The Regent and His Wife Couldn't Possibly be so Loving.

53

Yunying pushed open the door carrying a large mahogany food box, and put the Suzhou-style snacks in the food box on the round table next to the couch, saying, "The prince knows that you like snacks, so he specially ordered people to collect all the famous snacks from Gusu early in the morning, saying that he wanted you to try them."

"Will you please get up and eat something?"

Mingyi glanced at the delicate and fragrant snacks on the round table, and thought of Xie Shu, and said lightly: "No, I don't have much appetite."

They also had to deal with the aftermath of the new embankment, the resettlement of refugees, and the assassination attempt they had previously encountered on the canal.

Then, for several days in a row, Xie Shu was out.

Although Gusu is also located in the Jiangnan Road, it is the ancestral home of the Xie family after all. The Xie family has taken root here for hundreds of years and has a deep foundation here that cannot be easily shaken.

In addition, Xie was Wen's former husband's family, and Su Jinyuan was concerned about Wen, so he would not do anything reckless.

Therefore, since Mingyi followed Xie Shu into Gusu, she had entered a peaceful place.

Xie Shu has a cold personality and has little relationship with other relatives in the Xie family. He is only close to his grandmother who raised him and his uncle Xie Han, who is only a few years older than him and went to school with him since childhood.

Ever since her eldest son passed away, Old Lady Xie has been in poor health. When it rains, she can't stand up and can only lie on the couch.

Unfortunately, the weather has not been good these days and the old lady has fallen ill again.

Old Lady Xie stayed in the house to recuperate and didn't see anyone. She rejected all the invitations she received in the past few days.

But one of the posts gave Old Lady Xie a headache.

Mingyi had been accompanying the old lady every day these days. When she heard about this, she asked the maid who served beside the old lady Xie, "What is the invitation?"

Mammy replied: "This post is actually related to His Highness."

"Your Highness, you held a charity sale in the capital earlier to raise funds for disaster relief for the people in Jiangnan. This attracted prestigious officials and gentry from all over the country to follow suit, including Gusu."

"There is a charity sale at Kaiyuan Temple this afternoon. I had invited you to go, but now it seems you can't go."

"It's not a big deal. There was an authentic work of a famous artist that my ancestor liked at the charity sale. She has been coveting it for years. If she misses this opportunity, it will be hard to find it again."

Mingyi was a little interested in the Gusu charity sale. She was bored staying in the garden these days, so she said to the nanny, "Since that's the case, why don't I go there on behalf of the old lady?"

The nanny couldn't act on her own, so she told Old Lady Xie what Mingyi meant.

Old Madam Xie agreed, and only asked her to be back before nightfall. Although she knew that Mingyi was followed by Xie Shu's secret guards and Gusu was near her home, she still sent people to protect Mingyi before letting her go.

Although not as solemn and majestic as the Da Ci'en Temple in Beijing, the Kaiyuan Temple in Suzhou is also very popular.

Many of the city's prestigious gentry, officials, their families, and wealthy businessmen have come for the charity sale today, and the temple gate is filled with horse-drawn carriages.