The winter weather was sunny, but it was still bitterly cold. Li Yushi walked out of the palace parallel to Xiao Huai with his cloak, he glanced at Xiao Huai, who was only wearing a wide-sleeved robe, walking leisurely, and said that being young is good!

"Dingguo Gong, the lower officials have something to understand." Li Yushi thought about it again and again, but still asked, he was really curious.

"Li Yushi, please speak." Xiao Huai said.

"Madame Hou, oh, now it's the Duchess of the Kingdom." Li Yushi said: "The Duchess told you that the eldest prince is not ....."

Needless to say, everyone knows what it means. But Xiao Huai doesn't understand, this matter has nothing to do with... What does it have to do with the Duchess?

He asked, "Why did Li Yushi say that?" What does Mrs. Xiao have to do with this? ”

Li Yushi: "......."

Do you husband and wife don't communicate before you do things?

"Doesn't the Duke of Dingguo know that all the evidence handed over to the emperor by the lower official today comes from the Duchess of Guo?" Li Yu Shi Dao.

Xiao Huai was stunned for a moment, and then said, "I haven't returned home yet, and my wife hasn't mentioned this matter to me." ”

Li Yushi's face is clear, and this reason can also be said in the past. But he didn't even know that Concubine Min had a personal affair with someone before, how could he be sure that the eldest prince was not the emperor's heir?

If you don't understand, you asked, Li Yushi asked again: "How did the Duke of Dingguo know the identity of the eldest prince?" You also think about how to do a blood test. ”

Xiao Huai smiled, "I bet." ”

Li Yushi: "........"

If you don't say it, you won't say it, why fool people!

The two talked and arrived at the gate of the palace, and Li Yushi's chief entourage trotted over and gave him the hand stove. Here, Xiao Yuchen and Xiao Yuming also ran over, and the two had been waiting at the gate of the palace before.

"Why didn't you come home?" Xiao Huai asked them.

When they were in the northwest before, the two looked forward to returning to Beijing every day to see their mother and sister.

"The son is worried about the father." Xiao Yuchen said, and Xiao Yuming also nodded beside him.

Xiao Huai's heart warmed, and he raised his hand and patted the shoulders of the two, "Let's go." ”

At this time, Steward Zhao ran over and saluted Xiao Huai with tears in his eyes, "The slave sees the Hou Ye, no, see the Grandpa Guo." ”

Xiao Huai stretched out his hand to help him, "Get up." ”

Steward Zhao got up and said, "Madame ordered the villain to take the grandfather and the two sons back to the house." ”

Xiao Huai lowered his eyes and said, "Then let's go." ”

Steward Zhao answered, and Xiao Yuming suddenly rushed to his side and asked, "Steward Zhao, how are my mother and Yuzhu?" ”

Steward Zhao smiled and said, "Okay, it's that Mrs. and Miss have been thinking about Grandpa Guo and the two sons." ”

"I brought a lot of good things to Yuzhu and my mother." Xiao Yuming said again.

"Madame and Mademoiselle must like it." Steward Zhao echoed with a smile.

As he spoke, he got into the carriage and then headed to the Yongning Marquis Mansion. After a while, when they arrived at the gate of the house, the three of them got out of the car, and saw the middle door wide open, and Xiao Yuzhu and Tang Shuyi were standing at the door.

Seeing that both of them walked over quickly, their faces were full of excitement. Xiao Huai's hands were clenched into fists, and he didn't know what he would do if Tang Shuyi and Xiao Yuzhu pounced on him for a while.

And at this moment, Tang Shuyi took the lead and walked over, his hand holding tighter. But when I saw her coming over, she stood in front of Xiao Yuchen and Xiao Yuming past herself, her eyes were loving and excited.

Xiao Yuchen and Xiao Yuming lifted their robes and knelt in front of her, and said in unison: "My son has seen his mother." ”

Then the two of them kowtowed three times. Tang Shuyi helped the two of them up with tears in her eyes, looked left and right, and saw that both of them were fine, and they looked stronger than before, so she smiled and said, "My son has grown up." ”

Xiao Yuchen and Xiao Yuming both smiled a little embarrassedly, Tang Shuyi wiped the moisture from the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief, and then turned sideways to bow to Xiao Huai, "Grandpa Guo." ”

Xiao Huai hurriedly helped him and said, "Madame has worked hard all these years. ”

At this moment, the messenger in the palace arrived, led by an old acquaintance Jiao Kangsheng. Salute to Xiao Huai and Tang Shuyi, "Dingguo Gong, Guo Duchess, take the order." ”

The family knelt down together, and then Jiao Kangsheng recited the emperor's will to make Xiao Huai the Duke of Dingguo, as well as a series of rewards. After reading it, he said with a smile: "The emperor said that he will personally inscribe the plaque of the Dingguo Mansion, and the plaque is estimated to be made in a few days." ”

"There's no hurry." Xiao Huai said.

Jiao Kangsheng smiled again and said, "Then the slave will go back to his life." ”

After speaking, he took a group of palace maids and eunuchs and left, leaving a reward. These are all Xiao Huai's, Tang Shuyi thinks that she has a strong sense of boundaries, when Xiao Huai was not there before, she could make her own decisions on how to deal with it, but now that the person is here, she can't overstep her bounds.

And Xiao Huai felt that these should be put away by Tang Shuyi, she was the hostess, who would she not accept? But seeing that she was standing there with no intention of taking it, he coughed, and said, "Mrs. Laofu has put these things in place." ”

This is the meaning of returning these belongings to the public, since he said so, Tang Shuyi will not refuse, so he instructed Steward Zhao and Cuiyun Cuizhu to sort out these things, and then make a book and put them in the warehouse.

In fact, she didn't think much about it before, because many male owners of large families have their own private vaults. Just like before, the old marquis and Xiao Huai have their own accounts.

Steward Zhao took Cuizhu and Cuiyun to work, and Tang Shuyi and Xiao Huai took their three children into the house. Xiao Yuzhu has been following Xiao Huai, although he doesn't speak, his eyes look at him from time to time, and Xiao Huai can't help laughing.

"What do you do at home on weekdays?" Xiao Huai asked with a smile.

This opened Xiao Yuzhu's chatterbox, and she told all the trivial things on weekdays. Her voice was crisp and emotional, Xiao Huai listened, and there was a smile on her face all the time.

When they arrived at the main hall, the family sat together and talked. Xiao Yuzhu finished talking about her daily life and began to ask Xiao Huai questions, most of which were some daily life in the army, and Xiao Huai told him very patiently.

Here, Tang Shuyi and Xiao Yuchen and Xiao Yuming talked about what happened during the time they were separated. Of course, it's all approximate, and the details can't be explained clearly at once.

After chatting for a while, Tang Shuyi saw that it was almost time for dinner, so he asked the three men who had returned from the dust to freshen up, and then have dinner together.

Xiao Yuchen and Xiao Yuming both got up and went back to their courtyards, leaving Xiao Huai behind. Where he goes to freshen up is a question, Xiao Huai didn't have his own yard before, and he used to either stay in the study or stay in Tang Shuyi's Shi'an Garden.

"I'll go to the study, I have some official documents to read." Xiao Huai said to Tang Shuyi.

Tang Shuyi breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, but her face didn't show it at all, she smiled and said, "Then I'll let people prepare the bath soup in the study." ”

"Okay." Xiao Huai bowed his head to Tang Shuyi, and then said to the little servant waiting outside: "Follow me to the study." ”

The little maid hurriedly responded and led the way to the study in front. Tang Shuyi looked at Xiao Huai's distant back, her brows furrowed, she always felt that there were many things wrong, especially wrong.