Fallen petals cover the ground, magnolias surround the paths.
You could hear a pin drop in the courtyard, and the sunlight slowly fell on his feet. Shen Yan stood with his hands behind his back, listening to Yue Xu's soft voice.
"Your Majesty, Miss Song has a gentle and virtuous temperament. She gave fruit to the naughty boy on the street the other day. I think she likes children. If she has her own child, Miss Song will have someone to care about in the capital."
I won’t miss the Song Mansion all the time.
The autumn wind is bleak, the courtyard is in ruins. The red leaves on the trees are dancing, and the sparse forest is picturesque.
Shen Yan stood with his hands behind his back, his stern face without a single crack. His dark eyes were deep, without any ripples.
After a long while, Yue Xu finally heard Shen Yan's low and hoarse laugh.
"You want Song Lingzhi to have a baby?"
Yue Xu cupped his hands and said respectfully: "Yes, women are usually kind..."
Before he finished speaking, Yue Xu suddenly sensed the unkindness of Shen Yan's words.
On second thought, I thought Shen Yan was just worried that the crown prince's mother was from a merchant family.
He lowered his brows and pondered, "Your Majesty is worried that your eldest son will be born into a merchant family. If that is the case, Your Majesty can also..."
"Yue Xu."
The agarwood beads in his hand turned gently, and Shen Yan turned his head to stare. Against the light, his ink-black eyes were dark and cold.
The corners of his lips curled up with a hint of sarcasm, "Are you... sick?"
Yue Xu was startled, and then he knelt on the ground in panic, bowed his head and confessed his guilt: "Your Majesty, please forgive me, I just..."
The gaze that fell on his face was icy cold. Shen Yan lowered his eyes, and the wooden beads left clear red marks on his fingertips.
He didn't like Song Lingzhi's eyes falling on other people, even if they were their children, Shen Yan didn't like it.
He just wanted Song Lingzhi to have only him in his eyes.
"Don't let me hear such words again in the future. If it happens again..."
Yue Xu hurriedly said: "I dare not."
His long robe brushed aside the sunlight that filled the ground. Shen Yan raised his foot and walked through the ebony corridor with an expressionless face.
With the sunlight shrouding the courtyard, Yue Xu lowered his head and brows until the footsteps by his ears stopped. Then he let out a long sigh of relief, sweating profusely, and stood up with the help of support.
Suddenly, Bai Zhi, dressed in pure white, turned around the moon-shaped door. Looking closely, she saw Yue Xu under the eaves. Bai Zhi, holding the brocade box, walked past Yue Xu without looking away.
Yue Xu bowed and said, "Miss Bai, please stay."
Yue Xu was very familiar with the brocade box in Bai Zhi's hand. It was the mineral that Shen Yan ordered him to collect.
The box full of pink diamonds is sparkling and dazzling.
Bai Zhi frowned and said unkindly, "Commander Yue, is there anything else? The medicine bait our family brought is good, but the ore was sent by His Majesty. Do you want Commander Yue to check it one by one?"
"Miss Bai, you misunderstood." Yue Xu frowned, "I'm just curious, this ore... does Miss Song not like it?"
The garden was silent, with only the light of flowers and shadows of willows.
Bai Zhi lowered her head, her brows still furrowed.
Yue Xu said in a deep voice: "I heard that Miss Song wanted to go to Qin'an Island to buy ore. If you don't like it, I can send someone to..."
Bai Zhi interrupted expressionlessly: "Even if you send another hundred or a thousand people, our girl will not accept the ore you send."
Yue Xu was stunned: "... Why?"
Bai Zhi glared at Yue Xu coldly: "Do you really not understand or are you pretending not to understand? We girls buy ore to make head ornaments so that we can hang them in Duobao Pavilion to do business, not for ourselves."