"My slave didn't say anything. It's getting late. Thank you for your handkerchief, Wan Guiren. I'm going back." Shen Bi stuffed the handkerchief back into Wan Guiren's hand and fled in a hurry.
After she left, Wan Guiren looked at her back and said in a faint tone, "Your Highness?"
When the moonlight was deep, the imperial city with green tiles and red walls fell into the tranquility of the night. In the bedroom of Yaoguang Palace, Shen Dingzhu, with disheveled hair, lay on Xiao Langyan's chest, drowsy.
All the lights and candles in the hall were extinguished, except for a South China Sea night pearl, which illuminated the room with a light light and a gentle color.
"I remember you said that Chengcheng's birthday will be soon, and on that day, I will arrange for her to enter the palace again." Xiao Langyan said, lowering his head and kissing Shen Dingzhu's black hair naturally.
Shen Dingzhu responded vaguely: "Thank you, Your Majesty."
A faint smile escaped from Xiao Langyan's throat: "It's just that on Chengcheng's birthday, I have to discuss the war with the Changliu Kingdom with the ministers in the previous court. I'm afraid I won't be able to accompany you mother and daughter."
Shen Dingzhu obediently reached out and hugged his arm more tightly.
"I don't care about this. In the past years, I celebrated Chengcheng's birthdays alone." She answered almost subconsciously.
Xiao Langyan couldn't help but frown.
Shen Dingzhu doesn't care whether he can accompany his children to grow up?
At this time, the beauty in her arms seemed to react.
She opened her sleepy, dark watery eyes and said in a sweet voice, "Because we will still have a long time with the emperor, so naturally there will be many opportunities to celebrate Chengcheng's birthday together."
Xiao Langyan's face was pale, and his brows were slightly furrowed unconsciously. He responded casually before lowering the curtain: "Go to sleep."
After Shen Bi was beaten, she became extremely taciturn. Even Chunxi couldn't help but said to Shen Dingzhu: "Sister Shen Bi seems to be deeply affected."
Shen Dingzhu traced her eyebrows in the mirror, and said lightly with red lips: "I made a mistake, and I should reflect on it."
In the days that followed, Xiao Langyan was too busy and rarely set foot in the harem.
Shen Dingzhu was happy and free. Concubine Cui De came to her several times to greet her, always wanting to discuss with her the candidate for the title of queen.
However, they were all blocked by Shen Dingzhu: "Concubine De, who will the emperor choose? Maybe he has already planned in his heart. After all, the position of the queen is the mother of the country. It is no longer just a matter of the harem. It is better for you and me to discuss less. .”
Cui Lianfu didn't know what Shen Dingzhu was avoiding. She just thought that she was favored and was unhappy that the queen was about to enter the palace.
In fact, Shen Dingzhu always kept his second brother Shen You's advice in mind.
It doesn't matter who the queen is, what matters is that she must help the whole family survive in the treacherous power situation, not only to live, but to live well.
On the third day of August, Su Xincheng's birthday arrived. Early in the morning, Xiao Langyan sent Xu Shou to convey the message that someone had been arranged to pick up the child from Shen's mansion.
Shen Dingzhu got up early to freshen up and dress up. When Su Xincheng was wrapped tightly and Xu Shou led him into the palace, she couldn't restrain her joy.
"Chengcheng." She opened her arms first.
"Mother!" Su Xincheng threw herself into her arms. The little guy seemed to be a little taller and fatter than when she saw him in Falian Temple.
Su Xincheng held up a booklet: "Mom, look! This is the calligraphy book I promised you and daddy to check last time. My eldest uncle and second uncle taught Chengcheng many new words. Now I am familiar with "The Thousand-Character Essay" ” and “Three Character Classic” have been memorized by heart!”
Shen Dingzhu held her in his arms, pinched her little face gently, and couldn't help but love her: "Chengcheng is so smart, you can surprise my mother every time we meet."
The little guy tilted his head in her arms and blinked his big bright eyes: "Then when will mother surprise Chengcheng?"
Shen Dingzhu laughed, and Nanny Song on the side joked: "What kind of surprise does your Highness want?"
"Of course it's my younger brother!" Su Xincheng said, her little body jumped out of Shen Dingzhu's arms, hugged her mother's slender waist, and put her ear to her belly and listened for a long time.
Her delicate facial features wrinkled up on her pink face: "Why can't you hear my brother calling? Mom, you and daddy are not working hard!"
Everyone in the hall was laughing from ear to ear, and Shen Dingzhu's face was as red as a cloud. She scratched Su Xincheng's little nose and said, "You little rascal, you always talk about your younger brother."
It was all Xiao Langyan's fault for teaching the child bad things. He only said it a few times, and Su Xincheng remembered it.
Shen Dingzhu spent a pleasant time with the little guy, but it was a pity that Su Xincheng could not stay in the palace for too long. Xu Shou came to pick him up just after lunch this time.
Su Xincheng was reluctant to leave, holding Shen Dingzhu's arm with tears in her big eyes.
"Mom, when will Chengcheng stop hiding? And when will Chengcheng be able to see her parents every day?" She choked and lowered her head.
"My uncle got a kitten for Chengcheng. It meows every day because it also misses its mother. Mom, Chengcheng wants to live with you and daddy." The little guy felt aggrieved. Yes, big tears rolled down her pink and white cheeks.
Shen Dingzhu felt as sad as a knife. She held the child and gently wiped away the little guy's tears.
"Chengcheng, believe me, mother, this day will come soon, please wait patiently, okay?"
Su Xincheng was always well-behaved. She nodded obediently. Although she was crying, she had tried hard to be strong.
"Chengcheng will definitely wait, but after this birthday, I will be five years old. Mom, I must hurry up. Otherwise, I will become a six-year-old old man and grow up, and I will no longer be able to live with you."
Shen Dingzhu was startled, and then he couldn't laugh or cry: "You are still a child at the age of six, how can you be considered an old man?"
Su Xincheng wiped away her tears with her small hands and said seriously: "A child is only a child when he is four years old. Now that I am five years old, I am an adult. After becoming an adult, aren't I an old man?"
Shen Dingzhu was so amused by her that she laughed, as beautiful as a trembling flower branch.
Xu Shou, who was beside him, also smiled and said, "Your Highness is lively and intelligent. He is loved by everyone. This old slave is reluctant to send His Highness out of the palace."
Shen Dingzhu's smile dropped, and she knew that this was Xu Shou's quiet urging. The time together was always short, and she couldn't rush until she recognized Su Xincheng's identity.
"Chengcheng, go back. This time, you have to take care of your mother to your grandfather, grandmother, and your uncle."
"I know, mother!" The little guy waved his little hands, put his hood back on, and was led away by Xu Shou.
Xu Shou sent Su Xincheng to a blue soft sedan, which was covered tightly, and he raised his hand to let him go.
The eunuchs carried the sedan chair through a remote palace road. When they passed the corner, they suddenly stopped.
Because the road ahead is blocked by others.
Xu Shou raised his serious gaze and took a look. It was Du Jieyu.
"Eunuch Xu, what a coincidence, who is sitting in this sedan?" she said, slowly stepping forward.
Xu Shou calmly took a step forward and blocked the sedan curtain. He lowered his head and said in a humble voice: "Du Jieyu, there is a noble lady in the sedan. She is not feeling well. I am trying to take her to the Imperial Hospital through this road. "
Du Jieyu sneered.
Who would believe this? This remote palace road leads directly to the side gate of the palace.
There is clearly a ghost!
"Really? What kind of noble person, I don't know who else in this palace, besides Concubine Shen, can help Eunuch Xu to send him to the Imperial Hospital in person." Du Jieyu said and suddenly opened the curtain.
Xu Shou hurriedly shouted: "Du Jieyu, absolutely not!"
However, the sedan curtain has been lifted.
When she saw the people inside clearly, Du Jieyu's eyes suddenly widened.
