"Mother..."
Yan Qingshu placed her hand on the dilapidated wooden door, her eyes filled with tears as she whispered softly.
Yan Qingshu stared intently at the scene inside the house without blinking, not wanting to miss a single moment of the expressions on the mother and son's faces.
Her mother and younger brother were even thinner than when she entered the palace.
It seemed that the blood - stained clothes the Virtuous Concubine had brought were just to scare her, and she hadn't actually harmed her mother and brother.
"Do you want to go in and talk to your mother and younger brother?" Di Yunjian saw the tears in her eyes, and the longing in them overflowed like surging seawater.
Yan Qingshu opened her mouth but still shook her head.
"No, I won't go in. My younger brother is a bit slow - witted. If I go in today, he might tell others that I was here someday. I entered the palace under threat."
"If my step - mother and the others find out, mother and younger brother will be locked up somewhere else, and they might even be tortured."
Although Yan Qingshu was reluctant in her heart, reason finally overcame her impulse.
"Mother and younger brother are even thinner than when I entered the palace."
Yan Qingshu choked with sobs. She took out the purse Di Yunjian had given her from her bosom and took out a few pieces of silver from it.
In this backyard, servants often came here to amuse themselves by torturing her mother and brother. If they found that her mother had so much silver on her, it would be another hassle.
She placed the silver on the steps in front of the door.
Di Yunjian's eyes also fell on the inside of the house. When he saw the woman inside, he frowned, feeling that she looked familiar.
The memory was so long ago that he couldn't quite remember.
He only remembered that he was only four years old at that time, an unimportant prince.
Yan Qingshu stood outside the door for a long time, reluctant to leave. The evening breeze blew, lifting her skirt and hair.
The evening breeze blew into the house through the window and blew out the flickering kerosene lamp. The house instantly fell into darkness.
"Mother!"
The tone of the child in the house was a bit scared.
"Don't be afraid, Yu'er. It's just the wind blowing in."
The woman put down her needlework and hugged her son gently to comfort him.
The house fell silent.
After a while, the childish inquiry of the child rang out again.
"Mother, I miss elder sister so much."
"When will elder sister come back to play with Yu'er? And Sister Zhuyao, Yu'er misses them so much."
The little boy nestled in his mother's warm arms and asked innocently.
The woman almost couldn't hold back her tears and forced a smile. "Elder sister has gone to a very luxurious palace to eat delicious food and play with fun things. You can see elder sister when you grow up."
Shu'er was sent into the palace to give birth for that domineering young lady. She didn't know how she was doing now...
Now trapped in this backyard, they couldn't escape. If she and Yu'er made any move, Shu'er in the palace would also be in danger...
"Then Yu'er will grow up quickly."
All the conversations in the house fell into the ears of Yan Qingshu and Di Yunjian.
At the same time, the voice of the system rang in Yan Qingshu's mind repeatedly.
[Host, the value of the favored concubine has increased by fifty.]
Yan Qingshu had no time to care about these things. She was completely defeated by what her mother and younger brother said.
Tears streamed down and landed on Di Yunjian's hand.
She wanted to beg Di Yunjian to take her mother and younger brother away, but reason made her shut up.
After all, as an emperor, he shouldn't be involved in the family affairs of court officials, unless someone impeached the Marquis of Zhenyuan in the court for abusing his concubines and children.
Only then could His Majesty inquire about it reasonably.
She wiped away her tears and was about to leave.
Yan Qingshu took a step back and pulled Di Yunjian away. But unexpectedly, she stumbled because it was too dark and made a little noise.
"Who's there?"
The house fell silent for a while. Then the woman slowly opened the door. Outside, only the silver moonlight shone down.
In front of the door were the pieces of silver that glowed faintly in the moonlight.
The woman walked over, picked up the silver, looked around, and finally closed the door.
——
Di Yunjian carried Yan Qingshu and used his light - body technique to leave the backyard of the Marquis of Zhenyuan.
When he let her go, Yan Qingshu was a bit unsteady on her feet and swayed.
"Ding~"
Something fell out of her bosom.
Di Yunjian picked it up. Looking down, his eyebrows frowned again.
He had seen the pattern on this jade pendant when he was a child.
"What's this jade pendant?" Di Yunjian asked.
"My mother gave it to me before I entered the palace."
Yan Qingshu took the jade pendant, blew off the dust, and stroked it lovingly. After making sure there were no marks, she put it back into her bosom.
Di Yunjian didn't say anything else. Thinking of the woman he had just seen and this jade pendant.
Her mother was taken back to the mansion by the Marquis of Zhenyuan when she lost her memory.
It seemed that Yan Qingshu's mother's identity was a big mystery.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for bringing me to see my mother and younger brother."
Yan Qingshu came back to her senses and was about to bow to him.
"There's no need to thank me. Let's go. We'll stay outside the palace tonight."
Di Yunjian stopped her and then grabbed her hand and led her away.
She had the same experience as him. He just didn't want her to have any regrets.
"Don't we go back to the palace tonight?" Yan Qingshu was surprised.
"We'll go back to the palace early tomorrow morning. Don't be lazy in bed then."
Hearing this, Yan Qingshu frowned slightly. The reason she got up late the last few times was...
It was because she had given him the Male Vitality Powder.
"I won't." Yan Qingshu murmured.
Di Yunjian smiled softly and tightened his grip on her hand.
——
Soon, Yan Qingshu realized that she would still get up late the next day.
Because at this moment, she was pulled into the steaming hot spring by Di Yunjian, and her whole body was soaking wet.
"Your Majesty, this dress is so beautiful, and now it's all wet..."
Yan Qingshu felt a bit sorry looking at her completely wet dress.
"It's just a dress. If you like it, I'll ask the Bureau of Clothing to make a few more sets for you."
Di Yunjian was wearing a robe on his upper body, and the hem of the robe fluttered on the surface of the pool. Most of his fair chest was hidden in the milky - white hot spring.
His handsome face was surrounded by the mist, blurred but with an even more unapproachable aura of a celestial being.
Di Yunjian stared at Yan Qingshu with naked desire in his eyes, like a predator eyeing its prey.
He reached out his hand, took out the hairpin from her head, and then removed the hairband tied at the back of her head. His bony and sexy hand ran down her black hair until it reached the end and fell into the water.
This made Yan Qingshu blush.
Yan Qingshu blushed. She took out the Male Vitality Powder from the mall panel.
She had to get pregnant as soon as possible.
Feeling the gradually heavy breathing of the emperor in front of her, Yan Qingshu's face was sometimes clear and sometimes blurred in the mist.
Feeling his wolf - like gaze, her heart trembled. She resolutely dived into the water and tried to swim away.
Her figure was as flexible as a fish. As soon as she dived in, she was about to disappear into the water. Di Yunjian stepped forward and precisely grabbed her ankle, and then dived in too.
Their clothes were entangled in the water, lingering and inseparable.
Yan Qingshu had been good at swimming since she was a child, catching fish in the river. Every time Di Yunjian was about to grab her wrist, she would nimbly escape.
Obviously, she was teasing him.
Di Yunjian's vision was blurred. All he could see behind the soft pink dress was the woman's soft body and her blurred and charming face.
He swam forward desperately, grabbed her slender arm, and pressed his lips against hers.