The two hugged each other, as if they had a thousand words to entrust, but they didn't know where to start. After a long time, Chen Xi let go of Du Mingxin, held her chin with his fingers, and kissed her cherry lips.

Du Mingxin felt his enthusiasm and responded to him warmly. This kiss only makes people feel that they are old all of a sudden, and there is no one else in this world, only each other.

There was a knock on the door. The prince's slightly shrill voice called outside the door: "Lord, the hour has come, please go to the city tower to receive the sword of the Son of Heaven." ”

Chen Xi woke up from the deep kiss at this time, he looked at Du Ming's crimson cheeks, couldn't help but pinch it gently, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, it's the Gentle Township Hero Mound...... I forgot everything about you. ”

Du Mingxin hurriedly covered his mouth and said angrily: "How can such a thing be said!" ”

She stretched out her hand to straighten Chen Xi's clothes, and said reluctantly: "You go, I'll wait for you to come back at home." ”

Chen Xi nodded, looked at her with a smile for a moment, and strode out of the door ruthlessly.

Du Mingxin was seven or eight steps behind him, and followed the prince up to the top of the city tower.

The sword awarding ceremony was solemn and solemn, and there was ceremonial music next to it. Chen Yuantai got up and took the sword that symbolized the royal military power, and Chen Xi knelt down and raised his hands above his head. After taking the saber, he held it to his chest, still kneeling to listen to Chen Yuantai's teachings.

After the ceremony, Chen Xi got up and strode down the Zhengyangmen Tower. At this time, the horn sounded, and more than 10,000 soldiers shouted in unison. Du Mingxin saw Chen Xi carrying the sword of the Son of Heaven on his waist from a distance on the city tower, turned over on his horse, and led the team to gradually move away.

It seems that he has been waiting for something to happen with worry, and now that it is in front of him, Du Ming is sad, but also feels more steady, after all, after separation, there is a reunion.

She stared at Chen Xi's distant back in a daze, not realizing that she was already in tears.

Chen Yuantai was also looking at Chen Xi, but he was thinking more in his heart. If he wins this battle, he will no longer be just the lord of the Central Plains, but will become the overlord of the world like the founding kings of previous dynasties. If this battle is lost, his Great Yan Dynasty will certainly be greatly damaged, but he is more worried about Chen Xi. At that time, how should he suppress Chen Xi's attacks by people with ulterior motives? Is it true that you want to cut off his wings and make him a rich idler?

Xige'er, you don't want to live up to your father's expectations......

When Chen Xi's figure disappeared, Chen Yuantai was about to take people back to the palace, but when he turned his head, he saw that Du Mingxin was still looking at the direction of Chen Xi's departure stupidly, and he suddenly sighed in his heart. Young people's feelings are always long and intense, on the other hand, they live like a dead wood, how long have they not had such an obsession?

He laughed self-deprecatingly, turned around and instructed the prince: "Go and send your sister-in-law back to the house, so that she can persuade her a few words, don't worry too much about King Jin." ”

The crown prince received the order, walked to Du Mingxin's side and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, I will send you home at the behest of my father, let's go." ”

Du Mingxin blinked his eyes a few times, trying to take back his tears. She smiled and said, "How can you bother the prince? I also brought someone with me. ”

The prince smiled: "Sister-in-law, don't be polite, don't you want me to resist and disobey?" ”

Du Mingxin smiled, and then no longer shirked. She walked up to Chen Yuantai and saluted to say goodbye, but was stopped by Chen Yuantai: "You, uh, you were wronged a few days ago, and Doctor Wang told me that you need to recuperate, and I told him to go and check your pulse in a while, and before that, you don't go out." ”

Du Mingxin felt that Chen Yuantai's words came for no reason, and he was grounded in disguise? However, the emperor's order was not easy to refute, so she smiled and agreed.

The prince thought that Du Mingxin insisted on sending Chen Xi, which made his father unhappy, and kept comforting her along the way.

*

After a few days, Du Mingxin began to receive invitations from various female relatives one after another, such as chrysanthemum banquets, osmanthus banquets, full moon wine, and ceremonies, all kinds of flowers. She didn't understand Chen Yuantai's intention to tell her not to go out, but she couldn't do it, so she had to excuse herself one by one on the grounds of illness.

It's good now, she doesn't go to other people's houses, but others come to her house. Helpless, she had to invite Du Mingzhu and Du Mingshu to stay at home and help her greet guests.

When women get together, whether it is a banquet or a visit, what is always indispensable is gossip. So although Du Mingxin stayed at home, he also knew everything about the world.

First of all, there was a housework in the Wei State Mansion, and the good student made the people in Beijing laugh at it. At the beginning of September, Shen Yao sent a dowry gift to the Wei State Mansion. Because Yuan Ying is a monkey and is over 20 years old this year, there are 20 pairs of red gold monkeys in the dowry gift.

This dowry was not directly handed over to Yuan Ying, but was collected in the treasury of the Duke of Wei's mansion. At that time, according to the rules of the capital, some people would not force the dowry sent by their uncle, and most of them were matched with a corresponding dowry, all of which were given to their daughters to marry, which was regarded as the daughter's private property.

At the end of the month, Ding Juan helped Yuan Ying check the dowry, but found that the twenty pairs of red gold monkeys had been dropped. What Shen Yao sent was solid red gold, each weighing about twenty taels, but the ones in the treasury were fluttering. Ding Juan looked for the master of the gold and silver shop and found that the warehouses were all hollow, each less than three taels, and the fineness of the gold was far inferior to that of red gold.

Ding Juan was a thief and reported to his mother-in-law, but Mrs. Yuan said that what Shen Yao sent was hollow. Ding Juan was helpless, and found the right dowry booklet, which clearly said twenty taels of red gold monkeys and twenty pairs.

Mrs. Yuan still relied on Shen Yao, and later scolded Ding Juan for guarding and stealing herself. However, it was Mrs. Yuan herself who was the presiding officer of the Wei State Mansion, and where did Ding Juan get the treasury key?

Shen Yao was very helpless when he heard about this, so he had to find the prince to come out to testify. It turned out that the prince was also a monkey, and he saw the golden monkey that day, and he liked it very much, so he paid for the craftsman to play an extra pair and send it to the East Palace.

This matter finally alarmed Wei Guogong, and the old man directly invited someone from Shuntianfu to investigate. checked and checked, but it was Mrs. Yuan's companion who did it. The accompanying family took the lead in the crime, and after Wei Guogong scolded his daughter-in-law, he fell ill on the bed. Mrs. Yuan also felt shameless, and under the pretext of being sick, she didn't go out. The Duchess of Wei took the opportunity to seize the power of her family and handed it over directly to her granddaughter-in-law.

Clear-eyed people know that the accompanying family is Li Dai Taozhuang, but Yuan Rong doesn't understand. She scolded Yuan Ying in the house all day long, and scolded Ding Juan for being unfilial, until she and Deng Wenjiao had an accident at the wedding banquet of the Marquis of Wuding.