Yuan Bohua didn't go anywhere after that, just sat here and chatted with Zhou Qiongyue. Mainly because they hadn't seen each other for a while, Yuan Bohua missed Zhou Qiongyue quite a bit.
"Are you going back to the farm now that you're back?" Yuan Bohua asked the question he cared about most.
"I'm not going back for now. I've already arranged everything on the farm. The Chinese New Year is only a month away, so I won't bother going back. Also, I recently received a large sum of money from my grandfather, so I plan to stay home and be a good granddaughter."
Zhou Qiongyue's eyes lit up when she mentioned the huge sum of money. Now that she had quite a bit of money, she had to find a way to buy some food so that she could get by with the emperor.
Yuan Bohua looked very cute when he smiled like a mouse stealing oil.
Yuan Bohua groped in his sleeve, took out a silver note that he had prepared long ago and put it in Zhou Qiongyue's hand.
Zhou Qiongyue tried to hide but failed. She was forced to take it. When she saw the denomination (10,000 taels), she felt it was even hotter.
She could only helplessly explain, "Your Highness, I really don't lack money to spend right now."
Yuan Bohua smiled nonchalantly, "It's yours if you don't need it. This is the pocket money I give you. Buy whatever you want. If it's not enough, just put it on the palace's account."
Zhou Qiongyue couldn't help but retort, "Your Highness is truly wealthy and generous."
"Just to you." Yuan Bohua didn't want Zhou Qiongyue to misunderstand that he was so generous to everyone. He actually liked money very much.
After Yuan Bohua said this, it was unrealistic to say that Zhou Qiongyue didn't feel anything. Finally, she thought about it and took out a silver note of 1,000 taels from her purse and put it in Yuan Bohua's hand.
Yuan Bohua's first reaction was to stuff it back. How could he spend Yue'er's money? However, being always cautious, he still asked, "What's this, Yue'er?"
"Pocket money, my parents and two brothers all have it." Zhou Qiongyue felt that after her explanation, Yuan Bohua would not refuse.
Sure enough, after hearing the explanation, Yuan Bohua immediately and carefully put the silver note worth one thousand taels into his sleeve pocket.
Not only that, Yuan Bohua was smiling quite happily. Zhou Qiongyue felt it was too much to bear, but her heart was cherished by the other party, and the arc of her mouth turned up a little wider.
But women are always two-faced, and Zhou Qiongyue is no exception. "You're a fool who's happy to exchange ten thousand taels for a thousand!"
Yuan Bohua didn't care what Zhou Qiongyue said at this moment! He only knew that Zhou Qiongyue now treated him as her own, and he was very happy.
Yuan Bohua's joy didn't last long, as Jin came to look for Zhou Qiongyue. The banquet was almost over, and it was time for them to leave the palace.
Yuan Bohua also left with the people from the Cheng'en Marquis' Mansion. However, the ladies who watched Prince Fu'an guarding his fiancée the whole time regretted missing out on such a caring son-in-law/husband.
After the Second Prince married his first wife, the Empress prepared for him to take a concubine, and she only had a month to do so. Fortunately, taking a concubine was not as important as taking a first wife, and the Empress didn't particularly like Xie Zixin, so she didn't have to personally manage everything, making it relatively easy.
When the second prince took a concubine, Zhou Qiongyue also went with Jin. She just gave a gift to follow the crowd and did not even have lunch. She sat for a while and then left.
Many people, like those at the Cheng'en Marquisate, simply showed up. The only people who actually stayed for lunch were relatives of the Xie family; the established people had mostly left.
The main reason is that the concubines in this era only had a better status. In fact, they were almost the same as concubines, and were not a bit different from the main wife.
When the people in Xuanping Marquis's mansion heard the news, their faces turned grim. With Xie Zixin becoming a concubine, it became difficult for the unmarried girls in Xuanping Marquis's mansion to marry into a higher position.
Then came the Chinese New Year. Every year during the ten days leading up to it, Zhou Qiongyue felt like her knees were swollen from kneeling. After kneeling in the palace, she knelt in the palace, and there were so many different rituals. Now, Zhou Qiongyue hated Chinese New Year and other festivals the most.
After Zhou Qiongyue finally made it through the Lunar New Year holiday, she caught a cold again. It was mainly because she was tired during the Lunar New Year holiday, and then she impulsively decided to make tea and watch the snow on the porch, which might have caused her to catch a cold again. The cold came on with all its force.
Zhou Qiongyue had been ill since the beginning of the year and by the time she recovered from her cold, the spring planting had already been completed.
The first thing Zhou Qiongyue did after she recovered was to go to the palace to pay her respects to her aunt, the Queen. After all, when she was sick, the Queen not only sent her a lot of medicinal herbs, but also frequently changed different doctors to see her. Now that she was completely well, of course she had to go to the palace to see her aunt.
Of course, she had a purpose for going to the palace this time. She prepared two jars of wine for her aunt and the emperor.
The liquor prepared for the queen was brewed with peach blossoms from her farm, and the liquor prepared for the emperor was of course the strong liquor brewed using the brewing method she used in her previous life.
Of course, she also prepared some for her two cousins, whether they gave it to others or drank it themselves. However, she would remind the Fifth Prince not to drink too much, as he was not particularly old!
Zhou Qiongyue's real target this time was the emperor. She thought that she had quite a bit of silver in her hands, so she wanted to take out 200,000 taels to buy food.
When drought strikes, she can take in those who can't make a living, and have them work on her farm, with food provided.
It wasn't that Zhou Qiongyue was being sanctimonious, it was mainly because she was relatively wealthy now, so she would save as many people as she could! She wasn't going to save everyone in Yuan'an, only those who were destined to be with her!
She has no ability to save others, and she cannot save them.
So Zhou Qiongyue thought about it for a long time and came up with the idea of opening a winery in Yuan'an, so that she could start purchasing grain under the pretext of making wine.
When the drought comes, she will say yes and prepare grain for brewing in the winery as an emergency measure, so that no one will be suspicious.
Zhou Qiongyue’s current plan is to make sure that the matter of opening a winery can be passed smoothly to the emperor so that the emperor will not think too much about it when the time comes.
So Zhou Qiongyue, just as she recovered from her illness, pulled half a carriage of wine into the palace.
When the queen saw the things being carried by the servants behind Zhou Qiongyue, she was still very surprised.
Zhou Qiongyue bowed immediately after entering the palace, "Your humble servant greets Her Majesty the Queen, may Her Majesty be blessed..."
Before Zhou Qiongyue finished her greetings, the Queen personally stepped forward to help her up and looked her up and down. Then, with red eyes, she said, "You've lost weight!"
"Auntie, it's common to lose weight when you're sick. Don't worry! I'm completely healed now."
After Zhou Qiongyue finished speaking, she turned around in a circle, showing that her illness was really cured.
The Queen looked at the things her niece brought into the palace and said disapprovingly, "You've just recovered from your illness, why are you making such a fuss?"
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