Chapter 670: Leave the Shen family tonight!
"The master is back!" Lian'er heard the noise and hurried to meet him.
Shen Yuanhao looked at the person who was coming towards him in silence, then walked past her.
Lian'er froze, and the good complexion she had worked so hard to achieve turned two shades paler in an instant.
"My lord, I asked the kitchen to prepare some hot soup. It's cold outside and the dew is heavy. Please drink a bowl quickly to get rid of the cold."
Lian'er has always used gentleness and concern to win the hearts of men, and it has always worked, but today she hit a cold wall.
"Pack up and take the child to the inn first!"
The hot soup fell to the ground with a clang and broke into several pieces.
"Sir, did Lian'er do something wrong?" Lian'er hurriedly knelt beside Shen Yuanhao and climbed up Shen Yuanhao's trouser legs with both hands.
Shen Yuanhao pinched his forehead, and his expression became even more annoyed.
"I was wrong before. You and I are not engaged now. It is not right for you to live in the Shen family with your child. After the New Year, I will have someone issue a letter of engagement and officially marry you. Then you can stay in the Shen family openly."
So that's how it was. Lian'er thought to herself that it was a false alarm.
However, even though Zhou Xiang was mentioned, there are too many variables.
"But what did His Majesty say, sir?"
There was a hint of regret in Shen Yuanhao's eyes, and he began to think deeply about what His Majesty had said.
Your Majesty said that the Shen family can take concubines in the future, and that his marriage will be decided by the elders in the family. Are you blaming him?
He didn't listen to the warning and married Lian'er, so Your Majesty doesn't care about the Shen family's men anymore?
Although no one else in the family said anything, he clearly noticed that Yuan Xu and Yuan Jing looked at him with more distance.
Is he wrong?
"Do you think you can find out about His Majesty?" For the first time, Shen Yuanhao used a cold and harsh tone to the woman next to him.
Lian'er's whole body stiffened and her face turned even paler.
"Go pack your things and leave the Shen Mansion tonight."
Lian'er glanced at the sky outside, then thought of her two children, and a layer of tears instantly appeared in her eyes.
"My Lord, I can go anywhere, but the two children are too young to stand the tossing and turning. Besides, they have already gone to bed. What if they are blown by the cold wind and catch a cold? What should I do?"
Just as Shen Yuanhao was about to let go, a voice was heard outside.
"Father, my grandparents asked me to call you over."
Shen Yuanhao was a little dazed. The person outside was his eldest son, An'er.
Thinking of the debt he had owed to his eldest son over the years, Shen Yuanhao's heart hardened again.
"If you catch a cold, call a doctor. If you haven't left after I come back, don't blame me for sending you back to the border."
The more Shen Yuanhao thought about it, the more he felt that this idea was feasible. He looked at Lian'er deeply, and the words "women make things go wrong" popped up in his mind, and then he left without looking back.
After Shen Yuanhao left, Lian'er finally couldn't support her body anymore and fell to the ground with weak legs.
The adults were so kind to them when they were at the border, why did they change as soon as they returned to the capital?
Because this was not just a warning, the Shen family spent this year as low-key as possible. During the New Year's Eve dinner, no one even dared to mention the word "palace".
The elders in the family were very secretive about it, and the younger generations were even more quiet as mutes because of the house arrest of Shen Emei and Shen Chengfeng.
In the blink of an eye, it is the New Year. Perhaps it is the sound of firecrackers that makes people forget many things, and it is like starting a new chapter in the next year.
All the officials in the capital who were supposed to interact with the Shen family started to do so again.
The three men of the younger generation of the Shen family, along with the younger generations of their family, also began to move around in the various mansions.
"Lord Liu, it's been a long time." Although Shen Yuanxu and others have been back for some time, they have not been in touch with their old friends because they have to settle their families and wait for news from the palace.
Liu Yan replied with a smile as bright as spring breeze: "Even if you don't come, I will still visit you today."
After a few polite greetings, Liu Yanhui welcomed the two people into the house.
"I heard from the children at home that your two children are in the same academy. They also asked us to bring gifts." Shen Yuanxu used the children as an opening remark.
Liu Yanhui smiled and said, "My mother took my wife and children back to her hometown to celebrate the New Year. This year I am the only one in the capital."
Shen Yuanjing: "Then you must be very lonely, why don't you come to my house to celebrate the New Year?"
Liu Yanhui waved her hand and said, "You have finally come back to reunite with your family, how can I disturb you? Besides, His Majesty will be touring the south after the New Year, and as the Minister of Revenue, I will be on duty at the Ministry of Revenue starting tomorrow."
Shen Yuanhao was surprised; "So early?" Tomorrow is only the third day of the New Year.
Liu Yan replied: "We should eat the salary of the emperor and share his worries. These are what we should do as subjects."
During these years away from the capital, they also exchanged letters with their old friends in the capital. But letters are inanimate objects, how can they compare to the feelings of meeting face to face.
It doesn't matter that they are distant from each other now. After they have been in the capital for a long time, their relationship will naturally become the same as before.
Shen Yuanxu intended to win over Liu Yanhui, and his words were all about the past.
"Do you remember Liu Lao Hu?" He kept the question in suspense.
Liu Yanhui naturally remembered.
"Are you talking about Liu Lao Hu, the man who escorted us to exile in Dongchuan?"
When Shen Yuanxu saw that Liu Yanhui remembered it so clearly, he immediately smiled.
"You have a really good memory. I saw him when I went to Beijing this time. He is now on duty at the Beijing Guards."
Liu Yan replied: "Did you say hello to him?"
Shen Yuanxu shook his head: "No, it's been so long, I'm afraid he has forgotten who I am."
Shen Yuanjing sighed: "How many years have passed in a flash, time flies so fast."
Shen Yuanhao: "We were all still young at that time, but now the children are taller than us."
Liu Yan replied: "Thanks to your care at that time, otherwise my family would have died on the road of exile."
Shen Yuanjing: "If you want to thank someone, you should thank His Majesty. Without His Majesty, how could we sit here leisurely and chat over tea?"
"Time flies by so fast..."
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The three of them had lunch at Liu Yanhui's home at noon, and Liu Yanhui also showed them all the treasures he had collected since his exile.
In just the morning, they seemed to have returned to the days when they fought side by side.
On the way back, Shen Yuanxu thought that Shen Yuanjun was Liu Yanhui's brother-in-law. Now that they were back, Shen Yuanjun would probably come back with his wife and children soon.
And Yuan Qing, Yuan Kun, Yuan Peng and others, knowing that they have returned to the capital, can they still sit still?
Shen Lanxi had always thought that after she had issued the order to abolish the rule that Shen family men could not take concubines, the first person to stand up and respond to this rule would be someone who already held power. Unexpectedly, it would be a young man of the next generation.
Just two days after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Hu Jinyu found two beautiful concubines for his son. In other rooms, beautiful maids were stuffed into the rooms of his grown-up sons one after another, just like flowers blooming in bloom. The role of this is self-evident.
The Shen family has changed from a stagnant situation. The entire house is filled with all kinds of fresh and beautiful colors, as if it has been injected with new energy and vitality.
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