Dressed as a villain's stepmother, I use spiritual springs to raise cubs

The next morning.

While Mo Che was still asleep, Xia Bai'an had already woken up early because of a hangover and a headache.

It was just before dawn outside the window, when it was getting dark.

She caught a glimpse of Mo Che in a deep sleep, but she didn't care about the fact that she was taken back to the new mansion. She only felt that the smell of alcohol on her body was a bit unpleasant. She raised her hand and took some spices from the space and threw them into the smoker, lit them. Just got up and changed clothes.

Mo Che opened his eyes in the darkness, and he could see Xia Bai'an changing clothes through a screen.

I lost a lot of weight.

If we say that when he first married into the Mo family, Xia Bai'an still had some flesh on his body, but now he only looks at his back, the narrow shoulders and waist are too thin to hold, and the two slender legs are too thin.

The white shadow swayed only for a while, Xia Bai'an had already changed into the clothes prepared by the maid, and pressed them on the belt with her fingertips. She naturally walked around the screen, and unexpectedly saw the dowry in front of Mo Che's stage.

She laughed: "I don't know who ordered the arrangement in this room, but put the dowry of the girl's house here."

However, they are all their own things, so there is no need to use them for nothing.

She opened the dowry, picked out two pieces of jewelry, and ordered the servants outside to deliver the post to the palace for the empress dowager's pulse, and at the same time ordered the kitchen to make something to relieve the hangover.

Wait until she's done with this and leave the room.

Only then did Mo Che slowly get up from the bed, looking at the dowry on the table, his eyes were slightly cold.

"What a stupid woman."

This dowry was naturally prepared for Xia Bai'an.

But Xia Bai'an didn't know it.

She went to the kitchen to eat two cakes on her own, and then went to the palace in a carriage.

The sky turned pale, and the Emperor's greeting to the Empress Dowager should have come to an end. She had just bid farewell to Tao Ji from the imperial hospital, walked to the Empress Dowager's hall, and handed the note to her.

The Empress Dowager leaned lazily on the soft couch, her eyes were still slightly sullen, and she didn't answer the note.

On the other hand, Nurse Mingxin took the note and put it on the case, and walked over to rub the forehead of the Queen Mother.

"The emperor's concerns are not unreasonable. Several tribes outside the frontier were slaughtered one after another. The ones who are close to that side are King Li besides King An."

Li Wang?

Xia Bai'an remembered that Concubine De Gui seemed to have mentioned this person before, so she just listened with her head down.

The Empress Dowager was impatient: "King Li is an ambitious wolf. I have indulged him for so many years, but I don't see him knowing how to advance or retreat. It is only natural for the emperor to move him. But it is fine to trap him in the capital. Why do you have to trap Chen'er here too! I'm afraid not I want to take Chen'er together by solving Li Wang..."

"The empress dowager, the emperor is benevolent, how could he do anything to his brothers. Moreover, His Royal Highness Wang An has always kept himself safe, and the things he did before were only for the food of the people in the fiefdom. After the emperor found out, he did not confront each other again. Hurry up."

Nanny Mingxin consoled her.

The Empress Dowager's mood improved, and she picked up the note to read it, and felt more at ease.

As long as Li Chen doesn't overdo things and the emperor is willing to accommodate this younger brother, then there will be no serious problems.

"Bai An."

"The minister is here."

Xia Bai'an hurried forward.

The queen mother patted the soft couch beside her and told her to sit down, and said, "You do one more thing for Ai's family."

"The Empress Dowager can give you orders." Xia Bai'an replied.

"You agreed readily. I know that your two young children have entered Baichuan Academy, but there is also an older adopted son who was rejected. A message was sent two days ago, asking Baichuan Academy to accept him. Brothers and sisters separated."

The Empress Dowager didn't ask for it first, but instead tried to win Xia Bai'an over.

Xia Bai'an only nodded: "Thank you, Queen Mother."

Seeing her calm expression, the queen mother said again: "It is inevitable for Mo Che to go into the army and he will have to study hard. The Ai family also told the emperor to treat each other well, and he will not neglect."

Xia Bai'an heard this, and quietly asked: "The queen mother promised so many good conditions all at once, and what she asked the minister to do, wouldn't it be a matter of murder and robbery?"

As soon as the words finished, she was slapped lightly on the forehead by Nanny Mingxin: "Come to the Queen Mother, speak rudely!"

This slap is not heavy.

Xia Bai'an only covered his forehead, and lowered his head aggrieved.

The Queen Mother laughed.

"It's just that you helped King An a lot before, and Ai's family has been unable to fulfill the promise. At this time, it's just for your peace of mind. As for the thing you want to do, it's not difficult..."

……

In the afternoon, the mountains and forests on the outskirts of Beijing.

Qian Mingshu chopped the knee-high weeds in front of him, moved forward slowly, and glanced at Xia Bai'an who was wearing a black robe behind him.

"It's all right if you go to the suburbs of Beijing to find an abandoned house. Why is there no road to this abandoned house... Are we going the right way?"

"Let's go and have a look first."

Xia Bai'an comforted him, and he also took a knife in his hand, but it was not as easy as Qian Mingshu used it, and he often cut down some grass plants.

Qian Mingshu looked coldly: "Who did you listen to and came here to look for things?"

Xia Bai'an followed him closely: "If you say it, it will scare you to death, so you can't say it."

"..."

Qian Mingshu rolled his eyes.

This Xia Bai'an talks about things every day, but there are not a few truths on his lips, who knows if it is true or not.

And Xia Bai'an stared at the front tightly, holding the note written by the Queen Mother in his hand, his eyes were deep.

The Empress Dowager told her that there was a wooden box hidden in the secret passage of an abandoned house on the outskirts of Beijing, and she was asked to find the wooden box and deliver it to Li Chen in person, and asked her to watch Li Chen open the wooden box and have a look. The look of the other party.

What could it be?

Xia Bai'an couldn't figure it out, and was even more afraid of some danger on the way, so he called Qian Mingshu to come over to help, and he kept urging him repeatedly.

"There's no need to tell Mo Che about this matter."

"It depends."

Qian Mingshu led her up the steep slope, and seeing that she seemed to be hiding something, he added, "You and Mo Che have walked all the way, there is something that you can't let him know."

"No matter how close I am to him, I can't easily tell him other people's secrets. And..."

This matter is also related to An Wang Lichen.

Before, Mo Che suspected that she and Li Chen might join forces. If she knew that this time she would help deliver the things and open the box on the way, how would she complete the errand given by the Queen Mother?

How did Mo Qian enter Baichuan Academy logically and study martial arts with his younger siblings?

"And what?" Qian Mingshu asked again.

"Look at the front, isn't that a broken mansion?"

Xia Bai'an pointed to the depths of the forest.

Qian Mingshu's eyes were diverted, and he saw a dilapidated mansion hidden in the mountains. The walls around the mansion had collapsed, revealing several crooked houses inside. Those houses were also crooked, and the ground was slightly sunken. , like experiencing something subsidence.

Xia Bai'an narrowed his eyes slightly, and took a few steps forward with Qian Mingshu.

"It feels similar to the collapse of Chizhuang before."

"You mean, the underground passages here may have collapsed in the natural disaster, and that's why there's such a depression?" Qian Mingshu walked over with her, staring at the mess in front of him, "If all the underground passages collapsed, we Where do you find it?"