The matter of Gu Yu was just a small episode in Zhou Qiongyue's life, and she was not the kind of person who would interfere with other people's choices.
So Zhou Qiongyue's life went on as usual. She went out for a walk with Yuan Bohua every day. Sometimes when they were tired, they would go back to Cheng'en Marquis Mansion for lunch, and sometimes they would just have a drink outside.
Sometimes I would go back to the Marquis' Mansion even if it was too much trouble.
The imperial court will hold the joint examination in the early spring of next year, so at this time, candidates have already come to Beijing one after another.
Yuan'an City was particularly lively at this time. Zhou Qiongyue didn't have time to go shopping before, but now with the prince by her side, she enjoyed going out every day.
Sometimes Yuan Chaokang would follow Zhou Qiongyue and Yuan Bohua, but most of the time, it was just Zhou Qiongyue and Yuan Bohua, with a few skilled guards.
This free and easy life didn't last long before the New Year, which Zhou Qiongyue hated the most, arrived. She didn't want to attend the palace banquet at all.
But Zhou Qiongyue couldn't shirk this matter, even the emperor and the empress dowager had returned from the villa.
Perhaps because of Tianyuan Kingdom’s victory in the national war this year, this year’s New Year’s palace banquet was particularly grand.
The Prince Fu'an's Mansion received much more New Year gifts than in previous years. Zhou Qiongyue, who had not been in charge for a long time, took Yuan Chaokang, Gulan and others to sort out the New Year gifts for a long time.
Yuan Chaochang looked at the annual gift list that his mother and brother had come up with and was also surprised. "In previous years, our palace's return gifts weren't this many?"
"There are more people giving New Year gifts this year, and some people even gave gifts to your brother. We have to return these gifts to them." Zhou Qiongyue didn't want to do things for others, but it was not easy to refuse all of them. She could only add some things and return them to these people.
After hearing what his mother said, Yuan Chaochang's face showed understanding.
After the New Year, Yuan Bohua and Yuan Chaokang both fell ill, and Zhou Qiongyue and Yuan Chaochang were very nervous about this.
Yuan Chaochang asked for leave from the palace again and stayed at home to take care of his younger brother and father. In fact, he mainly took care of his younger brother, after all, his mother sometimes had to take care of his father.
He has to take care of his younger brother more.
In fact, Yuan Bohua and Yuan Chaokang were both infected with a cold, but the high fever came on quickly. Medical conditions were limited in this era, so Zhou Qiongyue was inevitably worried.
Not to mention Zhou Qiongyue, even Yuan Chaochang often woke up in the middle of the night and had to get up to check on his brother before he could feel at ease.
If Yuan Chaokang hadn't been afraid of passing the disease on to his brother, he would have refused to let Yuan Chaochang sleep in his room.
Yuan Chaochang even wanted to sleep next to his younger brother.
Once Yuan Chaokang and Yuan Bohua have completely recovered from their illnesses, the imperial examination will begin.
When the emperor knew that Yuan Bohua had completely recovered from his cold, he sent an order, asking Yuan Bohua to take the princess to stay in the royal villa for a few days.
Originally, many people had sent visiting cards to the palace during this period, and Yuan Bohua did not want to get involved in this mess, nor did he have the intention of recruiting a few promising students for his own use.
So when the order from the retired emperor came, Yuan Bohua took the princess and son to the royal villa without hesitation.
This son only refers to Yuan Chaokang, and Yuan Chaochang will continue to return to the palace as a companion.
It’s just that after school, he didn’t go back to the palace, but went straight back to the Cheng’en Marquis’s Mansion.
With his father-in-law helping to look after Yuan Chaochang, Yuan Bohua felt completely at ease and left without any regrets.
Only Yuan Chaochang was left in the palace, cursing his father and mother for not taking him with them.
Sun Yuancheng was as depressed as Yuan Chaochang. When he heard that his adoptive parents took his second brother to the villa to play again, he was so envious that he almost cried.
He had no talent for studying and spent his days in the palace like years. Why was it that the opportunity to go out and play always fell on his second brother, his adoptive mother's brother who was always reading books?
When Sun Yuancheng returned to the princess's mansion that day, he began to show his courtesy to his mother, Princess Yongchun, by peeling oranges and massaging her shoulders.
When Princess Yongchun saw her son's behavior, she knew he was going to do something naughty again. But Princess Yongchun did not expose him immediately.
Instead, he calmly enjoyed his son's flattery. When Sun Yuancheng could no longer hold back, he carefully asked, "Mother, do you miss your grandfather? Let's go to the Royal Villa to see him. He must miss his children when he lives there."
Yongchun looked at his son suspiciously, "Why? You want to go?"
Sun Yuancheng didn't expect the surprise to come so soon. He nodded calmly and said, "I really want to go. My stepmother took my second brother Kang there."
"Just think about it! There's no way you can go anyway."
After Princess Yongchun finished speaking, she ignored her son and started listening to people singing.
The prince consort Sun Changkun calmly took the unpeeled orange from his son, peeled it carefully, and handed it to Princess Yongchun.
Princess Yongchun praised her husband again, and Sun Yuancheng immediately felt that he was an eyesore.
Sun Yuancheng was actually just trying it out. He had already expected that his mother would not agree, so he was not that disappointed.
But when he returned from school in the palace the next day and was taken back to the Sheng'en Mansion by his grandfather, Marquis Sheng'en, he was a little overwhelmed.
Because Princess Yongchun took her husband to the royal villa to accompany the retired emperor, she entrusted Sun Yuancheng, who was going to school, to Marquis Sheng'en.
Marquis Sheng'en was also a little panicked, because he had never seen his grandson cry so miserably.
Sun Yuancheng tried to complain about Princess Yongchun and her husband to Marquis Sheng'en and the old marquis, hoping to make the two old men soften their hearts and send him to the royal villa as well.
But Sun Yuancheng once again suffered a setback in his life. When he complained about his father, his grandfather and great-grandfather would occasionally respond. When he complained about his mother, they would only say, "Well, Your Highness is wise."
As for the scene he imagined where they promised to send him to the royal villa to be disciplined by his parents, it never happened.
Even before going to bed at night, Sun Yuancheng would still remember to talk about his envied second brother Kang.
Sun Yuancheng worked hard for several days, but seeing that his grandfather and others showed no signs of mercy, he was very tired and had to give up.
He still went to the palace to study with his mother on time every day, and wrote down his mother's black account in his little black book at night.
With their shared experiences, the relationship between Yuan Chaochang and Sun Yuancheng has become even better. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are half-brothers.
As for the Royal Courtyard, the Emperor summoned Yuan Bohua over, not because he missed Yuan Bohua, but because he missed Zhou Qiongyue.
It’s not that I miss Zhou Qiongyue, but I am concerned about Zhou Qiongyue’s ability to make money.
Ever since the retired emperor learned that his foolish son had taken over the property, he had been thinking of asking Zhou Qiongyue to help him manage his private property.
That's why the retired emperor summoned the two of them to the other courtyard while the emperor was busy with the imperial examination, just to try to poach the emperor's girlfriend.
So this day, the emperor was at the empress dowager's place again. After having lunch with Yuan Bohua and Zhou Qiongyue, he couldn't wait to put forward his ideas.
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