"Li'er, your husband is back."
As he spoke, Yinzhen gently embraced Jiang Ranli, who was in a trance.
Jiang Ranli didn't come back to his senses until he was held in the arms and smelled the faint sunshine in the familiar embrace.
She raised her eyes and met Yin'er's gaze, and smiled with curved eyebrows, "You are finally back. I thought you would come back very late."
"Li'er, for your husband..."
"Stop talking, I know everything. Let's just leave it at that. Are you hungry? I'm super hungry. I haven't eaten anything since noon. My stomach is almost starving."
Jiang Ranli interrupted Yin'er. She knew what he was going to say, but she didn't want to hear the thing that made her sad again.
Yinzhen knew her best, so he immediately stopped talking about that topic, but he felt even more guilty.
Emperor Kangxi's imperial edict was soon announced, and each of the accompanying princes was granted a marriage. Yinzhen was no exception. Prince Xitala's concubine, Naren Gege, was about to become his concubine, and the wedding ceremony would be held after they returned to Beijing.
On the day the imperial edict was announced, Naren brought a few people to find Jiang Ranli to show off her power, but was driven away by Toya.
The top priority of this tour outside the Great Wall is to consolidate the relationship between the Qing Dynasty and the various tribes through marriage. Now that the most important thing has been accomplished, the day of returning to Beijing is not far away.
In the last few days before returning to Beijing, Jiang Ranli was with Tuoya every day. The two met again after several years and were reluctant to leave.
"The emperor comes to the grassland almost every year, you must follow him no matter what means," Toya said with red eyes, holding Jiang Ranli's hand tightly.
"Okay, then I will be like a dog-skin plaster, pestering the Emperor every day and asking him to take me with him," Jiang Ranli nodded in agreement.
"After returning to Beijing, we must communicate frequently, otherwise, I will really ignore you again," Toya said again.
Jiang Ranli nodded heavily. Compared to asking Emperor Kangxi to bring her to the grassland every time, frequent correspondence was really too easy.
"My father and brother have prepared a lot of things for you. You must not delay and take everything with you when you leave," Toya reminded again.
When Jiang Ranli returned to the grassland this time, she had not seen Toya for several years, and she had not seen Prince Hetala and Prince Tomu for several years. So she went to visit them. They were as trusting and enthusiastic about her as they were a few years ago, and because of Toya, they treated her like family.
"Okay, I will definitely take it with me." Jiang Ranli's eyes were slightly moist when she thought of the two large carts full of various grassland specialties prepared for her by Prince Hetala and Prince Tuomu.
After saying goodbye to Toya, Jiang Ranli walked towards his tent, but as soon as he reached the door of the tent, he was stopped by two maids from the grassland tribe.
"What are you doing? How dare you stop the concubine?" Qiu Die scolded the two maids angrily.
The two maids guarding the door were Naren's close associates. Like their master, they were arrogant and domineering. Qiudie and Dongxue had no good feelings towards them.
The two maids looked at Jiang Ranli with a smile and said, "Concubine, our future concubine is talking to the Ninth Master inside. The Ninth Master will return to the capital tomorrow. Although our future concubine will also go to the capital in a few days, the Ninth Master is very reluctant to let her go. It is better for you not to disturb her."
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