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No matter how Dong Shu guessed, she couldn't reject Empress Hu once she found out that she wanted to see her.

Xu Shiqiu was familiar with Dong Shu's personality, but he could guess what she was thinking the moment he saw her expression, ”Let's first send Yuanxi back to the Mama Yan and the wet nurse together, then change into a set of clothes and pay respects to the Empress.”

Once Xu Shiqiu said this, even Yue Rong and Yue Yin couldn't say anything.

After all, to pay a visit to the Empress was indeed not suitable for their clothes.

It was not because their clothes were dirty, but because of Xu Shiqiu and Dong Shu's habits. When they were at home, they mostly wore comfortable clothes made of cloth and cotton, which really didn't suit their current status.

Although Dong Shu did not instantly understand what she meant, she still understood it on the way back to the Shihuan Courtyard.

Thinking about how her husband wanted to accompany her to see the Empress Hu, she wanted to first tell him about the news she had just heard.

Who knew that before she could even speak, Xu Shiqiu had already embraced her with one hand and said softly, ”I just heard some things, and I think the Empress wants to ask about this matter. When I see the Empress later, your husband will tell her.”

Dong Shu was startled upon hearing Xu Shiqiu's words, but just as he was about to speak, she realized that her husband's eyes were hinting him not to speak.

Receiving Hubby's hint, Dong Shu could only clench her mouth and not speak anymore.

Xu Shiqiu and Dong Shu's actions were extremely fast, once they returned to the Shihuan Courtyard, they would hand Yuanxi over to Mama Yan and Yuanxi's wet nurse, and the two would immediately change and wash up.

It was only after Yue Rong and Yue Yin brought them away from the Xu Family did the two realise that they were actually not heading towards the palace, but towards a house that was not too far away from the Xu Family.

Dong Shu had long known about this house, it was just that she had always heard that this house's owner was very mysterious, but never would she have thought that this house belonged to the Empress Hu.

When they had reached here, Empress Hu was standing in the courtyard looking up at the withered vine that was clinging onto the stone pillar. Sensing some movement behind her, she suddenly opened her mouth and said: ”This house was something that Yan'er begged from my hands all those years ago. He said that his little sister Zhu Er liked purple vines the most, and he wanted to plant a purple vine here at Main Yard. When the purple vine blooming is at its greatest, he would marry her and bring her in. ” After speaking to here, Empress Hu suddenly turned around, stared at Dong Shu who was only three steps away, and said: ”Tell this palace, is my Yan'er still alive?”

Just as Empress Hu finished speaking, a tear also fell from the corner of her eyes.

After all, after she had heard from the palace that the 'bloodline of the previous crown prince remained in this world', she had quickly sorted out everything that had happened recently.

Soon after, she thought of the Xu Yanzhu that her eldest grandson had always been thinking about.

And her people very quickly found out that Xu Yanzhu had left the capital with his people last year, after she was sent to the main hall by Xu Family.

Although she hadn't found out who took Xu Yanzhu away, her intuition told her that the rumor was true. The person who was most likely to be alive in her generation was the eldest grandson who had wanted to marry, Ye Yan!

Dong Shu and Xu Shiqiu never thought that the Empress Hu would actually be so smart. Just based on these things, she already guessed all this.

However, when they thought about the Mama Yan and the few secret guards that the Empress Hu had arranged to protect beside Dong Shu, they realized that the reason they were able to hide this from her for so long was also because of the results they had paid attention to.

Thinking up to this point, Dong Shu and Xu Shiqiu looked at each other, before Xu Shiqiu finally spoke: ”Empress, he is now called Yan Ye.”

When Xu Shiqiu said this, the tears in Empress Hu's eyes fell uncontrollably.

Her hands trembled as she tried to pull at something, but she stopped mid-air. Then, with trembling lips, she asked, ”Since he's still alive, why isn't he coming to see me, this grandmother? Doesn't he know that my grandmother really misses him? ”

Xu Shiqiu was really unable to answer this question.

He thought about it for a moment, then explained everything that he and Yan Ye had said to each other, ”Yan Ye previously said that he would come to see you when the new emperor ascends the throne.”

”The new Emperor ascended the throne?” Just when Xu Shiqiu thought that she would say something like 'The throne should be his', Empress Hu suddenly continued: ”Could it be that he thinks that after experiencing so many things, I will forcefully make him sit in that lonely position?”

When her son was still alive, Empress Hu had indeed not thought of giving up the throne. However, after experiencing so much and seeing so much, she no longer held the throne in any regard.

In the past, she had thought about how happy she would be if she wasn't the empress and her son wasn't the crown prince, and how she was now like the old lady from other families, living her last years with her grandchildren.

The moment this idea popped out, Empress Hu was immediately immersed in this fantasy.

However, after walking out of the fantasy, she felt like she was in a dream. Her children and grandchildren were all gone, and there was no longer a day that she could bear the shame of having a grandson.

However, she had never expected that this day would actually come.

Dong Shu truly liked Empress Hu. No matter how good Empress Hu treated her in the beginning, after a year of interaction, she had treated her very well.

Her parents had left early, and although her mother-in-law had treated her well, the feeling was different.

She truly felt care and care from her 'mother' from the Empress Hu.

So when she saw that the Empress Hu was sad, she unwillingly raised her hand and pulled on Xu Shiqiu's sleeves.

After feeling the Young Girl pulling at him, Xu Shiqiu immediately recovered from the shock he had from hearing what the Empress Hu had just said.

He really did not expect that the things that Yan Ye was worried about previously, actually did not exist.

The Empress Hu did not have the intention of letting him seize the throne.