When Li Rong heard Pei Wenxuan's "hmm", she knew that Pei Wenxuan was happy. She took Pei Wenxuan's arm and walked forward. The two got on the carriage together. Pei Wenxuan then remembered: "I saw that you seemed to be unhappy just now. What did you say to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

"Chuan'er has decided to choose a concubine." Li Rong sighed, "Actually, this is a good thing. It would be best if he could figure it out. But I don't know why, I always feel a little uncomfortable in my heart."

"What is bothering you, Your Highness?"

Pei Wenxuan poured tea for Li Rong. Li Rong was silent for a moment. She smiled and said, "It's nothing. He is like this now, and everyone is relieved. It couldn't be better. After all, he is the prince." Li Rong looked up at him and smiled, "Isn't he?"

Pei Wenxuan didn't say anything. He didn't seem to want to touch on this topic. He pushed the poured tea to Li Rong and said, "Your Highness, drink some tea to calm down."

Li Rong looked up at Pei Wenxuan's slightly distant expression under the candlelight. She hesitated for a moment, but ultimately said nothing.

The New Year holiday passed quickly. After a few days at home, the entire court started to operate again. On the first day Li Rong returned to the Inspection Office, she heard that the exile team was leaving the city. Li Rong thought about it and suddenly remembered. She turned around and asked Shangguan Ya, "Was Li Feibai sentenced to exile?"

"yes."

Shangguan Ya nodded and asked in surprise, "Why did you suddenly think of this?"

"Let's go." Li Rong stood up and said with a smile, "Let's go see him."

Shangguan Ya was a little surprised that Li Rong would have such an idea. She followed Li Rong out and asked hurriedly, "Why did Your Highness want to go see him?"

"He's a talented person," Li Rong explained. "It would be a shame if we didn't go to see him off."

The two men went out and got on the carriage. After a while, they arrived at the city gate.

At this time, a row of prisoners had gathered at the city gate. They were wearing white prison uniforms, heavy shackles, and wooden shackles around their necks. They were saying goodbye to their relatives.

Everyone was crying in front of the city gate. Only Lu Feibai stood in the crowd. He looked very calm and out of place with his surroundings.

Li Rong and Shangguan Ya walked up to Lu Feibai, and Li Rong greeted him with a smile, "Master Lu."

Luo Feibai responded without saying much. Li Rong looked at the torture instruments on him, turned around, and instructed Shangguan Ya, "Take care of the officers and soldiers escorting them. They should be treated with proper respect, and don't give Master Luo so many things."

Shangguan Ya bowed and retreated. Li Rong turned to look at Lu Feibai. Lu Feibai's expression remained unchanged. Li Rong looked him up and down and said, "From the look of Master Lu, have the people from the Seven Stars Hall already prepared on the way?"

"Why?" When Lu Feibai heard Li Rong mention the Seven Stars Hall, his face finally showed some emotion. "Your Highness thinks that to cut the grass, you have to remove the root, so you come here specially to remove Lu, the root?"

"Master Lu is wrong. I am here to provide you with a way out." Li Rong raised her hand and looked at the folding fan, and said gently, "Master Lu, have you ever thought about becoming an official?"

Feibai frowned, and Li Rong explained to him: "If the Seven Stars Hall kidnaps you this time, it will definitely alarm the court. With my father's temper, an organization like your Seven Stars Hall, which assassinates first and kidnaps later, he will not let you go."

"So what do you want to say?" Luo Feibai stared at Li Rong. Li Rong smiled and said, "I just want to know. We are both killing people and fighting to the death. Are you willing to fight on the battlefield?"

"This time, Master Lu is going there to serve as a conscript."

Li Rong turned her head and looked into the distance: "Exile is different from banishment. Even if they are both sent to remote areas, the exiled people will have no future. However, if the exiled people have military merits, they will have the opportunity to atone for their crimes and hold important positions in the army. If Master Lu is willing, I can cooperate with you. As long as Master Lu has a small merit, I will petition His Majesty to allow you to be included in the Xie family tree, and change from a criminal to a good citizen. In this way, you can make achievements on the battlefield."

"Do you want to escape from here and wander around the world, or do you want to enter the family tree and exchange your life for a better career and a promotion in the officialdom?" Li Rong leaned forward, "Master Lu, make up your mind."

There is actually no choice, and there is no need to choose.

Feibai looked at Li Rong, frowning, with a hint of doubt in his eyes: "Do you dare to believe me?"

After all, this was not the first time he had broken his promise. Last time, he promised to work with her to deal with Xie Lanqing, but he turned around and dealt with Xie Lanqing himself.

Li Rong smiled and said, "I know whether you can believe it or not. Before, you were bound by your mother's will. Now I think you will make the most suitable choice for yourself."

"My choice?" Luo Feibai sneered, "You sentenced me to exile and asked me to make a choice. Is that a choice? Why are you pretending to be a good person here?"

"Master Lu, you are just too depressed," Li Rong stroked the fan in her hand, "You killed me and framed me. I made you a soldier, which was already a generous gesture to you. Now I am providing you with a way out. Shouldn't you be grateful to me?"

"Master Lu has killed many people, so you must be open-minded about grudges. You and I are not enemies. You killed me not because you hate me, and I sentenced you not because I hate you. If that's the case, now that I can provide you with benefits, why don't you become friends with me?"

After Li Rong finished speaking, Lu Feibai did not say much. He was not a fool. After thinking for a moment, he responded and said, "I will follow your orders, Your Highness."

While the two were talking, Shangguan Ya came over and said to Li Rong, "It's all ready. We're still at the door, so it's hard to do anything. Once we're far away and out of Huajing territory, they will remove the torture instruments from him."

Shangguan Ya turned to look at Lu Feibai and said, "You thief, why don't you thank the princess?"

"I'm thanking her, not you," Feibai replied directly, glancing at Shangguan Ya lightly, "What does it have to do with you?"

"You are just like a dog biting Lu Dongbin," Shangguan Ya got angry after hearing what Lu Feibai said, and raised her hand and said, "Give me my leaf card in exchange."

"The southwest is poor and boring," said Feibai slowly, "I won't pay it back."

After saying this, the escorting officers and soldiers came to Li Rong and said with a guilty smile: "Your Highness, this young man has to leave. Why don't you two tell us later."

This was a nice thing to say. Li Rong nodded and let Shangguan Ya appreciate the silver. She raised her hand and gave Lu Feibai a jade pendant engraved with the word "Ping" and said, "Write to me more often in the future."

After Li Rong finished speaking, she led Shangguan Ya back.

As soon as they entered the city, an attendant came over and said to Li Rong, "Your Highness, the prince consort said he can't go back today. Please have your meal by yourself."

"What's up with him?"

Li Rong was a little surprised. Pei Wenxuan rarely didn't go home for dinner, but now he didn't go home for dinner?

"The Prince Consort said he wanted to entertain some dignitaries."

Li Rong frowned when she heard this, but she couldn't lose her temper in front of other people, so she suppressed her anger and planned to go back and ask Pei Wenxuan.

Shangguan Ya was observing Li Rong's expression from the side. As soon as the attendant left, Shangguan Ya touched Li Rong with her shoulder and said, "Are you unhappy that your husband is not eating with you?"

"How come?" Li Rong withdrew his gaze from the departing servant and said, "I was just wondering why he invited other people to a banquet."

"The Ministry of Personnel will finalize the assessment results in February, and announce the personnel transfer list in March, but that list was also finalized in February," Shangguan Ya was very familiar with this, and said immediately, "Officials who want to be transferred are now moving around. The prince consort is inviting guests now, so I guess he wants to transfer."

As she spoke, Shangguan Ya suddenly remembered, "He has been in the position of Supervisory Secretary for a while, right? He is your son-in-law, and he should be promoted after marrying you. He has also worked with you on several cases, so he should be promoted. Why hasn't he made any move yet?"

"The position of the governor is real power," Li Rong explained to Shangguan Ya, "although its rank is not high, it is much more important than those nominal positions. If he is to be transferred, he must be transferred to a place with real power, which is not easy to enter. The emperor must be suppressing him, and when the pressure is enough," Li Rong gestured a squeezing motion, "when he bounces back, he will bounce high."

"Well," Shangguan Ya thought for a moment, "the promotion of the Prince Consort is almost certain, so what is he busy with now?"

Li Rong crossed her arms and folded her arms, thinking about Shangguan Ya's words: "I'm afraid someone is making things difficult for him."

If you are promoted to a certain place by force, others will have many ways to punish you. If Pei Wenxuan wants to be an official with real power, he must have his own party members.

"I'm afraid someone is going to make things difficult for him."

Li Rong murmured, Shangguan Ya glanced at her and couldn't help laughing out loud.

Li Rong looked up in confusion: "What are you laughing at?"

"Your Highness," Shangguan Ya winked at her, "You and your husband, are you in a good relationship now?"

Li Rong heard Shangguan Ya ask this. As they walked on the street and watched people coming and going around them, Li Rong said slowly, "Thanks to you, there has been a change."

"When do you plan to have a baby?"

Shangguan Ya and Li Rong were walking on the street. Li Rong was looking at the rattles shaking on the roadside and was a little dazed when she heard Shangguan Ya ask this question.

She never had children in her life. She didn’t want one when she was young, then she didn’t dare to have one, and finally she couldn’t have one.

To her, children were like an expensive luxury, far away. She heard others talk about them, but except for the first year of her marriage, she never thought about having one.

But now Shangguan Ya talked about it again. She suddenly realized that everything she thought was hard to get in her previous life, including children, now seemed to be within her reach if she stood on tiptoe and worked hard enough.

Li Rong thought about this question seriously. Shangguan Ya saw that she didn't say anything and continued, "Why, you haven't thought about it?"

"I'm telling you the truth," Li Rong looked around, approached Shangguan Ya, and lowered her voice, "We haven't consummated our marriage yet."

Shangguan Ya's eyes widened, and she was a little shocked for a moment, but after thinking for a moment, she calmed down and said steadily: "Your Highness, if you have any questions, you can tell me more."

"It's not a big deal," Li Rong frowned and analyzed seriously, "Actually, I don't care. It's just that Pei Wenxuan..."

"He can't do it?" Shangguan Ya was shocked. Li Rong quickly explained, "He can do it. He is in good health."

"Then?" Shangguan Ya showed a puzzled expression.

He has been married for more than half a year, his health is fine, the woman is willing, their relationship is harmonious, and he can still sit still and keep his composure. Is this the reincarnation of Liuxia Hui?

"He told me this," Li Rong said honestly, "He thinks that relationships should be slow, and he wants to take it step by step with me."

"I understand." Shangguan Ya nodded, revealing a look of understanding, "Your Highness, I know this very well."

"You know?" Li Rong was a little surprised. She turned around and looked at Shangguan Ya. Even she, an old woman who had lived for most of her life, didn't know about this, how could Shangguan Ya know?

"It's clear," Shangguan Ya said very seriously, "You two haven't taken the right steps yet."

"Tell me." Li Rong began to be interested in Shangguan Ya's thoughts. Shangguan Ya and Li Rong walked side by side, and said as if telling fortunes, "Your Highness, in your relationship, it is usually the prince consort who tries to please you, right?"

"Yes." Li Rong admitted frankly, "Usually he is the one who accommodates me."

"Then have you ever given him anything to make him happy?"

"no……"

Li Rong said it out loud, and for some reason, she felt guilty. Shangguan Ya began to analyze it for Li Rong: "So you see, the Prince Consort has hinted so clearly that he thinks that relationships should be developed step by step. Why haven't you slept with each other yet? Because you haven't reached that stage yet. Your Highness, you are willing, which means that the Prince Consort has taken the same steps as him. But if you stay where you are, the Prince Consort will never feel that it is appropriate."

Li Rong tapped her palms with her fan and listened to Shangguan Ya continue: "So, if you want to sleep with him, don't be too reserved. You have to take the initiative, attack, and enter his heart, then you can play with him at your will."

Shangguan Ya said this and made a gesture of clenching her fingers one by one to make a fist.

Li Rong frowned, although she did not quite agree with Shangguan Ya's theory. For example, she felt that Pei Wenxuan's "unwillingness" was more likely due to his feeling that there was a mismatch in their deep feelings.

But there was one thing she cared about.

She cared about what Pei Wenxuan said that day, that she had never coaxed him.

So with a little coaxing from her, he would forgive everything.

In fact, she didn't want this to happen. She didn't know why, but she just wanted Pei Wenxuan to be more unrestrained in front of her.

She asked him to wait for her. She couldn't just leave him there and do nothing.

Li Rong thought about it and made up her mind: "You are right, I have to be nicer to him."

As she spoke, Li Rong made up her mind: "I have to help him with the transfer!"