It was already midnight when Zong Zhenghui returned to the palace.
The Queen Mother was waiting for him in Chengde Hall.
Zong Zhenghui smiled slightly: "It's so late, mother hasn't rested yet?"
The Queen Mother asked, "I heard that you left the palace again. Is there someone outside the palace that you are reluctant to leave?"
Zong Zhenghui just smiled and said nothing.
The Queen Mother glanced at the album at hand and said: "Time is running out, these are the only names on the list of concubines. Your Majesty, please come and choose first."
Zong Zhenghui said, "Mother, let's forget about the selection of concubines."
The Queen Mother frowned: "Why? Could it be that the rumor is true? Someone saw you accompanying the head of the Cheng family to the lake and the lantern festival. Could it be that you are——"
She would never agree to her son marrying Cheng Sang as his concubine!
Zong Zhenghui sighed and said calmly, "My queen has misunderstood. I just admire Master Cheng very much. In fact, I like men. In the abandoned mines over the years, Zong Zhengming sent him many actors to relieve his loneliness."
The Queen Mother was horrified!
"My son, I'm leaving."
Zong Zhenghui bowed, turned around and walked away.
The Queen Mother looked at his resolute back and stammered anxiously, "I think...Mrs. Cheng is not bad! Don't you admire her? Do you want to consider it?!"
Where the empress dowager couldn't see, Zong Zhenghui pursed his lips and smiled secretly, his shoulders trembling.
On the other side, Cheng Sang also returned to the yard.
Meiji came over holding a roasted pigeon on a stick and said, "Sangsang, have you finished talking to His Majesty?"
She has been calling "Sangsang, Sangsang" all the time recently.
"Little bird spirit, why are you here again..."
Before he finished saying the word "eat", Cheng Sang realized that his address was inappropriate.
I've gotten used to saying it lately, and even after I've recovered my memory I still occasionally slip up.
Mei Ji no longer minded her calling her a little bird spirit.
She fed the uneaten side to Cheng Sang: "Little roasted one, do you want some, Sangsang?"
Cheng Sang said, "I'm full, you can eat. Where's Xiaoxiao?"
Meiji said, "I'm taking a bath."
There was no big bucket in the old man’s wooden house, so he could only wipe himself to take a bath, or he had to go to the river. But he was worried about being bumped into by the residents of the tribe, so he had to endure it.
After returning home and finishing the work at hand, the first thing Su Xiaoxiao did was to take a comfortable bath.
Crunch——
The door opened.
You don’t have to guess to know it’s Meiji.
Cheng Sang wouldn't come in when she was taking a shower.
The surface of the water was covered with flower petals, and the hot mist made her cheeks flushed and her face looked pale.
Mei Ji lay on the bucket, eating barbecue while scooping water to pour on Su Xiaoxiao's back.
"Xiaoxiao, what do you think?"
"Use your eyes."
Meiji rolled her eyes: "You know that's not what I'm asking."
Of course Su Xiaoxiao knew, he was just teasing her.
Cheng Sang and Zong Zhenghui first met in their best years and reunited after half a lifetime of ups and downs.
More than thirty years have passed.
One was imprisoned in a dark mine, the other was imprisoned in a crazy body.
Only they can understand that endless loneliness.
They are the people in the world who can understand each other the most, but no one can predict matters of the heart.
Meiji asked again: "Are we going back soon?"
Things here are almost done, Wei Xu has been rescued, and it's time to return to the capital for a reunion.
Mei Ji said, "But if we leave, what will happen to Sangsang?"
Su Xiaoxiao was silent.
She also missed her grandmother.
After Meiji finished eating the pigeon, she suddenly felt like changing into the clothes she wore before coming to the capital.
It turned out that I couldn’t get into it.
She's gained weight!!! -The crisis in Southern Xinjiang has been resolved, and Su Xiaoxiao no longer needs to change her appearance.
She went to find Cheng Sang with a refreshed look on her face.
If the voice and figure had not changed, they would almost think that there was another guest in the house.
Everyone remembered that Cheng Qingxue once ridiculed the young master for his plain appearance.
How can this be ordinary-looking? She is clearly a fairy from heaven! "Grandmother."
Su Xiaoxiao came to Cheng Sang's house.
Cheng Sang took her hand and sat down, looking at her face carefully, as if trying to find some of Weiwei's shadow in her face.
"Do you look like your mother?" Cheng Sang asked.
"Yes." Su Xiaoxiao said, "Ergou looks like her too."
After Cheng Sang woke up, Su Xiaoxiao told him everything about her family, including her identity in the Great Zhou.
When Cheng Sang learned about what happened to her daughter as a child, her eyes became swollen from crying.
Only after knowing that her daughter met Su Cheng, a man who truly loved her and gave birth to two filial children, did she find a little comfort.
It was a pity that she was still a step too late and did not see her daughter.
There were tears in Cheng Sang's eyes.
Cheng Sang said, "Xiaoxiao, grandma wants to discuss something with you."
Su Xiaoxiao said, "Grandma, please speak."
Cheng Sang looked at her and said lovingly, "Grandma wants to go to Qingzhou to see your mother, and also wants to go to Beijing to see your father and Ergou."
She didn't know how many years she had left to live, but as long as she was still alive, she would crawl to her daughter's grave even if she had to.
Tell my daughter that mom is here to pick her up.
Su Xiaoxiao leaned into Cheng Sang's arms like a child: "Grandma, to be honest, I was just thinking about how to take you back."
Cheng Sang: “…”
Su Xiaoxiao stayed with Cheng Sang at Cheng's house for two days. After Cheng Sang's emotions stabilized, she went to Changliu Lane.
Wei Xu took the medicine prepared by Su Xiaoxiao, and his internal injuries were healing little by little, but the burning energy absorbed from Wei Qing's body was a bit troublesome.
In order to force out the burning energy, Wei Xu was in seclusion.
Su Xiaoxiao didn't bother him.
Su Xiaoxiao played with Wei Xiyue for a while, and then went to Elder Lou's residence.
Su Mo was away, he lived in the palace with the envoys.
Princess Hui'an was "found" and has been living in the palace for the past two days.
However, Zong Zhenghui had already issued a clear decree to cancel the marriage between Princess Hui'an and Southern Xinjiang.
The reason was simple and crude. Zong Zhengming's son was demoted to a commoner, and the princess of Da Zhou could not be forced to marry him.
Su Li went out for a walk.
Su Xuan was the only one in the yard.
He looks to be in pretty good shape.
Wearing a spotless white dress, he sat quietly on a stone bench under a tree, reading a book.
No matter how many times Su Xiaoxiao sees this spy chief, she will still be amazed.
He is indeed as handsome as jade and unparalleled in the world.
"Fourth cousin." Su Xiaoxiao greeted him and walked over, sitting down on the stone bench opposite him.
Su Xuan looked at her: "My cousin is here."
Su Xiaoxiao said: "I heard that you were injured."
Su Xuan smiled quietly: "I'm already healed."
After coming to southern Xinjiang and discovering the spy chief's identity, the spy chief never laughed properly again.
This smile seems like a lifetime ago.
Su Xiaoxiao looked at him with her hands on her chin.
"What's up?"
"Um."
Su Xiaoxiao nodded.
Su Xuan smiled slightly: "Go ahead."
Su Xiaoxiao said, "On the day I left Beijing, you asked Su Li to give me three sachets. One of them contained three keys. One was the key to the secret room of the Qionghua Palace, and one was the key to the secret room of the abandoned mine. The mission in Southern Xinjiang has been completed, but the third key has not been used yet. What is it for?"
Su Xuan closed the book and said, "If possible, I hope you will never have the chance to use it."
This is the third update that I wrote with all my might. Ahhhh, I'm going to be late!
(End of this chapter)