Li Mai and Xi Que each brought a bowl to feed the two children.
Li Mai said seriously, "You are still too young to eat meat, so eat your rice cereal. Tomorrow, I may consider making you minced meat porridge for lunch."
The two children ate their rice cereal unhappily while staring into Li Mai's eyes, wondering if their mother was lying to them again.
"I'm not lying to you. As long as you behave and don't think about the meat outside, I'll make you some meat porridge that you can eat tomorrow."
She knew that the two children were precocious and could understand.
The two children seemed to believe her and obediently started eating the rice cereal.
"Madam, I also boiled two eggs for the two young masters. May they eat them tonight?" Magpie asked Li Mai in a low voice.
In a flash, the two children turned their heads toward the magpie.
The magpies were embarrassed. How could they hear them when they were speaking so softly?
Li Mai smiled helplessly, "Save it for tomorrow morning, you can't eat anything tonight."
The magpie agreed, and the two children's faces immediately fell; they had lost all hope.
Li Mai no longer breastfeeds them. The two babies have big appetites, and she couldn't keep up with their demand when they were six months old. After introducing complementary foods, she gradually weaned them off breast milk and switched them to goat milk.
Yun Chang sent someone back first to make arrangements, and also arranged a milk goat for the two children.
Actually, Li Mai wanted to raise a dairy goat in the space, but considering the magpies, she couldn't say so. In the end, she didn't arrange for a goat in the space and asked her elder brother to send someone back to arrange it first.
On the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Yuze and Nanling got married in a grand ceremony, which was attended by many people from the capital.
The head of the Yu family holds a very high position in the business circle of the capital. As a royal merchant, he attracts even more people to the wedding banquet to expand his network.
Because the Yu family were imperial merchants and had been summoned by the emperor, the head of the Yu family was also acquainted with the emperor. The emperor even sent someone to deliver a congratulatory gift to Yu Ze and Nan Ling, which made everyone look at this happy event even more highly.
Nanling was surprised that both the Prince of Yun and the Emperor had come to praise them, and she felt very happy.
Their new residence is right next to the Yu residence, for Chengcheng's convenience.
Originally, this was someone else's residence. The head of the Yu family contributed more money and gave this family a shop. Not long after returning, he bought it and began to renovate it. Now, the style of the mansion is Nanling's favorite style.
Although this mansion was not as large as the Yu Mansion, it was exquisite. Nanling felt that it was enough for her and Yuze, along with a few servants, to live there.
Chengcheng would occasionally come to stay with them, and occasionally go back to the Yu residence; they were practically next door anyway.
Knowing that Zhuzhu had arrived in the capital, Chengcheng waited for her at the gate of the mansion early in the morning. When Li Mai and the others arrived, he personally welcomed them in and led them to the courtyard that his parents had arranged for Aunt Li's family to rest.
Today, Nanling will not ride in a bridal sedan chair, and Yuze will not go out to fetch her. The two of them will simply take a sedan chair from this mansion to stroll around the capital in the morning, distribute some wedding candy and money to the people for good luck and to receive some blessings, before returning to hold the wedding ceremony.
Nan Yu originally disagreed with this arrangement. He wanted his eldest sister to marry out of the Nan family mansion, but Nan Ling said she didn't want to. She and Yu Ze had already discussed it and decided to live there directly. After all, it was their second marriage, and they didn't want to be as ostentatious as their first marriage, which would embarrass the young people in the capital.
After Li Mai and the others rested for a while, Nan Ling and Yu Ze returned.
After entertaining everyone for a while, the auspicious time arrived, and the wedding ceremony was held.
Then came the banquet.
Yanbao and Yubao were tempted by the table full of food.
However, Li Mai didn't give them any of the food on the table. She only scooped half a bowl of the meat porridge that the magpie had just brought for each of the two children, and she and Zhou Quan fed the children.
People stopped eating and gathered around to watch the two children eat, finding them very cute.
Chengcheng also curiously said that when he left, Yanbao and Yubao couldn't sit up yet, but now they can walk.
After the two children finished eating, Chengcheng and Zhuzhu took them to play at the nearby Jade Mansion, with Xique, Xuanwen, and Xuanwu following along.
Only then did Li Mai and Zhou Quan feel at ease to eat their meal.
Just as the two had finished eating, the sound of a baby crying suddenly came from the yard outside.
When Li Mai heard the child crying, she instinctively thought it was her own child and quickly stood up and ran outside.
Zhou Quan heard it from the men's section and quickly ran out as well.
When they went outside, they saw a three- or four-year-old boy crying sadly.
Zhuzhu and Chengcheng each stood guard over a baby, watching the boy warily.
"What's wrong? What happened?" Suddenly a woman screamed and ran out, hugging the little boy and asking.
The woman was about thirty-seven or thirty-eight years old.
"Waaah, Grandma, someone burned Nan Nan!" The little boy cried sadly, complaining while glancing towards Zhu Zhu.
Upon hearing this, the woman flew into a rage, stood up, and lunged at Zhuzhu, wanting to hit her. "Whose lowly girl are you, daring to bully our Nannan? Do you even know who our Nannan is?"
Seeing her rushing towards her, Zhuzhu quickly retreated while holding Yanbao, dodging the outstretched claws. "I didn't touch him, nor did I burn him. He was playing with fire and burned a hole in his clothes."
At this moment, Li Mai and Zhou Quan appeared beside Zhu Zhu, each picking up a baby to prevent them from being too small to run fast and getting beaten.
Zhuzhu and Chengcheng also took the opportunity to stand next to Limai and Zhou Quan.
The woman, as if she were about to be killed, shrieked at Zhuzhu.
Yu Ze and Nan Ling also came out after hearing the noise.
"Madam Liu, today is a joyous occasion in my household. Would you please find out what's going on first? If you continue to cause trouble in my residence, I will have you removed." Yu Ze stepped forward and stood in front of Zhou Quan and the others, not wanting his guests to be verbally abused, he stood in front of them.
"Am I wrong? My grandson is crying like this, pointing at that wretched girl. Isn't it because she bullied our Nan Nan? Patriarch Yu, these people don't know Nan Nan's identity. Don't you know? This is the nephew of the Crown Prince's sister-in-law. Even the Crown Prince's sister-in-law likes this child very much and has praised him for being clever and quick-witted many times. Are you going to let him be bullied like this? This is disrespecting the royal family and showing no respect to the Crown Prince's sister-in-law."
Madam Liu perfectly embodied the arrogant and domineering nature of someone who takes advantage of their master's power.
"Oh, how come I didn't know? When did my royal brother change the rules? Now a distant relative with eighteen roundabout connections dares to claim to represent my royal family?"
At this moment, the eldest princess, who had just come out and figured out what had happened, saw that Li Mai and Zhou Quan's child was being harassed. She immediately got angry and walked up to Madam Liu with her head held high.
When Madam Liu saw that it was the Eldest Princess, she immediately realized that she had said the wrong thing. She was so frightened that she quickly knelt down and kowtowed, begging for forgiveness.
"Rouge, slap her! Stop when you've smashed her face!"
"Yes, Your Highness!" an old woman replied, stepping forward and attacking Madam Liu with both hands.
No one dared to speak arrogantly in the capital with the royal family, for that would be a great disrespect.
The eldest princess possessed an extraordinary air of royalty, and her deliberate display of royal bearing in front of Madam Liu further deterred everyone present from disrespecting the imperial authority. They all remained silent, watching as Madam Liu was punished for speaking out of turn!
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