Xiao Langyan's eyes were sharp and cold: "It's Beiliang again. I really treated them too kindly. Have you found the whereabouts of Puyue?"
Xu Shou shook his head: "There has been no news from the secret guards sent out so far. Presumably, the princess has not been found yet. Your Majesty, after the princess came and got married, she wrote to you many times, complaining about her poor life in the Royal Court of Beiliang. The Queen of Beiliang also How embarrassing it is, will you... be killed by them?"
Xiao Langyan grabbed the secret message with his backhand and said in a sharp and solemn voice: "They dare!"
Such a fierce look made Xiao Xincheng, who had just walked to the door of the royal study, shrink his neck. The little guy glanced inside and shouted softly: "Dad...Father, are you free now?"
The Taifu said that when there are many people, you must call me "Father" and follow the rules to be a good princess.
Xiao Langyan calmed down and ordered Xu Shou in a low voice: "Send the order and torture that Beiliang man carefully. I want to know what the people from Beiliang want to do when they are lurking in the capital. Also, check his whereabouts and see. Let’s see if it has anything to do with Fu Yunqiu.”
After saying that, he looked at his daughter, a clear smile appeared on his thin lips, and his narrow black eyes showed the warmth of fatherly love.
"Chengcheng, why are you here to see your father? Have you visited your mother and concubine?" Xiao Langyan picked up his daughter and took her to look at a nine-dragon water-playing green jade bead in the royal study.
Xiao Xincheng nodded, his appearance was obedient, his eyebrows resembled those of Shen Dingzhu, and he always had a lovely smile.
"Let's go. Mother told me that Chengcheng came to see Father with the cakes. Father, Chengcheng has something I want to ask your permission for." The little guy blinked his big black eyes.
Seeing her like this, Xiao Langyan laughed: "I've come up with some silly little idea again, tell my father about it."
Xiao Xincheng covered her mouth with her little hand, leaned close to her father's ear, and whispered a series of words quietly.
Later, Shen Dingzhu didn't know how Xiao Xincheng persuaded Xiao Langyan. In short, a few days later, when Xiao Langyan came to have lunch with her, he mentioned allowing her to leave the palace.
"Chengcheng said she misses her grandma. I see that she has been studying very seriously recently and has been depressed for a long time. I guess she is very unhappy inside. In this case, I will arrange for someone to send you home when Mother Shen's birthday is over."
Shen Dingzhu raised her delicate white face, and before she could smile, Xiao Langyan glanced at her, pursed his thin lips and said, "Don't be too happy too early, I have conditions."
"Send you back, we can only stay for two days. Fu Yunqiu hasn't been caught yet, and I'm afraid it won't be peaceful. Besides, your mother will be rehabilitating the Shen family soon after her birthday. You have to come back early. I'm afraid the current situation will be turbulent. , it’s not safe for you to take your children outside.”
Shen Dingzhu nodded gently, and the palace candles flickered beside him, making the fair-skinned beauty look even more lively. Her black hair was piled up on her temples and neck, and she smiled warmly.
"I, my concubines, all obey the emperor."
"There is one more important thing," Xiao Langyan said in a deep voice, "A while ago, General Zhou proposed to return to his hometown, and I have agreed. I heard that he has been bidding farewell to his old friends recently. I guess, send him off. During the few days when you go home, Old General Zhou will probably say goodbye to your father, Old Shen, by congratulating Mrs. Shen on her birthday."
The light in his eyes flickered, and his tone was no longer as cold and admonishing as before, but with a slightly overbearing emotion.
Under the table, Xiao Langyan pinched Shen Dingzhu's fingertips: "I don't allow you to see him."
Shen Dingzhu's long eyelashes fluttered like butterfly wings, and a slight smile appeared on her cheeks: "Your Majesty, General Zhou is over fifty, and I have no other thoughts about him."
"I know," Xiao Langyan put her fingers to her lips, kissed her twice, and looked up at her, "but I don't like you to be involved with the Zhou family anymore, not at all."
Zhou Luli fell off a cliff and died. Xiao Langyan had no unnecessary emotions. Even if he changed coaches temporarily and was very busy, Xiao Langyan was willing to deal with such a difficult problem.
He was even slightly worried. If his Shen Dingzhu really liked a person like Zhou Luli, then how could he surpass a dead person now that Zhou Luli was dead?
Shen Dingzhu chuckled helplessly, with bright eyes: "The emperor must be so domineering? That's just General Zhou."
"I am so overbearing, you have to listen even if you don't want to." As he said that, Xiao Langyan bit her fingertips like a punishment, not forcefully, but with a strong possessiveness.
Shen Dingzhu couldn't pester him that night, so he agreed.
In fact, even if Xiao Langyan didn't warn her, Shen Dingzhu would not have anything to do with General Zhou. She was now a palace concubine and it was really inappropriate to see foreign ministers again.
By the end of the month, Shen Dingzhu's body was almost healed. After being pregnant for more than seven months, her belly was a little bigger.
Xiao Langyan did not send her home with gongs and drums, but instead found four teams of thirty secret guards to accompany her. On the day Shen Dingzhu returned home, Xiao Langyan also changed into light and simple clothes and accompanied his wife and daughter to Shen Dingzhu. Mansion.
The Shen Mansion had already received the news that Shen Dingzhu was coming to stay at home for three days and had cleaned the inside and outside of the house in advance.
When Shen Dingzhu returned home, he saw wisteria flowers climbing on the white walls. It happened to be a spring scene, and there were strings of green vines hanging on the shelves in the courtyard.
Her father, mother, brother and sister-in-law were coming quickly from the corridor to greet her.
This was a scene she had never dared to imagine in her dreams before.
While Xiao Langyan was here, the Shen family was restrained. Shen's mother was busy taking care of things in other places. Shen Dingzhu's sister-in-law was staring at the kitchen, but Xiao Langyan was about to leave.
There are still a lot of government affairs waiting for him in the palace, so he can take some time off from his busy schedule by sending Shen Dingzhu out.
Before leaving, Xiao Langyan took the initiative to say goodbye to Shen's father and Shen's mother. When Shen Dingzhu held her waist and walked him to the door, Xiao Langyan suddenly turned around.
"I will come to pick you up in person in the morning three days later. Don't stay around and refuse to leave."
Shen Dingzhu chuckled. She was wearing a golden-purple dress today, similar in color to Xiao Langyan's. With a smile, the bright purple gemstones dangled in her ears.
Even the beauty's pretty face looks like a peach blossom blooming.
"I'm not a three-year-old child, so how can I act so shamelessly? I just hope that the emperor will remember to come and take me and Chengcheng home."
Her fingertips gently hooked his big palm, her voice was soft and sweet, and her every smile was nourishing and touching.
Xiao Langyan could see that Shen Dingzhu was happy from the bottom of his heart. In this way, the things he did for her didn't feel like a hassle.
Before leaving, he kissed her forehead: "I have replaced the guards of the Shen Mansion with the Forbidden Army, and the maids who serve are also palace servants. Shen Bi and Xiucui will follow you and ask them to serve you carefully these days. If nothing happens, don’t leave the house.”
After some explanations, Xiao Langyan asked Shen Dingzhu to go back first, and then he bent down and got on the carriage and hurried back to the palace.
On the way back, Xiao Langyan supported his head with his hands, closed his eyes and rested his mind. His breath was still filled with the peaceful fragrance of agarwood from Shen Dingzhu's body.
He remembered that many years ago, he had passed by in front of the Shen Mansion. At that time, Mr. Shen was still Prime Minister Shen, and Shen Dingzhu was naturally a darling girl in the boudoir.
When he rode by, she happened to be standing under the gatehouse to see her eldest brother off for a long journey. The look of tears in her eyes made him uncontrollably slow down the horse.
He still remembers that day, the sunshine was just like that spring day, gentle and soothing. The beauty who fell in his heart has now become his closest lover on his pillow.
Xiao Langyan thought, God was not bad to him.
On the second day after Shen Dingzhu returned home, an uninvited guest came to the house.
