When Xia Miaoyuan heard Xia Zhengqi and the prince mention Wei Sanchuan, she danced with excitement.
[Wow, Daddy and Prince Guoguo are so wise!]
[I was just wondering how to remind you, but I didn't expect you to think of the Wei family.]
Xia Zhengqi and the prince couldn't help but look at Xia Miaoyuan, trying hard to suppress the smiles on their faces.
"Come on, Cheng Wan, let's go to the Wei family now." Xia Zhengqi walked to the prince and patted his shoulder.
【Take me there, take me there, I want to go out of the palace to play! 】
When Xia Miaoyuan heard that Xia Zhengqi was going to leave the palace, he got so anxious that he started kicking and digging his hands.
"Every time my sister hears that the master is going to leave the palace, she seems to be very happy and wants to go with him." The prince muttered when he saw this.
Xia Zhengqi looked at Xia Miaoyuan lovingly and said, "Then take her there."
[Yeah! Long live the Emperor!]
Xia Miaoyuan giggled excitedly.
Soon, Xia Zhengqi and the prince changed into casual clothes, and asked the nanny to prepare some milk and diapers for Xia Miaoyuan. The three of them took a carriage and quietly went to the Wei family.
At the Wei Mansion, a servant hurriedly ran into the inner quarters, tripping and falling on the way, and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Master! Young Master! The Emperor is here!"
The old man of the Wei family was playing with birds in the yard. When he heard the servant calling, the bird food in his hand fell to the ground.
"Wha...what? The Emperor is coming?!"
Wei Sanchuan ran out with his robe in hand: "What? The Emperor is here?!"
Before the father and son could react, Xia Zhengqi, the prince and Xia Miaoyuan had already walked into the Wei residence.
"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you, the Emperor, and to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! I beg your forgiveness for being late in receiving you!"
The Wei family father and son knelt down and saluted, speaking in unison.
"Please get up quickly. I am just out for a stroll today with my two children in disguise, and I came to see Elder Wei on the way."
Xia Zhengqi's expression was gentle. He took two steps forward and helped Mr. Wei up.
The Wei family was a family of officials, and one of their ancestors was a prime minister.
Wei Han, the old man of the Wei family, was a Grand Secretary of the Hanlin Academy. Later, when he was old and sick, he simply resigned from his official position and lived a stable life at home.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for not abandoning me and still thinking about an old man like me!" Wei Han laughed heartily.
"Your Majesty, the one the Crown Prince is holding in his arms must be the famous Princess Anguo, right?"
Xia Zhengqi brought Xia Miaoyuan over to show Wei Han: "Exactly. Come, take a look at my daughter. This is my only princess."
"Tsk tsk tsk, the little princess looks like a fairy from heaven!"
"Look at his eyebrows, look at his forehead, he's an extremely smart kid!"
"Oh my, it's only three months old, and it's already like this. How amazing will it be when it grows up? It will be amazing!"
Xia Zhengqi: Mr. Wei, if you can talk, just say more. I love listening!
The prince looked at Wei Han's exaggerated description and Xia Zhengqi's intoxicated expression, and couldn't help but lower his head and roll his eyes.
[Oh my god, maybe he's a university scholar? He's so eloquent and so good at talking!]
[Oh, I really can’t listen to this anymore!]
"Dad, could you please do something more serious? Why don't you talk to the Wei family father and son about Wei Yu'er?"
Xia Miaoyuan really couldn't bear to listen any longer, and closed her big dark eyes in annoyance, leaving only a pair of thick eyelashes trembling slightly.
"Your Majesty, Your Highness, Father, please move to the main hall. Let's sit down and chat over tea."
Wei Sanchuan probably couldn't stand it anymore, so he interrupted Wei Han's exaggerated flattery by inviting everyone into the main hall for tea.
"Okay, okay! Mr. Wei, let's go to the main hall." Xia Zhengqi said in a kind tone.
After everyone was seated, Xia Zhengqi glanced at Eunuch Debao and said, "Old Wei, I remember that your legs and feet are not in good condition, especially in winter when the pain is so severe that you can't get out of bed, so I specially brought some supplements."
"I also asked the academicians of the Imperial Hospital to prescribe some foot bath medicine, which will be good for your foot disease."
Eunuch Debao led two young eunuchs forward and presented the tonics and foot bath medicine.
Wei Han, who had just been fawning over Xia Zhengqi in the courtyard, now had red eyes and tears in his eyes: "How could this old minister deserve such concern from Your Majesty?"
"I, this old minister, am unworthy of this!"
When he said the last sentence, he bent his legs and pretended to kneel down to salute again.
Xia Zhengqi grabbed Wei Han's hand, and said with a smile: "Why shouldn't I be unaware of it? When I was five years old and just started school, you even teased me."
"I still remember how to hold a brush, how to grind ink, how to sit, and how to write. You taught me step by step."
"At that time, I was very playful and refused to sit down and practice calligraphy properly. To this end, you even drew small pictures of the sun, white clouds, mountains, puppies, and kittens, and wrote words underneath them."
"Although you only taught me for a year, I will never forget your enlightenment."
When Wei Han heard this, the corners of his mouth twitched uncontrollably: "Your Majesty, I didn't expect you still remembered..."
"Actually, that's all part of the old minister's job."
When Xia Zhengqi was a prince, Wei Han was the Grand Secretary of the Hanlin Academy.
Because he was an upright person, he was ostracized in the Hanlin Academy at that time, so the difficult and laborious task of educating the prince fell on him.
"Mr. Wei, actually, after you resigned from your official position, I sometimes missed you." Xia Zhengqi smiled.
[Woqu, I've learned a lot today!]
Ever since Xia Miaoyuan heard that Xia Zhengqi gave Wei Han a gift, her eyes widened in disbelief.
[I never expected this, my Emperor father is really good at this!]
[The skill of winning people's hearts is so perfect that it is unforgettable.]
[This touched Old Man Wei so much that he couldn't help but say, "No, no, no."]
Xia Zhengqi: What do you mean by winning people's hearts? Everything I said came from the heart, okay?
"Oh, after I resigned from my post and stayed at home, I also missed Your Majesty. I often asked Sanchuan how Your Majesty was feeling recently." Wei Han smiled.
"By the way, Mr. Wei, you only have Sanchuan as your son in Beijing?" Xia Zhengqi took the opportunity to shift the topic to Wei Sanchuan.
"Yes, I have four sons in total, and Sanchuan is the eldest son." Wei Han stroked his beard and said slowly.
"Of the other three, two have been sent out, and one is still farming in his hometown."
Xia Zhengqi looked calm and said in a gentle tone, "That's not bad either. I have an older son to take care of me."
"What about the daughters? Are they all married in the capital?"
When Wei Han heard the words "daughters", his face suddenly darkened, but after a moment, it relaxed again.
"I have three daughters. The eldest and second daughters were originally married in the capital, but now they are both with their husbands in office and are not in the capital."
"Only the youngest daughter..." When he said this, Wei Han's tone suddenly became difficult and he could hardly continue.
Wei Sanchuan quickly spoke up to offer a solution: "Your Majesty, please do not be offended. My third sister is the wife of the Minister of War, Lord Liu."
"Unfortunately, she died suddenly of illness four years ago."
"My third sister passed away suddenly at such a young age, and it was a huge blow to my father."
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