"Your Majesty." Chen Ning strongly pretended to be calm and called out.

The emperor seemed to wake up from a dream, raised his body and waved to a cup of tea. After drinking it, he said to Chen Tai: "Aiqing Chen, please step down first."

Chen Tai vaguely knew that this "daughter" was favored by the emperor and almost everything was taken by himself. He glanced at Chen Ning again and said he would leave.

After Chen Tai left, Dong Yuheng asked her to sit down and asked the palace maid to prepare a hand stove for her.

Chen Ning sat upright and lowered his head, his mind was complicated.

The emperor did not speak for a long time, and just watched her sit down with her hand stove.

The imperial study room was extremely quiet, so quiet that it was a bit shocking.

"You..." After a long time, when the emperor spoke, everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but not Chen Ning.

"What do you think?" Dong Yuheng spoke in a low voice and asked helplessly.

Chen Ning looked up, "What do you say about Your Majesty?"

"Why don't you want to distinguish a relative?"

"The Chen Mansion is not my family." Chen Ning lowered his eyes, "I have a weird thing, which is the most shameful thing. Once the Shen family knows the truth, Mrs. Chen will be so heartbroken, how disappointed the rest of the people, how sad I am, how sad I am when I think of these, I don't want to go."

"Are you so sure?" Dong Yuheng looked at her, "If you were really the daughter of the Shen family..."

"That's not to be recognized. I am a widow who has lost her husband and is known as a star of the destruction. If I am really a daughter of the Shen family, if I defeat my father and mother in the future, wouldn't it be hard to speak?" Chen Ning felt that he was walking further and further on the road of nonsense.

Emperor Guangde ruled the world with filial piety. On weekdays, he was most unheard of words that violated filial piety. At the least, he would stumble, or execute him at the worst. Before Chen Ning came, he had heard Chen Tai report some evidence. Seeing that his words were convincing, he felt a little thoughtful. It can be seen that Chen Ning was so rebellious that he was unwilling to recognize his relatives, and his brows had already frowned. However, her self-deprecating words suddenly made him forget everything else. He felt that he was talking nonsense and was speechless. He couldn't help but shout: "Don't talk nonsense!"

"I know my guilt." Chen Ning immediately lowered his eyebrows and said softly.

"Filial piety is the first priority for all virtues. Since you are afraid that you will be the daughter of the Shen family, you will not recognize him?" Dong Yuheng said a little harshly.

"For children, you should put your parents first. How dare you harm your parents with foul spirit? I only think that the fate has ended more than 20 years ago and will repay the great kindness of raising children in the next life." Chen Ning remembered her biological parents. Could it be that she really had to meet the two elders in the next life? She couldn't help but feel sore, and she was choked with tears in her words.

Dong Yuheng raised his arm lightly, but let it go lightly. When he wanted to get up, he turned to his side again, and felt a little bored in his chest.

"Your Majesty," Chen Ning knelt down, "I am here in Changyang, and my prosperity is fascinating. The world is changing strangely. I am a civilian woman. I am afraid. I beg Your Majesty to allow me to return to Zhongzhou. I should live in seclusion and stay with my husband forever and stay with the lonely lamp for the rest of my life."

The fragility in the words made Wanfu feel a little unbearable.

"stand up."

"Please agree with your Majesty." Chen Ning bowed again.

The slender big hands clasped the handrail of the dragon head. The emperor looked at the kneeling woman gloomyly, got up for a long time and walked to her, and helped her up in person.

The force on her arm actually made Chen Ning feel a little painful. She looked up at the handsome emperor in front of her. Her secret eyes were determined, and she suddenly felt ominous.

When Chen Ning stood in front of him, the big palm still had not left. Dong Yuheng looked at her and said slowly, "You don't want to distinguish your relatives from blood. Although there are absurd words, you are still filial. Let's not talk about it for the time being. I... am happy to play chess with you, so you live in the house I gave you, and don't mention it again in Zhongzhou in the future."

He actually wanted her to stay in Changyang! Chen Ning couldn't believe it, "But Your Majesty, I need to worship my husband and be filial to my parents-in-law..."

Dong Yuheng waved his hand, "Then he did a ritual to attract his soul! Now you are already in charge of your imperial decree, and it is inappropriate to serve the civilian in-laws," his voice was impatient, "And, monarch, minister, do you still need me to tell me which one is more important?"

Chen Ning was still trying to speak, but was interrupted by him, "Go down."

Chen Ning froze in the original place, Wan Fu said, "Madam Li, Your Majesty asks you to kneel down."

He actually left her in Changyang with such a domineering reason? Chen Ning was incredible and didn't know how to refute her. She knelt down till she was ruthless, but she heard him say, "How is it going to be that kind of decent for your brother-in-law to ask your brother-in-law to take some clothes back to Changzhou tomorrow. How can it be for the widowed sister-in-law to live in the same room with her brother-in-law!"

Chen Ning couldn't bear it anymore, "Although I lost my husband, I also have a family and a house. So how can I be just a widow staying alone in Changyang!"

Dong Yuheng didn't expect her to retort, and glared at her for a moment and said, "Then you will find a family with blood to find a family?"

Is he threatening her? Chen Ning gritted his teeth and really wanted to say that if it weren't for you, I would let me go back to Zhongzhou! But after opening her mouth, she still held back. She didn't have the courage to take the risk of taking such a long list of relatives. She suppressed her anger and said word by word: "I will leave, long live my emperor." You are such a monster!

Seeing her frustrated look, Dong Yuheng's anger disappeared in an instant. He was amused, but he still had a stern face, "Get out quickly!"

Wanfu did not come to his senses until Chen Ning walked out. Was Mrs. Li just now... was quarreling with Your Majesty? She was so bold that she was not afraid that Your Majesty would be dragged out to behead her if she punished her disrespectful crime? And Your Majesty... also let her talk back?

However, Chen Ning and Wan Fu didn't know that Emperor Guangde didn't want to talk to her at all. He just wanted to press her on the desk and let him ravage him. He cried and begged for mercy.

He sat back on the dragon chaise and closed his eyes, enduring this torture with joy.

The emperor never thought of letting Chen Ning leave Changyang? He was invisible and unhappy, but he was inexplicably bored and did not want her to leave his sight. He understood more than anyone else that this woman could not want. This was a chaste widow he personally conferred as a harem. If he forced her to take her into the harem, he would not only be ridiculed by the people's wife, but also the moral behavior of her regulated women will be destroyed by the fact that she is different. Even if the woman has a low position, she must be subject to the rules and regulations to protect her forever. There are many beauties in the world, so why should he suffer just because a widow destroys his plan to govern the country?

The emperor slowly let out a breath of turbid air. He just kept it there, just watch, just think. He thought gloomyly.

Li Zixuan left for Zhongzhou early the next morning - it was a bit unreasonable, but it was indeed the emperor's oral order, and he had to obey. Before leaving, his worries were written on his face.

Chen Ning understood what he was worried about, and chuckled twice, advising him not to worry, maybe he could go home before and after the New Year.

Li Zixuan then left the guard Mao Da and left.

Chen Ning was like an animal hibernating and dormant, and even the gate of the Li Mansion never stepped out. The Shen family should have received the emperor's order and no longer disturbed easily. Sometimes she would not give up and even let her sick posts come. There were also some messy visits, both of which were high and small officials, but she refused them one by one. The strangest thing was the invitation from Prince Cheng's concubine. She thought to herself that she was running up to die? She smiled and burned the post.

In contrast, the imperial city seemed extremely calm. From then on to the end of the year, she did not step into the palace.

Time flies, and the map of plum blossoms is stamped on the cold-relieving map, and it is the New Year again.

The street market in Changyang is very lively. The most prosperous Luoma Street, Panxing Street, and the area outside the gate of the Dongsong Gate of the Zhou Dynasty are all decorated with colorful sheds, paving various New Year's goods, and people are constantly traveling with cars and horses. Because according to the customs of the Jing Dynasty, large shops will be closed for half a month from the beginning of the first lunar month, and small shops will also be closed from the first lunar month to the fifth lunar month. Therefore, there is no way to buy things on the street for the first five days of the New Year. All households were busy purchasing some goods before the New Year, and at the same time they also wanted to have a festive and lively atmosphere.

In contrast, Zhuque Street seemed a bit cold. Mao Da drove through an inconspicuous carriage slowly. When he reached a corner, he stopped slowly and said to the master inside through the thick curtain: "Young Master, Master He is here."

A rich young man wearing a red embroidered colorful Xiangwen paired cotton jacket stuck his head out, and his eyebrows were pretty and quite pleasing. It was Chen Ning who disguised himself as a man. Because except for the two servants in the mansion, the two servants left by Mao Da and Li Zixuan, were all given to the palace, Chen Ning did not want to have any troubles, so he stayed quietly at home for a while, leaving only gold and silver next to him every day. The others were sent by her to do other things in order to wait for a good opportunity to sneak out. It was a great opportunity to buy New Year's goods these two days ago, so she instructed Mao Da to buy New Year's goods the day before yesterday and "carried" herself out.

She wanted to continue looking for clues about Shou Shi Teng. The Spring Festival is approaching and her mind is restless. She naively hopes to go home before the Spring Festival.

The day before yesterday, I walked around Zhuque Street but didn't see the pattern of the divine bird. When I was about to change the place, I accidentally saw a painter staring at the vermilion gate of a official's house in the corner, and Mao Da went to take a look. Seeing that he was painting the same as Shi Teng on the door, she thought about it and had a little idea. She knocked on it and knew that he really had a lot of research on Shi Teng.

The painter's original surname is He, and he was a scholar of Guangde for six years. Unfortunately, he would not have the chance to take the exam again, let alone join the emperor. After several struggles, He Sheng was unwilling to accept it, so he tried his best to gain appreciation through different ways and racked his brains to come up with a way to include the Jing Chao clan Teng's collection of Jin Xian. His hometown was in Huizhou, so he collected the wealthy families of various prefectures and counties along the Changyang Road, and made a living by selling calligraphy and paintings in the middle. It had been more than two years.

Chen Ning spent some talent and talked with him happily. During this period, he also funded some rice, flour, silver and rice in a way that was not hurtful. Yesterday, Zuodong and others went to the restaurant to drink and chat, which became his "close friend". Then, while he was talking loudly, he spread out the sacred bird scroll of flowers and films to him. He Sheng looked at it for a moment and said that he had seen Shi Teng where he wanted to look back at home.

Chen Ning couldn't help but feel happy. He had a "lunch break" early today. When he got off the carriage, he saw He Sheng still painting. He knew that he was the least pleased and disturbed, so he stood aside and waited.

He Sheng looked at her, nodded and ignored her.

After waiting for half an hour, the wind and snow had just passed yesterday, and the snow melted was getting colder. Chen Ning rubbed his hands and jumped around, and he admired his perseverance very much.

The painter finally stopped writing, Chen Ning diligently packed up the debris for him, and handed him his tube to keep him warm.

He Sheng took it without hesitation, stuffed his hands into the fox's tube, and sighed, "It's getting colder and colder this day, and I'm afraid I can't paint in a few days."

"Since that's the case, Brother He will take a few days off."

He Sheng shook his head, "How can you know that time is endless..." If he drags on, when will he win fame and glorify his ancestors?

Chen Ning smiled foolishly and said, "I have prepared a pot of thin wine in the car. Why would you rather move two cups of small oxen to remove the cold?"

"You are very thoughtful." He Sheng nodded with satisfaction and walked with her towards the carriage in the corner alley.

Mao Da was waiting by the horse. When he saw his master coming, he quickly took out the warm wine in the hull.

He Sheng walked up to him and said, "I have a carriage today, Brother Li, why don't you and I drink in the carriage, and I also take it to you and I to take it to you?" Although he was asking, he regarded himself as a brother.

Chen Ning was stunned and said, "The car is narrow, please come into the wing to rest. I will sit outside and see Brother He off for a ride."

He Sheng thought about it, but did not refuse. He got on the carriage, smelled a faint fragrance of a woman, and frowned secretly.

"By the way, Brother He, did you know what I asked yesterday? "
Chapter completed!