Eat the whole family? I emptied the storehouse of the Marquis' Mansion and married the crippled

Just as Jiang Heng expected, Xiao Mo was obviously impatient after seeing Liang Zhiyun crying, and his brows were slightly furrowed.

"Zhiyun, don't think too much. I don't have any other intentions. Go and rest first."

"Yes, Your Majesty, you should also go to bed early. Staying up late is harmful to your health."

Liang Zhiyun was also a person with good eyesight. She saw that Xiao Mo had no patience to quit while he was ahead, so she left quickly.

However, she did not really go back to sleep, but kept waiting. She wanted to see whether Xiao Mo would drink the eight-treasure porridge she gave him.

The result was very disappointing. Xiao Mo was sent out by the palace maid without even drinking a single sip of the eight-treasure porridge.

In the room, Jiang Heng saw Liang Zhiyun go out, and then he looked at Xiao Mo with great concern.

"Has the Emperor mentioned the matter of Miss Liang to the Empress?"

"I have already sent a pigeon to tell Jintang about this."

Speaking of Ye Jintang, Xiao Mo was filled with guilt. He came to Tanquzhou in a hurry and left without explaining many things in the court clearly. He just left a mess behind and ran away.

Now Ye Jintang is being criticized by many people for his reign, and he feels very uncomfortable.

However, seeing how she dealt with it, he was very relieved. The woman that Xiao Mo liked was indeed extraordinary. Those old ministers had no chance of bullying his wife by taking advantage of their seniority.

Especially the former Minister of Works Bai Hanyi. When Ye Jintang dismissed him from his post, he did not make any trouble. If he had not left honestly at that time, what would have awaited him would not have been just dismissal, but also possible confiscation of his property.

A big reason for the Qujiang River bursting its dike was that there were problems with the construction of the Qujiang River dike. The country allocates a large sum of money every year to repair the dike. It was good enough that he did not add additional responsibilities to Bai Hanyi and let him retire and return home.

"Your Majesty, you need to clear up the rumors out there. They are getting more and more outrageous lately."

"It doesn't matter. The common people have nothing to do after dinner. Let them say whatever they want. I won't lose a piece of meat. If there is anything new later, they will pay attention to other things and I won't spread it."

"If we force them not to speak, it will only make things worse, and make things that didn't happen seem more credible."

Xiao Mo and Jiang Heng chatted for a while, and they were not in the mood to think about the flood anymore, so they simply went to bed early.

But for some reason, he dreamed that Ye Jintang turned into a golden phoenix, chasing him and pecking him all night long. When he woke up the next day, he felt completely exhausted.

At this moment, Xiao Mo had no idea that the carrier pigeon letter he wrote to Ye Jintang the first time he met Liang Zhiyun had not actually reached Ye Jintang's hands.

His carrier pigeon was caught and cooked before it even flew out of Tanquzhou.

As for the secret letter he wrote to Ye Jintang, he simply destroyed it and threw it into the wilderness.

In the secret letter, Xiao Mo told Ye Jintang that he met a girl in Tanquzhou. The girl had a birthmark the size of a grain of rice on her earlobe. His mother's younger sister, who was born to him, also had an identical birthmark in the same position.

There are many strange things in the world, but having the same birthmark in the same place is too coincidental. Moreover, when he asked the girl's age, it was the same as his sister.

He now has a bold idea that his sister was not dead that year, but someone deliberately made his sister fake her death in order to make his mother sad.

Xiao Mo also said in the letter that he would bring the person back to the palace and the matter must be investigated thoroughly.

He had already explained everything clearly in his mind, and the pigeon letter Ye Jintang sent him later did not mention this matter again. He just thought that Ye Jintang already knew about it, so he did not mention it again.

Little did she know that Ye Jintang had not received the secret letter, and she was suffering because of Liang Zhiyun's matter.

Xiao Mo had been away for several months and had been missing Ye Jintang and the two children terribly. Especially after winter came, he was always worried about whether they would be cold or sick in the capital.

The more he thought about it, the more eager he was to return to the capital. The tasks that would have taken more than half a month to complete in Suiqian Prefecture were compressed into 8 days. When things were almost done, he immediately led his men back to the capital.

Sailing against the current all the way north, Xiao Mo's heart was in great torment, and the longing could sometimes be very tormenting.

"Your Majesty, this is a letter from the Emperor."

Luzhu entered the house holding a small bamboo tube.

The room was very warm because of the floor heating, and the three children were playing on the kang.

"Ah."

Ye Jintang reached out to take the bamboo tube and looked at it quickly.

"My lady, is the Emperor coming back?"

"Your guess is quite right, you clever little fellow. The Emperor has already sailed north and will be back in the palace before the winter solstice."

"Oh? By water? Isn't it frozen over Jiangnan? Can we still take a boat?"

Lu Zhu said this out of pure curiosity. Winter came early in the capital this year, and the canals in the suburbs have already frozen.

"The temperature in the south is always warmer than here, and water transportation is much faster than land transportation."

It's also more comfortable.

If you travel by land in a horse-drawn carriage, even the best official road will be extremely bumpy, but taking a boat will be much better. The wind is not strong in this season, so the boat will not be bumpy.

It seems that Xiao Mo is quite caring.

Ye Jintang casually handed the letter to Luzhu and asked her to keep it. She continued to play with the children and didn't care much about when Xiao Mo would come back.

As perceptive as Luzhu is, she has sensed in recent times that Ye Jintang doesn't seem to care much about Xiao Mo's letters.

In the past, she was extremely happy every time Xiao Mo came to send a letter by carrier pigeon.

Ye Jintang's behavior made Luzhu very worried. Could it be that the conflict between them was because of that vixen named Liang Zhiyun?

Luzhu wanted to persuade Ye Jintang, but as an unmarried girl, it was not easy for her to tell Ye Jintang about these things.

So she went to find Nanny Zhang again and asked her to persuade her that Xiao Mo would be returning to the capital soon and she must not be angry with Xiao Mo because of Liang Zhiyun's matter.

"Lüzhu, you have been with the queen for such a long time, don't you know her well enough? We can't persuade her about this matter."

"what?"

Luzhu was a little dumbfounded.

"You, why don't you understand? If the emperor really has something with Liang Zhiyun, the queen will definitely not tolerate her. Then maybe we will follow the queen and leave the palace together."

"The Queen is just like that. It's useless for us to persuade her."

Lu Zhu thought so too. Ye Jintang had a strong personality. If Xiao Mo really took Liang Zhiyun as his concubine, she would rather die than live in disgrace and would leave in a very cool manner.

"Ah, why did Liang Zhiyun suddenly appear out of nowhere?"

Nanny Zhang also sighed. They had only lived a few years of good life, and now it was like this.

Xiao Mo traveled all the way north, sometimes by boat and sometimes by carriage. He hardly rested on the way, traveling day and night just hoping to return to the capital a few days earlier.

He sat in the carriage, looking at the towering city gates of the capital from afar, wishing he could fly back to the palace immediately.

He suddenly understood what the four words "homesickness" meant.