Duan Changchuan then chatted with Bai Su about many things, including about how he asked Xiao Ba to come and guard the city gate today, but he found the carriage that the prince and his wife used to sneak out of the city.
Xiao Ba went to the Prime Minister's Mansion to investigate and found out that they were going to be sent to Huainan.
Alpha laughed with confidence, saying that no matter what these people wanted to do, there was nothing to be afraid of.
After discussing political affairs, Duan Changchuan showed Bai Su his belly through the gauze curtain and chattered a lot about the baby's recent condition.
Before we knew it, we were chatting until it was almost dark.
The setting sun was dim, and the lights in the house were extremely dim.
The person behind the gauze curtain spoke slowly: "Okay, it's too late, you should go back and rest. Are you hungry? Feng Yan should have asked someone to prepare a meal for you, go and have a meal with Yun Xie, and after dinner, go back to the palace to rest early, because you have to set off early tomorrow morning."
The young man sat in the dim light, with his head lowered in silence.
He wanted to say: I'm not hungry... Not only am I not hungry, but now I always feel like vomiting when I smell the food. It seems that my period is coming soon, and I really need you.
But I also know clearly that I can't say these.
[Duan Changchuan, you are an Omega, but you are also a man, a gentleman, and an emperor.]
[Don't let your sister worry. ]
He said this silently to himself, stood up, and hurriedly took two steps forward.
His fingertips fell on the gauze curtain in front of him... He remembered what Bai Su had told him, and couldn't help but retract his finger.
"elder sister… "
"Be good, go ahead. See you in seven days, okay?"
He nodded heavily and let out a soft, "Okay."
Then he walked out the door step by step.
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Outside, a young man dressed like a butterfly was pulling Feng Xian's sleeve and calling her in a sticky voice:
"Auntie, please don't ignore me..."
"Aunt, I know I was wrong, can I kneel down for you?"
As he said this, he bent his knees and was about to kneel down.
He was helped up and said, "Didn't I tell you that you and I are now partners and will be married in the future? Don't kneel down to me at every turn."
"Aunt, you are not angry anymore, right..."
"Of course I'm angry."
The young man's face immediately fell: "Ah... ? What should I do... What should I do to make you calm down... I promise, I will never do it again, really! From now on, whatever my aunt says is what I will listen to! I will never act on my own again, can you forgive me for this time..."
Feng Yan's complexion improved a little, and he touched his cheek and said, "Go and have dinner with His Majesty first. I will come back to see you after I have finished discussing matters with the Empress."
"Okay, then after I send His Majesty back to the Mingsheng Palace, I will go back to my room and wait for my aunt."
"Um."
The two people are sticky.
Duan Changchuan silently shifted his gaze elsewhere, said "I'll go next door first", and then went out silently.
…
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Duan Changchuan had dinner at the Sitianjian, and then returned to the Mingsheng Temple accompanied by Yun Xie.
We will set off for the mountain resort to escape the summer heat tomorrow. Everything that needs to be prepared has been prepared in advance, so there is nothing to do tonight.
Duan Changchuan went to bed after taking a shower.
There was only a dim candlelight in the room, and after lying in bed for a while, his consciousness became blurred.
It was a dream.
A very real dream.
Seven days passed in a flash, but Duan Changchuan did not go to the villa, and Bai Su was still in the small courtyard of the Sitianjian.
The room was filled with smoke, the aroma of burning atractylodes and mugwort.
"elder sister… "
He took a step forward, touched the front of the tent, and called her softly.
Then I heard my sister's gentle voice from inside, saying, "Well, baby."
The curtains at the back slowly opened by themselves, revealing a woman in a graceful red dress sitting dignifiedly beside the bed.
She smiled and nodded at him, saying, "Come here."
He immediately trotted over.
"I told you not to run away so many times, but you didn't listen."
The Alpha said, pulling him into a hug... gently stroking his hair with his fingertips.
"Sister..." He whispered, "I miss you so much, I really miss you..."
Miss her, miss her especially...
Even if my whole body curled up in her arms, I still missed her.
But the person holding him didn't make any unnecessary movements.
No kissing, no touching of skin.
Even later, I didn't even touch his hair.
"Wow... Sister."
He clutched her sleeve tightly and sobbed softly.
"You touch me... You touch me, it's not good..."
But the scenes in the dream disappeared in an instant.
When he opened his eyes, he found that Bai Su's bright red dress was pressing on him. He was curled up in the quilt, which wrinkled his clothes.
When I drew aside the gauze curtain beside the bed, I found that day had already come outside the window.
Looking at the time, it was already the hour of Mao.
There was a knock on the door, and Changle's voice came: "Your Majesty, are you awake? Zhang Dehai came last night, but since you were asleep, I didn't call him. He waited in the Mingsheng Palace all night."
Duan Changchuan hurriedly rubbed his swollen neck, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and got up in a hurry.
He spoke with a slightly hoarse voice: "Tell him to go to the study and wait for me."
"yes."
So, the young man who was sobbing in the bedroom and hugging a piece of clothes for a hug in the last second, was wearing a bright yellow dragon robe and sitting in the study with a calm expression.
"What is it?"
"Reporting to your Majesty, the Empress sent a message to me and Miss Jin'er last night, asking me and Miss Jin'er to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to recruit a white prime minister after your Majesty leaves the palace. The Empress wrote a letter for you to explain the whole story, and asked me to bring it here to see what you think."
Duan Changchuan gestured to Changle, and the young eunuch immediately handed over the letter.
I unfolded the letter and found only a few paragraphs:
[I heard from your majesty that the regent sent the prince and his wife to Huainan, and Prime Minister Bai got angry because of this. I discussed with Miss Xing and felt that now was the perfect time to win over Prime Minister Bai. So I sent a message to Nangong Jin'er and Zhang Dehai overnight, saying that they should "sneak" to the Prime Minister's residence to recruit him while they were at the villa.
If I am not mistaken, the regent sent the prince and his wife out of the city, firstly to gain a good reputation for governing the country, and secondly to seize the credit of "Bai's daughter" and replace her with the daughter of the prime minister.
Yun Xie and Miss Xing have already started to spread the story of "Bai's daughter" from Huainan. This news will reach Shengjing within seven days. As I am Bai's daughter and I am pregnant, we should persuade Prime Minister Bai to surrender. It is better to do it sooner rather than later. We can seize the initiative to gain the upper hand. What do you think, Your Majesty? ]
After the young man finished reading the letter, he looked at the eunuchs kneeling below and said, "What did the Queen tell you? Tell me."
"Reporting to Your Majesty, the Queen said that if Your Majesty agrees to this, I will take advantage of the chaos to sneak out of the palace with Miss Jin'er today. Prime Minister Bai has been trying to win me over in recent years, so it is not difficult for me to meet him. The Queen meant to order Miss Jin'er to influence him with the love of children, and then win him over with political interests. Since there is interest involved, and he has a legitimate reason to submit to Your Majesty, it should not be wrong. The Queen said that she has discussed it with you, and promised Prime Minister Bai that if he can help Your Majesty to monopolize the imperial power, he can keep his position as Prime Minister and recognize his status as a national soldier."
Duan Changchuan took a jade token directly from the drawer and handed it to Changle: "It's approved. The Queen is still in the cold palace now. If someone from her palace comes forward to persuade Bai Xiang, it may arouse suspicion. Take my jade pendant and let him dispel his doubts."
"yes."
"Go ahead. If it works, remember to have someone pass the message to Changle."
Zhang Dehai held up the jade pendant with both hands, stepped back, kowtowed deeply, and said, "I will definitely live up to your expectations."