Liu Biqin stood at the door of the house with a handkerchief, watching Xiao Yuchen being helped by Changfeng and hurriedly getting into the carriage, her face was reluctant and worried.

Xiao Yuchen picked up the curtain and waved at her, "Go back quickly, don't be blown by the wind." ”

Liu Biqin smiled and said yes, but stood still and didn't move. Xiao Yuchen's face was also full of reluctance, but he still let Changming catch the car.

Liu Biqin watched the car walk out of Plum Blossom Lane, put away the reluctance and worry on her face, turned around and said lightly to the maid next to her, "Go back." ”

The maid answered, stretched out her hand to close the door, and took the latch to tie it shut.

Liu Biqin is the daughter of a criminal minister, and she should have been sold, but it was Xiao Yuchen who moved her and hid her in this place, so she didn't dare to go out when she was idle. Let's not talk about whether it will affect Xiao Yuchen, if someone finds out, she will also be arrested. When the time comes, it will not be as simple as being sold.

Entering the small flower hall and sitting at the dining table, Liu Biqin lost a little appetite, and the maid said when she saw this: "Mrs. Hou is really snobbish, she let you go to the Hou Mansion to play every once in a while, and I can't wait to marry you back immediately." But as soon as something happened, she immediately changed her face. Fortunately, the eldest prince is still thinking of you. ”

Liu Biqin twisted the handkerchief in her hand, and the corners of her mouth pulled out a sneer, "Not everyone in the world is like this, praise the high and step on the low, and the noble Mrs. Hou is the same." ”

"But the eldest prince has you in his heart, can you still be a parent than a child?" The maid's tone was proud, Mrs. Hou just hates her young lady now, isn't there still no way to take the young lady?

Liu Biqin's face was also colorful, but she said in her mouth: "In the future, the entire Hou Mansion will belong to Brother Chen, who can beat him?" ”

The maid grinned, "Miss is right. ”

Liu Biqin felt a lot happier and got up and walked to the inner room. As long as she captures Xiao Yuchen's heart, what is Mrs. Hou afraid of?

Here, Changming drove the carriage back to the Hou Mansion at a gallop, and Xiao Yuchen was so upturned that he almost vomited. He was helped out of the carriage by Changfeng, and then walked quickly towards Tang Shuyi's courtyard. When she arrived, Tang Shuyi had already eaten and was talking to Xiao Yuzhu in a whisper.

"The eldest son." The little maid who was guarding outside saw Xiao Yuchen coming, and immediately saluted.

Xiao Yuchen went straight into the hall and saluted Tang Shuyi: "Mother." ”

Tang Shuyi looked up at him, and then was stunned. It is mentioned many times in the book that Xiao Yuchen, a male supporting actor, has a first-class appearance, which is also the reason why Wu Jingyun was obsessed with him in his previous life. But when she saw the real person, Tang Shuyi was still taken aback, this is too good-looking.

With a face as white as jade, delicate eyebrows and eyes, a high nose bridge, and red lips, he is really more delicate than ordinary women, but he does not have a trace of femininity. Coupled with his slender and upright figure, he is a son like jade.

This is to be put in the modern entertainment industry, that is, you can't do anything, and you can be red for a lifetime with this face.

"Mother." Xiao Yuchen saw that she was stunned when she looked at her, and shouted again.

Tang Shuyi came back to his senses, then got up with a gloomy face and said, "Follow me." ”

Good-looking people are easy to soften people's hearts, but who is Tang Shuyi? In a multinational company, from the bottom to the top, the heart has long been as hard as a stone, how can it be soft for the sake of a person's appearance?

This over-looking eldest son is a troublemaker, if he doesn't get him right, the family will be finished.

Xiao Yuchen followed Tang Shuyi's side, looking at the direction to go to the ancestral hall. He was a little angry in his heart, didn't he just go to accompany Sister Qin for a while, why did his mother do this?

"Mother, Sister Qin was raised by you, and you know how she is." Xiao Yuchen tried to persuade Tang Shuyi, "The Liu family is defeated, you asked me to marry Miss Wu Er, and I agreed, I hope you can agree to Sister Qin's entry into the house." ”

Tang Shuyi stopped and looked at him indifferently, the seventeen-year-old boy still had some childishness on his face, obviously being too protective. At the age of seventeen, he had just graduated from high school in modern times, and he was still living in an ivory tower, not knowing the suffering of the world.

But the education in ancient times was different, especially the elite education of the ancient families, who paid more attention to the cultivation of power and scheming. They were enlightened at the age of three, memorized poems at the age of five, began to contact the subset of scriptures and history at the age of seven or eighteen, and could even participate in scientific examinations at the age of seventeen or eighteen. And Xiao Yuchen is still full of wind and snow.

"Mother, Sister Jean, she has been thinking of your goodness, she...."

"Shut up!"

Tang Shuyi didn't want to talk to this love brain, so she turned around and continued to walk towards the ancestral hall, but Xiao Yuchen had to follow.

The Xiao family has not been rooted in Beijing for many years, and it is still a mud leg for decades ago. The prosperity of the Xiao family began with Xiao Yuchen's grandfather Xiao Chengkun. He followed the emperor to fight the country, and then was named the Marquis of Yongning, hereditary replacement.

The ancestral hall of the Xiao family is very large, but there are only three tablets on the table, the old marquis, the old marquis, and the tablets of Xiao Yuchen's father Xiao Huai.

It was already dark, and even with a few candles, the room was a little dark. In the empty room, the mother and son stood silently in front of the three tablets. Tang Shuyi once again truly accepted his current identity, but Xiao Yuchen disagreed.

Tang Shuyi saw the disapproving expression on his face, narrowed his eyes, looked at him sideways, and said lightly, "Kneel." ”

"Mother, what are you going to do here?" Xiao Yuchen felt that Tang Shuyi was making too much of a fuss, and it was a big deal.

Tang Shuyi didn't speak, just looked at him lightly. Despite this, Xiao Yuchen felt an invisible pressure, he pursed his lower lip, took out a forehead wipe made by Liu Biqin, and handed it to Tang Shuyi: "This is what Sister Qin made for you, she has been thinking about your goodness, this is her heart for you." ”

Tang Shuyi took the wipe of his forehead, and lowered his eyes to see that the ruby on it exuded a faint shimmer, which was very beautiful. But that's not what a sinner's daughter should have.

"This gem is beautiful." Tang Shuyi said.

Xiao Yuchen thought that she liked this forehead, so she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This is my birthday gift for Sister Qin, and she likes it very much." This is what she has in mind for you. ”

Tang Shuyi raised her eyebrows, how can this sound like tea!

Liu Biqin's food and clothing expenses are all from the Hou Mansion, and now she is making a forehead for her Mrs. Hou, and it is decorated with a gem given by his son, saying that it is her heart.

Who is disgusting?

"Mind?" Tang Shuyi was really a little angry, "What she Liu Biqin eats and wears now, what she uses to live and live is not the money of our Hou Mansion." She took the money from my Hou Mansion and made me an object, what's the matter? I have to thank her? ”

"Mother, how can a man's mind be compared with money? How could you... So...."

He couldn't say the next words, but Tang Shuyi said it, "Is it so mean?" ”

Xiao Yuchen didn't speak, that's what he meant. Tang Shuyi looked at him stubbornly pursing his lips, looking like she was unreasonable, and sneered.

"Get on your knees." Tang Shuyi said again.

Mother's order cannot be violated, Xiao Yuchen knelt down reluctantly. Tang Shuyi stood in front of him, looked down at his stubborn expression, and said: "Xiao Yuchen, you are also familiar with poetry and books, let me ask you, what should you be guilty of harboring the daughter of a criminal minister?" ”

Xiao Yuchen didn't expect Tang Shuyi to ask this, and he was stunned for a moment and said, "Mother, the affairs of the Liu family have nothing to do with Sister Qin. ”

"Then let me ask you, is Liu Yushan Liu Biqin's father?" Tang Shuyi asked coldly again.

"Yes." Xiao Yuchen couldn't deny it.

"What, then, is it to be guilty of harboring the daughter of a criminal minister?" Tang Shuyi asked again.

Xiao Yuchen knelt there with his head hanging and did not speak, like a stone statue, but Tang Shuyi could feel the stubbornness and stubbornness exuding from him.

took a big circle chair and sat in front of Xiao Yuchen, Tang Shuyi said again: "Let me tell you, what will happen if you harbor Liu Biqin." ”

"Xiao Yuchen, the eldest son of the Marquis of Yongning, the son of the Marquis of Yongning," Tang Shuyi's tone was serious and cold, and his aura was powerful, like a queen. Xiao Yuchen unconsciously tensed his nerves.

"Your every move represents the Yongning Hou Mansion, and the fate of me, your brother, your sister, and everyone in the Hou Mansion is closely related to you."

Tang Shuyi said again: "Liu Biqin's father, Liu Yushan, was beheaded for embezzlement of military salaries, the men of the Liu family were exiled, and the women were sold. You used your family connections to get Liu Biqin out and hide it in Plum Blossom Lane.

But paper can't hold the fire, and the matter will be known one day. If it is revealed, you will be convicted, either in jail or exile. Xiao Yuchen, you grew up with brocade clothes and jade food, which of these two can you stand it? Oh, and your sister Qin, this time it's not as simple as selling, she is a fugitive, and the death penalty may be guaranteed. ”

Xiao Yuchen was so shocked that he couldn't speak, he knew that it was illegal to hide Liu Biqin in Plum Blossom Lane, but he never thought it would be so serious. Or he subconsciously felt that he had stabbed Da Louzi, and his mother and grandfather would also help him solve it.

"Father...."He wanted to say that my father would help me, but suddenly realized that my father had died, and then he added, "Grandpa... Grandpa won't leave me alone. ”

Tang Shuyi was a little disappointed, this kid didn't know what responsibility was.

She was silent for a moment and said, "Help you, how can I help?" Our Hou Mansion is not without enemies, and when the time comes, the enemy will definitely seize you for harboring Liu Biqin and attack your father for participating in Liu Yushan's greed for ink. Your father is gone, and there is no proof of his death, and we have no way to defend it. They can say black as white, and what is not is laid on your father.

Your father joined the army at the age of fifteen, and he scarred on the battlefield beyond the number of scars, and finally died on the battlefield. In the entire Great Qian Dynasty, who doesn't say that he Xiao Huai is a hero! If he is accused of embezzlement of military salaries because you hide Liu Biqin, Xiao Yuchen, what crime should you be guilty of! ”

Tang Shuyi's last sentence slammed into Xiao Yuchen's head like a heavy thunderbolt, and his brain went blank. The body that was kneeling straight suddenly bent down.

At this time, I heard Tang Shuyi say again: "It's been two years since your father died, and according to the rules, you should have been knighted a long time ago, but I have been with your grandfather many times, and the emperor has not approved it, do you know why?" ”

Xiao Yuchen looked up, looking dazed.

Tang Shuyi got up and walked up to him, squatted down and stared into his eyes, and said word by word: "Two reasons, first, the emperor wants to collect military power, your father is dead, and the military talisman is gone." The emperor has tried me and your grandfather many times, thinking that the talisman is in our hands, and if we hand over the talisman, the holy decree of your lord will come down. But how have I ever seen that talisman? ”

After saying these words, Tang Shuyi suddenly reached out and grabbed Xiao Yuchen's collar, her eyes were cold and deep. Xiao Yuchen's neck was strangled uncomfortably and embarrassed, and he felt a little difficult to breathe. He had never seen such a mother, dangerous and powerful, and he didn't even dare to make eye contact with her.

At this time, I heard her say again: "The second reason is that you, the prince of Yongning Hou, are too . . . Not. Use! ”

When Xiao Yuchen heard this, he was shocked, dissatisfied, and aggrieved... The expression on his face was complicated. Tang Shuyi didn't bother to guess what he thought, let go of his collar, got up and looked at him condescendingly and said:

"Do you think the emperor will take the opportunity to attack and cut the title of Marquis of Yongning because you harbored Liu Biqin? Your grandfather followed the emperor to fight the country, and it took several lives and deaths to earn the title of Marquis of Yongning. Your father has great military achievements, even if he goes to the prestige, do you want to let the Yongning Marquis Mansion lose in your hands? ”

Xiao Yuchen sat on his knees, his eyes straight, his face shocked and dazed, he never knew that things would be so serious.

Tang Shuyi saw that the words just now touched his soul, so he didn't stay any longer and stepped out of the ancestral hall.

Cuiyun was waiting at the door, and the mother-in-law who was in charge of guarding the ancestral hall stood a few meters away. Tang Shuyi called the woman over and ordered: "Lock the door, you are not allowed to open the door without my instructions." ”

The mother-in-law glanced at Xiao Yuchen, who was kneeling inside, and asked carefully, "What should the eldest son do when he eats?" ”

"Hungry, no food can be brought in without my orders."

Hunger can make a person's brain think active, just enough for him to use his brain cells to squeeze the water out of it.

The bear child just doesn't clean up!

Tang Shuyi left, and the mother-in-law carefully closed the door, and then locked the door of the ancestral hall with a lock.