Chu Jie laughed heartily, glanced at Chen Qiu, and whispered in Ye Chen's ear: "Have you come to your senses, kid? But this one looks more energetic than that one."
Ye Chen glared at Chu Jie and said, "Uncle, where are you looking? And don't mention the past in front of Qiu'er."
Chen Qiu looked at the two men suspiciously. These two emperors did not look like emperors, and the dukes did not look like dukes. They looked more like uncle and nephew from ordinary families.
Chu Jie walked around Ye Chen and said to Shen Qiu: "My nephew, Chen'er didn't bully you, did he? If he bullied you, just tell me and I will deal with him for you!"
Well, this really doesn't seem like an emperor. Shen Qiu bowed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty. The Duke is very kind to me."
Chu Jie said with a smile: "You don't have to be so formal. As long as we leave the upper study, we are just an ordinary family in front of the Queen."
Chen Qiu didn't understand their relationship. After all, they were in the royal family. There was no family affection in the royal family. No matter how harmonious the outside was, the inside was not as simple as it seemed.
Chen Qiu just smiled and replied, "Yes, Your Majesty!"
Afterwards, the Empress took Chen Qiu to the Imperial Garden to enjoy the flowers, while Emperor Chu Jie and Ye Chen stayed in the Yikun Palace. Mu Qing and the Emperor's personal guard Ling Tian were guarding outside.
Chu Jie said to Ye Chen: "Do you know about your wife's family?"
Ye Chen said: "I understand."
Chu Jie asked again: "What are you going to do?"
Ye Chen said: "We can do whatever we have to do. It's not my father-in-law who did it. As long as we don't implicate him, we can handle it according to the law."
"Whoever causes trouble will bear the consequences."
Chu Jie pointed outside the door and said, "Will your wife obey?"
Ye Chen glared at Chu Jie and said, "That's my wife. My wife is the most considerate and sensible person."
"Besides, the people my wife cares about have done nothing wrong. You can't try to punish them collectively!"
Chu Jie snorted coldly and said, "Am I that kind of person?"
At the end of the next day, Chen Qiu and Ye Chen came out of the palace. In the carriage, Ye Chen took Chen Qiu's hand, played with the calluses on Chen Qiu's hand, and said: "Qiu'er, the Shen family's affairs are settled today!"
Chen Qiu was startled. Ye Chen felt Chen Qiu's hand stiffen for a moment and said hurriedly: "Don't worry, whoever made the mistake will bear the responsibility, and no one else will be implicated."
"Only your second uncle will be exiled."
Shen Qiu smiled and said: "Thank you"
Ye Chen looked at Chen Qiu and asked, "Don't you want to ask your second uncle what he did wrong?"
Chen Qiu looked at Ye Chen and said, "The fact that my grandmother married me to you as a life-saving talisman must be a major event that will incriminate everyone involved. You'll know the truth when he's exiled."
Ye Chen looked at Chen Qiu, his eyes full of heartache, then he hugged Chen Qiu into his arms and said: "Your second uncle used his own shop to pass information to the remnants of the previous dynasty who wanted to restore the country, and it has been five years."
"What?" Chen Qiu immediately sat up from Ye Chen's arms, looked at Ye Chen and said, "Are you serious? This is a serious crime of treason!"
Ye Chen nodded and said: "Yes, according to the law, the entire clan will be punished!"
Chen Qiu looked at Ye Chen and said, "Will you have to pay a heavy price to protect the Shen family?"
Ye Chen smiled and said, "Yes, my uncle asked me to cancel my vacation and start attending court. I still want to be with you all the time. Do you think this is a high price to pay?"
Chen Qiu hit Ye Chen on the shoulder and said, "We're talking about serious matters, and you're still joking."
Ye Chen hugged Shen Qiu and said, "It's okay. We checked all the Shen family's stores and confirmed that it was only that one store. We also confirmed that your second uncle was also being used by someone."
"The court is in need of personnel right now, and the emperor doesn't have many people he can trust. Your uncle's case can help him win over some people."
"It's also to leave a way out for those who were deceived like your second uncle."
"If your second uncle handles it too harshly, those people will only hide deeper, and it will be even more difficult to find them."
At this point, Ye Chen looked at Chen Qiu and said solemnly: "Qiu'er, I will be very busy in the future. Your second uncle's affairs are just the tip of the iceberg. Now that this tip has been exposed, if we want to uproot the underwater, not only Kyoto, but the entire Great Yin Kingdom will probably change."
"Qiu'er, I might go out of town in the future, and I want to take you with me when the time comes. I'm worried about leaving you alone in Kyoto. I want to keep you by my side all the time, okay?"
Shen Qiu didn't know why Ye Chen suddenly said this, but the fact that he could say this to himself showed that he really regarded himself as his own. This was also progress, wasn't it? So Shen Qiu nodded without hesitation.
Ye Chen smiled, then kissed Shen Qiu on the forehead.
After returning to the Duke's Mansion, Chen Qiu and Ye Chen went back to their own courtyard, changed back into their own clothes, and went directly to Rongwei Hall for lunch.
"It's so hot, you don't have to run back and forth like this." Old Lady Xiao said with concern when she saw the sweat on their foreheads.
Shen Qiu said: "Grandma, we just thought that with more people, the meal would be more lively."
"Besides, isn't it good to have us accompany you?" Chen Qiu said to Old Lady Xiao in a somewhat coquettish manner.
When Ye Chen heard his wife and Old Lady Xiao acting coquettishly, he was stunned. He had never heard Chen Qiu act coquettishly, although he had lived two lifetimes.
Yes, in his previous life, Qiu'er had always lived cautiously. Since he didn't love her, few people in this family took her seriously.
This life is different. I put her at the top of my heart, love her and care for her. She can feel it. She is relaxed at home, so she acts like a spoiled child.
"Ye Chen, Ye Chen, what kind of treasure did you miss in your previous life!" Ye Chen laughed at himself in his heart.
Seeing his wife acting like a spoiled child, his heart softened. He thought to himself, "Qiu'er has never acted like a spoiled child in front of me. I must make her act like a spoiled child only to me in the future!"
Madam Xiao said, "You are going to visit your parents tomorrow. I have asked someone to draw up a list of things to bring. Chen'er, you can have the things loaded onto the truck this afternoon. That way you can go home early tomorrow and Qiu'er can spend more time with her family."
Ye Chen was busy in the afternoon dealing with official business and preparing things for the return visit tomorrow. Chen Qiu took Xing'er and Mingyue on another tour of the Duke's Mansion.
After returning from Rongwei Hall in the evening, Ye Chen applied the medicine to Chen Qiu and asked, "Does it still hurt down there?"
Chen Qiu didn't understand what Ye Chen said, so he just said "Hmm?"
Ye Chen crawled to Shen Qiu's ear and said something, and Shen Qiu's ears turned visibly red.
Ye Chen held the delicate and tempting earlobe in his mouth, and Chen Qiu's body trembled. Ye Chen then hugged Chen Qiu into the bed.
This time, there was no pain as imagined, only Ye Chen's utmost tenderness and lingering affection!
Afterwards, Ye Chen looked at the sleeping Chen Qiu, his hand unconsciously touching Chen Qiu's long braided hair, his eyes full of tenderness.
In fact, he didn't want to be so anxious to be intimate with his Qiu'er again. After all, he really hurt her on the wedding night. However, he had been impotent for ten years in his previous life. But this time when he came back, as soon as he saw Chen Qiu, his body reacted unconsciously.
Ye Chen looked at Chen Qiu, wondering if he would give it a try someday. Would it be the same with other people? He had finally come back, and if he suddenly became impotent, wouldn't that be a huge loss?
Or does he only react when facing Qiu'er? Impotence caused by a problem with his body is different from reacting to only one person, so he has to figure it out.
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