Chapter 1273 It’s Definitely Not Me

Two days later, Zhulan envied Zhou Shuren, who attended the banquet and met Princess Aruna.

As soon as Zhou Shuren entered the room, Zhulan asked anxiously, "Is this princess really beautiful?"

Zhou Shuren was suddenly asked and took a moment to react. "As a minister, I can't stare at the princess's face. Although I don't have the confidence to look at her, she is indeed a rare beauty."

Zhu Lan's envious eyes made Zhou Shuren want to laugh, "If you want to meet, you will see it sooner or later."

Zhulan rolled her eyes in her heart. It was difficult for her to meet him. Even if the princess entered the palace in the future, it would be difficult for her to see him either.

Zhou Shuren changed his clothes and came out. He saw his wife sighing. He was happy to hear a piece of news from her: "Aruna will enter the palace on an auspicious day in half a month."

Zhulan exclaimed, "So fast."

Zhou Shuren sat down and said, "It's just a matter of political interests. For the emperor, it's just one more person in the palace."

Zhulan sighed, thinking that this princess was just a friendly bargaining chip put forward by the foreign race, and no one cared about what this princess thought.

Zhulan thought of the previous dynasty again. Although the previous dynasty became corrupt in the end, it still did not marry a princess in exchange for safety and benefits.

Zhu Lan said, "There was no princess married in the previous dynasty. There was no princess when the emperor was retired. Now the emperor has a princess. Do you think it will happen?"

Zhou Shuren shook his head and said firmly, "No, the emperor would not marry a princess even if he had one, and the emperor is even more so. The emperor destroyed the previous dynasty and will only do better than the previous dynasty. The emperor would not use women to gain peace and control nearby countries, and the emperor's most perfect successor would not do that either."

Both the emperor and the retired emperor are proud men. They would rather shed blood than marry off or marry a princess. This is their principle.

Moreover, this princess sent by a foreign tribe was just a decoration in the harem. She would not have any children in the future. In fact, the emperor did not want to accept her at first. Later, after much consideration, it was out of ambition that the emperor wanted to open an inland trade route.

Zhulan changed the subject, "The things at home have been packed up almost completely, so they can be sent over tomorrow."

"My wife has worked hard these days."

Zhulan took out the blueprint of the new house and spread it out, saying, "Mingyun will be back from the exam, and they will be getting married next year. I have chosen a yard for the child, take a look."

Zhou Shuren looked at the spot his wife pointed to, "It's near the front yard."

Zhulan nodded, "Yes, the eldest wife's children are all in this area. When we divide the family property into several branches in the future, the eldest wife's children can also move."

Zhou Shuren, "You arranged it very well."

Zhulan rolled up the blueprints and sighed, "Mingyun is getting married in the blink of an eye."

Zhou Shuren could no longer recall what his eldest grandson looked like when he was a child. All he could think about was how he looked like now. "Yes, the children have all grown up. Time has passed quickly. Yushuang is now a big girl."

"I can't bear to let my granddaughter marry off too early. Liu Feng isn't that old anyway, so it would be nice for her to study hard in a few years."

Zhou Shuren nodded in agreement. Marrying and getting married are different. One is to add population to the family, the other is to add population to others.

Zhulan said this, but in her heart she planned to go to the second house tomorrow to see the dowry that Changyi and his wife had prepared for Yushuang.

The next day, Zhou Shuren went to court. There was no important event in the morning court. Zhou Shuren's attention was more focused on the prince. Since the ceremony of establishing the prince, the little prince has followed the emperor to court every day.

The little prince listened attentively, and he kept even the smallest details in mind. He felt someone was watching him, so he turned his head slightly and spotted Lord Zhou.

The little prince blinked and looked at Lord Zhou's face again. He remembered that his father had said that Lord Zhou was a treasure. He went to check Lord Zhou specially and found out that Lord Zhou was really amazing. He hoped that Lord Zhou could live a few more years.

Zhou Shuren had not expected the little prince to be so sensitive. He was not embarrassed when he was discovered, but he felt that there was something wrong with the way the little prince looked at him. Why was he looking at his face?

After the morning court session, Zhou Shuren could still see the little prince looking back at him as he walked. Qiu Yan asked in a low voice, "Why is the prince looking at you all the time?"

Zhou Shuren was also confused, "I don't know."

Li Zhao came over and said, "I heard that the Emperor wants to choose a master for the Crown Prince."

Zhou Shuren groaned. It wasn't him anyway, so he didn't care. "Really?"

Li Zhao asked in confusion: "You don't know?"

"Should I know?"

Li Zhao really thought Zhou Shuren should know this. Everyone knows that the emperor goes to the Ministry of Revenue from time to time. Seeing that Zhou Shuren really doesn't care, he should not be faking it. Looking around, there is no one around him and said, "There are many people eyeing this position!"

The new emperor's teacher, once the new emperor ascends the throne, his status rises to a high level, how many people envy him!

Zhou Shuren, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Li Zhao smiled, "You really don't know, whether you are pretending or not, many people think you are the default choice."

Zhou Shuren, "...I really don't know."

Li Zhao also noticed that the little prince kept looking at Zhou Shuren, and patted Zhou Shuren on the shoulder, "Many people saw what the prince did just now."

Zhou Shuren thought, if time could go back, he would definitely not look blindly, because the result of looking blindly was a disaster.

After leaving the palace, Qiu Yan hesitated to speak, while Zhou Shuren said with a wooden face, "It definitely wasn't me."

Qiu Yan, "Oh."

Zhou Shuren, "......."

This answer was so perfunctory that even Qiu Yan was thinking too much about it. You can imagine how much misunderstanding the prince's actions today had caused.

Inside the palace, the Emperor asked the Crown Prince, "Why do you keep staring at Lord Zhou in the court?"

The prince said honestly, "I hope Lord Zhou can live a long life, but Lord Zhou looks old, so I couldn't help but look at him a few more times with worry."

emperor,"......."

Fortunately, Zhou Shuren didn't know what his son was thinking, but his son caused quite a bit of misunderstanding.

The emperor knew that many people wanted to be the prince's master, and as long as there was interest, there would be disputes.

At the Zhou family, Zhulan looked at the list that Zhao had brought out, feeling somewhat dazed, "Are these all dowries for Yushuang?"

Zhao nodded, "Mother, all the ones above are all."

Zhulan really underestimated her second son's ability to make money. Now that the gems and other items were omitted from the list, the fields and shops alone were dazzling. "Where did you get so much money?"

Zhao narrowed her eyes and said, "Mother, my husband got a batch of precious stones. Later, we discussed and processed some of them. We had money, so we bought a shop and some land."

Zhulan looked at the dowry list carefully again. The list was biased towards money. There was nothing she could do about it. In terms of antiques, calligraphy and paintings, the second wife could not compare with the third and fourth wives.

Zhao looked at the long dowry list. She was very proud because she had two daughters. "Mom, do you want to see Yudie's dowry list?"

Well, it was a bit of a show-off, showing off that she and her husband could afford so much dowry for their daughter.

Zhulan nodded and looked carefully at Yudie's dowry list. Yudie was still young, so she didn't have as much as Yushuang, but some of the things that Yushuang had, Yudie also had.

Afterwards, Zhulan went to the eldest house and got Yu Lu's dowry list. Fortunately, the eldest couple only had one daughter-in-law.

After looking at the dowry list for her granddaughters, Zhulan already knew in her mind what kind of dowry she should add to them.