Chapter 109: Modern Extra: There is no throne to inherit...
Taoyuan Street, Gu family.
In spring, the peach trees from the beginning to the end of Taoyuan Street are in bloom. When the wind blows, the pink and white peach blossoms dance in the wind. The little girls taking pictures under the trees quickly strike poses and urge their companions to take pictures quickly.
“Hey, this is a really beautiful photo.”
"A peach blossom falling on your hair is really atmospheric."
"Let's go to Taoyuan Mountain quickly. There aren't many people here right now and no one will compete with us for a good spot."
A group of young girls walked away talking and laughing. The cool spring breeze picked up a petal and landed it under the window of the Gu family by the road. The remaining wind rolled up the thin white gauze curtain, and the person sleeping in the house slowly woke up.
It has been more than a month since Gu Youan returned to the modern era. She slowly got out of bed and walked to the window. Standing by the window and looking out, it was really a joy to see the young girls in their prime.
"An An, I made millet porridge this morning. You and your partner should come over for breakfast."
Youzi was standing in her yard, calling her. Gu Youan leaned halfway out the window and said with a smile, "Zhou Qi isn't home. He might have gone out to buy breakfast."
There was a breakfast shop at the foot of Taoyuan Mountain. They had eaten there once. Gu Youan said the freshly fried dough sticks there were delicious. Zhou Qi would go buy some for her whenever he had time, walking there and back, not minding the three or four kilometers round trip.
Yuzi responded loudly, "Hey, your man is so hardworking. He didn't even sleep in early in the morning to go buy you breakfast."
"If you don't want to come to my house for dinner, forget it. I'll clean up and prepare lunch. I'll serve you two bowls and put them in your kitchen. You can eat later."
"OK."
When Gu Youan returned five years after his disappearance, Youzi's farmhouse had become quite famous. As long as it was open, there would always be at least five or six tables of customers at noon. In order not to delay the lunch break, they would wash the vegetables and kill the chickens after breakfast.
While Youzi was busy, Gu Youan also went to the bathroom to wash up. Seeing her young face and body in the mirror, she smiled. Now she is also a young girl.
How old was she when she died in the Zhou Dynasty? She seemed to be sixty-four. Ten years in the Zhou Dynasty is one year in the modern era?
Still not used to the switch from old to young, Gu Youan thought about the past while washing her face. She thought of her A Yuan. A Yuan must have been heartbroken when she died.
The phone rang. I picked up a handkerchief, wiped the water off my hands, and answered the call.
"Are you back from buying fried dough sticks?"
On the other end of the phone, Zhou Qi said helplessly: "I'm back, but I have a surprise. Please make preparations."
An unexpected surprise? What unexpected surprise? Gu Youan was still thinking after hanging up the phone.
Zhou Qi hadn't come back yet, so Gu Youan went to the kitchen and put the millet porridge that Youzi had just brought on the table, and then took the bowls and chopsticks.
"Ah!!! Gu Youan, get out here!"
Gu Youan was startled by Youzi's scream and ran out quickly: "What's wrong?"
Yuzi pointed at the two people standing at the entrance of the yard with shaking hands, her anger almost bursting out of her eyes: "Gu Youan, you've become something. You disappeared for a few years just to be someone's stepmother?!"
Gu Youan followed the direction Youzi pointed and looked at the two people, one big and one small, her man, her son!
Looking at the child's appearance, she looks about 70% like Zhou Qi, but, she... is his biological mother, right?!
Gu Youan was stunned. It was fine if Zhou Qi had come through with them, but why did Yuan come with her? Yuan still looked like a four or five-year-old child?
Oh my God, are you kidding me?
"Gu Youan! Say something!" Youzi jumped up in anger.
Gu Youan tentatively called out, "A Yuan?"
"Mother!"
A child in dirty clothes trotted over, and Gu Youan quickly squatted down and picked up his son.
Youzi's eyes widened: "What mother? Are you still using those ancient tricks? Let me tell you, calling her mother is useless, let alone calling her Queen Mother. Gu Youan, I'm telling you..."
"Stop, stop, stop. Listen to me first. This is my biological son, born to Zhou Qi and me. He's my biological son!"
Yuzi's words got stuck in her throat and she couldn't say anything. "Your own son? Where did you two leave your son when you came out of the mountains?"
"This..."
Gu Youan looked at Zhou Qi, who sighed, "It's my fault. The first time we came back, we were worried that the child wouldn't be used to riding in a car, so we left him at a relative's house. I didn't expect him to come here on his own."
"You're talking nonsense. Can a four or five-year-old child travel far away by himself? How can he buy a ticket and take the bus?" Youzi obviously didn't believe it.
Gu Youan returned after five years of absence, using the excuse that she lost her memory and wandered the mountains, ran into Zhou Qi, and the two got married, only to regain her memory and return. This flimsy excuse suggests that Yuzi was so happy to see her back that she ignored everything else. No one with a clear mind would believe it.
Gu Youan and Zhou Qi looked at each other. Youzi sneered, "Gu Youan, what excuse are you trying to find to lie to me?"
A Yuan smiled very sweetly and poked his mother's arm: "Mom, what should I call this beautiful aunt?"
"This is mom's...mom's best friend, you can call her aunt."
A Yuan smiled at Youzi: "Hello, Auntie. My name is Zhou Yannian, and my nickname is A Yuan."
Even when Yuan was pretending to be good, Gu Youan couldn't keep his cool, and Youzi couldn't resist it either. She covered her chest and said, "Gu Youan, ah Gu Youan, think about it carefully and give me a reasonable explanation later. For Yuan's sake, I won't bother with you."
Gu Youan breathed a sigh of relief. It was fine as long as Youzi didn't bother with her. Apart from Youzi, she had plenty of ways to deal with other people outside.
"Yuzu, go get busy. When you're done, come over to my house in the afternoon and sit down."
Yuzu said, "Wait, you three aren't leaving, are you?"
"I'm not leaving."
"That's good. You and I will go to the elementary school this afternoon to pick up our son. We can also go to the nearby kindergarten to ask if we can enroll your son, Yuan, in the class."
"No need."
Yuan is so old, it doesn't seem appropriate for him to study with a group of kids.
"No, what child doesn't study? It's decided!"
Yuzi's tone that did not allow for refusal made Gu Youan at a loss for words, so he could only nod in agreement.
When the family of three returned home, Zhou Qi put the breakfast he bought on the table and took his son to the kitchen to wash his hands.
"Eat first, and we'll talk about it after dinner."
After breakfast, they gave Yuan a bath and changed him into clean clothes. The family of three sat on the sofa, and the couple looked at their young son.
Yuan seemed unaccustomed to the appearance of his own doll. He held the doll uncomfortably and looked around: "Mom, this place is exactly the same as your space."
Zhou Qi's eyes were dangerous: "Gu Youan, didn't you tell me before that Yuan could enter the space?"
"What's the point of saying it? Yuan is my son and is related to me by blood. Are you related to me by blood?"
Gu Youan said: "Let's not talk about this. A Yuan, tell me, what happened after your father and I died? How did you get here?"
Gu Youan had already learned from Zhou Qi that he and she died on the same day, and before his death he only instructed his son to bury them in the Beishan Mausoleum.
When the couple were old, Yuan knew that her fate was rather strange, and he was the only one who could handle the funeral.
"I followed my father's orders and sent you to the Beishan Mausoleum. Taoist Li Xuanyue from Tianyi Temple buried you. He set up a reincarnation formation in your mausoleum and then sealed it."
"How did you get here? How old are you?"
"I lived past seventy, but I abdicated at fifty. After abdicating, I sailed out to sea like you did. A few years later, I came back and found it boring. After returning to the Great Zhou, I lived in our home in Songjiang City."
Like his father, he had only one queen and had two sons and one daughter. He had a good relationship with the queen and was also close to his children, but he still wanted to be closer to his father and mother.
Later, he really missed his father and mother, so he made an agreement with Li Xuanyue that after his death, his father and mother's tombs would be reopened and he would be buried next to them.
Gu Youan was silent for a moment before he said, "When I first met Li Xuanyue, he was only five years old. So, he's eight or nine years older than Yuan. He's lived a really long life."
"Taoists know how to maintain their health and always have long lives."
Sending souls to reincarnate is against the will of heaven. I wonder if the child Li Xuanyue has suffered any backlash.
"No," Yuan said. "Li Xuanyue said that our family of three had accumulated great merit, but after reincarnation, our merit was almost dissipated."
Gu Youan hugged his son and patted him: "It's okay, no matter how good those merits are, they can't compare to my son."
A Yuan grinned, and there was finally some childish innocence in the eyes of the tender little boy.
Zhou Qi sighed: "Okay, now that we're here, An An should think about how to register him."
Gu Youan smiled and said, "It's better not to bother two people with the same thing. Let's find that person to do it."
The family of three talked nicely and took their son to register his household registration. They had lunch outside. Yuan saw other children eating fried chicken and he also wanted to eat some.
The family of three ate fried chicken and went home to take a nap. Yuan wanted to sleep with his father, the emperor, and his mother, which made Zhou Qi disgusted.
"How old are you and still acting like a child?"
Yuan blinked and stretched out his chubby little hand: "Yuan is five years old."
Gu Youan was overjoyed and said with a smile: "If you don't go to sleep, Youzi will come to wake us up soon."
She had been missing for five years without a word, and she was already in the wrong, so she didn't dare to mess with Youzi now.
She didn't dare to provoke Youzi, and Zhou Qi, who was a bad guy in Youzi's eyes, didn't dare to provoke the girl even more. He picked up his son and put him in the guest room, telling him to sleep alone. When he came back, he closed the door of their master bedroom.
Yuan couldn't sleep, so as soon as his father left, he slipped out, looked in his mother's study, touched the kitchen, and even ran to get the remote control to watch TV.
When in space, this black screen cannot be turned on.
When Zhou Qi and Gu Youan woke up from their nap, they saw their son sleeping on the sofa with the TV still on.
"A Yuan fell asleep while watching TV. You as parents are too unreliable. How can you not send him to kindergarten?" Yuzi was very experienced in taking care of children. She came over and scolded the couple. She picked up the sleepy A Yuan and went downstairs, scolding the couple as she walked.
"You didn't buy a safety seat, so you can use mine first. Luckily, I still have the safety seat that Zizi used when he was a child."
Gu Youan helped to fix the safety seat, but failed several times and was rejected by Youzi again.
After getting the safety seat ready and putting Yuan in it, Youzi touched Yuan's little face and said with a smile, "Auntie will take you to the kindergarten, and then I'll take you and your brother to eat delicious food later."
Gu Youan added to his son: "Your aunt has a son, his nickname is Zizi."
Yuan nodded obediently.
Youzi drove the three of them to school to pick up the children. Before the elementary school was over, she took them to visit the kindergarten.
"Yuan, would you like to come here to attend kindergarten in the future?"
"Play with the kids."
When Yuan saw a group of colorfully dressed little kids in the colorful kindergarten, he shook his head frantically. He didn't want to play with the kids. He wanted to be with his father and mother.
A Yuan held onto his father's neck and refused to get down. Zhou Qi deliberately said, "You're just a child too. If you don't play with them, who are you going to play with?"
A Yuan snorted, thinking that his father was bullying him.
In the end, it was Gu Youan who saved her son. She smiled and said, "Even if you want to study, you should wait until September in the second half of the year to start school. It's not too early or too late."
A Yuan nodded quickly and said, let’s talk about it later.
It was almost time for the elementary school to be dismissed. Youzi drove to the school and said on the way: "A Yuan should play more with Zaizai in the future. Zaizai is outgoing. If the two brothers are together more often, they won't be afraid to go to kindergarten in the future."
Yuan was not afraid, he simply didn't like playing with little kids, nor did he like playing with his aunt's little brother, Zaizai, who was an elementary school student. He just liked watching TV at home.
Gu Youan felt that this was not a solution, so after A Yuan's household registration was completed, the couple took their son out to play.
She traveled around the country and abroad by car, train, and plane. She had a lot of money in her account, so she didn't feel bad about spending it.
The family of three went out for a year, saw the scenery of the world, and broadened the horizons of the father and son.
A Yuan said to his parents, "Before I died, the students of the Mohist School made a rough draft of the steam engine based on the blueprints my mother left behind. The artillery produced by the Great Zhou Dynasty can suppress the neighboring countries. We have occupied all those important ports. If nothing unexpected happens, our descendants in the Great Zhou Dynasty will definitely not be bullied by foreigners. The Great Zhou will definitely be the world's most powerful country."
Gu Youan smiled and said, "I hope so."
The fate of a country and a nation is not something that ordinary people can predict.
All I can say is, do your best and leave the rest to fate.
"Son, you're six years old now. If you don't want to go to kindergarten, why don't you wait until autumn to start elementary school?"
A Yuan frowned and said, "Mom, is it okay if I don't study?"
"no!"
"Dad!" A Yuan turned to his father for help.
Zhou Qi sat there reading the newspaper and said with a smile, "If you want to be a child prodigy, why not skip a grade?"
A Yuan lay on the sofa and sighed: "Why work so hard? I don't have a throne to inherit. I just want to be an ordinary child."
Gu Youan clapped his legs and laughed. Zhou Qi glanced at his son and smiled as well, saying, "When the country is peaceful and the people are safe, being a commoner is indeed more comfortable than being a toilsome emperor."
A Yuan turned over and smiled. He and his father were thinking the same thing.
He lives his life to enjoy himself.
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