"Mom, sister-in-law, Cheng'er, Luo'er, I'm back!"
Yan Xiren hadn't even entered the house yet, but he just ran outside the door and shouted. The lively talking in the house stopped, and then there was laughter.
As soon as Yan Xi entered the room, Chu Yuan pointed at her and said with a smile: "You are really getting wilder and wilder, have you forgotten the rules you learned before?"
"I'm not going to the palace, what's the point of those rules?"
Yan Xi shook her head in rebuttal, muttering about how annoying those rules were.
At the beginning of this year, Daxia's triennial talent show started again. In terms of age and status, Yan Xi should be on the draft list.
However, with Prince Yan Cheng around, it would be much easier for Yan Xi not to participate in the selection.
Over the course of more than a year, Yan Cheng and Emperor Jingxi developed a father-son relationship. Yan Cheng went directly to Emperor Jingxi and told him that he did not want Yan Xi to participate in the draft.
Yan Xi is not an important person, and the Yan family naturally stands behind Yan Cheng, so it is not appropriate to match Yan Xi with any prince.
Emperor Jingxi agreed to exempt Yan Xi from the selection without much consideration.
However, when he met Emperor Jingxi again a few days later, he was asked by the emperor if he wanted Yan Xi to be the fifth prince's concubine.
Yan Cheng certainly didn't want Yan Xi to marry into the royal family, and marrying her to the fifth prince as a concubine was even more impossible.
He organized his words on the spot and shed a few emotional tears, saying how good Yan Xi had been to him in the past and that he wanted Yan Xi to live a comfortable life in the future.
This is a polite way to refuse the marriage proposal.
When Emperor Jingxi heard him say this, he thought of how Yan Cheng had lived in the Yan family for more than ten years and still treated the Yan family as his own family.
Emperor Jingxi felt a little uncomfortable.
But it is also understandable that Yan Cheng does not want his favored sister at home to be humble in front of the wife after getting married.
——Moreover, Xiao Ba treated the woman he treated as his biological sister as a concubine to Xiao Wu. Xiao Ba would inevitably be inferior to Xiao Wu, which was not good for the relationship between the brothers.
Emperor Jingxi did not want to see brothers fighting against each other.
"Why does father suddenly want Sister Yan to marry Fifth Brother?" Yan Cheng asked tentatively.
"Your fifth brother has been married for half a year, but still has no children. I want to choose a concubine with a clean family background for your fifth brother in this selection. Lord Yan has been doing a great job recently, so I thought of Lord Yan's daughter."
"Now that I think about the special relationship between you and the Yan family, it's really inappropriate to marry Yan Aiqing's daughter to your fifth brother."
That couldn't be better.
Yan Cheng agreed and said that the two of them were not suitable, and thought to himself that Yan Xi would never be a concubine.
Yan Cheng didn't tell the Yan family about this so as not to worry them.
At this moment, Yan Cheng looked at Yan Xi who ran to the fourth princess and touched her belly.
I thought that with Yan Xi's lively and enthusiastic personality, she would be suffocated to death if she became my concubine.
"Sister-in-law, are my nephew and niece well behaved today?" Yan Xi asked.
The fourth princess had a maternal glow on her face as she slowly and gently touched her newly bulging belly.
Even though the baby in her belly wasn't moving yet, she said seriously, "She's very well behaved. I have a feeling she'll be a quiet and elegant girl in the future."
"Maybe he's a boy."
Yan Cheng also looked at the fourth princess's belly curiously, wondering whether it was a boy or a girl.
In the book, Yan Zhuo did not marry the fourth princess, and he did not know whether the fourth princess was pregnant with a boy or a girl.
"Boys and girls are fine."
Without waiting for the Fourth Princess to answer, Chu Yuan said that she meant it sincerely.
"You are pregnant with the first child of the next generation of the Yan family. We like it whether it is a boy or a girl."
The fourth princess liked to hear this kind of words very much. She knew that some families valued boys over girls and required their daughters-in-law to give birth to boys.
Fortunately, the Yan family is not that kind of family.
"Sister-in-law, this is the amulet I prayed for my nephew and niece at Kaiyuan Temple today. I'm giving it to you."
As they were talking, Yan Xi remembered that he had asked for several amulets.
First, the ones for the nephews and nieces were taken out, and then starting with Chu Yuan, everyone received a peace amulet.
"Sister, you are doing wholesale in Kaiyuan Temple." Yan Luo complained.
Yan Luo heard the word "wholesale" from Yan Cheng.
"You are so demanding. I am glad to have you."
Yan Xi poked Yan Luo on the forehead when he was off guard, causing Yan Luo to scream.
"Stop screaming! Are you made of paper? I just poked you lightly and you screamed like that."
Yan Xi said as she stuffed the amulet into his hand.
“Sister Shen has a large family, and she asked for more amulets than I did.”
Yan Luo stopped screaming, and instead of looking at Yan Xi with disgust and excitement, he held the amulet in his hand.
“Sister, have you asked for a peace amulet for Brother Shen Er?”
Yan Cheng paused fiddling with the amulet and looked at the blushing girl with interest. Chu Yuan and the fourth princess beside him also became interested.
"Yes, yes, did you only ask for a peace amulet for us? Where is your second brother Shen?"
"What do you mean mine? Sister-in-law, don't talk nonsense."
"The marriage has been arranged, why is it not yours?"
The relationship between Yan Xi and the second son of the Shen family began that day by the Qingshui Lake.
Although it was not love at first sight, they did meet that day.
After Shen Lao Er was rescued from the Qingshui Lake by Yan Cheng that day, he always remembered Yan Cheng's kindness.
Since Yan Cheng moved out of the palace, he often brought things to visit the Yongwang Mansion, and occasionally ran into the Yan siblings who came to the Yongwang Mansion to play.
In addition, when Shen Lao Er invited Yan Cheng to various places to play, he would occasionally bring the Shen siblings with him, and Yan Cheng would bring the Yan siblings with him.
After a few interactions, Shen Lao Er became familiar with Yan Xi, and then they developed feelings for each other.
The first person in the Yan family to know that there was something fishy going on between the two was Yan Cheng.
During one outing, he was fishing by the lake. Leng Yan, who was waiting to fish nearby, suddenly poked him and motioned him to look up.
There is a small slope by the lake, which just blocks the anglers.
Yan Cheng looked up and saw Shen Lao Er picking a bunch of wild flowers and handing them to Yan Xi. Yan Xi took the flowers with a blushing face.
Yan Cheng: “…”
After that, he stopped fishing and sat quietly below listening to a young boy and girl talking to each other above, feeling that it was great to be young.
After successfully confessing his love, the excited Shen Lao Er planned to get some water to cool his burning cheeks. Thinking of the lake nearby, he walked towards the lake.
Then, their eyes met...
Shen Lao Er fell into the water again, and it was Yan Cheng who rescued him again.
Having lost face many times in front of his brother-in-law and his sweetheart, Shen Laoer wanted to kill himself by hitting himself with tofu after being rescued.
These were all things that happened in the past. Yan Cheng told Shen Laoer that he had forgotten all the stupid things he had done.
Yan Xi and Shen Lao Er's relationship is going smoothly.
Some time ago, the two of them had naturally gotten engaged.
The wedding is scheduled for next year.
The girl in love was very shy, and when the fourth princess teased her, she shyly took out two amulets.
“Could it be that these two are for Brother Shen Er?”
"Um."
Listening to Yan Xi's mosquito-sized voice, everyone fell silent.
Isn’t Xier (sister) too nice to Shen Laoer?
They all still have only one amulet.
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