor, how could he not give it back to her?
"Do you want to be the queen?" Xiao Langyan's thin eyes were dark and captivating, and his two cold pupils locked onto Shen Dingzhu's delicate figure.
Shen Dingzhu suddenly raised her slender eyelashes. The astonishment in her eyes was definitely not the joy that Xiao Langyan had guessed what she was thinking, but another kind of confusion.
As if asking him with his eyes: Why do you think so?
When Xiao Langyan saw that she didn't even care about the queen, his face finally turned cold.
He loved her enough and gave her countless indulgences. He didn't care too much about the mistake of leaving her for four years.
"Shen Dingzhu, what do you want?" Xiao Langyan asked with cold eyes.
The mountain wind blew in from outside, causing the curtains to sway slightly. Under the moonlight, Xiao Langyan's profile looked even more stern.
Shen Dingzhu met his eyes, her face was calm and soft.
"What I need is not status, but respect. It's nothing more than that. I'm sure the emperor won't understand. In this case, please promise that I can stay with Chengcheng and my parents at any time."
"As before, I am willing to be a knife in the emperor's hand. If you give me what I want, I will return your loyalty."
Xiao Langyan's eyes were filled with surging anger.
"Do you and I have to negotiate terms? You have made everything so clear and clear. There are no feelings in your heart, only transactions?"
Shen Dingzhu lowered his head, and his white neck looked like a graceful swan.
But her heart became more determined: "I have said everything I wanted to say."
Then, she turned to the side and gently patted the sleeping Su Xincheng.
He looked like he didn't intend to say anything else to Xiao Langyan.
Xiao Langyan laughed angrily, with an unpredictable arc on his thin lips, and his eyes were cold: "I really spoil you rotten."
After that, he turned around and left, swung the curtain and got out of the car.
Shen Dingzhu looked at the swaying car curtains, her beautiful eyes dark and calm, and for a moment, she withdrew her gaze.
She was about to return to Beijing, and she shouldn't contradict Xiao Langyan at this time.
However, he felt that the so-called title of noble concubine was not a gift to her but a shackles and prison.
The next day, Su Xincheng felt much better. Doctor Cen's medicine really worked.
After a few days of recovery, the little one became her lively and happy self again. Every time she went to a resting place, she would take the initiative to run to Xiao Langyan.
After eating and drinking in his carriage, he returned to Shen Dingzhu.
"Mom, these are the green fruits I brought back from dad, for you to eat." Su Xincheng held up three fruits to her with her chubby little hands.
At that time, Shen Dingzhu was writing a copybook.
Su Xincheng has reached the age of enlightenment. Previously in Nanzhou City, Shen Dingzhu had limited money, so he didn't find a wife for her.
She wrote the copybooks herself, relying on her excellent memory when she was young, to copy down all the historical books and ancient books she had read, and let Fang Suifeng teach the little one to learn.
Now that he was returning to the capital, Shen Dingzhu did not give up on Su Xincheng's education.
She must take good care of her daughter, just like taking care of flowers, carefully and properly.
Seeing the little one come back with food, Shen Dingzhu put down his pen, smiled softly and gracefully, and held her in his arms: "Are you going to your father's to beg for food again? Didn't mother say that your father is busy? , please don’t go there often.”
Su Xincheng blinked her big, moist and crystal-clear eyes: "But my father asked me to go and asked Eunuch Xu to find something delicious and fun for me."
After hearing this, Shen Dingzhu smiled and said nothing.
Su Xincheng tilted her head in an odd way and gave a long hum: "Mom, did you have a fight with Dad?"
Shen Dingzhu looked at the little guy in surprise: "No, you are so young, you still know how to quarrel?"
"I know, Ahua in the alley before, every time her parents quarreled, it was like this. No one paid attention to the other and only talked to the child." Su Xincheng's waxy tone was like a little adult.
Shen Dingzhu chuckled and tapped her little nose gently.
"Mom didn't quarrel with your father, it's just that he was too busy and didn't bother him."
"Oh..." Su Xincheng scratched her fleshy little face, "Mom, my father said that when we return to the capital, he will let me live with my grandparents."
Shen Dingzhu was stunned, but she didn't expect Xiao Langyan to take the initiative to tell the child first.
"Is Chengcheng willing?"
"Yes! Mother said that my grandpa has read a lot of books, my grandma is gentle and kind, my eldest uncle is a strong martial artist, and my second uncle is smart and astute. Chengcheng is willing to live with them!"
Hearing the little guy's considerate words, Shen Dingzhu's heart almost melted.
She hugged Su Xincheng, her chubby little body exuding the fragrance of child's milk. Shen Dingzhu kissed her little face: "Chengcheng is so good, then you know, mother can't live with you all the time?"
"I know!" Su Xincheng nodded again, raised his little face, and said seriously, "My father said that you want to live with him and give me a little brother to play with."
Shen Dingzhu coughed violently, and his pretty face turned red, as if dyed with a layer of clouds.
Yuebai held back his smile and quickly handed him a cup of tea.
Su Xincheng's sensible little hand patted Shen Dingzhu's heart: "Mother, please speak slowly!"
Shen Dingzhu wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief, grabbed her little hand and asked, "Who taught you this?"
"Brother Chen Shiwei!" the little guy said indifferently, shaking his head, "After he finished speaking, my father did not deny it. Eunuch Xu secretly laughed, and Chengcheng knew that it was true that my mother wanted to give my father a younger brother. of!"
Shen Dingzhu rubbed his brows with his slender fingertips.
This Chen Heng, when she left four years ago, he was still a young boy, but now he speaks so freely in front of his children.
Shen Dingzhu picked up Su Xincheng and said, "Yuebai, follow Chengcheng from now on. If she comes near the emperor's car again, persuade her to come back so as not to delay the emperor's approval of the memorial."
Su Xincheng made a face mischievously and hummed unconvinced.
After traveling for another five days, they stopped again in a flat mountain that night.
Shen Dingzhu hugged Su Xincheng, mother and daughter closed their eyes, and both fell asleep.
Figures outside shook, and Su Xincheng, who was in Shen Dingzhu's arms, suddenly opened her big eyes. She pushed Shen Dingzhu's arm away with her small hands, and then crept over.
Yuebai was awakened by her movements and asked in a low voice: "Your Highness, where are you going? I will follow you."
Xiao Langyan's deep voice came from outside the carriage: "I will take her with me, so you don't have to follow me."
Yuebai quickly got out of the car to say hello, and Su Xincheng whispered happily: "Dad!"
She jumped into Xiao Langyan's arms with her small body and was held firmly by him.
Su Xincheng blinked her big eyes and said, "Mom finally fell asleep. Will Dad still teach Chengcheng how to play chess today?"
"Teach." Xiao Langyan chuckled lightly.
He glanced behind the slightly open car curtain. A thin quilt covered her slim figure. Shen Dingzhu's black hair looked like fine silk under the moonlight.
She slept very peacefully, breathing evenly. Xiao Langyan lowered his eyes and told Yue Bai: "You guard her, there is no need to follow her."
"yes……"
After that, Xiao Langyan took Su Xincheng to his carriage.
"Yuebai has been following you lately, was it your mother-in-law who told you?" He had long dark eyebrows and his tone was pretending to be casual.
Su Xincheng rolled around in the spacious carriage. After spending a few days together, she could already feel that Xiao Langyan was extremely indulgent to her.
The little guy made his hair messy, sat up and said with big eyes, "Yes, mother won't let me come to my father's place alone, for fear that I will be led astray by my father's people!"
Xiao Langyan raised his eyebrows: "What could possibly bring you down?"
"It's about mother and father giving birth to a little brother for me. Yue Bai said, mother is shy." Su Xincheng said, puffing up her pink cheeks and staring at Xiao Langyan's table with her watery eyes. The plate of preserved fruits on the table.
