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

Xu Yixuan was naturally willing to leave Taoyuan Village quietly and return to the capital. But it's not that easy to leave. Fortunately, after more than half a month of preparation, the young couple disguised themselves as an old couple who had traveled thousands of miles to find relatives, and set off in a half-used carriage.

Accompanying him were Tao Jinyu's cronies. When he was assassinated by a masked assassin in black, one of the two boys who appeared was a boy named Guan Yan. On the surface, he is mainly responsible for driving carriages.

The journey back to the capital was not easy.

Because when he was exiled before, he encountered a torrential flood. After the flood, a barrier lake formed along a section of the road, and the original river course was changed. Coupled with the plague, the people in Zhongzhou County were displaced. Even though more than a year had passed, Cheng Shiyuan, the commander-in-chief appointed by the imperial court, had thought of many ways to provide disaster relief and settle the victims as much as possible, but he could not stand the inaction of the powerful families behind him, let alone sabotage in secret.

Therefore, Tao Jinyu took his daughter-in-law with him this time and secretly returned to the capital, choosing a detour.

As we took a detour back to the capital, we would occasionally encounter some poor people in ragged clothes walking on the road with haggard shapes and dull eyes. Many of them fell directly to the ground with a thud while walking, and then could not get up again.

Perhaps the close relatives around them, especially young children, will exclaim or cry in fear, but most of them will remain indifferent, or they will suddenly rush out from nearby, search fiercely, and then flee in a hurry...

"Don't look!" Tao Jinyu coldly reached out to cover his daughter-in-law's eyes, and then signaled Guan Yan, who was in charge of driving the car, to speed up and continue on her way.

In fact, similar scenes like this were more or less experienced personally on the road to exile more than a year ago. The Tao family and the families of the lieutenant generals who were being liquidated were relatively united. In addition, there was a capable Xu Yixuan who took action overtly and covertly, so they suffered a lot less. But despite this, at least 30% of the clan members were lost.

Xu Yixuan pulled off Tao Jinyu's big hand covering her eyes, returned a faint smile, and said softly: "I'm just a little sad. The eyes of those people are lifeless. I'm afraid there is no hope."

"There will definitely be a day." Tao Jinyu stretched out her long arms and hugged Xu Yixuan into her arms.

"I trust my husband."

In the next few days, Xu Shi was in a hurry to return to the capital, eating and sleeping in the open air all the way.

The journey that originally took more than twenty days was shortened by several days. Fortunately, the weather was kind on the road, and even if it rained, there would be occasional showers at night. By the time we had a quick breakfast and started on our way again the next day, most of the water on the ground had dissipated and it was not affected at all.

But despite this, when they arrived at Luoying Villa in the western suburbs of the capital after a long and dusty journey, Xu Yixuan, who was not weak in body, was like a hen that had suffered from the plague, with no energy as before.

"Regret it?" Tao Jinyu felt a little distressed. He wanted to take Xu Yixuan back to the house, but he didn't want his little daughter-in-law to be unhappy.

"Is this Zhuangzi... yours?" Xu Yixuan held on to the sleeves of the white-haired Tao Jinyu with a gloomy face and rubbed her back teeth.

Previously, when Xu Yixuan asked Bai Su and others to think of ways to acquire Zhuangzi near the western suburbs of the capital, they spent a lot of effort to buy a small manor. The kind of Zhuangzi next door who is full of peach blossoms, but he can't find out who the master behind the scenes is.

Now……

"Yeah." Tao Jinyu rarely denied it.

Of course, the name on the land deed is definitely not Tao Jinyu, nor does it even matter to anyone in the Zhenguo Palace. Otherwise, when Emperor Qi Hui ordered his house to be confiscated, it would have been confiscated long ago.

Incidentally, Emperor Qi Hui seems to have been concerned about the money bags of various powerful families in the past year or so since he has been left empty-handed, and he has been constantly looking for excuses to dig out money. As a result, the relationship between the emperor and his ministers was very delicate.

"I suddenly discovered that my husband seems to have a strong family background." Xu Yixuan looked at Tao Jinyu with half-squinted eyes.

Tao Jinyu, who did have a small fortune, smiled and said: "When we split up the family later, these will all be yours, madam."

"Family separation? How is this possible?"