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Early the next morning, after having breakfast with Niannian, Pei Yi went to General Yunhui's mansion, which is Gongyang Xilin's current mansion.

Hearing the arrival of His Highness the Crown Prince, Gongyang Xilin was very surprised and rushed to greet him, but Pei Yi had already entered the hall, and said with a blank expression, "Si Yu, long time no see, how are you doing?"

Even though the two were close friends, now they are different from each other, Gongyang Xilin bowed his knees and said: "Mr. Gongyang Xilin, see Your Highness the Crown Prince!"

Pei Yi sat down and said in a low voice, "There's no need to be so polite between you and me, just get up and sit down."

"Thank you, Your Highness, the Crown Prince." Gongyang Xilin got up, took a seat next to Pei Yi, and said, "The good news from the front line was only delivered the day before yesterday, so why has His Highness the Crown Prince already returned to Beijing?"

Pei Yi looked at him, and said slowly: "I was thinking about someone in my heart, and I wanted to return home, so I came back one step earlier, but I didn't expect that the person I wanted to see... is no longer in this world."

Gongyang Xilin had already expected what he was going to do. Hearing this, he hurriedly stood up, bowed and said, "His Royal Highness..."

"Needless to say," Pei Yi raised his hand to interrupt him, and said, "I know you're just following orders, and I'm not here today to incriminate my teacher, but I just want to ask you, before he died... Is there anything left to say?"

Lin Xin of Gongyangxi pine loosened, and said, "He never left any words."

Pei Yi said: "Just a few words?"

Gongyang Xilin shook his head and said, "He never said a single word from the beginning to the end."

Pei Yi laughed miserably, and said, "He is truly heartless. I am afraid there is no one in this world who is more heartless than him."

Gongyang Xilin remained silent.

Pei Yi got up, walked to Gongyang Xilin, raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder, sighed slightly, and said, "We haven't had a drink together for a long time, and we have time to go to the Prince's Mansion when we have time, we feel sorry for you." Have a drink."

Gongyang Xilin said: "Yes."

Pei Yi said: "I'm leaving, don't send me off."

After saying that, he walked away, Gongyang Xilin bowed and said, "Respectfully send off His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

When he was far away, Gongyang Xilin got up and looked at his back with an unpredictable expression.

In the afternoon, Pei Yi went to the Shen family's deserted house alone with a jar of ashes in his arms.

He flew up to the roof, grabbed a handful of ashes, threw his hands into the wind, and the wind carried the ashes into the distance.

After one altar of ashes was scattered, he casually threw the ashes down, and the porcelain altar fell into the courtyard and shattered.

Pei Yi stood against the wind.

The wind rolled up his sleeves, making a fluttering sound.

He gazed into the distance.

Adjacent to Guangsha, green tiles and red pavilions, green willows and red catkins.

There are many, many others.

But not the one he loved so much.

Without that person, everything seemed meaningless.

But he believed that, as the years went by, he could always find him.

But the sea of ​​people is so vast, where should he go to find him?

A sigh drifted into the wind, but the person disappeared without a trace, and the courtyard was empty and desolate.

Back at the Prince's Mansion, Pei Yi called Yifeng to him.

Pei Yi said: "How many hidden guards are there in the mansion?"

Yifeng said: "Three hundred."

Pei Yi said, "Where are the dead men?"

Yifeng said: "Two hundred."

"Tomorrow, you will lead the three hundred hidden guards and two hundred dead men to leave Xunyang and look for Shen Jiahe's trace." Pei Yi said: "Everything must be done in secret, and no one must be aware of your actions."

Yifeng was startled, and said: "Your Highness, Shen Jiahe has already..."

He didn't dare to say that word.

Pei Yi said in a deep voice, "He's still alive."

Yifeng was silent for a moment, and said: "But this subordinate has personally inspected the body, so there is no doubt that it is Shen Jiahe."

"I said he lived if he lived," Pei Yi showed an angry face, "I told you to find it and you went to find it. Why are there so many nonsense!"

Yifeng didn't dare to say any more, bowed and said: "Your Majesty made a mistake, please forgive me."

Pei Yi said: "If Mu Guo can't find it, then go to Beilan. If Beilan can't find it, then go to Cangyun. Even if you search the whole world, you must find Shen Jiahe for me."

Yifeng said: "This subordinate obeys orders."

"If you find him, don't disturb him." Pei Yi softened his voice unconsciously, as if frightening someone, and said, "Just protect him secretly and wait for my instructions."

Yifeng said: "Subordinates, please remember."

Pei Yi waved his hands and said, "Go down."

Yifeng bowed and left.

Pei Yi immediately called out, "Come on!"

Jing Wu came in at the sound and said, "What orders does Your Highness have?"

Pei Yi said: "Go and call Concubine Shen."

Jing Wu took the order and left.

About a quarter of an hour later, Shen Luoyu came, and she was about to salute, when Pei Yi said, "Sit down."

Shen Luoyu thanked her and took a seat beside her.

Pei Yi didn't go into details, and said directly: "I said before that if you want to make you the crown princess, you will enter the palace with me tomorrow. I will bring this matter up with my father and the queen. You just need to stay quietly on the sidelines." good."

Shen Luoyu was startled, and said softly: "Yes."

Pei Yi said: "After the canonization ceremony, you send Nian Nian to me. I will raise him personally, and Pei Zhen will be raised by you as usual." He paused, and added: "Take him as my raised by his own son."

No matter how indifferent Shen Luoyu is, she is a woman after all, and women are born with motherhood.

Pei Zhen was the only consolation in her empty life. She raised him with all her heart, and seeing him grow up bit by bit, the joy in her heart was indescribable.But Pei Zhen's life experience always weighed on her heart like an invisible mountain, making her worry all the time, she was not sure how Pei Yi would deal with this innocent baby.Since Pei Yi took the initiative to mention it today, she couldn't help but want to find out what he said.

Shen Luoyu looked at Pei Yi's expression, and said, "Your Highness, I dare to ask, what is your Highness's plan for Pei Zhen?"

Pei Yi looked at her and said, "Why, are you worried that I will kill him?"

Shen Luoyu said: "I don't dare to guess His Highness's mind."

Pei Yi said: "Don't worry, I won't touch him. He is my eldest son and will be my only son in this life. In the future, he will become a prince and emperor. You will also value your mother by virtue of your son and become the most important son in this country." Noble woman."

Shen Luoyu didn't say a word, just looked at him in surprise.

Pei Yiwu smiled to himself and said, "You don't believe me?"

"No..." Shen Luoyu paused, and said, "I just can't figure out why Your Highness would do this."

Pei Yi said: "If you can't figure it out, don't think about it anymore, just do your own thing."

Shen Luoyu bowed her head and said yes.

Pei Yi suddenly remembered something, and said, "By the way, where is the letter that Jiahe left for me? I can't find it anywhere."

Shen Luoyu hesitated for a moment, and said: "The letter was torn up by the emperor."

Pei Yi's expression darkened, and he said, "Understood, you can go down."

Shen Luoyu got up to leave.

Pei Yi sat quietly for a long time and sighed.

On the second day, Pei Yi led Shen Luoyu into the palace.

First, I went to Wei Huijun's Fengyi Palace, but it happened that Pei Muyan was also there, so it was easy.

After saluting and greeting Pei Yi, Wei Huijun called Pei Yi closer, feeling distressed and angry at the same time, and said, "My son has lost so much weight. Now that you're back, why didn't you come to the palace earlier? Mother misses you very much."

Pei Yi obediently admitted his mistake, found any reason to prevaricate it, and stopped talking nonsense, and directly mentioned the matter of conferring Shen Luoyu as the crown princess.

Surprised and angry, Wei Huijun sternly objected, seeing Pei Muyan sitting beside him silently, he said urgently: "Your Majesty, why are you silent? You must not let the prince do anything wrong."

Pei Muyan snorted coldly with a sullen face, and said: "Now his wings are hardened, no one can control him, and I don't bother to control him, so I can make as much trouble as I like, and when I stumble, whoever hurts will know!"

After all, he got up and walked away.

Wei Huijun knew that his son had an idea, as long as he made a decision, no one could stop him.

She sighed, and said to Shen Luoyu who was sitting beside her quietly: "Side concubine Shen, step down for now, I want to have a few words with the prince alone."

Shen Luoyu got up to leave, and all the attendants were also dismissed, leaving only mother and son in the hall.

Wei Huijun took Pei Yi's hand and said, "I heard from your father that you want to sever the father-son relationship with him? Mother knows, it was just a moment of anger on your part, right?"

Pei Yi responded.

Wei Huijun sighed and said: "Flesh and blood, blood is thicker than water, how can you cut it off with a word? Remember, no one in this world will ever love you more than your parents. No matter what we do, It's all for your own good. If you want to blame, you can blame me. If I didn't control you so strictly at the beginning, you wouldn't go astray... But it's not too late to correct it now, the most beautiful woman in the world It's too much, no matter what kind of mother you like, you can find it for you, so you forget about the absurd things in the past, accept a few more concubines, have children, and spread branches and leaves for our Pei family, okay?"

Pei Yi looked at Wei Huijun and said, "Mom, I don't like men, I just like Shen Jiahe. The person I love was killed by my father, so I can't avenge him, can't I even get angry?"

Hearing that he said that he doesn't like men, Wei Huijun felt joy in her heart immediately, suppressed her displeasure, and said repeatedly: "Yes, yes, of course you can be angry with him." She paused slightly, and then said: "But you shouldn't say that. Speaking of severing the relationship between father and son, you don't know how angry your father was when he came back yesterday, it scared me."

Pei Yi was silent for a moment, then said: "When I don't hate him any more, I will make up with him."

Wei Huijun became more and more happy, raised his hand to touch his son's face, and said with a smile, "This is my good son."

Pei Yi said: "The appointment of Shen Luoyu as the Crown Princess, did you agree?"

Wei Huijun hesitated for a moment, and persuaded persuasively: "Today's concubine, tomorrow will be queen. Shen Luoyu comes from a lowly background, how can she take on such a great job?"

Pei Yi argued: "You are also from a commoner background, so you are not a queen now?"

One sentence made Wei Huijun speechless, he was speechless for a while, and then said: "How is it the same, when I married your father, he was just a nobody, and he was in the right family, but you are a prince, how can you appoint a commoner to be the prince concubine? Isn't it embarrassing?"

Pei Yi said: "Establishing a commoner as the crown princess will show the royal demeanor, and teaching the common people to think that we are close to the people and love the people will be of great benefit to us in winning the hearts of the people."

Wei Huijun smiled helplessly, and said: "Okay, I can't argue with you, so you can do whatever you want. But I obeyed you, and you have to obey me."

Pei Yi said, "What's the matter?"

Wei Huijun said: "How can a dignified prince have only one concubine, but also side concubines, talented people, and imperial daughters..."

Before she could finish speaking, Pei Yi interrupted, "Okay, I'll take care of you."

Wei Huijun was pleasantly surprised: "Is this really true?"

Pei Yi said, "Really."

Wei Huijun immediately beamed with joy, and felt more and more that Shen Jiahe really deserved to die, and his son would become normal once he died.She said happily: "Okay, I will ask Qin Tianjian to choose a good day tomorrow, and the Ministry of Rites will prepare for the canonization."

On the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, Shen Luoyu was formally conferred the title of concubine at the canonization ceremony, and was worshiped by all the officials.

Standing on a high place in brocade clothes, she suddenly felt like a dream.

Although the status has changed, the life is still the same.

Nian Nian was sent to Pei Yi's side, and Shen Luoyu took care of Pei Zhen wholeheartedly.Pei Zhen was already one year old and started to toddle and babble.She has regarded him as her own and loves him extremely.

On this day, Shen Luoyu was teaching Pei Zhen to walk in the garden with a few maids, when she suddenly saw Pei Yi walking towards her, she hurriedly bowed and said, "See Your Highness the Crown Prince."

Pei Yi said lightly, "Get up."

Shen Luoyu stood up, and heard a gentle male voice say: "See the princess."

Following the sound, it was Wei Yan!Shen Luoyu was startled, hurriedly calmed down, and said: "There is no need to be too polite."

Wei Yan got up, looked at Pei Zhen who was being held in the arms of the maid with a smile, and said, "In a blink of an eye, the little emperor's grandson has grown so big, he is really carved in powder, so cute." He looked at Pei Yi, and said : "Your Highness, can I hug the little grandson?"

Pei Yi nodded calmly.

Wei Yan stepped forward, reached out and took Pei Zhen from the hand of the maid and hugged her in her arms, but Pei Zhen was not afraid of life, and stretched out her small hand to grab Wei Yan's face, Wei Yan was caught off guard, and a blood mark was caught by him immediately When Zi came, Shen Luoyu was startled, and hurriedly said: "Chengluan, quickly bring Zhenzhen back."

The maid who was holding Pei Zhen immediately stepped forward to take him back, Wei Yan smiled and said, "It's okay, it doesn't hurt."

Pei Yi said: "Hold it down."

Shen Luoyu immediately resigned and led the maids away.

Pei Yi said, "Should I call an imperial physician to give you some medicine?"

Wei Yan smiled and said, "No need."

The two entered a gazebo next to them and sat opposite each other.

Wei Yandao: "Your Highness wrote me to come to Xunyang, what is the reason?"

"I owe you a reward. I asked you to come this time because I want to repay it." Pei Yi said to himself, "Because of the two wars in a row, Mu's internal consumption was serious, which led to the emptiness of the national treasury, which urgently needs to be filled. Now Tie Yang has already belonged to our country Mu, so you are also a citizen of Mu country. Right now, there is a vacancy for the left servant of the Ministry of Commerce. I intend to grant you this official position, and use your business talents to make Mu country's business flourish and fill the treasury as soon as possible. Would you like to?"

Wei Yan knelt and cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your love, I will definitely live up to your highness's trust!"

Pei Yi hurriedly helped him up and said, "I have great confidence in you."

The two looked at each other and smiled, but each had plans in their hearts.

Wei Huijun did what he said, and successively recruited three side concubines, six talented men, and nine court ladies for Pei Yi, all of whom were stunning, and he never refused to come, and they were all brought into the mansion.

Pei Yi has no interest in female sex, but he can't ignore it. If Wei Huijun hears about it, it will be a troublesome matter.

So, he secretly found a skilled craftsman, and made an extremely realistic human-skin-mask. Every now and then, he asked Jing Wu to put on the human-skin-mask to pretend to be him, and go to visit for him. Those women are even exposed to the rain and dew, so as not to be jealous and cause trouble.

Pei Yi devoted all his attention to government affairs.

Rectifying the administration of officials, recruiting talented people, promoting business and benefiting workers, sacrificing taxes and paying less taxes... Before he knew it, he turned himself into a wise and virtuous prince as Shen Jiahe expected, respected by the emperor and respected by all officials. Beloved and admired by all peoples.

But only Pei Yi knew how much he hated himself like this.