Yinzhen was a person who valued the quality of life. Perhaps because he had been too upset lately, he quickly confirmed the time and took his family out of the city gate early in the morning, rushing towards the villa.

The phrase "galloping" actually describes the mood. The carriage was moving quite smoothly. Liu Liu was being held in Yi Hua's arms with her little mouth open, seemingly drooling.

Yihua carefully avoided wiping her flower bud-shaped head. The little girl has developed a love for beauty. Yesterday, Yuling braided an intricate shape for her, and she wouldn't let her take it apart last night. I wonder if she's having a hard time sleeping.

Honghui didn't hide the presence of the eldest princess and Hongyun, and whispered to Yihua.

"Mother, I went to see Uncle Fourteen and ran into Uncle Thirteen." Honghui's expression was somewhat complicated. He knew Uncle Fourteen was unruly, but he didn't expect Uncle Thirteen to be so childish in front of him. In short, the two of them talked for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, and then things got chaotic and funny.

“Uncle Fourteen is in good spirits.” Honghui smiled and concluded, “He also said it was a pity that he was under house arrest, otherwise he would definitely have come to join in the fun.”

"In my opinion, Uncle Fourteen is probably hoping to keep you under house arrest for a while longer." Honghui thought of something amusing, and couldn't hide his smile.

Yi Hua also found it amusing. Yin Zhen had a natural bloodline repression towards the Fourteenth Prince. Ever since the Fourteenth Prince came to "cultivate" once, every time Yin Zhen asked him to come together, it was because something had happened or he was sick.

Yinzhen didn't indulge him. Every now and then, he would personally arrest people and force them to do labor. He would also use Honghui's labor results to "humiliate" him.

"You're older than Honghui, and you both have the same workload, yet you don't even get as much output as he, a mere child. You're really something, yet you dare to go around boasting that you're skilled in archery and horsemanship. I wonder how much of that's exaggerated!"

Thus, amidst anger and shame, Yinzhen persevered intermittently. He was overjoyed that he had escaped this confinement, or perhaps more than one calamity.

Yi Hua examined Hong Hui's arm; it moved freely, and he was quite the dashing young man.

"Mother seems to have heard that the young lady of the Fucha family invited you to go on an outing?" Of course, it wasn't just the two of you going on an outing, but rather a group of young men and women from the same circle playing together.

Honghui rarely participated in this type of activity before; she remembered that her son had gone last time.

Honghui sneered upon hearing this: "Madam Fucha wants to push her second daughter onto her son, and hear that girl call her 'Auntie'? What a joke! Does she think her son is someone she can summon and dismiss at will?"

Yi Hua shook her head: "If you don't want to go, then you don't have to go."

Honghui didn't want to talk about this with Yihua, so he changed the subject: "Mother, I recently learned a new piece of music from a court musician. I'll play it for you when we get to the villa."

“Okay,” Yi Hua replied.

Upon arriving at the villa's entrance, Yi Hua lifted the curtain and saw a carriage parked there: "Who's at the gate?"

Yinzhen had been riding a horse all morning, and his good mood vanished the moment he saw the person at the gate.

"Honghui!" His voice was unusually annoyed.

Yi Hua saw Hong Hui covering his head guiltily, and then looked more closely at the person standing next to the carriage outside. It turned out to be Ulanara Mingxuan.

Yi Hua was also a little annoyed: "Hong Hui, what are you doing?!"

“Mother, Mingxuan came to see his son. He said that he finally made it onto the list of successful candidates, and in his joy, he discovered his aunt’s intentions. He wants to tell his eldest sister his thoughts in person, and he will handle things with his aunt.” Honghui glanced at the eldest princess. “I think we can’t just sentence someone to death without listening to the appeal.”

"Besides, Father and you are both here. If he can't see us, then let him go back. If he doesn't even have this much perseverance to become our son-in-law, then he's even less likely to succeed." Honghui said nonchalantly, but Yihua could tell that he was optimistic about this marriage.

This brings us to the question of how men and women view marriage. Men believe that as long as I'm happy, it's not a problem. Only women truly understand how destructive a deliberately sabotaging mother-in-law can be.

Women lived in the inner quarters of the home, spending more time with their mothers-in-law. Besides, even now, the age-old dilemma of who to save if their mother or wife fell into the river is unimaginable, let alone in this dynasty where filial piety was paramount.

Yi Hua lifted the curtain and, seeing that Yin Zhen did not refuse Ming Xuan's request to go in, tapped Hong Hui's forehead: "I think you want to get a beating again. Let's go in too."

When Liu Liu woke up, she was both excited and a little scared to see a somewhat unfamiliar place. She clung tightly to Yi Hua's leg with her little hands, like a koala clinging to Yi Hua.

Hongyun picked up Liuliu and the two of them played happily together.

Yi Hua pointed to the pavilion in the middle of the lake: "Princess, I'll wait for you here. Don't be afraid. Tell him what you're thinking. I'll stay here. Nothing will happen."

No one knows what the two of them said. Yi Hua was observant and noticed that after the eldest princess returned, she had a thin hairpin in her hair that was barely visible unless you looked closely.

The eldest princess noticed Yi Hua's gaze and lowered her head without saying a word.

Yi Hua understood and didn't ask anything more. Instead, she got ready to take the children fishing.

That was a place that Yihua had already planned out when she came last time. A medium-sized artificial lake was dug in the manor, and all kinds of fish and shrimp were raised in the lake.

The fish are as long as a child's arm, and the prawns are as big as a palm. They look glossy and smooth, and they're sure to taste delicious whether they're pan-fried, deep-fried, or grilled.

Yi-hua brought fishing gear over earlier, but after a day of sunbathing, she only caught two small fish. After looking at each other, she and Liu-liu decided to release the poor little fish back into the wild.

Since deciding to come, Yi Hua had ordered people to prepare fishing nets. She was going to fish in the lake this time, and she was determined to catch them like turtles in a jar. She would also add his favorite braised prawns to Hong Hui's dish, sweet and sour fish to Yin Zhen's dish, and fish ball soup to Liu Liu's dish.

Perfect!

Thinking this, Yi Hua saw that Yin Zhen was busy with the boys, so she couldn't sit still anymore and took the eldest princess and Liu Liu to the artificial lake.

Yi Hua dismissed her attendants, and seeing that there were no outsiders, she bent down, rolled up her skirt, took off her shoes and socks, picked up her fishing net, and excitedly prepared to go into the lake.

Yu Ling rushed forward and hugged Yi Hua: "Fujin, the lake water is very cold. You are not well, so you can't go down. Tell me what you want, and I will find a way."

Yi Hua pointed to her feet: "I want you to let go."

Yu Ling looked anxious but couldn't say anything. When she looked down, she was even more devastated. She saw Liu Liu following suit, taking off her shoes and socks, holding a specially made small fishing net, and eager to try it out.

"My lady, the second princess is still too young; she cannot go into the water."

Yi Hua knew that Liu Liu was a healthy child: "The ginger soup is ready. Does the eldest princess want to come down and play?"

The eldest princess looked longingly at it, hesitated for a moment, and then shook her head. She couldn't be as carefree as her stepmother.

Yi Hua didn't insist, and took Liu Liu into the water.

This was the first time Liu Liu had played in the water like this, and she kept screaming with joy.