However, in the first year of Tai Shi, the ministers were still not used to the Emperor's personal habits, so the hot spring was disturbed several times.

One of the most bothersome was Shen Yi.

On the fifth day of January, Shen Yi returned to the capital to report after successfully escorting back the war compensation fund. He reckoned that the two men should already be done being lovey-dovey at this time, it would not be too much of a nuisance to visit. Thus he went home to pick up some bottles of wine made by his father and went straight to the northern suburbs to meet Gu Yun.

Old Master Shen liked to mess around with this and that all year round. He once brewed too much wine without anyone to gift it to, the family servants had brought it to Wang Nan Tower for them to sell on their behalf. Unexpectedly, two large carts of the homebrewed wine were sold out in three days. Since then, Master Shen's home wine had become very popular for a while, even one drop was hard to find.

When the old man heard about this, he resolutely played hard to get and refused to brew in large quantities. Each time he only produced three or two bottles of wine and only sent them to his relatives and close friends. If he had nothing to do, he would ask people to write a story around the process of his home brewing in the tabloids. People could only look but not drink, truly despicable.

In the end, even the simple little wine jar of Shen family had become a new fashion in the capital, and Master Shen's homebrewed wine became a valuable gift, perfect for the poor and old-school Shen Yi to bring out to ask for a favor.

Unfortunately, the famous wine was only in Gu Yun's hands for a while before it was ruthlessly confiscated by His Majesty. Chang Geng gently but determinedly carried away the wine bottle and said to him, "I'll ask someone to warm it up then give it to you."

There was no telling why Gu Yun seemed unhappy and angry, Shen Yi was confused. As soon as Chang Geng left, he prodded Gu Yun with his elbow: "The Emperor of a country takes care of you so well, what are you displaying that face for?"

Gu Yun gave him a stomach aching glance and waved his hand weakly: "What the hell do you know."

Shen Yi wanted to retort, but when the words came to his lips, he remembered that he had something to ask for with his visit today. It was inconvenient to offend that Gu too much, he had to lower his voice and suppress his temper: "Zi Xi, I have something to ask you."

"Speak," Gu Yun mumbled weakly.

Shen Yi swallowed his saliva and asked solemnly, "If I want to propose to Miss Chen, what should I do to not appear too sudden?"