Start in exile and use the space to pamper the yandere regent.

Separating the family is currently impossible.

But this did not affect Tao Jinyu, who was in a good mood. After dressing up, he took his daughter-in-law back to the capital and went straight to the most prosperous Chang'an Street to start a happy shopping mode.

Even the excuses are ready. The wife was wronged, and after marrying into the family, she took the initiative to pay tribute to the emperor in order to save the Tao family. Therefore, as a husband, you must make up for one or two.

In this way, Xu Yixuan would be lying if she said she was not moved.

However, Xu Yixuan always felt that there was something a little off. Don't forget, the old lady has only been traveling to Hexi for more than a year. As the eldest son's direct grandson, he had to observe mourning for the old lady of the country for three years. Even if you cut it off, it's only twenty-six months, which is still less than half.

Returning to the capital in such a secret disguise, with such a handle...

"If I don't do this, how can I reassure him?" Tao Jinyu naturally noticed the worries in his daughter-in-law's heart, and one day in the future, when she was lying on the couch in the courtyard with Xu Yixuan, looking up at the stars, she suddenly said this .

Xu Yixuan, who was originally a little drowsy, thought that she had misheard, but when she turned around, she saw Tao Jinyu's deep, ink-like eyes, and the self-mockery that had not disappeared, and she was obviously taken aback.

On an early summer night, the yard was completely silent. Even the noisy crickets and frogs seemed to have been frightened and suddenly stuck in their shells. Only the scent of mugwort, used to repel mosquitoes, lingered faintly around.

But Xu Yixuan couldn't hold it back in the end. She stretched out her hand and pinched her slender cheeks hard, saying dissatisfiedly: "The most contemptuous thing is that you are so self-motivated and despise yourself! If you don't want to, who can force it?" Go ahead! At the end of the day, except that you yourself have poured sewage all over yourself, ruined your reputation, and given a free excuse to the other party, what else is left? If you want something, go for it! If you don’t want it, just go for it earlier! It's okay to give up. Why bother being stuck like this..."

Xu Yixuan had never seen him like this before. Tao Jinyu stayed there for a long time, unable to recover. Finally, he said slowly: "Madam, what you said is true!"

At this moment, Xu Yixuan, who had just sneaked back to the capital, didn't know what would happen in the future. She was half-opening the corner of the car curtain and looking out through the hazy gauze curtain.

Speaking of the years when she was sent back to her ancestral home in Jiangnan by her scumbag father Xu Cifu, Xu Yixuan also sneaked back to the capital many times. Therefore, although I am not very familiar with the capital, I am not unfamiliar either. Especially the most prosperous Chang'an Street, with row upon row of shops, there is really no shortage of strolls.

And this time, although I had known that many things had happened in the capital in the past two years, mainly due to the very subtle relationship between the monarch and his ministers, which made everyone in the capital area feel in danger, they never thought of the impact. It's so big.

Xu Yixuan didn't know whether she should be thankful that not long after leaving Beijing, she asked Bai Su and the others to quickly rent out all the shops on Chang'an Street in the capital. Considering that he would not be able to return to the capital in a short period of time, he chose a long-term lease. The minimum lease period was three years.

Looking at it now, there are only a few pedestrians on the entire Chang'an Street. There are almost no people on the small vendors on both sides of the street, and those shops... In this way, there is nowhere to be seen as bustling and lively as before.

"How...how could this happen?" Xu Yixuan looked back at the "bad old man" sitting next to her with some confusion.

"Surprised?" Tao Jinyu, who had gray messy hair and a face full of age spots and wrinkles, stroked his long beard pretending to be profound.

"Actually, I'm not that surprised. I...I'm just a little curious, old man, where are you going to take me?" Xu Yixuan spoke with a strong local accent. And that voice, both in speed and intonation, sounded like that of an elderly woman.

"I'm not busy, let's go to Zhiweizhai first." Tao Jinyu also changed his accent and speaking speed. Looking at the old posture, he really looked like that.

Speaking of Zhiweizhai, it is one of the best in the capital, a century-old restaurant. It is said that the head chef was once the royal chef of the previous dynasty, and his descendants were even more open-minded, collecting traditional specialties from all over the world, improving and innovating them, and for a time it was highly sought after by the dignitaries in the capital.

When Tao Jinyu brought Xu Yixuan to Zhiweizhai, it was noon, and Zhiweizhai, where there should have been a long queue, was empty. Even without asking specifically, you can roughly understand the cause and effect.

It seems that Emperor Qi Hui is really poor and crazy.

"Shopkeeper, hurry up and call your boss out! I'm just leaving my words here..." Standing at the gate, Xu Yixuan was hesitant because she might not be able to eat Zhiweizhai's specialty dishes this time. , and then heard a very familiar voice coming from the lobby.

And the voice sounded so familiar.

If it's not Xu Yixuan's half-sister Xu Yihan, who is it?

Therefore, it is a coincidence that we met here at Zhiweizhai today, or it may not be a coincidence.

Xu Yixuan turned her head and glanced at the bad old man next to her again, but she didn't expect Tao Jinyu to grin, and her face looked like it had lost several teeth because it was blackened.