After sending the prince away, Tian An struck while the iron was hot and had someone send a letter to the Crown Princess.
The Crown Princess was also very supportive. She sent her a message that afternoon, saying that she missed the hot pot in her shop very much and arranged to meet at the hot pot restaurant.
Tian An immediately asked someone to go to the hot pot restaurant to make arrangements. The next morning, he packed up, brought the gift, and took Nanchen and Xiyue with him and went out in a hurry.
In the hot pot restaurant, when the Crown Princess arrived, Tian An was interacting with his two children.
One corner of the box is fenced off, and thick blankets are laid around and on the ground, so the children won't be cold and won't get bumped.
The two children are practicing turning over. Little Nanchen learns quickly and can already perform this skill on his own. Little Xiyue is slower and has the movements right, but the strength is not enough. She can only turn over with the help of her mother.
Seeing that the Crown Princess also brought her son, Tian An invited the mother and son in for parent-child interaction.
The little prince's full name is Xiao Youkai, and his nickname is Kaikai. This is because when the Crown Princess was pregnant with him, she was harmed by spies and ate a lot of harmful foods that were incompatible with her, causing damage to both the mother and the fetus.
Although Tian An discovered him in time and saved the lives of both mother and child, he was still small and weak when he was born, and the Crown Princess's health became even weaker.
Tian An spent a lot of effort to help the mother and son recover their health.
As soon as the two came in, Tian An took the Crown Princess's hand and took her pulse. After a while, he let go and said, "The remaining poison has been cleared. You can stop taking the medicine now. From now on, you can just use food to nourish your body and it will be fine."
The Crown Princess felt relieved. "Finally, I don't have to drink that bitter medicine soup anymore. You don't know how bitter my mouth is right now. Nothing I eat tastes good."
"Thank you so much, sister-in-law. If it weren't for you, I'm afraid we, mother and son, would..." The Crown Princess held Tian An's hand and thanked him for a long time, until Tian An was almost embarrassed.
After the two exchanged pleasantries, Tian An continued to nurse Kaikai. After tossing him around for a while, he smiled and said to the Crown Princess, "Kaikai is recovering very well. Although he looks smaller than other children of the same age, all his physical indicators are up to standard."
The Crown Princess didn't know what the indicator was, but she understood the word "meet the standard" and was happier than if she were in good health.
Tian An gave the menu to the Crown Princess. After she ordered, the two of them played with their three children for a while while the food was being served.
After all the dishes were served, they handed the child over to the wet nurse, and the two of them enjoyed the delicious hot pot time.
Neither of them was the type to be stingy with others, and while they were enjoying their meal themselves, they did not forget to set up a table for the servants nearby.
After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, the Crown Princess took out a booklet and showed it to Tian An.
The booklet contains several houses and shops that were recently raided, and it records in detail the location, size and corresponding prices of the shops and houses.
Tian An looked through the pages one by one, and based on her own financial resources, she selected a number of houses and shops that met her requirements. As for which ones she would finally choose, she still had to visit them in person.
Since it was still early, the Crown Princess accompanied her to see it personally.
Many of these houses and shops were far apart from each other. It took Tian An most of the day to finalize two houses and four shops.
Buying a house and a shop takes a lot of time, and Tian An doesn't have time to run around like this every day, so he can only ask Xiyou to write down all the remaining ones he hasn't seen, and then ask the housekeeper to take people to see them before making a decision.
However, the deeds for the several farms that the Crown Prince had previously promised to Tian An had already been completed. After returning home from the Crown Princess, Tian An immediately arranged for people to check on the situation on site and began preparing for the construction of greenhouses, winter planting, and other farming matters...
In a blink of an eye, it was the day of the tea party hosted by the Queen. The essence of this banquet was to give unmarried boys and girls an opportunity to get to know each other, and also to allow the ladies to take a good look at the future sons-in-law and daughters-in-law they had chosen.
A married young woman like Tian An didn't have to participate, but the queen liked her so much that although she didn't have to show anything, she could act as a referee and help comment.
Fearing that she would be bored, the queen thoughtfully invited all her old friends, and they just happened to fill one table.
However, compared to Qin Yalan, Gu Jinyan, Zuo Yunshu, Song Zhiyun and Tian An, who only needed to eat, drink, have fun and give comments, Wu Yufei and Wei Lingran also had to prepare food and talents. After greeting a few people at the beginning, the two of them were busy and disappeared.
The banquet was held in the Imperial Garden. Young ladies from various families set up stalls along the road to display the food they brought, just like ordinary people setting up stalls at a market.
Some food is prepared in advance, some are semi-finished products waiting to be processed, and some are even made on the spot with the ingredients brought in. But no matter whether it is a finished product or ingredients, everything brought into the palace has to go through layers of inspection before arriving here.
In the hall, the concubines and ladies of the various families were talking with the queen. A palace maid came to report that the young ladies of the various families were ready, and the queen stood up and led everyone to the imperial garden.
Before departure, the palace servants would give each lady six flowers. If she saw any food she liked, she could exchange the flowers with the other ladies, which was a disguised form of voting.
Tian An and the other four followed the crowd with flowers in their hands, keeping an eye on the stalls of Kris Wu and Wei Lingran, while also carefully observing what the other ladies were eating.
As good sisters, they must keep the two flowers from Kristy Wu and Wei Lingran, and the next four will depend on their personal preference.
What they didn't expect was that out of the six flowers, in the end, there was only one that they could control at will.
When they arrived at the intersection of the Imperial Garden, the Queen let everyone stroll around freely, while she herself and several concubines who had no children or whose children were already married took their time to admire the garden. If they came across food they liked, they would ask the palace servants to take some for them. When they had taken most of the food, they would find a pavilion to rest, drink tea and eat snacks.
Tian An and his friends first found the stalls of Kristy Wu and Wei Lingran.
Wei Lingran made a plum blossom steamed cake with an exquisite plum blossom shape and a tender pink color. It lies plump in the steaming steamer. It is soft, glutinous, sweet and not greasy when you take a bite, which is especially suitable for the current season.
Several people immediately took a piece each, and in an instant five flowers were added to the basket in front of Wei Lingran.
Seeing this, Wu Yufei next to her hurriedly called Tian An and others to her stall.
She made a hot drink, which was made by slicing sweet and juicy oranges, adding rice wine, longan, red dates and wolfberries and cooking them together. It smelled delicious just by smelling it.
After eating a piece of Wei Lingran’s plum blossom steamed cake and drinking a cup of Wu Yufei’s orange rice wine, I felt warm to my heart.
The two stalls were set up next to each other, complementing each other.
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