Chapter 185: Marry a Wife and Forget Your Mother? New Year's Eve is Here
"Lu Shenyan?"
Su Huai'en took the letter and heard the name. He thought for a while before remembering who it was.
Isn’t that the poor scholar who was beaten to a pulp by the major general in Yunhe Tower before?
When Su Huai'en mentioned him, his eyes were full of contempt: "I heard that this person has been ordered by the emperor to be banned from taking the imperial examinations for life, and he will never be employed in the court."
Xie Yao's eyes flashed with coldness: "He will never be employed by the court, but only be prevented from entering the government. He can still struggle."
"I don't want him to be temporarily destitute, but to be unable to recover completely."
According to Lu Shenyan's ambition, even if he could not enter the officialdom, he could still rely on others and become a staff member and lackey of the powerful, trying every means to climb up and continue to stir up trouble.
Shielding the arrow for Marquis Anping was the starting point of his rapid rise to prominence in his previous life.
In this life, she wanted him to know about the assassination in advance.
He was asked to block the arrow for Marquis Anping as he did in his previous life, but afterwards, he got nothing!
No, not nothing either...
Su Huai'en put the letter away and rolled his eyes: "I understand, I will definitely get things done."
"There's one more thing." Xie Yao changed the subject and softened her tone.
"Go and deliver a message to the general, asking him to help track down the whereabouts of Madam Jingning, the mother of Prince Jingbei."
Su Huai'en: "Madam Jingning? She is not..."
"Two years ago, Madam Jingning was abducted by the Western Rong people in the battle of Qijiang. I guess she most likely escaped on her own, and the Western Rong people took a detour back. If Madam Jingning is still alive, she might have drifted to the northern border." Xie Yao explained.
Su Huai'en chose to trust her judgment: "I will immediately send a message to the general."
After finishing his business, he looked at the Major General with a more teasing tone.
"Major General, when you got married, the Grand General wrote to me and asked about you and Prince Jingbei. He said that after the Major General returned to the capital, he never contacted him once, thinking that he had forgotten his master after getting married. Now that he knew you were looking for a mother for Prince Jingbei, he must have felt even more sad that the Major General had forgotten his mother after marrying a wife."
Xie Yao drew her sword: "...Whoever gets married is my mother? Who taught you this allegorical saying?"
Su Huai'en chuckled, got on his horse, and went to complete the task she had assigned him.
Xie Yao looked at his back, lowered her eyes, and thought to herself that she had not contacted her master for a long time.
In her previous life, she voluntarily gave up everything in the border army, thinking she was free and easy, but she never thought about how her master and her comrades in the border army felt.
She calmed herself down and decided to write another letter to greet her master.
Xie Yao and Rendong rode the same horse to Chengyuan for the first time.
On the way, she saw a dense forest of red fruits, with no one picking the red fruits and covered with fallen snow.
She picked a basket and soon arrived at Chengyuan.
In the main hall, Prince Jingbei, sitting in a wheelchair, was holding an embroidery frame and embroidering something with his head down.
"Mother-in-law, please look, this needs to be hooked back." he said.
Xu Susu watched carefully from the side: "So this is how butterflies are embroidered. Thank you Yizhi for telling me."
The prince smiled slightly, and the frost on his body melted away: "It's not difficult. I embroidered a sachet for the princess a few days ago, but the princess likes to dress simply, so she didn't wear it."
Xie Yao had just stepped into the main hall when she heard these words and inexplicably heard a hint of resentment.
"I'll wear it! I'll wear it when I get back!" she shouted hurriedly.
The prince raised the corners of his lips, and his peach blossom eyes became deeper.
Xie Yao stared at his face for a while before coming back to her senses. Suddenly, she remembered Su Huai'en's words: Young General Kai married a wife and forgot his mother.
Who said that? She hasn't forgotten her mother.
Three days later, it was New Year’s Eve.
In the early morning, light snow was falling in the capital city, and the carriage of Prince Jingbei's Mansion was once again traveling on the familiar road.
Inside the carriage were the prince and princess who had just paid their respects to Old Madam Xiao. They decided to go to Chengyuan to meet Xu Susu.
Outside the carriage, Bai Zhu changed into new clothes, followed by a team of royal guards.
Bai Mi, who usually guards the prince, is missing today.
When the carriage reached East Street, Xie Yao lifted the curtain and her eyes fell on Yunhe Tower.
There were red lanterns hanging at the entrance of the restaurant, and several waiters were sweeping the snow. Because it was New Year's Eve, everyone was busy reuniting with their families, so there were not many customers inside.
Everything seemed normal, but Xie Yao could sense a hidden hostility.
Bai Zhu took the initiative to speak: "Princess, the shopkeeper of Yunhe Tower just reported that several Western Rong people had come to the private room on the second floor. However, the Marquis of Anping and his wife have not yet appeared."
Before this, Xie Yao had already told the prince about her plan.
"It's still early," Xie Yao retracted her gaze, her tone revealing a hint of regret, "It's a pity that we have to go to Chengyuan and won't be able to see this wonderful show."
She really wanted to see with her own eyes what it looked like when Lu Shenyan rushed forward to block the arrow for Marquis Anping and was shot by an arrow.
If an accident happens in this life and the assassin's arrow goes astray, it doesn't matter.
White mulberry will help replenish arrows.
When the palace's carriage arrived at Chengyuan, Xu Susu, wearing a newly made royal blue dress and a rabbit fur collared cloak, stood at the door waiting for a long time.
Seeing them, she narrowed her eyes and said, "Ayao, Yizhi, come in quickly."
Bai Zhu laid the wooden planks, and Xie Yao pushed the prince out of the car. Suddenly, she said, "Hey, the sachet the prince gave me fell into the car. I'll go back and get it."
Soon, she came out of the carriage again.
When pushing Xiao Yizi to the door, Xie Yao was stunned.
I don’t know when my mother removed the threshold of Chengyuan’s gate.
"A little to the left, too much, right, right, wrong, go back left again."
Xie Yan was standing outside the main hall door, directing Sang Ruo Puwei to paste Spring Festival couplets.
When he saw Xie Yao, he immediately stepped forward, his eyes bright and clear: "Sister!"
Xie Yao raised her eyebrows: "Why are you here?"
Xie Yan: "What's the point of staying at the Xie family? It's better to stay here with mother. My sister is here too."
Xie Yao and Xu Susu looked at each other, and both mother and daughter guessed that Xie Yan must have come here secretly.
Sure enough, when the family sat down to have lunch, two servants from the Bo Mansion came to take him back.
"Young master, today is New Year's Eve. According to the rules, the master's family must go to the ancestral hall to burn incense and worship their ancestors. You are the master's only legitimate son, so you must go back." The servant said earnestly.
Xie Yan rolled his eyes: "The ancestral hall has been burned down, what's the point of burning incense?"
One of the servants was Xie Yan's new servant, who was loyal to him.
He said awkwardly, "But if you weren't here, Uncle would have asked Aunt Sun to come out, and maybe he would have wanted to give the baby in her belly a certificate to the clan."
Xie Yan’s eyes turned cold.
His mother was the wife of the Earl of Wenchang, and he and his sister were legitimate sons and daughters. His mother could be disdainful of it, but others could not pretend that it did not exist.
"Then go back. I'll accompany father. Okay, okay, respect, incense," Xie Yan said with a mischievous smile. He quickly stuffed two dumplings into his mouth and stood up. "But I can't spend New Year's Eve with my sister, mother, and the prince."
Xie Yao said, "Today, there is a New Year's Eve banquet in the palace. Mother is a second-rank imperial lady, so she should attend the banquet. We will just have lunch with her and then go to the palace together in the evening."
Xie Yan: "I heard that the prince has never attended palace banquets since... the prince never attends palace banquets."
Xiao Yizi said calmly, "This year marks the first time my mother-in-law has entered the palace, and it's also the first year that I've married the princess. How can I not accompany my mother-in-law and princess to the palace?"
Xie Yan had nothing to say and left with the people from the Bo Mansion.
It was almost time. Xie Yao pushed Xiao Yizi, and Xu Susu also changed into the attire of a noble lady entering the palace. Bai Zhu and others held umbrellas for them as they walked to the gate. The carriage of the palace was already ready.
At this time, a woman in a green shirt and holding an umbrella came to Chengyuan to ask for a meeting.
Xie Yao recognized that the woman was Huaixia, the maidservant of the eldest princess.
Huaixia knelt and saluted: "Greetings to the prince and princess, Madam Xu."
"My Highness is also going to the palace for a banquet today. He has invited the Princess and Madam Xu to ride in the carriage and enter the palace together."
As they were speaking, the eldest princess's carriage arrived outside Cheng Garden, and the eunuch Shuangxi also saluted the three of them.
The eldest princess lifted the curtain of the carriage, revealing her pale and beautiful face. She looked at Xie Yao with a smile in her eyes: "Come up."
Xie Yao and Xu Susu obeyed respectfully and got into the princess's car.
The prince watched his princess go up without stopping her, and let Bai Zhu push him back into his car.
The structure of King Jingbei's carriage is different from that of ordinary carriages. There are cushioned seats on both sides, and the back is empty to accommodate a wheelchair.
He was sitting in the wheelchair as usual, but out of the corner of his eye he saw two more books on the side table.
Xiao Yizi picked up the book and found a note underneath.
It was written in Xie Yao's handwriting, elegant yet graceful. It said, "I am chatting with my mother. If Your Highness is bored, you can read a book to relieve your boredom."
He remembered that after Xie Yao got off the car, she went back and forth. She must have gone back specifically to put the book on the side table.
The slight sense of loss in Xiao Yizi's heart disappeared. He raised the corners of his lips and opened a book "History of Yan". Suddenly, his pupils shook.
The cover is "History of Yan", and the content is...
A new storybook with erotic pictures.
Princess, are you hinting at something?
The prince took a deep breath and studied it carefully.
At the same time.
Lu Shenyan was huddled in a corner of East Street, staring at Yunhe Tower.
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