When Zi'an arrived, the craftsmen were already carrying bricks inside.
Boss Dao was also helping to move bricks. When he saw Zi'an coming, he wiped the sweat off his forehead and smiled, "The young lady is back?"
Xiaosun smiled and said, "Now you should call me princess."
"Princess!" Boss Dao chuckled, looking a little embarrassed.
Zi'an took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat off his face. "Are you tired?"
"It's not tiring. There's work to do, great!" Dao Lao Da has been idle these days, and he feels uneasy. He always thinks that he has meat to eat for every meal but has no work to do, and he feels guilty towards Zi'an and the county lord.
"Remain rested." Zi'an said, "Where's mother?"
"Reading in the wooden house." said Boss Dao.
Zi'an walked over and saw her reading in the wooden house. When she saw Zi'an coming, she smiled and said, "You're back?"
"Well, yes, where is Chen Linglong?"
Yuan Cuiyu pointed to the elegant room and said, "He will be detained there temporarily."
"What is mother going to do with her?" Zi'an meant to kill her so as to avoid her eyes getting angry.
Yuan Cuiyu put down the book, "What do you think?"
Zi'an said, "I don't think it's necessary to keep her. This kind of woman will be a disaster sooner or later."
Yuan Cuiyu hummed, but she had her own opinion, "Killing her is useless, Zi'an can't come back, so let's keep her."
Zi'an found it hard to accept, "Keep her? Mother means that we have to support her?"
"I ordered someone to make a cage for her, and she will live in the cage from now on. In addition, I plan to move the tablets of the Xia family's ancestors to the elegant room. In the future, if Chen Linglong dies, she will also be placed on a tablet and become Madam Xia."
Zi'an immediately understood what Yuan Cuiyu meant. She wanted all the ancestors of the Xia family to watch Chen Linglong every day, and Chen Linglong would also become Xia Huaijun's wife. The murderer who had an affair and killed the bloodline of the Xia family would become the wife of the Xia family.
This has always been Chen Linglong's wish, hasn't it? She has always longed to become a lady.
It really makes more sense than just killing her.
Seeing that Zi'an remained silent, Yuan Cuiyu thought that she objected, so she sighed softly, "Actually, I also want to kill her, but she is still Linlin's mother."
Thinking of Xia Lin, Zi'an felt uncomfortable. "She doesn't really love Lin Lin. She hasn't even asked about Lin Lin since the incident. In her mind, Lin Lin has no value."
"Linlin is simple, he doesn't think so much. He just thinks that Chen Linglong is his biological mother, and he has to listen to her. Outsiders told Linlin that I am his biological mother, so he respects me. Zi'an, you have watched Linlin grow up since he was a child, you don't know how well-behaved this child is, you can't bear to make him sad at all."
Zi'an actually understood that in those cold and indifferent times, even the slightest bit of kindness would be something that one would never forget for a lifetime.
It was just like that day when she was locked outside the prime minister's residence and it was Guiyuan who gave her water and steamed buns. She could never forget this kindness.
Linlin is simple-minded and has given hope and laughter to the disheartened Yuan Cuiyu, so she always remembers Linlin's kindness.
She said, "Mother, you can do whatever you want. She is your enemy, and you have the right to decide how to deal with her."
Zi'an looked at her and always felt that she had other reasons.
Yuan Cuiyu picked up the book and sat down quietly. In fact, Zi'an's guess was correct, there was another very important reason.
That is, Chen Linglong died, and she seemed to have lost the purpose of living.
She had been holding on just for revenge, and now she could kill Chen Linglong with one knife, but what would she do after that
The heart becomes empty.
Prince Murong Qiao was naturally the one who killed Zi'an, but she knew that Murong Qiao was not someone she could touch, so she simply kept Chen Linglong to deceive herself.
Zi'an glanced at Chen Linglong at the door. She was curled up in the cage, looking very miserable. She probably never thought that she would end up like this.
Seeing Zi'an, she suddenly raised her head and kowtowed to him without even thinking, "Miss, Miss, please, let me go, let me go."
Zi'an recalled that day when she was sitting on a chair in front of the porch in the yard, with a vicious look on her face, and she was so eager to put the original owner to death.
In just a few months, everything turned around.
There is really no need to kill her.
Zian thought so before leaving.
The prime minister's residence began to be rebuilt. After the reconstruction, it would no longer be the prime minister's residence. Zi'an asked Yuan Cuiyu what kind of plaque to hang. Yuan Cuiyu thought for a while and said, "Let's call it Tingyu Pavilion."
A mansion, with a changed name of a courtyard, but Zi'an understood what she meant. From now on, she only wanted to live a life of lying in bed at night listening to the wind and rain, and no longer worry about worldly affairs.
In a blink of an eye, two months passed.
During these two months, Zi'an and Murong Jie lived a very peaceful life, and everyone was doing well, as if everything in the capital had calmed down.
However, the capital city is not always calm. All the calm is just a brewing storm.
On the third day of November, the Queen issued an edict, summoning Pan Dan and Nanny Yang back to the palace.
The Queen no longer trusts Nanny Yang, so Zi'an naturally knows what will happen to Nanny Yang after she returns to the palace.
So, the next day after Nanny Yang returned to the palace, Zi'an went to the palace to see the queen.
During these two months, as the Regent Princess, she had visited the palace several times to pay her respects. Of course, she mainly paid her respects to the Empress Dowager. She had also visited the Empress, but the Empress obviously did not like to see her and always sent her away on the grounds that she was not feeling well.
Zi'an first went to pay his respects to the Empress Dowager, chatted with her for a while, and then went to Jingning Palace.
This time, the queen did not make excuses, but summoned her in.
Zi'an took Xiaosun and walked on the clean and smooth white stone floor of Jingning Palace. The floor was so shiny that you could see your own reflection. She lowered her head and could almost see her own reflection.
The queen sat on a high seat in the main hall, just like when Zi'an first entered the palace to meet the emperor, high and mighty and arrogant.
Nanny Yang was standing beside her. Zi'an saw several finger marks on her face and his heart sank slightly.
"Greetings to Her Majesty the Queen!" Zi'an stepped forward to pay her respects.
The queen looked at her and suddenly smiled. That smile came so easily, as if just a curl of the corners of her mouth turned into a warm smile.
"Zi'an, you don't have to be so polite. We are a family now. Come and sit down!"
Zi'an bowed, walked over and sat down, "Thank you, Madam!"
"Why don't you call me Empress Dowager just like the Seventh Prince? It's too formal to call me Empress Dowager!" said the Queen with a smile.
Zi'an knew, however, that Murong Jie seldom called her "Imperial Sister-in-law" and always addressed her as "Empress Dowager".
"Yes!" Zi'an replied.
When the Queen saw Zi'an sitting down, she said to Nanny Yang, "Why don't you go and make some tea? You've been out of the palace for a few months and you don't even know how to serve people."
Her voice was extremely harsh and sarcastic, as if she was speaking to Zi'an.
Nanny Yang bowed and said, "Yes, I will go right away."
She hurried out, and when she passed by Zi'an, she gave him a look, meaning that Zi'an should not stand up for her.
The two had been through hardships for months and had developed a spiritual consensus. They could tell what the other wanted to say with just a glance.
(End of this chapter)