After a moment's silence, Xia Huanyu sighed slightly and said, "Yes, I did it on purpose. I just knew about Cao Wenxi's matter at that time. She used some means to secretly support Xia Houjing. In order to cut off her thoughts, I did like this. But even so, although Xia Houjing is not my biological son, he has grown up around me. The so-called favor is not all fake. If Xia Houjing behaves well, I won't stop spoiling him, but he is similar to his mother in character."
"In that case, why didn't father tell us directly? In this way, we couldn't have been suspicious for no reason." Luo Qingyan turned to look at the waves on the lake.
Xia Huanyu smiled and said, "First, it's really hard to tell others about it, and I believe I can solve it with my own efforts. Second, after you entered the palace, the Empress was close to Cao Wenxi. Her suspicion of me was more or less shown in front of Cao Wenxi, which could affect her judgment. Cao Wenxi is a very smart woman. If I tell you the truth, I'm afraid the Empress can't do so well in front of her."
"Tomorrow..." Luo Qingyan asked.
Xia Huanyu waved his hand and said, "You don't need to worry about what will happen tomorrow. You just need to rest assured that I will never hurt you."
What Luo Qingyan was worried about was not this. After thinking for a while, he sighed slightly, stood up, bowed to Xia Huanyu, turned around and walked out of the pavilion.
"Express my thanks to the Empress." Xia Huanyu's voice came from behind with a little embarrassment. Luo Qingyan turned to look at Xia Huanyu in confusion, "Express your thanks to Shang'er? Why do you thank her?"
Xia Huanyu lowered his head and smiled, "You can ask her. She is indeed a good wife, but if she really can't get pregnant anymore, I won't agree anyway."
Luo Qingyan frowned and said coldly, "If father insists, I won't agree you either." Then Luo Qingyan turned around and left without looking back.
When she returned to Weiyang Palace, Yun Shang was sitting on the couch in the inner hall, with an embroidery stick in one hand and an embroidery needle in the other. She was looking at the needles shuttling back and forth in Qin Yi's hand, frowning and distressed.
Luo Qingyan couldn't help laughing, "Oh, I didn't see the sun rising from the west just now."
Qin Yi stood up in a hurry and bowed, but Yun Shang just snorted and put the embroidery aside. She curled her lips and said, "I can use silver needle, and it's easy to kill people with this silver needle. But why is it so difficult to embroider?"
Luo Qingyan sat down beside her with a smile. He looked at the needle and thread that were entangled together at her hand and couldn't help laughing. "Why do you suddenly learn embroidery?"
Yun Shang rolled her eyes and sighed, "Nothing. I just want to do it because I haven't embroidered clothes or a sachet for Bao'er. But I didn't expect it to be so difficult."
Qin Yi bent down to put away the needle and thread in Yun Shang's hand, and sorted them out carefully. She smiled at Yun Shang and said, "Here, it's untied. Your majesty will do better after some practice." "Put it aside. I'll do it whenever I have nothing else to do." Yun Shang waved her hand and said casually.
Qin Yi put it beside Yun Shang again.
Luo Qingyan raised his eyebrows, "What's this? I do need a sachet."
Yun Shang raised her eyes and glared at him, "I've never seen you wear a sachet before, and I've indeed seen a warrior wearing a sachet. Presumably, I think it's inconvenient to move when wearing it."
"That's because I have been in the battlefield all year round. Now I could wear one in the palace." Luo Qingyan murmured.
Standing aside, Qin Yi couldn't help but laugh. She bowed to the two and left.
Luo Qingyan put his arm around Yun Shang's shoulder and looked at Yun Shang's side face. "Just now, Xia Huanyu asked me to express his thanks to you, but I don't know what you have done and why he said so."
Yun Shang's hand, which was about to hold the teacup, paused for a moment. She took it back and said indifferently, "It's not a big deal. Before Liu Yinfeng went to Yang Liu Town, I overheard some old stories with him. Those old things have nothing to do with us, so I gave him a favor. But now, it seems that although he said he was grateful, what he did is... " Yun Shang shook her head with obvious dislike.
Luo Qingyan lowered his eyes, lost in thought. After a while, he asked, "What the old stories?"
Yun Shang didn't know why Luo Qingyan cared about it so much, so she said softly, "Liu Yinfeng said that Xia Chun wrote a letter and asked Liu Yinfeng to hand it over to Xia Huanyu when he knew that he didn't have much time left. However, after Xia Chun gave the letter to Liu Yinfeng, he seemed to regret, so he asked Liu Yinfeng to wait. He put the letter somewhere in the old house in Yang Liu Town. The last time he went back to the town, he thought of this, so he opened the letter and read it. It said that Xia Chun had entrusted Xia Huanyu with the throne. The last time he went to Yang Liu Town, it should be after the Liu clan's fall. Although he read the content of the letter, he felt uncomfortable because of the matter of the Liu clan, so he did not bring it back to the Jin city."
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