"It's really not an option to procrastinate on some things like this. It's better to find a way to solve it completely early to avoid future troubles."
Xia Huanyu glanced at Yunshang, the hand holding the chess piece was loosened and tightened, and it took a long time to drop a piece.
"The people are the most important, and the king is the least. I don't want to care about what methods you want to use to fully understand this matter. I just hope that you can put the lives and interests of the people first."
Xia Huanyu lowered his eyes: "As for Xia Houjing, a person who disregards the lives of the people will never be worthy of being a king."
Yun Shang nodded: "Yes."
Xia Huanyu paused for a long time on the chessboard, and then said again: "You said earlier that you and Luo Qingyan suspected that Xia Houjing was hiding in the Cao Mansion?"
"Yes." Yun Shang paused, remembering that Xia Huanyu didn't know the relationship between the current Cao Mansion of Jincheng family and the previous Cao Mansion, and then explained: "The current Cao Mansion is the previous Cao Mansion." A distant branch of the mansion was later supported by Cao Wenxi, and it became what it is today."
Xia Huanyu hummed, she didn't know what she was thinking, and the chess piece in her hand didn't fall down for a long while.
Yun Chang wasn't in a hurry, she just casually played with the chess pieces in her hand, her eyes were lowered, but in a place where Xia Huanyu couldn't see, there was a flash of calculation in her eyes.
Xia Huanyu was going to leave Cao Wenxi before, but they didn't know where to put Cao Wenxi afterwards, but they never heard about Cao Wenxi again.
But she always felt that Xia Huanyu would not really kill Cao Wenxi.
If Cao Wenxi was still alive, she was just hidden by Xia Huanyu...
Yunshang squinted her eyes. She had made it very clear to Xia Huanyu about the current situation. As long as Xia Huanyu had a little understanding of his priorities and still retained his sense of responsibility as a king, he would definitely help them in the future. Cao Wenxi thought of an idea there.
Xia Huanyu didn't mention this again, and only asked casually: "I heard that early this morning, the emperor issued a decree that Jincheng can only leave and not enter, and also promulgated a decree that all the people are soldiers?"
Yun Chang nodded: "There is such a thing, and the concubine has also heard about it."
"Oh? What does the emperor want to do?"
Yun Chang blinked: "I really don't know about this matter, and I only heard about it from the people below this morning."
"The emperor never discussed with you?"
Yun Shang looked blank: "Father was joking, these matters are political affairs. The harem is not allowed to participate in politics, even if His Majesty wants to discuss with his concubine, the concubine would not dare."
Xia Huanyu only sneered softly, and didn't say any more.
After a while, Hua Ling came in with a plate, and put the plate in Yunshang's hand: "I made it myself, tea cake. This is something I learned from outside recently, and tea leaves are ground into powder to make cakes, cakes It has the fragrance of tea leaves, fresh and not greasy, I really like it, try it."
"Thank you, Queen Mother."
Yun Chang took a piece of cake with a smile, Luo Qingyan was also very tacit, and didn't mention those things in advance, just casually said: "You probably haven't played chess for a long time, and your chess skills have regressed a lot .”
"Yes." Yun Chang nodded: "There have been a lot of things recently, and I have slackened a lot in chess."
"This chess skill is like kung fu. If you don't practice for a day, you will know it, and if you don't practice it for a month, your opponent will know it."
Hua Ling glared at Xia Huanyu: "Do you think that everyone is as idle as you and just practice this all day? What's the use of your chess skills being so good? Can you fill your stomach or earn money? "
Xia Huanyu was stunned by Hua Ling, but his eyes became softer: "Isn't this just a casual talk?"
"Okay, don't always ask the emperor and queen to come and play chess with you in the future. They are so busy, how can they have time to do this with you? If you want to play chess, go down with your left hand and right hand."
Xia Huanyu had a smile on his face: "Left hand and right hand? What's the point of that?"
"What do I care about you? I'm too bored to help me water the orchids I planted yesterday."
"Okay, okay." Xia Huanyu shook his head helplessly: "The weather is so cold, and if you want to plant orchids at this time, you might freeze to death. Can't you plant them in spring?"
"I'm happy." Hua Ling glared at Xia Huanyu: "Do you have any comments? Just in time, I also feel that the weather is too cold, and I'm afraid that my orchids will freeze to death. You can find a room and ask Shenghuo to do it." Make it into a greenhouse, move the orchids in."
Xia Huanyu smiled helplessly: "All right."
After Xia Huanyu left, Hua Ling turned to look at Yun Shang.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.
"Don't pay attention to your father, he just has nothing to do all day, so he's flustered." Hua Ling sighed, and sat down where Xia Huanyu had done before: "I've been thinking about Do everything you can to find something for him to do. You don’t know, when he has nothing to do, he likes to toss around, tossing about this and that, it’s really annoying.”
Yun Shang hooked the corners of her mouth: "Some time ago, didn't the father and the mother take the opportunity to go out of the palace to play together? It's fun outside, but is there anything new?"
Hua Ling smiled: "There's nothing new, just walking around."
"But speaking of it, in the past few decades, I have stumbled with him due to various reasons, but it is rare to be able to walk around like this."
Yun Chang nodded, and said with a smile: "Father has nothing to do right now, but I can walk around with you, it's quite interesting outside."
Hua Ling nodded: "By the way, I brought you some things back."
As Hua Ling said, she called the maid and asked the maid to carry a box back: "They are all ordinary gadgets. Wherever I go, I can't help but want to buy something new. I bring specialties from all over the place. A little. Most of what I give you are clothes, fabrics and jewelry, you probably won’t be able to use them in the palace, but if you have time to go out of the palace, you can wear them for fun.”
"Thank you, Empress, if I don't have any important matters on weekdays, and I don't need to meet any important people, I can dress more casually, and I should be able to wear them."
Yun Shang returned to the Tai Chi Hall from the Queen Mother's Palace, and opened the box.
As soon as Luo Qingyan entered the door, he saw Yunshang squatting in front of the box and looking for it, with a look of interest.
Luo Qingyan raised his eyebrows, stopped the movements of the palace servants who wanted to tell, quietly walked behind Yun Chang and stood still, his eyes fell on the box.
After watching for a while, Luo Qingyan said, "What is this?"
Yun Chang turned around, looked at Luo and said lightly: "The gift that the empress dowager brought back for me when she went out to play in the palace."
Yun Shang stood up: "Your Majesty, take a look at the things inside, maybe you can see something?"