Chapter 222: Setting Out to Quell the Rebellion
She slowly opened her eyes and said as if nothing had happened, "What are you looking at? I'm going to sleep."
The other person just stared at her and murmured, "Beautiful!"
"I just said..." Before he started to speak, the young lady covered his mouth with her hand.
"I don't want to listen." Shen Shuyao said bluntly.
A burst of men's laughter immediately rang out from the bedroom.
"What a naive little girl!"
"My husband didn't know that you had such a lovely side. You looked gentle and smooth before, but in fact you were full of edges and corners." Xiao Mo sighed.
Not knowing what he was thinking of, he hugged the person in his arms tighter.
Chen Shuyao was shocked when she heard what the other party said. She had always thought that she had disguised herself well.
Those self-esteems that are pieced together by force and those unknown vulnerabilities are actually invisible to some people.
Both of them sighed in their hearts and slowly fell asleep without saying anything more.
Speaking of the court, the civil and military officials witnessed the emperor fainting the day before and thought that no one would preside over the morning court the next day. However, Zhu Hongyuan came anyway, and earlier than all of them.
The emperor looked normal except that he looked pale.
At the morning court session that day, the first decree he issued was to order Xiao Mo to lead an army of 100,000 to Nanyang Prefecture at noon the next day.
After receiving the order, Xiao Mo went directly to the camp outside Beijing to inspect the troops and prepare for tomorrow's expedition.
Wuming returned home first and brought the news to Old Madam Xiao.
It was still early, and all the female members of the Songhe Hall were present.
When the old lady heard this, she just said she understood.
Wang was worried about her son. Zhu Ruilin had won the support of most people in Henan Province. Ren Shenglai and his 100,000-strong army were trapped there, and his life or death was uncertain.
The emperor was so good that he issued an edict as soon as he had a quarrel with his lips.
Now that the situation has become a mess, she thinks of her son. Why didn't she send Mo'er when the situation was not so complicated before?
Chen Shuyao was shocked when she heard this, and suddenly remembered what the man said when he stroked her belly that day, "I'm worried that the days ahead will be very turbulent."
Before Xiao Mo went to the southern border, Chen Shuyao was still cousin Xu in the mansion, so the worries in her heart were not that deep. After he left, she even felt like she had escaped death.
But now, she felt deeply worried.
Chen Shuyao unconsciously rubbed her belly. When she looked up, she saw everyone looking at her, so she could only smile as if nothing had happened.
Wang came over and took her hand. "It's okay, Yaoyao, you have to believe in Mo'er. Mother believes in him too. Your father has been at the border all year round. Mother always felt that she couldn't make it, but after so many years, look! We are still alive and well."
Chen Shuyao looked at her mother-in-law and couldn't help feeling sad. How could Wang Shi, as a mother, feel good at this moment? Yet she turned around and comforted her.
Next, even though the others were trying to change the topic to other things, the three women in Songhe Hall who were close to Xiao Mo were a little listless.
After sitting for a while, the old lady said to Shen Shuyao, "Go back and prepare first! Please help pack the clothes that Mo'er may need on the road."
After Shen Shuyao left, both Chen and Liu left with their daughters-in-law.
Wang and her mother-in-law remained silent.
Xiao Mo didn't return home until Tiancamo. He first went to Songhe Hall to see his grandmother. Coincidentally, his mother Wang was there too, so he didn't have to run back and forth.
Xiao Mo knelt down solemnly and kowtowed three times before saying, "Mo'er will not come tomorrow. I will leave directly for the palace. Please take care of yourselves, grandmother and mother."
The old lady stood up and helped her beloved grandson to his feet. She then patted his shoulders and said, "Good boy! The situation is complicated now. Your opponent is no longer just an enemy. You must carefully consider what to do. Do your best in everything. Always remember that we are waiting for you at the mansion: me, your mother, and your wife and children. Don't worry about Yaoyao. Grandmother will help you take good care of her."
Xiao Mo nodded solemnly, and then heard the old lady say, "Go back! You two should have a good talk."
When Xiao Mo arrived at Yan Yutang, Chen Shuyao had not yet had dinner.
"Husband!" she stood up and called out, then asked Huixiang to set the table.
Although the two have been married for a while, Chen Shuyao is shy and rarely calls her husband.
Perhaps because he was leaving tomorrow, the two of them would soon be separated, and he was thinking about the unpredictable situation of life and death on the battlefield.
Shen Shuyao's heart was no longer worried for a moment. She called out, but when she saw the man looking at her, she felt a little embarrassed.
Xiao Mo looked at his blushing wife, and after leading her to sit down at the table, he said gently, "Call me again!"
Chen Shuyao chuckled and called out again in a tender voice. Her soft Wu dialect really made the man in front of her tremble with heart.
Seeing that he was looking straight at her, she said softly, "I heard from Wuying that you haven't had dinner yet. I've been waiting for a while."
Xiao Mo looked at her, his expression quite moved: "Ever since the emperor issued this decree, your husband has been feeling uncomfortable all day, but now I feel it's worth it."
"My husband didn't know that our Yao'er could be so deadly when she was gentle." He paused, then stroked Chen Shuyao's belly and said, "Actually, you can eat first."
"Yes, I ate something, but I'm not too hungry." Chen Shuyao said with a raised lip corner.
"That's good." After the man said that, the dishes were served on the table one by one.
Chen Shuyao picked up some for him several times and deliberately didn't ask the kitchen to cook venison today.
But when the man held her in his arms at night, the presence of that place was still impossible to ignore.
Chen Shuyao had no choice but to take the initiative once.
Afterwards, both the husband and wife were unable to sleep.
Xiao Mo embraced his wife and whispered about their plans after they parted. "I've left Wuming here. There are four or five hundred guards in the mansion. If there's any emergency while I'm gone, you can deploy them at will."
"Do you still remember the picture of the cat in Jiyunzhai?"
"I've hung them all on the wall. There are many of them. Find the one I painted on the lantern that day, take it down, and knock on the wall. You'll see a tunnel. There's a fairly large space inside, filled with food and other simple living supplies, enough to feed everyone in the mansion for a month. The tunnel's exit is in an unremarkable shop on Zouma Street."
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