"Grandma, this is your granddaughter-in-law, Princess Xiao Lingyu."
"Granddaughter-in-law greets..."
"Yu'er, no need to be so polite." Shangguan Lan called out affectionately. She had already come closer and took her hand and walked towards the main seat. "You are heavy, come and sit next to your grandmother."
"Yes, Grandma."
Xiao Lingyu tilted his head slightly and looked closely at Shangguan Lan's profile. She looked a bit like Su Xingyi, without a single wrinkle on her face. Especially at this moment, there was a smile in the corner of her eyes, indicating that she was happy at the moment.
I think the grandmother is very satisfied with her granddaughter-in-law.
Su Xingyi led the siblings forward, "Grandma, this is my grandson's second son, Jie'er. This is my third son, Wen'er. And the lovely and sweet girl is my grandson's youngest daughter, Xiao Xi'er."
"Greetings to our great-grandmother, may you be blessed with good health and happiness." The three brothers and sisters bowed deeply to Shangguan Lan in unison.
"Children, please stop being polite and come closer so that your great-grandmother can take a closer look at you."
The three brothers and sisters straightened up almost at the same time, slightly tilted their heads and took two small steps towards Shangguan Lan.
Shangguan Jinnian stood beside Su Ningjie for some unknown reason.
Xiao Lingyu couldn't help but pursed her lips and smiled. Are they lining up according to size?
From this perspective, Xiao Xier is indeed the smallest one.
When Xiao Xier saw the way Xiao Lingyu looked at her, she knew what she was thinking.
Humph! She will grow taller!
She will be a beautiful, tall and heroic empress in the future!
Shangguan Jinnian tilted his head to glance at the three little heads and said with a smile, "Mother, are these three brothers and sisters as good-looking as me?"
Three siblings: ...
Why is he so narcissistic that he wants to compete with them, his siblings?
Shangguan Lan rolled her eyes at him, then looked at the three siblings. She had to say that her eldest grandson had good taste in picking up children.
Could it be that Xingyi thought the children were cute and took them home to raise?
"Xiaojiu, they are your eldest nephew's children, so of course they are good-looking."
"Mother." Shangguan Jinnian patted Su Ningjie's shoulder. "Brother Jie is not only good-looking, but also very good at math and can make a lot of money. And there's Brother Wen. Don't be fooled by his cute appearance. He's very good at studying and has a photographic memory. Oh, by the way..." Shangguan Jinnian tilted his head and asked Su Ningwen, "Did you pass the examination to become a student?"
Su Ningwen was a little surprised. Xiaojiu didn't need to introduce them so hard in front of his great-grandmother.
"I've passed the exam. Now my second brother and I are both studying at the Imperial College."
"Mother, aren't these two brothers very capable at such a young age?"
Shangguan Lan smiled and nodded: "Heroes are truly born young."
Shangguan Lan looked at the well-behaved and cute Xiao Xier.
Shangguan Jinnian didn't know how to introduce Xiao Xier. He felt that she was very capable, but he didn't know what exactly her abilities were. The only thing he could see intuitively was that Xiao Xier was fragrant.
Is this considered a skill?
Shangguan Jinnian was about to speak, but Xiao Xier took the lead, "Great-grandmother, I don't know much, but my mother is proficient in the six arts: music, chess, calligraphy, painting, medicine, cooking, embroidery, and horse riding and archery. I will learn from her slowly, and in the future I will be proficient in all aspects like her."
When Shangguan Lan heard this, she thought of the delicious birthday cake. If her eldest grandson's wife's cooking skills were so amazing, then other aspects of her skills would be even more amazing.
"Then you must learn from your mother."
Xiao Xier nodded obediently, "Yes, I will."
Shangguan Lan glanced at Nanny Yuan, who quickly handed over the gift she had prepared in advance. "Children, this is a gift for you. Do you like it?"
The three siblings didn't expect that this gift looked more precious than the one their father brought back from Dongjun.
"Thanks, great-grandma, we love it."
Shangguan Jinnian squeezed her hands awkwardly. It seemed her mother was more thoughtful than she thought. "Mother, I've prepared a gift for them. It's in the room. Shall I take them to choose?"
"Go ahead."
After the four children left, Shangguan Lan held Xiao Lingyu's hand and said, "Grandmother also prepared a gift for you."
After she finished speaking, Nanny Yuan led people to bring in more than ten kinds of nourishing and health-promoting items, including thirty hundred-year-old wild ginseng, fifty kilograms of cordyceps sinensis, and top-grade snow swallows, and piled them up in front of Xiao Lingyu.
The couple was stunned. This pile of things was worth tens of thousands of taels!
Can eat for a long time!
What shocked the couple even more was that Shangguan Lan had prepared a small swaddling cloth, hundreds of diapers, small open-crotch pants, small clothes, small shoes and a bunch of other baby supplies for Xiaowu, and she had also brought the wet nurse she had found for Xiaowu in advance!
Xiao Lingyu looked at the pile of things in front of him, and it was not difficult for him to imagine how favored Empress Fu'an was in Dongjun back then!
The baby in her belly is Empress Fu'an's grandson.
"Thank you, Grandma. I'm sorry for your trouble."
"That's not a big deal..." Shangguan Lan paused and glanced at Su Xingyi, "I'm just sorry to bother you and your wife. I won't be in a hurry to return to Dongjun after coming to Beiyi this time."
"Then don't go back. Your grandson will take care of you in your old age."
"Okay!" Shangguan Lan quickly took over the conversation, "Xingyi, this is what you said, don't go back on your word."
"No, your grandson will be filial to you on behalf of your mother."
"In that case, your grandfather will come over to accompany Xiaowu as he grows up."
Su Xingyi was overjoyed. "It seems that my grandfather has state affairs to attend to and cannot come to Beiyi?"
"Just leave the affairs of state to your uncle."
Xiao Lingyu couldn't help but pursed his lips when he heard this. Shangguan Yu finally made it through.
At this time, Mo Shu came in with a bow, "Prince, Princess, lunch is ready. When will it be served?"
"Send them all to the west wing right now."
"yes."
The owner of the house on the right side at the end of the alley behind Jintai Building is the merchant Qing Xudong, also known as Qing Xu, who bought it from the original owners, the Bai family, ten years ago.
Meng Chuan investigated the Bai family, who were businessmen in the tea business. Ten years ago, their business was not doing well and they sold their house to mortgage part of the payment. Their family background was clean and there was nothing suspicious about them.
"Meng Chuan, is there no one behind the Bai family?" Nie Jiu asked again, not quite believing it.
"Are you sure there's no problem? I haven't seen Qing Xudong come out this morning. When he comes out, I'll look at his face and maybe find out something."
Sure enough, at the same time yesterday, Qingxu entered Jintai Tower from the back door carrying a pot of wine.
"How is it? Do you have any impression of him?"
Meng Chuan shook his head. "I haven't seen him, but Jintai Tower is a good place for dignitaries to discuss important matters in detail. He must be meeting the person behind the scenes in Jintai Tower. We just need to wait for the person who will contact him to show up.
Nie Jiu quickly instructed his brothers to pay attention to whether those people from yesterday would come to Jintai Tower for dinner again.
There were two familiar faces, without any guards accompanying them. They just had their meal in the lobby and then left.
Meng Chuan pulled Nie Jiu out of the back door to avoid the waiter's sight, and searched each floor for the private room where Qing Xu was.
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