"Xiao Yu, wouldn't it be better to send someone to deliver the return gift to the palace tomorrow?"
Su Xingyi felt that Lin Fang came to see him, fortunately he had foresight.
Xiao Lingyu pulled him aside and whispered, "I know Lin Fang quite well. She wouldn't easily tell the Queen Mother unless she was absolutely certain. If the Queen Mother knew you looked like the Emperor or Empress Fu'an, she would definitely summon you to the palace and have your face cleansed."
"Will she really do that?"
Xiao Lingyu nodded: "I understand the Queen Mother's temperament better now. She will definitely do this..."
Xiao Tianci looked up at the pavilion and saw Xiao Lingyu smiling. Su Xingyi had his back to him and was saying something in Xiao Lingyu's ear.
Xiao Tianci intuitively felt that what the two were talking about was not some sweet talk between husband and wife, but must be something serious that he could not bear to hear.
Is Su Xingyi the emperor's son or the late emperor's grandson? Yu'er didn't tell him, and he didn't dare to ask.
But we can’t ask, if Su Xingyi is really a child of the royal family, will the Xiao family help Su Xingyi?
Of course he is willing to stand on the side of his grandson-in-law. If his grandson-in-law is good, his precious granddaughter will be better.
But the Xiao family has an ancestral precept to be loyal to the emperor and not participate in the fight for the throne.
When the emperor issued an order to grant the eldest prince and Yu'er a marriage, it was to tie the Xiao family firmly to the eldest prince.
The eldest prince is the eldest son and the next heir to the throne. Supporting the eldest prince means being loyal to the emperor.
But now things have changed.
"Great-grandfather, please give me the small jade cup with the winding branch pattern."
Xiao Tianci came to his senses and handed the small jade cup in his hand to Xiao Xier.
Xiao Xier took it, checked it against the list, and put it back in the box.
"Great-grandfather, leave this to us. You can go back and rest."
Xiao Tianci saw Xiao Xier leading the servants to count in an orderly manner, and then glanced at the two people in the pavilion, feeling embarrassed to leave.
The couple was ignorant. As an elder, how could he let Xiao Xier, a princess, do such rough work?
Stay and help count with Xiao Xier?
After changing their clothes, Su Ningjie and Su Ningwen also joined in to help count the rewards and register them into the warehouse.
"... Let's go and count the rewards. The children are all out." Xiao Lingyu turned around and walked out of the pavilion.
"Xiao Yu, you take a rest on the swing chair. I'll go check everything out, and then we'll go boating."
After all the rewards were counted, the family of five put on parent-child outfits and went boating.
Madam Xiao and Mrs. Liang also chose clothes of similar colors and ran to Fairy Lake surrounded by a group of servants.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law don’t know how to row a boat, so they can only take a boat.
Xiao Tianci was seasick and could only sit in the middle of the lake and watch.
The next day.
After the family had breakfast, Song Jijiu delivered the admission documents to the Duke of Huguo's Mansion.
"Congratulations, young masters! Tomorrow you can enroll at the Imperial Academy with your admission documents."
Su Ningwen glanced at the admission documents and asked, "Song Jijiu, my father Zilu, did my brother Yunqian also pass the entrance exam?"
Song Jijiu smiled and nodded, "They should have received their admission documents by now."
"Are we in the same class then?"
"Your father Zilu is in Class A of Nanyuan, and you three brothers are in Class A of Beiyuan."
"Children, go back to Youhuangyuan and tell your parents the good news to make them happy." After the two brothers left, Xiao Tianci took Song Jijiu to the study.
"Third brother, is this true? I can actually study at the Imperial College?" Su Ningjie looked at the admission documents in his hand, still a little unconvinced.
"Ouch!" Su Ningjie felt a sharp pain in his arm. "Third brother, why are you pinching me? It hurts."
"It's okay to feel pain, it means you're not dreaming. You've passed the Imperial College entrance exam and can study there. Do you want to write a letter back to Huayang County to tell your grandfather and elder sister the good news?"
Su Ningjie's eyes lit up, "Of course, I'll go back to my room and write a letter now!"
Su Ningwen took the admission documents from him and said, "Then go back to your room and write the letter. I'll take your admission documents to show to your parents first."
Su Ningjie returned to his room and started writing a letter, briefly describing what he had seen and heard in Beijing. He even told them about the fact that he had dined at the same table with the Emperor and the Empress Dowager. He also mentioned the matter of Lu Yao coming to Beijing. He wrote a total of five pages.
"Wei Ying, you must personally deliver the letter back to Huayang County. If my second sister wants to come to the capital, you must protect her well."
"Master, I need to protect you personally, so I'd better let someone else deliver the book."
Wei Ying was ordered by Lu Yuan to stay with Su Ningjie all the time.
"I'm worried about leaving the letter with someone else. Tomorrow I'm going to study at the Imperial College. Father will arrange for someone to escort me on all my trips. You can return to Huayang County without worry."
Wei Ying thought about how his young master was currently at the Duke of Huguo's mansion, where the guards were all military commanders, and their martial arts skills were no less than his. "Okay, young master, I'll set off back to Huayang County right away."
"Take this and don't let yourself get hurt on the way." Su Ningjie handed a silver note of one hundred taels to Wei Ying.
"Thank you for the reward, Master."
"Also, after returning, go to Taohua Lane and report the news to the Liu family mother and daughter."
"Yes, Master."
At the same time, Meng Zilu and Meng Yunqian were also writing letters home to report their safety.
Meng Yunqian wrote a letter to Liu Yue with mixed feelings.
If he had not listened to his mother, he would never have had the opportunity to enter the Imperial College, the highest institution of learning in Beiyi. At the same time, he also knew that he was able to study in the Imperial College mainly because of his father's favor and the support of the Meng family.
In the future, he will definitely be more filial to his father than Brother Wen.
"Dad, I'm done."
Meng Zihe took his letter and put it together with his own letter from home, and then arranged for someone to send it to Huayang County.
"Dad, do I need to pay tuition fees to enroll in the Imperial College?" Meng Yunqian took out a silver note given by Liu Yue from his sleeve, with a face value of one hundred taels. "I wonder if this is enough? If not, I have more."
"How can I ask you to pay for the tuition when Daddy's here?" Meng Zilu hurriedly stuffed the banknotes back into the inner lining of Meng Yunqian's clothes. "The tuition for the Imperial College doesn't require this much silver, and you don't need to pay for it. Your grandmother prepared it yesterday, along with Wen Ge'er's share. Keep these for yourself. If you see something you like in the capital, buy it. If you don't have enough, ask Daddy for more."
"Dad, you're not making any money now, so I still have to give you this bundle of repairs myself."
Meng Zilu pretended to be angry, "Humph, Daddy gets a salary every month, it's the money he earns himself. Do you want to leave the family and not recognize me as your father?"
"No... no." Meng Yunqian was anxious and quickly coaxed: "I am your son as your father's son. You can't disown me, otherwise, I will... cry in front of you!"
"Okay, okay, daddy recognizes you as his son, don't cry, since I am your father, daddy will pay for this."
Meng Yunqian thought that since Shu Xiu's father wouldn't let him spend the money, he would leave the money for his father to prepare a birthday gift. "Okay, then let Dad spend it."
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