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Wang Jinhe turned to look at the person beside her, her expression serious and solemn. “I want to become stronger, so that these people can’t cause trouble for me.”
“Alright, I’ll help you.” Su Yu looked at Wang Jinhe’s serious expression and suddenly nodded with a smile.
As long as it was something Wang Jinhe wanted to do, Su Yu would agree to everything.
“Let’s go, let’s take Xiao Bao to play first, and then we’ll discuss what to do later when we get back.” Su Yu embraced Wang Jinhe and took Xiao Bao to the temple fair. Meanwhile, Xie Yang returned to where she was staying and ordered someone to investigate Wang Jinhe.
“Find out the identity of that woman and who her enemies are,” Xie Yang coldly instructed.
“Yes, Miss.”
Wang Jinhe had no idea that because of this incident, she and Xiao Bao had been exposed early on the Su family’s side. At this moment, she was walking with Su Yu and Xiao Bao on the gradually bustling street.
Under the night sky, the lights on the street gradually lit up. Looking at the brightly lit lanterns, Wang Jinhe also began to curiously look around.
In the modern era, she had also seen lantern festivals, even more magnificent than this, but she always felt that the lantern festivals at that time were not as good as they are now.
This antique lantern festival had a different charm.
“Daddy, look at the bunny lantern.” Xiao Bao excitedly pointed to a rabbit lantern not far away.
Seeing Xiao Bao so happy, Su Yu walked over with him to buy the lantern.
After buying the lantern, Wang Jinhe asked Su Yu to put Xiao Bao down, not allowing him to be carried like that. What if his hair accidentally caught fire?
“This is too dangerous, we can’t do this.” Seeing Su Yu wanting to say something, Wang Jinhe frowned, looking very serious.
Su Yu lifted Xiao Bao down and held him with one hand. “With your mother here, we can’t walk like this.”
“Daddy will take me in the future.” After strolling all afternoon and seeing everything he needed to see, his mother was right. It would be very dangerous to carry a lantern while sitting on Daddy’s shoulders.
“Okay.”
The family of three walked like an ordinary family. Occasionally, after Wang Jinhe and Xiao Bao successfully guessed lantern riddles to win prizes, Su Yu would also guess lantern riddles to win gifts for the two of them.
It wasn’t until Xiao Bao got tired that Su Yu and Wang Jinhe led the way back with their entourage.
By the time they returned, the others had already gone back.
“Big brother, there’s something I want to talk to you about.” Su Yu immediately spoke when she saw Su Jiu had returned.
“What is it?” Su Jiu looked at Su Yu with curiosity.
It was the first time his younger brother had told him something like this.
“Let’s go to the study to talk. Jinhe, come to the study after putting Xiao Bao to sleep.” Su Yu looked at Wang Jinhe, who was about to take Xiao Bao to bed.
Wang Jinhe’s steps paused for a moment, then she nodded with a smile. “Alright, I’ll come over in a while.”
Seeing this, Su Jiu looked at Su Yu and then at Wang Jinhe. “What’s going on with you two?”
“Let’s go to the study first.” Su Yu didn’t answer Su Jiu’s question but led the way to the study with her entourage.
When Wang Jinhe arrived, Su Yu told Su Jiu about the encounter with Xie Yang.
“Are you worried now that she might ask Xie Chen to seek an imperial decree for a marriage?” Su Jiu finally understood what Su Yu wanted to say after listening for a while.
Su Yu nodded gently. “Yes, that’s why we want to ask Big Brother if it would be effective for her to send Xie Chen to see the Emperor.”
Su Jiu smiled and shook his head. “I can tell you directly that it won’t work. You should know that Xie Chen’s daughter is the Emperor’s concubine and has already given birth to a son. Because of this imperial prince, the Xie family has thoughts it shouldn’t have. Concubine Ling Gui has been mentioning her son intentionally or unintentionally in front of the Emperor, making him unhappy.”
“It seems to be because the Empress has only given birth to one princess,” Su Yu said, furrowing her brow.
“Xiao Yu, the Empress is already six months pregnant, and the Emperor is looking forward to this child. He told me that if the Empress gives birth to a prince this time, he will undoubtedly be the crown prince in the future.” Su Jiu told Su Yu some things he shouldn’t have.
Su Yu looked at Su Jiu in surprise. The Empress was pregnant.
“I haven’t heard anyone talk about it outside.”
“That’s intentional on the Emperor’s part. He even told the palace concubines not to pay respects to the Empress. Even the person checking the Empress’s pulse for her safety is someone absolutely loyal to the Emperor.” Su Jiu looked at Su Yu and said with a smile.
As soon as Su Jiu reminded her, Su Yu understood what was going on.
“Is the Emperor planning to announce it only when the Empress is about to give birth?”
“Yes, to prevent any interference from Concubine Ling Gui.”
Su Yu suddenly understood. The Emperor is currently dissatisfied with the Xie family, and he certainly won’t help them. Moreover, with their family’s tradition and her engagement already settled, the Xie family has even less chance.
“Xiao Yu, I’ll be heading back the day after tomorrow. Prepare the wine tomorrow.” Su Jiu looked at Su Yu and said.
“The Emperor gave you a month and a half, didn’t he? It’s still early.” Su Yu frowned, not wanting Su Jiu to return so quickly.
Su Jiu smiled and shook his head. “These few days are enough. I’m not at ease with Xie Yang’s matter. Xuan Xuan and I have endured a lot in our marriage issues, and I don’t want you to go through the same. I hope you can do what you want, at least be happy in your marriage.”
“Big brother, thank you.” Su Yu didn’t know what else to say for a moment and could only express a feeble thank you.
“Don’t thank me. I’m waiting for you to bring Xiao He and Xiao Bao back. Because of Xie Yang, it might be hard to keep this from them. After going back, I’ll talk to Uncle about this matter.” It’s better for the Su family to know first than to hear it from someone else later.
“Okay.” Su Yu was still somewhat worried about Yang Shanshan. After being scolded by his grandfather this time, he didn’t know if she would hold a grudge against him.
But even if she did, he didn’t care. He had long passed the age of caring about such things.
Looking at Su Yu like this, Su Jiu reached out and patted his shoulder. “If it weren’t for things on Xiao He’s side, I really want you to bring her back during the New Year, and then you two could quickly get married.”
“That’s the proper way to go about it.”
“Let’s see what Xiao He thinks when the time comes,” Su Yu shook his head.
“What do you mean, see what I think?” Wang Jinhe came over and heard Su Yu saying this, immediately asking.
“Big brother was talking about the matter of getting married.”
Wang Jinhe thought for a moment and said, “Let’s wait until the end of next year.”
Su Yu smiled, “Okay, agreed.”
“Agreed.”
Seeing his younger brother so happy, Su Jiu felt pleased.
“As for Xie Yang’s matter, you two can rest assured. With me around, no one dares to interfere with your marriage. Moreover, there’s still Grandpa Su and Grandfather Yang.” Although Yang Zhenwei was a stern old man, in the past few days of getting along, he had completely fallen in love with Xiao Bao. He pampered Xiao Bao even more than Grandpa did.
If Yang Shanshan dared to make a move, Grandfather would be the first to disagree.
“Big brother, thank you.”