Soon it was the New Year, and Jiang Muyu's shop's revenue increased a lot. She specially asked Lingqiege to come to her house to make clothes for her children.

Chu Yu also came and brought her a New Year gift.

"I am going to take my brother back to my hometown in Xuzhou to celebrate the New Year tomorrow, so I came to visit my mother in advance."

Jiang Muyu looked at the generous gifts she brought and stepped forward with a smile: "Since you are here, what other gifts do you want to give me... Oh, this box of big pearls is so beautiful, and it's pink. Tangtang will definitely like it. And this inkstone, it must be made of Sheshi, I heard it is very valuable, Heer will definitely like it..."

Chu Yu looked at her with a smile and said, "After all, it's a gift to you, Your Majesty. As long as you are satisfied, it's fine."

"Satisfied, satisfied, I am very satisfied. You brought so many things with you on this trip, and I can't think of a good gift for you. You are not short of worldly things either, so why don't I cook for you today and treat you to a good meal."

"Isn't it a bad idea to ask you to cook by yourself?"

"It doesn't matter. My craftsmanship is definitely not inferior to Shuiyunjian and Zhulinyouju."

"That's not what I meant..."

Jiang Muyu interrupted her excuses and said, "It's settled. You stay for dinner before leaving."

She ordered her servants to put all the gifts into the storeroom, and waited for the embroiderer from Lingqie Pavilion to measure the children. Then she asked Tangtang to stay and talk to Chu Yu while she went to the kitchen to get busy.

Jiang Muyu cooked a whole table of dishes, both meat and vegetables, from a whole roasted chicken, pigeon soup, and roasted lamb legs to boiled vegetables and smashed cucumbers.

Chu Yu was amazed: "Does the palace usually eat so well? It's already as much as the food we eat during the Chinese New Year."

Tangtang said, "No, we don't usually have so many dishes at home. We made so many dishes today especially to entertain Aunt Chu, so Aunt Chu, please eat more and don't let mother down."

"Oh, yes." Jiang Muyu smiled and couldn't help but touch the child's little head. This kid really inherited her clever mouth and was used to coaxing people.

Chu Yu smiled and said, "Although the little princess is young, her words and deeds are very clear. She will definitely be a rare talented woman in the future."

"Of course not. Don't you even look at who gave birth to the child?" Jiang Muyusi was not humble at all, but she made Chu Yu very confused.

Shouldn't she have said something polite like, "No, no, I'm just trying to please people with my words"? The princess never plays by the rules.

Liang Jinghe came into the room and bowed to the two of them. Jiang Muyu asked him to wash his hands and come over for dinner. He was going to have spring break starting today, so he would stay at home for a month.

Nan Xing didn't want to sit at the table at first when she saw a stranger there, but it was Chu Yu who asked her to sit over.

Chu Yu is a very outgoing person who can speak and is friendly. He quickly became friends with the children, especially Tangtang, who even made an appointment with Chu Yu to go to Lingshan Mountain in the suburbs of Beijing to see monkeys in the spring of next year.

Everyone at the table was having a great time, and there was a real New Year atmosphere.

Suddenly, talking about the couplet posted at the main entrance of the palace, Chu Yu said, "It's obvious that it was written by three people."

Tangtang blinked and said, "Then why don't you guess who wrote them?"

"The first couplet has stronger characters, so it should have been written by the prince."

"That's right."

"The handwriting of the second couplet is quite elegant, it should be written by Miss Nanxing."

"Wow - Auntie guessed it right."

"Hehe, that horizontal note must have been written by the lovely princess."

"Uh..." There was silence at the dinner table for a moment, as if a black crow flew over their heads.

Chu Yu immediately felt that the atmosphere was not right. Tangtang touched her nose awkwardly and said, "I guessed wrong."

The corner of her eye twitched, and she looked at Jiang Muyu, suspiciously asking, "Could it be that the queen wrote it?"

Liang Jinghe couldn't help laughing after all: "Haha...Mom really needs to practice her handwriting."

Even Nanxing couldn't help but curl the corners of his lips.

Jiang Muyu helplessly held his forehead: "I don't want to either..."

It would be fine if she hadn't practiced well before writing the horizontal calligraphy, but the problem was that she practiced the four big characters "辭旧迎新" more than a hundred times and thought she had written them pretty well. However, compared with Liang Jinghe and Nanxing's handwriting, her handwriting was still too ugly to be seen.

Chu Yu knew how to save her face and quickly changed the subject.

After dinner, they sat together and drank tea and chatted for a while. Later, seeing that it was getting late, they escorted Chu Yu out of the house.

"It's still snowing, please drive the carriage slower." Jiang Muyu instructed while standing at the door.

Chu Yu waved at her while sitting in the carriage: "I understand. It's cold. You should go back early."

Tangtang waved her hand and said, "See you after the New Year, Auntie!"

"Okay, see you later."

After seeing Chu Yu off, the four of them returned to their respective courtyards.

Liang Jinghe first sent Tangtang and Nanxing back to Tangxing Courtyard before leaving. They each held Tangtang's hand and walked slowly. The ground was full of snow, and there was a little noise when they walked.

The only voice heard along the way was Tangtang's, and the two of them only occasionally responded with a sentence or two.

When we arrived at Tangxing Courtyard, we saw a snowman piled up in the middle of the yard. It was made of two large snowballs stacked on top of each other, with branches stuck on its head. It had no eyes, only a small carrot as decoration, and looked more like a big gourd with horns.

Liang Jinghe asked: "Did you make this snowman?"

Tangtang boasted with a smile: "Sister Nanxing and I made this together."

"Which part did you do?"

Tangtang let go of their hands, ran over and pointed at the carrots on top: "I added this."

"What else?"

“No more.”

Nanxing pointed to a pile of cone-shaped snow with tree branches stuck in it and said, "This is a snowman made of sugar."

It was no wonder that Liang Jinghe hadn't seen it just now. The snowman looked more like it had been cleaned up and piled up nearby. He wanted to compliment his sister, but when he opened his mouth, he didn't know where to start.

"Uh... pretty good."

Tangtang pouted in dissatisfaction: "Brother, do you think you are dissatisfied with the snowman I made? Why don't you build one for me?"

"No..." Liang Jinghe glanced at the dark sky and said, "Tomorrow, I'll build you a better one, okay?"

She smiled and held out her little finger: "Hook, don't lie to me."

"Okay." He smiled and stretched out his little finger to hook it with hers.

…

The next day, Jiang Muyu had just come back from buying New Year's goods when she heard that Liang Jinghe was sick.

She hurried to Zizhuyuan and asked, "Have you called a doctor?"

Yun Xia, the maidservant beside Liang Jinghe, said, "They have been invited. They are treating the patient in the prince's room."

"What happened? Why did you suddenly catch a cold?"

Yun Xia replied, "The prince went to Tangxing Courtyard to build a snowman before dawn today. It was snowing at the time. The prince spent more than an hour building a snowman and started to have a fever when he came back."

"This kid, can't he wait until dawn to build a snowman? He's been playing for more than two hours. He doesn't even think about how his body can stand the cold weather... Wait, He'er has never been a playful person, why would he suddenly go and build a snowman?"

"This...I don't know."

Jiang Muyu frowned and said, "Forget it. Now is not the time to pursue blame. Let's go see what the doctor says first."