The celebration banquet was extremely successful. Nothing happened during the entire banquet, and no concubine took the opportunity to vomit or anything like that.
The main reason was that the most important person at this banquet was the retired emperor. Even the concubines in the harem did not dare to cause any trouble at this celebration banquet, let alone others.
Throughout the banquet, Yuan Bohua looked sick, and Yuan Chaochang had to smooth things over many times.
Zhou Qiongyue and Yuan Chaokang were either watching singing and dancing, eating, or glancing around to see where the fun was.
After this banquet, Yuan Bohua looked at his eldest son with admiration. He could come up with all kinds of words to smooth things over without any mistakes.
You can't tell at all that he is the same silly boy as when he was in the mansion.
When the celebration banquet ended, many people were drunk, including the emperor.
At this moment, the retired emperor truly felt that his life's achievements had come to an end. Even if no one dared to persuade him to drink, he drank to his heart's content by himself.
In the end, the retired emperor was helped down by the empress dowager herself.
As soon as the retired emperor left the stage, the emperor and the empress also stood up and left. Seeing that the emperor and the empress had left, Yuan Bohua also stood up and left with the princess and two sons.
As for the reward for winning the battle, it only arrived at Prince Fu'an's mansion early the next morning, and there was no room for change in the title.
The emperor wrote the fact that the retired emperor adopted Yuan Bohua as his adopted son into the imperial edict, and then awarded him an exemption order, which could exempt one punishment, but it could only be used by one person, and the serious crime of treason could not be exempted.
Then he rewarded some farms, silks and other things, but the rewards from the farms were not much. Most of them were things that had symbolic meaning but were difficult to cash in.
This time Yuan Chaokang also went in to pick something, but after looking for a long time, he didn't find anything that interested him, so he went back to reading.
Zhou Qiongyue, who was standing next to him, looked at Yuan Chaokang like this. Without even looking at the list of rewards, she knew that there were not many really good things in it.
"He's really getting stingy." Zhou Qiongyue was really dissatisfied with the emperor this time. Yuan Bohua almost lost his life this time, but he rewarded this...
Zhou Qiongyue felt that it was not worth it for the prince.
When Yuan Bohua heard what the princess said, he nodded in agreement. Yuan Bohua thought about it and said with a bit of gloating: "This time our Tianyuan Kingdom won a great victory, and the emperor will reward many people.
He also needs to reward the army, and in order to strengthen his authority as the emperor, he should also give a large reward. Otherwise, it would be bad if everyone in the army only knew the emperor emeritus and not the emperor.
The national treasury certainly can't afford this amount of money. It can only be paid from the emperor's private treasury. Whoever has this money in their hands will feel the pain.
Before Yuan Bohua returned, he heard that the emperor had asked his princess to return the things. Yuan Bohua felt that he needed to get to know this good friend again.
Yuan Bohua's guess was correct. When the emperor received the reward list and budget presented by the military, he took a deep breath.
Lord Li, who was in charge of those businesses, was heartbroken when he received the emperor's decree to take so much silver.
Therefore, the emperor was more generous in rewarding those who had military merits with official positions and titles this time, but the financial rewards were more average, not even enough to be called "generous rewards".
"He deserves the reward." Zhou Qiongyue didn't feel bad for the emperor's private treasury! It's just that after the reward money was withdrawn this time, those industries basically had no surplus. As for the future profitability, it depends on the means of the person who takes over.
After all, doing business doesn’t mean you can keep making money just because you start. You have to pay attention to market demand at all times.
Thinking of this, Zhou Qiongyue felt that she should eat half a bowl more at lunch.
Zhou Qiongyue looked at Yuan Chaokang who was reading a book beside her, and suddenly remembered an important event she had been planning for a long time, and suggested:
"Let's not talk about these unhappy things. How about we ask Chang'er for a two-month vacation and our family of four go to live in the village for two months?
It just so happens that my eldest brother's son Rong has also returned, how about taking him along as well?"
Yuan Bohua didn't think much about it. He thought Zhou Qiongyue was tired of staying in Yuan'an and wanted to move to a new place, so he immediately agreed.
However, he hesitated for a moment and suggested, "But if Rong'er wants to go, you still have to go to the Cheng'en Marquis Mansion to ask your sister-in-law. We can't make the decision on our own."
Zhou Qiongyue was originally planning to go back to Cheng'en Marquis Mansion to ask her sister-in-law, but when Yuan Bohua said so, she directly suggested, "How about we go back this afternoon and ask?"
Once the battle is won, my eldest brother Zhou Zhiyi's overseas assignment will also come to an end. After the major assessment next year, he will probably be transferred back or transferred to other places.
But no matter whether they were transferred back or transferred to other places, they had to return to Yuan'an to resume their duties. So a few days ago, the eldest sister-in-law brought Rong Ge'er and De Ge'er back first.
Yuan Bohua thought that the princess's straightforward personality was quite cute.
Yuan Bohua felt that there was no need to wait until the afternoon. He could clean up now and go have lunch. "Why don't we take Kang'er to the Marquis Cheng'en Mansion for lunch? I haven't visited my parents-in-law since I came back!"
When Zhou Qiongyue heard Yuan Bohua say this, she immediately handed the reward list in her hand to Gu Le next to her, "Then pack up and go!"
Zhou Qiongyue's tone was very excited. Being able to return to Cheng'en Marquis Mansion and have dinner with her mother made her happier than seeing these rewards.
Yuan Bohua walked over and patted his youngest son who was leaning against a book not far away. "Let's go. Let's go to your grandparents' house for lunch."
Yuan Chaokang had been accompanying his mother to the Cheng'en Marquis's residence quite frequently over the years. So, upon hearing his father's greeting, he didn't even need to change his clothes. He simply placed the book in the hands of the servant beside him.
He casually patted his sleeves and wrinkles, "Let's go!"
Yuan Bohua... He looked at the mother and son who were about to leave in silence for a while, then asked, "Why don't you two change your clothes?"
Yuan Chaokang looked himself over and casually replied, "I just changed it this morning when I got up."
Zhou Qiongyue also looked at herself and said the same thing as Yuan Chaokang, "I just changed it this morning too."
Yuan Bohua: Is that what I meant? He meant, why not change into something a little more fancy and formal?
However, seeing how naturally Yue'er and his son connected, Yuan Bohua could only reflect on himself.
Finally, Yuan Bohua also looked at his clothes. It seemed that he had just changed his clothes this morning.
"Let's go! Bring some good wine and other things from the mansion to my father-in-law?" Yuan Bohua couldn't accept that he hadn't been there for so long, so he went empty-handed.
Originally, he planned to wait for two days until his father-in-law was on leave and then pay him a formal visit with gifts.
Unexpectedly, Yue'er said she would go back immediately. He hadn't prepared his things yet, so of course he could only ask Yue'er for her opinion.
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