Xie Yan sent someone to send a letter back to Xie's house to Fu Shuang the next day, because she didn't want the rest of the Xie family to know, so Xie Yan did it secretly and asked Fu Shuang to meet in the private room on the third floor of Furong Garden.

When Fu Shuang arrived, Xie Yan had been waiting in the private room for a while, and Fu Shuang saw her and said:

"In the end, it's you, sister, you can't get into the private room of this Hibiscus Garden without a monthly reservation, let alone this private room."

Xie Yan smiled, didn't say anything, just poured a glass of water for Fu Shuang personally, handed it to her, Fu Shuang took the water, sat down, saw Xie Yan's expression indifferent, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and asked in surprise:

"This Hibiscus Garden won't be ......"

She heard Xie Shao say in the past that Xie Xi's father-in-law Shen Xi is not only the champion of the new department, but also a rare opponent in business, half of the shops in the capital, maybe the boss behind it is Shen Xi Shen Dalang, and Xie Yan's current identity, asked her to come out to meet, did not choose other places, but chose here, then this meaning is obvious.

Xie Yan nodded, then made a 'shhh' gesture on her lips, and then the two exchanged a smile before sitting down to talk.

Xie Yan didn't say much to greet, but directly took out the silver hairpin and handed it to Fu Shuang's hands, Fu Shuang looked at the silver hairpin and asked puzzledly:

"What's wrong with this hairpin? It's ordinary, nothing special. ”

Xie Yan didn't want to tell her the origin of this hairpin, but said: "I want to know the origin of this hairpin, there are many craftsmen in Duobao Pavilion, and I have a wide range of knowledge, you can help me check and check, what is special about this hairpin, whether it is output or workmanship, but you can tell me if there is any news." ”

It's no wonder that Xie Yan handed over this matter to Fu Shuang, because since Xie Shao joined the office, all the businesses under his name have been under Fu Shuang's name, and Fu Shuang is now a veritable boss.

"Okay, don't worry. I'll take it back first, and if I ask what happened, I'll tell you. ”

After Fu Shuang said this, Xie Yan nodded, and the two chatted about other topics.

"When your brother went back that night, he hardly slept all night, and he took Fubo, who served him, and talked all night, and if he had stayed with you that night, he might have made some jokes."

Fu Shuang moved her body, she is the second child, and it is not as difficult to conceive as the first child, but it is more expensive than the first child, she always wants to vomit, and she has to carry a sour candied fruit with her.

"If you like to eat candied fruit, there is a cook in the Dingguo Mansion who specializes in making candied fruit, I was happy at that time, and my husband went to Jiangnan to invite me back, and I will ask someone to send you some when I go back."

"Yes. I think this child is different from the previous child, when I was pregnant with Rongrong, I ate and drank well, and I didn't suffer anything, but this one is not good, and I will be nauseous after a while, I think it is likely to be a boy, or how to be so skinny. ”

Fu Shuang's heart is now thinking about a boy, since she was a child, she was influenced by her aunt, and felt that after a woman got married, she should give birth to her husband, of course, a son is a must, anyway, a woman has a son, so that her husband can completely take care of it, although she married Xie Shaoqi is not as attentive as a man nowadays, but Fu Shuang still feels that he should fulfill his responsibilities.

In the past, she often arranged concubines for her husband, that is, she didn't want her husband to go out and fool around, so that he pampered the concubines in the house, no matter how she said it, she was also in control, if her husband was ambitious and went outside, she couldn't control it.

Therefore, even if she does not want to, she will force herself to arrange a concubine for her husband.

Because of this matter, Xie Shao also had several conflicts with her, until she was pregnant with this baby, Xie Shao relieved her and said to her, let her take good care of her in the future, and strive for someone to replace the service of those concubines, she wants a son, and he will give her a son if he says anything.

My husband said so, what else is Fu Shuang dissatisfied with. She did so many things because she heard this sentence from her husband's mouth, and now that he has said it, she should obey her destiny and never do that thing that harms others and benefits herself.

The two sisters-in-law got together and talked for a while, Xie Yan asked the chef of Furong Garden to make a few plates of exquisite snacks, and chatted until almost evening.

******

Shen Xi was called into the palace by Emperor Tianhe and did not come back until late at night.

Xie Yan was sitting under the lamp making clothes, Shen Xi walked into the room, his body was full of the smell of ambergris in the Yuanyang Palace, and he stepped forward and asked:

"Can the husband have dinner in the palace?"

Shen Xi nodded, reached out and stroked Xie Yan's cheek, and said, "I've eaten it." ”

After speaking, he went to the clean room, Xie Yan went out of the room, and Zhu Qing greeted him at night, Xie Yan said: "Let the kitchen remove the prepared dinner, go and take out the jar of plums under the tree, I want to make tea." ”

After Zhu Qing received the order, Xie Yan went to the tea room, and after a while, Zhu Qing walked in with a white porcelain jar, Xie Qing opened the dust seal on the jar, picked up two plums with a clip, put them on the board and crushed them for a while, plus two mint leaves were crushed, sent into the hot tea, and then poured some honey in the water, and then walked back to the room with the tea.

Shen Xi happened to come out of the clean room, and when he saw Xie Xi bringing tea, he came to pick it up in person, Xie Xi turned around and closed the door, and followed Shen Xi to the small study.

Uncovering the tea cup, Shen Xi saw two cyan plums floating on the tea surface, the brown color was clear yellow, and there was a sour and sweet mint flavor in the nose.

"This tea is so good." Shen Xi felt a lot better and said to Xie Yan.

Xie Yan smiled at him: "This tea is specially used to relieve the smell of ambergris. ”

She has served Shen Xi for many years, naturally knows that he doesn't like ambergris, after he ascended the throne in the last life, he ordered that this incense is not allowed in the main hall, and sometimes it smells on some vassal kings, he has to feel uncomfortable for a while, Xie Xi doesn't like the fragrance, knows the pain in his heart, so he privately developed this plum tea, and after that, every time Shen Xi meets those vassal kings who like to use ambergris, he has to drink two cups when he comes back.

When Shen Xi came back before, his body was full of the smell of ambergris, Xie Yan also went to the Yuanyang Hall of Emperor Tianhe for a while, and knew that Emperor Tianhe liked the smell of ambergris, and liked to mix sandalwood to make the smell more intense, if Shen Xi stayed in it all day, you can imagine how uncomfortable he would be in his stomach now.

After drinking Xie Yan's homemade tea for a while, Shen Xi obviously felt better, hugged Xie Yan and sat on his lap, let Xie Yan hook his neck, and the two leaned together intimately.

Shen Xi buried his face in Xie Yan's chest, as if he wanted to use the previous plum mint tea and the fragrance on Xie Yan's body, completely forgetting the rich taste in the Yuanyang Palace, Xie Xi was laughed by him, but he didn't let him, so he let him be presumptuous in front of him, and after the two played for a while, Shen Xi began to speak.

"The emperor asked me some things about the military department today, although the Beitang war was a big victory, but it seems to be hiding something, the troops are led by King Fu and General Li, General Li is the grandfather of King Fu, some things will naturally be hidden for King Fu, the saint has doubts about this, so I will go to the Ministry of War at that time, one to practice, and the other to investigate."

Shen Xi almost leaned on Xie Xi to say these words, and for many days today, the emperor's cronies and cabinet ministers were all in the Yuanyang Palace, and everyone talked about it all day, and Shen Xi couldn't stand it and became dizzy.

"Is there anything wrong with the Beitang war?" Xie Yan pressed Shen Xi's temples and asked softly in his ear.

She knew that sometimes Shen Xi told her about things, not to let her put forward any meaningful opinions, but just to simply find someone to talk to, so that he could sort out his thoughts more accurately.

Shen Xi took a deep breath, was pressed very comfortably by Xie Yan, closed his eyes, and said to her:

"The Beitang war has been fought for more than ten months, and the casualties brought up are 6,000 people, and this time the main army has a total of 21,000 people, and after coming back, there should be 15,000 people, in addition to the other rewards of the generals, the ordinary soldiers are rewarded with 50 taels of silver each, and the household department allocated 800,000 taels of silver last month, this silver...... It was your brother who proposed that in order to be more accurate, this time he would not directly send the silver to the generals, but went to the school in person, checked the quotas, and issued them one by one, and the officials of the household department also wanted to do something practical, and agreed, and then there was a problem......

Xie Yan pressed the hand on Shen Xi's temple, and suddenly remembered that he seemed to have experienced this problem in his previous life, looked at Shen Xi and said:

"There aren't so many people ......"

Shen Xi's originally closed eyes suddenly opened, and he looked at Xie Yan in surprise, and only after a long time did he squint and say, "Yes, how do you know?" ”

Xie Yan blinked her eyes twice and said, "Guess, according to what the husband said, there will be no other problems." ”

Shen Xi stared at Xie Yan for a while, and then he smiled and said:

"It's worthy of my Hitomi, you thought of this matter as soon as you thought about it, and after I heard it, I still thought about it for a long time before I thought of this possibility."

Xie Yan lowered her head in shame, only to hear Shen Xi continue:

"You're right, it's the people who have gone wrong. The household officials found that many soldiers on the roster had been disarmed and returned to the fields after the Beitang battle, and it would have been enough if there were two or even 1,200 soldiers, but after this count, there were 6,000 soldiers who had been disarmed and returned to the fields...... The household department reported the situation to the emperor, and the emperor immediately ordered a thorough investigation into where the 6,000 soldiers who had been disarmed and returned to the fields had gone......"