Chapter 649 brought them together.
"Your fourth sister?" Yi'er was shocked. He had heard Mianmian say that the person to be engaged today was Cheng Wan'er, so how did she become his fourth sister?
Cheng Wan'er explained, "My parents originally wanted me to marry Lord You, but unexpectedly, my fourth sister had already developed feelings for Lord You. She was afraid that my parents would blame her, so she came to me in the middle of the night to beg me to give her my blessing. I didn't like Lord You in the first place, so I was more willing to give my fourth sister my blessing. I told my parents about this and also asked the Empress for an imperial decree. Today is the engagement day of Lord You and my fourth sister."
Yi'er suddenly realized that his mother and Mianmian had known about this all along.
They deliberately kept quiet so that I would have to speak my mind.
He shook his head and laughed, thinking that his mother and sister were still the best.
Yi'er held Cheng Wan'er's hand and smiled, "Alright, let's hurry back to the manor. Your fourth sister is getting engaged, so you can't be absent. Let's go!"
After he finished speaking, he instructed the coachman to turn the carriage around and return to the Cheng residence.
When they arrived at the Cheng residence, Yi'er did not enter. After sending Cheng Wan'er back, he immediately returned to the palace.
Du Wanchun and Mianmian were sitting inside drinking tea when they heard Yi'er's voice from afar.
"Mianmian, Mother!"
Du Wanchun ate some fruit and chuckled, "Look, your older brother has returned from the wedding robbery."
Mianmian chuckled and added, "Looks like it was a great success."
Yi'er walked to their side and snatched the fruit from Mianmian's hand. "It seems that you and Mother really did know all along."
Mianmian looked up and smiled, "Big brother, it's not Mother's or my fault. Mother and I asked you several times a day, but you never told the truth."
"If you hadn't thought that Sister Wan'er was going to marry someone else, you would probably still be stubbornly refusing to admit it."
Yi'er had always doted on her, and Mianmian was only doing this for his own good, so he didn't blame her. He bowed to Du Wanchun and said, "Mother, regarding the matter of choosing a Crown Princess in the future..."
Before he could finish speaking, Du Wanchun said with a smile, "What do you mean by choosing a Crown Princess or not? We already have a candidate for Crown Princess, so there's no need to choose again."
"Your father and I can just focus on preparing for your wedding."
Yi'er was overjoyed to hear this and bowed to Du Wanchun again, saying, "Thank you, Mother."
Du Wanchun was truly unaccustomed to his excessive politeness, and deliberately teased him, "How about we snatch the bride today?"
Yi'er smiled and said, "Of course I scared her, but Mother, don't worry, I won't do such a rash thing again."
Du Wanchun nodded.
Seeing her son and daughter becoming more sensible every day, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Yi'er's marriage was settled, and Zhou Ruiyuan was very happy.
The two discussed that they must give them a grand wedding.
She and Zhou Ruiyuan talked late into the night, and it was already very dark.
"Ruiyuan, you should go to sleep early." Du Wanchun slowly got up, came behind him, and combed his hair.
Zhou Ruiyuan's hair was mostly styled by Du Wanchun.
He never had palace maids serving him; at most, there was Eunuch Zhang.
While combing Zhou Ruiyuan's hair, Du Wanchun accidentally discovered a gray hair. She was shocked and exclaimed, "Ruiyuan, why do you have gray hair?"
Zhou Ruiyuan and Du Wanchun are only in their thirties, not yet old enough to have gray hair.
Moreover, even though Du Wanchun is now over thirty, she looks exactly the same as she did when she was eighteen; she has not aged like an ordinary person.
But Zhou Ruiyuan is different.
Zhou Ruiyuan turned to look at the white hair in her hand, and was startled. He slowly said, "Perhaps it's because I've been too tired these past few days. Tomorrow I'll have Eunuch Zhang send someone to cook some nourishing soup for me."
Du Wanchun nodded. She looked closely at Zhou Ruiyuan's face. Apart from being more mature and steady than when he was young, he showed no signs of aging. It seemed that he was really just tired.
The next day, before Zhou Ruiyuan could give any instructions to Eunuch Zhang...
Du Wanchun had already brought the nourishing soup into Zhou Ruiyuan's palace.
Zhou Ruiyuan was looking at it with a frown, his brows furrowed.
Du Wanchun asked, "Why does Ruiyuan look so worried?"
When Zhou Ruiyuan saw her arrive, he immediately wiped the weariness off his face, stood up and said, "It's just some trivial matter in the court, not worth mentioning."
As he finished speaking, he accidentally knocked over a letter.
He hadn't had a chance to read the letter yet.
Du Wanchun happened to see it too. She looked down and saw that Wei Qing's name was written on it.
She bent down and slowly picked up the letter. "A letter from Xiao Qing'er?"
Zhou Ruiyuan replied, "It was just delivered, I haven't had a chance to look at it yet."
Du Wanchun slowly opened the letter.
In the letter, Xiao Qing'er first greeted Du Wanchun and Zhou Ruiyuan, then talked about the Southern Barbarians, and finally mentioned Mianmian.
He said he would come to Beijing to visit Mianmian in a month.
Du Wanchun looked up and met Zhou Ruiyuan's gaze.
"He's coming."
Zhou Ruiyuan was not surprised. "This kid has been thinking about Mianmian for a long time. Now that Mianmian is about to come of age, he is naturally very anxious."
Mianmian was quite close to the hostage from the Southern Barbarian Kingdom, a fact known throughout the Xuan Yue Kingdom.
Xiao Qing'er naturally couldn't sit still; Qiao Meiren had been sending him messages all these years.
Although the matter was deliberately omitted in the letter, Xiao Qing'er still found out about it from other places.
Du Wanchun said slowly, "He's overthinking it."
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