Aci was the maid who came into the mansion with Madam Shen this time.

Li Chenjiao sat on the other side. She had been so focused on her mother that she hadn't noticed who had come to the capital with her. When she heard the name Aci, she subconsciously looked at her mother.

Shen was talking to Aman with her head down and did not notice her gaze.

Li Chenjiao blinked, and her eyes slowly welled up with a thin layer of moisture.

A maid named Aci quickly entered with small, quick steps. She took out a square box from the small bundle on her back and handed it to Madam Shen.

Shen held Aman in her arms and had Aman open the wooden carved box.

Li Chenjiao looked at the things that her mother had prepared for the Second Princess and smiled as she looked at them.

"Baby! Baby!" The little girl was clearly overjoyed.

Li Chenjiao looked in the direction of the box and saw eight small, exquisite, and lifelike clay dolls inside. Each doll had a round face and a smile, just like the lucky dolls in New Year paintings.

The object looked familiar. After thinking for a moment, she realized, "This is... something I used to play?"

Li Chenjiao remembered that she had bitten a clay doll a few times, and she could still recall how her teeth ached from it.

Madam Shen just smiled and said, "The children have probably seen all the new gadgets. It's better to bring out the old things so that they can still remember us."

She could prepare some novelties that the children would like, but the capital is different from other places. If the children encounter missionaries in the palace, it could easily cause trouble.

Furthermore, the children will be spending a lot more time in the palace in the future...

Shen lowered her eyes, and her smile vanished.

Her daughter is none other than Consort Qi, Li, from history, and the current Fourth Prince will one day ascend the throne.

Ever since she learned that her daughter had been chosen to be a concubine in the Fourth Prince's mansion, all her hopes had been dashed. The fact that she was able to visit her daughter now was only because her daughter was favored.

Madam Shen knew in her heart that her daughter had given birth to two sons and a daughter for the Fourth Prince while they were still in the Prince's residence. Although there seemed to be some mistakes in the process, she wondered what would happen to her daughter afterward...

No one can say for sure. Even she could travel from the modern era. Who knows how many twists and turns, how many changes there will be?

She dared not do anything, fearing that if she did anything, everything would change.

Furthermore, she was merely the wife of a fourth-rank official, and there wasn't much she could do.

It's all up to human effort. Madam Shen didn't intend to tell her daughter all this, since she herself didn't know much, and could only offer a few reminders.

When Shen came to her senses, the second princess was happily playing with a clay doll, and she laughed along with her.