"I like Yuexi, she just doesn't come out of anything, and I like it too, not to have children." Zhao Zheng retorted seriously on the side.

The Queen Mother laughed when she heard this, and then said to Shen Yuexi: "Look at it, look at how much the seventh child protects you, and the mourning family doesn't worry about that heart, as long as you are well, my old woman will be at ease." ”

Parents in the world are always worried about their children, and the royal family is no exception, the queen mother saw that her son loved Shen Yuexi so much, and knew that she didn't need to say more, the child would definitely have it.

Back in the queen mother's palace, Zhao Zheng and Shen Yuexi accompanied the queen mother to talk for a while, and the queen mother was tired, so she let Zhao Zheng and Shen Yuexi go back to the side hall.

Shen Yuexi followed Zhao Zheng to the side hall, the charcoal fire in the house was very warm, the plum blossoms were inserted in the bottle, and the futon on the bed was red, which looked like a wedding room.

"Everyone misunderstands that you are already my person, so I can only wronged you to be in the same room with me." Zhao Zheng said apologetically.

Shen Yuexi smiled, "Seventh Prince, you are a man that many women admire, I should be honored, what grievances are there." ”

"I didn't expect you to say such perfunctory polite words." Zhao Zheng also smiled.

Since Shen Yuexi lived in the Kangping Palace, the smile on Zhao Zheng's face has become more and more.

Shen Yuexi and Zhao Zheng were used to being alone, but they were not embarrassed at all, they sat and played face-to-face on the couch in the outhouse to pass the time.

After a while, a father-in-law came to spread the word that the emperor had summoned him.

Zhao Zheng turned around and said a few words to Shen Yuexi to let her rest, and then raised his leg to leave, and the father-in-law hurriedly added: "It's not clear that the slave just passed the decree, and the emperor means to let you go with Miss Yuexi, the seventh prince." ”

Zhao Zheng looked at Shen Yuexi, although he frowned in his heart, he said, "Then let's go together." ”

Shen Yuexi put on the white fox cloak and went with Zhao Zheng.

Zhao Guang was sitting in the side hall of his diligent palace, and the chessboard had been set up, waiting for Zhao Zheng to arrive.

After a short while, the palace people reported that the Seventh Prince and Miss Yuexi had arrived. Zhao Guang snorted.

When Zhao Zheng and Shen Yuexi entered the house, before the two of them could say goodbye, Zhao Guang waved his hand: "Excuse me, sit down," Zhao Guang pointed to the position opposite him, "My chessboard is all set, just waiting for you." ”

Zhao Zheng sat down as ordered.

"Give Miss Yuexi a seat." Zhao Guang ordered again.

Immediately, someone from the palace moved a chair and invited Shen Yuexi to sit down.

"Do you know how to play chess?" Zhao Guang casually asked Shen Yuexi.

"Back to the emperor, I just understand a little." Shen Yuexi replied.

"Then you can learn more from Lao Qi, Lao Qi's chess skills are very exquisite, and even the emperor was not his opponent when he was a teenager." Zhao Guang said.

After so many years, Zhao Guang still remembers this incident, the young Zhao Zhengqi defeated the first emperor, so that the first emperor Long Yan was happy and rewarded him.

"That's just a momentary luck for my brother, it's not enough." Zhao Zheng didn't want Mr. Zhao Guang to mention the past, and the more Zhao Guang mentioned it, the more it showed that he not only did not alleviate his mustard, but became more and more serious.

Zhao Guang is obviously the emperor, and he is not unskilled in political affairs, he has the world in mind, is good at discerning, and knows people's hearts. But only here in Zhao Zheng, his heart is narrow, every time he thinks of how the emperor praised Zhao Zheng back then, Zhao Guang's mind is surging, and he is restless.

"There is no luck in this world, most of the so-called luck is the accumulation of strength, you don't have to be humble, too much self-humility is arrogant." Zhao Guang said with a smile.

"What the imperial brother taught." Zhao Zheng replied softly.

Shen Yuexi listened to the conversation between the two brothers on the side, and could be regarded as understanding the subtlety of it, the emperor was very kind to Zhao Zheng, but the words always made people feel a little frightened.

What was even more shocking was that after playing the game for a while, Zhao Guang suddenly talked about Shen Qingshan.

"A few days ago, I reviewed the excerpts from the frontier, and one of them said that Shen Qingshan's family was destroyed, do you know about it?" Zhao Guang didn't look up at Zhao Zheng, and asked casually in a tone that didn't seem to care.

Zhao Zheng's heart skipped a beat.

Then he replied indifferently: "My brother is in the palace all day long, how can he know about the frontier." ”

"Why aren't you surprised?" Zhao Guang asked.

"Why be surprised?" Zhao Zheng asked rhetorically.

"I remember that you and Shen Yi were good when they were young, and you and Shen Qingshan also moved around a lot, I thought you would be surprised to learn that they were killed."

"After so many years of no news, the Shen family is like a stranger to the younger brothers, and naturally there will not be much turmoil in their hearts."

Oh? Zhao Guang raised his eyes and looked at Zhao Zheng, "The seventh brother never forgets the dead Yue Xi, I think you are a person who values love and righteousness." ”

"That's just the stupidity of my brother."

"Yue Xi, do you know that you have become a stand-in for others." Zhao Guang asked Shen Yuexi again. There was a subtle schadenfreude in his tone.

"It is a great honor for the people to be the stand-in for the person loved by the Seventh Prince." Shen Yuexi tried hard to suppress her shock at hearing the emperor talk about the Shen family, and replied lightly.

Shen Yuexi's answer made Zhao Guang a little surprised, he was more happy to see Shen Yuexi complaining about Zhao Zheng, and he was happy to see that these two people were not in harmony.

"I have sent someone to investigate this matter, I heard that Shen Qingshan's only daughter is the only surviving person of the Shen family, and now her life and death are unknown, I want to find her." Zhao Guang said again unhurriedly.

"There must be some forces that can destroy the Shen family, and a weak woman will be spared for a while, and it is estimated that she will not be able to live." Zhao Zheng replied in an indifferent tone.

"If you live to see people, you have to see corpses when you die, Shen Qingshan added to the crime of taking refuge in Beihu during the distribution period, and as the daughter of a criminal minister, he can't go unpunished." Zhao Guang also said indifferently.

Zhao Zheng didn't say anything again, he just said to Shen Yuexi that she was no threat to the emperor, but what the emperor said at the moment was that the daughter of a criminal minister should not go unpunished, could it be that he had guessed the wrong emperor's thoughts, and the emperor wanted to kill the Shen family?

That Shen Yuexi's identity is becoming more and more unrevealed.

Shen Yuexi listened to all this, lowered her eyes, and tried her best to look calm, but there was still a layer of fine sweat in her palms.

After leaving the Qinzheng Hall and walking far away, Shen Yuexi asked Zhao Zheng in a low voice: "Seventh Master, does the emperor mean to kill me?" ”

Zhao Zheng pondered for a while, "Perhaps, he is just testing your and my reaction, but once he finds out about the past between you and Ku Zhuo, it will be difficult to say." ”

"What if he finds out that he killed the Shen family?" Shen Yuexi asked.

Zhao Zheng looked at Shen Yuexi, "Then it depends on whether the truth of the matter is really like this." ”

Then, the two stopped talking and walked silently to the Queen Mother's Fushou Palace.

An Yiru has returned to the palace. Three people went and one person returned, An Yiru's heart was blunt, and he was already in pain and unconscious. Everything she suffered in the palace today made her feel ashamed, that Shen Yuexi seemed to have played a trick on everyone, even if she knew that she was just an orphan girl who had fallen into trouble, but she still loved her, but she, the princess, became a used dirty rag, discarded in the corner, and no one cared about her.

Back at the palace, Steward Yang had already received the news that the Seventh Prince had sent back, so he only welcomed An Yiru into the palace, and he didn't ask a word about it.

When Hexi learned of this, he sighed and said to Xiugu: "The new person is always better than the old person, and the love in the world is the most boring. ”

"What you said is right, but it is not right," Xiu Gu took over the conversation softly and said, "When did the princess get the love of the Seventh Prince?" ”

What Xiu Gu said is true, but it is even more emotional. Hexi looked at the darkening sky outside, his eyes a little sad.

This night, An Yiru had never eaten, had not slept for a long time, and sat in the bedroom in a daze, his eyes were dry, and he didn't even have the strength to shed tears.

The world is so sad, she has been in the palace for so many years, and she has faded the last trace of expectation and happiness.

In Fushou Palace, it was lonely in the middle of the night, the red candles in the side hall were shaking gently, there were only Shen Yuexi and Zhao Zheng in the dormitory, Shen Yuexi was sleeping on the bed, and Zhao was lying on the couch.

After Shen Yuexi fell asleep, Zhao Zheng got up and came to the bed, staring at Shen Yuexi's beautiful face by the light of the candle.

After a long time, he returned to the couch and fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Zhao Zheng got up early and put away the quilt on the couch, so as not to let the people in the Fushou Palace talk too much when they saw the Queen Mother.

The breakfast was used with the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother was happy, so she wanted to keep the two of them in the palace for a few more days.

Zhao Zheng declined. As a prince, it is not good for him to stay in the palace after all. Moreover, he also has to find out Chen Lingxiu's whereabouts.

The Queen Mother was not reluctant, "I am relieved to see you and the loving mourning family who are kind and loving." ”

After breakfast, Zhao Zheng and Shen Yuexi left the palace.

They did not go back to the palace, but walked slowly around the capital.

The weather is improving, the temperature has risen slightly, and there are a little more people on the streets than usual. Zhao Zheng and Shen Yuexi sat in the carriage, lifted the curtain, and Zhao Zheng pointed out the famous fireworks places in the capital to Shen Yuexi all the way, "Let's start from these fireworks places, there will always be some clues." ”

"It feels like looking for a needle in a haystack." Shen Yuexi was a little worried.

"It's not difficult to find out this kind of selling good people for prostitution, I will find someone to get clues, and then make a decision." After speaking, Zhao Zheng lowered the curtain and instructed the coachman, "Go to Yawenxuan." ”

Yawenxuan is the largest place to sell pen, ink, paper and inkstone in the capital, and the pen, ink, paper and inkstone used in the Kangping palace are purchased here.

Zhao Zheng likes elegant tools such as the four treasures of the study, so he often comes here in person to chat with the shopkeeper about paper and ink.

Yawenxuan's shopkeeper is called Hu Yawen, a thin and white man, he was sitting behind the counter, and when he saw Zhao Zheng coming in, he hurriedly greeted him, and said, "Please give the Seventh Prince." ”

Then he looked at Zhao Zheng followed by Shen Yuexi, with a raw face, but the woman who could let Zhao Zheng take him with him naturally had a great future, so Hu Yawen also nodded politely to Shen Yuexi.