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Chapter 172 A Letter from an Old Friend
Kyoto, Duke's Mansion.
This is the first night back at the Duke's Mansion.
In the first half of the night, Shen Yuyao tossed and turned, but in the second half, she slept very soundly.
No dreams in the middle of the night.
When I woke up, the sun was already high in the sky.
Zi Su prepared some water and was waiting by the side, holding the moon-white blouse that Shen Yuyao liked to wear.
When Shen Yuyao first opened her eyes, she was a little dazed.
The basil beside me is familiar, but the surrounding furniture is unfamiliar.
"Miss, are you awake?" Zi Su saw Shen Yuyao open her eyes and hurriedly called her with a smile: "I have prepared warm water. I will help you get up now, okay?"
Hearing Zi Su's voice, Shen Yuyao seemed to have just realized that she had already quietly returned to the Duke's Mansion in Kyoto.
Shen Yuyao raised her eyes and looked at Zi Su. There were already faint fine lines at the corners of her eyes.
A few years ago, Shen Yuyao also found a suitable family for Zi Su, wanting to marry her off in a grand manner, just like Bai Zhi.
As a result, Zi Su threatened to commit suicide and was determined not to leave Shen Yuyao and choose to marry someone else.
She said that her mission in this life was to accompany Shen Yuyao until the end of her life.
After this happened several times, Shen Yuyao had no choice but to obey her, although she was helpless.
However, Shen Yuyao stubbornly asked all the children in Prince Ning's Mansion to change their way of speaking. They all had to call Zi Su: Aunt Su.
Shen Yuyao also did not allow Zi Su to call herself a slave in front of the children.
At first, Perilla was unable to adapt to it, but in recent years, after a long time, she gradually got used to it.
She treated the nine children of Prince Ning's Mansion as if they were her own and cherished them with great care.
Especially Xia Xiaoxian, she is really better than a biological child.
Although Zi Su was no longer a servant in Prince Ning's Mansion in name, she still developed the habit of waiting for Shen Yuyao to get up every day.
After Shen Yuyao washed up, she planned to take Zi Su with her and set off for Zuixianlou in the city.
In order to avoid alerting the Black Dragon Guards in the city, Shen Yuyao didn't even bring Xia Xiaoxian with her.
I have been thinking about Zuixianlou day and night for seven years. So much time has passed in a flash.
The last time I went there was with Xu Yunxuan, but there is no news from Xu Yunxuan now.
I don't know if she is okay.
The carriage was driving on the streets of Kyoto, and the sound of horse hooves on the bluestone slabs sounded a little different from that in Yanjing City.
Kyoto is more humid than Yanjing, and there is less wind and sand. Even the sound of horse hooves seems clearer.
This is where Shen Yuyao has lived since she was a child, and the scent of daylilies in the air seems to remind her.
"I don't know where the person has gone, but when I smell the daylily, I can't forget my sorrow."
Shen Yuyao lifted the car curtain and looked out.
Various street vendors were still shouting their wares as usual.
There was a lot of hustle and bustle with pedestrians and merchants coming and going, and you could even occasionally run into merchants from the Western Regions with golden hair and high noses.
It was indeed the capital of the Great Xia Dynasty, prosperous and flourishing.
Tang Weice rode his horse beside him, watching the passers-by with caution from time to time.
He was worried about being targeted by the government or the Black Dragon Guards, so he had even disguised himself before leaving the house.
In order to make it easier for Shen Yuyao to see the Kyoto city after seven years, Tang Wei specifically instructed the coachman, so the carriage did not move fast.
After crossing Kyoto's freight avenue, you will enter Shangheji.
Tang Wei looked back as if he had noticed something, and found a little boy wearing clothes with many patches following closely behind the carriage.
In order to test whether the little boy was following the carriage on purpose, Tang Wei asked the coachman to stop several times. He found that when the carriage stopped, the little boy also stopped.
As the carriage slowly passed through the two streets of Shangheji, the little boy was still following behind the carriage.
Although the little boy was wearing patched clothes, he was clean and tidy, and his hair was carefully combed.
Tang Wei gestured to the young guard beside him. The young guard understood and immediately took out a few copper coins from his pocket, dismounted, and handed the copper coins to the little boy.
"Little boy, are you hungry? Go buy something to eat." The little guard smiled and touched the little boy's head and said to him.
"I'm not a beggar, and I don't want your money!" The little boy's face turned red and he shook his head like a rattle.
It looks like the little boy is a little angry!
"Then why are you following us?" the young guard asked curiously.
The little boy suddenly raised his hand and pointed at the carriage, and said loudly: "Someone asked me to deliver a letter to the lady in the carriage."
Tang Wei and the young guard's faces changed at the same time.
The guard even forced the copper coins into the boy's hands and scolded him, "Who told you that the queen was sitting in the car? Take the money and leave!"
Although there was some fear in the little boy's eyes, he kept moving forward.
He followed the carriage closely, shouting loudly: "Yuyao! Yuyao!"
"How dare you! How dare you call me mother directly..." The young guard just started to scold when Tang Wei signaled him to be quiet.
Shen Yuyao in the carriage also heard the little boy's cry. She was startled and hurriedly asked the coachman to stop the carriage.
This was an agreement between her and Xu Yunxuan. The two had agreed that if they had to contact each other for important matters, they would use each other's girlfriend's name as a code.
Shen Yuyao knew that Xu Yunxuan was anxious to contact her.
But how did Xu Yunxuan know that Shen Yuyao had returned to Kyoto?
Is Xu Yunxuan also in Kyoto? What is she doing in Kyoto?
A series of questions were written all over Shen Yuyao's face.
Seeing the carriage stopped, the little boy also stopped.
Shen Yuyao got off the carriage and walked to the little boy. She squatted down, stretched out her hand and said, "Little brother, where is the letter Yunxuan gave me?"
The little boy was full of surprise. How could such a handsome man come to collect the letter?
Isn't it said that she is a queen?
However, the codeword is correct.
The little boy hesitated for a moment, then took out a piece of letter from his arms and handed it to Shen Yuyao.
Before Shen Yuyao could open it, the little boy ran into the alley next to him.
He actually ran away!
The guard who followed behind hurriedly got up and chased to the alley entrance, but heard Shen Yuyao shouting, "Come back! Let him go."
Tang Wei's hand, which had been on the knife at his waist, slowly relaxed. He dismounted and walked to Shen Yuyao's side, whispering, "My Lady..."
Shen Yuyao hadn't opened the letter yet. Just by looking at the three words "Shen Yuyao" on it, her eyes were slightly red and her hands were shaking slightly.
This is Xu Yunxuan's handwriting.
Shen Yuyao was very familiar with it.
She whispered to Tang Wei: "It's Xu Yunxuan!"
Tang Wei was stunned for a moment.
He only remembered that seven years ago, Concubine Xu of Prince Ning's Mansion disappeared without a trace overnight.
Three days later, Prince Ning announced to everyone in the palace that Concubine Xu had fallen seriously ill and died suddenly.
Even shortly thereafter, Prince Ning removed Xu's name from the royal family tree, and the twins born to Xu were all registered under Shen Yuyao's name.