Use a substitute on your wedding night to scatter the ashes of your entire family

Gu Xingyan shook his head: "I haven't told my mother and brother about this. Apart from Uncle Ou, only Wenbo and Liang Tianyou know about it."

"In that case, don't let your mother know."

Duke Shu also said, "Yes, the fewer people who know about this, the better."

Once the matter was settled, he immediately wrote a letter to Shu Wenbo.

I thought Wanwan would have some reservations, but she agreed readily and even gave me the name "Shu Yanyan".

The more Wu looked at Li Shuangwan, the more she liked her. She held her hand and said, "Child, go home with your stepmother."

"Yes." Li Shuangwan and Shu Wenbo each supported Wu into the mansion.

Although it was the first time that Li Shuangwan met Duke Shu and his daughter, she felt extremely familiar with them, as if she had known them for a long time.

Gu Xingyan was behind them, his eyebrows furrowed, and then he heard Duke Shu jokingly say, "Come on, Xiaojiu, go in, your girl can't escape."

Gu Xingyan's face was embarrassed. Seeing that the girl in front of him didn't seem to hear this, he felt relieved, but also choked: "Yes."

A table full of dishes had been prepared in the flower hall. Only two trusted confidants were left, and the rest of the servants were sent out.

Several people were indeed hungry.

Li Shuangwan then took off the veil that had been wrapped around her face. When Mrs. Wu saw it, she said happily, "When Xiaojiu showed us your portrait, your godfather and I both thought you were a fairy on earth. But after seeing you today, you are no longer a fairy on earth. I'm afraid even the gods in heaven can't compare to your beauty by even a third."

Li Shuangwan smiled generously and took Wu's arm affectionately: "Stepmother, I'm proud of you for saying that."

"You have to be proud if you have the capital to be proud." Mrs. Wu patted Li Shuangwan's hand and looked at Gu Xingyan. They were truly a perfect match.

Hong Shuang smiled and said, "Madam, Ah Yan originally had a cinnabar mole between her eyebrows, and was the most beautiful woman in Shengjing City, Northern Jin. Now that the cinnabar mole is gone, I thought it was a pity, but I didn't expect that she is actually three times more beautiful than before."

Li Shuangwan glared at Hongshuang.

Red Frost winked at her playfully.

Gu Xingyan actually kept looking at her infatuatedly. Without the cinnabar mole, she was even more beautiful than before. Such a girl...

Then Wu said to Gu Xingyan, "Xiaojiu, your uncle has already asked the kitchen to prepare it this morning. Why don't you ask someone to invite the young master of the Liang family and Young Marquis Cui to come as well?"

Shu Wenbo also nodded: "Yes, I haven't seen them for a long time. Brother Jiu, send someone to General Liang's mansion to call them."

I don’t know if this kid was fattened up after returning to Sijiu City.

Gu Xingyan said calmly: "No need."

These two made a mistake some time ago and sent a letter to Northern Jin secretly, describing his injuries as being so severe that he was on the verge of death. He asked General Liang to confine the two of them to the Liang Mansion.

Liang Tianyou and Cui Jingyu, who were reflecting on their mistakes in the backyard of General Liang's mansion, sneezed loudly at the same time.

The two looked at each other with resentment. Alas, wasn't it because they exaggerated the ninth brother's injury and sent an urgent letter back to Northern Jin? As a result, the two of them have been confined for more than ten days.

Liang Tianyou was even more troubled, if for no other reason than that his mother and grandmother would cry to him for an hour almost every day these days, calling him their darling and saying that he was abducted by human traffickers and taken to the mountains to work as a farmer, suffering.

They either asked people to make new clothes for him or cooked all kinds of delicious food. They wanted to stuff him with all the food they cooked that he had not eaten in the past twenty-one years. His stomach was full every moment during these days.

Cui Jingyu also has a share.

As a result, the two of them often burped in front of each other, one after another.

Duke Shu knew that the two were grounded by Gu Xingyan, so he said with a smile, "Then let's eat. Yanyan, Wenbo, come and sit down and have a good meal."

Li Shuangwan could tell from Gu Xingyan's expression that these two people were causing trouble, so he didn't say much.

Mrs. Wu asked her son and daughter to sit on her left and right. Gu Xingyan was pushed by Duke Shu to sit next to Li Shuangwan.

Mrs. Wu picked up food for Shu Wenbo, then for Li Shuangwan, and was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling.

After a short while, a large bowl was filled in front of the two of them.

Just as they were finishing their meal and rinsing their mouths, Duke Shu's housekeeper came in a hurry: "Your Highness, Lord Duke, something bad has happened."

Gu Xingyan just raised his eyelids. So much time had passed, and what was supposed to come finally came.

Duke Shu frowned and asked, "Why are you so panicked?"

The housekeeper wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "The Kunning Palace was surrounded by the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang. They said that they found evidence of a crime in the Kunning Palace."

Li Shuangwan's face changed. This matter had been at a stalemate until now, and all matters of Daliang, big or small, had been handed over to Xie Shoupu to handle. How come it came to Empress Shu's hands? She hurriedly looked at Gu Xingyan.

The man took a sip of tea slowly, put it down, and then slowly stood up and said to Duke Shu and Mrs. Wu, "Uncle, aunt, I have to go back to the palace first."

He looked at Li Shuangwan: "Please, aunt, take care of me..."

Before Gu Xingyan could finish, Li Shuangwan also stood up and said, "I'll go with you."

Then he turned to Mrs. Wu and said, "Mother, please prepare a set of clothes for a maid in the Duke's Mansion for me."

Gu Xingyan looked at the girl in front of him and saw that she was also looking at him with determination in her eyes. Knowing that it was useless for him to say anything, he stopped talking.

Shu Wenbo: "Mother, let my younger sister go."

Wu was unwilling to do so, and hurriedly said to the nanny beside her: "Go and prepare a set of clothes for the maids in our mansion, new and unworn."

Ever since Xiaojiu came to the Duke's Mansion to find them last time and asked them to adopt Miss Li as their adopted daughter, she and her husband understood Xiaojiu's thoughts.

I thought Xiaojiu was just too enthusiastic, but today, I saw that the girl looked at Xiaojiu with intention.

The maid smiled and said, "Yes, the spring clothes in the mansion have just been made, and the weather is warm today. I see that the girl's figure is similar to Xiao Cui's, so please bring Xiao Cui's new clothes."

Li Shuangwan nodded at her: "Okay, thank you, Ma'am."

"Oh, no need, no need, you are too polite, miss. Please wait a moment."

Then the housekeeper interrupted the conversation and said, "Your Highness, someone from the palace has brought a set of maid's clothes, saying that it was specially prepared by the Empress. If there is a girl who wants to follow Your Highness into the palace, please ask her to temporarily dress up as a maid in Kunning Palace."

Gu Xingyan originally felt that it was inappropriate to wear the clothes of a maid in the Duke's Mansion, but she felt warmed after hearing what the housekeeper said. She didn't expect that when she mentioned to her mother in the morning that she wanted to leave the palace to pick up a girl from Northern Jin, her mother actually took it to heart.

He looked at Li Shuangwan: "Please bear with it for a while."

Li Shuangwan was already overjoyed in her heart, and said with a smile: "I can't thank the Queen enough, how can I feel wronged?"

After saying that, he hurriedly followed the nanny to change clothes.

Gu Xingyan said to Duke Shu: "Uncle, the ministers will come to discuss matters in a while, please pay attention."

There is a high possibility that the Chen family will launch an uprising both inside and outside the palace.

Duke Shu nodded: "You don't have to worry about this matter. After you sent the message, I have already targeted that person. Don't worry."

After a while, Li Shuangwan changed her clothes and got on the carriage back to the palace with Gu Xingyan.