On New Year's Eve, the news that the deposed crown prince had suddenly become Prince Chang became the hottest topic of the night.

The next day was Chinese New Year, and it was much quieter.

However, the Xiao family was still lively for a while because Yan Qiushu heard that the fifth lady Xiao Huaiya was coming from the Taoist temple. At daybreak, she ran to Mrs. Xiao's door to kowtow and wish her a happy new year.

Yan Qiushu couldn't get up that early, so she missed it.

But she received a blessing of peace!

It is said that the fifth lady made it herself and placed it in front of the Bodhisattva for a long time.

The Xiao family became more and more joyous, and Yan Qiushu was also in a very good mood. When the children came to pay her New Year's greetings, she gave them red envelopes and a lot of food, and even allowed them to eat as much spicy noodles as they wanted.

Of course, before she had time to feel sad about how much money she had lost from the red envelopes she had given out, she received red envelopes from Madam Xiao, Madam Shao and others. It was directly fifty taels of silver notes, so generous that Yan Qiushu jumped for joy.

Because she was happy, she became more enthusiastic about cooking.

So the Xiao family ate and drank and celebrated the New Year happily.

But some people have an unhappy year because of the incidents that happened on New Year's Eve.

The first to be hit was Yan Qiuyuan.

As a reborn person, from her rebirth a year ago to now, almost all situations are within her expectations.

Except for the problem that a few years ago occurred when the youngest son of the Xiao family, Xiao Pingzhou, served as the second emperor's grandson's schoolmate.

Now, the deposed crown prince, who should have been waiting to die quietly, was suddenly reported to be seriously ill. It was because he had been in the cold palace for a long time and had no nutrition. In addition, the weather was cold and he had frostbite. What's more, he ate some leftover soup and cold food from the palace on New Year's Eve, and suddenly he had an attack, vomiting and diarrhea, and even vomiting blood. As a result, the guards did not dare to delay and went to report.

Because of her identity, Yan Qiuyuan couldn't know everything right away.

But when Tianyan's family came back from the New Year's Eve dinner in the palace, they all knew about it. The news of deposing the crown prince and making him King of Chang completely shocked everyone.

Yan Qiuyuan was also stunned.

The moment she heard the news, the shock on her face was even greater than that of Concubine Lu who heard the news in the deep palace.

What about the deposed prince vomiting and diarrhea due to eating leftovers? According to the timeline, he should still be being given a slow poison. Next year, when the news of Xiao Waiting's death and the Xiao family's complete withdrawal from the power center comes out, the deposed prince will vomit blood due to anger and the poison will take effect.

After that, he was taken to the emperor's side for treatment, but because the poison entered his bone marrow, he died soon after.

Who would have thought that the poison would take effect so early, and that he was said to have had an upset stomach, causing him to suddenly become the King of Chang. This is simply...!

Is this what changed after her rebirth?

Yan Qiuyuan was flustered. If it was a small matter like the one at the Xiao family, she would not be so shocked.

The deposed crown prince, now Prince Chang, is the son of the late queen and the only legitimate son of the royal family.

Unfortunately, the late emperor was weak and died soon after giving birth to her son.

The emperor, grateful for the empress's virtue, made his only legitimate son the crown prince, invited great scholars to teach him, and also invited the old Duke of the Xiao family to be his martial arts teacher. The second young master of the Xiao family, who died young, was his study companion.

With both literary and military proficiency, such a configuration made it impossible for other princes to stand out.

Because of this, all the princes were united in their treatment of the crown prince, but even so, they did not affect his status until five years ago, when the royal father and son had a big quarrel in the study, and the crown prince was deposed and has been imprisoned ever since!

Yan Qiuyuan didn't know what had caused the father and son to quarrel like that, but after that, the other princes began to step forward.

Then in the middle of the next year, when Xiao Waiting led a large army to fight against the enemy, he was trapped in the city. The military supplies had not arrived and the soldiers were exhausted. In order to have a chance of survival, they opened the city gates to fight the enemy, but they were defeated.

News came that the deposed prince was also dead.

Xiao Huaiwu, the fourth daughter of the Xiao family, led the remaining Xiao family troops to search for evidence. It happened that the fifth prince and the sixth prince were fighting fiercely. She accidentally found evidence that the two princes deliberately delayed military supplies due to internal strife, which led to the death of Xiao Huaiting in the battle.

In addition, it was discovered that the death of the deposed crown prince was caused by the third prince, the fifth prince, and the sixth prince.

When the incident broke out, the two princes completely lost the support of the people. The fourth prince, on the other hand, had no intention of fighting for power. He liked poetry, books and Buddhism, and had always been on good terms with the Prince of Jin. Therefore, when the two princes joined forces to force the palace, he and the Prince of Jin led troops to stop them, and then chose to travel around and give the throne to the Prince of Jin.

Now, it is still far from next year, but the deposed prince suddenly appears in public again. What does this mean?

Once the third prince is gone, the fifth prince and the sixth prince will fight each other, and the one who benefits from it will be the crown prince!

Ever since Concubine Lu took control of the harem, there have been no surviving princes in the harem for more than ten years, only princesses. Therefore, the Fourth Prince himself did not want to be the emperor, so he chose the Prince of Jin.

If there is any other choice, even if the Fourth Prince wants it, the royal family will not agree.

Yan Qiuyuan's face turned very ugly. The deposed prince cannot live!

Even though he is now just a person who was crowned king in advance and was driven out of the fight for the crown prince, the forces that once supported the deposed prince will be wary of him while he is alive.

She took out paper and pen and was about to write a letter to Prince Zhou Zejing of Jin.

But just as she started writing, Yan Qiuyuan stopped again. If she could think of this, Zhou Zejing would naturally think of it too. She must write something useful.

After thinking about it, she changed the paper and changed the content to how to completely control the Xiao family.

Apart from other things, the Xiao family's biggest weakness is that they value friendship and loyalty. At the same time, they are too conceited and openly get close to the newly deposed crown prince, which is bound to arouse the jealousy of the other three princes.

In less than a month, a war will break out on the border of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Xiao Huaiting will definitely lead his troops there at that time. Since he is not in the capital, many things can be planned.

For example, as for the Third Prince, his greatest support, the Qiao Family, is gone, and their heyday has passed. He must be pushed into a corner as soon as possible, otherwise, once his power is swallowed up by the Fifth and Sixth Princes, these two will lose balance.

There is also the second branch of the Xiao family, such as the hidden fifth young lady of the Xiao family.

She clearly remembered the fifth daughter of the Xiao family, who later fell in love with the fourth prince.

The fourth prince is still traveling abroad. When he comes back, he will go to the Kyoto temple to worship Buddha on the first day of every month. The two met by chance and asked for advice on Buddhism. Because of this, Zhou Zejing was able to so smoothly recruit the scattered Xiao family troops and made a great contribution to shocking the royal family and the aristocratic families!

Yan Qiuyuan had been a housewife all her life, and she only heard things from her husband indirectly, so she didn't know the details.

But in this life, her status changed and she was engaged to Zhou Zejing, becoming the future wife of the crown prince. Her father would tell her many things, and Zhou Zejing would discuss things with her because of some of her predictions, allowing her to know a lot of things.

Some people are actually far from being as innocent as they appear.

Was it really just a chance encounter between the Fourth Prince and the Fifth Miss of the Xiao family?

Yan Qiuyuan smiled strangely, blew gently on the ink on the paper, and when it was dry, she folded it and put it in an envelope, then handed it to the maid beside her: "Put it in the food box and give it to the prince."

"Yes." The maid took it and left.

"Girl!" Shui Yu shouted, "The popcorn is ready!"

Yan Qiushu stared at the small milk pot in front of her without turning her head, stirring it with her chopsticks: "I'm ready too, turn it over."

Shui Xuan immediately went over with the small milk pot in both hands and poured all the popcorn in the milk pot into it.

Then Yan Qiushu cooperated and put the lid on the pot, and Aunt Xu handed over a thick towel for insulation. She pressed the lid of the pot and shook it hard, trying to get every grain of popcorn to be coated with its own caramel.

At this time, the whole kitchen was filled with the aroma of caramel popcorn.

Shui Xuan looked at the already prepared bucket of popcorn with great concern: "Girl, making so much, will it really not go bad?"

"It's not that bad, at most it's not as crispy, but it's good to have something to eat on the way." Yan Qiushu smiled, feeling that it was almost done, she put down the small milk pot and poured the popcorn inside into it: "Pack it up and try to make it airtight."

"Yes." Shui Yu nodded obediently and said with a smile: "If you are like this, Master Ping Yu will be reluctant to leave."

Yan Qiushu sighed with some reluctance: "I didn't expect him to leave so early. I was thinking we could go out and play together during the Lantern Festival."

The Xiao family are all very nice, but the adults can't play with her. They have too many things to consider and can't do whatever they want. But she is different. She grew up in a safe society without so much intrigue. She traveled here and quickly found a golden leg for herself. Even a child like Shen Pingyu thinks more than her.

Yan Qiushu also played with them.

When she plays with others, she is afraid of being sold out without even realizing it.

Especially Shen Pingyu, this child, although he looks serious and old-fashioned, and sometimes like a little old man, he frowned when he saw Dongdong's bad eating manners, but he is tough on the outside but soft on the inside, a little bit arrogant, and good-looking, so she still likes him very much.

However, after the Spring Festival, he will rush back to the Shen family to celebrate the Lantern Festival.

The Shen family was ten days away from Kyoto, and he left on the second day of the Chinese New Year, just in time to catch up.

Yan Qiushu was afraid that he would be bored on the way, so she prepared a lot of food. Popcorn was just one of them, and there were also spicy strips, bread, cake and so on.

The weather is cold now, so it won't go bad if you leave things outside.

By the way, the weather is cold. If we go straight ahead and bump along the road, we might catch a cold easily.

After all, Shen Pingyu is thin and his physique is definitely not as good as Dongdong's.

"Miss Yan, Young Master Pingyu should be ready soon!" a maid came over to remind.

Yan Qiushu quickly came back to her senses: "Yeah, I'm almost there too!"

She responded and asked someone to pack the popcorn first. She took the ginger and chopped it up, quickly wrapped it in gauze, and squeezed out the yellow ginger juice.

Then take out the milk, add a little sugar, and heat it in water for the time it takes to heat a cup of tea.

At this time, Shui Yan had already prepared everything and had someone send them to the outer courtyard.

Yan Qiushu asked Nanny Xu to take out the food box. She took out the milk through a thick towel and poured it into the bowl of ginger juice.

The tender white milk poured out from the bowl, causing the ginger juice at the bottom of the bowl to sway, but soon the two merged into one.

"Put this in there and let Pingyu drink it before he leaves." Yan Qiushu handed it over.

Madam Xu packed it up and said, "The old servant will take it over."

"Go ahead." Yan Qiushu nodded, tidied herself up, and followed behind.

The gate of the Xiao family.

Everything was ready at this time, just like when they came, two carriages, several entourages and servants.

However, as the servants packed up, the original one carriage for goods increased to two. Shen Pingyu looked at so many things helplessly, most of which were various foods, and said, "Why does Pingyu need so much food?"

"Ashu is kind-hearted and loves you. Eat more." Mrs. Xiao rubbed Sun'er's head reluctantly and looked at him without blinking. She pulled the corners of her lips and smiled again.

Shen Pingyu blinked blankly.

Madam Xiao said, "Ah Shu has fattened you up. You look much more pleasing to the eye than when you came."

Shen Pingyu's face turned red and she moved her feet as if she wanted to leave.

But in the end, he didn't move. Instead, he looked around the house and frowned slightly: "Aunt Yan's trip really takes too much time."

Last time they were waiting for her to go see the opening of a halogen shop, this person kept them waiting for quite a while, although she did look very beautiful in the end.

Mrs. Xiao pursed her lips and said nothing. The child himself didn't even know that he was living more like a child than before.

I don't know whether her decision is right or wrong.

At this time, Yan Qiushu finally arrived. She calculated the time. She had done a part yesterday and could do the rest today. But she didn't expect that everything was already cleaned up so well when she came out. She said apologetically, "Pingyu, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for a while."

"It's okay, we are half an hour early." Shen Pingyu shook his head.

Yan Qiushu smiled and asked Madam Xu to open the lunch box. She took out the ginger milk that had solidified after a while and passed it to her: "Drink it, it will warm your body, otherwise you will not be able to adapt to the new environment and get sick."

Shen Pingyu took it with both hands and placed the spoon on it. He thought it was the same feeling as the double skin milk he had eaten before, but when he got closer, he smelled a slightly hot and spicy ginger flavor.

The solidified milky white color is like egg custard. In addition to the sweet milk flavor, there is also the ginger flavor that I just smelled.

Shen Pingyu actually doesn't like food with a strong ginger flavor.

But under the suppression of the milk flavor, the taste seems less unbearable. Soon after the "tender tofu" is spread between the lips and teeth and swallowed, it seems that a heat rises from the abdomen.

His chest, which had been a little cold standing outside, began to feel hot.

After finishing a bowl, there were some sweat on the tip of my nose and my hands and feet were not so cold anymore.

"Thank you, Aunt Yan." Shen Pingyu said softly.

"You're welcome." Yan Qiushu rubbed his head: "I hope that when you come back, the little bit of meat I managed to feed you will still be there, understand?"

The young boy blushed a little embarrassedly, but did not deny it. Instead, he nodded hard: "Ping Yu will try his best."

The words he said were contrary to his intentions.

Yan Qiushu couldn't help but pinch his handsome face: "Well, see you next time."

Shen Pingyu felt pain from being pinched, and took a step back cautiously. He glanced at her and said, "Then next time, I hope you'll be engaged, after all, you're not young anymore."

Although, but, you are just you, what are you doing!

Yan Qiushu: “???”

After Shen Pingyu finished speaking, he quickly looked at Madam Xiao and the others in a serious manner: "Grandma, uncle, aunt... Pingyu left first."

Then, without waiting for others to respond, he just left like that for the first time, fleeing with a bit of wolfishness.

"Oh, hahaha..." Xiao Huaiwu seemed to have just reacted. He looked at his nephew, then at Yan Qiushu, and laughed so hard that he fell forward and backward!

Yan Qiushu: ...

Fortunately, Xiao Waiting was not there due to something!

She hurriedly said hello and went back to the yard, but before she left, another carriage appeared in front of the Xiao Mansion. The maid put down the footstool, opened the door of the carriage, and helped the people inside out.

At this moment, Xiao Huaiwu stopped smiling abruptly. A look of vigilance and alertness appeared on her pretty face. She said in a sinister tone, "Hey, what wind blew you back here, my second sister-in-law?!"