Since that day, Sang Tian hasn't come for a long time.

One day, a servant brought a silk umbrella into the inner room, saying that a young lady had left it at the door of the shop. When Shen suddenly saw the umbrella, he was slightly stunned.

Tao Yiru had just come from the pharmacy next door. She picked a grape from the sinking ice jar and put it into her mouth. Seeing this, she said casually, "Girls are shy. She must have known what happened when you refused her that day."

He hadn't seen her for many days, and now she returned his umbrella. He must have really let it go. Shen breathed a sigh of relief and tilted his head to look towards the river.

Although they met by chance, Chen still hoped that she could find a good family and not be burdened by those sad things in the future.

at night.

After the last dog days of summer, the south finally felt a bit of autumn. Chen had just taken a bath and washed his hair. He was now lazily leaning on the edge of the bed, letting His Highness dry his hair with a long piece of silk cloth.

Fearing that he would catch a cold, Xie Shiguan placed a small stove beside the couch, and asked the mute to rest his head on his legs while he patiently dried his hair.

He also warmed a pot of wine on the stove with a low fire. Before the raw wine could boil, His Highness took the pot of liquor and placed it on the table, then poured himself a sip.

Xie Shiguan took a sip of wine, then leaned down again, deliberately getting close to him and teasing him: "Would you like to try the Jiannan Shaochun that was just shipped from Xichuan?"

Chen Que was not fond of alcohol, but he could not resist the deliberate temptation of His Highness. He raised his eyes, and the candlelight made his eyes dark and bright: "Give it to me..."

"Pour one for you, too?" Xie Shiguan's face was upside down, and he looked even more seductive when he smiled. Seeing the mute nod, he reached out and touched his lips, "You wish."

Ever since that day when he learned that Chen Que was pregnant again, His Highness had read a lot of medical books and knew that liquor was something that pregnant women should not touch. However, Xie Shiguan was not so rigid. The medical books said that "pregnant women should not eat ice slurry", but His Highness did not forbid the mute to eat fruits and sour plum soup that had been cooled in summer.

But he did not take much with him every day, and the mute did not like to stay cool. He often shared these cooling foods with the servants and maids in the shop, but he himself did not eat much.

Seeing that the mute was greedy and looking at him with those eyes, Xie Shiguan's heart softened. He dipped his index and middle fingers in a little wine, squeezed his lips, and put it into his mouth.

"Is it delicious?" Xie Shiguan smiled and stirred the food slowly with his hands, forcing the mute to breathe faster and faster, and his ears turned red. "Why are you drunk so soon?"

He smiled and said, "You can't drink so much."

Shen was speechless, so he had to let His Highness look inside. He was really having trouble breathing, so he reached out and grabbed his wrist, with a thin layer of tears in his eyes, begging him.

"Not eating anymore?" Xie Shiguan asked him with his eyes downcast, "Is this enough?"

Shen nodded.

His Highness then slowly withdrew his hand, and as soon as the two fingers were away, he lowered his head and kissed it. His lips and teeth were filled with the mellow and refreshing aroma of Shaochun wine, and their hot breaths intertwined, gradually warming up both of them.

"It should be more than three months now, right?" Xie Shiguan stretched out his hand and gently stroked the mute's slightly bulging belly, "Hmm?"

He clearly remembered this day better than anyone else, but he pretended to be confused and asked the mute.

Without waiting for the mute to answer, His Highness suddenly took out a piece of honey fried cake from a glass jar and stuffed it into Shen Que's mouth: "I bought it from Xuji Fruit Shop. Is it sweet?"

Shen nodded and reached out to take the glass jar.

Even though this mute got pregnant, her taste didn't change much. She didn't like sour food or spicy food, and she still liked sweet food.

The honey-fried cakes made by Xuji Fruit Shop are all pickled with honey, with just a little bit of sourness, which not only does not overpower the sweetness, but also slightly relieves the greasiness. Shen likes it very much.

But the mute refused to say anything. The honey-fried dumplings from this shop were not easy to buy and were far from the palace. He didn't want His Highness to run around for him, so he said that the honey-fried dumplings from these shops were the same.

But if Your Highness really took it seriously, he would be able to tell which restaurant's honey-fried dumplings the mute eats the fastest.

Shen stood up and was about to take out another honey-fried egg from the glass jar to eat, but he caught a glimpse of Xie Shiguan suddenly pulling out a silk handkerchief from his sleeve and washing his hands carefully.

The handkerchief looked very familiar. It was made of warm white silk with only two bamboo leaves embroidered on the corners. It was very simple. Nothing His Highness had used that was of such a plain style.

This is his veil.

"Does it look familiar?" Xie Shiguan waved the handkerchief in front of his eyes, staring at him uncertainly, "How dare you send this personal item away without my knowledge?"

When he was explaining to His Highness that day, Shen deliberately omitted the mention of handing over the handkerchief. He was very calm in his heart and had no ill intentions towards that lady, but if he had said it clearly, His Highness would probably not be able to calm down for a while.

"How, how did you get it?" Shen looked at him, feeling inexplicably doubtful and at a loss.

He suddenly thought of Zhener again, the silver hairpin he gave her, the pool of blood on the ground...The girl hasn't come for a long time. What if she didn't let it go, but...what if something happened to her?

Seeing that His Highness did not agree immediately, Shen Quesui reached out and grasped his wrist again, and opened his lips silently: "Shi Guan?"

Xie Shiguan was furious. This mute had done something wrong and he had exposed him, but he didn't know how to defend himself, apologize and say his mistake first. Instead, his first words were to question him.

Therefore, His Highness refused to give a proper answer, but instead asked him, "What do you think?"

He refused to give a direct answer, but Shen's heart suddenly turned cold. The girl had no connection with His Highness at all. If he had done nothing, how could the handkerchief fall into his hands?

"I just lent her that handkerchief to wipe her tears," Shen looked at him sadly and moved her hand slowly, "I didn't say anything to her that day."

"Just?" She felt angry for no reason, for the dumb man's clumsy frivolity, and for the burning jealousy in her heart, "How could you not know what it means to give away something you hold close to your body? And that person is even an unmarried woman!"

"If you always have me in your heart, you won't give your handkerchief to another woman."

However, Chen guessed that His Highness would be serious about it, so he kept it a secret and didn't dare to tell him directly. When he handed over the handkerchief that day, he felt a little regretful. But the handkerchief was used by a girl like Sang Tian to wipe her tears, so how could he ask for it back?

Of course he felt remorseful, but he was more afraid that the young life would be lost because of his mistake.

He raised his hand, his eyes reddened: "I was wrong to give her the handkerchief."

The mute paused for a moment before continuing: "But she is innocent and so young. You shouldn't..."

"Shouldn't I kill her?" Xie Shiguan guessed what the mute was thinking. He was annoyed and pinched his chin gently, "So what if I kill her?"

"It's just a chance encounter, why are you so sad for her?"

He was not just annoyed, he was even more angry that the mute was still trying to guess at him. He couldn't bear to see the lives of the people suffer, so he gave him a peaceful and prosperous country. Since moving to the south, His Highness had been very obedient to the mute and never got angry.

Shen looked at His Highness in disbelief. What happened to Zhen'er was justified, as she was a spy sent by the Miao Party. But this girl... she was so innocent.

Before Shen Que could raise his hand to reply, a childish voice suddenly sounded outside the house: "Aye, I can't sleep..."

Then came the nurse's voice: "The prince just had a nightmare, and he refused to go back to sleep after waking up. He insisted on coming to find the two masters. If it is inconvenient for the masters, I will take the prince back now."

Shen Que was about to get off the bed when he heard this, but Xie Shiguan grabbed his ankle and said, "I'll go open it."

After saying that, he got up, opened the door, brought the kid in, and put it on the couch. As soon as the kid got on the couch, he jumped into Chen Que's arms, rubbing his furry head against Chen Que's chin, and acted coquettishly with him: "There's a wild wolf chasing me, running and running, I'm scared to death."

Shen, however, patted his back, he didn't want to quarrel with His Highness, so when this brat suddenly barged in, he felt relieved.

Xie Shi watched the kid's movements and said coldly, "Don't touch your father's belly."

"Si Lai knows," he said in a baby voice, "Aye has another baby in his belly, Si Lai needs to hold the baby carefully."

The boy was very perceptive. As soon as he entered the room, he noticed that the atmosphere between the two men was not right. After saying that, he turned his head and whispered, "Grandpa, don't be so fierce."

He didn't dare to look Xie Shiguan in the eye and say this. It was only when Shen Que was here that he dared to speak out against this grandfather to his face: "Ye Ye, giving birth to a child is very tiring. Grandpa should also hold the child carefully."

Xie Shiguan sat at the table and drank a sip of wine in silence, without responding.

However, Shen held the kid's head in his hands and gestured to him slowly, "Grandpa is not fierce."

Si Lai curled his lips and said, "Si Lai heard it all from outside. It was so fierce and loud."

After saying this, he looked at Xie Shiguan warily, and then said, "I think about sleeping with Aye tonight."

He was afraid that as soon as he left, Xie Shiguan would yell at Aye again, and might even resort to violence.

When His Highness heard this, he was no longer speechless and flatly refused, "No, go back to your own room and sleep."

Si Lai's face was full of grievance: "Just one night."

"Not even for one night," Xie Shiguan didn't discuss it with him, and pulled him out of Shen Que's arms with one hand, "It's squeezing him to death."

The bed in the main room was clearly not as spacious as it could be, not to mention that he was just a small person and couldn't take up much space at all.

So Si Lai started to make trouble and imitated the frog-fish-duck swimming style in Xie Shiguan's hands, kicking wildly: "Aye, aye, I want aye!"

The kid howled whenever he wanted, and his tears fell like free beads.

He cried so heartbreakingly, how could Shen just stand by and watch, so he stood up, hugged the kid back distressedly, and opened his lips to His Highness, begging: "Only one night."

Xie Shiguan said coldly: "It's up to you."