The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 1198 Going to sea
Shu Yajing left the capital city silently with her son.

The speed was so fast that many people who were paying attention to her and the Prince of Zhao were shocked.

"Who is chasing her away?" Sheng Yuan was processing official documents in the Ministry of Revenue when she heard the news. She could never have imagined that the other party would leave without saying goodbye.

"The escort team arranged by the palace for her is quite large! How did she manage to leave the capital without making any noise?"

An Yu, who brought her the letter, shrugged: "I later inquired and heard that they left Beijing first, then met up with the escort team at the ferry outside Beijing, and then went out to sea together."

Sheng Yuan nodded.

It seems that Shu Yajing just caught the spectators off guard. She should have made her itinerary clear to the palace.

"But if she is so impatient to leave Beijing, I'm afraid there will be a lot of speculation about the palace outside." An Yu compared himself to others. Even he felt that Shu Yajing's impatience to leave was problematic, not to mention the group of censors who did not agree with the emperor's choice of a crown prince.

"When has there been less criticism outside? I think everyone in the palace has gotten used to it." Sheng Yuan was not nervous about the palace. She was more concerned about whether Shu Yajing would meet her sister before going to the ferry.

"Hmph, I don't think she would have informed my sister-in-law, otherwise, the guards protecting Lord Taishui would have sent a letter long ago."

"Even if you're leaving Beijing, your schedule doesn't have to be so tight, right? You can't even see your own sister?" Sheng Yuan was surprised, but it didn't seem real. "If I remember correctly, they have a very good relationship.

Although they didn't say they wouldn't come back before leaving Beijing, it would take a long time for them to meet again after such a long separation across the vast ocean and thousands of miles! Who are they guarding against?"

Sheng Yuan couldn't help but murmur something, but An Yu felt that Shu Yajing's action of not seeing her sister was very rational.

"Concubine Shu, maybe she wants to save trouble and avoid unnecessary complications... Think about it, the palace wanted the prince of Zhao to come to the palace for education, and my sister-in-law made a lot of noise about it! If she heard that Concubine Shu wanted to go abroad, who knows how she would cry and make a fuss to stop it! Although her fuss is useless."

Of course Sheng Yuan knew this, but just because Shu Yajing didn't say it doesn't mean that her sister-in-law doesn't know about it!

Even she, who was obsessed with official duties, heard about it, so it's possible that her sister-in-law might not have heard about it.

"No! I'm worried!"

Sheng Yuan may not care about her sister-in-law's possible strong reaction after hearing that Shu Yajing took her son out to sea, but she doesn't want her mother to suffer from the other party.

"When Shu gets angry, she doesn't care about anything. Although my mother has guards to protect her, the problem is, who knows what kind of irritating words Shu will say when she gets angry. I don't want my mother to suffer from her anger!"

Although you can make up for it later if you are offended, but no matter how you try to make up for it, you have still been offended, right?

"Then I'll go!" An Yu thought about it and volunteered immediately.

He was mainly afraid that Sister Yuan would get excited and beat up Shu.

Of course, he thought so, but he couldn't say it like that: "It's no different if I go or you go. Besides, didn't you just say that after dealing with the Ministry of Revenue, you still have to go to the Five Military Command Office? You are busy now, don't miss your official duties, I'm at home!"

Sheng Yuan heard this and thought it made sense. He stopped refusing and urged An Yu to set off immediately.

"If Shu goes crazy after hearing the actual situation of the Prince of Zhao, you should have her kidnapped and sent directly to my eldest brother!" Sheng Yuan thought about the various situations he had just imagined in his mind, and couldn't help but remind An Yu one by one, so that he could be prepared in advance.

"Is this... appropriate?" An Yu hesitated, not knowing whether to do it or not.

He didn't want to appear too strong in front of his mother-in-law.

"Let them reunite, what's wrong with that?" An Yu thought of his two nephews in the mansion and couldn't help but remind her, "We still have two children. For the sake of the two nephews, we have to give her dignity and respect."

"Humph, Tao Ge'er and Yun Ge'er are not something I should consider. I just want my mother not to be bullied."

Sheng Yuan glanced at An Yu who was looking back and forth: "Can you do it? If you can't guarantee that it will be done, then I will go myself."

"Then I'll go!" An Yu knew Sheng Yuan too well. This guy was easy to talk to when he was happy, but if he got angry, it would be very serious.

Didn’t you see that those dumb guys at the morning court were scared when they saw Sister Yuan?
No amount of verbal sparring has this effect.

……

Sheng Yuan and An Yu were still making responses and supplementing the various scenarios they had imagined.

After hearing the news from the capital, Shu Shi remained exceptionally calm.

Even Yun Jing couldn't have imagined that the Crown Prince's wife could actually control her temper.

"Madam." Yun Jing looked at Shu in a daze for a long time, and finally couldn't help but walked forward and called softly.

After approaching Shu, Yun Jing saw her lips pursed into a straight line. He paused for a moment before continuing in a low voice: "If Madam is worried, why don't you take people to the ferry to see her off? I see that we have enough time. Maybe we can go there, but the concubine and the prince haven't boarded the ship yet!"

"...Forget it! I won't go." Shu suppressed her impulse and shook her head slowly. "Since she didn't say hello, she probably didn't want me to worry about her... In that case, why don't I follow her wishes? Fulfilling her wish is also a blessing from me as her elder sister."

"..." Yun Jing didn't expect that his wife could be so reasonable and know right from wrong, which made her a little uncomfortable.

"Then...do you want to prepare some rituals?"

Shu was about to nod, but suddenly changed the direction of her head shaking: "No need to go through so much trouble. If you want to pretend that you don't know, then it's better to be completely ignorant."

Such an attitude surprised Yun Jing even more.

But no matter how strange it was, she wasn't stupid enough to ask.

"Then did you send the letter you wrote yesterday?" Yun Jing asked hurriedly, remembering his wife's instructions a few days ago.

"A letter?" Shu looked at the letter that she had thrown into the tea bowl and had turned into a pile of paper scraps, and shook her head. "She went overseas to seek a quiet life... As her elder sister, why should I hinder her?!"

Seeing that the Shu family had no intention of interfering, Yun Jing immediately changed his attitude and just assumed that they knew nothing about what was happening in the outside world.

After Yun Jing left, Shu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

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"Shu didn't react at all?" Zheng, who was not far away, had her first reaction after hearing the rumors about Shu Yajing was to have someone keep an eye on her daughter-in-law Shu.

Based on the other party's previous temper, if a quarrel really breaks out, I'm afraid the scene will not be good.

Zheng was not afraid of Shu's mischief, but a quiet place should be peaceful, and she could not let Shu ignore her and lose her dignity.

But she felt that she had arranged every step carefully, but she didn't expect that the other party didn't want to play by the rules at all!