The blackened marquis insists that the husband should be more valuable than the son!

Male relatives are not allowed to enter the harem.

Xie Lang could only send her to the palace gate and then stop and get off the carriage alone.

Xue Mingyue couldn't help but lift the curtain of the car window and stuck his head out. He saw that the north wind had blown up a corner of his dark green cloak, and the dark black suit he was wearing inside made him look more solemn and murderous.

But when he looked at her, his brows were always gentle.

Xie Lang curved his eyes, gave her a helpless smile, and said softly: "It's cold outside, you don't have to see me off, we'll see each other later."

Xue Mingyue met his black eyes, and just like countless times before, her uneasy heart surprisingly calmed down. She pursed her lips and smiled, nodded and said "hmm" heavily.

Finally, I couldn't help but say one more sentence.

"see you later."

Xie Lang nodded seriously: "See you soon."

·

Watching the carriage slowly driving into the harem, the young man standing in the cold wind gradually became more expressionless.

After he could no longer see the shadow of the carriage, Xie Lang lowered his eyes and pinched his knuckles hard. There was no expression on his face, but this action revealed his true emotions.

No matter how confident he is in his words, or how sure he is that he can accomplish this task, as long as there is a 10% risk, he can't help but worry.

Especially since this matter also involved Xue Mingyue.

Xie Lang frowned, thinking carefully whether the manpower arranged in the palace was sufficient. If an accident occurred, could these people successfully escort her out, and how many people could send her to Suzhou.

Even though he had confirmed it dozens of times last night, he still couldn't help but think about it again.

Not long after, someone led a patrol team towards Xie Lang.

The man bowed to him and said, "My Lord, everything has been done according to your instructions."

Xie Lang came back to his senses, raised his head and hummed calmly, glanced at the people in the team behind him, and said calmly without saying anything more: "His Majesty has ordered that from today on, the responsibility of commanding the palace will be handed over to me."

"There was a suspected assassin in the palace last night. You don't need to patrol. Go to Qiwu Palace to protect the queen."

The captain immediately responded, "Yes, sir."

After saying that, he immediately turned around and organized the team, and regardless of their doubts, he led them towards the harem.

After a while, Xie Lang also took a step and walked towards the Imperial Guard Office.

·

As soon as I entered the government office, I smelled a faint smell of blood in the air.

Even after a night had passed, the smell of blood still hadn't dissipated, filling the entire government office with a cold and murderous atmosphere.

Xie Lang walked inside without changing his expression.

Soon, Xijiang Wuye and his companions appeared in front of him wearing light armor, knelt down and reported, "My Lord, we closely monitored this place and the palace last night, and no one noticed anything unusual."

"Your Majesty sent people to look for Lord Lian last night, but I dismissed them all by saying that Lord Lian was out looking for someone."

"Also, Lord Lian woke up this morning and said he wanted to see you."

Xie Lang just hummed lightly: "No."

They lured Lian Dongshu to a manor outside Beijing by telling him the whereabouts of Taoist Master Zi Yu.

There he and the people he brought with him were captured in one fell swoop, and when he returned he took over the entire Imperial Guard Office.

Because Xie Lang had taken on most of the official duties before, everyone had gotten used to it. That was the case when Lian Dongshu was there; so when Lian Dongshu left and Xie Lang took over the yamen, no one suspected anything.

Even Lian Dongshu's confidants did not realize that something was wrong.

At most, some people were surprised that Xie Lang suddenly came back, but Lian Dongshu did not tell them that Emperor Jingping was wary of Xie Lang, so they did not notice anything wrong and were sent away by Xie Lang.

Xie Lang looked at the armor placed in a corner of the room.

This set of armor was much smaller for him and he couldn't wear it now. He lowered his eyelids and lightly touched the armor with his fingers. Almost instantly, he remembered the origin of this armor.

This is the tradition of the Xie family: whenever a young man in the family goes to the battlefield for the first time, no matter how old he is, his relatives will give him specially made armor as a gift.

This set of armor was made for him by his parents ten years ago.

When he learned that the barbarians were invading, he was eager to try and pestered his parents to follow them to fight on the battlefield. However, not only was his request not granted, but his parents forcibly detained him in the capital.

With his grandmother around, he couldn't run away at all.

It was on the night of the Lantern Festival of that year that he climbed over the wall and left home despite his grandmother's wishes. He saw Xue Mingyue who had fallen into the water by the river and rescued her. It was also on this night that he received this set of armor from his grandmother.

——This is the New Year gift his parents gave him.

At that time, he was carrying this armor which meant a lot to him, but not long after, he received the news that Suzhou City was almost breached and his parents were both killed in the battlefield.

Then, he and his grandmother planned a mutiny in the army and secretly went to Suzhou.

That was his first time on the battlefield.

But the scene at that time was not suitable for wearing armor. He should not appear, and he should not appear wearing armor.

So, until the end he was unable to wear the armor given to him by his parents.

Xie Lang's fingers stopped, and the trace of fragility that appeared on his face was fleeting, and was quickly restrained as if it had never appeared, and his dark eyes were full of coldness.

He turned and ordered, "Bring me my armor."

·

Qiwu Palace.

This was the first time Xue Mingyue entered the Queen's palace.

This was the first time she had come here in her two lifetimes combined, but at this moment she had no intention of observing the palace. She just followed Aunt Jiang and walked into the palace step by step, not wanting to make any mistakes.

So she neither noticed the pear tree planted by the emperor and empress themselves at the entrance of the palace, nor did she notice the magnificent decoration inside the palace.

All these are manifestations of the friendship between the emperor and the empress.

If Xue Mingyue had noticed this, she probably wouldn't have thought about this aspect. Compared to these things, what she likes and values ​​more is freedom, rather than seemingly living in a luxurious palace but being confined within the palace walls.

As soon as the two of them walked into the hall, they heard the sound of reading coming from inside.

Empress Lu, wearing a dark purple palace dress, was sitting on it, while Xiao Yu was standing in front of her, reciting the book with his head shaking. He recited it fluently: "...If you want to govern your country, you must first govern your family."

Xue Mingyue immediately recognized which book it was.

--"University"

The sentence before this is "In ancient times, those who wished to spread virtue throughout the world first governed their own country."

Xue Mingyue's heart couldn't help but skip a beat.

"Let's stop here for today." Queen Lu said lightly.