Treating the Concubine, Eliminating the Wife: Reborn, I Refuse to Marry the Scumbag and Marry the Pr

Xie Tingzhou came back from the palace in the afternoon.

The palace was decorated with lanterns and red lanterns everywhere.

The servants walked quietly, for fear of disturbing the master of the house.

Xie Tingzhou walked straight into the study. He still had a few secret letters from various places that he wanted to read.

After reading several letters, Xie Tingzhou lit the candlestick and burned the letters, and suddenly asked: "Where is Shigure?"

Xi Feng said: "He has been arranged in Lu Mingxuan."

Xie Tingzhou looked up.

Xifeng suddenly understood, "I will go find him now."

A quarter of an hour later, Xifeng came back and said that Shen Yu was not in the courtyard. The concierge at the east gate said that he had gone out early in the morning and had not returned yet.

Xie Tingzhou didn't say anything. He tapped the table with his fingertips and said, "It's New Year's Eve today. You can tell me to go down to the kitchen and celebrate the New Year."

Xifeng asked tentatively: "Which courtyard is it placed in?"

"You make your own arrangements." Xie Tingzhou lowered his head as he said, "When Shiyu comes back, ask him to come to my place."

Xifeng understood. The reason why he deliberately asked which hospital it was in was to see if Xie Tingzhou would spend time with them.

The answer he got was also what he expected. Since that person's death, Xie Tingzhou has spent every New Year's Eve alone, and even the prince and princess can't call him.

"Yes." The wind receded.

Shen Yu came back after dark. When she entered the house, she heard that Xie Tingzhou was looking for her.

She was led all the way to the entrance of Xie Tingzhou's Qingpu Residence. The guard did not go inside and asked her to go in alone, telling her that facing the bamboo forest was Xie Tingzhou's study.

The location of the study was easy to recognize. Shen Yu knocked on the door and said, "Your Highness, it's me, Shigure."

"Come in." Xie Tingzhou said softly.

The stove was lit in the room, and a wave of heat hit Shen Yu when she entered the door.

She discovered that Xie Tingzhou seemed to be afraid of the cold. He liked warm places, whether it was the carriage before or the study now.

"Your Highness, do you have anything to do with me?" Shen Yu stopped in front of the desk.

Xie Tingzhou stared at the book in his hand and asked, "I heard you went out."

"Yes," Shen Yu said honestly, "I haven't been scheduled for my shift yet, so I just went out for a walk when I had nothing to do."

"What did you buy?"

"It's just daily necessities, a few everyday clothes, and some winter boots."

She spoke calmly and explained everything, which made Xie Tingzhou frown lightly.

In the nearly one month since he came to Beijing, the Shigure he had known was not such a well-behaved person. He still remembered his cunning eyes when he teased him in the woodshed of the inn, only to be teased by him instead.

"I have something to tell you." Xie Tingzhou raised his head and was slightly startled when he saw his face.

It seemed that he had not seen such a look on the face of the young man in front of him for a long time. The last time was when he was keeping vigil for Shen Zhongan.

Seeing that he didn't speak for a long time, Shen Yu asked, "What does Your Highness want to tell me?"

Xie Tingzhou said nothing.

Today in Xuanhui Hall, Xie Tingzhou mentioned the witness, and this witness was Shigure.

Liang Jianfang and a group of prisoners have been taken away by the Jinyi Guards. Now the Third Law Division is busy interrogating Liang Jianfang, but once the three urgent reports are heard, Shigure will definitely be interrogated.

I originally wanted to discuss the matter with him in detail first, but looking at his current mood, I felt that there was no need to be so anxious.

"There's a banquet in the outer courtyard, you go and celebrate the New Year with them."

"I've already eaten," Shen Yu asked, "Why doesn't Your Highness go?"

Xie Tingzhou suddenly felt an inexplicable irritation, and he looked away, "You want to take care of my affairs too?"

Shen Yu pursed her lips and said, "I don't dare. If nothing happens to Your Highness, I will leave."

She walked out and looked around when she left. Except for the study, the other rooms were dark, and she did not see the mysterious Cang that everyone said.

Listening to the door opening and closing, Xie Tingzhou couldn't suppress the irritation in his chest. Instead, it was made stronger by the words "His Royal Highness and His Majesty".

He stood up and walked to the window and opened it. The cold wind seemed to feel better, but the irritability still lingered.

"Someone is coming."

The guard responded from under the eaves: "Your Highness."

"Where's the man with him? Let him come in."

When they were in Ganzhou City, Xie Tingzhou had asked people to keep an eye on Shigure. After returning last night, Xi Feng asked him whether he should follow him, and his answer was to continue.

It's not that Shigure couldn't be trusted, at least he had been protecting him all the way to Beijing. Xie Tingzhou could see that he was harmless to him, otherwise Shigure would have had hundreds of chances to kill him.

The capital is no better than the outside, and Shigure is a witness, so he sent people to follow him to protect him.

The secret guards following Shigure arrived quickly.

Xie Tingzhou asked: "Where has he been today?"

The secret guard said: "First we went to stand in front of Shen's mansion for a while, and then we went to the teahouse. We went out to visit a few shops."

The secret guard tried his best to give a general idea, and when he saw that there was no impatient look on Xie Tingzhou's face, he continued: "Then he went to an incense and candle shop, bought paper money for incense candles, and knelt in front of General Shen's grave all afternoon."

No wonder, Xie Tingzhou understood.

No wonder he had that look on his face just now, it turned out to be the look of someone visiting a grave.

The secret guard thought for a while, "But there is something quite strange."

Xie Tingzhou: "Say."

The secret guard said: "Three new tombs have been added to the Shen family cemetery. In addition to the tombs of the two generals, there is also one that belongs to the eldest daughter of the Shen family, Shen Yu. Later, my subordinates inquired and heard that the eldest daughter Shen often accompanied her father on border expeditions. We were among them this time and died together.”

Xie Tingzhou searched in his memory and seemed to have heard the name Shen Yu, but he couldn't remember where he heard it.

He came back from Yanliang Pass, and no one knew what happened there better than him. There were mountains of corpses, many of which were trampled by horse hooves into human shapes.

Even Shen Zhao's body could not be found. No one even mentioned Shen Yu at the border, so no one would specifically look for her bones.

If this is the case, at the same age, the bones are buried in a foreign land like this, maybe buried on the spot, maybe burned together with the corpses, not even ashes are left.

"Okay, let's go out. You don't have to keep an eye on him. You can also celebrate the New Year."

Being a secret guard is the hardest work. Xie Tingzhou sympathizes with his subordinates. These secret guards all came with him from the north.

As soon as the secret guard left, Qingpuju became quiet again.

Xie Tingzhou put on his outer robe and walked along the corridor.

The courtyards of Xi Feng and Chang Liu were not far from him, and there was a lot of noise and bustle there. Chang Liu was a lively person, so he must have called many guards together.

The noise made Xie Tingzhou upset, and he gradually walked further and further away. When he found out, he was already close to Lu Mingxuan.

Xie Tingzhou turned around to leave when he heard the door open, followed by someone walking towards it.

Those were Shigure's footsteps. Xie Tingzhou didn't know how he heard it right away, but somehow he stood there and didn't move away.

The footsteps stopped, "Huh? Why are you here?"

Xie Tingzhou turned around and said, "Just take a walk, do you live here?"

Shen Yu nodded, "Yes, Xifeng arranged for me to stay at Lumingxuan."

For some reason, Xie Tingzhou felt inexplicably comfortable. He looked at the lantern in his hand and asked, "Where are you going?"

"It's a bit cold in the house. I want to go to the kitchen to find some charcoal." Shen Yu said, "Your Highness, please come back quickly."

That weird feeling came again, and Xie Tingzhou suddenly became alert. He seemed to dislike Shi Yu calling him His Highness.

Perhaps because of Shigure's strange aura along the way, he has formed a habit. Once he calls him His Highness, he must have done something bad, and you will feel that he is probably holding back some evil tricks.

That must be the case.

Thinking of this, Xie Tingzhou said: "Be more casual and speak to your Highness. It will make me think that you have done something bad again."