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"I'm not a child. I will protect myself. Why is the Chen'er not here? "Ziyi, come and rest!"

Shen Zhu said with a smile. When she saw that Zi Yi's sweat was dripping down his face, she felt her heart ache and quickly called him over to rest.

Zi Yi nodded and walked over slowly to take the handkerchief that Shen Zhu handed to him. He wiped his sweat and sat on the chair.

He looked left and right, but didn't see any trace of Ming Yuchen. He was obviously still here just a moment ago, and had no idea where he had gone to now.

"Is Ziyi tired? And the Chen'er? "

Shen Zhu was recently helping Zi Yi look for a teacher to perform, but he had yet to find a suitable candidate.

Compared to Zi Yi, she was more worried about Ming Yuchen.

His body hadn't completely recovered yet. The illness he had brought out from his mother's womb couldn't be completely cured. He could only be more careful in the future and take good care of it.

"I don't know either."

Zi Yi shook his head. Just now, Ming Yuchen was just sitting there without saying a word, not even looking at him.

Afterwards, he did not look at Ming Yuchen and only focused on the horse stance. He did not know when he left.

"Oh."

Shen Zhu was puzzled, wasn't the relationship between Zi Yi and Ming Yuchen really good?

However, ever since Zi Yi had returned here, the atmosphere between the two of them had become very strange, as if they were in a very awkward situation from the moment they met.

She looked carefully at Zi Yi's expression and saw that he didn't seem abnormal. She suddenly felt that he might have been overthinking things.

"I'll go check the back. Maybe the Chen'er is there."

Su Zongwen was a little worried, and started to walk towards the back.

The sun was shining bright today, if no one noticed that Ming Yuchen had fainted, then it would be bad.

When he walked to the back, he saw Ming Yuchen sitting alone on the stairs with his head on his knees, looking a little lonely.

"Chen'er?"

Su Zongwen quietly shouted and sat beside him.

After not seeing Ming Yuchen for so long, he felt that Ming Yuchen had matured a little.

"Why are you sitting here alone? Have you quarreled with Ziyi? "

Su Zongwen guessed that Zi Yi's depression during this period of time might have something to do with Ming Yuchen. Zi Yi was just a child after all, and there weren't many places for him to be active.

Ming Yuchen raised his head, "I just want to get some fresh air. Bro, when you and Sister-in-law were married, did you like her?"

He looked at Su Zongwen, trying to get an answer.

His parents, grandparents, and even many people had been ordered by his parents and matchmakers, but he had some doubts. Could marriage really be like this?

Su Zongwen was startled by his question, and only spoke up after a while: "Before I married Yue Niang, we weren't familiar with each other, so naturally we couldn't say that we liked her, but it was just that after some time, when we slowly got to know each other, I started to like her."

He thought back to the past and thought that his life would be passed in peace. However, it seemed that he would be even happier after being moved by love.

Ming Yuchen thoughtfully nodded his head, looking at Su Zongwen's smiling eyes. He couldn't help but wonder in his heart: Could it be that when he's married in the future, he will be like this, falling in love with that Qian Jin whom he has never met?

No, he didn't think so. He couldn't do it.

"Chen'er is getting married in three years. Are you nervous?"

Su Zongwen thought about the matter of the Emperor giving him a marriage order. Could it be that this brat was already imagining the days after marriage?

"No worries, let's go back." Ming Yuchen shook his head, he stood up and walked inside, he did not want to continue discussing any more.

As far as he was concerned, he couldn't be with the person he liked, so marrying anyone was the same.

Su Zongwen could feel the change in Ming Yuchen's emotions, hearing his words, he could only stand up and follow him back.

Zi Yi, who was in the yard, had already started his horse riding again.

Since Shen Zhu had nothing to do, he decided to just sit to the side and read. Hearing the footsteps, he turned around to see that Su Zongwen and Ming Yuchen had returned.

"Brother Wen, why are you taking so long?"

She put down the book, pulled Su Zongwen along and sat down, then looked at Ming Yuchen, "Chen'er, sit as well."

"I'm going to take the horse stance, so I won't be sitting."

Ming Yuchen walked to Zi Yi's side and imitated his actions.

"Brother Wen, did you just chat with Chen'er?"

She sat there for a long time, waiting. If she didn't come back, she would go and find them.

He also seemed to be in a rather absent-minded state, so it was unknown what he was thinking.

"Yes, the Chen'er has already been bestowed a marriage with the Emperor. He probably isn't used to it."

Su Zongwen guessed as he wrapped his arms around Shen Zhu's shoulders and looked at the two people in the horse stance.

"So it's like that. I thought something big was going on, so I'm relieved."

Shen Zhu heaved a sigh of relief, his originally tense heart had finally relaxed.

Previously, she was worried about Ming Yuchen's sickness, but now, she was afraid that Ming Yuchen's mood wasn't good.

"It's just that, Chen'er wants to marry the Empress's relative, it might not be a good thing, it's likely that the Empress arranged it on purpose. I am worried that the moment this person enters the door, Chen'er will have a difficult time within the Duke Palaces. "

Su Zongwen frowned, even if he knew that this was the empress's trap, he could not not not agree. The prince must also know, perhaps in the future, he would not tell Ming Yuchen anything important in the prince's mansion, unless the empress family fell.

"Can't we really change the engagement?"

Shen Zhu asked softly, looking at Ming Yuchen with sympathy.

He was born weak and even his marriage was controlled by someone. It was likely that he would never be able to follow his wishes in this life.

"Whether the empress falls or not, this marriage will never change. Furthermore, the empress has ingenious thoughts, and arranged for a distant relative to her. Her position isn't high, and the empress's honor and disgrace have little to do with them." Moreover, the matter of annulling the engagement has had a huge impact on a woman's reputation, and once a person's life is involved, that doesn't make sense. "

He calmly analyzed this matter, hoping that the woman was a good person who would treat Ming Yuchen well.

"I don't know about those things either. I just hope that in the future, Ziyi can be with someone he likes. Brother Wen, promise me, they have to be willing to marry the children, okay? " Shen Zhu said as she shook his arm. As a mother, she tried her best to buy some things for her child.

Su Zongwen nodded, "Alright, I agree."

He held Shen Zhu's hand to let her feel at ease.

"Alright, you two can rest. Yue Niang, let them stay. If we stay here, they won't be able to speak properly. "

He got up and held Shen Zhu's hand as they walked towards his room, just in time to see how Jingshu was doing in embroidery.

After the two of them had left, Zi Yi and Ming Yuchen sat on the bench to rest.

"Yi'er, if you're tired, rest. Don't push yourself."

Ming Yuchen warned in a low voice. Even though he saw that Zi Yi was unable to persevere any longer, he still clenched his teeth and endured.

"I know."

Without even looking at Ming Yuchen's face, he began to play with the handkerchief Shen Zhu had given him.

Upon seeing Ming Yuchen, the two words "bestowed marriage" stabbed into his heart like a thorn.

"Is Yi'er in a bad mood?"

Ming Yuchen asked, his eyes landing on Su Yun's head, he raised his hand wanting to touch it, but he raised his hand halfway, then retracted it back, placing it on his knee and clenched it into a fist.

Zi Yi had already moved out of the palace and had never had the same thoughts as him, so he should have seen it clearly earlier.

Ming Yuchen felt that his thoughts were dirty.

"No, I'm just a little tired. Big Brother Yuchun, how have you been recently? Still coughing? "

Zi Yi blurted out his greetings. By the time he had reacted, he had already spoken.

He felt that his question was somewhat unnecessary. The Prince's estate had doctors and servants. Which one of them was not better at taking care of and caring for a person than he was?

"It's alright, but coughing is an old habit. I still cough occasionally."

He smiled lightly. His gaze towards Ziyi became a bit gentler, as if he had returned to the days of his manor …

Zi Yi often supervised his medicine and lectured him like a small adult. He often made him at a loss whether to laugh or to cry.

"That's good."

Zi Yi nodded, a little disappointed. He thought that Ming Yuchen wouldn't need to drink medicine often anymore, and he wouldn't need someone to remind him of this.

In the future, Ming Yuchen would get married, and he would also have his own things to do. In the future, he might even get married too.

Just like now, the two of them no longer had anything to say to each other, so they could only stay silent.

This atmosphere made Ziyi feel very uncomfortable.

Ming Yuchen seemed to have seen through his thoughts, and said: "The jade I gave you, did you keep it well?"

He didn't see that Zi Yi was hanging from his waist and felt a bit disappointed.