After wearing the book, the regent quit.

Chapter 37

The brown hairpin lay quietly in Xiao Fan's palm, under the warm sunlight that slanted into the room, reflecting light from different angles.

This was the only relic his mother left him, and she said it was for his beloved.

The hairpin has been slightly repaired, and the original few strands of dangling tassels are missing, but a light-colored camellia carved and decorated with white marble is added to a silver hairpin, which is simple but elegant.

It is most suitable for people like Shen Mu who are as light as water.

Thinking of someone who refused to let him leave in his sleep in the morning, and how his white jade-like hand was gently tugging at the fabric of his chest, Xiao Fan unconsciously curled his lips, and there was a smile in his cold eyes.

If Shen Mu could be brought into the palace earlier, it would be better for him to be in a place where he could see it forever.

Thinking of this, Xiao Fan called Jing Fan into the house in a deep voice, and ordered him to pass the two ministers of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry into the palace, and report to him the progress of the construction of the mansion in the palace.

After Jing Fan left for about a stick of incense, an eunuch waiting outside the imperial study timidly stepped forward to inform that a servant of the Prince Regent's Mansion was asking to see him, and he was still holding the token of the Prince Regent in his hand.

Frowning tightly, Xiao Fan looked at Ah Qing timidly walking in with a cold face, holding an oversized cloak in his hand, and a memorial and Shen Mu's token, on the dark brown diamond-shaped wooden sign A white tiger was carefully crafted.

Like Yuxi, seeing the token of the white tiger is like seeing the regent himself; Ah Qing, who came in unimpeded by the token, did not dare to look up, bowed her body and lowered her head to hand over the memorial and the token, her voice trembling uncontrollably,

"Your Majesty, my lord asked me to hand it over to you personally, and said that it must not be shown to others."

After receiving the memorial, he opened it, but Xiao Fan skimmed through the two lines and turned to the end. After seeing the familiar inscription and seal, he slammed the memorial directly on the table, making a loud noise.

The contents of this letter of resignation are almost exactly the same as those that were accidentally found in Shen Mu's room that day.

Last night, he said in a gentle and gentle voice that he would be responsible, but now it has only been a few hours, and he hastily sent someone to send a letter of resignation, with the meaning in every line that he is determined to leave the capital.

Looking at the white tiger token on the table, the veins in the corners of Shen Mu's eyes twitched, and he asked Ah Qing in a cold voice, "Where is Shen Mu?"

Ah Qing didn't know why Xiao Fan was angry, she trembled and said in a trembling voice, "My lord, he has something to do today, he should be leaving Beijing now."

"Why are you so busy leaving the capital?" Xiao Fan narrowed his eyes dangerously, his black eyes filled with an indelible chill, "Where did he go?"

Ah Qing, who only knew that Shen Mu would leave the capital today, paled and vigorously shook her head. Recently, he didn't know Shen Mu's whereabouts as well as usual, and Uncle Wang took him to deliver letters these days.

Xiao Fan's breath was too sharp, like a thousand arrows shooting straight at his back, Ah Qing opened his mouth and found that he was too scared to make a sound.

"His Majesty."

At this moment, Jing Fan respectfully begged for an audience, and when he opened the door and saw Ah Qing, surprise flashed in his calm eyes; striding forward to the table, Jing Fan stopped half a step ahead of Ah Qing, tall and tall. A person who was shaking like a sieve stood behind him, "This subordinate was on the way to the Prince Regent's Mansion, and happened to meet two ministers, and they were asking for an audience outside the door."

Outside the door, the two people who were picked up by Jing Yan all the way entered the room to salute, with guilty smirks on their faces; while the one from the household department was swept away by Xiao Fan's cold eyes, and almost instinctively shook his body.

"Your Majesty, I am waiting for today..."

The silver knife he was carrying fell into the palm of his hand, and when he turned his wrist, a cold light flashed, and the back of the knife fell fiercely beside the man's feet. A voice like water sounded in the huge room, the voice was as low as water:

"What have you said to the Prince Regent?"

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty once said that you will, you will build a house in the palace, and you have to demolish the rest of the concubines' palaces; the ministers, the ministers and others thought this was really against the ancestral system, so they went to ask the Regent King for advice—"

"So," taking a deep breath, Xiao Fan almost gritted his back teeth hard, suppressing the overwhelming anger, and said in a deep voice, "What did he say?"

"Your Majesty the Regent told us not to worry about this issue. After saying today, His Majesty will naturally withdraw his order."

"Pingting has thought about it. After all, the Chu family gave birth to me, and they still have an old love."

The girl stood in front of the carriage in a full outfit, slightly bowed to Shen Mu sadly, and said apologetically, "Pingting is really ashamed for not being able to help the lord."

"It doesn't matter, this king said that you should do your best." Shen Mu smiled indifferently, "The carriages next to you will walk with you for a certain distance, and the people from the Chu family should not be able to find you."

Bowing again in gratitude, Chu Pingting smiled, "I haven't seen you all night, and my lord's mood seems to be much clearer than yesterday."

"I just found out today that Miss Chu said a good thing." Not shying away from it, Shen Mu nodded slightly and said softly, "The reason why this king still stays in the capital is because there are still people who can't let go."

Smiling as he watched Chu Pingting leave in the carriage, Shen Mu turned around and glanced at his mansion in this oasis on the outskirts of the capital city, ten miles away, with a choice of thousands of houses, surrounded by bamboo forests, and behind the house there was a small pool where fishing could be done.

At first he liked this house wholeheartedly, and always thought that he could live in comfort after resigning from office; but after visiting it specially for Chu Pingting's matter today, he felt that the original taste was missing.

Before leaving the palace, the two ministers who came to the palace to pay homage recklessly asked him for advice with worried faces.

The moment before he put the detailed budget estimates and house drawings in front of him, Shen Mu always thought that what Xiao Fan said to him was just a joke.

——I want to build a house and trap a person so that he can no longer escape.

At that time, Shen Mu felt strange that even if Xiao Fan didn't stop her, Granny Tian's body would not allow her to leave the capital, and the act of going all out to repair the house was extremely unreasonable.

But if you add Xiao Fan's hesitant and hesitant attitude in the past two days, it seems that all the nonsense and unreasonable proposals before have an answer.

The person Xiao Fan wants to trap and is afraid to escape is probably him.

Suddenly, he remembered that Xiao Fan told him excitedly last night that Xiao Fan didn't have that much confidence and could test Shen Mu's attitude unscrupulously.

Perhaps it was true as Xiao Fan said, in the relationship between the two of them, Shen Mu could do whatever he wanted unscrupulously, but because he knew that Xiao Fan couldn't do without him.

And what did he do to Xiao Fan?

In addition to forcing Xiao Fan to accept his feelings, and blaming Xiao Fan for timidly facing the problem, has he really put himself in Xiao Fan's shoes and thought about where Xiao Fan's anxiety comes from?

He has always claimed to be honest with Xiao Fan, but he always completes everything silently from a distance, and then throws the results, good or bad, to Xiao Fan, forcing him to accept—maybe he has never had a moment, completely Completely, truly trusted or relied on Xiao Fan.

No wonder he hesitated.

Surrounded by bamboo forests, even the air was tinged with a faint fragrance. Shen Mu took a long breath, calmed down and was about to leave for the capital, but suddenly heard the sound of hurried hooves coming out from a distance.

Few people come here, and I don't know who is eager to come here when the sun is shining at this moment——

"Xiao Fan?!"

Pupils shrunk, Shen Mu watched in disbelief as the young man stopped in the backyard and got off his horse. He was still wearing court clothes embroidered with auspicious dragons entrenched, and strode towards him with a sullen expression on his face.

His brain was sluggish for a moment, Shen Mu didn't know how Xiao Fan knew that he had left Beijing, how Xiao Fan knew that he had real estate here, let alone how Xiao Fan did the first thing after learning that he had left. The reaction was like catching a fugitive and chasing him outside the capital without stopping.

With a pain in his waist, Shen Mu was carried directly by Xiao Fan into the bedroom facing the backyard; unable to break free, he was forced to look at Xiao Fan's hard and cold face, so gloomy that he could almost drip water.

Not as gentle and careful as in the past, when he came to the bed, Xiao Fan threw him on the bed a little rough, with bulging veins at the corners of his eyes, stiff and stretched masseter muscles, Shen Mu could even faintly hear his back teeth rubbing fiercely sound.

But even so, when Shen Mu fell on his back on the bed that wasn't soft enough, he still felt a pair of gentle and dry hands firmly dragging the back of his head.

Xiao Fan didn't want him to be hurt.

The chest rose and fell rapidly, and the eyes of the leaning young man were bright red. He raised his hand and slammed hard on the mattress next to Shen Mu's face; the tip of their noses touched, and Xiao Fan's hot breath almost scalded Shen Mu. .

Like a trapped beast fighting, the young man whispered in his ear, "...you lied to me again."

"What's wrong with you?" Raising his hand to touch Xiao Fan's face, Shen Mu asked repeatedly with some worry, "Did you have a sudden attack of headache?"

"Did I say that as long as you stay by my side, it's fine even if you don't do anything."

Both wrists were clasped by Xiao Fan again and raised above his head. Shen Mu felt a pain in his ears, and Xiao Fan, who was speaking next to his ear, bit his earlobe, weakly hoarse, "Why are you always Thinking about leaving."

"...Even if you have to leave, can you tell me in advance."

"...Shen Zinian, don't just leave me alone."

"Xiao Fan, I have no intention of leaving."

The person covering/talking on him trembled so much that Shen Mu was still full of doubts. He didn't know why Xiao Fan thought he was going to run away, but he could clearly feel the powerlessness and pain that the young man was sinking into at this time.

"I'm not going to leave today."

Breaking free from Xiao Fan's shackles with his wrist, Shen Mu finally touched the young man's face, and found that his forehead was covered with delicate coldness.

Gently wiped away the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, he felt his heart clenched tightly, and it was difficult to breathe, "I won't leave in the future."

"Xiao Fan, I will always be with you, don't be afraid."

His body froze, Xiao Fan raised his body slightly, his bloodshot eyes still had fear and uneasiness that could not fade away; as if he couldn't believe his ears, he subconsciously repeated: "You just agreed... ...won't you leave in the future?"

"Yes, I won't leave, and I won't leave in the future—"

I don't know when his eyes were blurred, Shen Mu held Xiao Fan's face in both hands, raised his head and put his forehead against Xiao Fan's forehead, turned his head slightly, and kissed Xiao Fan's lips forcefully; he closed his eyes, a drop of crystal tear slipped from the corner of his eyes drop.

"I feel bad."

I was born chasing freedom, but because of you, I voluntarily put myself in prison and will be trapped by your side forever.

The author has something to say: It's almost five o'clock in the morning...

I originally wanted to post it tomorrow, but I felt stuck in the last chapter and would abuse everyone, so I finished writing ovo in one go

(ps: I may have to change the name of the article again, probably to "After passing through the book, the regent quit". I hope you don't find me QAQ)